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Say What?!? Good News! October 27 with The Bonnie D.! · Say What?!? Good News with The Bonnie D.

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  SPEAKER_00: Say what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't scroll.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got five minutes of good news for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Bonnie D.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Morning, afternoon, evening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it right away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to share with us today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, you need some quirky funky news to brighten up your day and get rid of all of those ridiculous chaos coming at you in the headlines.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm here for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: October 27th, that's entertainment.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1975, Bruce Springsteen was the first rock star.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look on the right there, to appear on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines at the same week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, I got both pictures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kind of cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1982, Prince released his fifth studio album, 1999.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1995, Nicolas Cage debuted in the movie, leaving Las Vegas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, the movie debuted.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 1996, the next year, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leo, and Claire Danes in Romeo and Juliet the movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what's happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we have a riveting history.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got rivets on your jeans?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in the late 19th century, waist overalls were what they were called.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: labor, hard labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: People use these as uniforms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cotton duck fabric.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then denim came into fashion in the 1800s, and the word jeans caught in in the 50s and 60s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh oh.
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  SPEAKER_00: The pockets were pulling away because of the work tools and the strain and the hard labor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then along came a tailor in 1870 named Jacob Davis in Reno.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he was working on horse blankets and wagon covers.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had these little metal fasteners called rivets, and he had some left over.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Let me see if I can put something onto the pockets and make them stronger because a woman, a customer of his, came and said, My husband's work pants are just falling apart.
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  SPEAKER_00: What can you do?
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  SPEAKER_00: So he reinforced them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Levi Strauss came into the picture two years later when Davis went to Levi Levi Strauss, his San Francisco fabric supplier, and he said, I don't have time, I don't have money, I want to get a patent.
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  SPEAKER_00: They partnered together May 20th, 1873.
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  SPEAKER_00: A patent was issued for, and look at the top left, you'll see that wonderful picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Improvement in fascinate fastening or fascinating pocket openings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't horse around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later on, go all the way forward to 1937.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were concealing rivets and they were scratching the horses.
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  SPEAKER_00: People were riding horses and the rivets were scratching them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they replaced them with stitching bar tacks instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And something also a lot of people don't know is there was still a rivet at the base of the fly on the men's pants, everybody's pants, of the jeans.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they sat around the campfire at night, it heated up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoops.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may have rivets today on the front pockets and watch pocket.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all that's left.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's your riveting history.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's go to, you can say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ditto is a dialect variant of the word, Italian word ditto, for already said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today it's used as an adverb.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget about the part of syllable of speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just an adverb for same.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Oxford English Dictionary in the early 17th century used it as a noun, meaning in or of the month already named.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you wrote 20th of June, you could write 25th Ditto, meaning 25th of June.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the 1710s, Merriam Webster Dictionary used it as he ditto what she said, which is more of our modern use.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in 1990, it went into popularity having ghost the movie with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
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  SPEAKER_00: He used it to say, I love you, when she said to Demi Moore's Molly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it means I love you too.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just gonna leave that one alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a message to the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ditto.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, observances.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's beer day, potato day, Parmigiano Reggiano Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's cheese.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cranky Co-Workers Day, ugh, and Black Cat Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was one on my porch in the dark at 1014 last night.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was caught on my blink camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Teddy friends are still looking for pumpkins in the pumpkin farm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's go to birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sylvia Plath, born in 1932.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, poet and novelist, famous for the Beljar.
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  SPEAKER_00: John Cleese, you know him from Monty Python, born in 1939.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lee Greenwood, God bless the USA, born in 1942.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gary Tallant, he's with he's a bassist with Bruce Springsteen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fran Leibowitz, author and writer and speaker, born in 1950.
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  SPEAKER_00: Roberto Benini, 1952, Life is Beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Simon LeBonc, lead singer from Duran Duran, if you remember that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Kelly Osborne, we know whose kid she is.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1984 birth year singer and fashion designer and TV personality.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go, Kelly Osborne.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music and let's see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's do some shout-outs here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, Maestro, we can do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is for Kathy Davis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jake, back home, doing well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa G and the family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa, we love your artwork.
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  SPEAKER_00: Art with a heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Helping children and patients in hospitals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bravo for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bob, what's for dinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: Charles Brainfield, the next sponsor.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's writing more new books.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's gonna be the character, the lead character?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are they gonna be?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are they gonna be named?
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kathy is such a good soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Friends and Duffy, hello! Terry Meyer, Tim Walter, Diane Bane, Kevin Mallow, Jan Burl, Call J Milo, Milo Will and Ruby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Myself my free little bowls.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm done.
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  SPEAKER_00: My good friend, this time blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in my baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye.