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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and
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Factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the seventeenth.
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Now today's national day sucked, So we're just gonna celebrate
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my mom seventy eight birthday today. Happy birthday, Mom. I
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love you and hope you have a great day. Now,
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are you regulars? You know that my mom has a
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favorite song.
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Oh, misters are in luska. I never know what fire lie,
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so fire fly of what happens to.
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Happy birthday Mom? For those of you who don't know,
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that is Elvis with I'll never know. All right, let's
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see happened in entertainment in October seventeenth. It's back seventy
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eight years. In nineteen forty six, number one album was
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The Ink Spots. By The Ink Spots. Frankie Carl and
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his orchestra had the number one song with Rumors Are Flying.
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Rumors are flying and I'm not denying the people are
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shot and I'm falling in love with you.
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Couse for a change, Darling.
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The rooms.
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True.
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How Dexter he had the number one country song with
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wine Woman in song I.
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Have faly in the North in the South, I worked
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in the city a fly in the house.
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I made good money, but he did play as long
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as that would wear and women in.
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So I've got him.
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I've had him, lod load loady, I've got him now.
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The number one book was The Hucksters by Frederick Wakeman.
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Top movie was Blue Skies fred Astaire. He's a famous
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dancer on Broadway. Well, he falls in love with big
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band singer Marino Era. She falls in love with nightclub
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over in Bean Crosby, who's a total dirtbag. All right,
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let's see what happened on October the seventeenth, the London
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beer flood of eighteen fourteen. That's what happened the Horseshoe Brewery.
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It was one of the largest breweries in London. Now
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one of us vats to twenty feet to twenty two
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feet tall, and it was full of beer. Now, one
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of the metal bands that held the wooden barrel together
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slipt caused the entire barrel to explood, but that knocked
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out another vat, thatcked out another vat, that knocked out
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another vat. Three hundred and eighty eight thousand gallons of
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beer then knocked out the back wall of the brewery.
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A fifteen foot wave of bear swept through the straits,
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knocking out houses as went and killed eight people, four
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of them were kids. One person died later from alcohol poisoning.
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Now after us all over and he went to court.
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The court ruled that the brewery had no responsibility. They
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were not at fault and did not have to pay
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any compensation for the victims or any damages. The court
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ruled that the beer flood was an act of God.
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Nineteen thirty one gangster al Capone. He was convicted a
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tax evasion. Nothing else would stick. He got eleven years
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in prison, yes served seven and a half. Nineteen thirty three,
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Albert Einstein arrived in the United States. His immigration papers
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said that he was a refugee from Nazi Germany. Breton's
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Queen Elizabeth the Second, she was really big into racing horses.
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She even owned and raced her own horses. So how
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do you like to have been this guy? In nineteen
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fifty nine, At the very last minute, the queen withdrew
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one of her horses right before the race, while this
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guy had to go tell the queen that she's being
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fined one hundred four for the late scratch at the
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New York Museum of Modern Art. In nineteen sixty one,
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they had this huge gala celebration. They were displaying the
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paintings of the late great artist Henry Matisse. Now, everybody
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with money, every a list of celebrity, everyone who wanted
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to be seen, They all went to the Matias exhibit.
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But the star of the show was his painting Leboteaux,
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which is the boat. Well, all the museum workers, one
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hundred and sixteen thousand visitors, the artist's son, even they
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all owed and odd and raved all about Labatau. Well,
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after forty seven days, a New York stockbroker he pointed
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out that Labatow was on upside down. So they brought
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in some expert and damn if that stockbroker wasn't right. Yeah,
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this boat was hung upside down the entire time. Two
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thousand and eight, over and Iran, they tried to set
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a new world record for the longest sandwich ever made.
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The sandwich had had to be fifteen hundred meters long
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in order to set the record. That's just under a mile.
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Now before they could measure the thing, Yeah, the crowd
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started eating the sandwich too early.
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Goat show dish shivers day.
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We're gonna pause. He was like, thish shiver day. We
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want simple car. She's like dish Shivers Day, and you
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know we don't.
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That's her birthday.
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Okay, let's check out who it's born in October the
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seventeenth and.
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Listen to him. Le'st worry about a man named Jed.
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The poor him outain near Barley, kept his family fed,
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and then one day he was shooting nets and food
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and up fool the ground coma bubbling oil that is
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black and gold. Texas team well the first singing old
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old Jebs and millionaire the canning full said, Jed, move
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away from there.
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Actress comedian Irene Ryan. She was born in El Paso, Texas,
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in nineteen o two. Start out on vaudeville, then she
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did some Broadway. Of course, he's best known for playing
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Granny on the Beverly hill Billies. You have any idea
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what Granny's name was? Daisy made Moses. Remember she was
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Jed's mother in law. Irene she was only six years
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older than the Jed, so I guess they really were Hillbillies.
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She acted up until she died in nineteen seventy from
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a brain tumor at seventy years old. She had divorced
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twice during her life. Actress Rita Hayworth. She was born
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in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen eighteen. She acted from
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nineteen thirty one in nineteen seventy two, made sixty one movies.
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She was the top actress of the nineteen forty She
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was also one of the top pin up girls during
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World War Two. Her second husband was Orson Wells and
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they had one child. Then she had a daughter from
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her third husband. She ended up divorced in five times.
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Rita she died from Alzheimer's in nineteen eighty seven and
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sixty eight years old. That was her death that brought
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Alzheimer's out into the open. Most people had never heard
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of alzheimer before she died, So yeah, that's how the
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awareness for alzheimer actually came into the mainstream. After Tom Poston.
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He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen twenty one.
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Tom he wasn't a major star, but he holds the
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record for appearing in the most sitcoms. He also did
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a lot of game shows, best known for playing George
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Uttley on Newhart. He had one child from his second wife,
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then he married his third wife for eight years. They divorced.
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They'd be married for eighteen years and then she died.
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They had two children along the way. Then he married
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actress Suzann Pelit remember her from the original New Heart Show.
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They actually dated back in nineteen fifty nine. Then they
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went their separate ways, married to other people, had kids,
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got remarried, or got married in two thousand and one.
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They were married until Tom died from respiratory failure at
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eighty five years old in two thousand and seven. So
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Zan died one year later. That was country singer Earl
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Thomas Conley. He's going to Portsmouth, Ohio in nineteen forty one.
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In the nineteen eighties he had eighteen number one songs.
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That was Third beyind Alabama and Ronnie millsp Some of
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his number ones are your Love's on the Line, holding
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her and loving You. Nobody follows like a fool. What
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she is is a woman in love. He married one
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and they had two children. He performed right up until
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he died in twenty nineteen at seventy seven years old.
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He died from subrebral atrophy. It's our brain disease now, Earl.
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He is the only country artist to ever sing on
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Soul Train.
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Yo, Get out of My Mom.
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Eighty two year old Gary Puckett sang for the Gary
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Pucket in the Union Gap. They're out touring. Yeah, that's
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pretty impressive, right. They actually have show schedules all the
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way through two five. What's really impressive that they in
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fact they broke up in nineteen seventy one. Now, Gary,
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he was born in Hipping, Minnesota in nineteen forty two.
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Back in the day, on the stage they would dress
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up like Union Army officers during the Civil War. I'm
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guessing they probably took those off when they went down
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South though. Some of their HiT's Our Woman, Woman, Young Girl,
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Lady will power over you. Gary Mary. He's been married
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since two thousand and they have two children. Going to
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flesh out see I like to sink hole with my
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Thanks too.
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Tall.
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That's Michael mckeinnon singing it for Spinal Tap. He's seventy
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seven today. He's born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen
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forty seven. He first got known on the TV show
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la Vernon Shirley. He played Lenny, Remember Lenny and Squeaky
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He Squeaky's Friends. Then he co wrote, starred and sang
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in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. Now most performers
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they joined Saturday Night Live in order to make a
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name from them selves, and they're starting out. In nineteen
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ninety four, Michael his career had really stalled. He couldn't
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get any roles for anything, you know. He'd been a
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successful actor for twenty years and nothing. So he went
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on Saturday Night Live for two seasons. It worked, did
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jump start his career. Done a bunch of TV and
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movie ever since. Married his first wife for twenty three
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years and they had two children. Married his second wife
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in nineteen ninety nine.
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Haven't everybody playing un arm?
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What do you know?
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Not enough?
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Haven't anybody no Norman?
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That stuff?
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Better give me a tall one, guys.
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I like it.
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Actor George Wentt. He was born in Chicago in nineteen
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forty eight. He's seventy six, best known for playing Norman
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on Cheers. He was one of the Bear's guys on
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Saturday Live in the nineteen nineties. Some of his movies
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are Fletch, Gung Ho, Never Say Die, Space Truckers. It's
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been married since nineteen seventy eight and they have a
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daughter and two sons. Although you never saw his wife,
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she was actually the voice of his wife's vera on Cheers.
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Actress Margo Kidder. She was born a Yellowknife, Canada in
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nineteen forty eight. She first really hit big playing Lois
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Lane in The Superman and Its Free Sequels. She was
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also in The Great Waldo Pepper, The Amityville Horror, The
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Little Treasure. Sadly, Margo, she struggled with mental illness her
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whole life. Yeah, she had undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Yeah, she'd
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already attempted suicide by the time she was fourteen years old.
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She had one daughter from her first husband, ended up
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divorcing three times. She committed suicide in twenty eighteen and
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sixty nine years old.
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Oh here's Jones. It's my heart on the Rule Stall.
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I don't feel so rocking.
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She's leaving shone, So don't rock shoot pods.
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Leave me your country's song.
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Country singer Alan Jackson sixty six. He is born in
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Noon in Georgia. In nineteen fifty eight, he sold over
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seventy five million records, had twenty six number one songs. Now, Alan,
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He's on his last call one more for the road tour.
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It's gonna run through twenty twenty five, then no more
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touring from Allen. He married his high school sweetheart in
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nineteen seventy nine and they have three daughters. Comedian Norm McDonald.
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He was born in Quebec City, Canada in nineteen fifty nine.
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He was a successful stand up with his dry wit.
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He turned that into a successful run on Saturday Night
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Live during the Weekend Update. He did it for six
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years on TV. He had The Norm Show for a
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couple of years, did a lot of voice rolls in movies,
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married once for eleven years and had a son from it.
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Normy died in twenty twenty one. Is sixty one years
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old from leukemia.
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You want a slim city, the real slim Shitty said
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up sad signal Sadio. You want the same saties, just
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the real slim Citty Up, he said, yum.
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Stand up the rapper Eminem. He's fifty two. He was
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born Marshall Mathers in Saint Joseph, Missouri in nineteen seventy two.
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Sold over two hundred and twenty million records. That makes
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him the sixth best selling solo artists of all time.
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He is the only artist solo or in a band
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to have ten consecutive album's debut at number one. He
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married Ken I'm in nineteen ninety nine. After a couple
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of years, they divorced, took a little break, then they
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got remarried again in two thousand and six, this time
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just for a couple months. Then they divorced again. They
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did have one daughter along the way, Eminem. Though he
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adopted Kim's two children that she had from other guys,
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and he is raising all three of those kids right now,
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let's go back to birthdays today. Well, I was trying
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to figure out what kind of birthday cake to get