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Hi i'm jeff and welcome to history and factoids about
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today today's september the 26th today is.
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National pancake day pancakes they go back to ancient.
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Greece But they have actually been created in countries all
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over the world. Pretty simple concept, so every culture pretty
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much figured it out. Like Europe, they started with crepes. Indonesia,
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they use rice and coconut. Uganda, they make theirs with bananas. Ecuador, plantains.
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Here in America, yeah, we make our pancakes with every
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flavor you can think of, so you'll find one you
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enjoy today. Well, if you can't celebrate today, there's another
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pancake day in February. Let's check out what was going
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on in entertainment on September 26th back in 1969. Number
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one album was Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Archie's
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had the number one song was Sugar Sugar.
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Sugar Oh honey honey You are my candy girl And
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you got me wanting you All right, sugar, sugar.
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Buck Owens had the number one country song with Tall
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Dark Stranger.
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Beware of the tall dark stranger. If he comes riding
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into your town. A tall, dark stranger is danger.
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Danger.
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So don't let no stranger hang around.
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The number one selling book was The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
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The top movie was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids.
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It's all about the notorious outlaws. Paul Newman, he's Butch,
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and Robert Redford, he's Sundance. Now, Redford, he falls for
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Catherine Ross, who plays Etta. Catherine, she's married to Sam Elliott.
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They've been married like 40 years or so. Ah, this
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should happen on September the 26th. 1580, Francis Drake and
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his men, they arrived in Plymouth, England. Took them 33
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months to sail all the way around the world. Now,
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he made it back. Remember, Magellan didn't make it back,
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so Juan Encano, he actually got credit for being the
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first one to sail around the world. But Drake and
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his guys, yeah, they were the first ones to map it. 1789,
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Thomas Jefferson, he was sworn in as the United States'
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first Secretary of State. Also, John Jay, he was sworn
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in as the first U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice. Just
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a little side note. Back with all these founding fathers
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are getting sworn in and all that kind of stuff.
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This is kind of interesting. Now, they were all trying
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to set up America so it could sustain itself for
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generations and generations. Not Thomas Jefferson. No. See, Jefferson, he
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wanted the U.S. Constitution. They thought it should be written
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every 19 years. Well, yeah, he considered 19 years what
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a generation was. I said, well, why would you want that?
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And he said, well, he didn't believe that the dead
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should be able to govern the living. 1918, in World
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War I in Western France, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive began. It
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lasted for 47 days. Now, over 1 million U.S. soldiers
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fought in it. Now, it did actually lead to Germany
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surrendering in World War I, but it is the deadliest
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military campaign in U.S. history.
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26,277 U.S.
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Soldiers were killed and over 120,000 were wounded. Now, this
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would suck, and I'll have to admit, I'd have probably
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gone up there and beat the crap out of the guy,
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and not for political reasons. 1960, Cuba's Fidel Castro. He
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gave a four-hour and 29-minute speech to the United Nations.
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That night in 1960, 75 million people watched the first
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televised presidential debate in U.S. history. Richard Nixon and John
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Kennedy went at it. Now, what's interesting is the people
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who actually watched the debate on TV, yeah, they thought
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that Kennedy won, and those that listened on the radio,
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they thought Nixon won. I think probably Kennedy. He might
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have been just a tad bit more handsome than Nixon.
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That's probably why he won TV. 1973, the supersonic jet
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the Concorde made its first flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Flew from Washington, D.C. to Paris, France in 3 hours
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and 33 minutes. 1990, the movie rating NC-17 was created.
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That means no child under 17 can go to the
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theater and watch that movie, even with parent or guardian.
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So what happened to the X rating? Well, the X rating,
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it had gotten taken over by the porn industry. So
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regular movies, they didn't want to be associated with that.
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They said, okay, porn, you can have X. We're going
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to go NC-17. So yeah, the first NC-17 movie, it
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was called Henry and June. It starred Uma Thurman, Fred Ward,
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and Kevin Spacey. Now it contained lesbian sex scenes, nudity,
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but it wasn't porn. It actually got nominated for an Oscar. Oh,
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and it showed a postcard of a Japanese girl and
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a squid going at it. Okay, let's go see what
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TV shows started on. September the 26th. 1962, the Beverly
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Hillbillies debuted. 1964, Gilligan's Island. Brady Bunch, they debuted in 1969.
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Knight Rider debuted in 1982. 1990 had Cop Rock. And
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2010 had Downtown Abbey.
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Okay, who was born on September the 26th?
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Johnny Appleseed.
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Now he was born John Chapman in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1774.
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So yeah, he was a real guy.
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He wasn't just a folktale.
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Now he was actually a Christian minister.
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Now, he is responsible for apple trees being planted in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Ontario, Canada,
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some other places. See, apples aren't native to the United States. Well,
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those tiny little crab apples. But apples you eat are
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not native to the United States. So, yeah, he's the
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one who brought them. Now, he didn't just walk around
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scattering seeds or anything like that. What he did is
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he planted orchards and nurseries. Then he'd get people to
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watch it. And then they would sell the trees to
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farmers and landowners. So, yeah. Now, the way he lived,
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he was probably the first hippie. He just traveled around
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planting and selling trees. Now, he did die suddenly in 1845.
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He's 70 years old. He's buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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If you want to go see his grave. Now, in
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the classic Christmas movie, Miracle on 34th Street, the guy
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who played Chris Kringle was Edmund Gwynn. He was born
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in London, England in 1877. Won an Oscar for playing
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Chris in that movie. He had a pretty good movie career.
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He was in a lot of Alfred Hitchcock movies. He
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died from a stroke in 1952, just a couple weeks
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before his 82nd birthday. Pope Paul VI, he was born
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Giovanni Montini in 1897 in Consisio, Italy. Now, he was
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the 262nd Pope. His reign started in 1963. Now, he
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is thought to be the first modern Pope. See, he
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was the first Pope to ride in an airplane, first
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Pope to visit Israel, and the first Pope to visit
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the United States. He died from a heart attack in
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1978 at 80 years old. He became a saint in 2018. Now,
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most of you are too young to remember Jack LaLanne.
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He's the godfather of fitness. He's the one who started
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it all. Jackie was born in San Francisco in 1914.
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In 1936, he opened up the first gym. Then from
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1951 to 1985, he had the Jack LaLanne TV show.
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It was the first exercise show. I mean, it was
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the first exercise show by about 25 years. Now, he
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wrote books. He sold exercise equipment. Then he would do
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these famous feats of fitness. For example, to celebrate his
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70th birthday, he swam one mile pulling 70 rowboats with
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people in the rowboats. Now, it wasn't a magic trick
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or anything. He was just showing off how healthy and
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strong he was. Now, he married his second wife in 1959,
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and they had three kids. In 2011, Jack, he wasn't
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feeling so well. He hadn't actually felt well for a while,
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but he would not go to the doctor. Well, after
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finishing his morning workout, yeah, they had to rush him
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to the hospital. He ended up dying from pneumonia. 96
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years old. Country singer Marty Robbins.
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He was born in Glendale, Arizona in 1925.
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In the late 1940s to early 1980s, he was one
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of the top country.
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Artists out there. He released 52 albums, and then that
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song I played, El Paso, it went to number one
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on the pop chart. Now, with the money he made
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from his music, Marty, he was able to actually finance
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his own NASCAR team. That's right. He raced NASCAR for
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13 years. Did it between shows. Now, he did have
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seven top ten finishes. He even got married in 1948,
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and they had a son and a daughter. Marty died
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in 1982 at 57 years old. It was during quadruple
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heart bypass surgery.
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Well, the first thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire,
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the Ken Foley. Oh, they loaded up the truck and
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moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars.
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The Beverly Hillbillies. Actress Donna Douglas was born in Pride,
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Louisiana in 1932. She played Ellie Mae Clampett on the
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Beverly Hillbillies. Now, earlier, I mentioned how the Beverly Hillbillies
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debuted today, 1962. So that was on Donna's birthday, her
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30th birthday. Who would have thought that Ellie Mae Clampett
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was 30 years old? Now Donna, she was really tight
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cast as Ellie Mae. Yeah, she couldn't get an acting
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job for Squad afterwards. So she became a real estate
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agent and she sang gospel music. She had a son
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from her first husband then she had a really quick
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marriage after that she died in 2015 from pancreatic cancer
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at 382 years.
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Old I beg your pardon.
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I never promised you a rose garden Along with the
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sunshine There's gotta be a little rain sometime When you
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take you gotta give So live and let live or
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let go That was country singer Lynn Anderson.
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She was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1947. Now,
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she was a pioneer in country music. She was one
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of the first female country singers that they allowed to
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write some of her own songs. Sold over 30 million records.
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Some of her number one songs are that one, Rose Garden,
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You're My Man, Keep Me In Mind, What a Man
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My Man Is. And she had a daughter from her
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first husband. Then she had two kids from her second husband. Now,
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she divorced him after he tried to run her over
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with a tractor. So she just moved in with the
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guy in 1989, and they lived together until she died
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in 2015, 67 years old. Yeah, she had a heart attack.
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If not for you. Babe, I couldn't even find the door.
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I couldn't even see the floor. I'd be sad and blue.
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If not for you. If not for you. Now that
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was the second song that Olivia Newton-John released. It was
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back in 1971. Went up to number one on the U.S.
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adult contemporary chart. Now, she did release another song five
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years earlier, but it didn't do anything, and you can't
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really get a good copy of it, so that's screwed. Now, Olivia,
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she was born in Cambridge, England in 1948.
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What?
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Yeah, she moved to Australia when she was five. Sold
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over 100 million records. She is the most top-selling female
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Australian artist of all time. Actually sold 20 million more
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records than Kylie Minogue. Now, Olivia, her song, Physical, it
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was the number one song of the whole 1980s. As
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an actress, she was in Grace, Xanadu, two of a kind.
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Now she had a daughter from her first husband. She
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married her second husband in 2008. Olivia, she fought breast
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cancer three times and finally got her in 2022 at
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73 years old. Actress Linda Hamilton is 70. She was
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born in Salisbury, Maryland in 1956. Her first movies were Tag,
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The Assassination Game, Children of the Corn, and Stoneboy. Then
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she hit huge in her fourth movie. She played Sarah
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Connor in The Terminator. Of course, she had that old
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Terminator franchise. She did play Catherine on Beauty and the
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Beast on TV. She was the beauty. She had a
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son from her first husband. Then she married director James Cameron.
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They had a daughter. Then James Cameron, he offered Linda
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the role of playing the unsinkable Molly Brown in the
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movie Titanic. Linda, not only did she say no, she
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said she wanted a divorce. Yeah, she found out that
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James was sleeping with one of the other actresses on
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the set. Now the $ 50 million that Linda got from
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that divorce was a lot more money than she would
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have gotten playing Molly Brown. Actor Jim Caviezel. He was
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born in Mount Vernon, Washington. He's 58 today. His first
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starring role in a movie was in the war movie,
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The Thin Red Line. Then he got famous playing Jesus
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in The Passion of the Christ. Then Highwayman, Escape Plan.
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You know, he played Jesus again. Yeah, he just got
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done filming. They're doing Mel Gibson. Yeah, he's doing The
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Resurrection of the Christ Part 1. And Part 2. It'll
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be out in 2027. On TVA, Jim, he starred on
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Person of Interest for about five or six years. He
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got married in 1996, and they have three daughters. Actress
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Zoe Perry is 43. She's born in Chicago. Now her mom,
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actress Lori Metcalf, she plays Sheldon's mom on The Big
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Bang Theory. So it makes sense that Zoe would play
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Sheldon's mom on Young Sheldon. Now she did have to
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audition for it. They made it all formal, but yeah,
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they kind of knew she was going to get it
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before all that started. She got married in 2022. All righty,
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our quote of the day. It comes from actor Paul Newman.
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Paul died today in 2008 at 83 years old. Paul says,
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people stay married because they want to, not because the
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