BRIAN O'KEEFE @boknyny - Twitter Profile

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almost 3 years ago

Dear Ozempic: @teamnovonordisk Thank you for saving my life. Facing my dark gene disease cesspool, (Mom died of Type 1 diabetes at 58, grandfather claimed by heart disease at 43) …I began taking Ozempic two years ago. I have lost 50 pounds. (More)

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3 days ago

@tripgabriel It was no McFadden though.

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3 days ago

@tripgabriel Of all time ?

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BRIAN O'KEEFE @BOKNYNY

3 days ago

Rename Nashville International Airport to Dolly Parton International Airport - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/ekpZDQeprX via @Change

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Husband, father, son, brother, uncle & Los Angeles based producer for ABC News Live. Go Huskers, Kansas City Royals & Los Angeles Kings!

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BRIAN O'KEEFE @BOKNYNY

3 days ago

This!

Matt Van Swol

@mattvanswol

4 days ago

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy. She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid. The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%. She handed out the checks herself. In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college. When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months. You've probably heard that part. Here's the part you haven't: The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top. Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave. She built her county an entire hospital. She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it. In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees. Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal. In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release. And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it. She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway. She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did. Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

mattvanswol's tweet photo. In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

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BRIAN O'KEEFE @BOKNYNY

3 days ago

@DailyMailCeleb Awful

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BRIAN O'KEEFE @BOKNYNY

3 days ago

@yashar I’m posting a little chapter about that day on my Substack later tonight. brianokeefe

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BRIAN O'KEEFE @BOKNYNY

3 days ago

@yashar For something @yashar to make you smile: YouTube search the GMA interview that I produced with Jennifer Aniston and Dolly interviewing each other in conjunction with their little film Dumplin’ in 2018. It is frothy and howling fun!🤩

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3 days ago

@yashar Omg. The full lyrics are -yes-devastating! Do we know if it’s based on someone in her family. She has mentioned her own mental health being fragile at points in her life.

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4 days ago

@endless_real There was one more televised appearance in the last two weeks actually.

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4 days ago

@JulieAgain2 @yashar She had such a great wit.

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4 days ago

@eastbayronin007 @yashar Sheena sang this with him on the released record. This performance of them was for an HBO special

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4 days ago

@zfg_gfy @yashar Absolutely. Rare and beautiful.

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4 days ago

@yashar Epic! Electric! ⚡️ one of several songs they sang together. Great tape! Thank you.

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Robert Stillwell @RobertStillwell

4 days ago

Here's the scene at Dolly Parton's house tonight as we and many others stopped to honor her and show our respect.

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BRIAN O'KEEFE @BOKNYNY

7 days ago

@essa_muse One of the greats, (like Joan )a quick wit and genius brain! And he always will say something genuinely serious and heartfelt. What a gem of a person, too.

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