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SayWhat?!? Good News! August 13 with The Bonnie D. · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey what?
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it Friday?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it's just Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll call this Thursday, Thursday, Twinkling Thursday, whatever you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rain has stopped here in eastern Tennessee, but the windows are still wet and drippy, so there must be some kind of a temperature inversion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I didn't say it, good morning, good afternoon to all of you around the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's go to our share button and let's see.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we have some very interesting news for you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here she is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, little girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Movie debuts today, 1942, Bambi! You all know who Bambi is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Baby debuted the movie at Radio City Music Hall.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles, 1964, Bonnie and Clyde, woo, nineteen sixty seven, fast times at Ridgemont High, 1982.
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  SPEAKER_00: He'd pray love in 2010.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we all know about the telephone, but do any of you remember the coin controlled phones on the street corners?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, they're all over every major city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who started that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, August 13th, 1899.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1889.
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  SPEAKER_00: An inventor named William Gray received a patent number 408,709 for a coin-controlled apparatus for telephones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, the phone was already invented, but we didn't have them everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: You had to put a coin in, I think it was a nickel or a dime in the beginning, and then it was a quarter before you could place a call.
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  SPEAKER_00: He put the first one in a bank in Hartford, Connecticut, and this launched the idea of public pay phones.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Street corners, diners, airports.
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  SPEAKER_00: So long before smartphones, hello, the phrase, can you spare a dime literally could mean can you help me make a phone call?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, working for a dream, young man named Thallus Winner D'Souza was a senior at Cape Cod High School, and he was a chef manager at Wendy's.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was saving up for college.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wanted to go get a construction job.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the bosses at Wendy said, Hold on, stick around.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll put aside some extra money for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They raised enough money to send him three years of tuition to a community college.
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  SPEAKER_00: He got straight A's, he was the student body president, then he applied to Yale.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yale said, Yes, he starts this fall on a full financial aid scholarship worth$194,500 on a pre-law track.
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  SPEAKER_00: So much for dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Birthdays, Sebastian Stan played Bucky Barnes in Marvel, 44.
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  SPEAKER_00: Debbie Maser, a Mazar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Goodfellas Entourage.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved her in the TV show Younger.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's 62.
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  SPEAKER_00: John Slattery.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, Silver Fox.
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  SPEAKER_00: Roger Sterling on Mad Men 64.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was in he was in uh Sex in the City, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dawn Lewis, the actress and singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember her from the A Different World 65.
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  SPEAKER_00: Danny Bonaducci.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was Danny on the Partras family.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's still a redhead, 67.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Alfred Hitchcock, psycho, rear window.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was born today in 1899.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a picture of him with that lower lip.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, fulfillet mignon day.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you like it?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you like it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Prisecco Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got something to eat, something to drink.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's left hander's day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul McCartney, Oprah, Michelangelo, Einstein, Churchill, Marie Curie, Lady Gaga, Jimi Hendrix, Babe Ruth, Rafa Nadal, LeBron James.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many interesting people who have got left hand preference.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music and let's see what we've got.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got some nice shout-outs today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go to the full music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy Davis has for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's we're called Twinkling Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Amos and Jake, my grandpuppies, and their family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa and the graduates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love you all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, have a good dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joe Frankfield, Enigma author, a book of day, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not pushing you, but I think so.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go find his techno thrillers, the Enigma series.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, Madonna, Simon Mice, Vic and Glass, thanks for joining me on Technology Revolution yesterday, the future of cars and AI, broom, Jerry Meyer and Luca, your grandson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you enjoyed the music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary Natalie, thanks for the inspiration on the posters.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Eli, HQ, Cappy Potion, Silvini, you're still famous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy M.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks to being my neighbor, Catherine Houston and Hawaii Lola, Kathy Justin, David, Deborah Mellon, Fred Morten, RonroL, so many people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I still mogly night, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have a great day, and I'll see you tomorrow.