TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (WEDS): Bobby Is ALMOST Back! + High School's Auto Program Gives Cars To Single Moms

This is an iHeart podcast. It's time for the good news. Around the room. I'll go first. Kind of annoying because it rained yesterday. But what was great about it is it was like 42 degrees. So it wasn't a freezing rain. And we had a bunch of ice that we're my wife's pregnant. She's really avoiding all ice all the time. So it kind of it melted like all of the ice on all of the surfaces outside. So now she can walk around a little bit out there. And we just needed it because everything was still iced over. Yeah. I was stuck in traffic though. I'm never in traffic because come to work early. I'm never on the road at five o'clock p.m. But I was yesterday because I had we recorded 25 whistles yesterday. Then I went to brain therapy. My therapist. Then I went to physical therapy after that. So all those ran together and it was five o'clock and I'm on the road and I'm like I hate this. I would just not work. So I have to go through this every day. So your therapist when you say brain you mean like talk therapy. Okay. I don't know. Mental health. I was working on my mental health and my physical health. So I tell my wife yesterday. Oh you were so on top of it yesterday. That's pretty common. I try to schedule stuff near. Oh it's common to have those on the same day. Yeah. I did in physical therapy yesterday. I ran for 10 minutes. But I did five minute walk five minute jog in the anti-gravity treadmill. And really they say anti-gravity. They just basically put you in this air balloon. It takes you to like 70% of your body weight. The last time I did that. Oh I should do this is my time. It's good. The last time I did that I only got through two and a half minutes and had to quit because my ankle was killing me. I did all 10 minutes. It hurts today a little bit but I think there's been some progression. I was worried when I fell on the ice last week that I'd re-injured my ankle. But after I ran for 10 minutes it hurt a little but I do feel progression. I'm almost back. I mean who knows. Who knows what kind of athlete I'm gonna decide to be. Yeah when you're back what are you. I don't know dude. What's your goal. It's your goal to be back. I don't know. I feel like I'm an empty canvas right now. If I want to get into marathon running. Oh that. Back in professional pickleball. Don't do a marathon after your foot. But I could. I could start training. You could but. He's not gonna do it right out of the gating. He's gonna build a whole new canvas. I haven't done anything in three months. So exciting. Two tell me something good. Those two things. Amy what do you have. So at the beginning of the year I set out to read more. And I've officially finished like it's still what we're very early February and I've already read three books and I'm about to finish my fourth. That's really great. I'm a whole new person. Like I can't wait to like get ready for bed and get in bed and read. And I have my little night light that is like an amber color so it doesn't mess with you know my circadian rhythm. And I don't know. It's like who am I like last night. My boyfriend called me and was like hey what are you doing. I was like I'm already in bed. I'm reading. You know this is the year that I read. That's great. It's fine to finish books. It's so fun. This is not me. I mean I've been kind of an okay reader but not really. I mean the fact that I'm on my fourth book for the year that's more than I read in the last few years. Combined. Yeah. I was making a joke. I've listened to some. I've listened to books and so I guess I'm separating that from listening to actually reading and carving out time and I kept thinking like I don't really have time for that. And it's like I have time. It's just am I going to watch a TV show or am I going to read a book. Hold on. Four books. Are we talking like 100 page books. No. The Nightingale was the longest one and that one I just. That's a real one. I read that. That's a real one. Like that one I got into the other two. Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and the Hell in the Book. That's really impressive. Long reads man. The other two. So proud of you. No no no. The other two are Emily Henry books and they're just like rom-com romance type books and they're very easy reads. They're not like the Nightingale was heavy and that's why I'm kind of cleansing my palette because the Nightingale's historical fiction and it's heavy stuff. So I'm cleansing my palette with these little rom-com books that I still count. I really love. Don't tell judged. I know but they're they're an easy read and so then I'm ready for my I say all this that if anybody else has a once I get done with Beach Read which is what I'm on now I want another historical fiction book so I'll take recommendations. I'm not a big historical fiction guy so I don't have a good recommendation. Oh I read that one but then I read another book that was the real version of that kind of. Oh well I also like true so I'll take it. Nonfiction. No man nonfiction. Yeah. Yeah that's true right. You know I call an infant a super baby so I'm not gonna be that judgment. I want a true. I know my brain I was like yeah I'll take a true story which is nonfiction. What is it? It's similar to the Nightingale. Yeah it's basically a real version of that story. The problem with reading books on an iPad which I often do is that I forget the titles of the books. I forget the authors of the books and I don't know I don't know like what the cover looks like because all I'm doing is going back to it and it's just the page that I'm reading. So okay. Also I think this month helped me out lunchbox to your point of what am I reading is well we lost power for several days and I was staying at my house so I was sitting by my fire reading for when normally we would have been doing other things. A woman of no importance the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II. That's cool. Oh heck yeah I'll get into that. It's a version of that story that you read I mean very similar. Yeah I'll probably I'm able to get into it more knowing that it's legit. Have you read the Midnight Library? I've talked about it a long time ago. It's straight fiction so I'm not a fiction hater at all. I like cleanse the palette a little bit with fiction. It's just hard for me to find a fiction book. I actually know in the first two nights if I don't like it I love the Midnight Library. It was so good. The Midnight Library. It's straight fiction though so. What's that about? I think you just read it. That author Matt Haig HAIG also wrote The Life Impossible which is great. Is that also fiction? Yeah I mean if we're just going down this here don't believe everything you think was really good. Project Hill Mary's straight fiction is awesome. That's gonna be a movie. It was awesome. Yeah I read that a couple years ago. I finished The Sum of Us which is good. That is that is um it's non-fiction. It's a lot of data. It's The Sum of Us what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together by Heather McGee. Oh so it's more like life. Yeah it's good. Stupid question but like you know when you talk about movies and shows like everyone's always like oh my gosh have you seen this how do you find a new book like like this right now. Can I yep it's much like a Netflix show. Okay okay it's people recommending or go to Goodreads. This is not a commercial for Goodreads. Is that a website? It's yeah basically people review stuff. Speaking of that's what your wife sent me. I know the next book I'm reading and she said she it's from her Goodreads. Man what's it called. There's Birds on the Cover and I was like oh it's meant to be. Birds I read Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frank who has a bird on it. Did you read that? No that's not. I know I haven't read it yet. She just sent me the thing the other day of like because we were like should we start like a little texting book club. It's like. Man yellow face is so good. What's that? It's fiction also. Oh the cor- so it's the correspondent. I haven't seen that. I haven't read that. Yeah she said that's on her. I know people are getting annoyed at us talking about books. Why? I thought Bobby said you gave up reading. He's going over like this is what he's read. In the last 13 months or so this is I've read a bunch of this. Last year I read Changang All Stars fiction. Bro it's awesome. I know Mike's wife read that one too. Yeah she liked that one I'm gonna order the course for me. This is my version of meditating though. What? Reading. Yep because I'm like rush rush rush calendar calendar calendar next thing run jump if I have a book I have to focus or I'll read lines and lines of pages to be like why did I just read? I don't even know what I just read so I gotta go back and do it again. It is very much a focus type thing for me. The Daily Stoic one of my favorite books ever. Amy is it hard for you because you're uh dyslexic? Reading has been difficult for me. She reads it from the back. Oh really backwards and then forward? She hits it from the back dude. Um but I think right now since I have the momentum I gotta stick with it. Oh yeah it's so fun when you're going. Like when you have the momentum and I have to keep going and so some of the pages I'm like shoot I just read that page I have no idea what I just read. I don't have to read all the time. So I'll either go back or it'll work itself out. That I'll figure it out. I'll do one more I'll talk about that book Yellow Face for a second because I pulled up because I remember it was about an author who was faking like she wrote something but it is about a white author June Hayward who steals and publishes a manuscript from her recently deceased Chinese-American friend under the student name Juniper Song which is a Chinese-American name but she has it her friend died and again her friend's Chinese and so she has to kind of act like she wrote it's funny. Yeah anyway that's Book Minute. Yeah Book Minute I mean I think more people are into books than you think. Listeners are the ones that recommended all the Emily Henry books to me and I'm rolling through them. That's pretty cool though when you finish a book then you can add it to your collection. Yeah it's fun and it nothing feels better than when someone else also read a book that you read. You're like have you read they're like yeah. We just got best friends. That's one of those. Lunchbox tell me something good. Yeah so we have this ice storm and power went out a lot of places tree branches fell and there has been tree branches on my power line connecting to my house just weighing it down like almost to the ground in the backyard luckily it hadn't snapped and there were sort of linemen from Des Moines Iowa driving through the neighborhood yesterday and they saw it jumped out of the truck got the equipment and got the branches off the wire so it never snapped. That's good. Okay but you had power. I had power but I was still worried that it was going to disconnect from my house because the tree branches were on it and they always say you don't want to touch a tree branch that's on a power line. They do say that. I've heard them say that and so I just left it alone. Wood not a great conductor though but you don't want to touch anything touching a tree line. Say that again. Oh wood is not a good powers like conductor tree wood wood. What do you mean? Wood. Like W.O.D. somebody say wood. Do you know what that is Amy? No. Come on. Um Wainsworld. Yeah that's what I guess Wainsworld. Ranger Joe. Oh Ranger Joe. I have a puppet. Joey. Yeah anyway. No but I just want to shout out the guys from Des Moines Iowa. Did you meet them? My wife did. I wasn't home. Oh dang. Yeah they're probably big fans of the show though and they happen to see some branches on our wire and that's what they're in town to do is just drive around and find branches on wires and they boom took them off. In case anyone's wondering dry wood is a poor conductor of electricity acting as an insulator primarily because it lacks free electrons necessary for electrical current to flow. What about wet wood? Uh what about? It's a good question. So you're telling me I got done it no problem? Well we don't know that. No I wouldn't touch anything touching a power. I couldn't touch it. No I wouldn't do it. Um so the more moisture it has I'd assume worse. It could be bad for you. Okay. Water soaked or green wood is more conductive than dry wood. Water inside the wood acts as an electrolyte so water would be it but it's not all water so probably still not a great conductor but I wouldn't mess with it. I wouldn't mess with it even as a straight wood or as Amy says would you say? Wet wood. Wet wood. What's the opposite of dry? Uh Eddie. All right so last Friday I guess that's when it was like really freaking cold five degrees or seven degrees or something. It was in the single digits and my heater was not getting above 70. Like we had set it to like 75 and it was just blowing and blowing and blowing and it was 75 because it was just trying to get it up. It was yeah it was still it was still chilly on my first floor and so I'm like well this is great like my my heater's going out and we'd been running it for two weeks straight so um I shut it down and I bought space heaters from Walmart and I was like all right this is just how we're gonna live until all this ice goes away. Well yesterday you know you were saying that it rained and it melted everything so I was like you know what this is a good time to just check the heater. Dude it works! I turned it on and so what was the hiccups? I think the ice it was frozen outside and the fact that it wasn't five degrees yesterday and it was 40 it actually worked normal so I was thinking we're just gonna do we're gonna be a space heater home for the rest of the winter. That's a big commitment which is a little scary but it's a big it's a fire risk I feel like. Yeah I know. I'm thinking too though like isn't that gonna be cheaper than running the heater plugging in two little space heaters? Yeah but you're not everything's not gonna be heated. You're just gonna have two little space heaters and you're a family of six? Yeah but little spaces are gonna be heated up. It's just the first floor though. Oh the upstairs is fine. Yeah the upstairs one's fine. Oh well then yeah maybe you're good because at night you just turn them off. I'm thinking I'll save a lot of money. But then you gotta walk by down and turn them on before it gets warm again. Right. Like what no don't you're not gonna do that. Okay. Uh tell me something good there you go. No gloss no filter just stories spoken without fear. Addiction is a disease and it should be looked upon as any other disease. How did you cope with a reckless father like me? Join me Pooja Bhatt as I sit down every week with directors, actors, musicians, technicians and beyond. You don't need to work with the biggest people and the biggest sound to have great music. I have gone through this sub-CD khachak. Reach the pinnacle. Stung by the snake and I've fallen down again. Yeah I am not writing actively anymore and when I see my old work it kind of saddens me. I'm only as good as the last shot that I gave. Mom's gone but don't shut the theater. The show must go on. Listen to my weekly podcast the Pooja Bhatt show on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty stay for the fire. It's time for the good news with Bobby. Students in the auto tech program at La Ouisa County High School are learning how to actually fix cars but they're also learning how to get back to the community. So the program has 11th graders fixing not only cars that have been donated to giveaway not only parts from cars that dumps but also teachers other students and other people's cars that like a part of the school they fix their cars for free. That's nice. That's crazy. That's because the first parts I get like you're and I have to get like but it's like if a teacher if mr. Tolson's truck's got a muffler that's making noise you go and you fix that for him. Right but then it's also there's oversight right it's like well it gets double checked by the I'm sure. I think somebody check I don't think kids run and go like yeah all good. I've never heard of that. That's awesome that they actually help people at the school with their cars so not only routine repairs but they also restore cars I was talking about earlier and they donate it to single mothers in need through an organization there. Holy crap that is a great story. WTVR that is what it's all about. That was tell me something good. It's time for the good news. Last week the ice storm hit Mississippi hard. Interstate 55 was just full of a bunch of stranded semi trucks but Clyde Bynum and his son CJ they saw the news they're like we need to jump in and help. They got their jeeps and ropes and they went to the interstate and pulled out hundreds of 18 wheelers. Wow. In jeeps which is crazy like I have a jeep and I'm like I don't think I can pull an 18 wheeler out of anywhere. I think it probably just needs a little boost. Yeah a little bit but they were saying too that some of these drivers had to spend the night in their trucks because they were just stuck on the side of the road and so we saw a guy try to take on a hill most of the road was okay and we were driving and we saw up on the interstate most of the interstate was okay except the ramp there was uphill this 18 was like screw it I'm gonna try it done blocked the whole ramp too. That's what that's what Clyde was saying he said a lot of these trucks were trying to go up ramps and hills they got stuck they slid off and they couldn't go anywhere. Good old Clyde. Yeah and it's on CJ. And Clyde and CJ probably Clyde Jr. Oh good point CJ. Oh right Clyde Jr yeah there you go you guys you didn't get that one. Nope not a first. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. 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