Oct. 4, 2025

Oct 5-Get Funky, Steve Miller, AC/DC, Karen Allen, Bernie Mac, Kate Winslet, Jesse Eisenberg, The Dalton Gang

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(2024) National get funky day. Entertainment on 1966. 1st airplane dogfight, PBS went on the air, Elton John released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Todays birthdays - Chester A. Arthur, Steve Miller, Brian Johnson, Jeff Conway, Karen Allen, Bernie Mac, Kate Winslet, Jesse Eisenberg. Steve Jobs died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Everything I do gohn be funky - Lee Dorsey
Cherish - The Association
There goes my everything - Jack Greene
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Jungle love - The Steve Miller Band
Back in black - AC/DC
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In

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Factor is about today, presented by Cool Media. Day's October

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the fifth.

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We funking from now punking from now home.

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I guess to be myself and do my thing a

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little soul and do no harm. Today is National get

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Funky Day. Today is all being yourself.

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You know.

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That's for our celebrating life and spreading love and laughter.

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Wherever you go, shout funky are by being unconventionally stylish,

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wear crazy and bright clothing. Do something crazy with your air,

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Crank up some funky music. Just have fun today, but

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do take a shower. It's not that kind of funk day,

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all right. This is going on entertainment in October fifth.

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It was back to nineteen sixty six then when Alver

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was revolver By the Beatles Association had the number one

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song with Church.

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You tell me how many Jesus? You tell how many

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time John bushes you can? Don't you know how many turns?

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H Bush.

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I just someone who could cheerish me a small chess.

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Cherishes number one country song. But there goes My Everything

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by Jack Green, My rees, there go.

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On, oh Myrea, there go.

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My the number one book was val the Dolls by

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Jack lind Suzan. The top movie was The Bible. In

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the beginning, it's about the Book of Genesis in the Bible,

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soars George C. Scott, Ava Gardner and Peter O'Toole. Nineteen

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seventy three, Elton John he released his album Yellow Brick Road.

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That is his best selling album, sold thirty million of them. Now,

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it took Bernie Topp and he wrote all the lyrics

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in two and a half weeks for that album, Elton

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took him three days to put music to all those lyrics.

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All right, What happened in October Third War of eighteen

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twelve and eighteen thirteen in Canada and near Chatham. The

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Battle of the Thames was fun. British soldiers and Native

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American and Indians. Yep, they had teamed up. They formed

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a pack together with a bunch of tribes and the

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soldiers and all that kind of stuff. They were gonna

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whoop the United States. But well, they were led by

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a Shawnee chief name to Kunza. Now the United States

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under General William Henry Harrison, they were able to kill

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catumsa Yeah, that took the fight right out of the Natives.

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They all left, so the United States easily routed the

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remaining British troops In the United States, they were now

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in control of Ontario and their big prize was, yeah,

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they got Detroit. The Dalton Gang, they were made up

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of four Dalton brothers in a friend They were raising

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hell across the West, mainly California and Kansas, Oklahoma, the

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Indian Territory. They stole horses, they robbed trains, they robbed banks.

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In eighteen ninety two, they tried to rob two banks

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at the same time in Coffeeville, Kansas, ah. The citizens

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kind of saw it coming and they were onto. A

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big shootout took place. Four of the Dalton Gang members

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were killed. Emma Dalton he actually lived, and he had

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been shot twenty three times. When he was strong enough

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to stand trial, he was sending to life in prison.

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He was pardoned after fourteen years, so he moved to

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California and became a real estate agent, author and actor.

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Nineteen fourteen, in World War One, over in France, the

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first airplane dog fight that resulted in the kill was fought.

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Now the French pilot and his tail gunner. They were

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able to gun down a German plane and they just

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became huge stars. Was in all the papers all this.

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But Russia they were mad. They said that one of

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their pilots had taken down a German plane three weeks earlier,

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so he shused to be getting accolades. Well, the German

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or the Russian pilot. He ram the other plane and

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killed them both, so every was like that didn't count.

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Nineteen forty seven and then President Harry Truman gave the

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first televised speech from the White House. Nineteen seventy. PBS

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went on there their first show. It was The French

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Chef by Julia Chold, so Bert Ernie and Big Bird.

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They had to wait.

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Doke Co joked, Jake show dish shiberth day. We gonna

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he left dis shibthday.

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We got simple tage.

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He left dis shbirth day.

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And you know we don't give birthday. Let's see who

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was born October the fifth Chestra Arthur. He was born

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in Fairfield, Vermont, in eighteen twenty nine. He was a lawyer.

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Then he was a general for the Union in the

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Civil War. Eighteen eighty one. He was the vice president,

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served under Garfield, did it for six months and then

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Garfield was assassinated, so Arthur became the twenty first president,

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served one term from eighteen eighty one to eighteen eighty five.

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He married back in eighteen fifty nine. His wife died

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one year before he was vice president. They had three

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children together. He died one year after he was president

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in eighteen eighty six from a stroke. Fifty seven years old.

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Steve Miller, he's eighty one. He's born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

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in nineteen forty three. He's just finishing up his current tour.

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I'm sure he will be out next year. He tours

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every year. He is the only original member of the

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Steve Miller Band that's still there, but he's kind of integral.

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Formed it in nineteen sixty six. They started out as

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a blues band, but by the mid nineteen seventies they'd

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become a rock band. Some of their biggest hits stars

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the Joker, take the Money and Run, Fly like an eagle,

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Jedairliner swinging down Now, the guy who invented the electric guitar,

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Les Paul. He taught Steve how to play guitar when

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Steve was five years old. Yeah, he was Steve's godfather. Now, Miller,

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he's been married to his fourth wife since twenty twelve.

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Brian Johnson. He's the lead singer for ac DC. He

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was born in Dunston, England in nineteen forty seven seventy seven. Now,

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when their singer of ACDC, Bond Scott, had died back

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in nineteen eighty, the guys are trying to figure out

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how to replace him. But then they were married. Bond

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talking about the lead singer of a band called Georgie.

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The guy's name was Brian Johnson. Now, none of the

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guy who even knew anything about him, or they never

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even heard Georgia or nothing like that. They thought they'd

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go see what Bond liked about him, gave him a call,

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heard him sing. Been the lead singer every year since. Well,

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he did take a couple of years off he had

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health reasons, so actually Rose kind of filled in with him.

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But yeah, Brian's back and everything. He had two daughters

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from his first wife. He married a second wife, Brady,

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just a few years ago.

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Now.

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That first album that Brian sang on for a CDC,

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Back in Black, It is the number two album of

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all time only Michael Jack since Thriller album and sold more.

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Actor Jeff Conway He was born in Manhattan, New York,

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in nineteen fifty. He first really got known on the

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TV sitcom Taxi and then the movie Grease. But before that,

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for two and a half years on Broadway he played

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Danny in Greece. But then when they made the movie,

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John Tuvolfta got to play Danny, so Jeff he had

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to play Kanicki Jesse. He really wasn't that mad. The

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only thing that kind of pissed him off was on

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Broadway Kinicky got to see the song Grease Lightning, but

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for the movie they got John Travolta singer. Now Jeff

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had a major drug problem, started getting really bad in

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the nineteen eighties. Finally killed him in twenty eleven, when

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he's only sixty years old. He was three times divorced.

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His second wife was Olivia Newton, John's older sister, Rona

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actress Kroen Allen's seventy three. She was born in Carrollton, Illinois,

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in nineteen fifty one. Her first movie was Animal House

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and then The Wanderers Raiders of the Lost Arc. I

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think her best acting was in Starman. She did Scrooge

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the Perfect Star two more Indiana Jones moves She's mairried

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once for ten years and has a son from it.

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Comedian actor Bertie Mack. He was born in Chicago nineteen

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fifty seven. Started as a very popular stand up comedian,

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but then he had even bigger in the Kings of comedy.

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Had the Bernie Maxshew on TV for five years, did

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all those Danny Ocean movies, the Charlie Angels movies, Bad

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Santa Mister three thousand. Bernie married his high school sweetheart

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in nineteen seventy seven and they had a daughter for

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twenty years. Bernie he had to fight Sarah Coitia Sarah coitiosis.

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Now it's an inflammatory disease that affects all your tissues

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and stuff. It's pretty nasty, gets into your lungs. Bernie

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died in two thousand and eight at only fifty years old.

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Actress Kate Winsley. She's forty nine. She's born in Reading, England.

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In nineteen seventy five, she was nominated for Oscars for

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Sense and Sensibility Titanic Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,

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Little Children, Steve Jobs. She won an Oscar for a Reader,

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a movie that absolutely no one saw. She had a

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daughter from her first husband, a son from her second husband.

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She married her third husband and twenty twelve and they

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have a son. Actor Jesse Eisenberg's forty one. He's one

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of Queen's New York but he grew up in New Jersey.

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His first movie was Roger Dodger and then Adventureland, done

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the Zombie Land movies and Now You See Me movies.

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Nominating for an oscar for Social Network. Jesse. He married

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twenty seventeen and they have a son. So's go back

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to funky now. The word funky, it comes from the

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Latin word for from McGrain that's out first started out

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and when they first started using it the sixteen hundreds. Yeah,

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it just originally meant stinky, but it's kind of evolved,

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I guess over the last four hundred verds, I mean

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a lot of different things. So have a funky day,

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and thank you for listening if you want to over

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the weekend and enjoy some good country music. For about

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Country Underground Radio here it everywhere that plays Internet country radio.

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Steve Jobs he died to Dan twenty eleven at fifty

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six years old. Steve said, it's really clear the most

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precious resource we all have is time. You guys have

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an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow

Oct 5-Get Funky, Steve Miller, AC/DC, Karen Allen, Bernie Mac, Kate Winslet, Jesse Eisenberg, The Dalton Gang

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