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SayWhat?!? Good News! August 17 with The Bonnie D. · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's mildly Monday, maybe Monday, I'm not sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness, she has a lot to say, actually, today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna find her.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be a real feel eat index here in eastern Tennessee of 109 degrees.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Staying in.
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  SPEAKER_00: What were the big and small screen milestones on August 17th, back in history?
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  SPEAKER_00: 1939, The Wizard of Oz, the real one, the original one, debuted in New York at Lowe's Capitol Theater.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nice bill theater with a TRE instead of it to E R.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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  SPEAKER_00: It debuted.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was funded by George Harrison's company Handmade Films.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1990 Xoras is three, supernatural psychological horror film debuted, and in 2007, High School Musical 2 debuted on the Disney Channel on TV.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, bowl me over.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2020, that was six years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Autumn Mori, 18 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: She worked at a candle pill bowling alley in Ellsworth, Maine.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was set for demolition.
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  SPEAKER_00: She asked the owner to give her three months.
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  SPEAKER_00: She said, we can't let this thing go under the chopping block.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't get it blown up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's important.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wiring was fried, the roof was leaking, the pipe burst.
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  SPEAKER_00: She started to go fund me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So far, she has topped almost$300,000 using it for renovations and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2006, it's still alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Historic 12-lane Ellsworth candlepin bowling alley.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an inclusive, safe space for people in the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: She has golf simulators, pool tables, and an arcade.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, candle pins are thinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have a handheld size ball.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 1987, Sports Illustrated it reported that the game was invented in 1881 by John J.
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  SPEAKER_00: Monsey, a billions billiards player in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what have you done with your duct tape?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is using it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it could be the high schoolers in your house who are designing and wearing formal prom attire made from 100% duct tape.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sophie Chai or Che of California on the left in that gorgeous gown.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jeremiah Constantine in the very regal outfit on the right of Michigan.
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  SPEAKER_00: They each won a$10,000 scholarship in the 2026 contest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sophie's strawberry cake dress with an oversized fork, you can see you're holding it up, took 35 rolls.
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  SPEAKER_00: She has a like a hoop skirt underneath, and she said it was so heavy it hurt her shoulders, but she wore it for the contest and the prom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Constantine's red and black tape and tucks, plus jewelry made from duct tape took 41 rolls.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are two more couples on the bottom who made their clothes from duct tape as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's a diagram of Sophie's plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, today, birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Robert De Niro, you know him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many movie roles.
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  SPEAKER_00: 83.
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  SPEAKER_00: Belinda Carlisle, she co-founded the Go Go's New Wave Music.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's 68.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sean Penn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, who has to explain who he is?
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  SPEAKER_00: 66.
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  SPEAKER_00: Donnie Wahlberg.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is everywhere today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not only from Blue Bloods and from Boston Blue.
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  SPEAKER_00: New kids on the block are renovating, reinventing.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're back in Vegas.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're on reels every 30 seconds on Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've watched more Donnie Wahlberg in the past week than I have in a lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's 57, still rocking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, Bob.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was born today in 1786.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's vanilla custard day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing else for dinner, Bob.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob Fickin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Baby Boomer's Recognition Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you know a boomer, say I recognize you at thrift shop day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had my time at thrift shops.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, number two pencil day.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have one handy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love my feet day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a pedicure at Black Cat Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We won't say anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Teddy Friends are drawing with pencils in honor of what colored pencils?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two pencils.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back and do our shout-outs.
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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: For Kathy, we're playing the original, and here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos and Jake.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G and the graduates.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs and kisses to my family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob Pickett.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is for dinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brackfield, another Enigma book.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reckoning just came out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go find it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sherry Ann Meyer and Luca.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary Nunnley and Eli.
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  SPEAKER_00: A happy quotient.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gil A V and Joe, my neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're always famous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy M, thank you for being my neighborhood watch person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Karen Gibson in Hawaii.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know the story came.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know you're without power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you charge stuff again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy and Jennifer Davis in New York.
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  SPEAKER_00: Harold Otis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs Jan Burl.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hugs Deborah Cowell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs Nancy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for visiting Club J Mila.
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  SPEAKER_00: Underwater, keep diving and writing books, and children's books, Brad Bork and Marcel Vogeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Diamond Mike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tim Walter.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many interesting people I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you all.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Bobby D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hugs to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you tomorrow.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Rumor has it it's gonna be Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.