Sept. 20, 2026

Sept 21st -HG Wells, Larry Hagman, Stephen King, Bill Murray, Faith Hill, Oasis, Jason Derulo

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National Pecan cookie day. Entertainment from 1999. Benedict Arnold turned traitor, Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus printed, Stonehenge sold at auction. Todyas birthdays - H.G. Wells, Chuck Clark, Larry Hagman, Stephen King, Bill Murray, Dave Coulier, Rob Murrow, Faith Hill, Luke Wilson, Alphonso Ribeiro, Liam Gallagher, Jason Derulo. Walter Brennan died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Pecan cookies - Muk Puh
Unpretty - TLC
Something like that - Tim McGraw
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Wild one - Faith Hill
Wonderwall - Oasis
In my head - Jason Derulo
Exit - Crazy - Bobby Cool Bobby Cool webpage

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Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Fact

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Doids About Today. Today's September the 21st.

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My pecan cookies in a plastic bag With a glass

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of milk and I ain't even have to ask Pecan

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cookies in a plastic bag Crushing every single corn, just

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don't eat it too fast Pecan cookies in a plastic.

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Bag Today is National Pecan Cookie Day. Pecans, they're an

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Algonquin word. They mean nut requiring a stone to crack. Now,

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pecan cookies, they're really good. They're soft and chewy. Yeah,

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and they're easy to bake, too, if you want to

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make them yourself instead of buying. Pecans, now, they're a

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little healthy for you, so it's not such a bad day.

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Just grab yourself some milk and some pecan cookies and

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just have a great day. Want to go get some air? Yeah,

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go outside and do some putting. That's right. It's National

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Miniature Golf Day, also. All right, let's see what was

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going on in entertainment on September 21st, back in 1999.

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Number one album was Five by the Dixie Chicks. TLC

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had the number one song with Unpretty. Tim McGraw had.

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The number one country song with something like that.

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The number one selling book was Harry Potter and the

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Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K.

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Rowling.

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Top movie was Double Jeopardy. A woman, she is convicted

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of killing her missing husband. Turns out he faked the

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whole thing. Now she gets out and now he's in

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deep trouble. Stars Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. All right,

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what happened on September the 21st? During the American Revolution

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in 1780, American General Benedict Arnold. Now he met with

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British Major John Andre. And Arnold, he gave Andre the

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plans to the United States Fort West Point. Well, they

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got discovered. But Arnold, he was able to escape actually

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to the British side. Andre, he just got busted. They

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hung him later on. So over 240 years later, Benedict Arnold,

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it is still synonymous with traitor. Now, if you wonder

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why he did it, his wife made him do it.

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Virginia O'Hanlon. Now, she was an eight-year-old little girl. She

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asked her dad if there really was a Santa Claus.

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He told her to write the New York Sun newspaper,

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said they would know. So she did. Today in 1897,

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their editor, Francis Church, he printed a response to her letter.

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It is now the most reprinted editorial in history. Francis,

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he gave a really eloquent response to it, and he

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wrote the real famous line, Yes, Virginia, there is a

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Santa Claus. Then he went on and talked about love, generosity, devotion,

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life's beauty. Francis' words, they became legendary, all because her

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dad didn't man up and do his job. In England, Stonehenge,

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it might be the most famous prehistoric monument in the world,

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at least nowadays. Back in 1915, it was just considered

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an eyesore. No one wanted that damn thing. So they

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tried to sell it at auction. See, you couldn't farm it,

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and it was just kind of a waste of space.

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Cecil Chubb, he bought it. He paid 6,600 pounds for it.

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That'd be about $ 11, 500 in the U.S. at that time. Now, Cecil,

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he bought it as a present for his wife. He

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was all gushing with pride about his little love token. Well,

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she wasn't impressed at all. She didn't want anything to

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do with that thing. She told him, get rid of it.

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So after three years of him trying to get her

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to like it and trying to sell it, she didn't

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like it. He couldn't sell it. So he just gave

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it to the British people. He said, here you go.

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You can just have it. Well, today, over 6 million

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people a year go visit Stonehenge every year. Now, he

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got a good deal. I mean, I didn't realize it

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was this big. Stonehenge is 6,500 acres. So he paid

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a buck an acre. 1970, Monday Night Football debut. Browns

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beat the Jets 31-21. 1981, Belize. They got their independence

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from Great Britain.

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Okay, I was born September the 21st.

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Writer H.G.

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Wells. He was born in Bromley, England in 1866.

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Now along with Jules Verne, considered the.

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Fathers of science fiction. Now before any of this was.

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Invented, Wells wrote all about airplanes, tanks, nuclear bombs, satellites,

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space travel. Biggest books are The Time Machine, War of

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the Worlds, Island of Dr. Monroe. Welles, he married his cousin.

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Then he divorced her from one of his students. Yeah,

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he was a professor. And they had two kids and

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then she died. Then he had another son and an

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daughter from different women. So Welles was a player. Died

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in 1946 at 79 years old from an undone cause.

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Animator Chuck Clark. He was born at Spokane, Washington in 1912.

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He won three Academy Awards, but you don't really know

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him for his movies. What he did do is he

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brought you Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, Roadrunner, Pepe

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Le Pew, Porky the Pig. He had about 100 other characters.

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Now he had one child from his first wife, married

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his second wife in 1981. He died in 2002, 89

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years old from heart failure. After Larry Eggman, he was

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born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1931. He first did

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on TV show I Dream of Jeannie. Then of course

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he hit huge playing J.R. in Dallas. His mom was

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a really famous actress. Her name was Mary Martin. She

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was really big in the 40s and 50s. Larry married

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in 1954, and they had a son and a daughter.

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Larry had a liver transplant in 1995. He lived until

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he died from leukemia, actually, in 2012 at 81 years old.

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Writer Stephen King. He's 79. He was born in Portland,

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Maine in 1947. Sold over 350 million books. He's written

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over 70 novels and 200 short stories. 92 of what

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he wrote has been turned into either movies or TV shows.

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Call him the King of Horror. Now, his first book

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was Carrie. Then King married in 1971. So you get

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that pun now, King of Horror? They're still together, too.

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They have one son and two daughters. Every year, King,

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he donates $ 4 million to local libraries and fire departments

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that need to be upgraded. Actor Bill Murray, he was

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born in Evansville, Evanston, Illinois in 1950. 76 today. Started

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out on Saturday Night Live, 1977, 1980. Then his first

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movie is Meatballs. He's been nominated for an Oscar one time.

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Lost in translation. He lost. Bill had two sons from

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his first wife. Then he had four sons from his

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second wife. Comedian David Coulee. He was born in Detroit.

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He's 67. Started out doing stand-up. Hit playing Joey on

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the TV show Full House. He hosted America's Funniest People.

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Of course, David Coulee, yeah, he's mostly known for his voices.

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He does a lot of voice work, impressions, and that

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kind of stuff. Yeah, he's got a really big resume

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for his voice work. He had one son from his

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first wife, married his second wife in 2014. Actor Rob Murrow,

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he's 64. He was born in New Rochelle, New York.

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Most known for TV. First he was on Northern Exposure

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and then Numbers. Got married in 1998. They have a daughter.

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Now he and his wife, they were both born on

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September 21st and they got married on September 21st. So

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that's a big day in the Murrow house. He better

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not screw that one up.

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They said, you can't leave.

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She said, yes, I will. They said, don't see him.

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She said, his name is Bill. She's on a roll and.

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It's all uphill.

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She's a wild one with an angel's face.

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She's a woman, child in a state of grace.

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And she was three years old on her daddy's knee.

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Wild one. It was the first song Faith Hill released.

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It was back in 1993. It's also her first number

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one song. So good way to start. Faith was born

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in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She's 59. Sold over 50 million records.

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She's won five Grammys. Some of her other number one

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songs are Peace of My Heart, It Matters to Me,

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This Kiss, Breathe. Now, she's done some acting. She's in

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the movie The Stepford Wives. She did a really good

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job in the miniseries 1883. Now, her maiden name is

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actually Perry. But she married a guy named Daniel Hill.

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They were married six years. But then after they divorced, yeah,

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she kept his name. Then she married Tim McGraw in 1996,

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and they have three daughters. Actor Luke Wilson is 55.

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He was born in Dallas, Texas. His older brother is

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actor Owen Wilson. Now, Luke, he's been in over 80 movies.

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Blue Streak, Legally Blonde, Old School, Vacancy. Yeah, some of them. Luke,

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he hasn't married yet, but he even says he's looking.

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He wants to get married and settle down. All right, actor,

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TV host, Alfonso Ribeiro. He's also 55. He was born

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in the Bronx in New York. Started out acting as

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a kid. He was on the TV show Silver Spoons

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for three years. Then he was Carlton on The Fresh

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Prince of Barilar. Now, he was working, but he really

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wasn't doing anything big or anything. Then in 2014, he

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won Dancing with the Stars. That's right, his career took

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off again. Kind of had a little resurgence. So he

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hosted America's Home Videos. Been doing that since 2015. And

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for 10 years, he co-hosted Dancing with the Stars. Now,

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he had a daughter from his first wife, married his

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second wife in 2012, and they have three kids. That

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is Liam Gallagher. He sings lead for the band Oasis.

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He was born in Manchester, England in 1970. 54 year

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old and his brother noel formed oasis in 1991 then

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in 2009 they broke up they said they were never

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ever ever getting back together again well they must have

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run out of money because they're back together and they

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got back together last year so i they're touring the

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world right now and i think they're done with all

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the u.s shows so i think they're like in south

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america now now those guys have sold over 75 million

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records but not in the united states they only had

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like three songs over here that did anything liam he

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had a daughter from a fling his first wife was

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actress patsy kinsett yeah they only married a couple years

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and they had a son then he had a another

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son from his second wife and then he had a

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daughter from a fling now both those flings were while

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he was married to his wife's.

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Sleep with me now, say the word and we'll go.

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I'll be your teacher, I'll show you the road.

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You'll see the side of love you never know.

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I can see it going down, going down. In my head.

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I see you all over me. Jason Derulo. He's 37.

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He's born in Miramar, Florida. Now, he's sold over 30

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million records and has 250 million downloads. Some of his

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hits are What You Say, My Head, Talk Dirty, Wiggle. Wiggle,

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that was with Snoop. Now, he has one son. All right,

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our quote of the day comes from actor Walter Brennan.

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He died today in 1974 at 80 years old. Walter says,

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I'm not too old to be a religious fella. It

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appears to me that we are losing something a lot

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of people made a lot of sacrifices for. Well, thank

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you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us. I

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show notes or whatever they wrote it. And you can

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see all the links to us and all that fun stuff.

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All right.

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Our country underground radio artist of the day. It comes

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from Tyler out there in Georgia. He wants to hear

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a Bobby Cool song, Crazy. You guys have an awesome

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day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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So maybe your grandma is drinking again and she's wearing

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And maybe your brother is acting a fool Just like

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he grew up in a barn Well, you're worried about

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my mama What she'd think if only she knew.

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Your family's crazy, but not as crazy as I am

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about you. Now it looks like your uncle took our

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wedding day to propose to his future fifth wife. Cousins

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got jokes and a glass of champagne. And can't get

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them off of the mic. Well, you're wondering about my daddy.

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What he sees from his point of view.

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Oh, baby.

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It's crazy, but not as crazy.

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