Oct. 14, 2026

Oct 15th-Cheese Curds, 11y/o girl tells Lincoln to grow a beard, The Carpenters, Penny Marshall, Emeril Lagasse

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National cheese curds day. Entertainment from 2002. Grace Bedell told Abe Lincoln to grow a beard, King Henry VIII bans bowling for the poor, TaTa airlines begins service. Todays birthdays - Linda Lavin, Penny Marshall, Richard Carpenter, Tonya Roberts, Chrid De Burgh, Larry Miller, Emeril Lagasse, Kimberly Schlapman. Pau Allen died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
The Cheese Curd song
A moment like this - Kelly Clarkson
Somebody like you - Keith Urban
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Alice Tv theme song
We've only just begun - The Carpenters
Don't pay the ferryman - Chris De Burgh
Boondocks - Little Big Town
Exit - Whiskey Promise - Blue Honey - http://www.bluehoneymusic.com/

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Hi, I'm Jeff. Welcome to History and Factoids About Today.

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Today's October the 15th.

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You've heard of Wisconsin, you've heard of our cheese. Cheese

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tasting so good, it's sure to please. I can't say enough,

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cause it's really good stuff. Wisconsin cheese, may I have

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some please? Ellsworth is the cheese curd capital.

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Ellsworth.

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Ellsworth. Ellsworth is the cheese curd capital.

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Today is National Cheese Curd Day. Now, it was started

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by Culver's Restaurants in 2015. Deep fried nuggets of breaded cheese.

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They're ooey, gooey, and squeaky neat. Now, Culver's and Freddy's Restaurants. Yeah,

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they're having the best deals today. Now, when cheese is made,

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it separates into curds and muay. Now, trust me, you

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like the curds part. Now, originally, cheese curds, they were

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just the leftover cheese that didn't fit into the cheese molds.

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So then they deep fry them, and yeah. So enjoy

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some cheese curds today. Now, if you like lactose intolerant

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or something, you don't like cheese curds, Yeah, it's also

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National Grouch Day, and it's National Mushroom Day, and it's

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National Shrama Day. So you'll find something you can celebrate today.

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All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on

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October the 15th, back in 2002. Number one album was Elvis,

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30 number one hits. They re-released it by Elvis Presley.

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Kelly Clarkson had the number one song with A Moment

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Like This.

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A moment like this, some people.

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Wait a lifetime for a moment like this.

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Some people search.

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Forever for that one special kiss. Oh, I can't believe

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it's happening to me.

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Keith Urban, he had the name on Country Song with

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Somebody Like You.

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There's a new wind blowing like I've never known.

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I'm breathing deeper than I've ever done. And it sure

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feels good to.

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Finally feel the way I do.

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I want to love somebody, love somebody like you.

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The number one selling book was From a Buick 8

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by Stephen King. Top movie was The Ring. A journalist,

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she investigates a videotape. Anyone who watches it dies one

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week to the day after they see it. Stars Naomi Watts,

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Martin Henderson, and Brian Cox. 1951, I Love Lucy debuted

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on TV. 1952, the book Charlotte's Web went on sale.

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All right, what happened on October the 15th? So how

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far back do you think people bowled? Well, in 1520,

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England's King Henry VIII, he built a bowling alley into

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his castle. Yeah, the king, he loved to bowl. But

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he didn't want poor people or commoners to do it.

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No.

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So he put a big tax on bowling to keep

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out all the riffraff. He wanted to make sure only

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the rich could bowl. So the answer to my own question. Bowling,

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it goes back to ancient Egypt, about 5,000 years. 1660

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in New Amsterdam. That's New York today. A Jewish immigrant

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named Asher Levy. He was granted one of the first

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butcher licenses. And not only that, he was given the

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first kosher butcher license. After that, he went on to

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be the first Jew to own a slaughterhouse, first Jew

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to actually own a house, and the first Jew to

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own a tavern in North America. 1860 in Westfield, New York.

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11-year-old Grace Bedell, she wrote a letter to presidential candidate

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Abraham Lincoln. She said she couldn't vote, but she really

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wanted him to win. And then she told him that

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he should grow a beard. She said, You would look

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a lot better because of your thin face. Plus, the

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ladies love the whiskers. Well, Abe, he wrote her back

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and said, well, he'd never grown a beard, but he

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would think about it. He thought about it and grew

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a beard. After he won the election on his way

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to Washington, D.C. to be inaugurated, he had a strange

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stop in Westville, New York. When he got off of

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the train, he met Grace and her dad on the platform.

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Abe bent over and gave Grace a kiss on the

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cheek so she could feel his whiskers. Now, Lincoln, he

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was the first president to have a beard. Now, four

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other presidents since then have done it. Now, three presidents

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have had mutton chops, and three presidents have had mustaches.

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No president has any facial hair since 1913. 1881, the

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first fishing magazine went on sale. Yeah, it was called

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American Angler. Yeah, the last issue. Yeah, in 2020, so

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it hadn't been gone very long. 1917, over in France,

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a French exotic dancer, her name was Mata Hari. She

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was executed by a firing squad. See, she was a

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spy for the Germans during World War I. She would

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sleep with the Allied officers and then give information to

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the Germans. Now, for her execution, she dressed all up

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really nice and pretty and everything. She refused to wear

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a blindfold. She even blew a kiss to the firing

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squad before they opened fire on her. Now, her family

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would not claim her body after the execution, so her

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body was actually donated for medical study. Now, she wasn't this, like,

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young stripper thing. She was, like, 41 years old. She

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was a little chubby. 1932, Tata Airlines made its first flight.

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It later became Air India. That would have been cool

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if Tata Airlines had bought out by Hooters. 1933, the

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20th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect.

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So that made the presidential term start in January 20th

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instead of on March 4th. And it had Congress start

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on January 3rd instead of March 4th. Yeah, they wanted

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to get rid of that long lame duck time. 1976,

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for the first time, they held a vice presidential debate.

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Walter Mondale, he went at it. He was running with

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Jimmy Carter. He went at it with Bob Dole, who

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was running with Gerald Ford. 1992, New York subway driver

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Robert Ray, he was convicted of manslaughter. Yeah, for the

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death of five of his passengers. See, he fell asleep

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when he was drunk and driving the subway. Killed him. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty.

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It's your birthday.

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We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going

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to sip a card like.

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It's your birthday. And you know we don't give up.

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Because it's your birthday.

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Let's check out who's born on October the 15th.

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Woo, woo, burn town, because.

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I Linda Lavin, she sang her own theme song. Linda,

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she was born in Portland, Maine in 1937. Now, she

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did a lot of theater and Broadway and all that.

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She was nominated six times for Tonys. She did win

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one time. On TV, she starred on Alice. Now, she

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married her third husband in 2005. Linda, she just died

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from lung cancer last year, 89 years old. Actress, director,

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Penny Marshall. She was born in the Bronx, New York

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in 1943. She first got known playing Laverne on Laverne

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and Shirley. Now, Laverne and Shirley actually started out on

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Happy Days. They did a few episodes, and they spun

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them off into Laverne and Shirley. Well, after that ending, Penny,

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she became a big-time movie director. First movie she directed

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was Jumpin' Jack Flash, then Big. Now, Big was the

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first movie that was directed by a woman to make

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over $ 100 million. Then she did League of Their Own,

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Riding in Cars with Boys. Penny, she married when she

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was in college, and they had a daughter, but that

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marriage didn't last very long. Then she married Rob Reiner

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for 10 years. Penny, she died in 2018 at 75

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years old from a whole bunch of health issues.

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Sharing horizons that are new to us. Watching the signs

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along the way. Talking it over just the two of us.

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Working together day to day.

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Now, his sister had one of the prettiest singing voices

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of all time. Richard Carpenter is 80. He was born

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in New Haven, Connecticut. Now Richard and Karen, they started

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the Carpenters in 1969. Now Richard, he sang backup, played

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the piano and wrote all the songs. They have sold

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a hundred million records. Now that is amazing when you

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consider that Karen died back in 1983. Since they, well,

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since she died, Richard, he's done mainly just like arranged

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records and produced records for other artists and that kind

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of stuff. Got married in 1984 and they have five kids.

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That was Chris DeBerg. He was born in Argentina. He's

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78 today. He grew up in Ireland. His dad was

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a diplomat. He sold over 45 million records. Now, Chris,

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he is huge in Norway and Brazil. His biggest hits

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in the United States are Don't Pay the Ferryman, High

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On Emotion, Lady in Red. He got married in 1977,

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and they have two sons and a daughter. Now, his daughter,

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she won Miss World in 2003, representing Ireland. Actress Tanya Roberts,

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she was born in Manhattan, New York in 1945. Tanya,

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she first got known on TV. She was on Charlie's Angels.

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The last season was on the air. Then she was

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on That 70s Show for five seasons. Some of her

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movies were Beastmaster, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. She was

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a Bond girl in A View to a Kill. She

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married in 1974. Her husband died in 2006. Tanya, she

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died in 2021 from sepsis. 71 years old. Comedian, actor,

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Larry Miller. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He's

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73 today. He started doing stand-up in the early to mid-80s.

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Still doing it. He's still really successful. He has a

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lot of specials on like Comedy Central and HBO and

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that kind of stuff. Some of his movies are Pretty Woman,

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10 Things I Hate About You, The Nutty Professor movies,

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A Mighty Wind. Been in over 50 movies. He married

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in 1993 and they have two children. Celebrity chef, Emeril Lagasse.

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He's 67.

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He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1959. Now,

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like a lot of chefs in Massachusetts, Emeril, he got

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famous for his New Orleans-style Creole and Cajun cooking. Yeah,

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he's won every award you can possibly make, win for cooking. Now,

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he has had his own TV show since 1993. He's

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written over 20 cookbooks. He has restaurants in New Orleans,

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Las Vegas, Miami. Now, you throw in all the cooking

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products that he sells, yeah, he brings in about $ 150

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million a year. He had two children from his first wife,

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married his third wife in 2000, and they have two children.

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Now in the country band Little Big Town, the pretty blonde, yeah,

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her name is Kimberly Schlottman. She was born in Toccoa, Georgia.

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She's 57. She helped form Little Big Town in 1998.

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Now she rarely sings lead. She pretty much sings harmony.

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Now her first husband, he died after 15 years of marriage.

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At only 41 years old, he had a heart attack.

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She married her second husband in 2006, and they have

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two daughters. All right, our quote of the day. It's

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going to come from one of the co-founders of Microsoft,

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Paul Allen. Paul died today in 2018 at 65 years old.

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He said, facing your own mortality forces you to reevaluate

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your priorities. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't

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She wants to hear Blue Honey and their song Whiskey Promise.

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You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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I can hear the bourbon on your breath Telling me

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what you'll forget It's everything I want to hear But

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in the light of day it disappears If you miss

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me Keep your whiskey.

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Promise I know.

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This ain't our first time here And boy, tonight you

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sound sincere.

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If I can

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Keep the sun

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