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Welcome dangerous Danny Bonaducci. Today we're talking to Danny Bonaducci. A lot of

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you have lived with hey Danny, or you're living with one now. There's

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not much more Danny can do to surprise us. So leave it to Danny

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to reinvent himself once again. Danny Vanaducci, former star of the Partridge Family

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and now local DJ. Right here in Seattle, Danny Bonaducci morning show hosts

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one O two point five kz ok like, who's making biscuits? And Donny's

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like, it's me. This is the Danny Bonaducci Show. Danny Bona Ducci's

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hellocking, that's Danny Bona Ducci. Well, the time has come. I

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have something kind of important to tell you guys, and that is I'm retiring

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this Friday. And I will also tell you this. I wrote up a

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big thank you and goodbye and all that stuff. And I'll tell you what,

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if you're not doing anything important, bets the person next to you five

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bucks on whether I cry or not, because there's some deep stuff. Man.

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Anyway, I've had a really nice run in Seattle twelve years. If

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you must know, I've had a great listen running with all you guys have been great. I'll name a coup over here. We go Andy in Tacoma

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and his famous punkin pie farmer Ted and his lovely wife Shannon double d Yo

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and Anya from Olympia. They would drive up if we were doing something,

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they would up and drive up from Olympia. That's a really big deal for

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me. Oh my goodness, Grace. And don't forget Door Reese and Chicago.

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Everybody loves Doriese, including me, Tony Incapausen, Lenny, Mike and

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Sulton, Sharon and who call up every Friday with the very best jokes.

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And whoever the hell gave me a brand new airfire. I love it and

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thank you very much. If I'm forgetting it to and bye the way,

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I'm sorry, but there are thousands of listeners to this show, and this

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is a really important moment in my life, and I'm a little bit nervous.

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So I've had so many incredible times here in Seattle with Kazy. Okay,

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remember my sixtieth birthday party at Tmobile Park. You guys showed up,

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man, you were awesome, And these things happened like before Dawn Shambler's Crabbouse.

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Remember that it was a live broadcast. You guys came in the dark

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for me and I really pretty well for us, really but anyway, pretty amazing. You guys delivered every single year the annual Christmas Toy Drive at Tacoma

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Dondre with Phil Bibbins. I've learned so much from you guys, Like I

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know what a gooey duck is now they look like a wiener. That was

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a shock to me. I saw whales, it would be island. I

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had oysters at Shagga Nut Drive, saw a cold Play, a climate Pledge

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arena. I see the fireworks who off every year the space needle from my

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living room. How amazing is that a lot of you may have seen this

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coming. You know. I was off the air for almost a year and

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I was really really sick. And I don't know the legal stuff on this,

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but if I were iHeart, i'd have fired me about three months in.

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Are you kidding me? So? Thank you very much the IR guys that didn't fire me. I want to thank you guys out there in radio

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and for sticking by me for sixty years. Adds right, I said sixty

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years. I did my first professional gig in television when I was four.

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I'm sixty four. That's sixty years. It's unbelievable. The entertainment business is

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not always kind to people who want to make their dreams come true. So

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I really want to thank you people that made my dreams come true. This

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is it, and my dreams aren't over. For God's sakes, I still

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have dreams. I'm going to retire. I'm probably going to go down to

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Palm Springs. That's why I've been spending so much time there. I want

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to be warm before I die. Sarah, you've been nothing short of amazing.

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You've been a great partner these past twelve years and before that when we

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worked in Philly. The next guy to get this share is going to be the luckiest person in the world. And thank you my agent. That sounds

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weird, but he got me this job. My agent and my very good friend Paul Anderson, we've been together for more than two decades. I haven't

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even had a marriage that last long, and I I've had three of them

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puppies. Thank you very much too. My producers that would be Paul and Waldo, who, by the way, the show would not sell anything like

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the show without those guys, and most Importantly, I would not be here

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today if it weren't for my partner in life, and that would be the

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lovely and talented Amy as the luckiest guy in the world. Would she agreed

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to marry me and be my wife? And wow, Amy, if you're listening any better being listenings, you're sitting right next to me. Amy,

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You're a rock man. I love you from the moon and back again.

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If you bet five bucks earlier in the show and whether or not I was

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going to cry and you said yes, Well about five minutes ago you started

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winning. So thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. And finally, I look forward to being here all week to celebrate my retirement with

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you. Now, Sarah, what the news news is brought to you by

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Union Gospel Mission. Well, certainly the biggest news, Danny, was you

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announcing this morning that you are retiring. Yeah, I'm afraid that time has

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come. Well, obviously, you and I have been together for a very

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long time, and I'm heartbroken by your decision. I understand your decision.

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What are your plans moving forward? You know, at this point I've really

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got to watch my health. I was in the hospital, oh two,

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maybe even three months this year, so I think I better check out my

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health for a while. And what are you literally planning on doing. I'm

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literally planning on moving to Palm Springs for the winter and then back here because

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I have a little condo that doesn't cost me anything in downtown, so I'll

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do that. So you're going to split your time between Palm Springs and Seattle,

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absolutely, I mean, it just is such a testament to how much

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you love this city and loved your time on kz OK that you are going

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to continue to live here permanently. Yeah, twelve years I've been here,

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man, that's a very very, very good run. And Danny will be

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here throughout the rest of the week. Y'all are stuck with me for all

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of eternity. But make sure you're listening to all of our shows this week.

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As Danny says goodbye to a city he knows and loves, I do

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what the hell's a gooey duck? Oh? Now I know. In a

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bizarre moment of irony, a person threatening to stab an Oregon apartment resident was

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then instead stabbed by the person he was trying to stab. Ok, this

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seems fair to me? Does this make sense? Yeah? Totally guy, I wanted to stab a guy and the guy that was going to get stab

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stab that guy. Man. You're good, good man. Watch we listened

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to you. So this is a masked man and he knocks on the door,

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and the guy opens the door. He's like, I'm gonna stab you and take all your money. And the guy who lives there grabbed a knife

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and stabbed the dude. All right, Is it just needble to to ask

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this question? Would you open your door for a guy in a mask holding

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a knife. That's a good point. It's a really good question. Keep

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it weird, Portland cool. The world's largest fast food chain is about to

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get even bigger McDonald's as it plans to open another ten thousand locations. How

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is that possible? How is there any more locations left there everywhere? That's

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a good point. This will happen over the next four years. Nine hundred

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will be in the United States, the rest will be international. About half

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the locations will be in China. And McDonald's already operates more than forty thousand

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restaurants wow, in one hundred and eighteen countries. I root for them,

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though I love the big giant companies. I really do. I hope McDonald's

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gets bigger and bigger and bigger. It is always so crazy when you see a chain, though, whether it's McDonald's or Subway or Starbucks and there's one

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across the street. Yeah, totally. It surprised me because I looked around

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and thought, well, you know that, I looked around to see if I could see one, and I could not. But that's a big surprise.

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Well, don't worry. Christmas will go on as planned, thank god.

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After a pair of reindeer were reunited with Santa Claus, he shut down

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if they if you reindeer disappear, that's it. Well, how is he

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supposed to operate his sleigh? Danny? You know we could figure let's let

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Rudolf. Rudolph. Rudolf could pull the day through, no problem. He's

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a hero. But you need the Blitzen and vander Donder and I'm going Donner,

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Donner and Blitzen. Yeah, I'm going for Donner Donner party. Yummy.

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Oh the deer and then themselves? So the one would you have to

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go without food to you eate a guy? Oh weeks ten minutes a guy

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came in the door said, you guys are famished how to eat m right

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there. So these two reindeers escaped from a Christmas attraction, but thankfully they

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have been reunited with Santa and Christmas will go on as planned. Good.

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We need a good Christmas this year. We do. It's time for Today's

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things or not right in Florida Story of the day, yay. A judge's

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ordered a Florida man to have no contact with his wife following his arrest for

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striking her in the face with his sausage. And that's illegal. They got

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into a verbal altercation. Yeah, he picked up a sausage presumably pork,

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and threw it at her. You know, if it's come to this where

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you can't toss the sausage to the wife, well it's not worth living.

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Really. Cops indicated alcohol may have been a factor, baby shocking, Lucky

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it wasn't meth. She'd lost an eye. Oh Florida, Oh Florida,

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Al Florida. This is brought to you by Union Gospel Mission. On the

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rock station now Sarah with music, Sports, and entertainment. The biggest news

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from the world of entertainment happened moments ago when Danny Bonaducci made an announcement that

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he is retiring. We're retiring after twelve years here on CAZy Okay. But

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it's not just And here's the reason I got. I got real sick,

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and I mean real sick. I don't remember a lot of it, but

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I was given pictures. But you know, I've been in an entertainment industry

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for sixty years. I'm sixty four and I've either been working or looking for

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work, and looking for work is harder for sixty years, and you know

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I got sick. I got to pay attention to that. I got to take care of my wife. So yes, I am retiring. Well,

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let me ask you this, what would you say was a standout moment from

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movies or television that you've done well? Got to you know, you gotta

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stay. The party. Shower has a really big deal for I mean people

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still come to on the street and say, hey, aren't you that guy? So that? But the movie with Elvis, when I tell people what

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I have done and I say, oh, yeah, well I did a movie with Elvis. That's the one that stops the car. Elvis. Who

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can say that? I mean, very very few people and Margaret can say

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it, you know, and Margaret and I are type Well, Danny,

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obviously you will be missed. The past twelve years with you have have been

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just it's something fresh and new every day and you're just an incredible individual.

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And I have loved working with you. Well, fresh and new every single

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day. And that's the high point of schizophrenia. Chevy Chase started off his

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holiday season with a tumble. The actor was filmed falling off stage during a

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Christmas vacation event. He was rolled out on stage in a wheelchair, but

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stood up and started walking before suddenly dipping out of sight. He stepped right

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off the stage. Now his wife helped him back up on the stage,

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and then the whole room laughed because his smart watch went, you have fallen.

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Oh that's cool. He's an old dude right now. Yeah, he's

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like eighty and eighty. I think he's like eighty. But I mean it

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didn't look fake to me. You know, that's sort of like you do. Because I don't know if you know this or not. But he made

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his living why he is famous for several years. No, maybe it went

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for one year. But what he did on Saturday Live is he fall in

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the opening and in segments that was his thing. He'd fall down. He

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complains about his bad back from falling down. How can we find out if

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this is real or not? Okay, first of all, I did not

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know that. Yeah, no, every single episode we would fall down.

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Man, the biggest one for people out there living go We'll say, oh yeah. One time. I think it might have been a Christmas show.

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He was climbing up the ladder, got to the top of the tree and

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then fell off the thing. And that's what chevy Chase did. Or does.

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I hope that you're onto something and that this was all like staged,

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because otherwise we know eighty. He might be on his way to the hospital

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right now, and I'm going to say, up all nine long, chevy Chase is hurt. Yeah, he doesn't seem like he's a very good dude.

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I think he's a bad dude, I don't know about the beginning.

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Although he left the Saturday Life after one year and people said, come on

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stay and let the show be a hit, and he said, no, I'm a movie star. Oh wow, yeah, So did he take a

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fall or a falla? La la la, la la la. You're gonna

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give him that. So you're gonna give him that. Oh that was the

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laugh of sympathy. You have to go, hey, you know, it's

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the Christmas season. Maybe it was fun. Then you can just get start

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singing. I'm in a singing move. Jeez awesome, let's go. The

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new year will bring us a chance to reunite with some old pals from the

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Korean War kind of. The surviving cast of the legendary hit show Mash is

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set for a reunion no way, forty years after it went off the air,

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right right, Alan Alda, Gary Berghoff, Jamie Farr will all be

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taking part on this. It's a Fox special set for January first. How many of those people can you name their character? Uh? Hawkeye? Yes,

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that's about it for me. The radar radar that was I did a

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telephone with the guy really plays drums like a maniac. I didn't know that that's cool. Yeah, it is cool. Well, let's take a look

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at sports. Sports sport. It's brought to you by Bradley Johnson Lawyers.

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you why away? Oh, tough loss for your Seattle Seahawks. Yesterday I

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lost to San Francisco. Drew Locke started out, look looked all right,

13:24

and I just couldn't get it done in the end. Up next another tough

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one Monday Night football against the Eagles. Last night Sunday Night Football, a

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big win for Dallas. Eagles not looking so hot, which is great news

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for the Seahawks. Thirty three thirteen win Dallas over the Eagles. Monday Night

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football. Tonight we have got Green Bay at Dallas five fifteen Star time and

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another loss for the Crack and over the weekend. Up next tomorrow night here

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in Seattle, they'll be playing Florida at seven. You can listen to all

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the action on our sister station ninety three point three KJRF release the Crack and

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college basketball. This weekend, Washington beat eighth ranked Gonzaga. Wooo, what

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a surprise there. Gonzaga is playing Mississippi Valley State. Next at six o'clock

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tonight You Dub versus Seattle. You Sunday at five show Hey the Money Show.

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Hey Otani agreed to a record seven hundred million ten year contract with the

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Dodgers over the weekend. That's right, seven hundred million ten year contract with

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the Dodgers. I wish I wrote down with the stat was, but it's

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something insane like for every day he earns like one hundred thousand dollars. That's

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just an insane sum of money. And as a reminder, he can't even

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pitch this upcoming season. He might not pitch again. That's very true.

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And so you're paying for his bat which granted is great, but can you

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stay healthy? We'll see sports brought you by Bradley Johnson Lawyers. Facing a

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Dui call one eight hundred d uy away, Oh, mondays, I love

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this part of the show. Oh, it's the Book of Bona Ducci.

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This time Danny is going head to head with Kurt Russell, but Kurt has

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a loaded shotgun. Who wins this one? Who will find out? Danny

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tells us the entire story. It's after the Scorpions on one or two point

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five KZ ok be Classic Rock Station one or two point five kazy okay,

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the classic Rock station. Now a story from the Book of Bona Ducci.

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Well, as that big voice said, it is time for another book of

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Bonna Ducci. Now I try and pick these out, you know, pretty

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carefully for you guys, because it has my name on the title, the

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Book of Bonaducci, and I want to entertain you. So I'm gonna tell

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you a Book of Bonacocci story right now. It's kind of interesting because it's

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the first time in show business I have ever had a face off, if

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you will, face off with another ex child star. It was just never

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been done. Now it's been done a bunch times since, but this was the first time and I didn't put it together. Comp The other ex child

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star that wasn't me was pointing a shotgun at my face and his name was

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Kurt Russell. So I'm doing a show called Police Story back buss, No,

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not that one. This Police Story is an Emmy Award winning serious drama,

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police drama if you will, And I'm on and I don't know how

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I'm on it because it's on. I looked it up. This happens in

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nineteen seventy five. I'm fifteen in nineteen seventy five. To hire a fifteen

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year old, you have to have a welfare worker and nurse. A school

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teacher. Costs tens of thousands of dollars to hire a kid. What you

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want to do is you want to hire somebody eighteen that looks like a kid.

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But for some reason they gave me the job of ass please if they do it. So there's an actor called klu Guliger, and it's who I

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happen to really like. And then Kurt Russell, who the importance of him

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is not really dawned on me yet. But he pointed this frigging shotgun right

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at my face, and maybe I should read the script because all of a

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sudden somebody else don't do it, and he shoots me with both barrels of

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a shotgun. That's not the way to start a relationship. But I don't

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think that that's the most important thing or book of Bonaducci ish that there is.

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There's another character on the show and he's the leader of our gang.

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We're doing a scene together, right, and we're bad. We're the gangsters.

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We don't even know what to do with our time. We're gonna set

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your house on fire. Look at us go. So we're doing a scene

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where he says, show me you're not the police. Smoke this joint and

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I say no, no, I won't. And then he punches me in the face and I fall down the stairs and he comes chasing me down the

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stairs and he's got this joint and he says, smoke it, and I

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said no, and he puts it out on my face. Now here's the

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thing. There's people that can do that for a living. I'm fifteen.

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Whatever you've got, don't put it on my face. We now close the

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book for another week. This has been the book of Bonaducci on the classic

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rock station one O two point five CAZy Okay, Yeah, minutes away from

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a chance to put Smartacus win your way into def Leppard and Journey September fourth

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at te Mobile Park. But now it's the Danny Bodouci and Sarah Question of

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the day. You can call us eight hundred two five two one oh two

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five answer on our social media, Tell Alexa, send a talk back to

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Kzy. Okay, this one is a big deal. Just in case you

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hadn't heard. After twelve years of gracing the airwaves here in Seattle and many

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more broadcasting around the country. Danny has announced he is retiring from radio.

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Danny will leave the show at the end of the week, of course,

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be missed by everybody. Danny, I'm damn right, I'm staying right here,

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but I am heartbroken that you are leaving. I'm sorry, but it's

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about that time. Well, we are asking you guys to share your favorite

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memory of Danny's time here on CAZy Okay. Now, Danny, I know

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you've got a lot of memories. What would you say is your favorite?

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This is sooey. It was one of the greatest days of my life,

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the day I raised the flag on top of the space and you go,

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oh, wait, you rat Bassards never asked me to do that. Wow.

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You know that we can still try to make that happened post retirement,

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Danny, I'm mad. Now. I gotta say. I have so many

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absolutely great memories. But one of them was when we first got here to Seattle and you showed up to Kzy Okay with a motorcycle jacket with the entire

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logo of CAZy ok and the letters on the back of the jacket. Really,

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I didn't know that was that big of a deal. Although I thought,

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you know, this jacket's going to keep me in that job forever. It was such a cool jacket, and I all right, I got another

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one. My second was when you got the entire Seattle skyline tattooed on your

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back. Oh my god. Well, you know what I will keep this for. Yes, I am retiring, but I will always have Seattle with

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me. We want to know what is your favorite memory of Danny's time here

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on kz okay. It's the Danny Bodaducci and Sarah Question of the Day on

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two five kz ok at the classic rock station.