Oct 31st-Halloween, John Candy, Bow Wow Wow, Beastie Boys, Vanilla Ice, Ace of Bass, Nevada Birthday

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and
welcome to history and factoids about today.

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Visit about Cool Media Day is October
the thirty first. I am the one

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nighting on the young man jeep ground
sharp and the eyes glowing red. I

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am the one light spiders in my
hair. Halloween. Happy Halloween. Halloween.

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It goes back to the fifteen hundreds. In Scotland, Halloween it meant

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Hallows Evening, which is the night
before All Hallow's Day. That's when they

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honored all the Catholic saints. Obviously, it's changed a lot over the years.

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By the late eighteen hundreds, kids
in Scotland and Ireland they would dress

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up and go in costumes from door
to door and from their neighbors getting food.

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The phrase trick or treat. That's
starting Canada in nineteen twenty seven.

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By the nineteen thirty is tricker treating
was common all over the United States.

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Now today, forty eight percent of
you will wear a costume, forty six

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percent of you will carba pumpkin,
sixteen percent of you will dress up your

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dog, and twenty one percent of
you, yeah, you'll pretend like you're

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not home. Y'all have a safe
and happy Halloween. All right, this's

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going on in entertainment. In October
thirty first, let's baut your nineteen eighty

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eight number one album was New Jersey
by Bon Jovie. Phil Collins had the

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number one song with Groovy Kind of
Love Control Shoe. T. Graham Brown

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had the number one country song with
Darling Darling, sit down and need to

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talk to you. Then you do
what you won't not do. Just you

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me through stun You don't know the
guy. Third number one book was The

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Queen of the Dan by Danielle Steele. Todd movie was They Live. They

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control the world without us knowing it, and you need a special pair of

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sunglasses in order to see them.
Stars Roddy Paper, Roddy Pepper and David

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Keith and Meg Foster. All right, let's see what happened in the world.

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On October thirty first, fifteen seventeen, Martin Luther he started the Protestant

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Reformation. He nailed his ninety five
thesises on what was Wrong with the Catholic

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Church on the door of the Catholic
Church Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.

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Now it took a while for the
ninety five thesises to make their way to

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the poem. But when the Pope
got it, yeah Luther, he was

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excommunicat Luther had to go hide for
his life. Now. The Protestant Reformation

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ended up splitting up Europe into two. Northern Europe went Protestant and Southern Europe

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pretty much state Catholic. Eighteen forty
six, due to heavy snow, the

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Donner Party they realized that they weren't
gonna make it over that Sahara Nevada Mountains,

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so they decided to build themselves a
winter camp. Kind of a spoiler

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alert that won't turn out good for
them. Well, Happy Birthday, Nevada,

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it was today. In eighteen sixty
four, Nevada became the thirty sixth

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state. The Spanish named Nevada for
a snow covered mountain range. Now,

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even though most of that state is
desert, they named it after the Sahara

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Mountains, so eighty six percent of
the Nevada It's an inhabited by people.

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The capital is Carson City. Highest
point is Boundary Peak at thirteen and forty

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seven peak. The Nevada state tree
is the bristle cone pine. State bird

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is the Mountain blue jay fish,
cutthroat trout flour, sagebrush, reptile,

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desert tortoise, state mammal. That's
a desert bighorn sheep. Some people born

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in Nevada. Tennis player Under Agacy, baseball player Bryce Harper. Actors is

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Don Wells. She was Marianna on
Gilligan's Island Race car drivers Kurt and Kyle

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Busch, former First Lady Pat Nixon, Imagine Dragon's lead singer Dan Reynolds,

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and all the guys from the TV
Showpond Stars yep all born in the Silver

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State. Nineteen thirteen, the first
paved coast to coast highway in the United

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States opened up. It was called
the Lincoln Highway. It was three thousand,

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three hundred and eighty nine miles long. Now it wasn't like the Interstate.

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No, this thing neandered through town
to town and all that kind of

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stuff ended up going from New York's
Times Square to San Francisco. Eighteen seventeen

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and World War One, it was
last time in world history at calvary charge

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was actually successful. It was in
the Battle of Bersheba in Southern Palestine.

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The Australian Calvary was able to pull
it off. Nineteen twenty three, Marble

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Bay, Australia, temperature hit one
hundred grades, so what well, that's

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going to hit one undred reeace for
the next one hundred and sixty days.

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Nineteen forty one, the United States
was still six weeks away from joining World

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War Two. After Pearl Harbor so
off of Iceland, the United States warship

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the Reuben James was sunk by a
German U boat. It was helping escort

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a convoy of merchant ships to Europe. One hundred and fifteen US sailors were

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killed, so they were the first
US serviceman killed in World War Two.

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Nineteen eighty three, Ron Grant he
became the first person to run all the

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way around Australia. Took him two
hundred and seventeen days to run the eighty

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three hundred and sixteen miles averaged thirty
eight miles a day. Started and ended

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in Brisbane. Nineteen eighty four,
the Prime Minister of India in dear Gandhi.

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She was assassinated by her two bodyguards. They killed her and well,

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she was walking in the garden of
the Prime Minister's residence. She's actually been

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interviewed for a documentary on an Ireland
TV station. They shot her over thirty

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times and then they didn't run or
anything. They just surrendered and they were

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both executed for it. Nineteen ninety
two, Pope John Paul the Second bless

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him. He had to take one
for the team. That's right. He

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was the Pope. We had to
come out and publicly announce that the Catholic

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Church was wrong. Yeah, they
shouldn't have treated astronomer Galowaya the way they

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did. Pope John Paul the Second
said Galileo was right. The Earth does

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rove around the Sun, and Galileo
shouldn't have been treated. He shouldn't have

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been tortured and have to spend the
last eight years of his life in her

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house arrest. Now, I'm sure
most of you have seen or heard about

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the movie Soul Surfer. It was
two thousand and three today that thirteen year

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old surfer Bethany Hamilton had her arm
bitten off by a shark which she was

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surfing in Hawaii. In twenty eighteen, the world's largest statue was unveiled.

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The Statue of Unity is what it's
called, is over in India and the

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state of Gujarat. Five hundred ninety
seven foot statue is of the Indian independence

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leader said, ar Patel go goat, coat coat goat shows this shiver day.

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We're gonna pause. He left this
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this shiver birthday. And you know
we don't get because that's her birthday.

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Well, let's check out it was
born on Halloween. Dale Evans wrote that

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song for her and her husband in
nineteen fifty one, Happy Trails. Her

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husband was Roy Rogers Dale. She
was born in Yuvalde, Texas. In

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nineteen twelve, when she was fourteen
years old, she eloped. They had

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a son, and then the guy
just abandoned her and her baby boy.

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So a sixteen year old singer,
Mom Dale, she went to Memphis to

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try and make it as a musician. She got jobs on the radio and

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gigs them playing on the piano.
She told everybody the sun her brother and

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she was taking care of him.
Now. Over the year she had some

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minor success. She married divorce two
more times. In nineteen forty seven,

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she married Roy Rogers. They had
five kids together. In the nineteen fifties,

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they starred on the Roy Rogers TV
Show. They made a lot of

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movies, released a lot of songs. Roy died in nineteen ninety eight.

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Dale She lived in two thousand and
one from her heart failure at eighty eight

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years old. Actor Michael land And. He was born of Forest Hills,

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New York in nineteen thirty six.
Best known for TV first hit Big playing

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Little Joe Kurtwrighte on Bonanza. Then
he was Paw on Little House in the

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Prairie. Then he was Jonathan on
Highway to Heaven. He was on the

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cover of TV Guy twenty two times. That's second only the Lucille Balls thirty

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nine. Land And He had two
sons from his first wife. Then he

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had two sons and three daughters from
his second wife. He had a son

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and a daughter from his third wife. They had married nineteen eighty three until

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he died in nineteen ninety one at
fifty four years old from pink creatic cancer.

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Actor John Candy. He was born
in Toronto, Canada, in nineteen

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fifty first got known in the movie
Stripes, then Splash, Spaceballs, The

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Great Outdoors, Planes, Trains and
Automobiles, Uncle Buck. He got married

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in nineteen seventy nine and they had
two children. He tried over the years,

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but he just could not lick the
weight nope. He cannot lose weight

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to save his soul. Ended up
dying from a heart attack in nineteen ninety

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four at forty three years old.
Actor comedian Rob Schneider's sixty. He was

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born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty
three. Start out on Saturday Night Live

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for four years. Then he's been
in every single Adam Sandler movie. Some

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of his own movies where Reduced,
Bigelow, Male Jigglow. He did both

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of those, The Animal, Hot
Chicks, Benchwarmers. He had a daughter

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from a fleeing back in the eighties, and he got married in twenty eleven

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and they have two children. I
said, Lord, please forgive me four

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my scene. My whit phone in
to kill me, but she tried to

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save me. You're going if I
have to drag you a budget. I

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love this crazy, tragic, sometimes
almost magic, awful, beautiful country singer

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Darrel World. He's fifty nine.
He was born in Memphis, Tennessee,

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in nineteen sixty four. Some I
mean his biggest hits. I missed my

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friend. Have you forgotten? Awful
beautiful life? If something should happen now

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he is having a home for the
holidays, Christmas concert series out there in

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Nashville, and it's pretty much every
day from now until Christmas if you want

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to check that out if you're in
Nashville. Darrell he married his second wife

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in two thousand and seven and they
have a daughter. So he celebrated back

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in two thousand and seven getting married. Yeah, he posed nude for Playgirl

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magazine. He's so fun. He
can bed you sign yes. Six side

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on Fire. That was Annabellawn singing
lead for Bow Wow Wow. She was

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born in Rangoon, Burma in nineteen
sixty six. Fifty seven year old now

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in the band Adam and the Ants
broke up the Ants, they went and

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formed Bow Wow Wow. Then they
got thirteen year old Annabella to sing lead

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for him. That was back in
nineteen eighty. Well, they broke up,

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got together, broke up, got
together. Then in two thousand and

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three, Annabella she was off doing
her solo stuff bow Wow Wow. They

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just got back together without her and
they just said we're gonna go. So

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later on she created Annabella's Bow Wow
Wow. And so so you have your

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choice, do you want to go
with the original Bow Wow Wow band or

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go with the lead singer. I'll
take the singer Annabella. She hasn't married

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yet, Mokey next morning we pass
finished to come out and Charlie. As

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a Beastie Boy, he was known
as ad Rock. He was born Adam

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Horovitz in fifty seven year old was
born in New York City in nineteen sixty

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six. He actually started out a
punk band called Young and the Useless.

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Now they would open up for the
Beastie Boys. And then in nineteen eighty

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two, the Beastie Boys had an
opening, so they picked ad Rock to

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fill the spot. Sold fifty million
records since then. When Adam Yach died

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in twenty twelve, the Beastie Boys
they decided not to replace him. They

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just called her quits. Yeah,
they didn't want to go on without him

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in the band. Ad Rock.
His first wife was actors i own Sky

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for three years. Married his second
wife in two thousand and six. Speak

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of that booze um relation your brain
like a boys, this's a mushroom dead.

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League would not play it. Don't
Melich anything less than the best as

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a fella. He loved to leave
it. You bet I can't wage,

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You bet I get pulls out a
kid don't play. If there was a

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problem, Joe, I'll saw it. Chick got the hook for my DJ

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for Bolls. No, that wasn't
Nwa No, that was Vanilla Ice.

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Now he's back to using his born
name. He was born Robert van Winkel,

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but of course he became famous for
Vanilla Ice. Born in Dallas,

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Texas, in nineteen sixty seven,
fifty six, Yell started out as a

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professional motocross racer and he broke his
ankle. As there's recovering from his ankle,

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he got into really hip hop big
so when his ankle recovered, yeah,

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he just quit motocross went into music. Now that song we played Ice

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Ice Baby, that was the first
hip hop song to go number one.

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He's released eight albums over the years, but that only other funk play that

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funky music. That's his only other
real big hit though. Now he is

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on a Love the Nineties tours right
now if you want to go out and

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see him on that. He had
two daughters from his first wife. He

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has a child from his second wife
and they're still together. I guess she's

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done, she's done, she wants
That was Lynn Bergrean singing lead for the

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band Asa Bass. She's fifty three. She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden,

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in nineteen seventy. She hap form
Asa Bass in nineteen eighty seven.

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Some of their biggest hits are All
That She Wants, the sign Don't turn

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Around, Beautiful Life. They sold
over fifty million records. That makes them

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the third most successful Swedish band of
all time. They're behind Abba and Rosette.

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Now in two thousand and seven,
Lynn she just dropped out of the

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band kind of. She basically dropped
out of life. She didn't want to

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have anything to do with anybody anymore. She just went and did her own

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thing. She talks to her sister
and she's having a really good life.

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There's been a reck loose out there
and she says she's perfectly happy. So

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good for her. I guess right, alrighty, some little how Hollywood Halloween

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trivia here. What do you think
the number one Halloween candy of all time

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is? That's Reese's Peanut Buttercups.
The number one is selling candy of all

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time? Those actually M and M's. Well, thank you for being here

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what's going on on the podcast and
the radio station and stuff. Let's send

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it out with actor Sean Connery.
He died in twenty twenty at ninety years

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old. Love may not make the
world go round, but it makes the

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ride worthwhile. You have an awesome
day, and we'll talk tomorrow. No. No,