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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 29th.
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Way down among Brazilians, coffee beans grow by the billions.
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So they've got to find those extra cups to fill.
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They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.
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Today is National Coffee Day. Woohoo! Makes sense, yesterday was
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Drink Beer Day. 63% of all Americans drink coffee daily.
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Average about two and a half cups each. Now, I
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don't like coffee, but I do drink coffee for every morning. Yeah,
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one cup for health benefits. Honestly. Coffee, it can lower
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the risk of heart disease, stroke, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and some cancers.
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So I choke down a cup every morning.
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Black.
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Now, if you add stuff to it, yeah, that's just
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like drinking soda. Now, coffee, it was discovered by a
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goat farmer out in Yemen in the 1400s. Now, everyone's
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having deals today. If they sell coffee, they're pretty much
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giving it away today. I mean, at Krispy Kreme, you
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even get a free cup, a free donut with your
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free cup of coffee. Now, if you want to win
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a bet to get a free cup of coffee, get
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this one. Coffee, it's actually a fruit. All right, let's
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see what happened in entertainment back in 1980 on September
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the 29th. Number one album was The Game by Queen.
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Diana Ross had the number one song with Upside Down.
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Respectfully I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheating
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When no one makes me feel like you do Upside
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down Boy you turn me Inside out And round and
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round Upside down Boy you turn me Inside.
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Out T.G.
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Shepard adding in my country song with Do You Wanna
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Go To Heaven?
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Do you want.
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I said, yeah, just.
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Lead me on.
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Take my hand.
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Can you feel that feeling?
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I said, yeah, just lead me on. That top-selling book
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was Firestarter by Stephen King. Top movie was The Elephant Man.
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It was a true story about Joseph Merrick. He was
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this really disfigured dude back in England in the 1800s. Yeah,
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he was all messed up, did circus sideshows, was hunted,
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all kinds of stuff. Stars Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, and
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Anne Bancroft. 1963, the Rolling Stones went on tour for
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the very first time. They were the opening act for
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Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers. All right, what happened
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on September the 29th? 1829, the world's first modern police
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force hit the streets of London, England. Now, you'd think
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they'd have given them some cool names, something really intimidating. No,
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just call them Bobbies. Named them after their boss, Robert Peel. Now,
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they were dressed in blue coats that had tails and
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top hats. They were unarmed, too. The VFW, Veteran of
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Foreign Wars. Yeah, they were founded today in 1899 in Columbus, Ohio.
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Some Spanish-American veterans actually fought in that. We should probably
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give the VFW a lot more preps than we do. 1960,
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oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. He became the world's first billionaire. Today,
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there are 3,028 billionaires. 1966 Chevrolet they started selling the
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Camaro they had actually named it the Panther at the
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last second they changed it to Camaro so that was
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a pretty good call for them now I'll talk more
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about Jerry Lee Lewis when we talk about birthdays later
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on 1976 though Jerry Lee he got really drunk celebrating
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his birthday pulled out a gun and started shooting all
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the empty bottles missed every damn one of them but
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he hit his bass player Norman Owen in the chest
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twice Norman actually lived yeah another 50 years he just
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died last December 1990, now it took them 83 years,
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but construction for the Washington Cathedral was finally finished. Now
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it's an Episcopal church out there in Washington, D.C., but
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they don't mind if people from other denominations go check
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them out. 99, skateboarder Tony Hawk, his Pro Skater video game, yeah,
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it was released. Since then, sold a billion dollars worth. 2023,
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in Las Vegas, a sphere opened up. Do you remember
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what the first concert was there? It was U2. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty.
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It's your birthday.
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We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going
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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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All right, let's check out who was born on September
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the 29th.
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I'm back in the saddle again.
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Out where a friend is a friend.
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The Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry. He was born in Tioga,
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Texas in 1907. Between 1934 and 1953, he starred in
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93 movies. Now he usually played a straight shooting hero.
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He's a huge country music star too. He recorded over
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600 songs. Now between his records and his movies, he
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made country music more mainstream and not so hillbilly. Now
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his Christmas songs though, they're pretty legendary. He was the
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first one to originally record Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty
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the Snowman, Here Comes Santa Claus. Sorry about that. Now,
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he is the only person to have actually five stars
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on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Yeah, one for film, television, music, radio,
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and live performance. Genie married his first wife in 1932.
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They were together until she died in 1980. Married his
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second wife in 1981. They were together until Gene died
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in 1998 at 91 years old from lymphoma. I told
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you we'd talk about him. Jerry Lewis.
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He was born in Faraday, Louisiana in 1935.
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Nicknamed The Killer.
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Now, he was rock and roll's first wild man. one
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of the greatest piano players of all time. Some of
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his classic hits are a whole lot of shaking going on.
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Great balls of fire, high school, confidential, breathless, 1957, 1958.
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Jerry Lee is the biggest star in the world. Well,
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he married his 13 year old cousin and not anymore.
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Everything just crashed and burned on him. Now in the
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late sixties, early seven, he did pretty good on the
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country music charts, I guess. Now his cousin, she wasn't
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his first wife.
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No.
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See, it gets really complicated with Jerry Lee. Yeah, see,
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let's just start with, he married his seventh wife in 2012,
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and they were together until he died in 2022 at
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87 years old. See, now it gets kind of really weird. See,
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his first wife, he married her when he was 16.
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Then that 13-year-old cousin, she was actually his third wife,
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but his wives were all kind of still married when
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he was, well, anyway, he had six kids between those
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six women, so let's do it. Now, when Jerry died,
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his cousin performed at a funeral. Jimmy Swagger. Remember that guy?
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Mickey Gilley, that country singer? Yeah, that was his cousin, too.
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Actor Larry Linville. He was born in OJ, California in 1939.
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Most known for playing Major Frank Burns on the TV
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show MASH. Now, he left MASH after five seasons. He
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wanted to pursue other acting opportunities. Well, there weren't any.
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That's why he's still known as Frank Burns from the
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TV series MASH. He had a daughter from his first wife.
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Married his fifth wife in 1993. They were together until
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he died in 2000 from complications after cancer surgery. 60
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years old. John Minnock. He was born in Seattle, Washington
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in 1941. He is the heaviest human being in history. Yeah,
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at his peak, he weighed 1,400 pounds. Now, when he
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was 12, he weighed 294 pounds. He hit 500 pounds
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when he was 22. He stood 6'1, if that helps
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out any. Now, he did have a metabolic disorder and edemia,
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and then the edemia kind of kept a lot of
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body fluids too. Now, he weighed 1,400. He went on
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a diet. I don't know how they did it. But
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he went from 1,400 to 476 pounds in two years.
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So that 924-pound weight loss, yeah, nobody else has been
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able to lose that much weight either. But he came back.
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He ended up being 798 pounds when he died in
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1983 at 41 years old. He was married and had
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two kids. actress, comedian, Madeline Kahn. She was born in
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Boston in 1942. She was nominated for Oscars for Paper
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Moon and Blazing Saddles. Some of her other movies were
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Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I,
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Betsy's Wedding. Now, she was a really good singer. Yeah,
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she did Broadway. She was married when she died from
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ovarian cancer in 1999 at 57 years old. Oh, night
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with the king. That was the original lead singer for
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Grand Funk Railroad, Mark Farner, Mark 78, born in Flint,
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Michigan in 1948. Now when the guys were forming the
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band up there in Flint, Yeah, the Grand Western Railroad
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ran right through the middle of town. So they got
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to thinking, hey, they just changed it to Grand Front Railroad,
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and they were off and running. They had a name now.
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That was 1969. Now, Mark, you left in 1976 to
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go solo. He's come back a couple times to do
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some reunion shows. Biggest hits with Mark singing were We're
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an American Band, The Locomotion, Some Kind of Wonderful, Bad Time.
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Mark has released seven solo albums over the years. He's
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actually out on tour with Mark Farner's American Band. Mark
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has been married for over 40 years. Actress Cindy Morgan.
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She was born in Chicago in 1954. Best known for
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playing Lacey Underall in the movie Caddyshack. She was also
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in the original Tron movie. Now, in that scene from
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Caddyshack where she walks around the pool, she climbs the
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ladder to the high dive and then makes that perfect
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dive off while the guys are standing around the pool
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with their stomachs tucked in. Now, once she completed filming
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that scene, everybody on set was relieved. See, Cindy, she
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was technically blind. Yeah, she really couldn't see what she
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was doing. So everybody was afraid she was going to
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fall in the pool or fall off the high dive,
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do something to hurt herself. But she wanted to do
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the scene. So she did it and she pulled it
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off flawlessly. She had one daughter. She died from natural
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causes in 2023 at 69 years old. Actor, comedian, Andrew
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Dice Clay. He's 69. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957.
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Late 80s, early 90s. He was as big as any
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comedian could be. But that's when political correctness came in.
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It kind of ruined his whole shtick. Now, he still
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tours if you want to go check him out. I
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think he only has a couple more shows left this year,
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but I'm sure he'll be out again next year. Some
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of his movies, Private Resort, Casual Sex, Adventures of Fair Fairlane, Now,
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he has gotten a lot of critical acclaim for his
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recent acting. I mean, pretty much all the critics and
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everybody loved him in Blue Jasmine and then The Star
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is Born. Dice is three times divorced and he has
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two sons from his second wife.
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I've had the rug pulled beneath my feet. I've trusted
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Dice and untrusted men. Broke down and put myself back together.
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And punched it to shatters Collected the pieces And picked
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out a tiger I pinched my skin in between my
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two fingers And wished I could cut some parts off
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with some scissors.
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Ashley Fingerpain She is world famous simply as Halsey Turns
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32 today She was born in Edison, New Jersey Now
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her songs have been streamed 6 billion times Sold over
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50 million records Some of her hits are Without Me,
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East Side, Bad at Love Biggest hit was probably with
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the Chainsmokers Yeah, close her She has one son, and
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that was from an ex. Now, she is currently engaged, though.
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All right, our quote of the day is going to
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come from Helen Reddy.
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I am a woman, hear me roar In numbers too
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big to ignore And I know too much to go
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back and pretend Cause I've heard it all before And
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I've been down there on the floor No one's ever
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gonna keep me down.
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Again She died today in 2020 at 78 years old.
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Helen said, hindsight is wonderful. It's always easy to second
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guess after the fact. Well, thank you all for listening today.
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wanted to hear Christy Lamb as her artist of the day.
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So here's Christy Lamb and her song, Kiss About It.
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You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.
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Phones we could ignore the elephant that's standing in the
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room you could make excuses for why you're always late
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I can tell you why my makeup is never put
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away we could talk in circles going nowhere quick but
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I got something else on my.
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Mind let's kiss about it lay your lips on mine
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and let's forget about.
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It say sorry for another time don't dance.
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Let's kiss about it.
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You know, you push my buttons.
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I push your buttons back, but I like it cause
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you kiss me better when I.
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Make you mad.
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We tonight and let's just kiss about it lay your
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lips on mine and let's forget about it say sorry
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for another time don't dance around it just mess around.