Oct. 7, 2026

Oct 8-Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Kool & the Gang, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Bruno Mars, Nick Cannon

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National Fluffernutter day. Entertainment from 2001.Chicago fire of 1871, In Wisconsin worst fire in recorded history, Sgt. York war heroics, water speed record set. Todays birthdays - Eddie Rickenbacher, Paul Hogan, Chevy Chase, R.L. Stine, Sigourney Weaver, Robert "Kool" Bell, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Nick Cannon, Bruno Mars. Al Davis died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Fluffernutter commercial
Didn't we almost have it all - Whitney Houston
The way we make a broken heart - Rosanne Cash
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Get down on it - Kool & the Gang
Never lose - CeCe Winans
Grenade - Bruno Mars
Exit - Girl ADD'n - Tristan Roberson https://tristanrobersonmusic.com/

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

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About Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 8th. Fluff, fluff, fluffernutter!

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Oh, you need fluff, fluff, fluff to make a fluffernutter.

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Marshmallow fluff and lots of peanut butter.

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But you should spread, spread, spread your bread with peanut

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butter and marshmallow.

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Fluff and have a fluffernutter.

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Today is National Fluffernutter Day.

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Go!

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I think you had to grow up back east to

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enjoy fluffernutter. Now, what is fluffernutter? Well, it was created

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in Somerville, Massachusetts around 1917. It's basically whipped marshmallows. Now,

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instead of putting jelly on your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, yeah,

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they use peanut butter and fluffernutter. I guess you don't

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have to have grown up back east to be a

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New Englander. You know, try some fluffernutter today. Give it

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a shot.

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Who knows?

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Maybe you'll be a fluffernutter-arian. Okay, let's hit those crazy

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kids we're doing for entertainment on October 8th back in 2001.

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Jay-Z had the number one album with The Blueprint. Alicia

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Keys had the number one song with Fallin'..

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Loving you darling Makes me so confused I keep on

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falling In and out of love with.

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You Alan Jackson had the number one country song with

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Where I Come From.

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I don't know about that accent, son. Just where did

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you come from?

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I said where I come from It's cornbread and chicken

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Where I come from A lot of front porch sittin'

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Where I.

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Come from Tryin' to.

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Make a livin' And workin' hard to get to heaven Where.

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I come from.

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The number one book was The Corrections by Jonathan Frazen.

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The top movie was Training Day. A rookie L.A. cop. Well,

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he spends his first day training with a guy who's

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a narcotics officer. Yeah, not a good guy. Stars Denzel

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Washington and Ethan Hawke. All right, what happened on October

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the 8th? Today in 1871, it was a really bad

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day for fires in the United States. In northeastern Wisconsin,

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they had the deadliest fire in U.S. history. It's called

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the Peshtigo Fire. A small fire was set to clear

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some land for railroad construction. The area had been going

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through a drought all summer. Then a front came through

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and that wind just whipped that small fire into a firestorm.

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Peshtigo and 12 towns that surrounded it all burnt to

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the ground. The fire burnt 1,875 square miles. That's bigger

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than the state of Rhode Island. Now, they know for

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a fact that between 1,500 and 2,500 people died, but

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they don't know for sure exactly how many, though, because

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all the records saying who was living in the area

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at that time, yeah, they all burned up in the fire. Now,

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you would think that the deadliest fire in the United

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States history would be a lot more popular.

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Well, no.

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See, that same day, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871,

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it burnt three and a half square miles of Chicago

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to the ground. 300 people died. 300,000 people were left homeless. 17,450

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buildings burnt to the ground. Now, that's a lot closer

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to a population, a lot more media, so you hear

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a lot more about that than up in Wisconsin. Now,

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the initial story was that a cow kicked over a

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lantern at Mrs. O'Leary's barn. Ah, that was just made up.

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A reporter wrote that. It was pretty, yeah, fake news.

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No one knows what started that damn thing. 1906, over

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in London, England, Carl Nessler, he invented the first machine

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that was able to put waves and curls in women's hair.

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He demonstrated it today in the women. They wore a

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dozen brass curlers. Each curler weighed two pounds. Then they

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had to sit there for six hours. World War I

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in 1918, United States soldier, private Alvin York, he became

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a legend. York and his fellow soldiers, they were behind

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enemy lines when a German machine gun opened, fired on him. Immediately,

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six U.S. soldiers were killed. All the rest of the people,

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the soldiers, they dove for cover and started to care

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for the wounded. York, he single-handedly charged that machine gun,

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killed 25 German soldiers, and six more charged him with

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bayonets when they thought he was out of ammo. He

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just pulled out his pistol and took those six out.

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Now the German officer who was in charge, he ran

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out of ammo shooting at York, so he just surrendered

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himself and all his men. So then York, he just

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marched that 132 German prisoners back to the American lines.

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Private Alvin York was now War Hero Sergeant York. 1945,

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Piercy Spencer. He patented the microwave oven. Yeah, it was

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six feet tall, weighed 750 pounds, and cost five grand.

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Not a lot in college dorms, probably. 1962, North Korea.

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They reported a 100% election turnout. What's miraculous about that, though,

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is the entire 100% all voted for the same guy. 1978,

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in Australia, Ken Warby. He got his jet boat up

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to 317.59 miles an hour. That's still the fastest anyone's

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gone on water. Since then, 13 people have tried to

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break that record. Seven of them died. No one's even

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actually gotten close. So we want to know who was

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born on October 8th. Well, Eddie Rickenbacker. He was born

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in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. During World War I, he

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was a fighter pilot. He has 26 aerial combat victories.

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That's dogfights. That's still the most of any U.S.

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Pilot.

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He was the most awarded United States serviceman for valor

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during the entire war. Now, before the war, Eddie, he

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was a race car driver. So after the war, he

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had a little cash. Yeah, he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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He sold it about 20 years later. Now, Eddie, he

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remained a consultant for the United States Air Force his

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entire life after World War I. They married in 1922,

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and they had two sons. Eddie, he died from pneumonia

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in 1973, 82 years old. Actor Paul Hogan is 87.

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He was born in Parramatta, Australia in 1939. Now, that

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is a suburb of Sydney. He never lived in the

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outback or the bush. But he is best known for

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starring as Crocodile Dundee in all those Crocodile Dundee movies.

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He was also in Almost an Angel. He was in

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the movie Flipper. Between 1958 and 1989, he married his

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first wife twice. They had five kids between the two marriages.

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Then he married actress Linda Kozlowski for 24 years. They

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had one child. Actor Chevy Chase is 83. He was

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born in Manhattan, New York. First got known on Saturday

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Night Live. He was only on it, though, for a

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year and a half. Then he went to movies. Caddyshack,

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The Fletch Movies, Vacation Movies, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos. Chevy,

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he had a son from a fling. Then he married

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his third wife in 1982, and they have three daughters.

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Writer R.L. Stine, he's also 83. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. Now,

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he is the Stephen King of children's books. Yeah, he

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wrote all those Goosebump and Fear Street book series. Sold

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over 400 million bucks. He married in 1969, and they

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have one son. Think that little boy liked to have

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his dad telling bedtime stories? Actress Sigourney Weaver was born

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in New York City. She's 77. She first got famous

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in the movie Alien, then Ghostbusters. I think her best

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movie was Galaxy Quest. Now, she was nominated for Oscars

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for Aliens. Gorillas in the Mist, and Working Girl. So Garnier,

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she married in 1984, and they have a daughter.

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How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance?

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By standing on the wall.

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Get your back up off the wall. Tell me.

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How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance?

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By standing on the wall.

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Get your back up off the wall.

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I heard all the people saying, get down on it.

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Come on then.

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Get down on it.

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If you really want it.

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He has never sung late, but the group has named

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for him. Robert Coolbell. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio

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in 1950. 76 today. Now, Cool and the Gang, they

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formed in 1964. Robert and six of his friends in

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high school, they formed it in New Jersey. It took

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them a few years before they finally found a name

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that stuck. Yeah, they picked Cool and the Gang. They

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just took his nickname. Now, he gave himself the nickname

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Cool when he was a little boy. Some of their

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biggest hits are Celebration, Get Down On It, Ladies Night,

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Too Hot. Sold 70 million in records. How cool, he

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married in 1971 to his high school sweetheart. Yeah, they

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had one son together. She died in 2018. CeCe Winans

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is 62 years old today. She was born in Detroit

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in 1964. She is the best-selling and most-awarded gospel singer

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of all time. Started singing in public when she was

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8 years old. She has one of 10 Winans kids.

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She's had a lot of success singing duets with her

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brother Bebe. I know, CeCe and Bebe. But that whole

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family is really successful in music. Really talented musical family. CeCe,

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she married in 1984, and they have two children. Actor

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Matt Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He's 56. Been

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nominated for acting Oscars for Good Will Hunting, Invictus, and

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The Martian. He won an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting.

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I think his best movie might have been The Rainmaker.

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I just saw that not too long ago. He did

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a good job on that. Now, the Ocean Eleven movies,

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they're the movies of his that have made the most money.

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He got married in 2005, and they have three daughters.

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TV personality Nick Cannon is 46. He was born in

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San Diego. He says he's a comedian and rapper. We're

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just going to say he's a TV host. Hosted America's

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Got Talent and Lip Sync Battles. Been hosting the Masked

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Singer since 2019. He was married to singer Mariah Carey

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for eight years. They had a boy and a girl.

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They were twins. Since their divorce in 2016, Nick has

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had 10 more kids from five women.

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Gave you all I had and you tossed it in

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the trash.

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You tossed it in the trash.

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You did.

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41-year-old Bruno Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bruno and

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his band, The Hooligans, they are well-known for their live shows. Now,

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The Hooligans, they've been with Bruno since he started in 2010.

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Some of their hats, just the way you are, grenade,

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uptown funk. He did that with Mark Ronson. Bruno, he's

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been dating Jessica Caban since 2011. Now, earlier I told

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you about the heroics of Alvin York. Now, originally, York,

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he tried to get out of the Army. He claimed

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he was a conscientious objector and didn't want to kill anyone. Well,

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thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us

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at coolmedia.com. That's cool with three O's. Former owner of

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the Oakland Raiders, Al Davis, he died today in 2011,

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82 years old. Al says, One lie has the power

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to tarnish 100 truths. Okay, for today's Country Underground Radio

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Artist of the Day, we're going out to Fresno, California. Joe,

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he wants to hear a Tristan Robertson song, Girl ADDin'.

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

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I've seen so many faces underneath this neon light I've

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held so many aces, but they never worked out right.

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Mama said I was a lost.

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Cause, cause I never found the point. When you sat

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down on that stool, I damn near jumped the gun.

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And girl, at the end, I can't believe what I'm seeing.

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Man, she's got the....

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Feeling cause i know that she's feeling my heart man

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i'm girl a here i said hey girl how's it

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going i was shaking in my boots she said i

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think we.

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Met somewhere before i'm good how about you It's getting

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a little hot in here. I think we could get along.

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So girl, while we're talking, let me play your tab.

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I don't think we'll be here for long.

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Girl, ADD in.

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I can't believe what I'm seeing. Man, she's got the

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green eyes calling my name.

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It's the best kind of feeling.

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Because I know that she steals. Hey, I'm girl lady,

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yeah

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