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Maya Angelou - There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, a
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew Mcgibbon for July 29th.
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  Today is National Chicken Wing Day.
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  And before you ask, yes, it's also International Chicken Wing
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  Day. Apparently the world couldn't
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  agree on whether chicken wings deserve national or global
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  recognition, so we got both. Which honestly feels about right
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  for something that brings people together over plates of saucy,
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  sticky goodness. Now, chicken wings weren't
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  always the superstar appetizer we know today.
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  They were actually considered scraps that throw away parts
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  that butchers would use for soup stock.
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  Wasn't until 1964 when Teresa Bellamissimo at the Anchor Bar
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  in Buffalo, NY, tossed some wings in hot sauce and butter
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  out of necessity to feed her son and his friends late one night.
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  And just like that, Buffalo wings were born, turning
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  forgotten scraps into one of America's most beloved foods.
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  There's something beautiful about that story, which brings
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  us to today's quote from Maya Angelou, who once said there is
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  no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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  Now, you might be wondering what chicken wings have to do with
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  untold stories, but hear me out. Those wings sat in obscurity for
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  decades, overlooked, undervalued, with their
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  potential completely untapped. They had a story to tell, but no
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  one was listening. Until one creative moment when
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  everything changed. How many of us have our own
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  chicken wing moments? Those ideas, dreams, and talents
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  that we've dismissed as scraps, not worthy of the main course of
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  our lives? Maybe it's that book you've been
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  meaning to write, the ark you create in secret, or even just
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  the encouraging words you hold back because you think they
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  don't matter. Maya Angelou understood that our
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  stories, especially the ones we're afraid to tell, often hold
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  the most power. They're waiting to be shared, to
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  be celebrated, to transform from something we think is ordinary
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  into something that brings people together.
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  So today, whether you're enjoying some wings or just
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  going about your regular Tuesday, think about what story
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  you've been keeping to yourself. What potential are you
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  overlooking? Sometimes the scraps we dismiss
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  are exactly what the world needs to hear.
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  It's funny because when I was younger, me and my friends used
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  to go for wings all the time. Where I lived there was a bar
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  who had wing night on Monday nights and another bar had wing
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  night on Tuesday nights and another had cheap wings on
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  Wednesdays. The bar that had Thursday night
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  wings had some competition from another bar that had prawn night
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  on Thursdays and nobody had a wing special on the weekend.
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  We were like wing groupies and we could always be found just by
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  going to the bar with the wing special on that night, except
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  for Thursdays. Then it was 5050.
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  That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.