Sept. 27, 2026

Sept 28th-Drink Beer, Ben E. king, Janeane Garafalo, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Little Big Town, Hilary Duff

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National drink beer day. Entertainment from 1990. 1st private space craft launched that orbited the earth, 2nd worst flood in history, Garth Brooks - 1st country album to debut at #1 on pop chart. Todays birthdays - Ed Sullivan, Tommy Collins, Ben E. King, Jeffrey Jones, Janeane Garafalo, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Karen Fairchild, Hilary Duff. Herman Melville died.

Intor - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Pretty good a drinking beer - Billy Currington
Release me - Wilson Phillips
Friends in low places - Garth Brooks
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
You better not do that - Tommy Collins
Save the last dance for me - The Drifters
Day drinking - Little Big Town
Come clean - Hilary Duff
Exit - Livin 98 Proof - Clay Rigdon https://clayrigdon.com/index.htm

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Hey, hello, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids

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About Today. Today's September the 28th.

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I'm not the type to work in a bank.

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I'm no good.

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Slapping on bank.

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Don't have a knack for making motors crank, no. But

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I'm pretty good at drinking beer.

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Today is National Drink Beer Day.

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Yeah!

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Today, it's kind of a why not day. I mean,

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why should everybody drink beer on September 28th?

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Why not?

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It's about the whole reason for the holiday. What state

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do you think drinks the most beer? That'd be North Dakota.

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The average North Dakotan drinks around 45.8 gallons of beer

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every year. New Hampshire is behind them. Now, Utah, they

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need to step it up. They're way behind in last place.

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The average Utahan, they only drink 12 gallons of beer

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every year. About 10 and a half cans make up

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a gallon of beer. Now, what city do you think

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drinks the most beer? Well, that'd be Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now,

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beer is the third most drank beverage in the world.

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It's behind water and tea. Let's check out what happened

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to entertainment on September 28th. Let's go back to 1990.

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Number one album was Please Hammer, Don't Hurt Him by M.C.

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Hammer.

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Wilson Phillips had the number one song with Release Me.

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Now that you're gone, I can't help myself from wondering

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It'll come down from your heart. But within a while,

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release me.

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But I toasted you, said, honey, we may be through.

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But you'll never hear me complain. Because I got friends

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in low places where the whiskey drowns and the beer

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chases my blues away.

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The number one book was Four Past Midnight by Stephen King.

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Top movie list, Pacific Heights. Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine,

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they buy this old house, is a Victorian. Michael Keaton,

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he's kind of like squatting there. Well, he really creeps

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them out and he messes with their minds, takes all

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their money and their sanity. 1991, Garth Brooks, he released

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his album Rope in the Wind. First time in history,

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a country album debuted at number one on the pop chart.

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All right, what happened on September the 28th? 1542, Portuguese

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explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, him and his men, they sailed

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into San Diego Bay. Yeah, they were the first Europeans

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to actually land on the West Coast. They named it

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San Miguel. Well, the Spanish, they renamed it San Diego

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in 1602. The American Revolution in 1781. 9,000 American and 7,000

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French soldiers began the siege on Yorktown in Virginia. Now

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it was pretty much Britain's last stand. Now, spoiler alert,

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the Brits, they're going to surrender on October 19th. Yeah,

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that's the last major battle of the revolution, pretty much

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end of the war. 1785, in France, 16-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte,

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he graduated from their elite military academy, Ãcole Militaire. Now, Napoleon,

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he was 42nd in the class of 51. 1850, the

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United States Navy, they abolished flogging as a form of punishment. Flogging,

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it's kind of like whipping, but it's actually designed to

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cause more pain. They have kind of like metal tips

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on the end of the whip, so yeah. I'm assuming

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they actually got rid of whipping, too. China in 1887,

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they had built a series of dikes to try and

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control the Yellow River. Well, one dike failed. That led

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to another dike fail and another dike fail. The owl failed.

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Flooded 50,000 square miles. Killed over 900,000 people. Well, that

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they know of. They think it could have killed up

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to about 2 million people. Now, not counting Noah's flood,

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that was the second worst flood in human history. The

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worst flood, it was also in China in 1931. That

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one killed over 4 million people. Now on 5th Street

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in New York City in 1904, cute little Jeannie Lasher.

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She was arrested for smoking a cigarette. That's right, Jeannie,

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she got 30 days in jail for it. Well, she'd

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gotten lippy with the cops when she got arrested. Plus,

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Jeannie knew better. Women weren't allowed to smoke in public.

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You know, they weren't even allowed to vote for another

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15 years. 1924, two Army planes, they ended their around-the-world fight.

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They flew from Seattle, Washington, all the way around the

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world to Seattle, Washington. Made 57 stops along the way.

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In 1928, Wormat's Gully Jumpers, they became the first to

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record a record in Nashville, Tennessee. 2008, SpaceX, it launched

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the first private spacecraft to orbit the Earth, pretty much.

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They call that Falcon 1. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty.

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It's 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. Well,

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let's see. He was born on September the 28th. Ed Sullivan.

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He was born in Harlem, New York in 1901. Ed,

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he started out as a syndicated entertainment writer, but then

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he moved to TV and hosted the Ed Sullivan Show

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from 1948 to 1971. Now it's on every Sunday night

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from 8 to 9 Eastern Time. But nowadays, it's really

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hard for us to really grasp how big and influential

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the Ed Sullivan Show was. Everybody wanted to be on

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the show and everybody watched the show. Now, if he

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let you perform on his show, yep, then you knew

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you made it. Ed, he married in 1930. Now, him

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and his wife, they were in such demand to be

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guests at dinner parties that not only did they have

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dinner with all the entertainment bigwigs, they actually had dinner

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with presidents and the Pope. They had one daughter. His

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wife died in March of 1973. Ed died in October

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of 1973. He had esophageal cancer. He was 73 years old.

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That was country singer Tommy Collins.

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He was born in Bethany, Oklahoma in 1930.

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Now he was pretty popular in the late fifties, all

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the way up to the early seventies. He was one

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of the original founders of that Bakersfield country music sound

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that came out there. Now, some of his hits were

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what you're going to do now. It tickles. If you

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can't bark, don't growl. Tommy died in 2000 at 69

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years old.

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You can smile.

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Every smile for the man who held your hand.

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But don't fall.

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That was Benny King singing the only number one song

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the Drifters had. Yeah, save the last dance for me. Ben,

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he was born in Henderson, North Carolina in 1938. He

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joined the Drifters in 1958. Some of the Drifters songs

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that he sang late on were There Goes My Baby,

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The Magic Moment, Count the Tears. Now, he went solo

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as fast as he could. It was only a couple

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years before he got famous enough to go solo. Hit

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huge with the song Stand By Me and Spanish Harlem,

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Don't Play Our Songs. Now, over 400 artists over the

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years have recorded the song Stand By Me. Pretty much

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everybody from Bruce Springsteen to Mick Jagger to Paul McCartney,

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Garth Brooks, everybody's recorded Paisley's Stand By Me. Ben, yep,

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his song is still the number one version of Stand

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By Me. The number two version of Stand By Me

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was in 1988, and it was Benny King, too. But

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he did it with Def Leppard. He performed right up

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until he died in 2015 at 76 years old. He

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had a short illness and then he died. Actor Jeffrey

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Jones is 80. He was born in Buffalo, New York.

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He played the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He's

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also on Beetlejuice, The Hunt for Red October. Now, he's

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had a lot of legal issues. Yeah, he actually, I'm

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not going to go into all of them. He has

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to register as a sex offender. Janine Garofalo, she was

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born in Newton, New Jersey in 1964. She's 62. Started

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out doing stand-up. Well, she still does. She's a really

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good stand-up comedian. She still performs. If she's not coming

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on tour, she posts stuff on YouTube. Yeah, she still

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does a good job. Been in over 50 movies. Reality Bites,

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The Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Matchmaker, Copland. Now,

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she married from 1991 to 2012. She didn't know it.

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No.

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Heard a guy got drunk in Vegas and did it

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as a joke. Thought it was over. Went their own

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separate ways. Well, the guy eventually went to get married,

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and surprise! Yeah.

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You know what?

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That is probably the best 20-year marriage of all time.

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Never had a fight, no argument or anything like that. Now,

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once they found out they were married, they probably exchanged words. Janine,

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she has been sober since 2001, so that's really cool

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for her. Actress Mira Servino. She was born in New

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York City in 1967. Makes her 59. Her dad was

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actor Paul Servino. Mira, she won an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite.

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Then she got snubbed big time, yeah, for the movie

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Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. Didn't win anything for it.

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And she's in The Replacement Killers, At First Sight, Summer

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of Sam. She married in 2004, and they have two

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sons and two daughters. Actress Naomi Watts. She's 58. She's

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born in Shoreham, England. Her dad, he was the road

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manager and sound manager for the band Pink Floyd. She

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was in the movies Tank Girl, Children of the Corn 4,

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and Babe, Pig in the City. That's how she started

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off her career. Of course, she didn't get nominated for

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any awards. Then she got nominated for a couple Oscars.

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She was nominated for 21 Grams and The Impossible. I've

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not been sarcastic. I honestly think her best movie was

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King Kong in 2005. Yeah, of all the King Kong movies,

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that's the best one. Now, she had two sons from

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a boyfriend. She married actor Billy Crudup in 2023. You

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know a woman's cool when she's talking about day drinking.

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That was Karen Fairchild. She sings for that country group

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Little Big Town. She was born in Gary, Indiana. 57-year-old,

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grew up in Georgia, though. Marietta, to be more specific. Now,

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she is the brunette in Little Big Town. She outformed

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it in 1998. Some hits that she sings are Pontoon,

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Better Man, Day Drinking, Girl Crush. Now, Little Big Town,

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they're out playing some shows right now. I don't know

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if I'd call it a tour, but they're doing some

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shows anyway. Karen, she married Jimmy Westbrook in 2006. He's

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one of the guys in the group, too. They have

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a son. Let the rain fall down and wake my dreams.

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Let it wash away my sanity. Because I want to

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feel the thunder on that screen.

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Let the rain fall down. I'm coming clean. Actress Hilary Duff.

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She's 39. She's born in Houston, Texas. Started acting when

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she was sick.

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Six.

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That's sick. She was six years old, and then she

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really got famous playing Lizzie McGuire on TV and in

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the movies, like Cody Banks and that kind of stuff.

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Some of her other movies were Casper Meets Wendy, Cheaper

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by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story. Now, Hillary, she had

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a son from her first husband. She married her second

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husband in 2019, and they have three daughters. All righty,

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our quote of the day comes from writer Herman Melville. Yeah,

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he's the guy who wrote Moby Dick. Herman, he died

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in 1891, and 72 years old, he says, It's better

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to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Well,

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thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow

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if you have any questions or anything you want to

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talk to us about. All right, our country and around

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radio artist of the day is Matt out there in Seder, Minnesota, Florida.

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He wants to hear Clay Rigdon's song, Living 98 Proof.

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You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Here's an empty stool.

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It's got your name and waiting on you.

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How about a drink? Hey, Joe, you make that too.

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Quite a.

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Long face.

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What's getting you down?

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Somebody's gonna turn your world upside down. Well, I know

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how you're feeling.

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So let's raise our glasses and make a toast and

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say goodbye to what we needed most.

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Let this whiskey wash away. and bring you back from

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where you don't belong

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That's the strong cold truth I'm living 98 proof

Sept 28th-Drink Beer, Ben E. king, Janeane Garafalo, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Little Big Town, Hilary Duff

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