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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: And here we are.
- 0:01SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
- 0:05unknown: Good news.
- 0:08SPEAKER_00: Good news.
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: There we are.
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: I'm the Bonnie D.
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: Last day of September.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: What?
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: How is that possible?
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: Where is the year going?
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say.
- 0:23SPEAKER_00: I think she has some first for us and some interesting news.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: Some community news, maybe in your community.
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: Let's see what she has to say.
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: Music and TV first.
- 0:31SPEAKER_00: Voices, we like to say.
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go from the most recent backwards.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga released an album called Love for Sale in 2021.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: Tony Bennett was the oldest at 95 to release an album of new material.
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: How about that?
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: 2012, Faith Hill's American Heart.
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: She was the first country artist to debut a song on.
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: Twitter?
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: Really?
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: 1991, Jerry Springer's tabloid talk show debuted in syndication.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: 1982, Breece Springsteen released Nebraska, his album that he recorded in his home studio on a four-track tape.
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: What, Bruce?
- 1:07SPEAKER_00: 1971, Isaac Hayes released theme from Shaft.
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: You all know that one.
- 1:11SPEAKER_00: In 1960, the Flintstones debuted on ABC TV, the first animated sitcom created by Hannah Barbera.
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: There you go.
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: Okay, we have a lady named Ms.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: Storybook Mays, M-A-Z in Balmore, they call it Baltimore.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: She uh got a hold of a trolley.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: She goes uh f from place to place, house to house, from festivals, football practices, parks, and she delivers free books to kids and she reads them stories from the books on their stoops of their houses.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: If what happened was she was reading to her nieces on her front stoop of her of her house, her apartment in 2024, and a bunch of kids came by and they said, Keep reading, keep reading, and she said, Oh, go home and read a book.
- 1:48SPEAKER_00: They said, We don't have any books at home.
- 1:50SPEAKER_00: So she had left her full-time job as a librarian, and she collects books and she calls herself a radical street librarian.
- 1:58SPEAKER_00: She rings a bell like an ice cream truck and reads to kids and brings her books everywhere.
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: A hundred th up to 130 kids come with their families a day to the book phase.
- 2:09SPEAKER_00: Okay, what are those three colours on those traffic lights?
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: Well, they all started in 1840s, early British railroad color-coded warning system to alert the conductors.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: But get this white was full steam ahead.
- 2:19SPEAKER_00: Green was proceed with caution and red was stop.
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, sometimes the driver missed the signal because the lens broke off the red light and there was white underneath, so he thought he was supposed to go ahead, but he was supposed to stop and they saw the white stars in the sky at night?
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: No.
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: Okay, so they switched.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: White became stopper caution.
- 2:38SPEAKER_00: Green became the go.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: Then red shades are clearest through smoke and fog.
- 2:43SPEAKER_00: So it turns out that, well, I'll read the rest of you another time.
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: But in 1935, the U.S.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: Federal Highway Administration standardized the three-color lights, and now we have red is stop, yellow is caution, and green is go.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's go ahead to our birthdays.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do the holidays first.
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: Bob, extra virgin olive oil.
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: I don't know what you're cooking in it, but it's that day.
- 3:03SPEAKER_00: E V O O Hot Mold Cider.
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: It's getting cool.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: You could do that.
- 3:07SPEAKER_00: Chewing gum day.
- 3:08SPEAKER_00: I show you two kinds here, and it's podcast day.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: Every day's podcast for me.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: And birthdays.
- 3:12SPEAKER_00: Angie Dickinson, still with us in her 90s, born in 1931.
- 3:16SPEAKER_00: Actress, beautiful woman.
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: She was a policewoman in Rio Bravo, and she was married to Bert Backerack.
- 3:22SPEAKER_00: Johnny Mathis.
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: Chances are.
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: Oh, I uh was a reporter for uh Entertainment Magazine on Long Island in New York, and I got to meet him.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: I he called me up on the phone one day, and we spoke for over an hour, and I recorded it and published a back page article, and I got to meet him and I cried.
- 3:39SPEAKER_00: Oh, happy birthday, Johnny Mathis, 1935.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: Marilyn McCrew from the fifth dimension.
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: Yay! She was on one of my radio shows years ago.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: We had a wonderful conversation.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: Fran Dresher, the nanny, born in 57.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: Eric Stoltz in the mask and pulp fiction.
- 3:54SPEAKER_00: Marion Cottier, a beautiful French actress, lovey and rose in Inception, and Kieran Culkin.
- 3:59SPEAKER_00: You know whose brother he is.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: He was in succession and home alone.
- 4:02SPEAKER_00: And our wine whimsy lady says, Juice tastes better when you stand there and drink it in the refrigerator with the door open.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: There you go.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: And the Teddy friends are packing their school lunchbox.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our music, do a couple shout-outs, and then we will let you get to your day, and we'll get to ours.
- 4:19SPEAKER_00: Today is Technology Revolution, the future of now, and I'll be talking to Len Landale and his colleagues about the future of IT and AI.
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: But let's do our let's do our shout-outs.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go to the full minute here for Kathy Davis.
- 4:32SPEAKER_00: Tu say what's today.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 4:34SPEAKER_00: Wild wacky Wednesday.
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: Hey, Miss and Jake, love you, my grandpuppies, Megan, Sarah and Peggy.
- 4:40SPEAKER_00: Great to see you this weekend for my one week early birthday weekend.
- 4:43SPEAKER_00: Dr.
- 4:43SPEAKER_00: Bob, what's cooking?
- 4:45SPEAKER_00: Charles Brakefield, Enigma author.
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: Go find them, techno thrillers.
- 4:49SPEAKER_00: Mary and Meyer traveling, Mary Natalie.
- 4:51SPEAKER_00: Wonderful to travel you on the book yesterday.
- 4:53SPEAKER_00: Til of me and Joe, thanks for pictures of your beautiful back pork.
- 4:57SPEAKER_00: Kathy Lutrell.
- 5:01SPEAKER_00: Kathy Jennifer Davis in New York.
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: Carol Otis, honey, Dan Burrell, Hunter, Deborah Mellon, hugging all J Mellon.
- 5:06SPEAKER_00: Feel better.
- 5:07SPEAKER_00: Run real myself and the free world locally.
- 5:10SPEAKER_00: I've got some else of we got some Madonna um Bradford.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: Um we've got so many friends.
- 5:16SPEAKER_00: We're just gonna say hundreds of gifts to all of you and thank you to Jennifer.
- 5:20SPEAKER_00: I'm finally being finished.
- 5:22SPEAKER_00: I'll see you tomorrow.