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Today is July the 29th back of the day, 135 years ago, 1890.

Vincent Van Gogh died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in France.

71 years ago, 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, published a Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of his Lord of the Rings trilogy.

51 years ago, 1974, Mama Cass Elliott, of Mamas and the Pappas, died of... Joking. How did Mama Cass die? Was it a heart attack? Oh, no, this was the... She choked on a ham sandwich or something. That's the myth. That's the myth? That's the myth. She died of a heart attack. It's a horrible myth.

But the myth is that she died of choking on a ham sandwich.

Because she was overweight.

Which I believe, if I'm not mistaken, there was a sandwich on the nightstand.

Well, that's just normal.

Yeah, a night sandwich.

It keeps the flies away. A nightstand sandwich?

I found out over the weekend that my father or my stepdad, he has a drawer of candy in his bedside table.

Whoa, really?

Like full to the brim.

Where there's, we're talking about like, you know, no man.

We're talking like all the good stuff.

Almond Joy, Kit Kat, Snickers. 100 grand. Jerry. He does? Yeah. He's got chocolate at the bedside? Yes. And you know he ain't getting up and brushing his teeth? Like things are wild when you retire. That wouldn't make like getting turned down for sex better as a married guy.

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