Sept. 1, 2026

Sept 2nd-Labor Day, Lili' uakalani, Mrs. Puff, Mark Harmon, Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, London fire of 1666, 1st ATM

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National Pierce your ears Day/ Entertainment from 1976. Great fire of London 1666. America goes from Julian to Gregarian calender. Japan formally surrendered ending WW2. Todays birthdays - Lili'uakalani, Rick Lewis, Mary Jo Catlett, Billy Preston, Mark Harmon, Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek Pinault. JRR Tolkien died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Don't go breaking my heart - Kiki Dee Elton John
I'm a stand by my woman man - Ronnie Milsap
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Aloha Oe - Tia Carrere
Get a job - The Silhouettes
Nothing from nothing - Billy Preston
Exit - Whatever it takes - Cowboy Roger Lawson Roger on Spotify

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Hello i am jeff and welcome to history and factoids

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about today presented by cool media today's september the second

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today is national pierce your ears day now i personally

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haven't done it but i'm imagining that's probably what it's

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kind of like if you pierce your ears uh people

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have been piercing their ears for thousands of years and

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started randomly all over the world not just one place Egyptians,

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the Romans, Africans, Native Americans, Maya, Aztec, they all pierced

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their ears. Even that 5,000-year-old mummy, Otzi, that they found

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frozen in the Alps, he had his ears pierced. Now,

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some people pierce their ears to show off status or wealth.

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Some people pierce their ears to show their culture. Others

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pierce their ears just for fashion. And some people pierce

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their ears because they got drunk. So, I guess to

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celebrate today, you can go get your ears pierced if

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you haven't done it yet, or you can add another

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piercing to them.

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You know what?

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Better just go and get yourself a new earring or

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a stud or something like that. So, what happened in

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entertainment on September 2nd back in 1976? Number one album

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was Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton. Elton John and

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Kiki D had their number one song with Don't Go

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Breaking My Heart.

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Don't go breaking my heart.

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Honey, if I get restless, baby, you're not that kind.

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Don't go breaking my heart.

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You take the weight off of me.

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Ronnie Millsap had the number one country song with I'm

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a Stand By My Woman Man. The number one selling

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book was Trinity by Leon Uris. The top movie was

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The Shootist. A dying gunfighter, he tries to find a

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way to die that's the least painful. Yeah, and gives

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him the most dignity also. Stars John Wayne, Lauren Bacall,

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and Ron Howard. All right, what happened on September the 2nd? 1666,

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the Great Fire of London happened. Thomas Farner, he was

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a baker. Now, he supplied bread to the Royal Navy,

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and he baked personally for King Charles II. Well, his

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house with the bakery attached was on Pudding Lane over

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in London. One night, his living was always stayed burning.

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You know, it made it a lot easier in the

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morning to start the day. Well, it shot some sparks

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out and caught his whole house on fire. The family,

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they were able to escape the upstairs out of a window.

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The maid, she was downstairs. Yeah, she didn't make it. Now,

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the fire, it quickly spread to his neighbor's houses. The

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fire ended up burning for four days. 80% of London

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was burned to the ground. 70,000 of the 80,000 people

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who lived there were left homeless. Surprisingly, only six people died,

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and that included the foreigner's maid. Now, medieval London, it

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was no more. Well, it turns out that was a

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good thing. See, medieval London, it was a crap hole.

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It was absolutely gross, disgusting, and filthy. The river that

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runs through it, yeah, it was just nothing but raw sewage.

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The streets were just covered in trash and animal poop.

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But it all burned up. Yeah, so they could all

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start over again. Now, with everything burned, the river was

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actually cleaner than it had been in over 100 years.

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They redesigned the whole city when they rebuilt it. It

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had fire breaks and a system to remove waste and

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excrement and all that kind of stuff. Now, outside of

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the six people out in London, it became better than

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it had ever been before.

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You know what?

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Let's stay in Great Britain. 1752, all of Great Britain,

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even in its territories, the colonies here in America, everything

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that belonged to Great Britain, went from the Julian calendar

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to the Gregarian calendar. So they had to skip 11 days.

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So tomorrow, it'll actually be September 14th. And then New

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Year's Day, it'll actually be on January 1st instead of

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March 25th. Now, that created riots all over the British Empire,

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from London, all over England, here in America, the Caribbean islands.

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People were all pissed. They believed that the British government

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stole 11 days from their lives. Yes, the world still

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uses the Gregarion calendar. 1807, as Francis Napoleon was raising

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hell all over Europe, Denmark, they were preparing to surrender

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to him. And all of a sudden, the British Navy

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showed up in Copenhagen. Well, the Danes, they were ecstatic.

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They thought, wow, Britain has actually come to save them.

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Then the British warships, they let loose with all their cannons, firebombs,

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phosphor bombs, sank the whole Denmark, entire Navy. England, they

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didn't want Napoleon to get all those Navy ships. 1901,

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Theodore Roosevelt, he was given a speech. It was all

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about having a strong foreign policy. He said his famous

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quote in there, speak softly and carry a big stick.

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I think you know they always didn't name hurricanes. Like

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in 1935, they simply named a hurricane the Labor Day hurricane. See,

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it made landfall in Florida today as a Category 5.

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It is still the strongest and most intense hurricane ever

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to make landfall in the United States. Now, it really

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didn't hit a very populated area, but it still killed

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432 people. No hurricane's been stronger since. 1944, future President

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George H.W. Bush, the dad, He was a Navy pilot.

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He had to parachute out of his plane today. Yeah,

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he got shot all up and caught fire over the

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Pacific Ocean when he was on a bombing run during

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World War II. Now, after floating in the water for

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four hours, he was rescued by the U.S. submarine, the

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USS Finbeck. Now, George, he was just fine, but he

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had to stay on the Finbeck for a whole month

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before they could get him back to his ship. 1945,

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aboard the battleship, the USS Missouri, Japan officially signed their

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surrender papers. Yep, it officially ended World War II. Same

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day over in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, he declared Vietnam's

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independence from France. Well, we know how that turns out.

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In 1969, the first ATM machine started dispensing cash to

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customers of the chemical bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATM,

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it just stands for automatic teller machine. In Egypt in 2012,

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they ended the law that required female TV reporters to

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wear veils. I know there's a bunch of jokes there. Go, go, go, go, go, go,

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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.

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Okay, let's check out who was born on September the 2nd.

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Kahualina Park. That was Tia Carrera singing the song Aloha Oe.

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The song, it was written by Lily Ukulani. She was

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the last queen of Hawaii. She wrote it while she

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was being held in prison. She was overthrown in 1893.

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The coup to overthrow her, yeah, it was led by

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the United States. Now, once she was out of the

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way of the United States, they were quickly able to

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annex Hawaii and make it a territory of its own.

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She was in prison for eight months. Then she was

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given a full pardon as a regular citizen. Yep, no

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monarchy privileges or nothing. She was born in Honolulu in 1838. Now,

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she only reigned from queen. Yeah, she only was in

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charge from 1891 to 1893. See, her brother had been king,

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but he died unexpectedly. So, yeah, she had to take

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over for him. And that's when the United States, yep,

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they decided to make their move. Lily Yucolani. She did

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marry a white guy from the mainland in 1862. He

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died in 1891. She died from just overall bad health

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in 1917 at 79 years old. Now, after she was overthrown,

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she did take the United States to court for taking

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all of her land. She received a $ 1, 250 a month

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lifetime pension. It's about 40 grand nowadays. Sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la.

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Rick Lewis, he was the lead singer for the group

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The Silhouettes. He was born in Philadelphia in 1933. Now

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that song, Get a Job, it was their biggest hit.

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They performed from 1956 to 1968. They got back together

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and performed on the oldie circuit back in the 1980s

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and 90s. Rick, he died in 2005 at 71 years old.

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Actress Mary Jo Catlett. She's 88. She was born in Denver,

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Colorado in 1938. She's most known for voicing Mrs. Puff

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on SpongeBob SquarePants. She's done that since 1999. She voiced

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on the Smurfs from 1981 to 1989. She was actually

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on the TV show Different Strokes from 82 to 86.

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Some movies she was in were Semi-Tough, Best Little Whorehouse

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in Texas, and Let's Be Cops. That was Billy Preston.

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He was born in Houston, Texas in 1946. In the 1960s, Billy,

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he was the top recording studio keyboard player that there was.

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He played on albums from everybody. from the Beatles, Rolling Stones,

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Little Richard, Everly Brothers, you name them, he probably played

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keyboard on one of their albums. Now, he had a

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little success as a solo artist in the 1970s. yeah

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they had nothing from nothing strutting fancy lady now the

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only person in the music industry that billy told that

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he was gay was keith richards yeah from the rolling

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stones probably figured that keith wouldn't remember it no way

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well keith remembered and he actually didn't tell anyone billy

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did come out as a as gay a couple years

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before he died in 2006 at 59 years old from

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kidney failure Actor Mark Harmon is 75. He was born

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in Burbank, California in 1951. In college, he was a

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starting quarterback at UCLA for two seasons. Graduated cum laude

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and then went into acting. First got known on the

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TV series St. Elsewhere, then Chicago, then NCIS. He was

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on NCS from 2003 to 21. Some of Mark's movies

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were Summer School, Wyatt Earp, Freaky Friday. Mark and actress

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Pam Dobber married in 1987. They have two sons. Mark's dad,

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he was a really famous sports broadcaster named Tom Harmon.

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Tommy actually won a Heisman Trophy in 1941. Actor Keanu

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Reeves is 62 today. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964.

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Grew up in Canada. He first hit playing Ted in

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures. Made over 70 movies since.

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They've made almost $ 5 billion. Now he is one of

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the most private, reclusive celebrities that there is. He shocked

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everybody in 2019. He let it out that he had

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a girlfriend and they'd been together since 2009. 60-year-old actress

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Selma Hayek. She was born in Cozacocoa in Mexico in 1966.

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She started out acting in Mexico. She got really famous

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starring in a telenova. Then she came to the United

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States in 1995. Hit in the movie Desperado. Then from

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Dusk Till Dawn, When Fools Rush In, Wild Wild West.

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She was nominated for an Oscar for Frida. Selma, she

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got married in 2009. So actually she does go by

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Selma Hayek Pinalta. And they have one daughter. Let's end

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with writer J.R. Tolkien. Yeah, the Lord of the Rings guy.

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He died today in 1973 at 81 years old. JR says, shortcuts,

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they make long delays. Thank you for listening today. We

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three O's. Okay, our country underground radio artist today comes

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from Annie out in Boston. She wants to hear a

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Cowboy Roger Lawson song, whatever it takes. You guys have

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an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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I tried going fishing But the fish just wouldn't bite

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I sat cold and lonely In a.

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Duck blind at daylight Then I tied down on a

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rank one And jam my hat down.

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Tight He made short work of me But her memory

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Was the one thing killing my night guitar.

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Solo After a week of getting nowhere, I dragged myself

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into town.

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I did lunch, I.

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Did go, I did coffee, but in my head she

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could still be found.

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I went and spent a little time at the seashore,

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but She followed me around some more I'd had.

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About enough It was time to get tough So I

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walked in a bar and said pour Whatever it takes

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to take her memory

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Whatever it takes.

Sept 2nd-Labor Day, Lili' uakalani, Mrs. Puff, Mark Harmon, Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, London fire of 1666, 1st ATM

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