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Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids
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about today. Today is September the 13th. Today is National
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Bald is Beautiful Day. I hear you, brother. Today is
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a reminder that everyone is beautiful. Yeah, whether you have
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hair or not. Now baldness, it does cause a lot
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of anxiety, not just in men. It causes even more
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in women. Now baldness, it's genetic. It's not like you
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did something wrong. So today they do have products, though,
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that can actually stop it or sometimes even reverse it
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if you want to take that option. The best bald
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story of all times. It comes from the Old Testament.
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The prophet Elijah. He was being teased by a group
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of Philistine kids. Yeah, about his bald head. They were
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really giving him a hard time, really sticking it to him.
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So he cursed him.
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Then a bear came out and killed all 42 of them.
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So think about that the next time you make fun
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of a bald guy. Nowadays, though, the sticking of baldness
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is not as much as it used to be. Yeah,
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there's been so many famous cromedones. It just kind of
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ruins it together. Today, it's actually about really encouraging those
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who are bald for medical reasons, you know, like those
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going through chemo and that kind of stuff. So if
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you can, go out of your way today and help
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them and make sure that they know that they truly
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are beautiful and worthy today.
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So yeah, help those guys out.
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Let's see what was going on in entertainment on September
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the 13th back in 1957. Number one album was Loving
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You by Elvis Presley. Paul Anka had the number one
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song with Diana.
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I don't care just what they say.
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Cause forever I will pray.
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You and I, we will be as free as the
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birds up in the trees. Oh, please stay.
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By me, Diana.
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Jerry Lee Lewis had the number one country song with
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a whole lot of shaking going on. The number one
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book was The Scapegoat by Daphne D.
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Moyer.
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The top movie was Fire Down Below. Robert Mitchum and
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Jack Lemmon, they're small-time conmen. Bet they go to battle
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with each other. Yeah, they're fighting over the love of
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Rita Hayworth. It was today, in 1969, at a Toronto
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rock and roll festival that a rock tradition began. The host,
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Kim Fowles, she asked the crowd to hold up their
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lighters during a ballad. That's how it started. Of course, today,
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everybody just holds up their phones. Now, it was also
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in 1969, a day that Scooby-Doo, Where Are You premiered
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on TV. Yeah, it was on primetime on CBS. All right,
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what happened on September the 13th? 1847, in the Mexican-American War,
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United States Marines under Winfield Scott, they were able to
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capture Mexico City. That's why the first line of the
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Marine hymn, that song, yeah, it starts off with the
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halls of Mount Izuma.
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Yeah, it's from that battle.
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1861, the first naval battle of civil war was fought.
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It was off of Pensacola, Florida. The Union ship, the Colorado,
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sank the Judah. France in 1906, this Brazilian guy, Alberto
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Santos Dumont, he made the first airplane flight in Europe.
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Well, sort of.
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See, he attached his plane to a hydrogen balloon and that, yeah,
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I had to help him out with the takeoff. So
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basically the balloon took his plane up and then dropped him. Yeah,
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then he was able to fly after that. Switzerland in 1955,
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George de Mistral, he invented what today we call Velcro. Now,
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he came up with the idea of Velcro when he
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was trying to get burrs out of his dog's coat.
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1977, the TV show Soap.
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It became the first TV show to ever have viewer
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discretionary warning attached to it. Now, diesel engines, they have
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always been in trucks ever since they started out. Today,
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in 1978, General Motors, they started selling the first car
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with a diesel engine, Oldsmobile 88. Now, if you're old enough,
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you may read diesel gas. It's always been cheap as
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gas you could get. Yeah, when you would go, but now,
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not since 2004. Since then, when you go gas up,
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if you look at the sign, you see that diesel
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is a lot more expensive.
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So why? Well, taxes.
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And taxes and regulation. It has nothing to do with
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the processing, actually making diesels cheaper than regular gas. United
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States President Jimmy Carter, he was a big fan of
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country singer Willie Nelson. 1980, Carter, he invited Willie to
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put on a show at the South Line of the
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White House.
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Well, Willie did.
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He came over and put on a show. Now, everyone
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just had a great time. Willie, he even sang a
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duet with the First Lady, Rosalind Carter. That night after
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the show, Willie went to the roof of the White
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House with one of Carter's sons. They fired up a
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marijuana cigarette. Willie called it a big fat Austin torpedo.
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For some reason, the Secret Service got a little pissed
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from it. Then when word leaked out about it, Carter,
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he said that he had no idea what those two
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were doing up there on the roof.
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That's what you call plausible deniability.
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Let's just see.
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I was born on September the 13th.
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Milton Hershey.
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He was born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania in 1857.
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He started out with a really successful caramel company. He
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had over 1300 employees and he working in two different factories.
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Hershey, though, he believed that chocolate would be even more successful,
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but not just any chocolate, milk chocolate. So he sold
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the Carmel Company for about a million bucks. That was
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a lot of money back then. So he bought a
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whole bunch of land northwest of Land Cancer, Pennsylvania. See,
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he needed a lot of cows, yeah, for all that milk,
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for his milk chocolate. So then he built the factory,
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and he built a town for the employees to live in.
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Of course, you know it as Hershey, Pennsylvania. So he
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was ready to go.
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You know, he had one problem, though. No one had
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ever made milk chocolate.
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See, in Europe, they had used powdered milk in their chocolate,
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but no one had ever actually used real milk to
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make milk chocolate. No, no recipe existed at all. Now,
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the factory was built. The town was built. The cows
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were ready. Workers were hired.
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No recipe for the chocolate.
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He had hired a whole bunch of Ivy League chemists
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to try and figure it out, but they couldn't do it. Finally,
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just one of his former employees was able to figure
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it out. So that recipe is still used.
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Yep, today.
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And the first Hershey's chocolate bar went on sale in 1900. Milton,
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he married in 1898. She died in 1915. Milton, he
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died in 1945 at 88 years old from pneumonia.
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So what kind of.
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Student do you think that old Milton Hershey was in school? Well,
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it's kind of hard to tell. See, he left school
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in fourth grade.
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Kentucky, keep on shining.
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That was the father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe. He
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was born near Rosen, Kentucky in 1911. Now, he was
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a mandolin player, and he had a band. They were
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called the Bluegrass Boys. Now, no one had ever heard
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the type of music they were playing before. So when
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people would sound like them, everybody just referred to it
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as bluegrass. Bill is in the Country Rock and Roll
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Hall of Fame, and he's in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, obviously.
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He performed from 1927 to 1996. Now, he played at
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the White House for four different presidents.
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I don't know if he ever went on the roof, though.
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Now, when he died in 1996, he was married, 84
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years old, and he died from a stroke.
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Fell his hands, broke my heart in two. You held
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my dreams like worthless grains of sand. Careless hands don't
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care when dreams slip through.
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That was the Velvet Fog, Meltor May. He was born
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in Chicago in 1925. He was a crooner, but I
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guess you could kind of call him a jazz singer also.
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Released 34 albums. His biggest success was in the late
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40s through the early 50s. Then he had a really
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big resurgence. Yeah, he was popular again in the 1980s
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and early 1990s. Now, his biggest hit he ever had
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was actually a Christmas song. It was called Chestnest Roasting
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on an Open Fire. He had two children from his
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first wife, one child from his second wife, two children
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from his third wife. Married his fourth wife in 1985. Mel,
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he died from a stroke in 1999 at 73 years old.
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Actress Jacqueline Bessette. She's 82. She's born in Waybridge, England.
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She first got famous in the James Bond movie Casino Royale.
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She played Giovanna Goodthighs. Then she was in Bullet, Airport,
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The Deep, Class, Wild Orchid. Now, she didn't have any
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kids herself, but she is Angelina Jolie's godmother.
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That was Peter Cetera. He's also 82.
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He was born in Chicago. Peter, he started out in
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the band The Exceptions. He left them to go to
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the band Chicago. 1967. Now, Chicago, they kind of rotated.
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They got a single lead. But actually, the way it
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worked out, Peter, yeah, he sang most of their hits.
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If You Leave Me Now, Big Surprise, Old Days, Hard
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to Say I'm Sorry. That's just some of them. Went
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solo in 1985. Kind of ticked off the guys from Chicago,
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so they weren't getting along at all. Then they got
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inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so
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they had to suck it up and be friends for
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one night. So then when they went to perform, they
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wouldn't let Peter sing with them. Now some of Peter's
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solo hits are Gloria Love, One Good Woman, The Next
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Time I Fall. That was with Amy Grant. Peter had
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a daughter from his first wife and a daughter from
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his second wife. Now Peter, he retired in 2019, so
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you can't even go see him if you want to.
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Actress Jean Smart. She was born in Seattle in 1951.
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Makes her 75 today. She's done a lot of Broadway,
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made some movies, most known for TV. She starred on
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Designing Women. Then she had a recurring role on Frasier.
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She voiced on Kim Possible. She's been on something called
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Hacks since 2021. Her husband, he died a couple years
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ago after 34 years of marriage.
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They have two sons. You gotta love it. Where else
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can you hear?
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Bluegrass, Mel Torme, and Megadeth all in five minutes. Dave Mustaine,
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he sings lead for Megadeth. Dave is 65. He's going
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to La Mesa, California. Started out with the band Metallica.
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You guys all know that probably.
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Yeah, it was a short run. They ended up kicking
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him out. They kicked him out. He formed Megadeth in 1983.
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Worked out well, though.
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Sold over 50 million albums. 2017, Megadeth, they won a
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Grammy for the best heavy metal band. Now, Dave, he
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had throat cancer, but he beat it in 2019. So
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way to go, Dave. Now, he got married in 1991,
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and they have one son and one daughter. Filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, director.
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Tyler Perry is 57. He was born in New Orleans
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in 1969. Now, he started out just renting theaters and
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putting on his own plays in them. Now, he has
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a 330-acre studio complex with 12 sound stages. That is
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actually bigger than Disney's movie lot. Tyler, he first really
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hit big with Medea, the Medea character. I think they've
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done 14 Medea movies. On TV, he hit huge with
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The House of Pain. Now, he has worked on 16
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different TV series.
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Not acted. I mean, he's been like the producer and
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writer and all that kind of stuff.
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Some of the movies where Tyler, he just acted were
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Star Trek, Alex Cross, and Advice.
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Tyler has one son. All right, here we go. Our
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quote of the day. Our quote today comes from Tupac Shakur.
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Outro Music.
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Tupac, he was killed today in a drive-by shooting in 1996,
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25 years old. Tupac says, I don't see myself as special.
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I see myself with having a lot more responsibility than
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the next guy. Well, thank you all for listening today.
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from Tara in Pocatello, Idaho. Oh, I'm sorry, Tara. I
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hope you feel better. She wants to hear Paige Rutledge's
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Breakup Rule song. You guys have an awesome day, and
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we'll talk tomorrow.
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Don't ask about the weather Don't ask about my mom