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Say What?!? Good News! October 23 with The Bonnie D.! · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: There we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wherever you are in the world, I'm the Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy to be here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's forty-four degrees here this morning in East Tennessee.
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  SPEAKER_00: What can I tell you?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fall, it's winter, we still don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go and see what she has to say today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know she has some very interesting news that may surprise you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's see what we've got here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ah, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, October 23rd, birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Events.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1961.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dion's Runaround Sue was number one on the singles chart.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was also the title of his album and the title track.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a picture of Dion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicago's If You Leave Me Now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, Bob, it was their first number one single.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not the city, the the band.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1976, 1995, Def Leopard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guinness Book of World Records.
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  SPEAKER_00: 24 hours, three concerts on three continents.
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  SPEAKER_00: They played in Tangier, London, and Vancouver.
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  SPEAKER_00: World record.
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  SPEAKER_00: 2001, Steve Jobs announced the iPod.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see there on the lower right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I took that from a video.
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  SPEAKER_00: It changed how the world buys, stores, listens to digital music.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said you have a thousand songs in your pocket.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five gigabyte hard drive, mechanical scroll wheel, firewire port.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: Battery lasting 10 hours, iTunes synchronization.
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  SPEAKER_00: They stopped making it on May 10th, 2022.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I bet a lot of you still have iPods.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go to let's go to come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, today we're featuring Bizarre or Bizarre.
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  SPEAKER_00: 10 Bizarre Things the Sears catalog sold.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have all 10 for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1988, it was their first U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: mail order catalog, sold mostly to rural customers, and they only featured watches and jewelry.
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  SPEAKER_00: But by the early 1900s, wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I think I have the dates wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the early somethings, the Chicago-based catalog offered clothing, furniture, tools, toys, full house building kits, and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had electric belts that promised to cure everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: They sold tombstones with epitaphs for$1.14.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can get one that said not forgotten,$40 today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you could also get customizable one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sears Farm and Ranch Edition sold packs of 6,000 Italian or Midnight Bees, including a queen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then a okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had sold a six-month bookkeeping course, which was five bucks in 1907.
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  SPEAKER_00: Included ledgers, journals, balance sheets, and free penmanship lessons.
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  SPEAKER_00: They sold a hundred-pound bag of crushed oyster shells, oyster, for your, if you had poultry, your laying hands, calcium for strong, healthy eggs, uh, vapor bath cabinets where you could go into the cabin and only your head was out to free the skin and tissues of the poisons that clog and injure the system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we have the last four of our ten.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heron was legal to sell in the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: in the early 1900s.
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  SPEAKER_00: They also sold worm syrup and pills for pale complexions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's not go there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wolf teeth extractors weren't for wolves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were for horses, those pointy little teeth and other vet tools.
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  SPEAKER_00: Otter traps, spring-loaded, made of steel to trap fur and food and for pest control.
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  SPEAKER_00: And asbestos.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: Cookware.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we knew about the evils of asbestos, roof siding tiles, asbestos lined toasters, and stove mats.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: I gotta get my dates right on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go to our observances.
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  SPEAKER_00: Champagne Day, Bob.
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  SPEAKER_00: Boston Cream Pie Day, Bob.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a good dessert.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's canning day, TV talk show day, host day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's croc day.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got pictures of all of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you see some famous TV hosts there down at the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got Oprah and Ellen and Johnny and David.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's Sherlock Holmes Weekend, and the Teddies are decorating for Halloween and birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Johnny Carson, speaking of TV hosts, Pele, born in 1940.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carson was born in 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aang Lee, film and film director, uh Crouching Tiger, Head and Dragon and the Brokeback Mountain movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dwight Yokum, country singer, Weird Al Yankovich, you know him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sam Raimi, producer and director of Evil Dead series and Spider-Man, the original trilogy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Robert Trujillo, he is the heavy metal, Metallica, heavy metal band musician and bassist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ryan Reynolds, actor and producer.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's in Deadpool and Free Guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Amelia Clark, the actress, she played.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to all the people I care about and love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amos Lee and Jake Joseph, my grandpuppies, Teresa G and the family, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, Charles Brayfield, Enigma author.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's writing every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: New stories, new series, Karen Gibson, Mary Hutton Huntley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope you're feeling better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sheila and Joe V, Kathy Lutfel and George, Brendan Duffy, Sherry Meyer, Tim Walter, Diane Bain, Debra Mallow, Jan Burle, Paul J.
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  SPEAKER_00: Milo, and Consumel, Ron Ruby, Ron Roel, and Ruby, the Puppy, and Marcel McRo Vogally.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm finding days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, not as confused as I expect.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's finally Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am ready to have a great day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a great weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.