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- 0:02SPEAKER_00: Say what?
- 0:05unknown: Good news.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: Good news.
- 0:07SPEAKER_00: Say what?
- 0:08SPEAKER_00: Good news.
- 0:10SPEAKER_00: There we go.
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie Dia.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: It's why not Wednesday?
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: That's a good question.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: Two flowers for a special reason today.
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: What can I tell you?
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has in store for us.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: Let's go to her screens while she's hiding.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: Oh, she's not hiding today.
- 0:27SPEAKER_00: It's only gonna be 102.
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: July 22nd, already music milestones, 1956.
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: The UK albums chart debuted, and the number one song was Frank Sinatra.
- 0:39SPEAKER_00: Songs for Swingin' Lovers.
- 0:40SPEAKER_00: I think my mom had the LP of that.
- 0:42SPEAKER_00: I think she did.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: I remember seeing it in the house.
- 0:45SPEAKER_00: In 2019, Queen's YouTube video of Bohemian Rhapsody hit 1 billion views.
- 0:52SPEAKER_00: Oh my.
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: And in 2023, there was a Swift quake.
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: That's when Taylor Swift's Seattle Eras Tour, the fans were dancing.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: They were dancing so hard on the ground that it created the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: Go Swifties.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: Okay, interesting.
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: Two stories for you today.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: Just two.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: If the shoe fits, Rashid Lazarak's East London vintage shoe shop called Rich Collections Italia was struggling.
- 1:19SPEAKER_00: Why customers were eh, aging out, losing interest, online sales.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: He put up a closing sign.
- 1:25SPEAKER_00: Then a French influencer said, It's a hidden gem.
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: His 25-year-old daughter Zaneb said, I'm gonna go make a TikTok video.
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: She featured Y2K style, kitten heels.
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: There's a picture of the heels on the bottom there.
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: She got 300,000 views overnight.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: It should happen to me.
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: Within days, customers, mostly young, began lining up.
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: The store had a line two hours out the door.
- 1:46SPEAKER_00: They had to limit the number of people.
- 1:48SPEAKER_00: It's just a tiny story.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: There's Dad and Z Zenab on the bottom.
- 1:51SPEAKER_00: He is now considering expanding into online sales.
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: Yeah, get with the program and serving a new generation of customers if the shoe fits.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: And let's go to Bullseye.
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: Apparently, Egyptian princesses 4,000 years ago were skilled at archery and hunting.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: Those weren't just relics stuck in their tombs.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: They uh saw researchers looking at six royal mummies, and they identified that the females, the women, had strong muscle attachments, fractures that were healed, skeletal evidence of regular, physically demanding activity.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: There were bows, arrows, daggers.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: Be careful, don't meet them in a dark alley or a dark tombstone.
- 2:28SPEAKER_00: And there was advanced medical care too.
- 2:30SPEAKER_00: They're creating 3D models.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: There you see a pictorial of an image of what they might have looked like with their bows and arrows, slings and arrows.
- 2:37SPEAKER_00: So let's go to birthdays.
- 2:38SPEAKER_00: We have so many.
- 2:39SPEAKER_00: I changed the format.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: Selena Gomez is 34.
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: David Spade, 62.
- 2:43SPEAKER_00: John Legazamo, 66.
- 2:45SPEAKER_00: Willem Defoe is 71.
- 2:47SPEAKER_00: Don Henley from the The Eagle, 79.
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: Danny Glover, esteemed actor, 80.
- 2:51SPEAKER_00: George Clinton, Funkinelli, musician, 85.
- 2:54SPEAKER_00: And Alex Trebek.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: We lost him a couple of years ago.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: The host of Jeopardy for so many years, born today in 1940.
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: Bob, today is Mango Day.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: Panoche Fudge Day.
- 3:03SPEAKER_00: Not much for dinner, but a lot for dessert.
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: It's hammock day.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: I didn't put a picture of the teddies with the hammocks.
- 3:08SPEAKER_00: I'll do it tomorrow.
- 3:09SPEAKER_00: And spoonerism day.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: It's pie approximation day.
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: 227.
- 3:15SPEAKER_00: That fraction approximates, even though it's a rational number.
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: 3.14285714.
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: But pie actually is an irrational number.
- 3:24SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I feel irrational.
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: 3.14159265, and it just goes on forever.
- 3:29SPEAKER_00: Spoonerism day.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: Well, uh William Archibald Spooner, 1844 to 1930, was a British clergyman, speaker, academic, and he transposed the sounds in phrases.
- 3:40SPEAKER_00: So a pack of lies could be a lack of pies.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: Well, there you go for dessert.
- 3:43SPEAKER_00: Jelly beans were belly jeans.
- 3:45SPEAKER_00: A crushing blow could be a blushing crow.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: And show you to your seat could be sew you to your sheet.
- 3:50SPEAKER_00: And there you go.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: And that's not where we want to be.
- 3:53SPEAKER_00: So let's get out of here and go back and do some.
- 3:55SPEAKER_00: Let's go back and do some music.
- 3:57SPEAKER_00: We gotta find it.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: And Maestro.
- 4:02SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
- 4:03SPEAKER_00: Let's go do some shout-outs.
- 4:04SPEAKER_00: I should know these by heart by now.
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: Amos Lee is feeling better.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: Kathy, yes, Amos Lee and Jake Joseph.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: The men's are working.
- 4:12SPEAKER_00: Great.
- 4:12SPEAKER_00: Yes, I think I have lipstick on my team.
- 4:14SPEAKER_00: Theresa J and the graduates, my family.
- 4:18SPEAKER_00: Hug.
- 4:19SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield's Enigma author, techno thrillers.
- 4:22SPEAKER_00: The recognition is coming out soon.
- 4:24SPEAKER_00: What's with the lipstick today?
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: Barry and Meyer.
- 4:27SPEAKER_00: Gonna be on my tech show today with Dr.
- 4:30SPEAKER_00: Bob talking about AI happiness.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: There we go.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: Dr.
- 4:34SPEAKER_00: Bob, stick to what's for dinner.
- 4:35SPEAKER_00: Mary and Natalie hugs, stick to my path for 65.
- 4:37SPEAKER_00: We stopped getting there.
- 4:39SPEAKER_00: Karen Gibson, glad you have some new instituer in Hawaii.
- 4:43SPEAKER_00: Deborah Mella, Miss Sunshine, Kathy and Jennifer Davis in New York, hugs, Jen Burl, hugs.
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: Carol O going to the beach.
- 4:49SPEAKER_00: Hugs, Kathy M and Silva V.
- 4:51SPEAKER_00: My neighbors, sending hugs to both of you, especially Silva and your family.
- 4:55SPEAKER_00: OJ Milo, thanks for coming on my show Monday.
- 4:58SPEAKER_00: One row L45 Forward.
- 5:00SPEAKER_00: Simon and Adam, glad to see you doing your thing in German.
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: Say what?
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.
- 5:04SPEAKER_00: Bye all.