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SayWhat?!? Good News! July 29 with The Bonnie D. · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: There we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Hey what?
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Happy to be here.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: It is Wednesday, wild wacky Wednesday.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: It is July 29th.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where the month is going, the year is going.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're just marching on.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say today.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think she has just a couple of very interesting stories for you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's start out with today.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, 1954, the Fellowship of the Ring was published.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the first in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: 1957, the Tonight Show starring Jack Parr premiered.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: That was the beginning of the era of the modern talk show.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: And in 2005, astronomers discovered Eris, E-R-I-S, the second largest dwarf planet that has a day similar to our day.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Ours is 24 hours, theirs is 25.9.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that is thrilling for all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have chop chop.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did Jack and Jill do?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, Carolina Erbovnova, 24 years old, set two women's world records at the 66th annual Lumberjack World Championships in of all places, Hayward, Wisconsin.
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  SPEAKER_00: She ch triumphed in the underhand chop, chopping through 11 inches of white pine in 21.28 seconds, beating the record previously of 24.26.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the standing block, she set the new record of 19.38 seconds.
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  SPEAKER_00: She competed against 40 lumber jills and 66 lumberjacks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the sport was previously really unknown in her home country of Chechia.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she is uh in 2026, she's a full silver medalist in the individual world championship.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would want to meet her in an axe in a dark alley.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go, Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's go to this.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: It looks odd, but it is part of a table that a man in Anhui Province in China discovered.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's his kitchen family kitchen table.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it came from the King Q I N G or Qing Dynasty, 1644 to 1912.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was an honor plaque awarded to his great-great-grandfather, representing how grandpa, great-grandpa, had finished sixth place in the Tang Dynasty Imperial State Test that determined entry into Imperial bureaucracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, why don't you look and see what your family heirlooms might be?
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's a butcher block counter or a kitchen table or something.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: And other people are commenting 10 million views on social media of other people who discovered similar heirlooms.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go to birthdays and holidays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, 73.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: You may know the Ken Burns effect.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's when you take images and you fade and pan over them as though they're in motion, but they're not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Patty Skialfa, singer-guitarist, E Street band, she's married to Bruce.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's 73.
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  SPEAKER_00: She could be Ken Burns' sister from another mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Martina McBride, country singer of 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: Will Wheaton with one L is actor from Star Trek The Next Generation.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was on the Big Bang Theory many times too.
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  SPEAKER_00: 54.
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  SPEAKER_00: Josh Radner from How I Met Your Mother, 52.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Clara Bow, the It Girl, the Sex Symbol.
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  SPEAKER_00: From 1905 to 1965, she lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was born in 1905 today from the silent movie era.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Taylor Swift wrote a song about her.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Bob, it's lasagna for dinner.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't like that, it's chicken wings.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: Lipstick Day, Tiger Day, and Get Gnarly Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in ancient Greece, bright lip paint was legally mandated exclusively for adult workers and courtesans to prevent improperly posing as ladies.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: The Romans thought lip color meant social standing, and in the 1880s, Guerlon, the French cosmetic brand, invented the first commercial lipstick, wrapped it in silk paper.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was made from deer tallow, castor oil, beeswax, and that was the story.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I enjoy my lipstick.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's go to our outro now, and we're gonna go to music and let's do a couple shout-outs and get out of here.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we've got.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Kathy wanted the old music for the outro, so we're just gonna go to the old music.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy, that's for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, shout out to Kathy and Jennifer Davis in New York.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: She didn't like the jazz version.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: Amos Lee and Jake Joseph hugs Theresa G.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: And our graduates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs and kisses.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Stevie Charles Brakefield, author, Enigma.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Techno Thriller.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go find them.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: My goodness gracious.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Read B Techno.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Bob Fickens still celebrating his birthday, I think, with New Lady Debbie D-E-B-B-I.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: I got that right.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Meyer, thanks so much for your promotions and my shows.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate it.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Welcoming Mike Myello, Tim Walter and Adam Greenberg on today's TechReb show about founders plus AI.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Mary Nudley, Hugs and thank you for being my friend to go to Maya Pack.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Great to exchange title scores with you.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: 65, Karen Gibson in Hawaii, Nevermell in the Sunshine, Jan Burl, Carol O is M to B, Happy M and Sheila V, my neighbors and Paul J.
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  SPEAKER_00: Milo, happy diving.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: MAK Radio, Red Bunny D, Lucy Lap, and V1 Bunny D.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.