Oct. 8, 2024

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 1987.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 - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.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 - it's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact,

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it is about today, isn't it about cool media? Today's

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October the eighth. Today is National Fluff Nutter Day. I

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think you had to grow up back east to enjoy

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fluffer nutter Now. What is flaff for Nutter? Well, it

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was created in Somerville, Massachusetts, around nineteen seventeen. Basically whip marshmallows.

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Now instead of puting jelly on your peanut butter and

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jelly sandwiches. Yeah, they use peanut butter and fluffer Nutter.

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I guess you don't have to have grown up back

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East to be in New England.

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You know.

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Try some fluff for noder today, Give it a shot.

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Who knows, maybe it'll be a fluffer nutter arian. All right, listen,

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it happened in entertainment in October the eighth. Let's back

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to nineteen eighty seven number one album was Bad by

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Michael Jackson. Whitney Houston had the number one song with

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Didn't We Almost Have It All?

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Didn't We All Have it All? We had working.

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R When You Loved My Rose and Cash had the

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number one country song with the Way We Make a

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Broken Heart. You'll get used to tell the last feeling

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sorry when she cries down.

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Down the strings all that shoe Catchum, We've done a hall.

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Since. In The number one book was Patriot Games by

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Tom Clancy. The top movie was Fatal Attraction, A Married

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Guys One Night, Stan comes back to haunt him Big

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time stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and An Archer. Alright,

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what happened on October the eighths today? In eighteen seventy one,

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it was a really bad day for fires in the

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United States. In northeastern Wisconsin, they had the deadliest fire

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in US history. It's called the Pestigo Fire. A small

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fire was set to clear some land for railroad construction.

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The area had been going through a drought all summer.

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Then a front came through and that wind just whipped

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that small fire into a firestorm. Pistigo and twelve towns

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that surrounded it all burnt to the ground. The fire

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burnt oney eight hundred and seventy five square miles. That's

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bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Now they know

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for a fact that between fifteen hundred and twenty five

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hundred people died, but they don't know for sure exactly

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how many though, because all the records saying who was

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living in the area at that time, Yeah, burnt up

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in the fire. Now, you would think that the deadliest

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fire in the United States history would be a lot

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more popular. Well, no, see that same day, the Great

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Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy one. It burnt three and

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a half square miles of Chicago to the ground. Three

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hundred people died, three hundred thousand people were left homeless,

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seventeen four hundred and fifty buildings burnt to the ground.

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Now that's a lot closer to a population, a lot

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more media, so you hear a lot more about that

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than up in Wisconsin. Now, the initial story was that

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a cow kicked over at lantern at Missus O'Leary's barn ah.

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That was just made up. It was. A reporter wrote

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that it was pretty yeah, fake news. No one knows

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what started that damn thing. Nineteen oh six, over in London, England,

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Carl Nessler he invented the first machine that was able

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to put waves on curls in women's hair. He demonstrated

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today in the women they wore a dozen brass curlers.

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Each curler weigh two pounds. Then they had to sit

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there for six hours. World War One, in nineteen eighteen,

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United States soldier Private Alvin York. He became a legend.

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York and his fellow soldiers, they were behind enemy lines

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when the German machine gun open fired on him. Immediately,

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six US soldiers are killed. All the rest of the

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people the soldiers they doeed for cover and started to

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care for the wounded. York he single handedly charged that

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machine gun, killed twenty five German soldiers and six more

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charged him with bayonets. When they thought he was out

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of AMML, he just pulled out his pistol and took

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those six out. Now the German officer was in charge,

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he ran out of ammal shooting at York, so he

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just surrendered himself and all his men. So then York

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he just marched that one hundred and thirty two German

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prisoners back to the American lines. Private Alvin York was

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now were here. Sergeant York nineteen forty five, Piercy Spencer.

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He patented the microwave oven. Yeah, it was six feet tall,

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weighed seven hundred and fifty pounds and cost five grand,

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not a lot in college dorms. Probably nineteen sixty two

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North Korea that reported a one hundred percent election turnout.

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What's miracos about that, though, is the entire one hundred

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percent all voted for the same guy. Nineteen seventy eight

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in Australia Ken Warby he got his jet boat up

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to three hundred and seventeen point fifty nine miles an hour,

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all the fastest anyone's gone on water. Since then, thirteen

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people have tried to break that record. Seven of them died.

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No one's even actually gotten close. Joke, jokes, joked, joke,

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shog just shibirth day.

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We're gonna pu he left this shibirthday.

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We want simple cage.

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He's like this shibirth day.

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And you know we don't earthday. So you want to

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know who was born in October eighth, Well Eddie Rickenbacker.

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He was born in Columbus, Ohio in eighteen ninety. During

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World One, he was a fighter pilot. His twenty six

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are ol combat victories. That's dog fights. That's still the

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most of any US pilot. He was the most awarded

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United States serviceman for valor during the entire war. Now,

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before the war, Eddie he was a race car driver,

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so After the war he had a little cash yea,

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he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He sold her about

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twenty years later. Now Eddie. He remade a consultant of

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the United States Air for US his entire life after

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the World War One. Got married nineteen twenty two and

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they had two sons, Eddie. He died from pneumonia nineteen

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seventy three, eighty two years old at Paul Hogan's eighty five.

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He was born in Parramatta, Australia, in nineteen thirty nine.

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Now that is a suburb of Sydney. He never lived

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in the outback of the Bush. Buddy is best known

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for starring as Crocodile Dandee and all those Crocodile than

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Knee movies. He was also in Almost an Angel. He

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was in the movie Flipper. Between nineteen fifty eight and

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nineteen eighty nine. He married his first wife twice. They

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had five kids between the two marriages. Then he married

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actress Linda Koslowski for twenty four years. They had one child,

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Actor Chevy Chase. He's eighty one. He was born in Manhattan,

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New York, in nineteen forty three. First guy known on

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Saturday Night Live. He was only on to though for

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a year and a half. Then he went to movies

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Caddy Shack, The Fletch Movies, Vacation movies, spies like Us Three,

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Amigo's Chevy. He had a son from a flang. Then

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he married his third wife in nineteen eighty two and

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they have three daughters. Writer R. Al Stein. He's also

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eighty one. He's born in Columbus, Ohio. Now he is

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

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those Goosebump and fair Street book series sold over four

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hundred million bucks. He married nineteen sixty nine and they

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have one son. They thought little boy like to have

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his dad telling bedtime stories. Actress Sigourney Weaver. She was

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born in New York City in nineteen forty nine. That

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managed her seventy five. She first got famous in the

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movie alien themed Ghostbusters. I think her best movie was

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

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Gorillas in the Midst and Working Girl Sagarnea. She married

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nineteen eighty four and they have a daughter. How are

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you gonna do it?

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If you really don't wanna day by standing? Tell men,

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how are you gonna do it if you really don't

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wanta da by standing saying come on you wanting.

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He has never sung late, but the group is named

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

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in nineteen fifty seventy four today now Cool in the gang.

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They formed in nineteen sixty four. Robert and six of

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his friends in high school. They formed it in New Jersey.

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It took him a few years before they finally found

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Ain't that stuck? Yeah, they picked Cole in the game.

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They just took his nickname.

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Now.

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He gave himself a nickname Cool when he was a

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little boy. Some of them because that's our celebration. Get

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down on it, Ladies night. Too Hot sold seventy million records.

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Now Cool. He married in nineteen seventy one. Was high

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school sweetheart. Yeah, they had one son together. She died

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in twenty Eighteenllo Urabo and you. That was CC Wine

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And she's sixty years old today. She's born in Detroit

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in nineteen sixty four. She is the best selling, a

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most awarded gospel singer of all time. Started singing in

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public when she was eight years old. She has one

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of ten winings kids. She's had a lot of success

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sing in duets with his brother BIB. I know CCMBB,

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but that family is really successful in music, really talented

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musical family.

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So you see.

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She married nineteen eighty four and they have two children.

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Actor Matt Damon. He was born in nineteen seventy in Cambridge, Massachusett.

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It's fifty four year. Been nominated for acting Oscars for

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Goodwill Hunting in Victa's and The Martian. He won an

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Oscar for writing Goodwill Hunting. I think his best movie

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he might have been The rain Maker. I just saw

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that not too long ago. He did a good job

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in that. Now was The Ocean. Eleven movies. They're the

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movies of his that have made the most money. He

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got married in two thousand and five and they have

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three daughters. TV personality Nick Cannon was born in San

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Diego in nineteen eighties forty four. He says he's a

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comedian and rapper. We're just gonna say. He's a TV host,

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hosted America's Got Talent and Lip Sing Battles, been hosted

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in the Mass Singer since twenty nineteen. He was married

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to singer Mariah Carey for eight years. They had a boy,

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and a girl. They were twins. Since they're divorced in

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twenty sixteen, Nick has had ten more kids from five

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women Jamie Walla.

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It's hosted in the Trash Shit's Hausted in the Trash

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said give me your Love, mir Song, Have cuz wat

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shout song on the standing Sidechatch and collect log on

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the plane Yea.

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Thirty nine year old Bruno Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii,

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in nineteen eighty five. Bruno and his band The Hooligans.

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They are well known for their live shows. Now the Juligans.

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They've been with Bruno since he started in twenty ten.

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Some of their heads just the way you are Gnade

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uptown Funk. You did that with Mark Ronson. Bruno. He's

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been dating Jessica Caban since twenty eleven. Bruno and the Huligans,

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they will be doing a bunch of shows in Las

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Vegas and December, kind of like a mini residency. Now earlier,

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I told you about the heroics of Alvin York now

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originally York. He tried to get out of the Army.

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He claimed he was a CONSCIENCT objector and didn't want

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to kill anyone. Oh, thank you for listening today, don't

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forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us

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on comes Here's at cool media dot com. That's cool

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three years. Former owner the Oakland Raiders Alan al Davis.

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He died today in twenty eleven, eighty two years old.

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Al says one lie has the power to tarnish a

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hundred truce. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll

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talk tomorrow.

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