Oct. 8, 2026

Oct 9-John Lennon, Tony Shaloub, Scott Bakula, Scotty McCreery, Megan Moroney, Leif Erikson, Jackson Browne

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National Leif Eriksson day. Entertainment from 2011. Civil War battle of Tom's Brook, Electric blankets went on sale, Metorite hits Peekskill NY. Todays birthdays - John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Tony Shalhoub, Scott Bakula, Michael Pare, Scotty McCreery, Megan Moroney. Oskar Schindler died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Spongebob Squarepants Leif Eriksson day
Moves like Jagger - Maroon 5
Made in America - Tobey Keith
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Imagine - John Lennon
Somebody's baby - Jackson Browne
Damn Strait - Scotty McCreery
Am I OK - Megan Moroney
Exit - Drown my regrets - Tiffany Grace https://www.tiffanygracemusic.com.au/

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Hello, everyone. I am Jeff. Welcome to History and Factoids

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About Today. Today is October the 9th. Hey, everybody.

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It's Leif Erikson Day.

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Hinga binga bergen. Ahoy, Patrick. It's Leif Erikson Day. There's

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a note. SpongeBob went to get more giant paper. Uh, Patrick.

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P.S.

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Happy Leif Erikson Day. Well, today is National Leaf Erickson Day. Leaf,

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he was a Viking. His dad was Eric the Red.

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Around the year 1000, Leaf and his crew, they landed

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in Canada. Now, they were actually sailing to Greenland. Yeah,

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though we got blown off course. They're possibly the first

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Europeans to actually set foot in North America now. Now,

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he named it Vinland because of all the grapevines that

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were growing all over the place. They were on the

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northern tip of Newfoundland. Now, it was too late in

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the year to try and get back to Greenland, so

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they decided to build shelters and camp there for the winter. Well,

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when spring hit, they headed back to Norway. When they

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got home, they told everybody who would listen about this

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new place that they found called Vinland. Now, quite a

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few of those Norwegians, Vikings, yeah, they went out and

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checked it out. So how are we supposed to celebrate

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Leaf Americans today? Well, I guess we can go all

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Nordic and Viking. We can eat pickled herring and smoked salmon.

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We can pillage our neighbors. It's a good excuse to drink, though.

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So there we go. Now, Leaf, he did get to

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North America 500 years before Columbus, so we should celebrate him.

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I mean, we're celebrating Columbus on Monday. All right, let's

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see what's going on in entertainment on October 9th back

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in 2011. Tony Bennett had the number one song with

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Duets 2. Maroon 5 had the number one song with

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Moves Like Jagger. Toby Keith had the number one country

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song with Made in America. Made in America. The number

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one selling book was The Affair by Lee Charles. The

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top movie was Real Steel. Now, in the future, robot

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boxing is a top sport. One ex-boxer, he tries to

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win the championship by getting a discarded robot. Stars Hugh Jackman,

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Evangeline Lilly, and Atom. I guess he was the robot.

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All right, what happened on October 9th? 1809, American Isaac Singer,

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he invented the sewing machine motor. Now, it was a

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big deal back then. Remember, pretty much everybody had a

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sewing machine. They sewed their own clothes. But see, they

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had to pump it with their foot in order to

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power the sewing machine. Yeah, kind of like the Flintstones.

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Didn't have to do that anymore, thanks to Isaac. The

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Civil War in 1864, the Union Cavalry and Confederate, Confederate Cavalry. Yeah,

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they went at it at the Battle of Tom's Brook.

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It's in Virginia. Now, the Union whooped up on those rebels. Yeah,

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the locals, they were watching it. They called it the

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Woodstock Races. See, the Confederates got on their horses and

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they ended up running, turning tail like you would not

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believe with the Union right on their butts. Now, it

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was not a significant battle. But what makes it really

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interesting were the two officers that were in charge. See,

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they were roommates at West Point. Now, the Confederates, they

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were led by Tom Rezier and his former roommate that

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was leading the Union soldiers, George Armstrong Custer. 1930, pilot

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Laura Ingalls was the first woman to make a transcontinental

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airplane flight across the United States. Nope, not the writer. 1936,

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the Hoover Dam began sending electricity to Los Angeles. Today,

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15% of all the electricity produced by the Hoover Dam

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still goes to Los Angeles. 1946, the first electric blankets

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went on sale. $ 39.

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50.

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Now, you think, that's not bad for an electric blanket. Remember,

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that was 1946. Today, if you bought an electric blanket

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for that, $ 650. 1961, members of the United States Communist Party,

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they were told to report themselves to their local police. Today,

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they just throw things at their local police. 1983, in Rangoon, Burma.

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It's Myanmar today. North Korea, they tried to assassinate South

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Korea's president. Well, they didn't get him, but they did

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kill 21 people. That included nine South Korean government officials,

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some presidential advisors, security team members, three reporters. 1989, Penthouse

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Magazine started selling a Hebrew edition. Yeah, but hit newsstands today.

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A lot of kosher jokes on that one. I didn't

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know this, but Penthouse, they actually stopped printing the Hebrew

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edition in 2023 along with all, yeah, all editions. Now,

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if you want to go to Penthouse, apparently you have

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to go to their website only. 1992, a fireball raced

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across the sky above Peekskill, New York. Scared the hell

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out of a stadium of people watching a high school

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football game, especially when they heard the loud boom when

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it crashed. Now, the whole town basically rushed. We want

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to see what in the hell happened. And luckily, no

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one was hurt. Yeah, it was just a meteorite the

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size of a bowling ball. Now, it took out the

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Knapp family's 1980 Chevy Malibu. Yeah, it was parked in

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the family's driveway. Now, the meteorite, it was seen all

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the way from Kentucky. Yeah, all the way to New York,

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people have been watching it. 2023 in Oka, Minnesota. Travis Geinger,

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he grew the largest pumpkin in history. Weighed 2,749 pounds.

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And if he wanted to, he could have made 687

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pumpkin pies from that. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty.

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It's your birthday.

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

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to sip a card like it's your birthday. And you

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know we don't give up.

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Because it's your birthday.

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Let's check out who's born on October the 9th. I'm

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a woman.

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I will try to express my inner feelings and feelings.

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John Lennon, he was born in Liverpool, England in 1940.

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When he was 15, he started a band called the Quarrymen.

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After a couple of years, he let Paul McCartney join.

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Of course, that led to the Beatles. Beatles, they are

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right behind, they're not right behind, they're behind Elvis for

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the all-time most records sold. Beatles, they sold around 600

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million records. Elvis, he's like a billion. Now, John, he

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sold between 23 and 25 million records solo. Now, he

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was married to a first wife. They were married six years,

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and they had that son, Julian Lennon. Then John married

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Yoko Ono in 1969, and they had their son's son, Sean. Well,

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today is Sean's birthday. Yeah, Sean was also born on

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October the 9th. Except he was born in 1975. That

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means he's 51 years old today. He was five when

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his dad was murdered in 1980 at 40 years old.

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She's got to be somebody. Jackson Brown, he's 78. He

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was born in Heidelberg, Germany. His dad was in the military.

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Jackson actually grew up in California. Started out in the

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Nitty Gritty Burt Band. Not for long, though. He was

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more of a songwriter for them than anything else. Released

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his first album in 1972. Some of his hits are

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Running on Empty, Somebody's Baby, Lawyers in Love, Tender is

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the Night. He had a son from his first wife,

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then she died. He had a son from his second wife.

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He dumped her for Daryl Hannah. Him and Daryl Hannah

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dated for 10 years, and then they broke up. So, yeah, Jackson,

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he's been with his girlfriend now since like the mid-1980s.

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Actor Tony Shalhoub. He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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He's 73 today. Now, Tony first got known on the

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sitcom Wings. Then he hit big on TV's Monk. Some

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of his movies were Galaxy Quest, Men in Black 2.

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He's voiced Luigi in the Cars movies. He married actress

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Brooke Adams in 1992, and they have two daughters. Actor

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Scott Bakula. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1954.

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Makes him 72 years old. He's mostly known for TV.

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First starred on Quantum Leap and then Star Trek Enterprise, NCIS,

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New Orleans. Some of his movies were Necessary Roughness, Major

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League Two, The Informant. He had two children from his

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first wife. Married his second wife in 2009 and they

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have two children. Actor Michael Parr is 68. He's won

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a Brooklyn, New York. He was really popular in the 90s.

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He was really popular in the 80s. He had Eddie

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and the Cruisers, Streets of Fire, Philadelphia Experiment. Yeah, really

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big in the 80s. But he's been busy. You might

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not realize it. Michael, he's been in over 160 movies. Now,

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he married his third wife in 1992, and they have

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one child.

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You know I've always been your biggest fan.

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Country singer Scotty McCreary is 33. He was born in Garner,

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New North Carolina in 1993. Now he was 16 years

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old when he auditioned for American Idol. He was 17

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years old when he won the 10th season of American Idol.

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Now after he won, he released his first album. He

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became the only country artist in history whose debut album

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actually hit number one on the pop chart when it debuted.

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So I'm one Scotty McCurry songs are Five More Minutes,

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This Is It, In Between, Damn Straight. Yes, he did

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finish high school after he won American Idol. Got married

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in 2018. Now, their second son was just born on

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September 18th, so congratulations to the McCleary family.

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And he's funny and he's smart and he's good.

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And love ain't always what it was.

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Now I'm crying and dying and messing me up.

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I think I'm really happy.

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I think I won't stay.

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Oh my God, am I okay? That was 29-year-old country

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singer Megan Maroney. She was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1997. Now,

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she's released two albums. She's just kind of starting out.

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She has the hits Tennessee Orange, I'm Not Pretty, Six

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Months Later, Am I Okay? Now, she's just finishing up

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her tour. She's only got a couple shows left, so

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probably have to wait until next summer when she goes

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out again. All righty, our quote of the day. It

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comes from Oscar Schindler. Yeah, the Schindler's List guy. He

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died today in 1974. He's 66 years old. He says,

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if you saw a dog was going to be crushed

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by a car, wouldn't you help him? Well, thank you

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in Malibu, California. She wants to hear Tiffany Grace's song,

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Drown My Regrets. It's a brand new song. You guys

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I've been losing my mind Been lying to my therapist

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She told me that your love makes me blind I said, yeah, well,

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me and the rest Your new girl seems to really

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hate me I could tell you I enjoy Cause you

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look me in the eyes like a cigarette. Another glass

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of wine, but in dirt drown my regrets. I cried

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outside the door, they asked me to behave. But you

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don't miss me anymore. You're the one that could have stayed. Baby,

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maybe I miss you at times, but I'd rather throw

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up than confess. Asked me to drive you home last night.

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I said, does your girlfriend need a lift? Funny that

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she seems to really hate me.

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I could tell you why in all honesty.

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Cause you'll look me in the eyes and light me

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a cigarette. Another glass of wine, bartender, drown my regrets.

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I cried outside.

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The club, they asked me to behave. But you don't

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miss me anymore.

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I only ever wanted you

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I was your secret little game

Oct 9-John Lennon, Tony Shaloub, Scott Bakula, Scotty McCreery, Megan Moroney, Leif Erikson, Jackson Browne

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