May 20, 2025 • 30 mins
In a world that often feels heavy, we're hitting pause on the chaos and hitting play on some seriously good news. In this heartwarming episode of Generational Tea, we're sharing real stories that prove hope, kindness, and resilience are alive and well. From feel-good moments to small triumphs with big impact, we're reminding you that there's still so much good happening — even if it doesn’t make the headlines. If you're in need of a mindset reset, a little inspiration, or just a reason to smile, this episode was made for you. Come sip on some joy with us and get your faith in humanity fully restored.
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(00:11):
You can never get a drink toyourself.
You know, it's always got a, akitty paw or a piece of dog hair
or whatever in your drink, andI'm thinking that is the best
way to prepare for being amother, because guess what?
You never get another drink byyourself.
Ever, and you will have to labelyour own food.
(00:35):
What are the pros?
Again, this all seems like a badidea.
I know.
It does, doesn't it?
Well, the pros are that maybewhen you're old, they'll take
care of you.
You don't have to live in anursing home.
Yes, yes.
Or either they'll pay for thatnursing home placement.
I would kill that.
That nursing home would be mylittle.
(00:56):
Mm.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Anyways, I'll tell you, it, it,it's worth it.
It's worth it.
I mean, I remember like havingdinner or we would be leaving
like the restaurant and I wouldlook and I'd have eaten like
half of my plate for the mainreason I want the leftovers the
next day.
(01:16):
I don't like sandwiches.
And my daughter and son-in-lawboth have told me.
That they're not quite happywith the fact that I didn't make
my kids eat sandwiches.
I mean, Weston, he eats'em now.
He does now, thank God, becauseI trained him to shut up and eat
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that sandwich.
That's right.
You're like, you're eating thispeanut butter, honey.
Oh my God.
It's all you getting.
But yeah, we'd be going out andI would be saying, yeah, I'd
like the a to go box orwhatever, and I would look at
Weston and Carrot it, I'd say.
This is my leftovers fortomorrow.
Do not eat my leftovers when Igo to bed tonight, because I'm
(01:59):
telling you if there is acarryout box in that
refrigerator after you hit thesack.
That Weston Gillespie is gonnamake that his woman that night.
'cause he is going to tear itup.
So I, I had to like labelthings.
Moms only do not, do not touch.
(02:23):
Yeah.
That was the problem in ourhouse as well.
Was it?
Oh God, I bet so.
I think that's a problem withevery family.
'cause you're hungry at like2:00 AM and you're like, if I
eat this, they might be mad, butat the end of the day they'll
still love me.
They have to.
Exactly.
They have to.
It's true.
It's true.
Yeah.
okay, so in your family, who wasthe biggest thief?
(02:47):
Of the leftovers.
You're looking at her, but myquestion is, did your mother
want to fight you over theleftovers?
Honestly, no, because my momeats like spinach for breakfast,
so yes, she does.
I don't, I didn't want anythingshe was eating, and also we
didn't like.
(03:08):
My parents, well, we were prettybroke for a lot of the time, but
I mean even like later when webecame more financially
comfortable, like we never wentout to eat, so we didn't really
have leftovers, but like dinnerleftovers, if there was like a
little bit left.
I on that.
That was you.
You would stay.
Love that.
I bet you would purposefullystay up late until everybody
went to bed, so you can tear upthat leftovers.
(03:29):
Oh, I, everyone's in bed.
I'm going down and riflingthrough the pantry in peace.
Yes, yes, yes.
Go.
Go to bed the next morning.
I'm like, oh my word.
There has been a bulimic on abench in this house.
There's like 15.
Cracker packets.
if we had like anything sweet,like a little Debbie cake,
(03:50):
little packets everywhere.
Yeah.
But I fought for my leftovers.
I fought my children.
I bet you did.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Those were my leftovers.
He's awake again.
He is.
The baby's awake.
The baby's awake.
The psycho dog that I have.
Don't you wish you could likestrap him into one of those
little baby bouncers?
(04:11):
Yeah.
You know where you see the momsthat are like.
they're maybe working at theircomputer, but they've got that
one foot over there just rockingthat little baby bouncer back
and forth.
That's what we need for him.
I know.
a lot of people in thisneighborhood will like tie their
dogs up outside.
I'm like, first of all, it's hotas heck.
And second of all, that'sterrible.
Yes.
I have a working breed dog, so Icannot do that.
(04:34):
Yeah, yeah.
All righty.
So should we get down to somegood news today?
Well, after we introduceourselves, oh, I forgot.
Yeah, I know.
I forget too.
It's okay.
Welcome everybody to theGenerational Tea Podcast.
I'm Cana.
And I'm Ronnie.
And we are so glad that you guysjoined us today.
Today we're gonna do something,new.
(04:55):
A little different.
Yeah, a little different.
We've not done this before, but.
yeah, we feel like, you know,it's been a rough year.
I think everyone could use somegood news and mm-hmm.
I think a lot of us go aroundwith like this negativity bias.
I know I do.
Where.
It's really easy for me to justsee all the negative things and
not all the positive thingsinstead.
We just wanted to come to youtoday.
We each broke off separately andwe found some good news stories
(05:19):
and some inspirational anduplifting things.
We just wanna have a littleshort, cute episode today.
Make you feel good.
So yes, we hope it, hope itaccomplishes that goal, so yeah.
Yes.
Are we ready for story numberone?
Yes.
Who's going first?
Okay.
You go first.
I'll go first.
Yes, I go first.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Alright.
(05:40):
We're weird today.
Okay.
We are in rare form.
Alright, so the first story Ifound that I thought was really
cool and wanted to share wasabout a lottery winner.
and it actually went to a personthat really needed it.
So a homeless man who had beenliving on the streets in San
Luis, oh my God, I'm not gonnabe able to pronounce this.
(06:00):
San Luis Obispo.
Okay.
That doesn't feel right.
He, he lived a city inCalifornia.
Okay.
Yeah.
Let, let's, yes, let's do a cityin California.
So this homeless man who I thinkhad been been homeless for
years, actually ended up winninga$1 million scratch off.
And a little bit about him, wedon't know his name, he didn't
wanna share it, but he was along time patron of Sandy's
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liquor store where he actuallyended up buying the ticket and
they got some information on himjust from the store manager.
So.
The store manager there calledthis homeless man, a very loyal,
trustworthy customer and a goodperson who really deserved this
big winning.
So the manager would even trustthis guy to watch the store when
he was like restocking items orhad to step out a second.
He even offered this guy a jobat one point, but the lottery
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winner had to end up decliningbecause he had a bad knee that
would prevent him from doingnecessary manual labor for the
job.
so it's amazing that someone whowas unable to work ended up
getting something when theyreally needed it the most.
Oh yeah.
And the manager said that thehomeless man planned to buy a
home, a car and invest the rest.
Oh.
And I just thought that was areally cool story.
(07:08):
And that is so cool that heneeded it and got his life
changed.
He got it.
He got it.
Wow.
Wow.
That's awesome.
This good news story I thoughtwas so appropriate because we
know that Cana is our littlebookworm, and so, uh oh yeah.
Yes, yes.
She's like, where's this going?
(07:29):
so there was a Michigancommunity, a small little book
store in Michigan in a littlesmall community, and they were
moving storefronts.
And so instead of like a typicalmove, you have people come in,
you pack it up, you get a movingtruck.
You load everything up, or youhave people do that and then you
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move to your other place.
Well, instead of doing that,they did something very
unconventional, and I just thinkit's so cool.
It's what they did is theycreated a human chain because it
was a very small town, so itwasn't very far that the
bookstore, it was several blocksthat needed to move.
They had 9,100 books that theyneeded to move.
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So this group of people, over300 people.
They stood side by side and madelike a chain all the way from
the previous location to the newlocation.
And they all just stood in line,side by side and they passed the
books and they were able to movethis entire bookstore of 9,100
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books through this human chain.
They saved.
Awesome.
A ton of money.
Yeah.
Isn't that cool?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I, I always love stories of likelarge groups of people coming
together.
Yes.
I like really nothing benefitsthem necessarily.
Right.
Like, you're not getting paid,like Right.
Whatever it is.
But that was really cool.
Yeah.
I love that.
That was cool.
That small town live in comingin handy.
(08:56):
Yes, yes.
Tell, tell myself that.
Yeah, go ahead.
Because you are in a small town,bow girl.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
Next story I have, Well, ohgosh, I, I was thinking that
this episode would release inApril still, but it's not going
to.
'cause I was thinking autismawareness, but regardless.
Anyways, so yes, we're gonnatalk about Maureen Stanko and
(09:17):
I'm gonna try not to make fun ofher last name.
I'm sorry.
What's Stanko?
Yeah, like S-T-A-N-K.
Hmm.
Oh God, we're good people.
Let's, we're just immature.
I wonder if she knows about thestanky lake.
Okay.
(09:42):
Okay.
The sweet, sweet, lovely ladyMarie.
So she is actually the mother ofan autistic child and she lives
in a town in Pennsylvania andshe opened the so much to give
inclusive cafe in the town ofCedars because it would keep her
awake at night, thinking of lifeafter graduation for her
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20-year-old autistic son.
And she ended up opening this inJanuary, 2023.
So this cafe now employs 63people, 80% of which have a
disability, and they work asgreeters, food runners, sous
chefs, dishwashers, and servers.
And Maureen says she hasobserved significant growth in
her son's social skills andother employees confidence and
abilities.
(10:23):
So that's just really awesome,and I think the story of how it
came about was really cool aswell.
Maureen actually brought theseconcerns she was having about
her son to his therapist, andthe therapist ended up being the
one that bankrolled.
The cafe because he actually hada dream of opening a restaurant
exactly like that.
So that was kinda like divinetiming.
(10:44):
It just all worked out so welland now it's like a staple in
the community and just it's,it's awesome.
I love it.
I would, I would want to eatthere all the time.
I would want to go there forsure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You talking about positivevibes.
Totally positive vibes.
Mm-hmm.
There are a few cats in there.
And you have the ultimate cafe.
Yes.
I wanna go to Cat Cafe So bad.
(11:05):
Yeah.
It's actually a crime that Ihaven't been to one yet.
I think you're actually makingone yourself.
Oh, great.
A cat cafe with a resident dog.
Um, this was a good one too,here.
the title of it was Chef Lee'sJob at Top Restaurant to provide
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delicious food for hospicepatients in their last days.
Mm.
He does this to honor his sonwho died of leukemia.
Oh.
And the hospice that cared forhim.
So he was personally touched.
Now this, this guy, his lastname's Smith, he once cooked
for.
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You wanna guess somebody reallyreal, really famous that this
guy could try a hint like it'snot in the United States of
America.
it's like an actor, somethingthat you're born into.
You can only have this title ifyou have royalty.
Um, go ahead.
(12:06):
Um, I don't know any of theroyal family.
Okay.
Queen Elizabeth.
Oh Lord.
Oh, I played the, no, um, queenElizabeth ii, he used Okay.
He used to cook for her and hejust said, you know, you learn
to live with.
Losing a child, um, learned tolive with it, but it changes
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your perspective.
And without a doubt, he'd workedat top restaurants around the
world, but decided he wanted toserve a different clientele.
Wow.
And so he went and he startedserving at the hospice care
center that his son was atduring his last days, and it was
(12:49):
called St.
Catherine's.
So That is so cool.
That is so cool.
That is, dang, that's like, it'ssad, but it's, it's really cool
that he handled up dedicatinghis skills to that.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And you know, in your grief, Ithink so much of grief, other
than obviously the loss, it'sthe powerlessness of it.
(13:10):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You know, especially, I mean, Ican't imagine the most unnatural
thing that you could ever do isbury a child.
A parent burying a child.
And so how cool he like tookthis and decided, I don't have
to be a victim.
I'm gonna get in here and bevictorious and I'm gonna serve
these people and, pass it on.
So he used pay that forward in abig tent in a big time way.
(13:33):
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Yep.
Nice.
That's a cool one.
All right, we're gonna talk nextabout the goodest Boy ever.
The goodest boy ever is hisname.
Sawyer Gillespie?
No, he is the baddest boy.
We're gonna talk about adifferent dog who's.
A hero.
Okay, go for it.
Okay, so we're gonna talk aboutBuford and he is a 6-year-old,
(13:54):
an Italian PP Pi Pyrenees, yeah.
Yes, Pyrenees.
So he wandered home on a randomTuesday with a 2-year-old boy
who disappeared the day beforefrom his home in Seligman,
Arizona.
Um, the store's pretty crazymore to it.
The owner's ranch is seven milesaway from the boy's home, dozens
(14:14):
of search and rescue people.
Spent an entire night searchingfor this little toddler in
pretty dangerous Arizonan desertterrain.
Yeah, so Beauford, this breed isthe type that will sleep all
day, and then they usuallypatrol like a ranch or a
property at night to keepcoyotes away and protect the
livestock.
This dog actually tracked thischild's footprints for a mile.
(14:34):
What, and brought him back tohis owner the next morning.
Did he go on this?
Like, was he charged to do this?
No, he was just patrolling theranch at night and he ended up
tracking this little boy thatwas wandering out in the desert.
Wow.
And yeah, the owner said he.
Was outside in the morning andhe had seen the news stories of
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the Missing Boy, and he saw hisdog and he saw this little kid
beside him and he was like, ohmy God, that's the same boy.
Oh my goodness.
And the the best, the best partis Buford, that dog, he was
treated to a two pound rib forjust being the cutest, cutest
boy ever.
Oh yes, for sure.
He deserved that.
Oh my gosh.
(15:16):
Ribeyes for life.
For him.
Ribeyes for life.
Yes.
Yes.
He should have gotten thatreward.
Hey, he did it so quickly thatit didn't even have to put out
that there was a special reward.
He didn't even know he was gonnaget that big old rib eye.
I know he did it.
He's a good boy.
I love that he did that.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Here's another one.
this one's it's close to home.
(15:38):
Uh, so you guys know MichaelJordan, right?
Mm-hmm.
he's been opening health clinicsin North Carolina to help with,
um.
Difficulties from Helene, thingsthat had been closed down.
Oh, cool.
yeah, so he started, thislife-changing initiative in 2019
with opening of two clinics inCharlotte.
(16:01):
and they were, you know, to, toservice the less fortunate, um,
those that aren't insured orunderinsured and, So on February
19th, he opened his fourthfacility also in North Carolina
in Wilmington, North Carolina,and he did this one with a$10
(16:21):
million donation.
Wow.
So nice.
That's be like Mike.
Be like Mike, and be generous.
Yeah.
Even if you don't have$10million, right, right, right.
You can still give what you haveto give and it'll make a
difference.
Yep, yep.
For sure.
And he says hi.
His mantra is that every humandeserves access to quality
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healthcare, regardless of theirlocation or insurance status.
Mm-hmm.
So I love that.
Yes, I do.
That is awesome.
Go, Mike.
Yes, you do.
You boo.
Alright, my next story, it's a,it's a really good one.
It's very heartwarming.
This story is called The Tip ofa Lifetime.
So Tammy Coner, I don't know ifI'm saying her last name right,
(17:07):
but we're gonna go with it.
she's a Pittsburgh area,aesthetician and a talker.
So she was grabbing a bite withher son at a local restaurant
when she noticed her serversstruggling to get around.
So the server being 81 years oldwas actually confiding to
another patron, and Tammyoverheard this, that she has
chronic back pain, but neededthe job because her$910 social
(17:29):
security payout wasn't enough tocover her bills.
Mm-hmm.
Tammy being the amazing personshe is, use the power of TikTok
and use this platform tohighlight Betty the server.
and Betty said this, I workedall my life as the waitress and
can't retire.
I'm 81, but I can still outdoall these whippersnappers love.
I love that Betty.
(17:50):
Awesome.
Betty and the Jets.
I wonder if that's who's talkingabout.
It's Benny in the jet.
It's not Betty.
Oh, okay.
Let's, yeah.
Well, that's embarrassing foryou.
I'm not cutting that out.
Yes, yes.
Oh, well, oh, well, anyway, it'sokay.
You can't, you can't get it all,you know, you can't have it all.
(18:12):
You cannot be beautiful.
You cannot be perfect.
Yeah, gotta, somethings gotta,you gotta dumb sometimes you
gotta be dumb.
You gotta just be realridiculous.
It's true, but, and I am goodwith that.
Yes, go ahead.
Okay.
Using her TikTok platform, sheshared Betty's story on TikTok
and it went viral within 24hours and over a short amount of
(18:33):
time.
Her GoFundMe that Tammy helpedset up has raised a whopping
$328,000.
Oh, and Betty has been able toretire finally.
Yay.
But I just really love the storybecause, well, I'm actually a
big proponent of TikTok.
I spent years hating it, but.
I think as a social mediaplatform, its algorithms are
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great and I've seen so manypositive things like this happen
on TikTok.
And yeah, I think it's just agood example how any of us can
be out on any random day, lookat another human being and
through a simple, selfless act.
Change their lives, or even ifit's not on such a grand scale,
like you can do somethingthat'll maybe help someone out
in a major way or mm-hmm.
Just a little small change or alittle dose of hope that they
(19:16):
needed.
So, yeah.
I, I just love that story.
I thought that was so cool.
And I saw the videos of Betty.
She's precious.
Go Betty.
Yay.
You enjoy that retirement, girl,girl.
Yes.
Yes.
You enjoy that?
Well, I told you I only hadthree good stories, but actually
have four oh, the the last onethat I have on my list, and I
(19:43):
just want, let's just not readanything into it, but let's just
celebrate that it's finally onthe radar.
This past week, the NationalInstitutes of Health for United
States of America mm-hmm.
Has come together and they areraging more against food dice
(20:07):
and there's six food dyes thatare gonna have to be out of our.
Our country, by 2026, sometimein 2026.
But I thought this was sointeresting because being a
nurse and then doing a lot ofholistic health things, you, you
really can see how much, thesefood dies, contribute to
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behavioral issues or, uh,memory, just different things
like that, or just chronicillness.
And so when looking at this.
I was like, man, that's awesomethat we're gonna start doing
this.
But then I went back and I'mlike, there are so many
countries that I already havethese bands.
(20:50):
In fact, their countries, so, solet's just start off Norway,
Finland, Germany, France,Switzerland, the uk, the
European Union.
So we are finally going to dosomething and, and no longer,
well, hopefully.
Sorry.
No, go ahead.
Hopefully what I just said,hopefully it doesn't stop if the
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food dies.
'cause I know there's a lot ofstuff that's in all kinds of our
food that stands in othercountries.
Oh yeah.
Plastic.
It's crazy.
Yes, it's, it is crazy.
So I'm glad that at least someof it's on the radar and we're
looking at it because there, Imean there are manufacturers of
what, let's just say GeneralMills are some kind of, cereal
(21:31):
company and they tried to dothis at one time.
I think it was.
A cereal company started to uselike, beets, beet juice to, to
make colors that To dye?
Yes.
Okay.
Beet juice.
Carrot juice for orange.
you know, that kind of thing.
Nice.
Well, people didn't want it.
(21:51):
It wasn't as bright, it wasn'tas pretty.
but these companies all abouthow it looks.
Yes.
These companies make a differentproduct for us.
Yeah.
Than the one they export to allthese other countries.
So I, I, I hope we're gonna takethis back and take our health
(22:11):
back I mean, even cosmetics andstuff, there's so much.
I know.
It makes me anxious.
It does, because I'm like, Icould be, I'm buying something
in the back of my head.
I'm like.
What if this is like poisoningme because I know that we don't
regulate stuff the way it needsto be regulated.
Well, and it's stressful.
It's very stressful and, youknow, having, behavior issues or
(22:34):
like attention deficit and, andseeing so many people now as
adults that are really stillstruggling with attention
deficit.
Is really, I mean, it, it'sparalyzing, I mean mm-hmm.
So many times, these newlymarried people, they get
together, they don't even knowthat much about each other.
And maybe it's something that,that kids think, oh wow, I've
(22:57):
outgrown that.
But then sometimes when you goback into a more structured
situation, like a, a job orsomething that you're learning
something new and such.
Mm-hmm.
All those things, these.
These little issues raise theirhead back up.
And so I know it's a big thingas far as even in marriages,
younger marriages, is how do,how do you deal with an adult
(23:19):
with a DD?
So I'm hoping that this is gonnahelp a lot.
Mm-hmm.
With that, definitely.
When you were talking about,feeling anxious about what
you're buying, thinking it'shealthy, but it may not be.
I had overheard, someone talkingabout that, like deli ham.
Okay.
Like if you get a ham mm-hmm.
(23:41):
Deli sliced ham for sandwiches,that its natural look is grayish
brown in color.
Ooh.
And ours is pink'cause they'veloaded it up with dye.
Is that not crazy?
Yeah.
And there's a lot of fins thatlive in this, in this area in
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upstate South Carolina.
And they were talking about,yeah, you go to Finland and the
food looks so boring.
Yeah.
And all this stuff because theydo serve the brown and grey ham
and different things like that.
And she said this one couple hadjust gotten back from there, uh,
over the holidays and, and theywere just talking about, yeah,
(24:24):
it was the best food we've evertasted, you know?
Wow.
The food is delicious.
It looks terrible.
it looks bland.
It doesn't look like becauseit's just like we've trained
ourselves.
Yeah.
Well, we've been conditioned tolook for things that are bright
and pretty.
And as soon as we grab thatpiece of ham and if it's got any
(24:45):
of those, gray or colors.
Immediately.
It's like, Ugh, throw that out.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah.
So not only are we beingpoisoned, but we're being robbed
of flavor.
Yes, yes.
For sure.
So come yay, go.
S of a in a time.
Yeah.
We'll, it'll focus on that win.
Yes.
Don't, don't stop there.
(25:06):
Right, right.
Keep going.
Oh God.
Okay.
Well my last good news story isactually about free tuition
outta college.
So.
In Oregon, Reed Collegeannounced a groundbreaking new
initiative that will makeeducation more accessible to
Oregon and Washington students.
as of December, 2024, Reed willoffer tuition free education for
(25:29):
newly admitted Oregon Washingtonand transfer undergrad students
whose family income is under ahundred K annually.
This is a big move and yes it isfor how.
Expensive colleges nowadays,this move eliminates financial
barriers from talented studentswho wanna pursue their dreams at
a top liberal arts college.
and I just wanted to includesome stats in there as well.
(25:49):
Mm-hmm.
So, especially like this isgenerational tea and.
I think my generation struggleswith affordable education more
than your generation had, so, ohyeah.
For anyone that's listening thatmaybe doesn't realize how
different things are now, justwanna give you some stats.
So the US student loan debtexceeds 1.7 trillion with the
average debt around 38,000 perstudent.
(26:11):
Mm-hmm.
And many low income studentsstruggle to afford the cost of
even community college with someUnable to afford 95% of
colleges.
which sucks because it's theway, it's, it's going.
Education is turning into aprivilege and it's something
that should be accessible toeverybody in my own opinion.
And I even have student debt.
(26:32):
My husband struggles withstudent debt.
My sister struggles with studentdebt.
Like it is, it feels paralyzing,honestly.
And.
It makes me regret even going tocollege, being how bad it is.
And yeah, I mean, things areexpensive nowadays.
It sucks.
So that made me just think thisstory is really cool that
someone's making a move to makeeducation affordable for the
people that are unable to accessit.
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I love that.
Hop off my soapbox.
But yeah, that, that is huge.
Well, not sure where you guysare all listening from, but
we'll definitely tell you thatWestern North Carolina, or just
all of North Carolina, tuitionsare really, really affordable.
In fact, Western was able to goto a state supported school app
(27:16):
state because, we're residents.
He, we actually had a home inBoone.
he was able to go per semesterfor$3,500 Yeah, that's not bad.
And that was full time.
Mm-hmm.
And it's cheaper.
It was cheaper for him to gothere than it was for him to go
to our local technical college.
(27:36):
Mm, here in South Carolina.
If you're looking for placesthat have more affordable
education, North Carolina may beone for you.
and there's also a western NorthCarolina, it's called Western
Carolina University, that theyare now, their tuition rates$500
(27:57):
per semester for instateundergraduate and.
2,500 per semester for outstateundergraduate.
Okay.
That's not bad.
I still think it should be free,but whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll die on that hill, but it'suh, yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Yeah.
For a while, at least we'll see.
Okay.
Okay.
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Tuition itself based on 24 and25 is instate at Western
Carolina University is athousand dollars for tuition.
Outta state is 5,000.
So it's not bad.
It's not bad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And of course that doesn'tinclude like housing and we know
there's a lot that goes intototal cost, but Yeah.
(28:40):
Yeah.
It's crazy how expensive it isto getting It's a shame is what
it's, it is, it's shame.
Anyways, let's, let's stay ongood vibes.
Yes.
We'll try.
Yes, yes.
Well, we hope that our littlegood news stories that we
rounded up for you guys majorday, hopefully, or just gave you
a little dose of hope and ayear, that's been difficult for
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a lot of us, so.
Mm-hmm.
Hang in there.
We see you.
You're heard?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
We're, we're here for you.
I think if anyone ever needs totalk to us, DM us, message us.
Yeah.
We'd love to hear from you guys,whether that's, if you need to
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Share what you thought about ourepisodes.
Share maybe if you have a goodnews story, something happened
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And thanks for spending thislittle bit of time with us.
Yes.
And what do we do now?
That's, that's the tea.
Alrighty.
Bye y'all.
Bye.
You can never get a drink toyourself.
You know, it's always got a, akitty paw or a piece of dog hair
or whatever in your drink, andI'm thinking that is the best
way to prepare for being amother, because guess what?
You never get another drink byyourself.
Ever, and you will have to labelyour own food.
(00:35):
What are the pros?
Again, this all seems like a badidea.
I know.
It does, doesn't it?
Well, the pros are that maybewhen you're old, they'll take
care of you.
You don't have to live in anursing home.
Yes, yes.
Or either they'll pay for thatnursing home placement.
I would kill that.
That nursing home would be mylittle.
(00:56):
Mm.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Anyways, I'll tell you, it, it,it's worth it.
It's worth it.
I mean, I remember like havingdinner or we would be leaving
like the restaurant and I wouldlook and I'd have eaten like
half of my plate for the mainreason I want the leftovers the
next day.
(01:16):
I don't like sandwiches.
And my daughter and son-in-lawboth have told me.
That they're not quite happywith the fact that I didn't make
my kids eat sandwiches.
I mean, Weston, he eats'em now.
He does now, thank God, becauseI trained him to shut up and eat
(01:37):
that sandwich.
That's right.
You're like, you're eating thispeanut butter, honey.
Oh my God.
It's all you getting.
But yeah, we'd be going out andI would be saying, yeah, I'd
like the a to go box orwhatever, and I would look at
Weston and Carrot it, I'd say.
This is my leftovers fortomorrow.
Do not eat my leftovers when Igo to bed tonight, because I'm
(01:59):
telling you if there is acarryout box in that
refrigerator after you hit thesack.
That Weston Gillespie is gonnamake that his woman that night.
'cause he is going to tear itup.
So I, I had to like labelthings.
Moms only do not, do not touch.
(02:23):
Yeah.
That was the problem in ourhouse as well.
Was it?
Oh God, I bet so.
I think that's a problem withevery family.
'cause you're hungry at like2:00 AM and you're like, if I
eat this, they might be mad, butat the end of the day they'll
still love me.
They have to.
Exactly.
They have to.
It's true.
It's true.
Yeah.
okay, so in your family, who wasthe biggest thief?
(02:47):
Of the leftovers.
You're looking at her, but myquestion is, did your mother
want to fight you over theleftovers?
Honestly, no, because my momeats like spinach for breakfast,
so yes, she does.
I don't, I didn't want anythingshe was eating, and also we
didn't like.
(03:08):
My parents, well, we were prettybroke for a lot of the time, but
I mean even like later when webecame more financially
comfortable, like we never wentout to eat, so we didn't really
have leftovers, but like dinnerleftovers, if there was like a
little bit left.
I on that.
That was you.
You would stay.
Love that.
I bet you would purposefullystay up late until everybody
went to bed, so you can tear upthat leftovers.
(03:29):
Oh, I, everyone's in bed.
I'm going down and riflingthrough the pantry in peace.
Yes, yes, yes.
Go.
Go to bed the next morning.
I'm like, oh my word.
There has been a bulimic on abench in this house.
There's like 15.
Cracker packets.
if we had like anything sweet,like a little Debbie cake,
(03:50):
little packets everywhere.
Yeah.
But I fought for my leftovers.
I fought my children.
I bet you did.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Those were my leftovers.
He's awake again.
He is.
The baby's awake.
The baby's awake.
The psycho dog that I have.
Don't you wish you could likestrap him into one of those
little baby bouncers?
(04:11):
Yeah.
You know where you see the momsthat are like.
they're maybe working at theircomputer, but they've got that
one foot over there just rockingthat little baby bouncer back
and forth.
That's what we need for him.
I know.
a lot of people in thisneighborhood will like tie their
dogs up outside.
I'm like, first of all, it's hotas heck.
And second of all, that'sterrible.
Yes.
I have a working breed dog, so Icannot do that.
(04:34):
Yeah, yeah.
All righty.
So should we get down to somegood news today?
Well, after we introduceourselves, oh, I forgot.
Yeah, I know.
I forget too.
It's okay.
Welcome everybody to theGenerational Tea Podcast.
I'm Cana.
And I'm Ronnie.
And we are so glad that you guysjoined us today.
Today we're gonna do something,new.
(04:55):
A little different.
Yeah, a little different.
We've not done this before, but.
yeah, we feel like, you know,it's been a rough year.
I think everyone could use somegood news and mm-hmm.
I think a lot of us go aroundwith like this negativity bias.
I know I do.
Where.
It's really easy for me to justsee all the negative things and
not all the positive thingsinstead.
We just wanted to come to youtoday.
We each broke off separately andwe found some good news stories
(05:19):
and some inspirational anduplifting things.
We just wanna have a littleshort, cute episode today.
Make you feel good.
So yes, we hope it, hope itaccomplishes that goal, so yeah.
Yes.
Are we ready for story numberone?
Yes.
Who's going first?
Okay.
You go first.
I'll go first.
Yes, I go first.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Alright.
(05:40):
We're weird today.
Okay.
We are in rare form.
Alright, so the first story Ifound that I thought was really
cool and wanted to share wasabout a lottery winner.
and it actually went to a personthat really needed it.
So a homeless man who had beenliving on the streets in San
Luis, oh my God, I'm not gonnabe able to pronounce this.
(06:00):
San Luis Obispo.
Okay.
That doesn't feel right.
He, he lived a city inCalifornia.
Okay.
Yeah.
Let, let's, yes, let's do a cityin California.
So this homeless man who I thinkhad been been homeless for
years, actually ended up winninga$1 million scratch off.
And a little bit about him, wedon't know his name, he didn't
wanna share it, but he was along time patron of Sandy's
(06:24):
liquor store where he actuallyended up buying the ticket and
they got some information on himjust from the store manager.
So.
The store manager there calledthis homeless man, a very loyal,
trustworthy customer and a goodperson who really deserved this
big winning.
So the manager would even trustthis guy to watch the store when
he was like restocking items orhad to step out a second.
He even offered this guy a jobat one point, but the lottery
(06:48):
winner had to end up decliningbecause he had a bad knee that
would prevent him from doingnecessary manual labor for the
job.
so it's amazing that someone whowas unable to work ended up
getting something when theyreally needed it the most.
Oh yeah.
And the manager said that thehomeless man planned to buy a
home, a car and invest the rest.
Oh.
And I just thought that was areally cool story.
(07:08):
And that is so cool that heneeded it and got his life
changed.
He got it.
He got it.
Wow.
Wow.
That's awesome.
This good news story I thoughtwas so appropriate because we
know that Cana is our littlebookworm, and so, uh oh yeah.
Yes, yes.
She's like, where's this going?
(07:29):
so there was a Michigancommunity, a small little book
store in Michigan in a littlesmall community, and they were
moving storefronts.
And so instead of like a typicalmove, you have people come in,
you pack it up, you get a movingtruck.
You load everything up, or youhave people do that and then you
(07:49):
move to your other place.
Well, instead of doing that,they did something very
unconventional, and I just thinkit's so cool.
It's what they did is theycreated a human chain because it
was a very small town, so itwasn't very far that the
bookstore, it was several blocksthat needed to move.
They had 9,100 books that theyneeded to move.
(08:10):
So this group of people, over300 people.
They stood side by side and madelike a chain all the way from
the previous location to the newlocation.
And they all just stood in line,side by side and they passed the
books and they were able to movethis entire bookstore of 9,100
(08:34):
books through this human chain.
They saved.
Awesome.
A ton of money.
Yeah.
Isn't that cool?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I, I always love stories of likelarge groups of people coming
together.
Yes.
I like really nothing benefitsthem necessarily.
Right.
Like, you're not getting paid,like Right.
Whatever it is.
But that was really cool.
Yeah.
I love that.
That was cool.
That small town live in comingin handy.
(08:56):
Yes, yes.
Tell, tell myself that.
Yeah, go ahead.
Because you are in a small town,bow girl.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
Next story I have, Well, ohgosh, I, I was thinking that
this episode would release inApril still, but it's not going
to.
'cause I was thinking autismawareness, but regardless.
Anyways, so yes, we're gonnatalk about Maureen Stanko and
(09:17):
I'm gonna try not to make fun ofher last name.
I'm sorry.
What's Stanko?
Yeah, like S-T-A-N-K.
Hmm.
Oh God, we're good people.
Let's, we're just immature.
I wonder if she knows about thestanky lake.
Okay.
(09:42):
Okay.
The sweet, sweet, lovely ladyMarie.
So she is actually the mother ofan autistic child and she lives
in a town in Pennsylvania andshe opened the so much to give
inclusive cafe in the town ofCedars because it would keep her
awake at night, thinking of lifeafter graduation for her
(10:03):
20-year-old autistic son.
And she ended up opening this inJanuary, 2023.
So this cafe now employs 63people, 80% of which have a
disability, and they work asgreeters, food runners, sous
chefs, dishwashers, and servers.
And Maureen says she hasobserved significant growth in
her son's social skills andother employees confidence and
abilities.
(10:23):
So that's just really awesome,and I think the story of how it
came about was really cool aswell.
Maureen actually brought theseconcerns she was having about
her son to his therapist, andthe therapist ended up being the
one that bankrolled.
The cafe because he actually hada dream of opening a restaurant
exactly like that.
So that was kinda like divinetiming.
(10:44):
It just all worked out so welland now it's like a staple in
the community and just it's,it's awesome.
I love it.
I would, I would want to eatthere all the time.
I would want to go there forsure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You talking about positivevibes.
Totally positive vibes.
Mm-hmm.
There are a few cats in there.
And you have the ultimate cafe.
Yes.
I wanna go to Cat Cafe So bad.
(11:05):
Yeah.
It's actually a crime that Ihaven't been to one yet.
I think you're actually makingone yourself.
Oh, great.
A cat cafe with a resident dog.
Um, this was a good one too,here.
the title of it was Chef Lee'sJob at Top Restaurant to provide
(11:26):
delicious food for hospicepatients in their last days.
Mm.
He does this to honor his sonwho died of leukemia.
Oh.
And the hospice that cared forhim.
So he was personally touched.
Now this, this guy, his lastname's Smith, he once cooked
for.
(11:46):
You wanna guess somebody reallyreal, really famous that this
guy could try a hint like it'snot in the United States of
America.
it's like an actor, somethingthat you're born into.
You can only have this title ifyou have royalty.
Um, go ahead.
(12:06):
Um, I don't know any of theroyal family.
Okay.
Queen Elizabeth.
Oh Lord.
Oh, I played the, no, um, queenElizabeth ii, he used Okay.
He used to cook for her and hejust said, you know, you learn
to live with.
Losing a child, um, learned tolive with it, but it changes
(12:29):
your perspective.
And without a doubt, he'd workedat top restaurants around the
world, but decided he wanted toserve a different clientele.
Wow.
And so he went and he startedserving at the hospice care
center that his son was atduring his last days, and it was
(12:49):
called St.
Catherine's.
So That is so cool.
That is so cool.
That is, dang, that's like, it'ssad, but it's, it's really cool
that he handled up dedicatinghis skills to that.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And you know, in your grief, Ithink so much of grief, other
than obviously the loss, it'sthe powerlessness of it.
(13:10):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You know, especially, I mean, Ican't imagine the most unnatural
thing that you could ever do isbury a child.
A parent burying a child.
And so how cool he like tookthis and decided, I don't have
to be a victim.
I'm gonna get in here and bevictorious and I'm gonna serve
these people and, pass it on.
So he used pay that forward in abig tent in a big time way.
(13:33):
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Yep.
Nice.
That's a cool one.
All right, we're gonna talk nextabout the goodest Boy ever.
The goodest boy ever is hisname.
Sawyer Gillespie?
No, he is the baddest boy.
We're gonna talk about adifferent dog who's.
A hero.
Okay, go for it.
Okay, so we're gonna talk aboutBuford and he is a 6-year-old,
(13:54):
an Italian PP Pi Pyrenees, yeah.
Yes, Pyrenees.
So he wandered home on a randomTuesday with a 2-year-old boy
who disappeared the day beforefrom his home in Seligman,
Arizona.
Um, the store's pretty crazymore to it.
The owner's ranch is seven milesaway from the boy's home, dozens
(14:14):
of search and rescue people.
Spent an entire night searchingfor this little toddler in
pretty dangerous Arizonan desertterrain.
Yeah, so Beauford, this breed isthe type that will sleep all
day, and then they usuallypatrol like a ranch or a
property at night to keepcoyotes away and protect the
livestock.
This dog actually tracked thischild's footprints for a mile.
(14:34):
What, and brought him back tohis owner the next morning.
Did he go on this?
Like, was he charged to do this?
No, he was just patrolling theranch at night and he ended up
tracking this little boy thatwas wandering out in the desert.
Wow.
And yeah, the owner said he.
Was outside in the morning andhe had seen the news stories of
(14:55):
the Missing Boy, and he saw hisdog and he saw this little kid
beside him and he was like, ohmy God, that's the same boy.
Oh my goodness.
And the the best, the best partis Buford, that dog, he was
treated to a two pound rib forjust being the cutest, cutest
boy ever.
Oh yes, for sure.
He deserved that.
Oh my gosh.
(15:16):
Ribeyes for life.
For him.
Ribeyes for life.
Yes.
Yes.
He should have gotten thatreward.
Hey, he did it so quickly thatit didn't even have to put out
that there was a special reward.
He didn't even know he was gonnaget that big old rib eye.
I know he did it.
He's a good boy.
I love that he did that.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Here's another one.
this one's it's close to home.
(15:38):
Uh, so you guys know MichaelJordan, right?
Mm-hmm.
he's been opening health clinicsin North Carolina to help with,
um.
Difficulties from Helene, thingsthat had been closed down.
Oh, cool.
yeah, so he started, thislife-changing initiative in 2019
with opening of two clinics inCharlotte.
(16:01):
and they were, you know, to, toservice the less fortunate, um,
those that aren't insured orunderinsured and, So on February
19th, he opened his fourthfacility also in North Carolina
in Wilmington, North Carolina,and he did this one with a$10
(16:21):
million donation.
Wow.
So nice.
That's be like Mike.
Be like Mike, and be generous.
Yeah.
Even if you don't have$10million, right, right, right.
You can still give what you haveto give and it'll make a
difference.
Yep, yep.
For sure.
And he says hi.
His mantra is that every humandeserves access to quality
(16:43):
healthcare, regardless of theirlocation or insurance status.
Mm-hmm.
So I love that.
Yes, I do.
That is awesome.
Go, Mike.
Yes, you do.
You boo.
Alright, my next story, it's a,it's a really good one.
It's very heartwarming.
This story is called The Tip ofa Lifetime.
So Tammy Coner, I don't know ifI'm saying her last name right,
(17:07):
but we're gonna go with it.
she's a Pittsburgh area,aesthetician and a talker.
So she was grabbing a bite withher son at a local restaurant
when she noticed her serversstruggling to get around.
So the server being 81 years oldwas actually confiding to
another patron, and Tammyoverheard this, that she has
chronic back pain, but neededthe job because her$910 social
(17:29):
security payout wasn't enough tocover her bills.
Mm-hmm.
Tammy being the amazing personshe is, use the power of TikTok
and use this platform tohighlight Betty the server.
and Betty said this, I workedall my life as the waitress and
can't retire.
I'm 81, but I can still outdoall these whippersnappers love.
I love that Betty.
(17:50):
Awesome.
Betty and the Jets.
I wonder if that's who's talkingabout.
It's Benny in the jet.
It's not Betty.
Oh, okay.
Let's, yeah.
Well, that's embarrassing foryou.
I'm not cutting that out.
Yes, yes.
Oh, well, oh, well, anyway, it'sokay.
You can't, you can't get it all,you know, you can't have it all.
(18:12):
You cannot be beautiful.
You cannot be perfect.
Yeah, gotta, somethings gotta,you gotta dumb sometimes you
gotta be dumb.
You gotta just be realridiculous.
It's true, but, and I am goodwith that.
Yes, go ahead.
Okay.
Using her TikTok platform, sheshared Betty's story on TikTok
and it went viral within 24hours and over a short amount of
(18:33):
time.
Her GoFundMe that Tammy helpedset up has raised a whopping
$328,000.
Oh, and Betty has been able toretire finally.
Yay.
But I just really love the storybecause, well, I'm actually a
big proponent of TikTok.
I spent years hating it, but.
I think as a social mediaplatform, its algorithms are
(18:54):
great and I've seen so manypositive things like this happen
on TikTok.
And yeah, I think it's just agood example how any of us can
be out on any random day, lookat another human being and
through a simple, selfless act.
Change their lives, or even ifit's not on such a grand scale,
like you can do somethingthat'll maybe help someone out
in a major way or mm-hmm.
Just a little small change or alittle dose of hope that they
(19:16):
needed.
So, yeah.
I, I just love that story.
I thought that was so cool.
And I saw the videos of Betty.
She's precious.
Go Betty.
Yay.
You enjoy that retirement, girl,girl.
Yes.
Yes.
You enjoy that?
Well, I told you I only hadthree good stories, but actually
have four oh, the the last onethat I have on my list, and I
(19:43):
just want, let's just not readanything into it, but let's just
celebrate that it's finally onthe radar.
This past week, the NationalInstitutes of Health for United
States of America mm-hmm.
Has come together and they areraging more against food dice
(20:07):
and there's six food dyes thatare gonna have to be out of our.
Our country, by 2026, sometimein 2026.
But I thought this was sointeresting because being a
nurse and then doing a lot ofholistic health things, you, you
really can see how much, thesefood dies, contribute to
(20:29):
behavioral issues or, uh,memory, just different things
like that, or just chronicillness.
And so when looking at this.
I was like, man, that's awesomethat we're gonna start doing
this.
But then I went back and I'mlike, there are so many
countries that I already havethese bands.
(20:50):
In fact, their countries, so, solet's just start off Norway,
Finland, Germany, France,Switzerland, the uk, the
European Union.
So we are finally going to dosomething and, and no longer,
well, hopefully.
Sorry.
No, go ahead.
Hopefully what I just said,hopefully it doesn't stop if the
(21:10):
food dies.
'cause I know there's a lot ofstuff that's in all kinds of our
food that stands in othercountries.
Oh yeah.
Plastic.
It's crazy.
Yes, it's, it is crazy.
So I'm glad that at least someof it's on the radar and we're
looking at it because there, Imean there are manufacturers of
what, let's just say GeneralMills are some kind of, cereal
(21:31):
company and they tried to dothis at one time.
I think it was.
A cereal company started to uselike, beets, beet juice to, to
make colors that To dye?
Yes.
Okay.
Beet juice.
Carrot juice for orange.
you know, that kind of thing.
Nice.
Well, people didn't want it.
(21:51):
It wasn't as bright, it wasn'tas pretty.
but these companies all abouthow it looks.
Yes.
These companies make a differentproduct for us.
Yeah.
Than the one they export to allthese other countries.
So I, I, I hope we're gonna takethis back and take our health
(22:11):
back I mean, even cosmetics andstuff, there's so much.
I know.
It makes me anxious.
It does, because I'm like, Icould be, I'm buying something
in the back of my head.
I'm like.
What if this is like poisoningme because I know that we don't
regulate stuff the way it needsto be regulated.
Well, and it's stressful.
It's very stressful and, youknow, having, behavior issues or
(22:34):
like attention deficit and, andseeing so many people now as
adults that are really stillstruggling with attention
deficit.
Is really, I mean, it, it'sparalyzing, I mean mm-hmm.
So many times, these newlymarried people, they get
together, they don't even knowthat much about each other.
And maybe it's something that,that kids think, oh wow, I've
(22:57):
outgrown that.
But then sometimes when you goback into a more structured
situation, like a, a job orsomething that you're learning
something new and such.
Mm-hmm.
All those things, these.
These little issues raise theirhead back up.
And so I know it's a big thingas far as even in marriages,
younger marriages, is how do,how do you deal with an adult
(23:19):
with a DD?
So I'm hoping that this is gonnahelp a lot.
Mm-hmm.
With that, definitely.
When you were talking about,feeling anxious about what
you're buying, thinking it'shealthy, but it may not be.
I had overheard, someone talkingabout that, like deli ham.
Okay.
Like if you get a ham mm-hmm.
(23:41):
Deli sliced ham for sandwiches,that its natural look is grayish
brown in color.
Ooh.
And ours is pink'cause they'veloaded it up with dye.
Is that not crazy?
Yeah.
And there's a lot of fins thatlive in this, in this area in
(24:04):
upstate South Carolina.
And they were talking about,yeah, you go to Finland and the
food looks so boring.
Yeah.
And all this stuff because theydo serve the brown and grey ham
and different things like that.
And she said this one couple hadjust gotten back from there, uh,
over the holidays and, and theywere just talking about, yeah,
(24:24):
it was the best food we've evertasted, you know?
Wow.
The food is delicious.
It looks terrible.
it looks bland.
It doesn't look like becauseit's just like we've trained
ourselves.
Yeah.
Well, we've been conditioned tolook for things that are bright
and pretty.
And as soon as we grab thatpiece of ham and if it's got any
(24:45):
of those, gray or colors.
Immediately.
It's like, Ugh, throw that out.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah.
So not only are we beingpoisoned, but we're being robbed
of flavor.
Yes, yes.
For sure.
So come yay, go.
S of a in a time.
Yeah.
We'll, it'll focus on that win.
Yes.
Don't, don't stop there.
(25:06):
Right, right.
Keep going.
Oh God.
Okay.
Well my last good news story isactually about free tuition
outta college.
So.
In Oregon, Reed Collegeannounced a groundbreaking new
initiative that will makeeducation more accessible to
Oregon and Washington students.
as of December, 2024, Reed willoffer tuition free education for
(25:29):
newly admitted Oregon Washingtonand transfer undergrad students
whose family income is under ahundred K annually.
This is a big move and yes it isfor how.
Expensive colleges nowadays,this move eliminates financial
barriers from talented studentswho wanna pursue their dreams at
a top liberal arts college.
and I just wanted to includesome stats in there as well.
(25:49):
Mm-hmm.
So, especially like this isgenerational tea and.
I think my generation struggleswith affordable education more
than your generation had, so, ohyeah.
For anyone that's listening thatmaybe doesn't realize how
different things are now, justwanna give you some stats.
So the US student loan debtexceeds 1.7 trillion with the
average debt around 38,000 perstudent.
(26:11):
Mm-hmm.
And many low income studentsstruggle to afford the cost of
even community college with someUnable to afford 95% of
colleges.
which sucks because it's theway, it's, it's going.
Education is turning into aprivilege and it's something
that should be accessible toeverybody in my own opinion.
And I even have student debt.
(26:32):
My husband struggles withstudent debt.
My sister struggles with studentdebt.
Like it is, it feels paralyzing,honestly.
And.
It makes me regret even going tocollege, being how bad it is.
And yeah, I mean, things areexpensive nowadays.
It sucks.
So that made me just think thisstory is really cool that
someone's making a move to makeeducation affordable for the
people that are unable to accessit.
(26:55):
I love that.
Hop off my soapbox.
But yeah, that, that is huge.
Well, not sure where you guysare all listening from, but
we'll definitely tell you thatWestern North Carolina, or just
all of North Carolina, tuitionsare really, really affordable.
In fact, Western was able to goto a state supported school app
(27:16):
state because, we're residents.
He, we actually had a home inBoone.
he was able to go per semesterfor$3,500 Yeah, that's not bad.
And that was full time.
Mm-hmm.
And it's cheaper.
It was cheaper for him to gothere than it was for him to go
to our local technical college.
(27:36):
Mm, here in South Carolina.
If you're looking for placesthat have more affordable
education, North Carolina may beone for you.
and there's also a western NorthCarolina, it's called Western
Carolina University, that theyare now, their tuition rates$500
(27:57):
per semester for instateundergraduate and.
2,500 per semester for outstateundergraduate.
Okay.
That's not bad.
I still think it should be free,but whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll die on that hill, but it'suh, yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Yeah.
For a while, at least we'll see.
Okay.
Okay.
(28:17):
Tuition itself based on 24 and25 is instate at Western
Carolina University is athousand dollars for tuition.
Outta state is 5,000.
So it's not bad.
It's not bad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And of course that doesn'tinclude like housing and we know
there's a lot that goes intototal cost, but Yeah.
(28:40):
Yeah.
It's crazy how expensive it isto getting It's a shame is what
it's, it is, it's shame.
Anyways, let's, let's stay ongood vibes.
Yes.
We'll try.
Yes, yes.
Well, we hope that our littlegood news stories that we
rounded up for you guys majorday, hopefully, or just gave you
a little dose of hope and ayear, that's been difficult for
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a lot of us, so.
Mm-hmm.
Hang in there.
We see you.
You're heard?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
We're, we're here for you.
I think if anyone ever needs totalk to us, DM us, message us.
Yeah.
We'd love to hear from you guys,whether that's, if you need to
connect to someone and talk tosomeone, or if you just wanna.
Share what you thought about ourepisodes.
Share maybe if you have a goodnews story, something happened
(29:21):
in your life, or something thatyou heard.
Yeah, we wanna hear it too, soyeah.
Yeah.
Talk to us at Generational TeaPod.
That's our social media.
We are on TikTok and Instagram.
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we haven't gotten a ton so farand it will help us boost our
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So go ahead, leave us a review,leave us a comment.
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Every little thing makes our dayand we really appreciate you
guys doing that work for us.
Yeah.
And thanks for spending thislittle bit of time with us.
Yes.
And what do we do now?
That's, that's the tea.
Alrighty.
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