Oct. 17, 2025

Oct 18-Mashed Potato, Chuck Berry, George C. Scott, Mary Ann, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zac Efron, Pop Up Toaster

Oct 18-Mashed Potato, Chuck Berry, George C. Scott, Mary Ann, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zac Efron, Pop Up Toaster

(2024) National mashed potato day. Entertainment from 2018. US bought Alaska, US won Puerto Rico, Pop up toaster invented. Todays birthdays - Chuck Berry, George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Dawn Wells, Pam Dawber, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Erin Moran, Zac Efron. Colin Powell died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard     http://defleppard.com/
Mashed potatos - Dee Dee Sharp
Girls like you - Maroon 5
Blue Tacoma - Russell Dickerson
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Gilligans Island TV theme
Mork & Mindy TV theme
Happy Days TV theme
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken   https://www.dokken.net/

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Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,

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it's about today, presented by Cool Media Days. October the eighteenth.

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He shows.

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Today is mash potato Day. Humans. They've been eating potatoes

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around eight thousand years. Sir Walter Raleigh. He brought the

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first potatoes from South America to Ireland and fifteen eighty nine.

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Eventually they spread throughout Europe. In sixteen twenty, the governor

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of the Bahamas sent a gift basket to the governor

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of Virginia. It contained potatoes. That's how potatoes made their

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way to the United States. So who created a mash

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potatow No one knows. I'm guessing it was somebody with

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bad teeth. Now potatoes, that potatoes, they could be fairly healthy,

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but we put so much crap on them. They're not

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healthy at all. Four US. So weather you make them

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yourself or you go out to date, just enjoy some

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mashed potatoes today. If that's not your thing, have fun

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dancing the d d sharp the mashed potato. Now. I

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would like to thank you for sending my mom so

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many birthday wishes yesterday. She might not really understand what

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was all going on, but she thought it was really cool.

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She had a really big smile all day long. So

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thank you all. All right, this is going on in entertainment.

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In October the eighteenth, She's Got twenty eighteen number one

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album was Carter five by Lil Wayne Roon five and

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Cardi B had the number one song with girls like you.

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Now It's all good then Wood, then let Meat, These

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girls like tool out with guys like do use some

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going up Calm tool Punty liked tup on You Me

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to It out On went on Canon.

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D Julia Russell Dickerson at the number one country song

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with Blue Tacoma.

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Pleasy Shining One.

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Cold Road, Always having Head Californio right. The number one

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book was Vince Flynn by Kyle Kyle Miles Todd. Movie

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was Halloween On Halloween Laura Escape Mask Murder Michael Myers

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forty years ago, Now they have to go At It

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Again stars Jamie Lee Curtiz, Judy Greer, and Andy Metikick.

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Back in eighteen fifty one, the classic novel Moby Dick

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written by Herman Melville, that went out sale. No one

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bought it up in Melville's whole lifetime, only thirty two

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hundred copies of Moby Dixel. Then after he died, Boom

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huge classic. Now, yeah, that do him any good? They

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did it all right. What happened on October the eighteenth,

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it's about sixteen forty eight. The first labor union was

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organized in the North American colonies. It was in Boston.

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It was the Boston Shoemakers. No, they literally made shoes.

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I mean it sounds like an old baseball team though.

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Seventeen seventy six, at a bar in Elmsford, New York,

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it was decorated with birdtail feathers, and a drunk customer

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asked bartender Betsy Flaning again for a glass full of

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those cocktails. Oh they think that's the other word. Cocktails

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came into being. Could have been as good as good

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a story as anything else. Right. Eighteen sixty seven, it

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was official, after spending almost two cents an acre for

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a total of seven point two million dollars, the United

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States officially owned Alaska. Yep, the check cleared. I think

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that still pisses off Russia. Now you can actually see

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that check. You just have to like go online and

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look it up and you'll see it's date stamped and

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everything that is paid in full to the victor go

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the spoils. Eighteen ninety eight, the American flag was raised

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on the island of Puerto Rico. You just got Puerto

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Rico for beating Spain in the Spanish American War. Now,

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I will admit this is one of my favorite inventions

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of all time. In Minnesota, in nineteen twenty one, Charles

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Strait he invented the pop up toaster. Well, this was

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pretty chivalrous. Nineteen twenty nine Canada, a lot of cleared

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that women are now officially considered persons. Nineteen sixty two

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the United States lots of spacecraft Ranger five. It was

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just supposed to slam into the moon, so we can

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see what happened. Well, we missed the moon. Who knows,

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we might have pissed off somebody in the next solar

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system over, who knows, What the hell are you doing?

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Joke joke, joked, joke, sharge dish shiverthday. We're gonna tause

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he left this shiver birthday. We gonna simple targe he

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like this shivebirthday, and you know we don't that birthday.

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Let's check out who was born on October the eighteenth See.

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Down in Lulianic in New Orleans, way back up in

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the money. Ever, let's not.

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Alone, haven't made a earth?

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And one where leave the country morn Johnny Wood who

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never ever learned he mean to right the will, but.

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He could play a guitar just like a ring in

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label Johnny Who. Chuck Barry. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri,

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in nineteen twenty six. One of the fathers of rock

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and roll. Some of his classic gets are maybe Lane,

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roll over Beethoven, Johnny be good my dingling. Now he

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was in that first class to go in the rock

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and roll Hall of Fame. Chuck stayed out of jail

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all those years, he would have been a lot bigger

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than he probably always was. Got married nineteen forty eight

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and they had four children. Had he stayed faithful, he

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wouldn't have been in jail so much now. He died

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in twenty seventeen and ninety years old from his natural causes.

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After George C. Scott. He was born a Wise, Virginia

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in nineteen twenty seven. He had a really gruff demeanor

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and usually played a thirty figures, but he was a

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true Thesbian. He got nominated for five Tony Awards. He

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was known to nominate for oscars for Anatomy and Murder

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the Hustler of the Hospital. He won an Oscar for Patton,

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then became the first actor declined the award. Yeah, I

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thought awards shows were stupid. He said that comparing an

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acting performance winning as another Yeah, that was dumb.

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Actually what he said was the whole goddamn thing is

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a meat parade, and I don't want any part of it.

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Scott he had a daughter from his first wife, a

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son and a daughter from his second wife, two sons

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from his third wife married, then he had a daughter

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just kind of fooling around. Married his fifth wife in

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nineteen seventy two. They were together until he died in

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nineteen ninety nine from a rapture to abdominal aortic aneurysm

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seventy one years old. Then, after he died, the Caademy

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Awards gave it his fit oscar that he refused to

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his family. They took it. Actor Peter Boyle. He was

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born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in nineteen thirty five. You probably

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know Peter best for playing the dad in the TV

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show Everybody Loves Raymond. He had a long and distinguished

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career before that. Though he was the monster in the

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movie Young Frankenstein. He was in taxi driver in all

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those Santa Claus movies. He married nineteen seventy seven and

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they had two children. He died from heart disease in

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two thousand and six at seventy one years old.

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Mary actress Don Wells was born in Rena, Nevada, in

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nineteen thirty eight. Start out as Miss Nevada competian Miss

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America nineteen sixty. She didn't win, but it helped her

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get the job. Blamed Marianne on Gilligan's Island, and he

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guesses what Marianne's last name was the Summers. She was

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Marianne Summers and she her character was based on Dorothy

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and the widow of Ohs. Yeah, that's why she had

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the pigtails and was some Kansas and everything. Don she

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married once for five years in the nineteen sixties. She

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died in twenty twenty at eighty two years old from

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COVID No no, no, no, Well that was a horrible TV

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theme song. Maybe he had to be watching it. Actress

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Pam Dubber, She's seventy three She's born in Detroit in

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nineteen fifty one. Started as a fashion model, then hit

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big on the TV show Marking Mindy. She was Mindy

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and she was on My Sister Sam starting over twenty

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TV movies. She married actor Mark Harmon in nineteen eighty

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seven and they have two sons. Thursday Saturday actress Aaron Moran.

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She was born in Burbank, California. In nineteen sixty, she

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got Fantaus saying Jony Cunningham on Happy Days, did for

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ten years, two and thirty four episodes, then when it

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was over, they spun her and Scott Baio off into

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Jonia Loves Chucci. Lasted seventeen episodes. That was way too many, Aaron.

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She married his second husband in nineteen ninety three. She

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died from throat cancer in twenty seventeen at only fifty

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six years old. The Muscles from Brussels John Claude von

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dam He was born in Brussels, Belgium in nineteen sixty.

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Sixty four year old started training in martial arts when

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he was ten. His dad thought he was a whimp

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and one and toughen him up.

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Well.

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It worked. After winning all kinds of different things, he

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ended up becoming a professional kickboxer, had a record of

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eighteen and one when all his eighteen fights by knockout.

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Then he decided going to acting. He first started in

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Blood Sport, then The Kickboxer, Time Cop all those expendable movies.

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He voiced in the can or Kung Fu Panda movies too.

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He's been married five times to four women. Say, after

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his fourth divorce, he went back and married his third

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wife again. So he has two children from his third

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and fifth wife, and he has one child from his

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fourth wife. Actor Zach Efron. He's thirty seven. He's born

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in sam Lewis, Bispoke, California, in nineteen eighty seven. First

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got known in the movie Hairspray. He and three high

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school musical movies, and he does seventeen again, Dirty Grandpa

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the Greatest Showman now, Zach. He had a lot of

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trouble when he was younger, but he's been sober since

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twenty thirteen. So congratulations and cool job, Zach. Let's go

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talk about toaster some more now. The first toaster it

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was called El Toasto. Seventy five million people eat toast

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every single day in the United States. Well, thank you

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for listening to us today, joining this, We appreciate it

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and feel forget to follow us on whever you listen

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to us on Come see us at coolmedia dot com.

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That's cool A three US. Let's end with former Army

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General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colon died today

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in twenty twenty one at eighty four years old. He

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says a dream doesn't become a reality through magic. It

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takes sweat, determination, and hard work. You guys, have an

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awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow