Oct. 11, 2026

Oct 12-Charity Weir, Gumbo, 1st Oktoberfest, Pavarotti, The Smithereens, Hugh Jackman, Kirk Cameron, Josh Hutcherson

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Today my co-host is Charity Weir. She got knocked down, but she is resiliant, tough and smart. As she rebuilds her life, working in her new job. please try and help her get back on her feet, she is almost there, just needs a little help from us. Her gofundme account to help her get back on her feet
Thanks For Helping

National gumbo day. Entertainment from 1992. 1st Oktoberfest, Rhyme 3 blind mice printed, Executive Mansion named the White House. Todays birthdays - Luciano Pavarotti, Sam Moore, Pat DiNizio, Hugh Jackman, Kirk Cameron, Josh Hutcherson. Robert E. Lee died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Columbus - The Kilboomers
Gumbo time - Sean Ardain
End of the road - Boys II Men
No one else on earth - Wynonna
3 blind mice - Cooco TV
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Dalla Caruso - Luciano Pavarotti
Soul man - Sam & Dave
A girl like you - The Smithereens
Once before I go - Hugh Jackman
As long as we have each other - B.J. Thomas Dusty Springfield
Exit - Love like me - Highway 95 facebook page

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National Days Puzzle Books

Grace & Grit Christian Country Radio

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and

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Factoids About Today. Today's October the 12th. Now I have

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a really cool co-host today. She got knocked down pretty

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good in life, but she's on her way back up.

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She's really tough and smart, resilient. So I'd like you

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to help me help her out and just get her

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back on her feet again. So first off, thanks for

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co-hosting with me, Charity. And why don't you say hi

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to everybody, introduce yourself.

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Hello, everybody. Thank you, Jeff, for having me on the show.

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I'm Charity.

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I'm living here in Texas, just picking myself back up.

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I only hit rock bottom and got to bounce back up.

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And you got yourself an AI job.

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Yes.

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I mean, it was hard at first, but I taught

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myself how to detect issues with AI programming and got

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a job reporting back to companies on the issues that

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AI has given people.

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That's good. So is all this hysteria about AI, is

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it worth it? Or is it just out of control?

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Or is there any justification?

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It's, I mean, some of it's out of control, but

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I do see points on it. I mean, people are

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turning to AI where they.

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Like writers.

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I mean, I'm a writer as well. I published a

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book years ago and I've got five more that are

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ready to be published, but writers are turning to AI

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to write their books and it takes a creativeness out

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of it.

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Yeah, exactly.

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But it does help with editing resumes and it helps with.

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Other issues you're having.

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I mean, if you want to edit your book, yeah,

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I use AI, but Don't have AI write your stuff

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for you.

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You've got to personalize it.

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Right.

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I think since it is fairly new, I think people

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are just like anything. I think people are just going overboard.

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Oh, my Lord.

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All the science fiction movies are going to come through.

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They're going to take over the world and all that

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kind of stuff.

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I think a lot of the science fiction has gotten

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to people on the new AI programs.

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I was watching the debate here and they were talking

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about AI, whether they needed a passive bill or something

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like that. They were talking about the safeguards they need

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to put in and all this kind of stuff. And

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there was this old farmer from Eastern Colorado. He goes,

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I don't know anything about what you guys are talking about.

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Can't you just unplug the damn thing?

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I think it has more control than just a plug anymore. Okay.

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Today is October the 12th. So, oh, I guess we're

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going to go here.

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Oh, Columbus sailed the ocean in 1492 with the NiÃ±a

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and the Pinta and the Santa Maria too.

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Yes, today is Columbus Day. Now, Columbus, he wanted to

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chart a western sea route to the Spice Islands, China, India,

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that whole area. Thought he was going straight west would

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be a lot easier than just sailing around Africa. Well,

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instead of landing in the Far East, of course, he

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landed in the Bahamas. Now, he thought he had landed

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in the East Indies off of the coast of Asia,

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but yeah, that didn't work out. Now, he didn't even

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know there was a continent. Nobody did, really. I guess

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some of the Vikings did. Now, he wasn't the first

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in North America, though. No, they know the Vikings were

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here at least 500 years before Columbus. Now, although Columbus

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sailed for Spain, he's actually Italian. So today is less

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about Columbus nowadays and more about kind of an Italian

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pride kind of day. It's kind of fun. It became

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a federal holiday in 1937. It's always the second Monday

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in October. Now, Columbus, he's always been a really controversial guy.

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you know. He did open the door for Europeans coming

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to the Americas. And so some people are kind of counter-protesting.

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Indigenous People's Day. You can do that today if you want,

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if you don't want to celebrate Columbus. Do you have

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any thoughts on Columbus or just go out and have

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some fun?

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I mean.

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We'll talk about it.

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He wasn't the first one to actually discover America. And

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a lot of people get that misconstrued. I know.

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Never even set foot on it. So you're a Texas girl.

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So you're a Southerner. You like your gumbo?

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I'm not that quite Far East.

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A little too far east and south, huh? Yeah. Today

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is National Gumbo Day.

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Now, gumbo, it is West African. It means okra.

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Now, traditionally, gumbo, it has a strong flavored stock, and

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it has beef, chicken, sausage, vegetables. Veggies are usually celery,

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bell peppers, and onions. Now, they thicken it up with

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okra and sassafras and serve it over rice. I think

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it's pretty good eating.

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Yeah, it's pretty good. My aunt makes mean gumbo.

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Yeah, it's just a hodgepodge. Well, it started in the

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1700s down in Louisiana. Of course, you can pretty much

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imagine that. I think they have some pretty good deals

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down south, but yeah, probably not anywhere else in the country, though. So,

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are you more of a steak kind of girl?

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, Marilla, that's kind of the prime steak country, isn't it?

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Oh, yeah, we do. We got a lot of steak

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around here.

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So, are you a big football fan?

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I used to be. Yeah.

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I used to be big into football. I actually played

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football for junior high and high school. I was on

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the boys' tackle football team for our high school.

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Were you guys any good?

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We did all right. We were just a small farm school.

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They needed everybody they could get, huh?

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Huh?

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They needed everybody they could get, huh?

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Oh, yeah.

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I was the first female on the football team there

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for years.

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So did the boys treat you okay, or did they

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get a little embarrassed when they got knocked down by

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a girl?

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I don't know. They were mean.

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My coach wasn't any nicer, though. He made me go

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up against the three. I was a little bitty thing.

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He made me go up against the three biggest guys

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on the team just to make sure I could handle it.

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And they took me down.

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Yeah, but now that prepared you for later on in

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life when you got knocked down, you knew how to

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get right back up, didn't you?

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I sure did. I've survived my whole life from one

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issue to another. So surviving is the only thing I

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know how to do.

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And AI.

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And AI, yeah.

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And write. Writing.

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I was a head chef there for a while. And

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I was a manager. I mean, leading's my thing and surviving.

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All right.

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This is going on on October 12th. Let's go back

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to 1992. Number one album was The Chase by Garth Brooks.

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Boyz II Men had their number one song with End

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of the Road.

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Oh, yeah. It's unnatural You've been on to me I've been.

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On to you Wynonna had the number one country song

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with Nowhere Else on Earth.

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How did you get to me?

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No one else on earth Could ever hurt me Break

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my heart away You No one else on earth Was.

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Ever That number one book was The Star Shined Down

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by Sidney Sheldon. Top movie was Under Siege, a former

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Navy SEAL. He's the only person who can stop terrorists

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who took over a U.S. Navy battleship to steal its

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nuclear weapons. Stars Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, and Tommy Lee Jones.

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Big names in that one. I didn't realize that. What

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kind of movies do you like?

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I'm Suspense. I really love suspense movies. War movies, I

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do enjoy those.

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Me and my son, we sit and watch anything about

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World War II and World War I. My son's a

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history buff. He can sit there and have a six-hour

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conversation with you about both world wars.

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That's cool. You have a favorite actor?

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Not exactly. I mean, I just.

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Like those old World War One and World War Two

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movies like Jason Robards and Henry Fond and all them.

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So it doesn't have to be like Tom Hanks and

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Saving Private Ryan. You'll watch them all the way from.

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Yeah, I like any of the older ones. I like

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any of the new ones.

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I grew up also watching the oldies, Gunsmoke and stuff

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like that with my grandparents.

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So suspense. So suspense isn't horror. Suspense is kind of

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like mind games and all that kind of stuff.

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A couple of my favorites are the Jane Patterson movies,

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Along Came a Spider and Kissing the Girls.

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Those are really good ones.

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All right.

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Listen.

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Oh, go ahead.

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Oh, no.

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My other one is Seven Deadly Sins.

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I like that one. I've seen it. Let's see what

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happened on October the 12th. As a writer, you have

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a son and a daughter, so you probably know nursery rhymes, right?

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, in 1609, over in London, England, the children's nursery

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rhyme Three Blind Mice was published. Now, it is said

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as a children's nursery rhyme, but it is written with

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nothing but hidden meaning. It's actually about three Protestants who

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were accused of plotting against Queen Mary, and she had

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them burned at the stake.

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Three blind mice.

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Three blind mice.

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See how they run. See how they run.

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They all ran after the farmer's wife who cut off

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their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see

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such a sight in your life as three blind mice?

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So now you know that farmer's wife was actually the queen.

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Kind of interesting, huh? So what do you like writing about?

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Uh, I do, uh, suspense, uh, erotic with an erotic

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twist to it.

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So.

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So fun books. Oh yeah. 1792, New York city. They

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held the first Columbus day parade. It was the first

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celebration for Columbus in the United States. It was for

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his 300th anniversary of him landing over in the Bahamas.

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So do you know why, since Columbus never actually set

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foot in the United States, Um, why he's actually a

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big deal over here.

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I don't know why. Okay.

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It's actually all political and it's all propaganda. So you

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remember back in, during that was 1792, that was their celebration. See,

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remember the United States, we didn't not like Britain. And

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the first, well, the first ones over here were, um,

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leaf Erickson and the Vikings, you know, up in Canada

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and all that. They think the first people who are

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actually in the, what would become the United States were

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all British. like the guy named John Cabot and some

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stuff like that. Well, they didn't want to give the

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British any kind of credit, so that's why they came

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up and started celebrating Columbus in Washington, D.C., District of

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Columbus and all that kind of stuff, just to do anything,

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not give British any kind of publicity about being here

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in the United States. So that's why Columbus is celebrated

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here in the U.S., even though he'd never been here.

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Do you like your beer? Um.

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No, I don't really drink beer.

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Well, if you did, you'd be pretty happy about this day.

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In 1810, over in Munich, Germany, the first Oktoberfest began.

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That's right. It was held to celebrate future King Ludwig.

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He was the Prince of Bavaria. Well, Ludwig, he went

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and got himself married. He married Princess Therese. She was

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a Saxon. Now, that party went on for a week.

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So there were lots and lots of drinking, lots and

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lots of food, lots of dancing. They did some horse racing.

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Everyone had so much fun, they decided they were going

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to just make it an annual event. But they decided

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to move it up to September. It was a little

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warmer and the days were a little bit longer. You

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ever celebrate the Octoberfest down there in Amarillo?

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We did.

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We ended up with a lot of my ex-husband's military

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buddies over and we would do a big Oktoberfest party.

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Me being part German and him being part... Quarter German,

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we just kind of integrated it and did a lot

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of German cuisines, little side dishes, and he had the

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beer flowing.

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Yeah, those days like Oktoberfest for the Germans, well, Columbus

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Day for the Italians today. You got Cinco de Mayo.

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You got St. Patrick's Day. Those days are always fun

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because that day everybody's German, everybody's Irish, everybody's Mexican. I mean,

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those days are actually fun.

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Yeah.

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Over in Scotland in 1823, Charles Macintosh, he started selling Macs.

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They were the world's first raincoats. Not what you think.

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The Macintosh computer won't come out for about 150 more

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years after that. You know why the Macintosh computer is

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called the Macintosh?

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No.

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It's actually named after the Macintosh Apple. That's why the

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company is called Apple. In 1853, do you like boxing?

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Um, never really got into it.

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Yeah, it's not, it's not near as popular now as

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it used to be now with MMA and all that

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kind of stuff. But it used to be really big.

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In 1853, John Morrissey, he won boxing's world championship. See,

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after the 36th round, the guy he was fighting, Yankee Sullivan, Yankee,

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he left the ring to go beat up some of

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Morrissey's fans who were taunting him in the stands. Since

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he left the ring, yeah, Morrissey won the title.

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Ha ha ha.

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In 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first set in

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public schools. They scheduled it on Columbus Day. 1900, the

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first modern submarine went into service. It was called the

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USS Holland. United States Navy launched it. It was for

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John Holland. He's the guy who actually designed it. 1901,

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President Teddy Roosevelt, he officially renamed the Executive Mansion. That's

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what it was called. But slangly, they had called it

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the White House from the beginning. So he just said, hey,

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we're just changing the name now. It is officially the

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White House. And the Oval Office, it won't be built

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in the White House until 1909. You ever gone to Washington, D.C.? No.

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I haven't really done much traveling. I went to Colorado

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about four or five months ago.

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Were we nice to you?

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Oh, yeah. It was, I mean, I loved it.

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Now, I have never been to Brazil.

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No.

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But I have seen the pictures of the Christ the

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Redeemer statue. It stands on top of the mountain overlooking

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Rio de Janeiro. That statue, it opened up today in 1931.

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It's 98 feet tall, and with its arms outstretched, they're

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92 feet long. Now, Catholic missionaries, they paid for that.

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Now, get this.

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Every year, that statue is struck by lightning between three

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and six times, and it never does any damage.

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Hmm.

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New York City in 1944. The Columbus Day riot happened. Well,

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it had nothing to do with Columbus Day, and it

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really wasn't a riot. It was kind of a media.

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There was nothing else going on, so the media made

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it a big deal. What it was was Frank Sinatra.

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He was scheduled to sing at the Paradise Theater. Over 3,500

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seats are in the theater. Well, 30,000 mostly teenage girls

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showed up to go to the show. Well, the New

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York media, they just made a great big deal out

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of it. Oh, man, these girls are out there screaming

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and all that kind of stuff. Police showed up and

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they just kind of like kept an eye on the

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girl so they didn't do anything. But all that attention

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that they gave him, it's what's credited for making Frank

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Sinatra the world's first pop star. Japan in 1960. Inahira Asanama.

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He was the leader of the Japan Socialist Party. He

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was a big supporter of the Chinese Party. In fact,

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he wanted Japan to be modeled after China. Well, during

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a live debate on Japanese TV as he was speaking...

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17-year-old Atoya Yamaguchi walked on stage and killed him with

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a samurai sword. Yep, ran him right through. Right on

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live TV. He said he wasn't going to put up

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with any of that commie talk. Now, although no one

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liked Asanama, they still had to arrest the kid. I mean,

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he did it on live TV. That kid, he hung

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himself in jail three weeks later. Now, over here, oh man,

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what was the significance of using the samurai sword and

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all that kind of stuff? What did that mean? Well,

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nothing really. See, since the end of World War II,

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Japanese citizens weren't allowed to hold guns, so that's all

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they had in order to kill them. This is kind

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of a little more irony. 1980 in Los Angeles, seven people,

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they were stabbed at a Blood, Sweat, and Tears concert.

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It's funny if you're not one of the seven.

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Okay.

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So why we have you here is basically you got

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yourself a GoFundMe account. You had a really good job.

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Things went to the pot. So then bills piled up

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on you. Now you got another job, a really good

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job doing the AI stuff. And now we want everybody

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just to kind of chip in and help you out

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and get back on your feet again and get out

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of that hole, right?

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Yes.

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So it's a pretty simple way here. And thank you

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for being here too.

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Well, thank you for having me.

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Sure.

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You want to do some birthdays?

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Sure.

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All right.

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Let's see who was born on October the 12th.

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I know I started out with an easy one. Charity's

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over there rolling her eyes about how easy it was.

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Everybody knows that was Della Caruso by Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti,

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he was born in Medina, Italy in 1935. Most famous

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tenor of all time. Now, as a kid, he wanted

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to be a soccer player. But see, the thing is,

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he really sucked. So his parents, they sent him to

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school to do vocal training. Yeah, and did it for

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seven years.

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Well, it worked.

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Well, singing-wise-wise, I mean, he wouldn't have gotten so fat

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if he had kept playing soccer, but he hit really

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big with the opera crowd after that. Then he went

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mainstream when he formed the Three Tenors. Pavarotti sold over

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100 million records. He was married to his first wife

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for 40 years. They divorced, and then they had three

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kids together. Married a second wife in 2003, and they

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had one kid. Pavarotti died from pancreatic cancer in 2007

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at 71 years old. You ever get into opera at all?

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I mean, not too much. I mean, I absolutely love

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watching Phantom of the Opera.

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That counts. Yeah, I guess it does count, kind of

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stuff like that.

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Yeah.

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What's your favorite kind of music?

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Country.

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Country. Well, cool, because that's how we end. The Sam

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in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo Sam

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and Dave was Sam Moore. He was born in Miami,

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Florida in 1935. Sam and Dave Prater, they got together

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in 1961. Sam, he sang the high notes. Dave sang

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the low notes. Some of their big hits are Soul Man,

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Hold On, I'm Coming, When Something Is Wrong With My Baby,

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I Thank You. Broke up in 1981, but Sam had

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a success touring solo with other artists and doing the

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oldie circuit and that kind of stuff. Sam, he actually

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performed right up until the end. When he was 89

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years old, he actually had a website out there, and

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