Lighter Side of the News 9-23-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety three point nine Night Yessa, The Lighter Side of
News with Melissa Foreman.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome the free ticket Tuesday, September twenty third, coming up
in minutes, Shawn mendoes tickets, so stick around so you
can win those. All right, here's what's going on today.
Happy seventy sixth birthday to New Jersey's finest, Bruce Springsteen.
The Boss is officially celebrating today and they're making it
Bruce Springsteen Day. In the Garden State, Ario, Speedwagon members
Kevin Cronin and Bruce Holl are going to reunite. They'll

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serve as their Alma Maters Grand Marshall at the University
of Illinois Champaign homecoming parade this Friday. Yay, I'm excited
about that. That's where I went to.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Around one hundred Sweet Tooth Sprinters participated in a New
York City Bakery run. They stopped. It was a half
marathon thirteen miles, so they stopped every mile and had
a different snack retreat. I did different bakery. I love
that idea so much. I could actually train for that,
all right. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon played this little
game called do you even know me? And Jennifer was

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left speechless after she found out that Reese Witherspoon's real
name is Laura Jean Breese Witherspoon Laura Jean Reese. So
jenn was like, what, all right? Anyway, Oh, this is
sad news. Elaine merk Finder, one of the last surviving
Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz, just passed at the
age of ninety four. I think she might be the

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very last. I'll check on that. And then finally, you
could celebrate Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a
Showgirl at the movies. There's gonna be Taylor Swift. The
official release party of a Showgirl will play for one
weekend October third through the fifth, so you can check
that out. I would buy tickets now. It's probably gonna
be very popular, all right, And there you go, my friend.
That's so look at your lighter side of the newship.

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