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Say What?!? Good News! September 21 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: Let's find our music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wherever you are in the world, I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the 21st of September, and I'm saying it that way for a special reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go and see what she has to say today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you're gonna find out very quickly what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyone remember Earth, Wind, and Fire, that wonderful band, that wonderful group?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, they released in November 1978 their funk anthem called September.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sparked an annual global pop culture celebration.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the line of the song was, Do you remember the 21st night of September?
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  SPEAKER_00: It caught on all over the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: It hit number one on the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Billboard Hot RB songs chart, number eight on the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Billboard Hot 100.
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  SPEAKER_00: 2018, how many years later it was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry?
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know they had one for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll go with aesthetically.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has created a global celebration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Elements, Earth, Wind, and Fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy September 21st.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a quick note here.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you go to a restaurant that considers itself upscale and it has a water menu, well, you may remember, or you may have heard in school, the 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, there's lots of drops to drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find restaurants that serve fine water service.
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  SPEAKER_00: No ice or lemon because they disturb the delicate mineral acidity and sweetness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're served, the water is served at precise temperatures between 46 and 54 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have TDS pairings, that's total dissolved solids in the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Less TDS served with light fish and salads, more TDS, whatever your courses.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have water someliers.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't like wine someliers?
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  SPEAKER_00: They're trained to evaluate the water terroir, okay, minerality, pH, carbonation, and culinary compatibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a fine water academy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tuition is$2,000, run by Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Michael Masha, and he teaches brand storytelling, Epicurean integration.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a self-paced three to four month hybrid instruction course, mostly online, but you have to have three hours of Zoom face-to-face with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a look at the menu on the left.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is from the inn at Little Washington.
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  SPEAKER_00: The highest priced water selection is$95 a bottle iceberg water hand-harvested in Canada from 15,000-year-old glaciers to give hints of ancient packed snow and air.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have it, let me know how it tastes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's do to some birthdays here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, first, Bob, Pecan Cookie Day, Chai Tea Day, Earth, Wind and Fire Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude Day and Respect for the Ages.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's some pictures.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Wine Whimsey says, you know you're over 50 when all your conversations with what was I gonna say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Teddy Friends made rice krispy squirrels the other night.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go with birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Bruckheimer, born in 43.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, the producer of Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Flashdance, Pirates of the Caribbean on TV.
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  SPEAKER_00: He produced the CSI franchise, Miami, Cyber, New York, Lucifer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that show in The Amazing Race and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stephen King, what a birthday to celebrate.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1947, the King of Horror novelist, Carrie The Shining, and so much more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bill Murray.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a very elite birthday list today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Born in 1950, actor and comic, Saturday Light Live, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack Ghostbusters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ethan Cohen, one of the Cohen brothers with Joel, born in 57.
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  SPEAKER_00: He they produced Fargo and the Big Lebowski.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a writer as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dave Coulier with Joey Gladstone on Full House.
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  SPEAKER_00: Born in 59, Faith Hill, country singer, sold 50 million albums.
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  SPEAKER_00: Breathe was one of her global hits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Billy Porter, fabulous actor and singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was Lola in kinky boots on Broadway, the MC in the 2024 version of Cabaret, and he played Praetale in pose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Alfonso Riviero, born in 1971, actor and dancer and TV host, he was originally Carlton on Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music, do a couple shout-outs, and then we'll get out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's go, and here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is for Kathy Davis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just a couple chat outs today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos Lee and Jake Joseph are home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G on the graduate CU weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, not much for dinner, let me know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield, author of the Enigma books.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go be Techno Thrilled.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry and Meyer and Jay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shout out Mary Nunnley on her way to GRR con.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taylor B and Joe, my neighbor's Kathy Trevor, neighborhood captain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Watches over us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karen Gibson in the wives.
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  SPEAKER_00: We later, happy birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope the package arrives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cassie and Jennifer David, John and Tova.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carol Otis, in the world, Deborah Mello, Brad Morgan, Surge Thompson.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many good friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm five days.