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

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  SPEAKER_00: And here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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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: Happy to be here October 21st.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is the year going?
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness gracious.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is my what 42nd week of doing this show?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're well over a hundred already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just having fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be warm.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be cold here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: October 21st, what's new?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Back to the Future Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to Back to the Future on October 21st, 2015 in the movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1957, Elvis Presley's single Jail House Rock hit number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: 61, Bob Dylan's debut album.
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  SPEAKER_00: He recorded at Columbia Studio A in New York.
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  SPEAKER_00: It cost him$402.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1972, Curtis Mayfield Superfly and Chuck Berry's My Dingalink made number one.
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  SPEAKER_00: 77, Meatloaf's Rock Opera debut album, Bat Out of Hell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1992, Madonna's Controversial Coffee Book Table called Sex came out on the market.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1997, Elton John's Candle in the Wind, 1997.
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  SPEAKER_00: It hit the Guinness Book of World Records for the best-selling single of all time with 31.8 million.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 2016, Leonard Cohen's final album, You Want It Darker, he was passed away 17 days later.
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  SPEAKER_00: R.I.P.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leonard Cohen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Guinness Book of Records.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why was it created?
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  SPEAKER_00: 1954.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Dublin's Guinness Brewery, the managing director, Hugh Beaver, did research because there were a lot of arguments about he went on a hunting trip and what was the fastest bird.
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  SPEAKER_00: People were arguing over.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he decided to found and launch a company called Guinness Superlatives.
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  SPEAKER_00: He hired researchers, Norris and Ross McWurter.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1955, on August 27th, they published the first Guinness Book of Records, which we now know as the World Records.
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  SPEAKER_00: They sent out a thousand laminated copies to protect from beer spillage to local pubs because people were spilling beer on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: By Christmas that year, 50,000 copies were sold.
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  SPEAKER_00: It became a UK bestseller.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1956, the first U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: edition was published.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1964, a million copies were sold.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now we have over 150 million sold.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have to tell you that the most records in the book are held by Ashrita Furman.
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  SPEAKER_00: You see a little picture of him on the bottom right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He uh set the record for pogo stick climbing up Mount Fuji.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you want to do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Underwater hula hooping?
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  SPEAKER_00: Count me out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he has lighted or lit 72,000 birthday cake candles so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seat fillers, back in ancient Greece in the fourth century.
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  SPEAKER_00: Greek playwright and poet Philemon.
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  SPEAKER_00: He stockpiled his audiences with enthusiastic allies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, seat fellers to help win competitions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paris opera houses in early 19th century used clackers, C-L-A-Q-U-E-R-S.
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  SPEAKER_00: These were groups of people who were paid to prod the crowd to applaud, and the leaders read the scripts in advance of the opera so they knew when to applaud and get everybody to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Italian opera houses did it in early 1960s, and in 2013, the New York Times profiled the Moscow's Bolshei Theater clack-filled audience.
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  SPEAKER_00: 5,000 people were hired to clap for Roman Emperor Nero at public events.
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  SPEAKER_00: No comment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world's longest sustained applause, I hope this is in the Guinness book, is three hours and sixteen minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 1950, television announced, well, they didn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: They started using pre-recorded laugh tracks.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, this is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Apple Day, Caramel Apple Day, Garbanzo Bean Day, Day of the Nacho, Pumpkin Cheesecake Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll line up for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's babbling day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teddy friends are getting ready for Halloween and birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dizzy Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judge Judy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Andrew Scott, actor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kim Kardashian needs no explanation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glenn Powell, actor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kane Brown, country music singer, and Doja Cat, rapper, singer, and songwriter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music and do a couple of shout-outs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's get out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let me get the music on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy Davis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope all is well.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's time for shout-outs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos and Jake, my grandpuppies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G and the family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs and kisses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, what's for dinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll line up for that cheesecake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield, keep on writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enigma series and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we gotta go to another song here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got another one.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: We ran out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carol Otis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, hugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karen Gibson hugs Mary Natalie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you are recovering well from your surgery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dylan Joe hugs Kathy Lutrell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope George is progressing on his PT after his surgery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brendan Duffy hugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes! Jerry Meyer, Simon Mike, Ben and Emmy Welch, Diane, Lloyd Baines, Deborah Mallow, Jan Burl, Jose Milo, Cosmo, Ron Roel, things for the future of your puppy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marcel McRiblo Vogoli.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Peepani C.
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  SPEAKER_00: You all have a great day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's wild and wacky Wednesday, Wednesday, Winston Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's late, my