Oct. 28, 2025

Oct 29-Oatmeal, Richard Dryfuss, Quiet Riot, Homer Simpson, Winona Ryder, Tracee Ellis Ross, 1 Legged Gymnast wins gold

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National Oatmeal day. Entertainment from 1972. Black Tuesday stock market crash 1929, 1 legged gymnast wins 6 olympic medals, China ends its one child policy. Todays birthdays - Richard Dreyfuss, Kate Jackson, Kevin DuBrow, Dan Castellaneta, Joely Fisher, Winona Ryder, Tracee Ellis Ross. Sir Walter Raleigh died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Oatmeal everywhere - Origial Kds song
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
It's not love, but it's not bad - Merle Haggard
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Scareccrow & Mrs. King TV theme
Bang your head - Quiet riot
Exit - Sunner Fall - Lee Sims https://www.leesims.com/

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He Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history

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and Factor. It is about today days October the twenty ninth.

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Eighteen elm okag else okill everywhere, ag m a else

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okagm el oatmeal everywhere.

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Today is National Oatmeal Day. I guess we're supposed to

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eat healthy before Halloween. Oats they were the last grain

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to be domesticated. Only started farming them about three thousand

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years ago. Now, originally they were just grown for a

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horse feed. Yeah, people wouldn't need oats. Then the six

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eonder at Scotland started eating them. Then eighteen seventy seven

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and Ravine, Ohio Quaker oats began oatmeal. It became popular

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all across the country, posts post even spread across the Europe.

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Now they didn't know it back then, but oatmeal is

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one of the most healthy, nutritious foods that you can

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actually eat. Great source of fiber orchids of items and

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miniserles helps the lower the cholesterol level your heart disease.

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And if you whind about it being plain and boring,

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well that's your fault. You can put whatever you want

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on it, cinnamon, fruits, nuts, berries, what's just an enjoy

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some oatmeal and get this, seventy five percent of all

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US households have oatmeal in it. All right, this is

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going on entertainment in October twenty ninth, It's back. In

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nineteen seventy two, number one album was Superfly by Curtis Mayfield.

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Chuck Berry had the number one on with My Dingling.

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When I was a little beady boy, my grandmother bought

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me a cute little toy, silver bells.

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Hanging on a string.

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She told me it was my dinging. Surprisingly, that was

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Chucks on the number one song Merle Haggard. He had

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the number one country song with It's not Love but

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It's not bad. No, not love.

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But it's not best.

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No, it's not love, not love ours.

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The number one book was Jonathan Livingston's Seagull by Richard Buck.

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The top movie it was This Lady Sings the Blues.

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It's that story of jazz singer Billy Holliday, stars Diana Ross,

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Billy d Williams and Richard Pryor. Diana Ross. She was

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now many for an oscar for playing Billy. She lost Elizamn,

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Nelly and Cabaret. I would have gone with Diana, all right.

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What happened on October the twenty ninth. Now this is

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actual true history, is not just biblical. In five point

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thirty nine BC, the King of Persia the Great, he

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marched into Babylon after capturing the Babylonians. So the first

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thing he did was free all the Jewish slaves being

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held there, told them go home. Yeah, the Jews had

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been held in Babylon for almost seventy years.

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Now.

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Cyrus, he was a pagan. He believed in all kinds

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of gods, and he really didn't care about any gods,

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to be honest with you, even the Jewish gods. Now

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his only Persian leader who was like that. See the

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Persians to persecute the Jews. They're the ones who came

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up with execution by crucifixion. Yeah, it wasn't the Romans,

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it was the Persians. But Cyrus, he kind of considered

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himself godlike and he wanted to impress the Jews and

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their God by what he had done. So he thought

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he did it all by freeing them. Forget this. See

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what he didn't know was the prophet Isaiah. He told

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all about Cyrus when he wrote it down about two

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many years before Cyrus was born. England's Walter Raleigh, he

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brought back that first tobacco from England to from America

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to England. Now, Walter, he was really good friends with

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Queen Elizabeth. She's the one who paid for all his

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trips and all that kind of stuff, so he brought

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her all kinds of good stuff. Well, Elizabeth died and

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she was childless. So Scotland's King James, he became the

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King of England. Now King James. He believed that Raleigh

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and his buddies and business partners, they were all conspiring

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against him. So today, in sixteen eighteen, he had them

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all beheaded. Now truthfully, Raleigh and the guys, yeah, they

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were trying to overthrow him. But that king couldn't have

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known that man, he was just paranoid. Eighteen eleven, the

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first steamboat on the Ohio River left, yeah, left, Pittsburgh,

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was going to New Orleans. Now he got down to

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New Orleans on January the twelfth. That's going down the

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hills downstream. Nineteen oh four, at the Olympics in Saint Louis,

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American Gymnast Georgia, iSER he won six medals in one day.

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Pretty good, right. He won three golds for the vault,

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the parallel bars, and the rope climb. He went two

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silvers for the palmel horse and all around. They went

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to bronze for the horizontal bar. I did forget to

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tell you though George only had one leg. Yeah, he

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lost the other leg when he was a kid and

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got hit by a train. And yes he did wear

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a wooden leg during the company. Well, woman, wooden't prosthetic,

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I guess you'd call it YEP. Competed with One nineteen

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twenty three in New York City on Broadway, the show

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Running Wild debut. It introduced the dance to Charleston. Now

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that dance quickly spread all across the whole country. It

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was christ the phase. Everybody was doing it. Think of

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something like the twist craze or the macarine or something

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like that. Now the book the play, though it didn't.

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It didn't invent the Charleston. So you did just the

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first one. They gave us some exposure. The Charleston was

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actually created in the Black Club zip around New York

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in the early nineteen hundreds. Nineteen twenty nine, it was

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Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crash. It crashed

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twenty five percent over the next four days, and over

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the next three years of stockmrier class eighty nine percent.

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So yeah, that's why today is considered in the first

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day of the Great Depression. In nineteen forty five, twelve

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dollars and fifty cents would be two hundred and seven

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dollars today. So today, In nineteen forty five, the first

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ball point pins went on sale twelve dollars and fifty

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cents a piece. Yeah, not a backup piece. Pretty ridiculous.

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They sold ten thousand that first day. Have you seen

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the movie The Perfect Storm with George Clooney and Mark

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Wahlberg and all that. Yeah, it was today in nineteen

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ninety one that the fishing about behind your grail was

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actually lost at sea. Yeah, all six fishermen on board

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after thirty five years. In twenty fifteen, China they entered

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their one child policy. Yep, the Chinese people can now

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have as many kids as they wanted, so go forth

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and procreate. India's catching US. India did pass China for

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most kids in twenty twenty three.

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Joke cooked co joked joke shog dish shivers day, please

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gonna he left this shiverf day. We won't simple car

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he let thish shibirf day Chan.

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You don't do.

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Ah. This is born on October the twenty ninth. Actor

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Richard Dreyfuss, he's seventy eight. He's one of Brooklyn the Ark.

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In nineteen forty seven, first got none of the movie

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American Graffiti. Then he first really hit in the movie

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Jows and Close Encounters. The third time, he won a

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Best Actor Oscar for the Goodbye Girl. Now, he was

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thirty years old when he won that, so he was

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the youngest ever to win that. Then in two thousand

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and three, Adrian Brody, Yeah, he won it for the Pianist.

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He was only twenty nine, so he broke his record.

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Dreyfus was nominated for another Oscar for Mister Hollands Opus.

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Now my favorite Richard Dreyfus movie, I guess probably Steak

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Out Richard. He had a daughter and two sons from

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his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand

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and six. Okay, I use the Charlie's Angels theme a

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couple of days ago for Jacqueline Smith, Yeah, for her birthday.

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So today I had to use Scarecrow and Missus King

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for Kate Jackson's birthday. Kate she's seventy seven. She's born

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in Birmingham, Alabama, in nineteen forty eight.

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Kate.

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She started out on the soap opera Dark Shadows. Then

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she went prime time on the Rookies and she hit

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huge playing Sabrina on Charlie's Angels. She was the smart one.

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Then she has Missus King on the Scarecrow on Missus King.

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She divorced three times, has one son, and is a

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two time breast cancer survivor. That was Kevin Deubro singing

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for Quiet Riot. He was born in Hollywood, California, in

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nineteen fifty five. He helped formed Quiet Right in nineteen

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seventy three. In nineteen eighty three, their song mental Health,

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or their album mental Health, became the first heavy metal

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album to go number one. Some of the hits on

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that were come on and feel the Noise, Mom, We're

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all crazy now, mental Health, bang your head, Kevin. He

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died from a cocaine overdose in two thousand and seven

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at fifty two years old. But you might have seen

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his brother. His brother is a plastic surgeon. His name

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is Terry Debro. Yeah, he has his own TV show

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called Botched after Dan Castle Linette. He is sixty eight.

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He's born in Chicago nineteen fifty seven. Dan is famous

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worldwide for being the voice of Homer Simpson. He also

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voice is Grandpop, Barney, Krusty, the Clown, grounds Keeper Willer.

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Now his normal speaking vice, It's not like Homer, Dan says,

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in order to speak like Homer, he has to put

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his chin in his chest and turn off his like Q.

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Now.

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He does do a little acting on the side, and

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real acting, not just voice. He's been married since nineteen

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eighty seven. Actress Jolie Fisher's fifty eight and she was

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born in Burbank, California, in nineteen sixty seven. Her famous

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parents Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens now Carrie Fisher. That

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was her half sister. Tricia Fisher is her full sister. Joey.

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She made a name for herself on the TV show

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Ellen Y Know. She was Ellen DeGeneres's sidekick on the show.

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Then she did till Death. Her biggest movie was An

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Inspector Gadget. Joey. She married nineteen ninety six and they

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have three daughters. Actress why Nona Ryder. She was born

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in Winona, Minnesota in nineteen seventy one. She's fifty four to.

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Her first movie is Lucas. Then she was in Beatleges, Edward,

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Scissors Hand, Reality Bites. She's been nominated for Oscars for

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the Age of Innocence and Little Women Now Why notice

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she has been with her boyfriend since twenty eleven. Actress

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Tracy Ellis Ross. She was born in Los Angeles in

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nineteen seventy two. Fifty three year old's mom is Diana

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Ross now Tracy. She first started on the TV show

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Girlfriends and She hit Really Big and Blackish, Grownish, Mixed Dish.

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Her biggest movie was Candy Kane Lane. It's got to

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a cute movie. So with Christmas coming up, make sure

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you check out Candy Kanelane. All Right, I caught it

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the day It's gonna come from Sir Walter Rawley. Now

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he was sixty five when he is beheaded today he

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says it's the basic principle of a tyrant to unarm

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his people of their weapons, money, and all means they

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can resist his power. Well, thank you all for listening.

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

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South of the border on a beach of what saying.

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She SIPs marter red and works on her tan. She's

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enjoyed her vacation. In fact, she's had a fall. Last

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night at the fiesta, we danced all line long. She

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held me closer with every song. That back at the hotel,

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we got no sleep bed all. She's just here for a.

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Good time to let out her hair. But I'm having

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a hard time, trying hard not to care.

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I'm head over hears, swept on my feet by it all.

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She's had a great summer, and I've had quite a fall.

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Like a post guard picture, the sea and the sand,

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two lovers at sunset on a beach, holding hands, a

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bold little romance, a time to recall, but calmerly morning

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willboard separate planes. She'll get life back to normal. Mine

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won't be the same. She's off to Agustine, I'm headed

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back to Saint Paul's.

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She's just here for a good time to let down

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her hair, but I'm having a hard time trying hard

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not to care.

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A hell of her hens swept off my feet by

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