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SayWhat?!? Good News! August 21 with The Bonnie D. · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is frisky Friday, and someone knows what that means.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very, very interesting day today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go to screens and we're gonna find her.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's still gonna be hot here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: What can I tell you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, August 21st, so many milestones.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1942, Walt Disney's movie Bambi debuted.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1987, Dirty Dancing debuted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1998, Marvel superhero movie Blade with Wesley Snipes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Started the modern comic book movie adaptation trend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 2019, Dwayne The Rock Johnson was named the highest paid actor for the second year in a row.
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  SPEAKER_00: He made a mere$89.4 million.
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  SPEAKER_00: What can I tell you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, read this if you dare.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bulwart Litton fiction contest invited writers to submit the worst possible opening sentence to a novel nobody would ever want to read.
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  SPEAKER_00: Submitted by a panel of undistinguished judges.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they said.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a couple of samples here for you from two years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: The contest has been retired.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2024, the grand prize went to the following.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham hock tossed from a speeding truck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, digest that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Grand Panjantrum special award went to Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Higgins' body was found in the pantry, bludgeoned with a potato ricer and lying atop a 50-pound sack of Yukon Golds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her favor for making gnocchi, though some people consider them too moist for this purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the 2024 Romance Award went to if broken hearts are made of a lot of recipes here.
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  SPEAKER_00: If broken hearts were made of simple syrup and shattered dreams were made from white rum, and agony and despair came from three-quarters ounce of lime juice, freshly squeezed, and three mint leaves respectively, then Mary Lou just served up a mojito cocktail straight from the ninth circle of hell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which he told Ricky the baby wasn't his.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, Edward Bull were light and lived from 1803 to 1873.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is known best for his opening words of his night 1830 novel, Paul Clifford.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a dark and stormy night.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the often quoted statement, the pen is mightier than the sword, from his 1839 play, Richelieu.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he was prolific.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen up.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're still talking about words here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is from dictionary scoop.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you say I'm nauseous?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, nauseous means you're creating nausea in somebody else.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are feeling nauseated.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Decimated, it doesn't mean you destroy something or something was completely gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means reduced by one tenth.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a decimal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Peruse doesn't mean I'm skimming it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means to read deeply and thoroughly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And jealousy versus envy, jealousy is when you fear losing something you had.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you're jealous of somebody who won a trophy that you never had, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Envy is the desire to have something that someone else has.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope I cleared that up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's go to birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Loretta Devine, actress, you know for Ezadel Weber in Grey's Anatomy and many movies.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's 77.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kim Cottrell played Samantha Jones on Sex in the City, 71.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carrie Ann Moss, the actress who played Trinity in the Matrix series, 59, Casey Musgrave's Country Singer, Butterflies and Rainbow, two of her songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: 38, Usain Bolt, Olympic sprinter.
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  SPEAKER_00: He won the gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Men's first time men's 100 meters for three Olympics.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's only 40.
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  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations and happy birthday, Kenny Rogers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We miss him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Country Singer the Gambler was just one example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Born today in 1938.
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  SPEAKER_00: Will Chamberlain, basketball legend with the Philadelphia Warriors, NBA lead champion, 1936, born today.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see Elvis down there wearing a Hawaiian shirt, Bob.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Hawaiian shirt day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Teddy friends are having spaghetti and meatballs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, not much for dinner today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Pomony Day, Kool-Aid Day, Goat Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's just go with greatest of all time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think Bob's gonna be eating goat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Poets Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not composing any, sorry, but that my Wednesday poetry group is on Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go to share.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we've got here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's get out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy Davis, this is for you, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Famous Jacker Home, my grandpuppies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G and the graduates.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, coming to visit me for my birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob Pickin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me know what's for dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's in the freezer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brackfield just launched.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just debut, just released.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elizabeth Reckoning.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry and Meyer and Luca.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's too adorable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary Nunley and Eli Mary's hosting a summit of cheese into creativity and always some wonderful things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary, happy to have you as my friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chili and Joe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sending good wishes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy M, neighborhood watch, neighborhood chairperson.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're happy to have you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for your caring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carrie gives the new Hawaii hugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy and Jennifer Davis again hugs in New York.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vicken Gladys, delayed, happy birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carol O, Pennsylvania, Jan Burl, Deborah Mallow, Ron Roel, Brad Borkins, Bird Hoffman, Tim Walters, so many interesting people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs and kisses to all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you on Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a superb weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, it's Frispy Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Woo!