Oct. 5, 2026

Oct 6-Plus Sized Women, Super Soaker, Reo Speedwagon, Los Lobos, Elizabeth Shue, Instagram, Pink Power Ranger

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National plus sized appreciation day. Entertainment from 1981. Instagram created, 1st talkie movie, 1st moving train robbery, LSD made illegal. Todays birthdays - Janet Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Kevin Cronin, Lonnie Johnson, David Hidalgo, Elizabeth Shue, Amy Jo Johnson. Eddie Van Halen died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Baby got back - Sir-mix-a-lot
Endless Love - Diana Ross Lionel Richie
Party Time - TG Sheppard
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Keep on loving you - REO Speedwagon
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Eruption - Van Halen
Exit - Keepin the ring - Jessie Lynn https://www.jessielynn.net/

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Hi everyone, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids

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About Today. Today's October the 6th. Today is National Plus

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Size Appreciation Day. Today, we celebrate the beauty of all women. Ladies,

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you don't have to starve yourself or live at the

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gym to be beautiful. You already are. Now, today, we're

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going to remind you of that. Now, in the modeling world,

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a model is considered plus size if she's a size

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6 or bigger. Well, the average American woman, she wears

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about around a 14, give or take. So guys, no

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matter what size of woman in your life is today, yeah,

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just make sure you let her know how pretty and

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beautiful she really is.

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You know what?

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Guys, take her out for some noodles. Today is also

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National Noodles Day.

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Woo-hoo!

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That's right.

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Lots of deals today. Big ones are Fazoli's and Noodles

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and Company's. Yeah, they're having big deals today. So that's

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a fun way to start the week. All right. What

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happened in entertainment on October 6th back in 1981? Number

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one album was Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones. Diana

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Ross and Lionel Richie had their number one song with

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Endless Love.

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And your eyes Your eyes Your eyes May tell me

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how much you care Oh yes You will always be

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My endless love.

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T.G. Shepard had the number one country song with Party Time.

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The number one book was Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving.

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The top movie was Paternity. A single guy, he wants

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to find a woman who will have his baby, no

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strings attached. Stars Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Norman Fell. The

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guy played Mr. Roper. 1927, the movie The Jazz Singer

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was released into theaters. It was the first talking motion

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picture of all time. Now, two years later, all movies

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will be talking. So the end of silent movies was

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with The Jazz Singer. Alright, what happened on October 6th? 1866!

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brothers john and simeon reno they made history in jackson

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county indiana they were the first to rob a train

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while it was running that's right see other train robbers

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they waited till the train stopped at the depot but

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not the reno brothers nope as the train was chugging

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along across indiana yep they stole thirteen thousand dollars be

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about four hundred thirty thousand dollars today so i'm sure

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mama reno was pretty proud of her boys but then

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her other two boys frank and william they decided to

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join them too so they just they weren't real creative

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they just called themselves the reno brothers In 1893, Nebraska,

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they invented cream of wheat cereal. Yeah, that wasn't very

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creative either. Chicago in 1945, a bar owner, he was

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nicknamed Billy Goat Sianis. He bought a ticket for him

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and his real goat to go to game four of

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the World Series. It was between the Detroit Tigers and

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the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field. Well, it's the security

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there escorting him out.

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Yeah.

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So as they were outside the stadium, he cursed a

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goat curse on the Chicago Cubs. Well, did the curse work? Well,

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the Cubs lost that World Series, which they were favored

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to win. Then they didn't win the World Series again

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until 2016, so 71 years later. Now, I don't think

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this is really what you want to hear from your president. 1961,

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with tensions running really high between the Soviet Union and

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the United States, President John Kennedy told Americans to start

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building fallout shelters to help themselves in a nuclear bomb war. 1966,

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LSD was declared an illegal drug. Kind of a buzzkill. 2010,

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two nerds launched Instagram. Yeah, the first post was a

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picture of a dog in Mexico at a taco stand.

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That's how I know they were nerds. Now, I do

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not understand how this is possible, but in 2018, in

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the Democratic Republic of Congo, 50 people were killed and

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over 100 people were severely burned after an oil tanker

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hit a car. Okay, who was born on October the 6th?

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Actress Janet Gaynor.

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She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1906.

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Now, she won the first.

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Best Actress Oscar.

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It was given out in 1928.

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Now, at that time, they just awarded it to the

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best actress that year. See, Jane, she had actually starred

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in Seventh Heaven, Street Angels, and Sunrise, a song of

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two humans. And the Academy, they thought, well, she did

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the best acting job this year, so let's give it

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to her. Now, the next year, they decided to give

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it for individual pictures. So one movie, one nomination, that

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kind of thing. But you know what? She didn't have

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any trouble going over from silent movies to talkies like

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others did. Nope, she was still just a huge star.

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And in 1939, she retired, 33 years old. Yep, she

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wanted to just be a mom and go raise her son.

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So she had married her second husband. Now, he was

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a costume designer, and they only got married to hide

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the fact that he was gay. Well, they hid it

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really well because she got pregnant with that little boy.

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They stayed married for 20 years until her gay husband

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died from a stroke. Then she married her third guy

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in 1964. They were together until she died in 1984. Yeah,

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she got in a really bad car accident. She died

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from injuries from it. She was 77 years old. Actress

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Carol Lombard. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1908. Now,

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as big as Janet I was talking about was, Carol,

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she was bigger. Yep, she was the top actress in

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the world. And she was married to the top actor

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in the world, Clark Gable. Now, during World War II,

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she was out on a tour for promoting war bonds.

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You know, that helped support the United States in World

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War II. Well, when she was done with the tour,

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she was flying back home. They had a plane crash,

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killed all 37 people on board.

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It was 1942.

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She was 33 years old. Lonnie Johnson, 77. He was

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born in Mobile, Alabama. Back in 1966, Lonnie, he was

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representing his high school at the Alabama State Fair on

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like a technology contest. He was the only black student

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who was entered. Well, he won. See, he had made

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a robot that was powered by compressed air. So that

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caused him to go in and be an aerospace engineer

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for NASA. Now, he did some great work for NASA.

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He didn't think it was challenging enough, though, so he quit.

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Then he went out and he invented the super soaker

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water gun and then the Nerf gun. Yeah, both use

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principle of compressed air. Now, he made a lot more

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money from those inventions than Madison was ever going to

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pay him. Now, he's in the Inventor Hall of Fame.

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He is married, and they have four children. Yeah, that

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was Kevin Cronin. He was the lead singer for REO Speedwagon. Yeah,

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they just called their quits earlier this year. Kevin's 75.

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He was born in Evanston, Illinois. He joined REO in 1975.

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Sold over 40 million records. Take it on the run.

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Keep on loving you. Time for me to fly. Can't

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fight this feeling. That's some of their biggest. Kevin, you

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were back in 1992, and they have six kids.

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Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la. Ba-la-la-la-la-la.

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No, that was not Richie Valens. Nope, that was David Hildago.

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He is the lead singer for the band Los Lobos.

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David's 72. He was born in Los Angeles. Helped form

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Los Lobos in 1973. That means the Wolves. Now, they

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actually have shows all the way scheduled through April. So

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if you want, you have plenty of time to go

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see Los Lobos and consoles. They won four Grammys, been

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nominated 12 times. Now, David, he sings and plays the

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drum for the band. But he also plays in the

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studio for other artists who are recording records. So in

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the studio, David has played on other people's albums. He's

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played the accordion, the violin, the banjo, the cello, drums, guitar. Yeah,

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all on other artists' records. He does have two sons,

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and they're both drummers in their own bands. Actress Elizabeth Shue.

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She was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1963. 63 today.

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Actor Andrew Shue. Yeah, that's her younger brother. Now, her

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first movie was Karate Kid, then Cocktail, Back to the

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Future 2 and 3. She was nominated for an Oscar

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for the movie Leaving Las Vegas. On TV, she was

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on CSI for a couple years. Now, she got married

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in 1994, and they have one son and two daughters.

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Actress Amy Jo Johnson's 56. She was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

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She's most known for TV. She played Kimberly Hart on

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the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Yeah, she was the pink one.

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Later on, she was on Felicity and then Flashpoint. Now,

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she still acts, but she does more directing. Now, she

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was married for eight years and they had a daughter. Now,

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she gets mistaken a lot for actress Jennifer gardner so

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much so that now i mean she just goes with

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it yeah somebody asked she just gives them jennifer gardner's

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autograph yeah she doesn't know what jennifer gardner's autograph looks

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like but she gets it from him anyway all righty

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our quote of the day it comes from eddie van

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halen The greatest guitarist of all time. He died today

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in 2020 when he was 65 years old. Eddie says,

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it makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the

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man upstairs has given me something and it touches people.

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I am just so, so blessed. Thank you all for

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She wants to hear a Jesse Lynn song, Keepin' the Ring.

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

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He's gone, he's history It was fine at the start

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till he trampled on my heart and cheated on me.

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Looked me in the eye and lied like some guy

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on an unread country song. Now he's gone for so long.

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Maybe I'll cry tomorrow, but tonight I won't. I keep

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in the rain.

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Now I ain't no material girl. But it warms my

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heart and shines brighter than the stars lighting up.

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My whole world.

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If he tries to take it back, he's gonna see

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what happens.

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When a country girl gets real mad. Real mad.

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Maybe I'll cry tomorrow, but tonight.

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But it's alright You'll never be one good thing

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