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SayWhat?!? Good News! August 25 with The Bonnie D. · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: We are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: The, so nobody mistakes me with somebody else.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's August 25th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is the month of the year going?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's almost Labor Day back to school time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to share with us today.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: I think we have some foists.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what foists are.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something that happens first.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's still hiding in the woods.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only going to be about 98 today, so not so hot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marby milestones, foists.
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  SPEAKER_00: Matthew Webb, 1875, is the first known person to successfully swim across the English Channel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glad he made it.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1958, Chicken Ramen in Japan debuted Mass Market Instant Ramen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you had yours today?
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  SPEAKER_00: 1975 Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run debut 1976 Boston's self-title album.
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  SPEAKER_00: What else Boston?
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul Simon's Graceland, Metallica's and Justice for All and the Miseducation of Lauren Hill.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know whose album that was.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: The zipper.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you think about the zipper?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in 1851, Elias Howe's automatic continuous clothing closure debuted.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then in 1983, well, I mean this must be 1893.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whitcomb Judson's clasp locker was at the World's Fair in Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_00: What was the problem with zippers?
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  SPEAKER_00: They were expensive to produce, they were unreliable, they were different from buttons and other fasteners, and people said, No, we're not going to use them.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1893, Lewis Walker's Universal Fastener Company became Talon.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know the Talon zipper in 1937.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1906, Gideon Sunback's modern zipper, spoiler teeth, more of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had a slider and he developed a machine to make them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: military used those on the uniforms for the soldiers in World War I.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1934, YKK, that's not Y2K, 7 billion zippers a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Yoshida in Kiribi, Japan.
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  SPEAKER_00: They make over 40% of the world zippers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 2017, Talon unzipped a 3.1 mile zipper.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: At the W Hotel in Hollywood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Talon specializes in zippers for denim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Does your zipper say YKK?
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a look.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's go to our faded sign and all.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was apparently the world's first motel.
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  SPEAKER_00: It hits the market on California's Central Coast.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for sale, but we don't know the price yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll let you know when I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called the Milestone Motel, developed by an architect named Arthur Heinmann and later renamed the motel in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It debuted, opened in 1925.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a novelty.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't have to walk blocks from the parking lot or the back street to get to the hotel.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could drive right up to the door of the room and sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was$1.25 a night.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: That'd be$24 today.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: They held 160 people.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had carpeting and showers.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: The painter couldn't fit milestone motor hotel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the word motel was squished together, and that's what he or she painted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a 4.2 acre property, mission style.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has a bell tower, original lobby, and the sign is faded, but it's there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clint Eastwood, Lucille Ball, and Bob Hope stopped there at some point.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 1954, Marilyn Monroe and her new husband Joe DiMaggio had lunch there.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a restaurant on their honeymoon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's closed now, but it is for sale.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll let you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now let's do some birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sean Connery, Bond, James Bond.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll just say Bonnie D, the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Double O seven times seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven movies he did.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1930, born today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regis Philbin, born today in 1931, the host, TV host, the most TV hours of anybody, apparently, according to Guinness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gene Simmons, alive and well, the rock musician who co-founded Kiss.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a picture of their latest poster down there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's 77.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elvis Costello, pop musician.
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  SPEAKER_00: He co-wrote Veronica with Paul McCartney.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's 72.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tim Burton.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so many movies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissors Hand, he's 68.
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  SPEAKER_00: Billy Day Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know whose dad he is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Country singer, Aiky Breaky Heart, 65.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Blair Underwood, the actor who was Jonathan Rollins on LA Law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, Banana Split Day, Whiskey Sour Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing for dinner, let me know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kiss and makeup day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to kiss and make up anybody, but I might kiss somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Secondhand wardrobe day.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a picture of a whiskey sour.
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  SPEAKER_00: I used to drink those.
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  SPEAKER_00: They always let me with a funny feeling in my teeth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to let's go back to our music and let's see what we've got here and let's go out with our shout-outs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know Kathy likes the full music, so we're just gonna do the Oh, we gotta go.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: We lost our uh we lost our audio share.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, gotta pay my engineer more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos Lee and Jake Joseph.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hunts of kisses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope your dad is doing better.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know he's in the ICU.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sending prayers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, what's for dinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brainfield, Enigma Books, The Reckoning.
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  SPEAKER_00: You reckon?
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  SPEAKER_00: Terry Meyer and Luca.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary Natalie and Eli.
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  SPEAKER_00: Philippi and Joe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feel well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy M on my block.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taking good care of the neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karen Gibson and artist Serena Gibson Brita.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy and Jennifer Davis in New York hugs.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: Carol Odis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs Dan Girl, hugs Deborah Mala, hugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sending the hugs to everybody I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you tomorrow.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for you.