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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Marx Brothers Became Comedians Thanks To An Escaped Mule In Texas
Description: Today was the birthday in 1890 of Groucho Marx, perhaps the best known of the comic geniuses known as the Marx Brothers. And yet, if it hadn’t been for a runaway mule, they might never have ended up doing comedy. Plus: today in 2006, musician Katie Melua and her band set a world record for deepest underwater concert by playing over 300 meters below sea level, for workers in an oil rig in the North Sea.
Marx Brothers' road to stardom began in Nacogdoches (Houston Chronicle)
Melua's deep sea gig sets record
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