Sept. 3, 2026

Sept 4th-Macadamia Nuts, Beyonce, Damon Wayans, Paul Harvey, Ione Skye, Murderer Electrocuted on Toilet

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National Macadamia nut day. Entertainment from 2016. Little Rock 9, The Price is Right debuted on TV, NASCAR first paved speedway, Geronimo surrendered. Todays birthdays - Paul Harvey, Mitsi Gaynor, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Damon Wayans, Ione SKye, Beyonce. Joan Riveres died.

Intro - Good did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Dot, the Macadamia nut - Animaniacs
Closer - The Chainsmokers Halsey
Holy - Florida Georgia Line
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Paul Harvey radio show
Welcome Back Kotter tv theme
Single ladies - Beyonce
Exit - Bottom of the bottle - Gin House Jesters https://gin-palace-jesters.com/

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Well, hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and

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Fact Dudes About Today. Today's September the 4th. I act

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like a nut, so they call me Macadamia. I dance

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like a klutz on a show called Animania.

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Am I a cutie? Absolutely. And a beauty?

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You can bet you're patootie.

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But if you touch me or even get near me,

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I'll have you arrested.

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Do you hear me? Dot is a nut, so they

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call her Macadamia.

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She's cracked in the head and kooky in the brain.

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Each line in this song sounds pretty much the same-ia. Oy, Macadamia!

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Today is National Macadamia Nut Day. Now, macadamia trees, they

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are native to Australia. Grow up between 40 and 60

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feet tall. The Aborigines, they've been eating macadamia nuts for

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as long as they know. Now, they're actually named after

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a Scottish guy named John Macadamia. 1882, macadamia trees were

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planted in Hawaii. Yeah, they wanted them for windbreaks for

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the sugar cane fields. Well, people really liked those nuts,

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so they started farming them in 1921. Hawaii, it's the

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largest producer of macadamia nuts in the world. Now, they

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are healthy, but they're a little high in the calories,

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and they're pretty expensive for a nut. You can put

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them in creamer for your coffee, eat them as a snack.

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It is really good on baked goods like cookies and

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muffins and stuff. Whatever you do, enjoy some macadamia nuts today.

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Let's see what happened in entertainment on September 4th back

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in 2016. Number one album was Suicide Squad, the movie album.

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Halsey and the Chainsmokers had the number one song with Closer.

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So baby, pull me closer in the backseat of your

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Rover bed. bite that tattoo on your shoulder pull the

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sheets right off the corner of the mattress that you

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stole from your roommate back in boulder we ain't never.

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Getting older florida georgia line had the number one country

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song with holy.

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Because you're the first thing i know i can't believe.

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I am loving you. I am loving you. The number

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one selling book was The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

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Top movie was Don't Breathe. Now, three punky, really bad guys,

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they break into the house of this blind war veteran. Yeah,

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they want to steal all his money. Turns out the

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dude's a badass. Starring Stephen Lang, Jay Levy, and Dylan Minnette. 1965,

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The Band The Hook. They were out shopping for a

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guard dog when they went inside to buy the dog. $ 10, 000

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worth of musical equipment was stolen from their van. How

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much do you think that dog cost? All right, what

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happened on September the 4th? 1639 in Massachusetts, they banned

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drinking toasts. Yeah, they thought toasting while you were drinking

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was stupid and no one should do it. Six years

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later in 1645, they realized there's no way to enforce that,

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so they repealed the ban on toasting while you're drinking. Now,

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the object of that story is just to show you

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how much the Puritans were big drinkers. 1781, out there

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in what would be California, Los Angeles was formed by

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44 Mexicans. Yeah, they named it in honor of the

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Virgin Mary. They called it El Pueblo de Nuestra SeÃ±ora

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Reina de Los Angeles del Rio Porcigalula. It means the

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town of Our Lady, the Queen of Angels of the

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River of Porcigalula, or L.A. 1833, the New York Sun.

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They had the world's first newspaper boy. It was 10-year-old

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Blarney Flehe. Now Barney would walk up and down the

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streets of New York hawking the paper. Now whenever you

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see those old newspaper boys from back then, yeah, they

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were all homeless. 1886 in Skeleton Canyon in what today

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is southeastern Arizona, Apache Indian Chief Geronimo, he surrendered. That

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ended the last major United States Army-Indian war. Now, Geronimo,

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he'd actually been fighting the United States and Mexico for

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over 30 years. Him and his people, or I guess

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his tribe, they resettled out in Oklahoma. Do you like NASCAR? Well,

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if you do, you know all about the Darlington Raceway

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in South Carolina. Now, they run that Southern 500 out there. Now,

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it was run for the first time in 1950. Yeah,

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and Darlington? Yeah, it was the first paved speedway. If

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you're wondering, it's 1.366 miles around, one of the smaller ones. 1957,

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the Little Rock crisis started. Nine black students, they were

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supposed to start going to Little Rock Central High School. Well,

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the Democratic governor of Arkansas, Orville Faubus, he ordered the

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Arkansas National Guard to prevent those nine black kids from

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going into the high school. Well, after three weeks, President Eisenhower,

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he stepped in. He had had enough. So he federalized

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the Arkansas National Guard. That meant he was in charge

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and Faubus was out. So he told them to go home.

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And then he brought in soldiers from the 101st Airborne. Yeah,

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they provided security for those nine students almost the entire year. Yeah,

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protecting them pretty good. They were called the Little Rock Nine. 1979, no, 1972.

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The TV game show The Price is Right debuted. Bob

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Barker was the host. Drew Carey, he took over in 2007.

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It's the longest running game show. Now, they have given

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away over $ 350 million in cash and prizes, and that

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includes 9,200 cars. South Carolina in 1989. Convicted in murder,

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Michael Godwin. Now, he had raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman.

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He was sentenced to die in the South Carolina electric chair.

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But his death sentence, it was overturned. So now he

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was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in

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prison without parole. Well, he was sitting on the metal

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toilet in his prison cell. He was naked. And he

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was trying to fix a set of basically earphones that

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were hooked to the TV in his cell. When he

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bit into the cord, he was electrocuted and killed.

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Well, let's check out who.

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Was born on September the 4th.

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Hello, Americans. This is Paul Harvey, in part brought to

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you by the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Lima.

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Stand by for news. Legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey was

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born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1918. Now he read the

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news and gave commentary every morning and midday. 20 million

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people listened to him every day, 1951 to 2008. He

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was on over 1,200 radio stations and over 400 armed

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forces stations. Now he read the news with his down-home

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folksy kind of talk. Yeah, one of the most famous

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radio dudes in history. Now if you didn't like his

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conservative values or stuff that he would talk about, everybody

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didn't matter. They still loved his rest of the story segments.

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He got married in 1940. Now, his wife, her name

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was Lynn, but he always referred to her Angel. Yep,

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whether they were in person or he was on the

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air talking about her. See, he would talk about her

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because she was his producer. She was actually the first

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radio producer to go into the Radio Rock Hall of Fame.

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They did have one son. Paul died in 2009 at

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90 years old from natural causes.

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Now you know the rest of the story.

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Actress Mitzi Gaynor. She was born in Chicago in 1931.

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She made her movie debut in My Blue Heaven in 1950.

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Then she hit some of the biggest movies of all time.

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There's no business like show business. South Pacific for love

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and money. Did a lot, a lot of musicals. She

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got married in 1954. Never married her husband. He lived

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to 2006. Mitzi, she just died a year ago at

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93 years old from natural causes. I'm Freddie Boom Boom Washington. Well,

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how many of you are old enough to remember the

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TV show Welcome Back, Cotter? Well, Freddie Boom Boom Washington,

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he was a sweat hog. He was played by Lawrence

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Hilton Jacobs. He's 73 today. He was born in New

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York City. Been in a lot of TV movies and

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some guest appearances and stuff. He has two daughters. Now, Lawrence,

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he was the only cast member on Welcome Back, Cotter

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to be in every single episode. Yep, John Travolta or

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Gabe Kaplan. Couldn't even pull that off. Actor, comedian, Damon

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Wayans is 66. He was born in Harlem, New York. Now,

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he had two older brothers and an older sister and

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six younger brothers and sisters. 1985, he got hired on

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Saturday Night Live as one of the primetime players. He

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got fired after 11 shows. See, during a live skit. Now,

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he improvised. He wasn't supposed to do that. See, he

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was supposed to be playing this really straight, hard-edged cop. Well,

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he turned that guy into a really flamboyant gay cop.

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He was immediately escorted out of the studio. Now, that

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worked out good for him, though, because he had really

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begun in living color. Also on TV, he starred on

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My Wife and Kids and Lethal Weapon. Some of his

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movies are Gonna Get You, Sucka, The Last Boy Scout,

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Mo' Money, Major Pain. He was married for 16 years

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when they divorced and they had two sons and two daughters.

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Actress Ayaan Skye is 56. She was born in Hampstead,

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England in 1970. Her dad is a singer, Donovan. Yeah,

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the mellow yellow guy. Now, her first movie was River's

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Edge and then Say Anything, Girls in Prison, Gas Food Lodge.

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Her first husband was Adam Horvitz. Remember him from the

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Beastie Boys? Yeah, they were made seven years. After they divorced,

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she got pregnant and had a daughter from a boyfriend.

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Then she married her second husband in 2008, and they

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have a daughter. Country singer Beyonce Knowles-Carter is 45. Now

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I just call her Beyonce. She was born in Houston,

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Texas in 1981. Started out in the all-girl group Destiny's Child.

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They were together from 97 to 2006. One of the

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top-selling all-girl groups of all time. Now, her and Kelly Rowland,

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they were in it the whole time. Destiny's Child, 60

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million records is how many they sold. That solo Beyonce, yeah,

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she sold 160 million records. She acts, too. She was

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in Austin Powers and Goldmember, Pink Panther, Dreamgirls. That's some

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of her movies. She married Jay-Z in 2008, and they

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have three kids. All righty, our quote of the day

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is going to come from the crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin.

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He died today in 2006 at 44 years old. He said,

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I have no fear of losing my life. If I

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have to save a koala or a crocodile or a

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kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Never

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mentioned Stingray. All right, thank you for listening today. We

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sure appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us

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around radio artist of the day. Guns are Frederick down

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in Louisiana. Let's hear gin palace gestures. And there's some

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bottom of the bottle. You guys have an awesome day

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and we'll talk tomorrow.

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You gave your hand to another man and left me

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sitting here seeking consolation in the whiskey wine and beer

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the liquor numbs my senses but it just can't take

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your place and at the bottom of the bottle i

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still see your face At the bottom of the bottle.

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I still see you waiting there Reminding me what you

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used to be and how you used to care I

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slip and fall through the alcohol that looms your memory

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But when I hit the bottom you're.

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Still waiting there for me.

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Thank you.

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Well, I've tried and tried, but I can't hide from

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your memory. No matter what I do, thoughts of you

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run after me. The clock above the bar tells.

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Me it's almost closing time.

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But the bottom of the bottle left you on the mind.

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