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- 0:01unknown: Good news.
- 0:04SPEAKER_00: Good news.
- 0:07SPEAKER_01: There we are.
- 0:08SPEAKER_01: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
- 0:10SPEAKER_01: Wherever in the world you are, I'm the Bonnie D, and I have some good news for you.
- 0:14SPEAKER_01: Some interesting news, some fun news.
- 0:16SPEAKER_01: Let's see where she is hiding today.
- 0:18SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be another hot one here in East Tennessee.
- 0:21SPEAKER_01: What can I tell you?
- 0:22SPEAKER_01: No rain.
- 0:22SPEAKER_01: Please bring the rain.
- 0:23SPEAKER_01: If you've got it, send it over.
- 0:24SPEAKER_01: September 15th.
- 0:25SPEAKER_01: What?
- 0:26SPEAKER_01: I think my tax estimates are due today.
- 0:28SPEAKER_01: Elvis Presley, 1956, don't be cruel.
- 0:31SPEAKER_01: The double side was, you ain't nothing but hound dog.
- 0:34SPEAKER_01: Big Mama Thornton did that too.
- 0:36SPEAKER_01: He hit number one on the billboard, Hot 100.
- 0:39SPEAKER_01: 1965, Ford was the first automaker to offer eight-track tape player as an option in all of its vehicles in the U.S.
- 0:46SPEAKER_01: 1975, Pink Floyd's ninth album, Wish You Were Here, debuted.
- 0:50SPEAKER_01: 1979, Led Zeppelin In Through the Outdoor, number one.
- 0:54SPEAKER_01: And the album charts, the final album before John Bonham passed.
- 0:58SPEAKER_01: And 1993, Meatloaf released I'd Do Anything for Love.
- 1:01SPEAKER_01: No, I'm not going to start to sing that, Bob.
- 1:03SPEAKER_01: But I won't do that.
- 1:04SPEAKER_01: It hit number one in 28 countries.
- 1:06SPEAKER_01: We have a little more music notes here, but first, there's a living roof that has biodiversity at the Ford Rouge plant in Michigan.
- 1:15SPEAKER_01: In 2002, they were upgrading the plant and they put in a basically 10.4 acre living green roof on the factory's final assembly building.
- 1:25SPEAKER_01: See some pictures there on the left.
- 1:26SPEAKER_01: It had cedum or satum, which is a drought-resistant flowering plant.
- 1:30SPEAKER_01: It collected and filtered filtered stormwater runoff.
- 1:33SPEAKER_01: It was like a giant sponge.
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: And it insulated the building 10 degrees warmer in the winter, 10 degrees cooler in the summer.
- 1:39SPEAKER_01: In 1915, Henry Ford had this idea of turning the site into a bird sanctuary.
- 1:44SPEAKER_01: And that's sanctuary, and that's pretty much what it is.
- 1:46SPEAKER_01: It's a 600-acre site now of thousands of flowers, shrubs, trees, and 20,000 honeybees.
- 1:53SPEAKER_01: Okay, there you go, honey.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: Let's go to, I told you more music news, Reese Wynne Jones, homeless for a decade in England, dropped into a on a cold January night in Penzance to St.
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: Mary's Church, and there was a piano.
- 2:08SPEAKER_01: He sat down and started playing Queen's Bohemium Rhapsody.
- 2:12SPEAKER_01: A volunteer was there and said, Wow, and started filming it, posted it online, it went viral.
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: And Reese said, There's a lot of noise in my head, but when I play the piano, my head goes quiet and I feel calm.
- 2:24SPEAKER_01: He's since performed along Stars.
- 2:26SPEAKER_01: He's moved into permanent housing.
- 2:29SPEAKER_01: He has raised$54,000 for homeless charities.
- 2:32SPEAKER_01: Figure that.
- 2:33SPEAKER_01: And he says, I don't see myself as a professional pianist or a celebrity figure.
- 2:37SPEAKER_01: I only need enough money to cover my expenses.
- 2:40SPEAKER_01: I just love to play the piano to raise money for homeless charities and good causes.
- 2:44SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Reese.
- 2:46SPEAKER_01: Make my heart warm.
- 2:47SPEAKER_01: There you go.
- 2:48SPEAKER_01: Now let's go to birthdays and holidays.
- 2:50SPEAKER_01: Okay, Bob, we're doing your food first.
- 2:52SPEAKER_01: Uh hello to Bob and Miss Debbie.
- 2:54SPEAKER_01: Linguini Day, creme de Minth.
- 2:56SPEAKER_01: You could wash it down with that.
- 2:57SPEAKER_01: Cheese toast and butterscotch cinnamon pie.
- 3:00SPEAKER_01: Never had that.
- 3:01SPEAKER_01: Double cheeseburger.
- 3:02SPEAKER_01: You got so much to look forward to, Bob, for dinner tonight.
- 3:05SPEAKER_01: It's also eight-track day, and we talked about that.
- 3:08SPEAKER_01: Birthdays, Tommy Lee Jones, the actor, the fugitive, men in black, Oliver Stone, filmmaker and director, platoon, and so many more.
- 3:14SPEAKER_01: Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins, Pro Football, Hall of Fame quarterback, born in 1961.
- 3:19SPEAKER_01: Tom Hardy, English actor, Mad Max Ferry Road in Inception, born in 77.
- 3:23SPEAKER_01: And Agatha Christie, born in 1890 today, English crime novelist.
- 3:27SPEAKER_01: You all know her.
- 3:32SPEAKER_01: Beresford, she has written, uh, Agatha wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collectives.
- 3:39SPEAKER_01: And that's our news.
- 3:40SPEAKER_01: Let's go to our shout-outs now and let's see what we've got.
- 3:43SPEAKER_01: We're gonna go back to our music engineer.
- 3:45SPEAKER_01: Please do this a little bit faster.
- 3:46SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
- 3:47SPEAKER_01: Kathy Davis, this is for you.
- 3:49SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 3:50SPEAKER_01: Kathy already did your shout-out.
- 3:52SPEAKER_01: You and Jennifer.
- 3:53SPEAKER_01: Amos Lee and Jake Joseph are upstate New York in beautiful lake and waterfall.
- 3:57SPEAKER_01: Teresa G is a graduate.
- 3:58SPEAKER_01: See you soon.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: Dr.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: Bob and Debbie, there you go.
- 4:01SPEAKER_01: Charles Brakefield, Enigma Books, Go Be Techno Thrilled, Cherry Meyer and Shay.
- 4:05SPEAKER_01: It's almost whiskey time, Sherry.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: Jerry Medley and Eli.
- 4:09SPEAKER_00: Hello to Sheila V and Joe.
- 4:11SPEAKER_00: And that's Quiltylo out.
- 4:12SPEAKER_00: Cathy Lutrell, our neighborhood captain.
- 4:14SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Terry Gibson and family in Hawaii.
- 4:18SPEAKER_01: Said hello already.
- 4:19SPEAKER_01: Carolow, Debbie Mellow, Jim Burl.
- 4:21SPEAKER_01: Fred Work and Bob Johnson.
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: Myself Blue Lee, my free bell.
- 4:28SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
- 4:34SPEAKER_00: That is my guy.