Today Show Responds, Karen Read Movie In Works, RHOC Is More of The Same, Taylor Frankie Paul TOXIC!

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Dana Bowling

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🗓️ 17 July 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today's pop culture roundup is stacked! 🍿 🔹 **Today Show Responds** — Craig Melvin and Al Roker have taken out a restraining order after a man breached NBC studio security and allegedly hurled a racial slur while lunging at Melvin. The attacker was arrested and hit with hate crime charges. 🔹 **Karen Read Movie In Works** — Matt Damon confirms his production company Artists Equity is in "very early days" developing a film on the Karen Read trial — joining a growing list of adaptations that already includes a Netflix doc and last January's Lifetime movie. 🔹 **RHOC Is More of The Same** — Season 20 is here with Vicki Gunvalson back full-time and newcomer Carmella Garcia, but does the 20th-anniversary "reunion tour" energy actually shake things up, or is it just nostalgia on repeat? 🔹 **Harry & Meghan** — The Sussexes brought Archie and Lilibet to see King Charles for the first time in four years, in what's being read as a real step toward mending the royal rift. 👍 Like & subscribe for daily entertainment news breakdowns! 💬 Which story are you most invested in? Let us know below. #TodayShow #KarenRead #RHOC #HarryAndMeghan #EntertainmentNews SPONSORED BY: Get a free can of OLIPOP: ○ Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store, and we'll pay you back for one ○ Works on single cans of any flavor, any retailer ○ URL: https://drinkolipop.com/DANA JIYU: The Korean skincare brand everyone is talking about. Our listeners get 20% off their entire order by using code dailydose at jiyuskin.com/dailydose #JIYU #ad

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0:00.0	It's your daily dose of Donna. Welcome to the show. Of course, I have a Friday the 17th issue. Can you
0:08.3	guys hear me now? Wow. Welcome to the show. I hope you guys are doing well. Nothing is working
0:16.4	correctly. My mic was off and my light was off. So I'm going to run our opening number. And in those
0:23.4	seven seconds or whatever, I'm going to fix it all up. But I hope you guys can hear me okay. I'm so
0:27.9	sorry about that. We are going to get into a bunch of different stories. Okay. This is a Friday that
0:35.2	we all need. If you need this Friday, say I.
0:38.8	And by the way, when people say if you need something or if you like something, say I,
0:42.6	what is it? Do you say I like the letter I or do you say A-Y-E? Like I-ya-ye. I never know.
0:49.4	If you, if you are here and you're happy and you're ready for a fun show, say I. Look, Christina says I like an eyeball. Amy says I like I, the actual letter. And then I don't know what to put there says I, A-Y-E. No one knows. All right, you guys. Aye, aye, aye. Let's get into the show. It's your daily dose of Donna.
1:11.3	Welcome to the show.
1:12.5	My light is back on.
1:13.6	My microphone is working. Everything is back. Everything is good in the hood. Remember how we used to say that when we were younger? Like, how are things good? Everything's good in the hood. Like, how weird. Some of the things we said back in like, I don't even know when we said that.
1:29.6	Last night I had a mahjong. Like how weird. Some of the things we said back in like, I don't even know when we said that.
1:29.5	Last night I had a mahjong hang at my house and we actually were missing our fourth.
1:35.1	So we invited Lance to play with us.
1:37.6	And you guys, Lance won out of the four games.
1:41.8	He won one time.
1:43.4	I won another time.
1:45.6	And then Valerie, my friend Valerie, won two more times.
1:48.8	Sorry, Lauren.
1:50.0	Sorry.
1:51.6	He loves it.
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