Oct. 6, 2026

Oct 7-Coffe with a Cop Day, John Mellencamp, Toni Braxton, Radiohead, Yo-Yo Ma, Simon Cowell, Michael W. Smith

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National Coffee with a Cop Day. entertainment from 19871 1st pictures of the backside of the moon, Biggest football blowout, Columbus changed course. Todays birthdays - John Mellencamp, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael W. Smith, Simon Cowell, Toni Braxton, Thom Yorke. Edgar Allen Poe died

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
The weight of the badge - George Strait
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
I need a lover - John Mellencamp
Appalechian Waltz - Yo-Yo Ma
Place in this world - Michael W. Smith
Unbreak my heart - Toni Braxton
Creep - Radiohead
Exit - I cry - Lena Page https://www.instagram.com/lenapaigemusic/?hl=en

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National Days Puzzle Books

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Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Fact

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Toys About Today. Today's October the 7th.

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It's gonna be a long one, another graveyard shift. As

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he says goodbye to his wife and kids. It's been

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his life, just like his dad's. Driving away, under the

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weight of the badge.

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Today is National Have Coffee with a Cop Day. Now,

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today it has a couple of goals. First is to

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remind everyone that police officers, yeah, they're people. They're your neighbors.

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They go to your schools and your churches and their

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ballgames and all that kind of stuff. They're part of

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your community just like you are. But their main job

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is to protect you, and that kind of puts an

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invisible line that's been drawn out there. So today I

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want to remind everybody that, hey, they're just citizens just

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like you are. So it's okay to say hi to

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them or talk to them and that kind of stuff

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out in public. It's Community Relations Day, basically. Now, a

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lot of towns and cities, they are having have coffee

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with the cop day. Yeah, they're celebrating with coffee and

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donuts all over town. So if you can't attend, go

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to one of those. And if not, if you see

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a police officer today, just kind of wave or say hi,

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something like that. Let them know that, yeah, you think

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that they're persons too. And thank them for what they're doing. Okay,

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let's see what happened in entertainment on October 7th back

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in 1971. Rod Stewart, he had the number one album

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with Every Picture Tells a Story. Rod had the number

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one song with Maggie Mae.

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Wake up Maggie, I.

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Think I got something to say to you.

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It's late September and I really should be.

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Back at school.

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I know I keep you amused, but I feel I'm

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being used. Freddie Hart had the number one country song

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with Easy Lovin'..

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Easy lovin'..

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So sexy lookin'. I know from the feelin' that it

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comes from the heart.

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That number one selling book was The Exorcist by William

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Peter Blatty. Top movie was The French Connection. It was

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a true story of two New York City detectives that

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accidentally stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring. This one stars

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Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider. All right, what happened on

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October the 7th? Now, we all know that Christopher Columbus

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never set foot on or even saw America. But today,

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in his logbooks, it shows that in 1492, he actually

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changed his original course. Now, had he stayed on that course, yeah,

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he'd have run right into Florida. 1571, the Battle of

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Lepanto is one of the most important naval battles in

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world history was fought. Now, Muslims and Christians, they'd been

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fighting since 622. Then by 1571, the Muslims, they were

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led by the Ottoman Empire. That's basically in Turkey. Now,

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they control pretty much all the Middle East, North Africa,

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the Balkans. That's Southeast Europe. But now the Muslims had

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their sights set on Europe and all of Europe. So

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Pope Pius V, he organized a coalition of the states

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in Italy and Spain and pretty much Austria and Germany

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and that whole thing to try and stop them. So

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the Christians and the Muslims, they met off of Greece.

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Now the Ottomans, they did not know that the Christians

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had actually improved their ships. Yeah, they had a technical

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advantage there. So the Christian fleet was led by a 24-year-old.

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Yeah, Don Juan.

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Yeah, he wasn't a real guy. He was from Austria.

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I know, naval power. But the Christian leaders and officers,

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after years of just getting crushed by the Muslims, they

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were pretty hesitant to go into battle.

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Not Don Juan.

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He simply said, gentlemen, this is not the time to discuss.

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It is time to fight. Then he ordered the attack. Now,

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Don and the Christian ships put a major butt whooping

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on the Muslims. In five hours, over 33,000 Muslims were killed. 8,000

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Christians were killed. Now, it would end up being the

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deadliest one-day battle up until World War I. So that's

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a long time ago. Now, it was the last battle

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that was fought by ore-powered ships. That's kind of cool. Now,

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the Ottomans, they pretty much lost most of their navy,

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so they were really never a power again after that. Now,

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get this. When the ships were sinking and all that,

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they ended up getting 12,000 Christians who were actually being

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held as slaves on those ships that were sinking. Now,

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before that battle, Pope Pius V, he and other papal

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leaders and Christian leaders and stuff, they asked for a

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prayer for all of Europe to try and help bless

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the soldiers. And so a lot of the Catholics, they

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were praying the rosary. So it worked. It stopped the Muslims.

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And that's why if you're Catholic, yeah, October is National

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Rosary Month. So you're supposed to say the rosary a

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lot this month. 1714, Alkma, Netherlands. One of the biggest

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riots in the history of the Netherlands took place. See,

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the citizens, they were told that the government was going

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to start taxing beer. Yeah, the people went bat crap crazy. 1737,

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a cyclone hit Calcutta, India. Came to shore with 40-foot waves.

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Killed over 300,000 people. 1806, Ralph Wedgwood in London, England.

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He invented carbon paper. I don't know how many of

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you are old enough to remember that stuff. They pretty

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much stopped using carbon paper in the 1980s. But you

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can still go buy it. Yeah, some people still use it.

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I don't know what for. In college football in 1916,

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Georgia Tech. Now, they were coached by John Heisman, the

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guy that the trophy is named after. Well, they beat

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Cumberland College 222 to nothing. That's the most lopsided score

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in football history. 1959, Soviet spacecraft Luna 3. It took

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the first pictures of the back side of the moon,

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or the far side of the moon. Some people call

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it the dark side of the moon. But it gets

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just as much sunlight as the side that we see. Now,

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the two sides of the moon, they are different in appearance-wise. See,

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the far side of the moon is really covered in

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craters of all different sizes and all that kind of stuff,

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and the crust is thicker than the side that we see. Now,

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this record still stands. It was 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska,

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at the 10th hole in the Miracle Hills Golf Course.

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A 50-mile-an-hour wind gust. It helped Robert Matera. He hit

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a 447-yard hole-in-one. It's still the longest hole-in-one ever hit. 1996,

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Fox News went on the air. My dad and most

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of the people over 70 are pretty happy today. 2003,

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. Yeah, he served

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eight years. Two years ago, in 2023, that's when Hamas

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attacked Israel in a horrible terrorist attack. It is Israel's

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equivalent of the United States' 9-11 day, so a pretty

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solemn day over there near Israel.

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Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty, it's

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your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday.

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We're going to sip a card like it's your birthday.

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And you know we don't give up.

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Because it's your birthday.

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Let's check out who was born on October the 7th.

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And all the stories.

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Will dance into the radio.

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Now, I Need a Lover, that was the first hit

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song that John Mellencamp ever recorded. Released it back in 1978,

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but under the name John Cougar. John is 75 today.

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He was born in Seymour, Indiana. Now, he actually did

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start out as John Cougar, but his recording company, they

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didn't like the name Mellencamp at all. But John liked it,

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so as soon as he got big enough, he changed

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it to John Cougar Mellencamp. By 1991, he was big

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enough where he could just be John Mellencamp. Sold over

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60 million records. He is three times divorced. He had

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one child from his first wife, two from his second,

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and two from his third. For those of you who

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don't know the cello, yeah, that is really good. That

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was Yo-Yo Ma. He is an American cellist who was

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born in Paris, France to Chinese parents. 71 years old today. Now, Yo-Yo. Now,

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Yo-Yo Ma in China is pronounced Ma Yo-Yo. Now, he

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is most known famous cellist of all time. Probably the

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only cellist anybody ever knew. Now, he was a child prodigy.

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He was performing by the time he was four and

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a half years old. He's recorded 92 albums, won 19 Grammys. Now,

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his music, it goes from traditional Chinese melodies to American

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bluegrass to Argentina Django, everything in between. And he does

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perform classic orchestra stuff. He's on tour. Yep, if you

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want to see him, you'll be able to. He's on

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tour until June, so you can check him out. Got

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married in 1978, and they have a son and one daughter.

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That was Christian singer Michael W.

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Smith.

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Now, he took that song place in this world up

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to number six on the pop chart. He is a

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contemporary Christian singer. Michael, 69. He was born in Canova,

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West Virginia in 1957. He's won 45 Dove Awards, three Grammys,

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33 of the songs have gone to number one on

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the Christian chart. Now, he's also written 14 books. Now, Michael,

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he married in 1981, and they have five children. No,

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he's not Catholic. He's Protestant. Simon Cowell, he's 67. He

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was born in Lambeth, England in 1958. now he was

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a maybe a semi-successful record producer talent scout kind of

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stuff then he had huge with the idea of tv

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talent shows started off with the x factor in britain

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and then britain's got talent then of course american idol

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now that american idol franchise they have shows all over

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the world like Canadian Idol, Australian Idol, Iraq Idol, Brazil Idol,

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Pakistan Idol, Taiwan Idol, all that kind of stuff. 56

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different versions of American Idol. Well, yeah. So it's quite

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the franchise old Simon's got going there. Now, he's been

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engaged since 2013, and him and his fiancÃ©e have one son.

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Undo this hurt to come when you walk down the

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door And walk down in my life, I don't.

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Cry Tony Braxton. She was born in 1967 in Severn, Michigan.

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59 years old today. She sold over 70 million records.

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You Make Me High, Unbreak My Heart, He Wasn't Man Enough,

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Breathe Again. That's some of her biggest hits. And she

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had a reality TV show. It ran from 2011 to 2020.

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It was called Braxton Family Values. Now she had two

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sons from her first husband. She married her second husband

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just last year. In a beautiful world.

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I wish I was special.

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So fucking special. But I'm a creep.

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That's Thomas York. He is the lead singer for the

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band Radiohead. He was born in Wellingboro, England in 1968.

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58-year-old helped form Radiohead in 1985 and sold over 30

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million records. Some of their hits over here in the

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United States are Creep, Pie and Dry, No Surprises. Now,

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he does a lot of solo stuff on the side,

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and it's nothing like Radiohead. His solo stuff is all electronic. Yep,

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no instruments, just all electronic. He had one son and

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one daughter from his first wife, married his second wife

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in 2020. All righty, our quote of the day. It

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comes from writer Edgar Allan Poe. He died today in

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1849 at 40 years old. He says, if you want

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to forget something right away, make a note that you

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have to remember it. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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Make sure you follow us now you listen to us

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on Check out today's show description so you can figure

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out how to connect with us. Our country underground radio

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artist today comes from Misty in Sarasota, Florida. She wants

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to hear Lena Page's song, I Cry. You guys have

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an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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I add some cartoons.

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I cry at every wedding when I don't even know

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the bride or groom. I cry when dogs have puppies.

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So tell me if you can, you great big.

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Macho man, why didn't I cry over you?

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Shouting hallelujah When your taillights disappear down the street Why

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was I dancing on the table.

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Drinking Jose Cueto straight Why was I kissing total strangers

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Saying thank you.

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So tell me, darling, why was I laughing when I

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found you packing your things? Well, if I'm so tenderhearted,

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I should have died when you departed. So why didn't

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I cry when you said goodbye?

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