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

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National get funky day. Entertainment on 1991. 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 - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Everything I do gohn be funky - Lee Dorsey
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
Where are you now - Clint Black
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Jungle love - The Steve Miller Band
Back in black - AC/DC
Exit - You got that lovin - Kirstie Kraus https://www.kirstiekraus.com/

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and

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Factories About Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 5th.

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If I read the thing I do, gonna be funky

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from now on.

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Yeah.

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If I read the thing I do, gonna be funky

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from now on.

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Just to be myself and do my thing, a little

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soul can't do no harm.

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Yeah.

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Today is National Get Funky Day. Today is all about

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being yourself. You know, that's for celebrating life and spreading

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love and laughter wherever you go. Show how funky you

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are by being unconventionally stylish. You'll wear crazy and bright clothing,

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do something crazy with your hair, crank up some funky music.

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Just have fun today, but do take a shower. It's

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not that kind of funk day. Let's check out what

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happened in entertainment on October 5th. Let's go back to 1991.

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Number one album was Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns

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N' Roses. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch had their

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number one song with Good Vibrations.

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Yo, it's about that time to break forth. The rhythm

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and the rhyme. I'ma get mine, so get yours.

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I wanna see sweat.

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Coming out your pores. On the house, tip of.

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Sound, swinging this.

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Strictly hip-hop, boy, I ain't singing this.

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Clinton Black, he had the number one country song with

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Where Are You Now?

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And there's a burning question, a fire in my mind.

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You always had the answers, the ones I couldn't find.

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So all I'm asking is where.

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Are you now?

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The number one selling book was The Son of All

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Fears by Tom Clancy. Top movie was The Fisher King.

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Jeff Bridges. Now, he is a really suicidal radio DJ

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because of a really terrible mistake he had made. But

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he gets redemption.

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Yeah, he helps a.

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Mentally unstable man who was actually the innocent victim of

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what Bridges did. That guy, Robin Williams. 1973, Elton John.

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He released his album Yellow Brick Road. That is his

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best-selling album. Sold 30 million of them. Now, he took

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Bernie Top and he wrote all the lyrics in two

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and a half weeks for that album. Elton took him

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three days to put music to all those lyrics. All right,

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what happened on October 3rd? War of 1812 and 1813

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in Canada near Chatham. The Battle of the Thames was fought.

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British soldiers and Native American Indians, yep, they had teamed up.

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They formed a pact together with a bunch of tribes

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and the soldiers and all that kind of stuff. They

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were going to whoop the United States butt. Well, they

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were led by a Shawnee chief named Tecumseh. Now, the

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United States under General William Henry Harrison, they were able

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to kill Tecumseh. Yeah, that took the fight right out

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of the natives. They all left, so the United States

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easily routed the remaining British troops. The United States, they

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were now 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 and a friend. They were raising

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hell across the West, mainly California, Kansas, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory.

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They stole horses. They robbed trains. They robbed banks. In 1892,

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they tried to rob two banks at the same time

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in Coffeyville, Kansas. Ah, the citizens kind of saw it coming,

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and they were on to it. Big shootout took place.

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Four of the Dalton gang members were killed. Emmett Dalton,

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he actually lived, but he'd been shot 23 times. When

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he was strong enough to stand trial, he was sentenced

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to life in prison. He was pardoned after 14 years,

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and he moved to California and became a real estate agent, author,

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and actor. 1914, in World War I, over in France...

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The first airplane dogfight that resulted in a kill was fought. Now,

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the French pilot and his tail gunner, they were able

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to gun down a German plane, and they just became

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huge stars. It was in all the papers. But Russia,

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they were mad. They said that one of their pilots

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had taken down a German plane three weeks earlier, so

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he should be getting accolades. Well, the Russian pilot, he

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rammed the other plane and killed them both. So everybody's like,

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that didn't count. 1947, President Harry Truman gave the first

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televised speech from the White House. 1970, PBS went on

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the air. Their first show, it was The French Chef

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by Julia Child. So Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird, they

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had to wait. Let's see who was born October the 5th.

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Chester A.

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Arthur. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829. He

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was a lawyer, then he was a general for the

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Union in the Civil War. 1881, 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 21st president. Served

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one term from 1881 to 1885. He married back in 1859.

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His wife died one year before he was vice president.

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They had three children together. He died one year after

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he was president in 1886 from a stroke, 57 years old.

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You probably want to be married now.

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Why?

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Steve Miller is 83. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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He is the only original member of the Steve Miller

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band that's still there, but he's kind of integral. Formed

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in 1966. They started out as a blues band, but

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by the mid-1970s, they had become a rock band. Some

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of their biggest hits are The Joker, Take the Money

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and Run, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Swing Town. Now,

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the guy who invented the electric guitar, Les Paul, he

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taught Steve how to play guitar when Steve was five

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

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been married to his fourth wife since 2012. I can't

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do it.

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I hate to say it. I've been too long. I'm

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glad to be back.

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Yes, I'm dead loose from the news.

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Escape. Brian Johnson, he's the lead singer for ACDC. He

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was born in Dunstan, England. He's 79 today. Now, when

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their singer of ACDC, Bon Scott, had died back in 1980,

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the guys were trying to figure out how to replace him.

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But then they remembered Bon talking about the lead singer

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of a band called Georgie. The guy's name was Brian Johnson. Now,

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none of the guys even knew anything about him, or

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they never even heard Georgie or nothing like that. They

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thought they'd go see what Bond liked about him. Gave

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him a call, heard him sing. Been the lead singer

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every year since. Well, he did take a couple years off.

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He had health reasons, so Axl Rose kind of filled

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in with him. But yeah, Brian's back and everything. He

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had two daughters from his first wife. He married his

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second wife, Brandi, just a few years ago. Now, that

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first album that Brian sang on for ACDC, Back in Black,

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it is the number two album of all time. Only

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Michael Jackson's Thriller album has sold more. Actor Jeff Conway.

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He was born in Manhattan, New York in 1950. He

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first really got known on the TV sitcom Taxi and

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then the movie Grease. But before that, for two and

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a half years on Broadway, he played Danny in Grease.

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But then when they made the movie, John Travolta got

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to play Danny. So Jeff, he had to play Knicky.

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Jeff said he really wasn't that mad. The only thing

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that kind of pissed him off was on Broadway, Knicky

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got to sing the song Grease Lightning. But for the movie,

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they let John Travolta sing it. Now Jeff, he had

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a major drug problem. Started getting really bad in the 1980s.

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Finally killed him in 2011 when he was only 60

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years old. He was three times divorced. His second wife

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was Olivia Newton-John's older sister, Mona. Actress Karen Allen is 75.

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She was born in Carrollton, Illinois in 1951. Her first

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movie was Animal House, and then The Wonders, Raiders of

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the Lost Ark. I think her best acting was in Starman.

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She did Scrooge, The Perfect Storm, two more Indiana Jones movies.

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She's married once for 10 years and has a son

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from it. Comedian and actor Bernie Mac. He was born

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in Chicago in 1957. Started out as a very popular

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stand-up comedian, but then he hit even bigger in the

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Kings of Comedy. Had the Bernie Mac show on TV

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for five years. Did all those Danny Ocean movies, the

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Charlie Angels movies, Bad Santa, Mr. 3000. Bernie married his

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high school sweetheart in 1977, and they had a daughter.

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For 20 years, Bernie, he had to fight sarcoidosis. Now,

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it's an inflammatory disease that affects all your tissues and stuff.

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It's pretty nasty. It gets into your lungs. Bernie died

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in 2008 at only 50 years old. Actress Kate Winslet.

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She was born in Reading, England in 1975. Makes her 51.

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She was nominated for Oscars for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris,

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, Steve Jobs.

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She won an Oscar for Reader, a movie that absolutely

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no one saw. She had a daughter from her first husband,

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a son from her second husband. She married her third

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husband in 2012, and they have a son. Actor Jesse

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Eisenberg is 43. He was born in Queens, New York,

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but he grew up in New Jersey. His first movie

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was Roger Dodger, and then Adventureland, then the Zombieland movies,

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the Now You See Me movies. Nominated for an Oscar

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for Social Network. Jesse, he married in 2017 and they

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have a son. Let's go back to funky. Now the

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word funky, it comes from the Latin word for fumigrain.

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That's how it first started out. And when they first

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started using it, the 1600s. Yeah, it just originally meant stinky.

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But it's kind of evolved, I guess, over the last

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400 years to mean a lot of different things. So

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have a funky day. Steve Jobs, he died today in

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2011 at 56 years old. Steve said, it's really clear.

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The most precious resource we all have is time.

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Thank you all.

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For listening today. We sure appreciate you joining us. Don't

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forget to follow us so you make it easy for

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us to find. I always check underneath episodes so you

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can get all the connections how to get to us.

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And yes, the July puzzle book is out, the National

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Days Puzzles. Yeah, for adults and kids. Our Country Underground

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Radio Artist of the Day. It comes from Lee out

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there in Portland, Oregon. She wants to hear Kirstie Krause's song,

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You Got That Lovin'. You guys have an awesome day

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and we'll talk tomorrow.

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End up in a woman and happy alone with no

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problems sleeping at night and up each morning with no

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worries in sight thought i had a pretty good lay

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of the land by taking matters into my own hands

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with what I need so bad. Yeah, I want it. Yeah,

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I need it. Gotta have it. Yeah, yeah.

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Cause you got that.

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Love that I need so In this crazy life you

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caught my eye. I can't see who has my ride

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or die. Never needed more than what I already had.

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But you've got that loving that.

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I need so much.

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Cause you've got an enemy.

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