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Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history and
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factoids about today. Today is October the seventeenth. Now today
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is the first birthday since my mom died in May.
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So I'm going to do a little celebrating for her
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birthday today for you longtime listeners. You know, my mom
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had a favorite song.
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Our minsters are in the sky.
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I never know.
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What fire lies. It's a firefly never what happens to.
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That was I'll never know by Elvis Presley. So happy
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birthday mom. Well the rest of you you can celebrate
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National Pasta Day. Yeah, big celebration today. Now I'm everything
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from angel hair to ZD say he to z. There's
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all kinds of pastas.
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Now, get this.
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When they rank the top ten most popular foods in America,
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chocolate chip cookies are number one, then lasagna is number two,
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Spaghetti and meat balls is number five, ravioli is seven,
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and mac and cheese is eight. I guess as Americans
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we love our pasta.
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Now.
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Big deals today of course are Carabas, Olive Garden Noodles,
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and companies for Zoli's pretty much everybody that's selling pasta. Yeah,
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they're having deals today. So go out there and have
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fun and enjoy some carbs today. All right, list is
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going on to entertainment. In October seventeenth, It's about Your
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twenty ten number one album was Hemming Ways Whiskey by
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Kenny Chesney. Bruno Mars had the number one song with
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just the Way You Are and Let You Stop because
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Josh Turner had the number one country song with all
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Over Me, Jump Me in.
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The front Seat, Kick out your Bear, feed money, let
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your hear down, I Don't Stop Down and hunderneath or
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second more Tree, Save all your kisses up, Bring over
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your Street, Loveboard, all of Me All.
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The number one book was The Reversal by Michael Connolly.
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The top movie was Jackass three D. It's just a
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movie of the Jack Gass guys doing their stunts and stuff.
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Johnny Knoxville, Steve O and Bam mcgar All right, that's
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what happened in October the seventeenth. The London Bare Flood
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of eighteen fourteen now the Horseshoe Brewery. It was one
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of the largest breweries in London. Now one of his
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vats instood twenty foot tall twenty two feet actually now
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it was completely full of bear when one of the
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metal bands that held the wind vat together slipped. Well, calls,
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it's the whole thing to explode. So now that knocked
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out another vat. That knocked out another vat. That knocked
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out another vat. Then three hundred and eighty eight thousand
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gallons of beer knocked out the back wall of the brewery.
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A fifteen foot wave of bear swept through the street,
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knocked in the out houses, killed eight people. Yeah, another
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person did die later from alcohol poisoning, though. So now
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the whole thing was all over, and they cleaned up
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and they went to court. Well, the court ruled that
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the brewery was not responsible. They were not at fault yep.
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They did not owe any compensation for the victims or
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pay any of the damage or anything. The court ruled
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the beer flood was an act of God. Nineteen thirty
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one Gangs to al Capone. He was convicted to income
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tax evasion. Yeah, they couldn't get him on anything else
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of a stick. So he was sentenced to eleven years
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in prison. He served seven and a half. He was
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fined fifty thousand dollars in court costs, and he had
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to pay two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in back
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taxes four point two million. Today, nineteen thirty three, Albert Einstein,
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he arrived in the United States. He has immigration papers,
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said that he was a refugee from Nazi Germany. Brenton's Queen,
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Elizabeth the Second, Now, she was really big into horse racing.
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She even owned her own horses and raced them and everything.
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So how would you like to have been this guy? Though?
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Today in nineteen fifty nine, at the very last minute,
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the queen she withdrew one of her horses before the race. Well,
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the guy had to go over and tell the queen
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that she was being fined one hundred and forty dollars
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for the late scratch. Nineteen sixty one at the New
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York Museum of Modern Art, now they had this huge
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gala celebration. They were displaying the paintings and the artwork
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of the great artist Henry Matisse. Now everybody with money,
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all the socialites of the A List, the big time celebrities,
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anyone who wanted to be seen at all, they had
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to go that Matis exhibit. Now, the star of the
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exhibit was his piece Lebatteaux. Yeah, the boat. So all
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the get this, all the museum workers all the media,
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all the art critics, over one hundred and sixteen thousand
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people who walked by the spectators and stuff like that.
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Also the artist's sun. Now they all owed and odd
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over the Butteau. Now, after forty seven days on display
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in New York City, stockbroker pointed out that the Butteou
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it was hung upside down. So they called in a
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whole bunch of experts. Damn this thing. The stockbroker is right.
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So yeah, the boat was floating upside down the entire time.
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Now do you know the Blue Man group, they berety
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much see him in Las Vegas. Well, they played their
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first show today in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, it was
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out in clean New York City nineteen ninety eight and Nigeria.
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A gas pipe fine, and it ran near the town
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of Jesse. Well, it leaked, so the locals they would
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scavenge that leaked gasoline and head and sell it. Well,
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they think one of them might have been smoking today. Yeah,
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the pipeline exploated killed over twelve hundred people that were
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in that village in two thousand and eight, and I ran. Now,
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they tried to set the world record for the world's
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longest sandwich that was ever made. Now they needed it
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to get to fifteen hundred feet or fifteen hundred meters
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I mean yeah, that's a little short of a mile,
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and then they could set the record. Well before they
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could measure it, though, the crowds started eating the sandwich.
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They don't know how long it was.
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Stoke choke, coot choked cojap shot dish shiver day, Please
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gonna he left this shivery.
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We want simple tag like thish shib day.
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And you know you don't.
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You well, let's check out us. Born in October the seventeenth.
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I Wan listened to him. Let'st worry about her. Man
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named Jed, the poor mountaineer Barley kept his family fail.
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And then one day he was shooting nets food and
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up the ground.
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Com U bu blia oil that is black and gold.
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In Texas team well the first singing old old Jem's
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a millionaire. The king folks said, Jed, move.
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Away from there.
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Actress Irene Ryan. She was born in El Paso, Texas,
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in nineteen oh two. Started out in Vaudeville, then Broadway.
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Best known for TV, though she played Granny on The
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Beverly Hill Billies. Now Here's a piece of trivia. Do
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you know what Granny's actual name was on the show?
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She was Daisy made Moses. She was Jed's mother in law, Irene.
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She acted until she died in nineteen seventy three from
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a brain timors. She was seventy years old. She was
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twice divorced. Actress Rita Hayworth. She was born in Brooklyn,
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New York, in nineteen eighteen. She made sixty one mother.
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She was a top blay actress of the nineteen forties
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and one of the top pinup girls during World War Two. Now,
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her second husband was Orson Wells and they had a daughter.
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Then she had another daughter from her third husband. She
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ended up divorcing five times. Irita. She died from Alzheimer's
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in nineteen eighty seven at sixty eight years old. Now,
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it was Rita's death that brought Alzheimer's into the opening
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in mainstream attention. See most people never heard of Alzheimer's
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before she died, so because that, yep, that's when Alzheimer's
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awareness actually began. Was her death after Tom Poston. He
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was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen twenty one. Tommy
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wasn't a star but he was the record for breiering
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in the most sitcomps. Was most known probably for playing
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George Utley on New York. Did a lot of game shows.
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He had one child from his second wife, married his
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third wife for eight years. They divorced, then they remarried
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for eighteen years, and then she died. They had two
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children along the way. Then he married actress Suzanne Plichette, Yeah,
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the actress from the original Newhart Show. They had actually
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dated in nineteen fifty nine. Then they went their separate ways,
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married other people, had kids. Both their spouses died. They
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married each other in two thousand and one, together until
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Tom died from respiratorial failure two thousand and seven and
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eighty five years old. Country singer Earl Thomas Connelly. He
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was born in Portsmouth, Ohiowa, in nineteen forty one. In
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the nineteen eighties he had eighteen number one songs. That
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was third He was behind Alabama and Ronnie millsp. Some
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of his number one songs are your Love's on the line,
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holding her and loving You, Nobody falls like a fool.
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What she is is a woman in love now. He
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married once and they had two children, and he performed
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right until he died. He died in twenty nineteen at
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seventy seven years old from a cerebro atrophy. It's that
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brain kind of disease. Now, Earl. He is the only
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country artist ever to sing on Soul Train.
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Yo, Get out of My mon.
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Eighty three year old Gary Pucket. He still sings for
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Gary Bucket in the Union Gap. Now they're on tour
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right now, and they actually have show scheduled all the
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way through next September.
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Now.
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Gary is born in Hitting, Minnesota. He grew up in Yakima, Washington.
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Now Gary in the Union Gap they formed in nineteen
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sixty seven. Now, when they would be on stage, they
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addressed as Union Army officers in the Civil War. Some
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of their big hits for young Girl, Woman woman, don't
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give up, don't give into him, the girl is a
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woman now broke up in nineteen seventy one that yeah,
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they weren't there gether too long. And then Gary just
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kind of hung around, and then he decided to open
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up for the Monkeys on their routine Union show. Then
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he went and opened up from Ringo Starr on his
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All Star Band show. And he's like, this is kind
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of cool, so he brought the union gap back together.
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Still are now. He married his second wife in two thousand.
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Now for a long time, Gary, he followed Mahrishi Mahesh Yogi,
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and one day while he was doing his meditation, he
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heard the Lord tell him that there was a better
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path to follow. So nineteen ninety became a born again Christian.
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Flesh See I like.
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To sink hole with my thanks. That was Michael mcken
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saying for spinal tap. Michael seventy eight. He's born in Manhattan,
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New York. In nineteen forty seven. First got known on
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the TV show l Vernon Shirley played Lenny. If you
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remember they was Leney and Squiggy. Then he co wrote
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starting and sang in the mocky mockumentary that this is
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spinal tap. Now get this. Most comedians they joined Saturday
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Live to make a name from themselves when they're starting
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in to start out well. In nineteen ninety four, Michael's
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career had really stalled. He couldn't get any roles at all.
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He'd been a successful actor for over twenty years. Didn't
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know what to do. He went on Saturday Night Life
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for two seasons. It worked, jump started his career. That
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crazy been working steady ever since. He married his first
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wife for twenty three years and they had two children together.
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Married his second wife in nineteen ninety nine. I haven't
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known everybody playing arm what do you know? Not enough?
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Haven't anybody no Norman?
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That stuff better me a tall one.
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Guys, I like it.
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Actor George wint He was born in Chicago in nineteen
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forty eight. Best no, I'm playing Norman Cheers on Saturday
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Night if he was on The Bears. Guys, the other
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did that skid in the nineteen nineties. Some of George's
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movies are Fletched, gung O, Never Say Die, Space Truckers.
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He got married in nineteen seventy eight and they had
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one daughter and two sons. Now, though you never saw her,
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his wife was actually the voice of his wife Vera
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on the show Cheers George. She had a lot of
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medical issues and stuff ended up dining in a slate
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just on May twentieth, seventy six years old. Actress Margo Kidder.
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She was born a Yellownife, Canada in nineteen forty eight.
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She had really big playing Lois Lane in four Superman movies.
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She was also in The Great Wall, Though Pepper, The
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Amityville Horror, The Little Treasure. Sadly, Margot, she struggled with
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mental illness her whole life. Yeah, she had undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
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She tried to commit suicide by the time she was
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fourteen years old. She had a daughter from her first
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thousand and she ended up divorcing three times, and Margot
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she committed suicide in twenty eighteen at sixty nine years old.
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Jones, My heart on the Rule Stone. I don't feel
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rockets leaving sho So don't rob shoot leave your Country's song.
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Country singer Alan Jackson sixty seven. He's born in noon
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and Georgia. In nineteen fifty eight, he sold over seventy
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five million records. It's had twenty six songs go to
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number one. Now actually right now, Alan, he's really fighting
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this nerve disease. It's called Charcott Marie tooth disease basically
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CMT for short. It's screwing up his nerves. He basically