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

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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, if only we could see ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm guessing we're on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Definitely good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say what?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's enough from the orchestra.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got so many browsers open, hard to see where I am, but I am here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to toast somebody named Milton in Brazil who lived to 108, and he says he had a whiskey every morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go share and see what she has to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to have some good news and you'll find out who Milton is in just a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have some milestones.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1964, on this day, September 17th, Bewitched, starring Elizabeth Montgomery premiered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember when she wiggled a little nose on ABC TV?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1964, the same day, the Supreme single, Baby Love, My Baby Love, it hit number one, and it was the second in a row for the writing and production team of Holland Dozier Holland.
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  SPEAKER_00: How about that?
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  SPEAKER_00: 1955, going back in time a little bit, Mission Impossible premiered on CBS TV, Rival Network to ABC.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't have a lot of networks in those days.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1967, two things happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: The doors were on the Ed Sullivan show.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were had under an eight eight-episode invitation, and Jim Morrison was supposed to change the line.
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  SPEAKER_00: Girl, we couldn't get much higher from the song Light My Fire, which Ed Sullivan said implied drugs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jim Morrison didn't change the line.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they were told, You're not coming back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the same day, The Who debuted on US TV on the Smothers Brothers comedy hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think Ed Sullivan and the Smithers Brothers were on the same network.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, they detonated flash power powder in Keith Moon's drum kit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's move on here.
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  SPEAKER_00: George Straussman, today is the happy getting old day.
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  SPEAKER_00: George Straussman at 101, he's now 102, by the way, told his Nancy, wife Nancy, he's going to the office to join my poetry class, write poetry, off to pottery class to make pieces and pots, and then take my lover, her, out to dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: His granddaughter filmed him at the pottery class, posted it on TikTok, went viral.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's the only man in a three-hour weekly class.
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  SPEAKER_00: The women are age 30 to 60.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the caption on the video is, think about Grandpa George next time you say, You're too tired.
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  SPEAKER_00: And her husband Nancy says her husband brings home another piece of pottery every week that he doesn't like.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, I was thrilled to find out the pottery classes at Great Neck New York Community Education Program.
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  SPEAKER_00: We called it Adult Ed, and I used to teach there eBay buying and selling, blogging 101, and online dating back in the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, talking about age, here is this is not a picture necessarily of Milton, but Milton lived to 108.
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  SPEAKER_00: He greeted this research team from Professor Mayana Zotz and her team at the University of Sao Paulo.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have assembled 200 centenarians, including 20 or more, who are super centenarians age 110 or older.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Milton told them, he offered them the customary coffee, and he said, I drink whiskey every morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So forget about this Sardinia and Okinawa longevity blue zones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Somehow, Brazil, these people are indigenous, European, African, Asian, sometimes many, many genetics rolled into one person.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not following a strict diet, they're not avoiding alcohol, they're not living in pristine conditions, they're just living very long.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brazil, here we come.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, raise a glass of whiskey to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, it's Country Music Day, but it's Pawpaw Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a fruit that picture there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's a combination flavor of mango and banana.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple dumpling day, Grenache Grapes Day, have your wine, and Monte Cristo Sandwich Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the birthday of Hank Williams Sr., born in 1923, left us only in 1953.
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  SPEAKER_00: Country music singer and songwriter Anne Bancroft, the wonderful winning actress.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Robinson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Da here's to you, Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Robinson, and the graduate you all know, Dustin Hoffman in the movie, John Ritter, actor and comedian from Three's Company.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was Tex Ritter's son.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was born today in 48.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alive and Well, Kyle Chandler, actor from Friday Night Lights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jimmy Johnson, a NASCAR Cup Series champion driver, and Patrick Mahomes, NFL star quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our lady from Wine Whimsy says, I think I speak for everybody when I say enough with the freaking QR codes for restaurant menus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're just gonna leave that one alone and let's go back to our outro music and see who we've got for shout-outs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is for Kathy Davis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos and Jake on their way home soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G, see you soon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob went for dinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield, Enigma Books, go be techno thrilled, Jeremy Meyer and Jay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Mary Nunnley going to GRRCon.
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  SPEAKER_00: That sounds exciting! Jim Lavin, Jim Lovely, my neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy day, Captain Little neighbors, Captain, thank you, Gary Gibson, the wife, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Captain Jennifer Davis the lead shop to you, Carol and Jennifer Bellow, Jen Burrell, Sherman Houseman, Ben and Wells.