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Say What?!? Good News! September 22 with The Bonnie D.! · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: And here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say what news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's September 22nd, and it is the autumnal equinox or equinox, depending on how you like to say it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's go and see what she has to say on this very special day as our seasons officially changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Miles of Smiles, 1903, on this day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ice cream cone U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: patent was granted to Italo Marcioni for a mold designed to bake pastry cups with sloping edges.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cone, not the ice cream.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1958, moving ahead, Bruce Springsteen recorded his MTV Unplugged special, but he plugged in electric anyway after the first song.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was called MTV Plugged.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1972, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Tour kicked off the North American leg or phase at the music hall in Cleveland, Ohio.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 1995, S-E-7-E-N, I guess that's seven, David Fincher's psychological, Bob probably knows what this psychological crime thriller starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman debuted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It became a defining neo-noir classic of the decade.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's move on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just do this quickly here.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a family named Chick S-C-H-I-C-K, and they have started a nonprofit called Pencil Peninsula Precious Plastics.
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  SPEAKER_00: They re-home hard-to-recycle thermoplastics into new objects.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have a shredder, it turns plastics into gradual granules, they heat press them into molds, making furniture, combs, keyrings, clipboards, desks, and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a young student named Sophie Rue, R-O-U-X at Stanford, who decided to create solar-powered classrooms in Malawi.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she went to the Chick family and she said, Could I borrow some of your Peninsula Precious Plastic machines and make desks?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll see here, I'm gonna circle this with my mouse there.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go, with the cursor.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were the students holding up, they made desks out of the recycled plastics.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the dad of the Chick family with Sophie visiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the son, Nick Chick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taking a plastic sheet off of the mold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very enterprising.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go to big product flops.
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  SPEAKER_00: What were they thinking?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll just let you glance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ford Edsel, 1950s.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: Colgate kitchen entrees?
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  SPEAKER_00: Frozen food?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bic perfume in the 80s?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bic disposable perfume?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: New Coke, do you remember?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: 1985 and 1990s Harley ventured into luxury fragrance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And people said, wait a minute, I thought you were a rugged motorcycle brand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Flop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go to birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the autumnal equinox.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's ice cream cone day.
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  SPEAKER_00: White chocolate day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, not allowed for dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dear Diary, write it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elephant appreciation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's Bilbo and Frodo Baggin's birthdays in the Hobbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Birthdays for real.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michael Faraday, born today in 1791.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was an English physicist and chemist who uh developed the first electric motor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Debbie Boone, the singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You light up my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, there you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think she's somebody's daughter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nick Cave from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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  SPEAKER_00: His famous song is Red Right Hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: It became the theme of Peaky Blinders.
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  SPEAKER_00: Andrea Bocelli, 1958, born today, opera singer and tenor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he wrote, he sang rather The Prayer, a beautiful duet with Celine Dion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joan Jett, oh, you know who she is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rock singer and musician, born today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love rock and roll.
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  SPEAKER_00: Scott Bayo, he was Chachi and Charles in Charge, born in 1960, TV actor from Happy Days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Billy Piper, actress and former pop singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary, this is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: She played Rose on Doctor Who, and she played a character in Penny Dreadful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Tom Felton, actor in Harry Potter, Draco Malfi.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what does our our teddy friends are making popcorn and our wine whimsy says Whitewegs come in flimsy cardboard boxes, but batteries come in packets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only a chainsaw can open.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on that note, ha, there's notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, that's note.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, musical note.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go back to our outro.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maestro, please.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is for Kathy Davis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, shout-outs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos Lee and Jake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph, see you this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G and the graduates coming to visit me.
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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 Frankfield, Enigma Books, The Reckoning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sherry Meyer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope all is well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary Natalie on her way to GRRCon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sheila and Joe, my neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy Luchel, my neighbor, what a storm we had last night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carrie Gibson, delayed happy birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: The gift has arrived.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amazon told me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy and Jennifer Davis, John tofu, you had BDF.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carolotus, Dan Burl, Deborah Mello, Bread Pork, and Surge Cupman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Frivo, Marcel Vogley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my good friends, Tim Walters, I'm a donut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sending a shout-out and I'm like everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's put that boot.