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Say What?!? Good News! October 20 with The Bonnie D.! · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: I see you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D starting a little late this morning, but that just doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go find her.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's 40 degrees again here this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: My goodness gracious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she's got on her mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: October 20th, 1962, Bobby Boris, Pickett, and the Crip Kickers hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with the ghoulish classic Monster Mash.
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  SPEAKER_00: They did the mash.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, you can sing it for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1969, the Who's New York City Fillmore East Residency in New York, playing songs from the rock opera Tommy.
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  SPEAKER_00: 73, the Rolling Stones hit number one with their single Angie.
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  SPEAKER_00: 87, the police had their first U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: concert at CPGB in New York City.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I went there once.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 1980, the U2, U2 debut studio album Boy, with the song I Will Follow.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a picture of all of those albums there for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1934, Dorred, D-O-R-D, was in Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is under the heading of infamous typo.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was between Dorkopus and Dore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it was meant to be the density in the fields of physics and chemistry, but uh-oh, it was supposed to be, look on the left, a capital D with the small word or separate with a small D, a density abbreviation.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1939, an editor marked it, Urgent, we gotta correct this ghost word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's look at one more famous typo.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1996, Larry Page and Sergi Brynn, co-founders of Google, named their search engine Backrub.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, did you know that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles, did you know that?
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  SPEAKER_00: And a fellow Stanford student, Sean Anderson, said, How about Googleplex?
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a one followed by a Google of zeros.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Paige suggested just Google, a one followed by a hundred zeros.
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  SPEAKER_00: They went and checked the domain name availability and somebody did a typo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anderson, the student, Google.com, duh.
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  SPEAKER_00: They registered it and that's how it got there.
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  SPEAKER_00: How many zeros?
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  SPEAKER_00: And if they had had coffee before they started this, they might have had a faster intelligence and sharper eye.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because a journal of entire environmental psychology study talks about how undergraduate business students took a GMAT exam.
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  SPEAKER_00: One room was filled with the diffuser scent of coffee.
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  SPEAKER_00: They went in and said, Oh, I feel emboldened and alert.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they did much better on the test.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows if it was true or not?
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, October 20th, Chef's Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're a chef, cook something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brandied fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mm-Office chocolate.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a chocolate keyboard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suspender's Day?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sloth Day and Wolf Awareness Week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Teddies are playing badminton with their puppies and birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jelly Roll Morton, born in 1980, jazz and blues pianist and band leader and composer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jelly Roll Blues.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bella Lugosi, Count Dracula in the 1931 horror film.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Orback, actor and singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was in Law and Order.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lenny Briscoe and he was the voice of Lumiere and Beauty and the Beast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tom Petty, you know him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Heartbreakers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Passed away in 2017, born in 1950.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vigo Mortensen was born today.
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  SPEAKER_00: William Zabka, okay, and Johnny Lawrence in Karate Kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: Snoop Dog, who's doing some ads with Martha Stewart, rapper and singer, and John Krasinski, actor.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was Jim Halpert in the office, and he was a direct director of A Quiet Place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music and see what we've got.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's do a couple of shout-outs, and then we are out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Twisty Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Kathy Davis, this is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quickly! Amos is doing well! And Jake Joseph, your brother, my grandpuppies, Teresa G in the family, hugs, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, what's for dinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield, Enigma author, The Reckoning, and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trusted friends and lovers, great set of short stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not so short.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carol Otis, Karen Gibson, Mary Nunnley, special hug, Sheila and Joe B.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy Lutrell, hope George is doing well.
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  SPEAKER_00: End of the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brendan Duffy, hello.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jerry Meyer, Simon Meissen family, Benny, Ben, and Benny Finn and Emmy Wilts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for being on my show yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Diane Dane as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hmm, D.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye bye.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're good people.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's up here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just do this for you.