Sept. 2, 2026

Sept 3rd-Baby Back Ribs, Memphis Slim, Beetle Bailey, The Beach Boys, Grand Funk Railroad, Charlie Sheen

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National Baby Back Ribs day. Entertainment from 2006. US revolution officially over, San Marino founded, Sweden driving laws. Todays birthdays - Alan Ladd, Memphis Slim, Mort Walker, Hank Thompson, Al Jardine, Don Brewer, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Paige. Vince Lombardi died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com
Chili's commercial
London bridge - Fergie
Leave the pieces - The Wreckers
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Born with the blues - Memphis Slim
It don't hurt anymore - Hank Thompson
I get around - The Beach Boys
We're an American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
Crush - Jennifer Paige
Exit - Cool girl - Melanie Meriney https://www.melaniemeriney.com/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and

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Fact Toys About Today. Today is September the 3rd.

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Today is National Baby Back Ribs Day.

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Oddly, Chili's did not have any deals today.

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Actually, there really aren't any national deals anywhere today.

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Now cavemen, they probably discovered baby back ribs way back when.

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It was 1890s when they got the name baby back ribs.

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Now they're pork and they are the cut that's closest

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to the pig's backbone. Surely they didn't start doing baby

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back ribs until 1976. Now just because there aren't any

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deals today doesn't mean you can't enjoy some baby back

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ribs today. Okay, let's see what's going on in entertainment

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on September the 3rd back in 2006. The number one

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album was Back to Basics by Christine Aguilera. Fergie had

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the number one song with London Bridge.

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The Wreckers had.

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The number one country song, Leave the Pieces.

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And it's all right.

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Yeah, I'll be fine. Don't worry about this. Take your

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love and hit the road.

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There's nothing you can do or say.

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You're going to break my heart anyway.

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So just leave the pieces when you go.

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The top-selling book was Judge and Jury by James Patterson

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and Andrew Gross. Top movie was Invincible. A 30-year-old bartender

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in South Philly. Yeah, he gets to play for the

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Philadelphia Eagles back in 1976. It was a true story.

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Played receiver. Starred Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, and Elizabeth Banks.

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All right, let's see what happened on September the 3rd.

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San Marino, it's a really small country. It's only 24

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square miles. It's in northeast Italy. Population, about 35,000 people.

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It was founded today in the year 301. That's right,

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it was founded by a stonemason. It ended up being St. Marinus.

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It's the oldest republic that's still in existence on the planet.

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The American Revolution in 1777. The flag of the United

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States was flown for the first time in battle. It

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was at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge out there in Delaware. Well,

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the United States lost that battle. That's probably why we

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don't know about that thing. Haven't heard more about it.

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But six years later, to the day, 1783, the Treaty

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of Paris was signed. Yeah, over in Paris. It officially

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ended the United States Revolutionary War. Now, we might have

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lost Cooch's Bridge to the British, but we won the war.

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USA!

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USA!

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USA!

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USA! In World War II today, in 1944, now, Canadian troops,

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they liberated Abbeville, France. French troops liberated Lyons, France. British,

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they freed Brussels, Belgium. And what would end up being

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the last train carrying Jews to Auschwitz? Yeah, it left

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Westerbork in the Netherlands today. On it was Anne Frank

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and seven of the people who were hiding on it

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with her. A total of 1,019 Jews were loaded into

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a bunch of cattle cars on that train. Took them

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three days to get to Auschwitz. Now, of the seven

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that were with Anne, the only one that survived was

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her dad. Yeah, he was the only one that got

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out of Auschwitz.

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You know what?

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I would have just taken this day off. I would

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not have wanted to deal with it at all. Nope,

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I wouldn't have left my house all day. Over in

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Sweden in 1967, at exactly 6 a.m., all drivers had

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to stop driving on the left side of the road. Yep,

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had to start driving on the right side of the road. Oh,

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you can't tell me that was smooth. That left the UK. Yep,

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they're the only places in the world that actually still

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drive on the left side of the road. All right,

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it was born on September the 3rd. Actor Ellen Ladd,

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he was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1913. One

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of Hollywood's top actors in the 1940s and 50s. Biggest

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movies were Shane, This Gun for Hire, Hell Below.

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Zero, The Great Gatsby.

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Now, although he was a huge actor, he only stood

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five feet, six inches tall. So in a lot of

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his movies, they just co-starred him with actress Veronica Lake. Yeah,

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she stood 4'11. Allen, he had a son from his

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first wife, married a second wife in 1943, and they

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had a son and a daughter. Lad, he died in 1964. Yeah,

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he accidentally overdosed on alcohol and sleeping pills. 50 years old.

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Even when I'm happy to.

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Lord, That was bluesman Memphis Slim. He was born in Memphis,

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Tennessee in 1915. During his lifetime, he recorded over 500 songs.

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Some of his big ones are Every Day I Have

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the Blues, Messin' Around, Blue and Lonesome. In 1962, Slimmy

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got tired of what was going on over here. He

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packed everything up and moved over to Paris, France. Spent

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the rest of his life traveling through Europe playing the blues.

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He was married and they had one son. Slimmy died

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from kidney failure in 1988 at 72 years old. Comic

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strip writer, artist, Moore Walker. He was born in El Dorado,

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Kansas in 1923. 1950, he created the comic strip Beetle Bailey. 1954,

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he spun it off. Yep, he had high-end Lois. Lois

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was actually Beetle's sister. Now, at his peak, Beetle Bailey,

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it was in 1,800 newspapers worldwide in 50 different countries. Now,

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Moore had been an intelligence officer for four years in

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the Army during World War II, so yeah, he knew

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how the Army worked. He divorced his first wife after

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35 years of marriage. Yeah, they had seven kids. Married

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his second wife in 1985. They were together until 2018.

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Then Mark died from pneumonia at 94 years old. It

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don't hurt anymore All my teardrops have dried No more walking.

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The floor With that old burning inside.

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That was country legend Hank Thompson. He was born in Waco,

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Texas in 1925. He performed country music from 1946 to 2007.

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Sold over 60 million records. Now, that would be a

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lot nowadays. It is huge for back then. Yeah, it's

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one of the tops of all time. Some of his

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number one songs are Rub-a-Dub, Wake Up, I Reign, The

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Wild Side of Life, Honky Tonk Girl. It don't hurt anymore.

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Married his second wife in 1970, and they had one kid. Now,

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in 2007, Hank, yeah, he was out there touring. He

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finally said, I have to retire. I can't do this anymore.

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He was actually fighting lung cancer. Now, he died five

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days after he performed his last show at 82 years old.

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Well, since you put me down, I've been up to

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it in my head.

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I can just say tonight that in the morning I.

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Just lay in bed.

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Oh, honey, you look so fine.

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Saying I love you doesn't take much time. For you

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to hold my mind. Help me, Rhonda. That was one

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of the few songs the Beach Boys let Al Jardine

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sing lead on. Al is 84. He was born in Lima,

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Ohio in 1942. Plays the guitar. He actually started out

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on the stand-up bass. Now, Al, Love, the Wilson brothers,

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they're all co-fans of the Beach Boys in 1961. Now, Al,

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he pretty much left in 1998. He has come back

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and done a couple of shows, but he's actually currently touring. Yep,

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he's got a tour out there. It's called Al Jardine

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and the Pet Sound Band. Yeah, they're going to be

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out there until November. If you want to go see him,

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you might want to check his website. Because actually, a

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bunch of their shows are already sold out. Now, he

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had a child from his first wife, married his second

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wife in 1984, and they have two children. She had

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the whole show, and that's a natural fact. All night

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with the king.

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I got to tell you.

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Poker's his thing. That was Don Brewer singing for the

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band Grand Funk Railroad. He's also their drummer. Don was

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born in Flint, Michigan in 1948. 78 today. Now, Grand Funk,

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they formed in 1969. Now, Don and Mark Farner, they

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actually split the co-lead singing. Then Farner, he left in 1998.

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So now Don, he splits it with Max Carl. Now,

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We're an American Band, The Locomotion, Some Kind of Wonderful,

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Bad Time. That's some of their big hits if you

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go check them out because they do tour. They do

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40 shows a year, plus or minus one or two. Don,

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he married in 1985, and they have two daughters. Actor

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Charlie Sheen is 61. Yeah, he was born in New

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York City in 1965. Martin Sheen is his dad. Emilio

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Estevez is his brother. Charlie, he made a name for

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himself in the movie Red Dawn. The Platoon, Wall Street,

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Major League. On TV, he had a really big star

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in it, Two and a Half Men. In 1990, he

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was engaged to actress Kelly Preston. He said it was

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an accident, but he shot her in the arm. I

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don't know why, but she called the engagement off, and

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then she went and married John Travolta. Charlie had a

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daughter back in high school, him and a girl. Yeah,

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they were both in high school. Yeah, they had a

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little girl. And he had a second wife was actress

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Denise richard and they had two daughters then his third

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wife yeah they had two boys it's just a little

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crush not like i mean every time we touch 53-year-old

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Jennifer Page is born in Marietta, Georgia. Now, that's on Crush.

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It went number one in 16 different countries. Yeah, the

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United States or something. Some of her other hits are Sober,

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Always You, These Days. If you're a Jennifer Page fan,

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just go to her website. She releases new music. She

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got married in 2010, and they have a daughter. All righty,

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our quote of the day. It comes from legendary football

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coach Vince Lombardi. He died today in 1970 at 57

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years old. Vince says, perfection is not attainable. But if

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we chase perfection, yeah, we can catch excellence. I thank

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the day comes from Lisa up there in Loveland, Colorado.

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She wants to hear Melanie Mirany and her song, Cool Girl.

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

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You're looking for somebody who can hang out with the guys,

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who ain't gonna mess your plans up when you go

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out Friday night. Let's keep on playing around like you're

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only 25 for the rest of your life. Who'll keep

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you looking fly when she's hanging on your arm? Who

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won't ever turn you down when you want to turn

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it on? If it's a target or a drink, she

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can match.

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You shot for shot.

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You think you are, but you're.

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Not looking for a cool girl. that you realize this.

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And you'll be looking back wishing that you knew just

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what you had. That when he had you standing looking

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for a cool thing. You don't even know that that

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ain't enough Staying willful right now, you're just looking for

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a cool girl Boy, you don't even know what that

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is It ain't any kind of true.

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Girl By the time that you realize this You'll be

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looking back wishing that you knew just what you had

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Back when you had a say

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