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SayWhat?!? Good News! July 27 with The Bonnie D. · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Say what?
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: I hope it's a happy Monday.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope you all had a great weekend.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm The Bonnie D.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Happy to be here.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's Monday, July 27th.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Don't even ask me where the year is going.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's just flying by.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say today.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think we've got a lot of little bits and pieces of news.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: There she is.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's hiding.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's only going to be around 102 in the shade today.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: July 27th, Milestones, 1974.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Back in the day, Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run was number one in the UK.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Woo! 1987, Rick Astley, never gonna give you up.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think I wore that CD out in my car.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Number one in 16 countries, and it became a rick-rolling internet phenomenon later on.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: In 1996, the Spice Girls Wanna Be hit number one in the UK.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: It became one of the top-selling singles ever, ever, ever by a girl group.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: So there.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we have a couple of bits and pieces here.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Literally, chip off the old cookie.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: In the 1930s, Ruth Wakefield expected the bits and pieces of chopped chocolate to melt into her cookie dough.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: They stayed intact.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the famous cookie was born.
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  SPEAKER_00: She sold her recipe for I don't know how Toll House caught in there, but she sold her recipe for chocolate chip cookies to Nestle for one dollar.
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  SPEAKER_00: They made billions on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's on the chocolate chip bags.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And bubble wrap, well, engineers Alfred and Mark in New Jersey put two s shower curtains together and tried to trap the air bubbles and make textured wallpaper or greenhouse insulation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wanted it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Duh, a flop.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, in 1959, IBM had a new computer and it needed safer shipping.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: In 1960, Alfred Fielding and Mark Chavines launched their sealed air corporation for new packing material.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was that bubble wrap, not wallpaper, but we all use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we save it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go to our next slide.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what's going on here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, if at first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walt Disney.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Want to talk about uh an overnight success?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Not exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was fired from a newspaper for lacking imagination, no good ideas.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Then his first studio went bankrupt.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: Then his first cartoon, Oswald, The Lucky Rabbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: He forgot to take rights ownership and he lost that.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then 1932, Mickey Mouse won the Oscar for Best Cartoon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Featured film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, became the top-grossing film in 1937 for a couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today Disney's is worth$122.18 billion.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Read it and weep.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: And let's see.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: We have some birthday study.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Bobby Gentry, remember, Ode to Billy Joe.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: He fell off the Tatallahatchie Bridge.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if he fell off or was pushed.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think he jumped.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: She's 84.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: Peggy Fleming, the beautiful Olympic skater, is 78.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Maya Ray Rudolph, very funny lady.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: SNL, and her latest show is called Loot and It's a Riot.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: She's 54.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: Alex A.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Rod Rodriguez.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: We know who he dated is 51.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Baseball player Jonathan Reese Myers is 49.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: We're going down a reverse order from Heidi Gardner.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: Very funny lady on SNL recently is 44.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's creme brulee, Bob.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what you're gonna do for dinner.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you can have cheesecake for dinner, Bob, along with chicken fingers and have a drink of scotch if that's your pleasure.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Bagpipe appreciation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Walk on stilts day.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'll stay short.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Take your pants for a walk and take your house plants for a walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think you're supposed to wear the pants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Creme brulee, classic French dessert from the 1690s.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Burnt cream is the name, what it really means.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's chilled vanilla custard with a crisp, caramelized sugar crust.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the 1980s, the famous New York restaurant Le Cirque put it on their menu.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instant, instant popularity, and everybody wanted some.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our audio.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do a little jazz on the outro here today.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see, we got disco.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right, shout out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos and Jake doing well.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: Regards to speak to your family.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brayfield, techno thriller.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Reckoning's coming out soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: You reckon?
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Go find his book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob F and Debbie, I hope you had a good weekend and made something good for dinner.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: Karen and Thomas's Thomas Gibson in Hawaii were just named 2026.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Parenting coach, author, and an all-around wonderful, lovely lady, and I'm proud to call her my friend.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Meyer, Mary Natalie.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: My lady's my friend.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: We stopped at 625 plus.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Kathy and Jennifer James, New York Hugs, Jan Girl Hux.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: Carol O is at the beach with Wings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a great one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy M and Shieldy, my neighbors.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Rodroell 454 J Milo Diving.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: I funny days.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just gonna say, have a great day.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: See ya.
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  SPEAKER_00: End of the music short.