SHOW RECAP Mackenzie Phillips ("High on Arrival"): She was born to Rock and Roll royalty as the daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and she grew up in front of an audience of TV fans on "One Day at a Time." But behind the glamour and glitz was the dark side of addiction -- and a secret she held on to for a lifetime.
Mike Rowe ("Dirty Jobs"): He started out at QVC selling products, but little did he know that job would be one of the cushiest he would ever have (especially with the show he's doing now on the Discovery Channel)!
Dog Adoptions: We just can't get enough of our four-legged friends, and these little rascals all need a good home. Tune-in and maybe you'll open your heart and your home to one of these little guys.
PHOTOS
Bonnie holds Pearl, one of the dogs available for adoption.
VIDEOS
Bonnie wonders about Mike Rowe's "dirty jobs."
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Mackenzie Phillips
Mackenzie's book, "High on Arrival" is available online and in stores now. Click here to listen to an excerpt read by Mackenzie.
Mike Rowe
See more of Mike on Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT.
Dina Zaphiris
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To see more of any of the dogs on today's show, please click here.
Hi Bonnie,
I live in Bremerton, Wa and record your show everyday, it is normaly the first thing I turn on when I get home from work. Unfortunately, (not that it isn't important for our economy) there was "Breaking News" about Boeing opening a plant in South Carolina. I thought they would talk maybe 10 minutes about it and move on but NOOOOOOOOO!! They talked the whole hour.... "Come on now!!!" (yes I yelled that, by myself, at my news anchors.... like they can here me) Why they choose to interupt your show all the time is by me. (maybe because it is the number one watched show on King 5) This is not the first time this has happened. Blaugh!! I don't feel complete, it is like going through my day with no coffee. Help!!!
I looked to see if I could see the entire show from the site and can't. Sad Day!!! I don't want pieces of the show, I want to be able to see it from begining to end. (I feel like I am a two year-old throwing a tantrum) Is there a way to do that? Am I missing a link? If not, is there a way to make that happen? I love your show, someday I am going to make it for a hotdog and a rootbeer. Until that happens, could you help a loyal veiwer out. I hated missing today. Thank you so much for your time. Vandy
Dear Ms. Hunt. Watched your show for the first time today. You are delightful, but forgive me for saying that I have little interest in people like Ms. Mackenzie, or Jackson. My interest is the pets profiled. As I live in Michigan, don't know if I can be a candidate for adoption of one of the lovely dogs shown. The humans have all they should need, but the dogs have to be rescued. Would be delighted to rescue one of the female dogs. Thank you. Esther Hofley
Hi Bonnie, I love your show! You should take larry home to Charlie. I bet they would be great together! I would love to live on a farm with 20 + dogs, maybe someday! I have 5 now, would love more. I sent you a pic of my dog Buddy, a puggle. I saw the clip of the 2 puggles, to cute! That's what Buddy does to me when I've been at a friends house who has a dog. You're the best! Shelley
Bonnie-
I have often wondered what it would be like to be on your show as someone who is a survivor of sexual abuse. Now I know that you ARE interested and ARE able to discuss this horrible, victimizing crime. Mackenzie Phillips has come forth to speak for all of us that this has happened to. Her description of what it's like for her to have family members abandon her, ostracize her, and their anger towards her is so familiar to me. I told my mom when I was 15 years old (after 7 years of abuse by my uncle) and suddenly I wasn't welcome to family events. Three years later I was married and for the next 22 years, the perpetrator was at every family event and all I could do was to make sure everyone else was comfortable around me, even though I was in so much pain inside, that way no one would be reminded of MY sin. (I know that's not the case, but the family would rather keep everything status quo and ignore the elephant in the room) I have once again, after an almost attempt at suicide, spoken out and shared my secret with the rest of the world and once again, I'm invisible and abandoned. However, this time I will finally heal and move forward from this, and finally learning at 40 years old that it has to be without the family I grew up with. As much as I wish they could be there for me, I cannot keep toxic relationships in my life in order for me to be a better person healed than I ever would have been well. I have my husband, my children and great friends that will always love me. Mackenzie's comment about forgiveness is so true - and it doesn't happen at the snap of a finger, but a journey that takes different forms at different times and the destination will one day show up. I am very blessed at the way my life's story has begun for me and I know that the person I am today is because of my experiences of yesterday and how I've chosen to handle them.
I too have written a book and maybe one day it will be published, but for right now I continue to go to therapy and be prayerful.
Bonnie - My comments are a few days late - story of my life. I was born late and my daddy always said I've been late ever since. Anyway, I was surprisingly touched and so impressed with RZA. What a brave young man. He had no basketball or football scholarship. He didn't go on American Idol. His mother stared him down and showed him he had a choice and he was smart enough and he loved her enough to listen. Thank you for giving him the platform to tell his story. God bless him.
Also - I loved the cooking cowgirl. I hope to win her cookbook....It sure looked easy. I will let you know. I tape your show every day - so happy for you and your whole crew. Love, Susan, old friend, old fan
Chester is part Irish Terrier. We have one and he's wonderful!!
Hi Bonnie:
I love your show and it makes me laugh out loud. I love the dogs, just wish I could adopt one but I am in Canada. Keep up the good work. You make my day.
Mary
So intelligent 'Dave' what are you high on...
Child abuse happens in many different ways by so many different people in a young child's life and shame on anyone who thinks otherwise, thankfully not to all children obviously but to far far too many. Kudos to McKenzie to work thru her horrible experience, not all can make a profit in the process but what ever works, if the subject can be revisited and people reminded then it's not a bad thing.
Kudos to you Bonnie to broach the subject on your show which is always such a positive feel good show, not easy am sure to make that decision.
You do great things with the dogs and just being you, the kindness you show always to everyone and your tender heart is so refreshing to experience everyday from 2-3p. in our town.
Mike Rowe is one of the sexiest men on television and that's all the time you give him???
Bonnie,
I share your love of animals and kids. We adopt animals that have physical challenges and/or coming to the end of their lives to make sure that they die in a home and not in a shelter. We now have a three cocker spaniels, one is blind, one is deaf, and one has only three legs, and a Westie - 4 years old, we are fostering who belongs to a soldier that was deployed. When he gets home, the little guy will be here for him.
In addition to beasties, I am a nut over children. I do clown shows, Mother Goose, and other characters at our local hospitals, City Shelter, and anywhere else they let me be silly. I would love to share some of the stories with you sometime.
Your show is always a delight to me because of the standard of kindness and decency you maintain.
Thank you for the good you do.
Sandra "Corney" Chaney
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
I too enjoy your show every day. It is a joy to watch. I wish you would have Robin Williams or Steve Martin on the show.
Keep up the good work. You all do a tremendous job every day.
HI BONNIE,
LOVE YOUR SHOW HON. ITS THE GREATEST. PLEASE DONT STOP SHOWING THE DOGS ON YOUR SHOW HON. PEOPLE ACROSS AMERICA ARE THROWING ANIMALS AWAY DUE TO THE ECONOMIE & THERE LOSS OF MAYBE 1 IF NOT BOTH OF THERE HOUSEHOLD INCOMES. ITS SO SAD TO THINK PEOPLE WILL JUST TOSS AWAY AN ANIMAL OF ANY KIND BONNIE. I ADOPTED A BICHON OUT OF THE LOCAL SHELETR LAST YEAR HON. HE WAS 10 YEARS OLD & ABUSED SUMWHAT BY HIS PREVIOUS OWNER. THEY HAD TIED HIM TO A POLE AT A FAIR GROUNDS THANK GOD & THE POLICE FOUND HIM ON 1 OF THERE PATROLS THRU THE GROUNDS & TURNED HIM INTO A SHELTER. UNFORTUNATELY I HAD TO PUT HIM TO SLEEP IN AUGUST DUE TO TUMORS IN HIS LIL LEG, I WAS HEARTBROKEN, & DID IT BECAUSE HE WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN. MY OTHER OPTION WAS A 3 LEGGED DOG WHICH IS`NT GOOD FOR LIL DOGS LIKE BICHONS. OR KEEP HIM DOPED UP ON PAIN MEDS. LIKE THATS A GOOD LIFE. I LOVED HIM TO PIECES BONNIE & HE RETURNED THAT LOVE TO ME. I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO SEE YOU IN YOUR NEW OUTFITS OF COLOR BONNIE. YOUR SUCH A BEAUTIFUL LADY & COLOR WILL ONLY MAGNIFY THAT BEAUTY.
CHARLIE
Hi!!! Bonnie, my name is Toni, I just want to say that I love you & your show. I see how every time you hold a dog in your lap, they just melt in your arms. That says alot about you. Well, keep up the good work and thank you for everything.
Love T
Bonnie, I know how much you love animals. I was wondering if you have read a really great book called: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It is a story of a dog and his relationship with his owner who is a race car driver. The story is written as though the dog is the writer. Very good. I bought the book for my daughter when she rescued a shelter dog but I read the book before I even mailed it to her.
Watch you every day. Loved the dogs today.
Greetings from the base of the Crazy Mountains, near Wilsall, Montana!!
Bonnie, I doubled over in giggles when you told about the cricket jumping down your top. I wrote a story about my experience with crickets, which I'd love to share with you. It's on my website: www.SimonTeakettle.com/bravo.htm
Yours is the only show I tape every day. You're delightful, and I enjoy your interaction with the band and crew. I just wish you'd have a segment at least once a week where you sing.
Mackenzie Phillips needs to understand the same thing I had to understand. When these bad things happened to her they were choices that were made FOR her and to her. As an adult she has to say, It is my choice now, I am in control and I will NEVER let it happen again to me or too anyone who I can talk to about it now. Part of her recovery is to realize that no matter what her family says they have no control over her anymore. If they chose to hid these bad things before tuff if they don't like her choice to talk about it. If they really know nothing about what happened. They need to trust that going out in public with something as shocking as this most likely means it is true. Cudoos and best wishes to you in the future Mackenzie!
Be proud of releasing that horrible weight. I know how it feels, I too have dealt with simmiliar issues and have overcome them.
Lisa
P.S. I Love You Bonnie!!!!!WTG with the show! The animals are wonderful! I volunteer at our local shelter..Calvert Animal welfare league... We are nonprofit all the money goes to the animals. We go to kill shelters and save the ones who are in line to be put down. We take them to our facility and do everything it takes to get them into good homes. We even get them all the medical care they need no matter how long it takes. We had to keep 2 cats for as long as 3 years! It was worth it to see the pictures the adopted families sent back. T.C
I just love Bonnie Hunt's kind HEART! Its wonderful to see kindness towards all on her show whether they are human or pets of any kind. Uplifting is the word that comes to my mind and being unemployed these days one needs to be uplifted. I'm grateful for her show!
Hugs,
Donna
Mike Rowe lives with his long time girl friend
Danielle burgio..
Bonnie,
Is Mike married? You make a cute couple. He seems very down to earth as do you. Give it a thought!
Email
Hi Bonnie,
I live in Bremerton, Wa and record your show everyday, it is normaly the first thing I turn on when I get home from work. Unfortunately, (not that it isn't important for our economy) there was "Breaking News" about Boeing opening a plant in South Carolina. I thought they would talk maybe 10 minutes about it and move on but NOOOOOOOOO!! They talked the whole hour.... "Come on now!!!" (yes I yelled that, by myself, at my news anchors.... like they can here me) Why they choose to interupt your show all the time is by me. (maybe because it is the number one watched show on King 5) This is not the first time this has happened. Blaugh!! I don't feel complete, it is like going through my day with no coffee. Help!!!
I looked to see if I could see the entire show from the site and can't. Sad Day!!! I don't want pieces of the show, I want to be able to see it from begining to end. (I feel like I am a two year-old throwing a tantrum) Is there a way to do that? Am I missing a link? If not, is there a way to make that happen? I love your show, someday I am going to make it for a hotdog and a rootbeer. Until that happens, could you help a loyal veiwer out. I hated missing today. Thank you so much for your time. Vandy
Dear Ms. Hunt. Watched your show for the first time today. You are delightful, but forgive me for saying that I have little interest in people like Ms. Mackenzie, or Jackson. My interest is the pets profiled. As I live in Michigan, don't know if I can be a candidate for adoption of one of the lovely dogs shown. The humans have all they should need, but the dogs have to be rescued. Would be delighted to rescue one of the female dogs. Thank you. Esther Hofley
Hi Bonnie, I love your show! You should take larry home to Charlie. I bet they would be great together! I would love to live on a farm with 20 + dogs, maybe someday! I have 5 now, would love more. I sent you a pic of my dog Buddy, a puggle. I saw the clip of the 2 puggles, to cute! That's what Buddy does to me when I've been at a friends house who has a dog. You're the best! Shelley
Bonnie-
I have often wondered what it would be like to be on your show as someone who is a survivor of sexual abuse. Now I know that you ARE interested and ARE able to discuss this horrible, victimizing crime. Mackenzie Phillips has come forth to speak for all of us that this has happened to. Her description of what it's like for her to have family members abandon her, ostracize her, and their anger towards her is so familiar to me. I told my mom when I was 15 years old (after 7 years of abuse by my uncle) and suddenly I wasn't welcome to family events. Three years later I was married and for the next 22 years, the perpetrator was at every family event and all I could do was to make sure everyone else was comfortable around me, even though I was in so much pain inside, that way no one would be reminded of MY sin. (I know that's not the case, but the family would rather keep everything status quo and ignore the elephant in the room) I have once again, after an almost attempt at suicide, spoken out and shared my secret with the rest of the world and once again, I'm invisible and abandoned. However, this time I will finally heal and move forward from this, and finally learning at 40 years old that it has to be without the family I grew up with. As much as I wish they could be there for me, I cannot keep toxic relationships in my life in order for me to be a better person healed than I ever would have been well. I have my husband, my children and great friends that will always love me. Mackenzie's comment about forgiveness is so true - and it doesn't happen at the snap of a finger, but a journey that takes different forms at different times and the destination will one day show up. I am very blessed at the way my life's story has begun for me and I know that the person I am today is because of my experiences of yesterday and how I've chosen to handle them.
I too have written a book and maybe one day it will be published, but for right now I continue to go to therapy and be prayerful.
Bonnie - My comments are a few days late - story of my life. I was born late and my daddy always said I've been late ever since. Anyway, I was surprisingly touched and so impressed with RZA. What a brave young man. He had no basketball or football scholarship. He didn't go on American Idol. His mother stared him down and showed him he had a choice and he was smart enough and he loved her enough to listen. Thank you for giving him the platform to tell his story. God bless him.
Also - I loved the cooking cowgirl. I hope to win her cookbook....It sure looked easy. I will let you know. I tape your show every day - so happy for you and your whole crew. Love, Susan, old friend, old fan
Chester is part Irish Terrier. We have one and he's wonderful!!
Hi Bonnie:
I love your show and it makes me laugh out loud. I love the dogs, just wish I could adopt one but I am in Canada. Keep up the good work. You make my day.
Mary
So intelligent 'Dave' what are you high on...
Child abuse happens in many different ways by so many different people in a young child's life and shame on anyone who thinks otherwise, thankfully not to all children obviously but to far far too many. Kudos to McKenzie to work thru her horrible experience, not all can make a profit in the process but what ever works, if the subject can be revisited and people reminded then it's not a bad thing.
Kudos to you Bonnie to broach the subject on your show which is always such a positive feel good show, not easy am sure to make that decision.
You do great things with the dogs and just being you, the kindness you show always to everyone and your tender heart is so refreshing to experience everyday from 2-3p. in our town.
Mike Rowe is one of the sexiest men on television and that's all the time you give him???
Bonnie,
I share your love of animals and kids. We adopt animals that have physical challenges and/or coming to the end of their lives to make sure that they die in a home and not in a shelter. We now have a three cocker spaniels, one is blind, one is deaf, and one has only three legs, and a Westie - 4 years old, we are fostering who belongs to a soldier that was deployed. When he gets home, the little guy will be here for him.
In addition to beasties, I am a nut over children. I do clown shows, Mother Goose, and other characters at our local hospitals, City Shelter, and anywhere else they let me be silly. I would love to share some of the stories with you sometime.
Your show is always a delight to me because of the standard of kindness and decency you maintain.
Thank you for the good you do.
Sandra "Corney" Chaney
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
I too enjoy your show every day. It is a joy to watch. I wish you would have Robin Williams or Steve Martin on the show.
Keep up the good work. You all do a tremendous job every day.
HI BONNIE,
LOVE YOUR SHOW HON. ITS THE GREATEST. PLEASE DONT STOP SHOWING THE DOGS ON YOUR SHOW HON. PEOPLE ACROSS AMERICA ARE THROWING ANIMALS AWAY DUE TO THE ECONOMIE & THERE LOSS OF MAYBE 1 IF NOT BOTH OF THERE HOUSEHOLD INCOMES. ITS SO SAD TO THINK PEOPLE WILL JUST TOSS AWAY AN ANIMAL OF ANY KIND BONNIE. I ADOPTED A BICHON OUT OF THE LOCAL SHELETR LAST YEAR HON. HE WAS 10 YEARS OLD & ABUSED SUMWHAT BY HIS PREVIOUS OWNER. THEY HAD TIED HIM TO A POLE AT A FAIR GROUNDS THANK GOD & THE POLICE FOUND HIM ON 1 OF THERE PATROLS THRU THE GROUNDS & TURNED HIM INTO A SHELTER. UNFORTUNATELY I HAD TO PUT HIM TO SLEEP IN AUGUST DUE TO TUMORS IN HIS LIL LEG, I WAS HEARTBROKEN, & DID IT BECAUSE HE WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN. MY OTHER OPTION WAS A 3 LEGGED DOG WHICH IS`NT GOOD FOR LIL DOGS LIKE BICHONS. OR KEEP HIM DOPED UP ON PAIN MEDS. LIKE THATS A GOOD LIFE. I LOVED HIM TO PIECES BONNIE & HE RETURNED THAT LOVE TO ME. I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO SEE YOU IN YOUR NEW OUTFITS OF COLOR BONNIE. YOUR SUCH A BEAUTIFUL LADY & COLOR WILL ONLY MAGNIFY THAT BEAUTY.
CHARLIE
Hi!!! Bonnie, my name is Toni, I just want to say that I love you & your show. I see how every time you hold a dog in your lap, they just melt in your arms. That says alot about you. Well, keep up the good work and thank you for everything.
Love T
Bonnie, I know how much you love animals. I was wondering if you have read a really great book called: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It is a story of a dog and his relationship with his owner who is a race car driver. The story is written as though the dog is the writer. Very good. I bought the book for my daughter when she rescued a shelter dog but I read the book before I even mailed it to her.
Watch you every day. Loved the dogs today.
Greetings from the base of the Crazy Mountains, near Wilsall, Montana!!
Bonnie, I doubled over in giggles when you told about the cricket jumping down your top. I wrote a story about my experience with crickets, which I'd love to share with you. It's on my website: www.SimonTeakettle.com/bravo.htm
Yours is the only show I tape every day. You're delightful, and I enjoy your interaction with the band and crew. I just wish you'd have a segment at least once a week where you sing.
Mackenzie Phillips needs to understand the same thing I had to understand. When these bad things happened to her they were choices that were made FOR her and to her. As an adult she has to say, It is my choice now, I am in control and I will NEVER let it happen again to me or too anyone who I can talk to about it now. Part of her recovery is to realize that no matter what her family says they have no control over her anymore. If they chose to hid these bad things before tuff if they don't like her choice to talk about it. If they really know nothing about what happened. They need to trust that going out in public with something as shocking as this most likely means it is true. Cudoos and best wishes to you in the future Mackenzie!
Be proud of releasing that horrible weight. I know how it feels, I too have dealt with simmiliar issues and have overcome them.
Lisa
P.S. I Love You Bonnie!!!!!WTG with the show! The animals are wonderful! I volunteer at our local shelter..Calvert Animal welfare league... We are nonprofit all the money goes to the animals. We go to kill shelters and save the ones who are in line to be put down. We take them to our facility and do everything it takes to get them into good homes. We even get them all the medical care they need no matter how long it takes. We had to keep 2 cats for as long as 3 years! It was worth it to see the pictures the adopted families sent back. T.C
I just love Bonnie Hunt's kind HEART! Its wonderful to see kindness towards all on her show whether they are human or pets of any kind. Uplifting is the word that comes to my mind and being unemployed these days one needs to be uplifted. I'm grateful for her show!
Hugs,
Donna
Mike Rowe lives with his long time girl friend
Danielle burgio..
Bonnie,
Is Mike married? You make a cute couple. He seems very down to earth as do you. Give it a thought!
Sue