Sept. 6, 2026

Sept 7- Beer! Grandma Moses, Buddy Holly, Marge Simpson, The Pretenders, Easy E, Shannon Elizabeth, Corbin Bernsen

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Labor Day. National beer lovers day. Entertainment from 1997. Boston formed. Day of prayer in Austrialia, Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal. Todays birthdays - Grandma Moses, Peter Lawford, Don Messick, Buddy Holly, Gloria Gaynor, Julie Kavner, Chrissie Hynde, Corbin Bernsen, Jermaine Stewart, Eazy E, Shannon Elizabeth. Keith Moon died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
I like beer - Tom T. Hall
No money, No problems - Notorious Big Puff Daddy Mase
She's got it all - Kenny Chesney
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
That'll be the day - Buddy Holly
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
Middle of the road - The Pretenders
We don't have to take our cloths off - Jermaine Stewart
Straight outta compton - NWA
Exit - Cold Beer - Buck Ford https://www.buckford.com/

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Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids

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About Today. Today is September 7th. Yes, it is Labor Day,

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so I hope you're having a great weekend.

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You know what?

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Every once in a while, the stars just line up

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and make a great day even a better day. I

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like beer.

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It makes me a jolly good fellow.

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I like beer.

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It helps me unwind, and sometimes it makes.

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Me feel mellow. Today is National Beer Lovers Day. Woo-hoo! Now,

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the kids are back in school. Summer is unofficially over.

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Weather's still really nice out. So why not just celebrate

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beer today? Now, if you love your beer, you know

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how to celebrate today. If you don't love beer, yeah,

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you're going to be designated driver. Let's see what happened

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in entertainment on September the 7th, back in 1997. The

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number one album was The Dance by Fleetwood Mac. Notorious

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Big and Puff Daddy. They had the number one song

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with more money, more problems. Kenny Chesney had the number

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one country song. She's got it all. All of my

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life I've spent hoping I could give someone such devotion.

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Every sweet memory.

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I can recall.

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The top-selling book was Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The

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top movie was Fire Down Blue. A federal agent, he

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finds out that toxic waste is being dumped illegally in Appalachia,

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and the locals, they're keeping it quiet because they're getting paid.

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It stars Steven Seagal, Chris Christopherson, and Mark Helgenberger. All right,

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what happened on September the 7th? 1630, Boston, Massachusetts was founded.

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Named it after the city of Boston and Lakeshire, England.

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Now it's founded by English Puritans. 1812, the Battle of Borodino.

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It was fought between Napoleon's French army and the Russian

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army outside of Moscow. Now, it was the bloodiest battle

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that Napoleon fought. Over 70,000 soldiers on both sides were

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killed in that one day of fighting. Now, the French

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did win, but the Russians were able to, they didn't

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have to surrender. They were able to make a kind

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of a controlled retreat sort of thing. So Napoleon, he

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was able to occupy Moscow, but with all the Russian

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soldiers still around, yeah, it wasn't a peaceful occupation. 1880,

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George Legowski. He invented a device to throw clay pigeons

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for trap shooting. So way to go, George. Trap shooting

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clay pigeon thrower. Who would have thought? 1888, a baby

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named Edith McLean. She made history. She was the first

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baby to put into a baby incubator. Yeah, she was

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born premature in a New York hospital. They happened to

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have one of these new baby incubators there, so they put.

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Her in there.

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Yeah, she lived. 1902, there was a horrible drought hitting

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Australia hard. I mean, the whole country, or continent. Yeah,

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they were losing all their crops and livestock. So today,

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they made it a day of national prayer. The entire

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nation prayed for rain all at the exact same time.

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It rained three days later on September 10th. Yep, no

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rain was in the forecast at all. 1915, Raggedy Endall

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was invented by a dude, Johnny Grilly. World War II

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in 1940, Germany, they started bombing London, England. Now, they

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bombed London for 57 straight nights. Now, that actually strengthened

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the Britons' resolve in order to fight Hitler. It ended

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up causing him to have to cancel the invasion he

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was going to do on the island. 1968, Led Zeppelin.

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They played their very first show. They weren't Led Zeppelin yet.

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They called themselves the New Yardbirds. The show was in

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a Denmark college in front of about 1,200 students. 1977, U.S.

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President Jamie Carter, he signed the Panama Canal Treaty. Now,

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the treaty read that even though the United States paid

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for it, even though the United States built it, Panama,

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you can have it back in 1999. Then when 1999

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rolled around, Bill Clinton said, hey, Jimmy said they can

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have it. What do you expect me to do? ESPN

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went on the air in 1979 today, stood for Entertainment

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and Sports Programming Network. Since 1985, ESPN stands for, yeah,

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just ESPN. Now, the first show that they aired, yeah, SportsCenter.

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2021 in El Salvador, they became the first country to

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make Bitcoin their official currency. Okay, who was born on

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September the 7th?

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Artist Grandma Moses.

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She was born Anna Robertson in Greenwich, New York in 1860.

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Then when she was 27 years old, she married Thomas Moses.

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They lived on a farm. They had 10 children. Only

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five of them actually survived infancy, though. Thomas, he died

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in 1927. So Grandma Moses and one of her sons,

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they ran the farm. Now, most of her life, she

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would sew embroidered pictures for her family and friends and

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that kind of stuff. Then when she got to about

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76 years old, her arthritis in her hands were so bad,

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she couldn't embroider anymore. So she started painting. Yeah, paintbrushes

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are a lot thicker than needles. She painted landscapes and

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scenes of rural American life. She painted over 1,500 paintings,

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and then she decided she better start selling them. So

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she sold her first paintings for $ 3 and $ 5 each.

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Later on, she sold them for $ 8, 000 and $ 10, 000 each.

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A couple years ago, one of Grandma Moses' paintings sold

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for $ 1. 2 million. She died in 1961 at 101 years old.

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Actor Peter Lawford, he was born in London, England in 1923.

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He was in the original Ocean's Eleven, The Longest Day.

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He was in a bunch of movies. He was part

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of the Rat Pack, you know, with Frank Sinatra and

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Dean Martin and all those guys. Then Peter, he really

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got famous when he married Patricia Kennedy. That meant that

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John and Bobby Kennedys were his brother-in-laws. They were married

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for 12 years. They had four kids together. Peter married

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his fourth wife just a couple months before he died

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in 1984 at 61 years old. He had a lot

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of years of some really hard drinking. Yeah, it got him.

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Both his kidney and liver, they all quit working. Now,

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you might not recognize the name Don Messick, but you

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would recognize his voice. He was the voice of Scooby-Doo.

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Bam Bam Rubble, Astro the Dog on the Jetsons, Yogi

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and Boo Boo Bear, Papa Smurf. Yeah, a lot more.

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He voiced from 1941 to 1996. He was born in Buffalo,

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New York in 1926. He got married in 1949. They

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were together until he died from a stroke in 1997

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at 71 years old. Buddy Holly, he was born in Lubbock,

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Texas in 1936, started out as a country singer. Then

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in 1955, this guy came to Lubbock and he was

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going to do a show there, but he didn't have

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an opening band. But he said, yeah, I'll open for him. Well,

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after Buddy watched Elvis Presley perform, yeah, he immediately switched

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from country to rock and roll. Now we all know

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how the Buddy Holly story ends with the plane crash.

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He was only 22 years old when that happened. In

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that short time, he released three albums. He had the

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hits That'll Be the Day, Peggy Sue, Baby Baby, Oh Boy.

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He'd been around six months when he died.

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I've got all my life to live. I've got all.

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My love to give. I'll survive. I will survive. Disco

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queen Gloria Gaynor is 83. She was born in Newark,

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New Jersey. She still performs. Some of her big hits

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are Never Can Say Goodbye, I Will Survive, Let Me Know,

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I Am What I Am. Gloria, she was married from

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1979 to 2005. Divorced, he didn't die. Actress Julie Kavner

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was born in Los Angeles in 1950, so she's 76 today.

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She first got known on the TV sitcom Rhoda. She

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played Brenda, Yoda's younger sister. Of course, she's best known

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for being the voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons.

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She also voices Marge's mom and both of her sisters.

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She's been in six Woody Allen movies, if you want

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to see her act. She lived with her boyfriend from

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1976 until he died in 2022. No one's sure if

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they ever actually married.

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I got a smile for everyone I meet. As long

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as you don't try dragging my bed, dropping the bomb

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on my seat.

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The lead singer, lead guitarist, and songwriter for the Pretenders,

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Chrissy Hynde. She's 75. She was born in Akron, Ohio.

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She formed the Pretenders in 1978. Now, Chrissy and the drummer,

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Martin Chambers, they're the only original members still with the band.

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Brass in my pocket, talk of the town, back on

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the chain gang, don't get me wrong. Yeah, that's some

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Pretenders hits. Chrissy, she had a daughter from Ray Davies.

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Remember him? Yeah, he was the lead singer for the Kings.

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Then she married Jim Kerr. He was the lead singer

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for the band Simple Minds, and they had a daughter.

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Then she married a Colombian sculptor just for a couple years.

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Actor Corbin Bernson is 72. He's born in North Hollywood.

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He first really got known playing Arnie Becker on L.A.

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L.A. Law.

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Then he was in Psych and The Resident. Some of

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his movies were the Major League movies, the Dennis movies,

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Corbin, he married his second wife

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in 1988 and they have four sons. Get this, Corbin,

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he has over 9,000 snow globes. It's one of the

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largest snow globe collections in the entire world. That was

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Jermaine Stewart. He was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1957.

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In the 80s, he had the heads. We don't have

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to take our clothes off. Say it again. Get lucky, Jody. Now, Jermaine,

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he was openly gay, and his family did not like

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that at all. So much so that when he died

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from AIDS in 1997 at 39 years old, his grave

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did not have a tombstone or even a grave marker

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on it for 17 years. Then in 2014, an anonymous

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fan finally paid to have a gravestone put on it.

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You have no idea how hard it is to find

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a clean version of that song. Or any N.W.A. song, actually.

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Now that was rapper Eazy-E. He was born Eric Wright

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in Compton, California in 1964. Considered the godfather of gangsta rap.

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are still today, they only released two albums. Straight Outta Compton,

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Gangsta Gangsta, Express Yourself, F the Police. Nah, I changed that.

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But yeah, those are all N.W.A.

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Songs.

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Eazy-E released one solo album. Now, he had a son

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and a daughter with his wife, and then he had

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another nine kids from seven other women. He died from

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AIDS in 1995 at 30 years old. Actor Shannon Elizabeth

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is 53. She was born in Houston, Texas. She got

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famous for playing Naughty in the American Pie movies. Then

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she did a couple Jay and Silent Bob movies. Scary movie.

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She got killed in that. Then she was in Tomcats.

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She and her second husband, they're living in South Africa,

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helping with wildlife conservation, saving rhinos and elephants and stuff.

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All righty, our quote of the day is going to

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come from the original drummer for the band The Who,

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Keith Moon. He died today in 1978 at 32 years old.

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Keith said, I told people I was a drummer before

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I even had a set of drums. See, I was

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a mental drummer. Keith died from a drug overdose. Well,

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thank you all for listening today. We sure appreciate it.

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And don't forget to follow us on who you listen

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to us on so you can always find us. Come

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see us at coolmedia.com. That's cool with three O's. Our

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Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day. Well, in honor

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of Beer Day, we're going to just go with Buck

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Ford and his song Cold Beer. You guys have an

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awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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It all started with a cold beer In a smoky

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atmosphere A few words whispered in.

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Her ear And then we get on out of here

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And it was down some back road In the backseat

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up close We've been together almost a year It all

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started with a cold beer.

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Plain as day I dropped the top On my Chevrolet

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And I picked her up I was sweet on her

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She was leery of me I was all arms She

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was uh-uh Please.

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Do not touch I thought how Am I gonna break

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the ice With a girl that's so pretty and so

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nice It all started with a cold beer In a

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smoky atmosphere A few words whispered in her ear.

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Can we get on out of here?

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Then it was down some back road In the backseat

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Up close We've been together almost a year It all

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