Oct. 13, 2026

Oct 14th-Be Bald & Free, Usher, Roger Moore, Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt shot, Thomas Dolby

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National Be bald and be free day. Entertainment from 1972. Puritans bansih Quakers, Teddy Roosevelt shot in chest and still gave his speech, Cuban missel crisis began. Todays birthdays - Dwight Eisenhower, Lillian Gish, Roger Moore, Harry Anderson, Thomas Dolby, Karyn White, Usher. Bing Crosby died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
I think I'm going bald - Rush
Ben - Michael Jackson
Funny Face - Donna Fargo
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Live and let die - Paul McCartney & Wings
She blinded me with science - Thomas Dolby
Romantic - Karyn White
Call me a Mack - Usher
Swinging on a star - Bing Crosby
Exit - Anyone else - Donny Lee https://www.donnyleemusic.com/

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Well, hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and

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Factoids About Today. Today's October the 14th. I looked in

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the mirror today.

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My eyes just didn't seem so bright. I've lost a

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few more hairs. I think I'm, I'm going bald.

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I think I'm going bald!

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Today is National Be Bald and Be Free Day. Woo-hoo!

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Today is for both men and women, chrome numbers. Today

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is not just for the follicly challenged. It's also for

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those who choose to shave their heads, and they're bald

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because of medical reasons. Back in the Stone Age, men

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would shave their heads using sharpened clamshells. Then during Roman times,

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men shaved their heads in order to show class status.

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They've even found shaving tools over in Egypt that were

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made from gold and copper. Now, get this, guys. Subconsciously,

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women find bald men more virile, confident, tougher, and more disciplined. Now,

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if you're bald because your grandfather and your mom sighed,

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or you're bald because you're going through chemo or have

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other medical issues, you know what? Take that hat off today.

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Remove that scarf. Be bald and be free today. Unless

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you go outside, then try some sunscreen, because that really hurts.

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All right. Let's see what happened to entertainment on October 14th.

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It was back in 1972. Number one album was Chicago

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Five by Chicago. Number one song was Been by Michael Jackson.

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We both found what we were looking for With a

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friend to call my own I'll never be alone And you,

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my friend, will see You've got a friend in me

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You've got.

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A friend in me That was Michael's first solo hit.

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He'd gone to number one with the Jacksons, but that

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was the first time Michael had gone in it. Now, Ben,

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what he was singing to was a rat. Yeah, it

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was from the horror film Willard. Donna Fargo had the

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number one country song with Funny Face. Funny face, I

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need you.

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These are the sweetest words I've ever heard.

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Don't leave me, funny face.

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Believe me, my whole world's wrapped up in you.

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The top-selling book was Jonathan Livingston Siegel by Richard Bach.

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Top movie was Lady Sings the Blues. It's the story

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of jazz legend singer Billie Holiday. Stars Diana Ross, Billie

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Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. All right, what happened on October

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the 14th? 680, King Wamba. He was the king of Hispania.

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That's Spain and Portugal. Well, the king, he got really sick.

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Thought he was going to die. So he named Erwig

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the new king. Then Wamba, he fell into a coma.

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Then he came out of the coma and made a

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complete recovery. Without knowing it, it turns out that Erwig

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had actually poisoned him. But due to the law at

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the time, once he anointed Erwig the king, yeah, he

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couldn't take it back. So Erwig, everybody knew that. He

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thought Wamba would just die. But he didn't. But it

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didn't matter. He was still king, even though it didn't work.

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The Puritans, they had fled England because they were being

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persecuted for their religious beliefs. All they wanted was religious

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freedom and tolerance. So they came to the New World,

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settled in what is Massachusetts, built some nice colonial towns. 1658,

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the Puritans, they banned Quakers from entering Massachusetts. Any Quaker

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who came into Massachusetts would have an ear cut off.

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They came back a second time, they'd cut the other

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ear off. They came back a third time, they would

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bore a hole in their tongue with a hot iron. Now,

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even the non-Puritans thought that was a little harsh. So

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the Puritans recanted on that. They said, okay, we won't

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bore a hole in your tongue. We'll just kill you.

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1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Teddy Roosevelt, he was running for

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president for the Bull Moose Party. Now, as he was

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walking on stage to give a speech, John Shrink, he

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shot him in the chest at point-blank range. Now, the

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bullet went through his eyeglass case and his speech, which

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was like 50 pages long. Yeah, so that, I mean,

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it did slow the bullet down a little bit. But obviously, Roosevelt,

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he was still really bleeding right out of his chest.

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Guess what? He just got up, went on stage, and

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gave that entire 90-minute speech. Still bleeding, and when he

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was done, he went to the hospital. The doctor said

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that removing that bullet, it would cause more damage than

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just leaving it in. So Teddy lived the rest of

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his life with that bullet in his chest. As for Shrink,

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he said he did it because the ghost of William

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McKinley told him to go kill Roosevelt. So they got

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a whole bunch of experts together. They did a bunch

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of tests on him. They figured out that shrink was

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crazy and he had to spend the rest of his

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life in a mental institution. 1926, the book Winnie the

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Pooh went on sale. Now by 1947, pilots, they'd broken

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the sound barrier, but always doing it in a dive. Well,

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Chuck Yeager today, he became the first pilot to break

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the sound barrier on a level flight. It hit Mach 1.06. 1962,

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the United States, U-2 spy planes, they photographed Soviet Union

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missile launchers being built over in Cuba. That's what started

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the whole Cuban Missile Crisis. 1987 in Midland, Texas, one-and-a-half-year-old

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Jesse McClure fell 22 feet down a well. And if

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you were around, that was such big news. Everybody in

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the whole country was watching to see if they got

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that little girl out. They did. It took them 58

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hours to get her.

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Out, though.

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Nope, she's perfectly fine today. In 2012, Felix Baumgartner, he

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was the first skydiver to break the sound barrier. He

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jumped from a balloon 24 miles above Earth.

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Okay, he was born on October the 14th.

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Dwight Eisenhower.

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He was born in Denison, Texas in 1890.

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Grew up in Abilene, Kansas. After graduating from West Point,

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he went on to.

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Work his way up to be a five-star general. Then

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World War II, he was.

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In charge of all the Allied forces in Europe. They

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left the Army and became the 34th President of the

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United States, served from 1953 to 1961. Now, he was

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the last president born in the 1800s. He married Mamie

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back in 1916, and they had two sons. Ike, he

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died from congestive heart failure in 1969 at 78 years old.

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The First Lady of America Cinema, Lillian Gish, she was

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born in Springfield, Ohio in 1893. Lillian, she acted for

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75 years, starred in silent movies in 1912, then retired

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in 1987. Now, she never married, so that's why she

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lived to be 99 years old. She died in 1993

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from heart failure.

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You used to say, live and let live.

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You know you did, you know you did, you know

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you did. But if this ever-changing world in which we

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live in makes you give in and try.

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Say, live and let die.

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Live and Let Die. That was the first movie that

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Roger Moore played James Bond. Yeah, Moore, he was born

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in Stockwell, England in 1927. Started acting in England in

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the mid-1940s. He got pretty well known, but not in

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the United States. The United States didn't know about him

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until 1973 when he became that third actor to play

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James Bond. He played Bond in seven movies. Now, he

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was three years older than the original James Bond was. Yeah,

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Sean Connery. Yep, he was three years older than Sean.

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He's the one who started the whole thing. Roger, he

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married his third wife for 27 years, and they had

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three children. Married his fourth wife in 2002. They were

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married until 2017. Yeah, Roger died at 89 years old.

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Lung and liver cancer. So see, drinking and booze and smoking, yep,

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it always catches up with you. Comedian, magician, actor, Harry

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Anderson was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1952. Started

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out as a street musician, and he turned that into

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a comedy routine. That got him on some episodes of

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the TV shows Cheers, and that got him to starring

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in his own show, Night Court. Yeah, if you remember,

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he played the judge. He was married to his first wife,

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22 years, and they had a son and a daughter.

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Married his second wife in 2000. Harry, he died from

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heart failure at 65 years old, 2018.

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She blinded me with science. That was Thomas Dolby. He's 68.

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He was born in London, England. He hit big during

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the new wave days in the 1980s. Europa and the

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Pirate Twins. She blinded me with science. Hyperactive.

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Airhead.

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Yeah, some of his big hits. Now he writes scores

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for movies nowadays. And he's out on tour. Yeah, he'll

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be out on tour until the end of November. I'm

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kind of intrigued. Not so much for the music, but

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I want to see what the new wave girls of

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the 80s look like now 40 years later. Now, he's

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made a lot of money outside of music. Yeah, he

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started his own Silicon Valley software company, so he's got

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a lot of cash. Got married in 1988, and they

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have three kids.

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Oh, because when the night falls, I can still hear.

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Voices, romantic.

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Karen White. She was born in Los Angeles. She's 61 today. Now,

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she was hot in the late 80s, early 90s.

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90s.

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She had that Superwoman, Secret Rendezvous, The Way You Love Me,

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that song that went to number one, Romance. She had

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two children from her first husband. She married another guy

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for two years. She's been with Al B. Scherr since 2012.

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That sound familiar? That was 15-year-old Usher. I'm serious. It

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was 1993. Call Me a Mac. That was the first

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song he released. Made it up to number 56. He's

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done pretty good since then. He sold over 100 million records.

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He was born in Dallas, Texas in 1978.

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48-year-old.

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Biggest hit is Yeah. It was with Lil Jon and Ludacris. Yeah,

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it sold 13 million copies. That means it was diamond.

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On TV, he was a judge on The Voice for

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four years. I guess they're not judges. They're coaches, aren't they? Now,

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he had two sons from his first wife, married his

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third wife not too long ago, and they have a

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daughter and a son also. All right, our quote of

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the day. It's going to come from Bing Crosby. Would

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you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home

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in a jar?

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And be better.

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Off than you are? Or would you rather be a mule?

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A mule is an animal with long, funny ears. Kicks

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up at anything you hear. I guess we couldn't find

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White Christmas. Now, being he died today in 1977, at

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74 years old, he says, listen a lot and talk

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a lot less. You can't learn anything from talking. Well,

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thank you, Bing. And thank all of you for listening today.

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Our country underground radio artist of the day, it comes

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from Christina up in Detroit. She wants to hear Donny

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Lee's song, Anyone Else. You guys have an awesome day,

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and we'll talk tomorrow.

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It ain't always easy loving somebody that you can't live without.

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You can drive me crazy, but somehow, baby, you pull

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me back around. Even on a worst day when we're

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fighting like we're enemies. Sometimes I hate you, at least

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I want to, but I just can't stay mad. I

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love you enough to take off my gloves and just

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reach out my hand. I make it far enough to

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let the dust settle down. Taste your kids, yeah, you

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know damn well.

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