TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (TUES): Bobby FINALLY Did Something He Was Dreading!

This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. It's time for the good news. Tell me something good. Around the room, Amy, you're up. So I have a little thank you from Mike D's wife or thank you for me to her. And something I thought was super cute that others might want to do is she brought me some books because I'm reading them now, Sully Grab. I saw books on your desk this morning. Yeah, and something that's super cute, she texts me about. And she's like, hey, on the inside, these aren't from a library. She's like, but I got these cute little library cards that I'm putting in. And so to all her friends that borrow the book, like, you're going to sign it. Like, you're checking it out from her library. And then I have to give it back. Yeah, I'll give it back to her when I'm done. Oh, I thought you just like kept track of everybody who owned the book and read the book. Oh, or that. I don't know. I guess I haven't gotten specifics from her. I just thought it was cute. She said she just sent me a picture of the library card, which felt really nostalgic to open it up and see because this is how it was and we went to the library. Mike has a dewey decimal system at his house. So she just sent me, she just sent me a text saying, like, hey, this isn't really from a library. It's just something cute that I'm adding to my books. And I was like, that is so fun. So yeah, either maybe we passed it around or I give it back to her. I'm not sure what she would prefer, but she gave me two of them. So I don't want books back if multiple people have been fingering them. You know what I mean? You mean like reading them? Touching them? After fingers all alone. Can you just say touching them? No, because books are very fingery. It's just like, and then people like, yeah, so I'm saying, they're just touching. But from a library, yeah, we would all get books from the library or like our books are college. When I was nine. Oh, she was now that we're more established. I don't even use the real books. You use the Kindle. Yeah. And if I did, if I gave somebody a book, that's now their book, because they're fingering it like crazy. And I don't want anything to do with it. Amy, do you take books in the bathroom? No, because I don't spend a lot of time. That's bad for you. You don't sit on the toilet with the book? No, because I don't spend a lot of time there. That used to be the thing before phones or iPads. Oh, magazine. Like you would have to go in and take a book or a magazine with you. And think it's more in people's passing. Those things were people's bathrooms. They had magazines. That's good. That's good. That was a bad for the toilet. So gross. You're right. Yeah, that's worse than getting fingered. All right. There you go. Good. You ready for mine? Yes. Oh, tiny. I got my tooth fixed. That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. It was a mess. It was a real, it was a real mess. Was it hard to say about a tiny? What do you mean a mess? I went in and had multiple things I do yesterday, including go to the dentist. And for those that don't know, my teeth are all fake. And so, every once in a while, I break one, because I grind my teeth really bad. And I cracked this one in the front probably five months ago. If not more. And I went and had it fixed. And then it came out. So, I had my dentist, and I just couldn't get in. I didn't prioritize it. And my wife's like, well, you should probably get it fixed since you're on Netflix all the time. You were just looking for a reason to get it fixed. So, it's fine. I go in and I say, hey, how much time is it going to be? And they're like an hour. Max. And so, I go in. I was there for two and a half hours yesterday, because they just could not get it right. I was completely gassed out of my mind. They had to shoot it and need only a few times. My gums are so sore. I didn't sleep at all last night, because you take all that. Laughing gas at nitrous, it completely messes with your cortisone. I woke up at probably one o'clock and didn't go back to sleep until it was almost time to wake up. This brutal. But I didn't get my tooth fixed. So, I got that's it. And it matches now. It looks pretty good. But I had to cancel. I had to cancel my ankle rehabilitation. Oh. Yeah. Do you have, do you know, the exercises, though, that you can do at home? Yeah, I woke up this morning and I'm starting to push it a little bit. Like, I'm not thinking about it. I'm just working out. Like, I woke up while I woke up. I'm most up all night last night. And so, there's a point when I just give up and go, I'm just going to stay awake for a little bit. And so, I was like doing some yoga stuff. And so, it is a hurt right now. But I've been working out hard the last couple days. My legs are so sore. It's like I've never worked out of my life. And then I started doing lunges and squats. That's pretty brutal. There's a lot of negative here. But, a positive is I have my tooth back. Yeah, you got it. Oh, yeah, we're doing dimsick. Here's a long one. Which one is I can't even tell anymore. Exactly. It's pretty good. So, when you had shorty or tiny, that wasn't your real tooth. That was. Okay, so the bottom part is your real tooth. So, whenever you get veneers, they cut your teeth down. They cut them basically in half the long way. And they cut the side of it a little bit because they got to put those veneers over the top of it. So, your real teeth are no longer. And so, that's all it was was the nub that they had cut down when they were putting the veneers over it. Wow. Way back in the day. But that's what's up. I'm glad you got it done. Yeah, man. Stayed gassed up all day and all night. And then if you are taking in all that gas, then you're just so gassy all night, too. Really? Like farting? Yeah, really. Actually, your body's taking in all that gas. It's got to get rid of it. Oh, I didn't even think that that was the same kind of gas. Yeah, I know it's different. It goes in. And I didn't know it messed with your cortisol. And then, because you think it would relax you. It does relax you. But it caused the cortisol spike later. Also, I fell asleep for like an hour and 40 minutes on the stuff. And then that didn't help my sleep either. At the dentist? Yeah. I was gasped out of my mind. There's a hot went to sleep. So, but I do have a new tooth. Feel pretty good about it. Now, at a years. So, my son, his sixth grade basketball team, they have advanced to the championship. Of what? Basketball. They played the final four yesterday. School or club? It's school. It's for their middle school. So, it's a big deal. Like, it's awesome in middle school, because like, the whole school's behind them. The gym was jam-packed. There were cheerleaders and everything. For a pep rally or for the game? No, for the game. What time was the game? It was like at eight o'clock last night. It was late. Wow. Yeah, it was late. So, there were two games. There were two. The winner of the first game is going to play them now. So, the championship tomorrow, dude, it's going to be awesome. Do you know the other school? Yeah. Yeah, we saw him play. So, it is another school. Uh-huh. Yeah, so we got there early to see their game, kind of to see who the competition's going to be. And I don't know. He's just so excited. His whole team's excited. The school's excited. It's cool to see him, like, work so hard and then then get to the championship and then be really proud of himself. It's cool. Do you wish you coached that team? No, no, dude. Six grade level, that's beyond me. Where do you think your level caps out? Uh, I think I was good at the seven-year-olds. The first grade? Seven-year-old. First, second grade. It's kind of where I was good. And then after that, you got to run plays and I'm out. What do you think made you a good coach? Oh, I think just the discipline, you know, like just setting the discipline tone for the kids. Not your ability to relate. Because some coaches their ability to relate. No, no, no, no, no. I think so, like, you see other teams get together with coaches and they're just wild. Like they're doing jumping jacks. They're tickling each other and the coach is like, all right, guys, come on, not me, dude. I blow the whistle and like, let's go. Huh, do you see that other team tickling each other? No, so we don't. All right, no more tickling. And then we get down to business. So they say they don't see the other team tickling each other and then you say we don't do what you don't see. So like the first game, right? Like we're warming up on our side of the court and the other teams warming up and then the other teams doing drills. Like they're doing layup drills and our teams tickling each other. Oh, got it. You know what I mean? Got it, got it, got it. And so I'm thinking like, I like that drill. No, it's so upsetting because you're like, we've practiced five times, guys. And we're about to get beat because you guys are tickling each other. Like, let's practice our layups. Are they tickling each other because they're going to tickle the other team during the game? No, they're just messing with each other. Do you ever see the play where the player gets down on all fours and it's barking like a dog? It's an inbound. No. Pretty funny that's happened for 15 years. So I can pass from out of bounds underneath the goal, right? Okay. And so let's say the red team. The red team's throwing the ball in underneath their own goal. And another member of the red team jumps down on all fours and goes, starts barking and then somebody in the blue team looks like what the heck? And they're right when they're looking down, the person goes on the goal and shoots the layup. I've seen it. I've seen it. I'll take a talk. Yeah, it's old. But it worked. But it always makes me laugh. It's a good one. That seems like a foul. No, what? No, it's called a diversion. A pit like it seems not fair. I get you're creating a diversion, but like that's a little ridiculous. You shouldn't be able to get down on all fours in the game and like make noises. It'd be it's like that's equivalent to the travel. Yes. I'm saying I think it should be. I think it's. All right. Take what you're stance on tickling. Tickling. What about that? Tickling is also a foul. Y'all know, I think that's a way that then why don't why don't they do that more? Well, because if you know it's coming, you're not going to look down. And also you lose a player and they're on their all fours. It doesn't work. It looks silly. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's a little ridiculous. It is ridiculous, but it works sometimes. Especially with. So you're telling me lower age kids. Lower age kids might do it, but also does that work in the high school or college? I've not seen a high school or college team do the barking dog. Okay, so this is like little kids. Yeah, I would say up to age 12. Yeah, it just seems a little. I would like to see it tried in older though. Like as high school, that'd be great. And again, the other day, these refs were making some really bad calls. Like it was crazy. Oh, god. No, no, no, no. Like what? Oh, my god. No. I do know. You really know because people are your like mind. No, no, everybody, both teams were like, what the heck is going on? Like even the coach of the other team got a bad call. And like he was angry about it. And he was like, yeah, well, whatever. We'll take it. You all've gotten some real bad ones too. Like I was sitting right by him so I could hear him the coach of the other team. And he was like, I guess, yeah, well, goes around comes around because they he knew that our team had gotten some really shady calls. So he had to accept it when it was shady. So there was intent. Not shady. I guess that's the wrong word because I don't know that there was intent. The ref seemed nice enough. They just seemed a little. Old. No, they're confused. Maybe like like they thought they were coming to a soccer game. I don't know. And they're like, well, I guess we're doing basketball today, Chuck. Yeah. So I was just going to say I thought that that was interesting that the coach of the other team even he started like fighting. He's like, you know what? You all've gotten some bad ones too. So I'll just take it. Parents are so embarrassing. Like last night, it was dead silent. Like somebody was shooting a free throw. And and like a parent out of nowhere just goes, got a call better ref. And the whole arena hears it. We all like who said that? And they all, you know what? We all know who said it. It's just like, why? Why say that? The ref knows like, and they don't care what you think. The ref knows what. They know if it was a good caller or bad call. Like they know. And what if they know it was a good call, but everybody else didn't see it like they did. And everybody else is saying it was a bad call. They don't care. But I know that's my point. It wasn't a bad call. I mean, let me give you an example. Oh god, here we go. Yeah. What? I can't give you an example. You know how when you have the ball, like you were talking about, the team has the ball underneath their goal and they're going to throw it in. Well, they have five seconds, right? Yeah. There's okay. So the ref is like, one, two, three. And so it got to like three. It was not five. No, we're near five. And he's like, blows the whistle. He's like five seconds. So you're watching that close. Now everybody knew there's no way it was five seconds. They do the hands, right? Like, they do five. They do this. But like he couldn't. But they also could have been one. They did. He didn't do the hand on. Ah, no, no, no, no. Even the other team. I like no. No, no, my thing is this is not about whose team it was. It doesn't matter. It wasn't five seconds. So what I was curious about is can the ref be like, okay, redo. You're right. That was four seconds. You can make to the mess up. Okay. Well, that's what he did. He committed. And then you pay it back kind of. Sure. On another play. Yeah, you made it one other call. Yeah, you still make a call to the call. There was so many bad calls. I could kept having to make up. It was all makeup calls back and forth. One after the other. Yeah. Well, that's what I was curious about. More so not telling you all what happened. But but but can can the ref be like, oh, dang. That really wasn't five seconds. I got a little happy. They did that. They did that. You know, like trigger happy. Like you just call it ahead of time and then you're like, yeah, see? Cause refs are human and they mess out. Totally. I get that. But why can't I mean, the play, nothing had happened because the whistle got blown. So be like, hey, let's just do this over. If ref started knitting that they did something wrong, they'll always be challenged every call to admit they did something wrong. So what they're going to do is possibly make it up at another close call later. But I would just say because you think you saw something not use specifically. I know. Doesn't mean that's what really happened. Yeah, this case everybody. Oh, this kid yesterday, this kid he committed a foul and then he was so mad. He did the review sign. We're not we don't review. There's no review system. I did the foul. Thanks, great. Hey, people are watching you with Jim B.A. Dude, every play that's great. I thought the finger of I tell you something got nice box. Oh, yeah, I'm going to say my kids. I'm proud of them because they are like their mother and they get things done in advance. Last night they got home from school. They sat down at the table and they fell down to their valentines. So we're not going to be up the night before at 10 p.m. trying to scribble down names on little cards. So they're all done. And I'm just like, huh, that's so weird doing something in advance. It seems like a smart tactic. So that's not something they acquired from you. No, I am a procrastinator. I like to do everything last minute. I would stay up like about a project new like a science project. I would started at like eight o'clock the night before it was due and stay up till three in the morning trying to finish it. So no, they do not get that from me. And so I was just like, this is crazy. Like, why are we doing this so early in the week? Where do you fall in the procrastinator? Um, with age, I've gotten better because I have the awareness. Typically, I'm very much, I thrive in that though. But that's part of my, I know you're all going to be like, okay, here's the ADHD, but it's literally a thing. I thrive in it. Well, I don't know if that's why you're doing it. But that's when I am my best. But I think it's what people say. No, really, it's like people will go, I'm not a good practice player, but I perform under the lights. I'm able to really focus and hone in. That's when I'm able to dial in and hyper focus on something where other people had the ability to do it at a different time. Like, I couldn't do it unless I was under the pressure under the gun. And I had to get something done. So with wisdom, though, I do it. Now I try to get ahead and have other techniques that help me try to focus or other methods of like, oh, I'll do a little bit now. Take a break. Do a little bit. I know you think that's better. And that what if you to use that forever. It is better, but I didn't have that knowledge. Like, I was just doing what came naturally to me. Which I think is my point, though, if you'd had the knowledge, you would have actually performed better. It wasn't how you were doing it. It was your best. You just didn't understand what would have been better for you. Yeah, I still think I perform. Don't fall in that trap. I'm not falling in a trap. Don't be an under the lights player. Um, not under the lights. I just know this about me. Like, it's okay to have that awareness. Yeah, when that deadline's approaching, you felt like you did so much better. And that's totally... I don't know. It's when I was able to give... Hey, you know when I'm on your side, your start. I don't know. What I'm coming from is it's when I'm actually able to give it the attention that I need to give it, like without distraction. Because I don't have a choice. It's not because I'm like, oh, I want to put this off forever just so I can just do it last minute and turn it in. It's like, I would... I guess I would meet you where you do have a choice. And you're assigning not having a choice for yourself. I think with my more mature brain and awareness of how I... perform, I have figured out ways to do it. So you're saying you're like, you always had a choice. I don't know that I had a choice because nobody taught me. And I wasn't medicated. And I'm not medicated now. That's why I have to have certain tools and things that help me. And I'm not perfect at it. I'll still put some stuff off. Even if it's... Even if you just did like a quarter of it and say three quarters of it for last minute, it would be... I know, but... Quality of it would mature so much. Just generally speaking. I think that... It's hard for some of us to do this. Stop being... Right? Right? You know what happened when all of a sudden you're in the Easter basket with him? You don't want to be their enemy. No, no. It's okay. Like, that's just how we were. I mean, you say you've changed. I still haven't changed. Do you want to be in my basket? No, but I'm saying I was a procrastinator and I still am. And you're saying you've changed. I haven't. I'm saying I work towards operating differently. Up until age 18, where were you on the procrastination meter? 10 being full procrastination. 10. I'm just how I got through college. You? 10. You? Same 10. Yeah, dude. But mine, I've changed now and mine was so stress-related. Like, I was so stressed out when I was younger all the time because of procrastination. And now I'm like, why stress myself out? Like, just get it done. Early. And then we didn't worry about it. So now I get everything done early and then I just chill. See, I don't know that mine is the same as theirs. It would have to be. Yeah. You and Lunchbox are two different kinds of animals. But same basket. Well, for no, no, they're the same animal. And it's the same animal. Well, that's same animal. I'll probably like it too. Always? Yeah. Pretty much. That's crazy. Yeah, especially if it's something of value. Because I understand even if I do a bit of it, the hardest part about doing anything that you don't want to do is just getting started. If that's a workout, if that's having to start your work day, if that's reading something, you don't want to read, it's just getting started. And if you get started, you tend to go a little longer than you think you would, because the hardest thing is committing the time to start. And I would find I could do a quarter or half of it when I hated doing it weeks ahead. And if I did nothing else until the night before, I already had half of it done. And an understanding of what else I needed to do. So at worst, that would be the case. Yeah. No, and that's great. You were able to do that. Like, I think that's awesome. You weren't taught that, right? How was I taught? I mean, I'm saying like, we were taught that. Well, no, I don't think, I think what I needed was someone to recognize, okay, this is what you have going on. So these are the tools, like, mirroring is really helpful for me. Like, if I'm working on something I want to get it done, I have someone next to me, like a friend or a partner or somebody doing the exact thing as me. And I will get more done. I'm able to focus and even hyper focus on something when I have what is called mirroring, which is an ADHD tool that you can use. Body doubling is another way that people refer to it. And so these are tools. I guess I wish I would have learned in junior high and high school, so that I could have better equipped myself in college. You didn't need mirroring or body doubling. Like, you had your brain to do it. Oh, imagine I did this while needing. Yeah, I just think that, like, just neurologically we're different. And then it's not good or bad. But I think thinking that it's good for you. You perform your best at the last minute. I feel like that's kind of a cop out. What people say whenever they just wait to the last minute. Because you're doing it now. Doing what now? You've improved at that. I want to improve at that because I don't know that it's, I don't know that it's wrong. I can't speak for everybody. Some people may still operate that way. Do their best work? Much rocks. Yeah. I think for me, I've been a basketball game in 20 minutes. We got to be a basketball game in 20 minutes. I am leaving my house 18 minutes, like till. I think for me, I procrastinate. And I'm like, oh, we got to get everything to go. We got to go. We got to go. We got to go. And it's just like, that's how I, I think I learned that from my parents, though. Because like, when we had events to go to, sporting events as kids, we were always running out the door at the last minute, trying to get there. Same. My dad would be like, you have homework. Don't worry about that. We're about to say that. Oh, yeah. I'm like, we're about that later. Hey, be cool. If I had a dad that said that. Oh, man. Oh, man. Come on. I get what you're saying. Did everybody do theirs? Long to watch you two years? Yeah, this is how we got on the pro procrastination. Oh, because you waited till the last minute. No, you kids. You did your best. You did your best. You did something early. All right, there you go. Good job, everybody. God, you could bring the good news. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Okay, we got a shout out to staff members at the Lifeline Animal Project in Atlanta because they stayed overnight at their shelters during recent winter storms to keep the animals safe and comforted. So they didn't have to be alone. And they've had an influx of animals being dropped off the last couple of months. So there are so many pets and not one of them had to be left alone during this time. I can't wait to tell you guys about me getting a generator. Oh, not yet. But it's for my example, they had a generator than the animals that's the storms. Yeah, hopefully. I mean, they were the thing is that they stayed away from like their own homes to be with the pets. Yeah, I saw some nurses were saying they didn't even want to go into the hospital. They worked at that. That's for humans. They were staying with their animals. That's good. Yeah, I would think places like that have a generator. Yeah, hopefully. And then my tell me something good soon. Hopefully the next couple of weeks is going to be we have a generator now. As we order one and we're just waiting for it to come in. So there you go. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. Oh, it's time for the good news. We're for lunchbox. Down is something good. Last week, Doug is on his trash route and Connecticut when he sees a mom pulled over on the side of the road. And she looks like she's in distress. And he's like, what? She can't get the garbage can out. Let me pull over and help her. He's like, man, there's something wrong. She's like, my 18 month old is choking. My 18 month old is choking. Doug jumps out of the truck, starts. Baa, baa, hitting the baby on the back. Baa, baa, radios. Hey, we got a choking baby here. Baa, baa, dis launches whatever's in his throat. Babies a okay. Was the bad bad was that the official way to do it? Or was he just like, react? No, no, no, he had medical training. Yeah. From back in the day, he knew how to do that. Like with the baby boom boom. Oh, now it's changed. It was bad. Bad bad bad bad. Was it really? I said bad bad. That was the first one. Yeah. And now it turned to the boom boom. Now it feels more official, boom boom. Now it's bad, baa. Yeah, I don't know. But he had medical training, a technician from, you know, earlier in his career and he remembered it, and he just got out, baa, baa. Baa, baa. Yeah. Saved a baby. Yeah, he's a bad man. That's a great story. There you go. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. This isn't I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.