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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and
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Factoids About Today. Today is September the 17th. That is
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the only song we can find that even mentions apple dumplings.
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Today is National Apple Dumpling Day. A tasty little dessert.
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They go back to the 1740s.
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They're created up in the northeast. So, New England. They're
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pretty easy to make.
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You just peel and core some apples, sprinkle them with
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some cinnamon and sugar. Yep, wrap them in little pastries
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and bake. Yeah, it tastes like little apple pies. Today
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is also International Country Music Day.
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Yeah! I know.
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Country music, it is popular worldwide. It is global and international.
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It really wasn't until the 1990s. That's when Garth Brooks
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and Shania Twain and that whole crowd, they got the
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worldwide attention to it.
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It gets more popular every year.
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Now, as you've heard me talk about, we have an
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internet radio station called Country Underground Radio. We play independent
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and up-and-coming country radio, or country artists. Now, we don't
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mention the listeners, though. We have listeners from all over
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the world. Every month, we have over 80 countries that
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listen to us. Now, most popular in Europe and South America. Yeah,
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we're really big in Brazil, and don't know why, but
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for some reason, we're like the number one internet country
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radio station over in Denmark. But we have listeners all
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over Africa, Russia, China, Japan, Australia. Yeah, pretty much all
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over the world. So if you want to celebrate International
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Country Music Day, we're a good place. We also play
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international artists, though, too. It's mostly American artists, but we
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do play some. We actually play quite a few country
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artists from Canada. We're going to play some from England.
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That's okay Cause I'm not looking for love Not right now.
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Just a little bit of fun Not Mary's bell.
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But quite a few country artists from Australia Now I'm.
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Dancing We even play a guy from Ireland. And I
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know that men like me are frowned upon today.
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Might be a bit too nice and you're afraid that
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I might stay.
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Have a fun International Country Music Day. All right, let's
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see what's going on in entertainment on September 17th. It's
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back to the year 2008. Number one album was All
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Hope Is Gone by Slipknot.
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T.I. had the number one song with Whatever You Like.
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I said you can have whatever you like. Yeah, yeah.
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Baby, I can treat you so special, so nice. Yeah,
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I took a jet for you tonight. And baby, you
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can go wherever you like. I said you can go
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wherever you like.
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Yeah, yeah. Brad Paisley had the number one country song
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with Waiting on a Woman. Oh, it's just a factor.
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That number one selling book was Dark Curse by Christine Fijon.
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The top movie was Lakeview Terrace. A racist black Los
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Angeles police cop. Yeah, well, he goes bat crap crazy
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when an interracial couple moves next door to him. Stars
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Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, and Kerry Washington. All right,
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what happened on September the 17th? 1683, a Dutch scientist,
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his name was Anton van Leeuwenhoek, he made his own microscope,
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and he's looking at some pond water, and he saw
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these little animals in there, so he called them animalcules.
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Now, we call them bacteria.
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Now, the guy studied a lot after today, actually, he's
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the one who figured out protozoa and a whole bunch
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of other single-celled organisms. 1787, Congress, they sent the Constitution
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of the United States to the states.
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Yeah, so they could be ratified. It's going to take
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two years. It'll come back to Congress in 1789.
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Now, I've told you about some of the great things
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that Harriet Tubman had done over the years. What all
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started today, 1849, up in Maryland. Now, her and two
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of her brothers, they actually escaped slavery. 1908, Orville and
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Wilbur Wright, they were at the U.S. Army base in
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Fort Myers, Virginia. Now, the Army was kind of interested
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in buying some of them airplanes. So it was Orville's job.
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He had to show the army how safe and practical
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the planes would actually be. So he took 26-year-old Lieutenant
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Thomas Selfridge on a test flight. Over 2,000 people had
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gathered to watch him. They oohed and aahed as they
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flew over the parade grounds and everything. Then the propeller
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broke off. So they were about 150 feet high, hit
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nose first right into the ground. Now, they didn't have
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seat belts, so Orville and Thomas, they were both thrown
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from the plane. Now, Thomas, he hit his head, fractured
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his skull, and he died. Orville, he had to spend
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a month and a half in a hospital. He had
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a broken leg and hips and ribs and all kinds
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of things like that. So Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, he was
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buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery. He has the
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honor of being the first person ever killed in an
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airplane crash.
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Well, I guess it's kind of an honor.
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Now, when the Army did the autopsy on Thomas, they
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realized that had he not hit his head, he would
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have lived. He had none of his other injuries or
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life threatening. So the Army, they did buy some planes
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from the Wright brothers, but they made all their pilots
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wear helmets. Now, do you remember, not too long ago,
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I told you about how Germany had invaded Poland from
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the West, and that's basically what started World War I? Well,
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today in 1939, just a couple weeks later, Soviet Union,
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they invaded Poland from the East.
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Now they were not trying to help Poland out.
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No, the Soviets wanted Eastern Poland, so they wanted to
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get it before Germany got to it. On CBS, the
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TV network, 1967, both The Doors and The Who made
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their first appearances on American TV. The Doors, they went
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on the Ed Volk Sullivan Show. I think you might
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have heard about that. That's where Jim Morrison, he sang
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a song and he did not change the lyrics like
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he said he was going to. So he was really
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offensive and they banned him from CBS. After that, on
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the Smother Brothers Comedy Hour.
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The Smothers Brothers were big. They had their own TV show. Well,
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they had The Who. And The Who, they rocked out
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their song, My Generation. Then towards the end of the song.
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The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, blew up his drum kit.
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Made Pete Townsend deaf in one ear. Now The Who,
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they were banned from CBS also. 1992, in a primary
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Democratic election in New York City, Ted Weiss won. Well, Ted,
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he had died three days earlier.
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Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, Charlie, it's
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your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday.
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We're going to sip a card like it's your birthday.
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And you know we don't give up because it's your birthday.
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Let's check out who was born on September the 17th.
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We're here.
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That was country legend Hank Williams.
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He was born in Butler County, Alabama in 1923.
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Now he started.
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Singing professionally at 15 years old. Some of his classic.
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Hits are.
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I'm so lonely I could cry. You're cheating, Hart. Ramblin' man.
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There's a tear in my beer. Now, Hank, he was
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born with spina bifida. Yeah, so he had a lot
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of back pain his whole life, so he decided to self-medicate. Well,
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he actually over-self-medicated with alcohol. He became a major alcoholic.
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The Grand Ole Opry, they wouldn't even let him play
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there anymore because of his unpredictability. Now, he did get
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married in 1944, and they had their son, Hank Williams Jr.
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Then they got divorced in 1952. Then Hank had a
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fun night, and that... caused him to have a daughter. Well,
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she was born five days after he died. So yeah,
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New Year's Eve in 1952, Hank, he had a college
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student drive him up to Canton, Ohio, where he was
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going to actually do a show on New Year's Day.
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So they had to drive all night in order to
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get to the show. Well, that kid stopped for gas
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in Oak Hill, West Virginia. Yeah, he decided to check
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on Hank who was asleep in the backseat. Realized Hank, yeah,
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he had died. All that alcohol, yeah, pretty much damaged
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his heart, killed him.
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29 years old.
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After Roddy McDowell, he was born in Herndon Hill, England
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in 1928. Some of his movies you might know were
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The Longest Day, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Poseidon Adventure, Cleopatra.
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He played Cornelius in all the original Planet of the
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Apes movies. Roddy, he was a confirmed lifelong bachelor, and
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he was gay. After Sam Bacroft, she was born in
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the Bronx, New York in 1931.
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She was a triple crown winner.
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She won two Tony Awards, and she won an Oscar
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for The Miracle Worker, and she was a two-time Emmy
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Award winner. Now, her most famous movie, though, she played Mrs.
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Robinson in The Graduate. Now, she was nominated for an
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Oscar for it, but yeah, she lost to Katharine Hepburn.
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She also voiced the Queen in the Ants movies. Her
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second husband was Mel Brooks.
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That Mel Brooks. They got married in 1964. They had
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one son.
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They were married until Ann died in 2005 at 73
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years old.
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She had uterine cancer. Come and knock on our door.
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We've been waiting for Actor John Ritter.
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He was born in Burbank, California in 1948. His dad
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was a singing cowboy, Tex Ritter. Now John made a
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name for himself on the sitcom Three's Company. After that,
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he voiced Clifford the Big Red Dog. He was on
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Eight Simple Rules. Some of his movies are Americathon, did
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those Problem Child movies, Sling Blade, Bride of Chucky. Now,
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he was married to his first wife for 20 years
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when they divorced, and they had three kids. Married his
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second wife in 1999.
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They had one kid.
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2003, on the set of Eight Simple Rules, John, he
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just dropped over dead. Yeah, he had an unknown heart
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condition that he didn't know anything about. That's five days
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before his 55th birthday.
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Comedian Rita Rudner, 73.
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She's born in Miami, Florida. She started out as a
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Broadway dancer. Unlike most dancers, she went into stand-up comedy.
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She's been headlining out there in Las Vegas since 2001.
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I mean, she does take breaks and go out on tour.
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So if you want to see her, you don't have
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to go to Vegas. She'll probably come to a comedy.
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Club near you.
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Now, she's written five best-selling books, too. She got married
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in 1988, and they have a daughter. Actor Kyle Chandler
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is 61. He's born in Buffalo, New York. He first
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got known on the TV show Homefront, but he got
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really big, big known on the TV show Friday Night Lights.
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Some of his movies are Pure Country, Zero Dark Thirty,
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The Wolf of Wall Street.
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He starred in two.
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Godzilla movies, so that's cool. He's been married since 1995,
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and they have two daughters.
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I'm out of love. Set me free. And let me
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out this minute. She just goes by Anastasia. She's big enough,
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I guess. She can go by one name. She sold
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over 50 million records. All in Europe. Nope. In the
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United States, she hadn't sold squat. Nope, nothing. And she's
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an American.
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She was born in Chicago in 1968. Now, she was
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born at Anastasia in Newkirk. She's 58. Now, she still
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lives here in the United States. She lives out in California. Now,
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besides Europe, she's also really big in Australia. She even
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won their third season of The Masked Singer. So that's
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really big. But yeah, she never has had a hit
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song in the United States. 50 million worldwide, none in
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the United States. Now, they don't even really release her
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songs here in the United States anymore because it's not
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worth their time.
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I don't know.
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She's pretty and she can sing. I guess we just
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don't want to listen to her. She's actually on tour
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in the UK right now. So when she's done, she'll
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come back to the United States. She'll record an album.
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They'll ship it over to Europe and then she'll go
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over there and tour Europe to support it next year.
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She's a tough, tough lady. At 13, she was diagnosed
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with Crohn's disease. At 34, she beat breast cancer. At 39,
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she beat breast cancer again. So she's been happy and
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healthy for about 18 years now. She married one time
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for only three years. All righty, our quote of the day.
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It comes from comedian Red Skelton. He died today in
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1997 at 84 years old. Red said, all men make mistakes,
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but married men find out about them sooner. Well, thank
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y'all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on
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you listen to us on And check your show notes
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on the bottom of the podcast today. That tells all
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the links how to contact us. It'll tell who all
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those international artists are that I played at the beginning
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of the show too that I didn't tell you what
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their names were. All righty, our Country Underground Radio Artist