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Hello i'm jeff and welcome to history and factoids about
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today today's september the 15th.
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I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce don't
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be frontin son no seeds on the fun we be
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up in the drive-thru order for two i got the
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grape and four number nine lock my shoe we need
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some chicken up in here in this single gorilla mom
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is electric salt on the grill dr pepper my brother
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another for your mother double double supersize and don't forget
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the fries that's about it.
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Sorry, I only caught the double cheeseburger.
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Today is National Double Cheeseburger Day. Not Cheeseburger Day. Now,
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that's actually coming up on Thursday the 18th. Today is
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Double Cheeseburger Day. Woo-hoo! 1937 in California. Bob's Big Boy Burgers. Yeah,
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they get credit for the first double cheeseburger. Pretty much
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every restaurant that sells burgers are not having deals today.
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They're all waiting for Thursday the 18th before they have
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their deals. Except for Dairy Queen. Dairy Queen, they're just
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going to celebrate double cheeseburgers and cheeseburgers all week long,
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so you might hit that up. You know what? Today
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might sound like the perfect day to fire up that
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grill and create your own double cheeseburger. So, what happened
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in entertainment on September 15th back in 1988? Number one
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album was Hysteria by Def Leppard. Guns N' Roses had
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the number one song with Sweet Child O' Mine. Eddie
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Raven has a number one country song with Joe Knows
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How to Live.
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He says women were made to love.
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Money is made to spend.
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Life is something, buddy. You will never live again.
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Oh, I've got to admit it.
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Joe sure knows how to live. The top-selling book was
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy. Top movie
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was A Fish Called Wanda. Over in London, four thieves,
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they pull off a really big jewel heist. Well, then
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they go and try and double-cross each other for it.
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Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and John Cleese. The
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Ford Motor Company, they revolutionized car audio forever today in 1965.
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Started selling their cars with factory-installed 8-track tape players. That's right,
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if you're too young, you really missed out on 8-track tapes. Now,
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when you played them, they were a combination of a
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compact disc and a Rubik's Cube. They were kind of tricky. 1969,
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it was before a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young concert. Now,
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they were backstage in Big Sur, California. Well, Stills, he
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got into a fist fight with a heckler. Turned into
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a regular melee. Now, once the fight was broken up
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and everyone settled down and everything, the guys decided, you
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know what, we should probably go on stage and play.
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You know, it is a benefit concert. Yeah, it was.
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It was a benefit concert for the Institute for the
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Study of Nonviolence. All right, what happened on September the 15th? Now,
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it was called New York later on, obviously, today, but
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when the Dutch founded it, they just called it New Amsterdam. 1655,
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the people of New Amsterdam, they fought in the Peach War. See,
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the Muncie Indians, they attacked New Amsterdam, killed 40 of
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the Dutch colonists.
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Why?
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Well, it was in retaliation for a Muncie woman who
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was killed while she was out picking peaches. 1821, Costa Rica,
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El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, they all declared their
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independence from Spain. Now, Spain, they were in no position
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to try and stop them. Nope, so basically what was left? Yep,
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only Cuba and Puerto Rico were the only Spanish territories
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left in the Americas. I'm just curious, what would you,
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if you were a soldier, what would your reaction be
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if you heard that a bunch of willies were heading
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your way? In 1916, in World War I, it scared
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the hell out of a bunch of German soldiers. See,
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in one of the battles of the Somme, Britain, they
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used tanks for the first time in world history. Now,
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their nickname? Yeah, they were called Little Willies. Now, Little Willies,
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they had a crew of eight, and you could crank
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it up to about four miles an hour. They were very,
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very heavily honored, but they really couldn't cross trenches or
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tracks or anything, and they really weren't effective, but they
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looked really intimidating. 1928, at St. Mary's Hospital in London,
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a Scottish bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming, he was studying influenza. Yep,
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he was working on the flu. Well, he ended up
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discovering penicillin. Yeah, one of the greatest discoveries in human history. Sure,
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it was an accident and he wasn't looking for it,
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but hey, helped out mankind a lot. 1958 in Bayonne,
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New Jersey. 48 people were killed when their train crashed
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off an open drawbridge. Now, after a lengthy investigation, it
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was ruled that someone should have closed it. 1982, the
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first issue of the newspaper USA Today was published. I
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didn't know it, but it's still out there. Yeah, you
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can get USA Today. You can get it digital or
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in print. 1983, the first Costco opened up. It was
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in Seattle, Washington. 1997, the domain name Google.com. Yeah, it
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was registered today. 2014, Barack Obama. He announced that he
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was sending 3,000 U.S. troops over to Africa. And this
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was how he said it. He said he wanted to
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help with the spread of the Ebola virus. That was
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his words, word for word. So no one could figure
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out why he wanted to help spread the Ebola virus.
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Okay. Who was born on September the 15th?
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Marco Polo.
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He was born in Venice in 1254. Now he was
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a merchant and he traded. He would walk up and down.
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And travel the Silk Road to Asia, getting.
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His merchandise and that kind of stuff.
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Now he is not the first European to go to China.
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But he was the first one to write detailed descriptions
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about it and make maps and all that kind of stuff.
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And on one of his trips, he met Mongol leader
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Kublai Khan. Kublai, he was so impressed with Marco that
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he made him his foreign ambassador. So he sent Marco
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on diplomatic missions throughout Southeast Asia, Burma, India, Indonesia, Vietnam,
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all that area and stuff. Now Polo, he was also
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granted access to all over China. So yeah, he was
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able to go to places that no white guy had
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been before. So after Marco had served for Kublai Khan
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for 17 years, he was asked to escort a Mongol
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princess to Persia so she could get married. Persia, that's
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Iran today. So after Polo dropped her off, he just
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kept going. Decided he wanted to go home to Venice.
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He'd been gone for 24 years. When he got back,
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he found out that Venice was actually at war with Genoa.
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You remember, Italy didn't become one country until 1861, so
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back then they were just a bunch of different kingdoms.
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So Marco, he decided, well, I'm here. I guess I'll
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fight for Venice. Well, he was immediately captured and spent
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the next three years in prison. So while he was
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in there, he told his cellmate all the adventures he
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had done while he was over there in China and
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all that kind of stuff. Then when the war was
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over and Marco was freed, he became a very, very
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rich guy. Remember, as a merchant, he still had all
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those connections over to China and Asia. Yep, so he
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was rich. He married and had three daughters. Now his cellmate,
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he actually took all those stories that Marco Polo told
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him and he wrote them into a book. Ended up
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being one of the best-selling books in history, simply titled
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Marco Polo. So everybody came out a winner. Marco, he
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died in 1324 at 70 years old. Now, I did
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look it up. Now, the swimming pool game, Marco Polo,
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it started in the 1960s, but no one knows who
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started it. William Ayrtaft, he was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
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in 1857, started out as a judge, and then he
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was the first U.S. governor of Cuba. Then he was
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secretary of war, then the 27th president of the United States.
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He served from 1909 to 1913. Now, he was a
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big guy, but he never did get stuck in the
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White House bathtub. That was just a rumor. But he
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did have an oversized bathtub installed in the White House.
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He was the first president to throw out the first
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pitch of a baseball game. Now, after he was president
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in 1921, he was appointed chief justice to the U.S.
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Supreme Court. He served on that until 1930 when he
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died from heart disease at 72 years old. He was
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married and they had three children. Writer Agatha Christie. She
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was born in Torquay, England in 1890. She is the
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best-selling and most translated author of all time. She sold
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over 2 billion books. Now, she wrote all genres, but
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her 66 detective books, those are her most popular. She
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wrote a play. Yeah, it's called The Mousetrap. It is
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the world's longest-running play. It's been performed on the West
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End of London since 1952. She had a daughter from
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her first husband, married her second husband in 1930. They
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were together until he died in 19... They were together
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until she died in 1976 at 85 years old from
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natural causes.
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From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore
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From the queen of glowing mountains to the South Bell
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by the shore She's mighty tall and handsome and known
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quite well by all She's.
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The combination on the Wabash Cannonball.
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The original king of country music, Roy Acuff. Roy, he
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gets credit for moving country music from hoedown music to
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country music that became popular. He was a fiddler and
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a singer. Now, Roy, he was born in Maynardsville, Tennessee
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in 1903. Some of his classic songs are Blue Eyes,
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Crying in the Rain, Wabash Cannonball, I Saw the Light. Now,
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they didn't have charts back then, so we don't know
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exactly how big his hits were, but according to history, yeah,
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he was mega, mega popular. Got married in 1936. His
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wife died in 1981 and they had two children. Roy,
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he performed right up until he died in 1992 from
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heart failure. 89 years old. Actress Faye Ray. She was
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born in Cardston, Canada in 1936.
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1907.
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She is most known for the 1933 movie King Kong.
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That's when the Big Eight carried her to the top
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of the Empire State Building. Faye, she was Hollywood's first
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scream queen. So after that, she pretty much did horror
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films and she ended up acting for over 60 years
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by doing all those low budget horror films in the 30s. Yeah,
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she was pretty much typecast. She had one child from
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her first husband, two children from her second husband. He
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died after 13 years of marriage. She married her third husband.
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He died after 20 years of marriage. Faye, she died
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in 2004. 96 years old. Natural causes. Filmmaker Oliver Stone
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is 80. He was born in New York City. He
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joined the Army after high school. Now, he requested to
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be sent to Vietnam. So the Army said, okay. So
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he fought in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was
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awarded the Bronze Star for Valor, two Purple Hearts, and
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six other awards for heroics over there fighting. Came home,
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graduated from New York University with a degree in film. Now,
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his movies have been nominated for 34 Academy Awards. They've
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won nine. He's won two Best Director Oscars for Platoon
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and Born on the Fourth of July. Some of his
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other movies that might remember are Wall Street, JFK, Natural
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Born Killers, Any Given Sunday. He had two sons from
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his second wife. Then he has a daughter from his
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third wife. With his third wife, I guess you should say.
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Actor Tommy Lee Jones, he's also 80. He's won a Sansaba,
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Texas Oscar. Now, after playing football at Harvard, he got
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famous for the movie Co-Miner's Daughter, and he won an
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Oscar for The Fugitive, and nominated for Oscars for JFK,
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The Valley of Ila, and Lincoln. Tommy, he had two
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kids from his second wife, and he married his third
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wife in 2001. And mama's worried that you won't.
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Sister Christian, there's so much in life.
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Don't you give it up before your.
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Time is done.
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That was Kelly Kagey singing for the band Night Ranger.
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Kelly's 74. He was born in Glendale, California. Helped form
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Night Ranger in 1979. Night Ranger's out on tour if
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you want to check him out. They'll be out there
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until Thanksgiving. Kelly, he's their drummer, but he does sing
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lead on Sister Christian and Sentimental Street. He had two
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children from his first wife, and then he divorced two
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more times. Actress Wendy Jo Sperber. She was born in
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Los Angeles in 1958. She first got known in the
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movie Bachelor Party. Then she played Marty McFly's sister in
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a couple of Back to the Future movies. On TV,
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she was on Booze and Buddies and Private Benjamin. She
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married once for nine years, and they had two children.
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Wendy Jo, she was told that she had breast cancer
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in 1997. She continued to do work, though. Yeah, she
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did it until 2005. Yeah, the cancer finally got her.
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47 years old.
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All righty-er. Quote of the day. It comes from Rico Kasich.
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Dance all night. Get real loose. You don't need no
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bad excuse. Dance all night with anyone. Don't let nobody
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pick you up. Shake it up.
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Shake it up.
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Rick was the lead singer of the band The Cars.
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He died today in 2019 at 75 years old. Rick says,
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refusing to ask for help when you need it is
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refusing the chance for someone to be helpful. Well, thank
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you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us