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January 5, 2026 11 mins

Tell Me Something Good is now its own podcast. Your daily dose of positive, uplifting news! Caller Gina has a personal story on how her daughter won a bunch of money on a cruise after recently turning 18 years old and gambling for the first time.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for the good news.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, I want to go to Gina in North Carolina.
Who's got to tell me something good for us? Hey, Gina,
you're on the show Good.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Morning Studio Martin. Yes, Bobby, my granddaughter turned eighteen in March,
and she graduated high school in June. So her dad
and stepmom gifted her with a cruise. They left day
before yesterday, and yesterday they were supposed to dock at Napsalt,
but there was a storm so they had to stay
on the ship. Well, she of course had never gambled before,

(00:34):
but she went down to the casino and she sent
me a screen shot. She said, I put in about
forty dollars and on the screen shot it showed she
was up eight hundred and some dollars. So I was like,
you know, also, don't you know, don't blow it. Well,
next thing I know, I'm getting a FaceTime call and
she's like, Gigi, I just won the jackpot. I said, yeah, right,

(00:55):
don't crank me, you know, not at all, and she
said no, for real, for real, and she turned the
screen to the total on the bandit and she won
over eleven thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
That's crazy. First time ever amazing. That's cool. Wow, I've
never hit anything like that. I haven't played a lot
of slots, but this is she hasn't either. It's the
first time to gamble.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, and guys, guys, the storm kept her on the boat.
This is good to me.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Wow. So, oh, you think it was God? God's like
I think she should do win the jagpot today. Hey,
so what happened? Did she not? Did she keep all
the money? She didn't like lose a bag? Did she?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oh? No, it just happened yesterday. And then she sent
me a screenshot. They pay in cash, so she she
sent me a shot of all these bands of bills.
She said she would have she would have to hold
out some for taxes. But it was God because she
she's made it through her first year of college. Get free.
That she was going to be looking at some loans

(01:54):
in the fall.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
So I left.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
She better not gamble that. Stay away, Yes, stay away.
Don't go back because he urges to go back because
you think, wow, this happens every time. Do not go back.
That's a great story, Gina. Thank you for the call.
We really appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome, all right, see
you later. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
That was telling me something good. It's time for the
good news. Ready.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Keith didwell. He works at the Kroger grocery store and
making Georgia. He works in the produce department. He works
the night shift. And there's a lady named Debbie who
goes in there and shops. She sees Keith all the time.
She's never met him. But one day, Debbie's driving down
the road sees Keith walking in the middle of the night,
in the middle of nowhere. So she stops and says, hey, uh,
you work at Kroger. I know you do you need

(02:39):
a ride somewhere? He said, yeah, can you take me home?
They start talking. Turns out Keith doesn't have a car.
He walks to work five miles every single day. So
Debbie says, no more, I'm taking you to work every
day that I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, I don't think i'd picked anybody up on the road. Yeah,
so shout out to her. Shout out to her. She
recognized old Keith.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Well, and then Keith to getting the car.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, did they not go fund a car for him?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Not yet?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, updates that's usually how he's in here. It's a
good story. And also, everybody just be careful picking up
people on the road. Make sure you're sure that's the
guy from Kroger.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, make sure he still has his apron on from me.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Just make sure it's really good.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Do you have your name?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Are you? That's a great story, good one. That's what
it's all about.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
That was tell me something good.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Let's go to Tammy and Massachusetts. Hey, Tammy, you're on
the show.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Hi Bobby, Hi everyone. You were talking about traditions for Christmas.
And one of the traditions I started when my kids,
well even before I had kids, is we stay home
for Christmas, me and my husband so that my kids
could have Christmas at home, so that the grandparents and

(03:52):
all them learned right away that to come over. You
know at Christmas Day. We would go out Christmas Eve
where we'd go with family any other day during that
Christmas holiday week to exchange gifts. But Christmas Day was
for the kids.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
I can that they would come.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, I'm sorry to meet interrupt. I can see where
that would be something you could do if you all
lived in the same town, Like if your grandparents lived
in the same town, they could come over. You know,
with my family, my wife's family specifically, they all live
in different states. Like she's got a brother in a
different state, sister in a different state. We're in a
different state. So if anybody stays at home, they just

(04:33):
don't see the grandparents or anybody else because well they're
in a different state. But yeah, I can completely get it,
because you want, you know, Santa to be able to
come to the house on Christmas, Like you have to
explain to Santa clause to go to somebody else's house.
That's probably a weird whole conversation. Like sand here's the
forward address, Like when you have mail forwarded, we're not

(04:53):
going to be a real if you're going to go
to this chimney, it's not gonna be there. So what
we need you to do is go to this other house.
So that's probably do you have to do with your
kids because you're always in different states.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Texas we are, And I love what she's saying. We
didn't do that though, Like I wish we could have
done that earlier to win, Like, you know, what Christmas.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Going to be a precedent is we're staying, but you
would never see anybody else if you didn't, but you give.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Them the option come here if you want to spend Christmas,
because regardless we're going to go to their house, it's
just not going to be on Christmas.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Day, Okay, right, so you guys would then come home
before Christmas.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, so what we do now though, since I didn't
do what she is doing, we just do like Christmas
way earlier, like on the eighteenth. So weird, that's your house.
It's so it's so weird.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, And do they want Christmas up.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
In the morning?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, you do, Like it's.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
The whole thing. Yeah, do you tell Santa to come
on the eighteen.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
He's got to come earlier because we're not going to
be home instead of doing the fortying address, you got
to come to our house a little earlier.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Even for me, it was not a big Christmas guy.
That's weird.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I mean, you guess you're gonna do what you gotta do.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
But I mean, so, then what about on the actual
twenty fifth, when you're at in Texas one of the grandparents' house.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Santa goes to that house and brings more gifts and
they're like, wow, it's Christmas. And then we go to
the other family's house, like either my wife's or mine,
and then there's another Christmas like.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Three days later, Santa come there.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
No, now that's more stocking stuffers, like leftover stocking stuffers.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
You've put yourself in a predicament big time.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Just try it, basically, just to keep everyone happy. You know,
it's not dude, I'm telling what she is saying.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Because y'all are traveling and the gifts are too heavy
or big to take with you.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you do it.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
But he's also saying he wished he would have set
the president they would just stay home. Now I get that.
I'm still wrapped around Christmas on the eights.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Oh yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's well, you could just ship them, but then you
have to ship it back. It's a lot we do
ship them. Put a picture of it in a Nimplope.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
So when you get.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Home, that happened with us, Oh for not for yet, No,
it wasn't for us. It happened for us like in
our group because Caitlyn's brother and sister in law were
there and their kids, and Santa came and dropped a
bunch of presents off at our where we were at
our fabel house and then so some of the stuff
didn't make it, but Santa put it at the wrong house,

(07:16):
and so they had a picture of it for their kids.
Like some of the stuff did but some didn't. Like
one of the big things was saying they were like, oh,
there's a picture.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Does it hit the same with a picture to me,
because I'm an adult, not you.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah, no, I don't think it hits the same.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
But there's so much like there was for sure overstimulation
happening with the kids because they were opening let's say
nine presents that the one that's not there I don't
think affected them that much because there were eight that
were there. Yep, So did it hit different? I don't know.
There was just so much overstimulation. That's like when my
dog has like two bowls of food at once. It
doesn't no word. He's like, that's what it felt like

(07:54):
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
But yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Christmas thing is is tough, and it will be tough
with us with the baby, except I think we'll just
always be gone.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
It seems like y'all's tradition is to always be at
her family's.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
House, and I've said to her, for she's like, y all,
my family's dead. There's no fighting on where we get
It's a weird way. I know.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
That's why I just took a deep breath because I'm like,
it's also like, I get it.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
I know what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
There's absolutely no talk or debate on where we go
for Thanksgiving or Christmas because there's nowhere for me to go,
like on that side because everyone's yeah, my mom's dead,
I don't know my dad. You know, I don't go
to Arkansas Keith's house, So where do we go?

Speaker 5 (08:43):
I know? And it's like for you, there was I know.
But some people who have lost with their parents, like
they kind of they want that struggle.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Like I kind of would like to struggle the struggles.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Not trust me, you'd rather your mom and dad be
dead and you don't know how good you got it
they're still alive.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
It to be terrible.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, And I also don't mind it, mm hmm, Like
I mean.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
It's still a lot. It's a lot, dude.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
And then yeah, but you have four, four boys, so
when you go to grandparents house with four, they have
to know the house is about to be turned over, right.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yes, well no, what's crazy is when we go to
my wife's family's house. They have nine cousins.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh so it's just it's it's.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Nine cousins and they're all boys except one girl. So
you're talking what.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
But there's nine kids already going to be there so
that they know that there's about to be a fundamental
change in their living situation.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yes, wow, yeah, we went.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
To We do this every year. But Caitlin has like
a grandparent who has a barn and all cousins. It's
there's a seventy people. Second third, I don't even know
everybody there. And we took keys with us to that
to her family's thinging know, all awesome, and they they
say okay, and there's an order. They do it, but

(10:11):
they don't announce the order anymore because everybody there is
just family and so they know they're like, okay, up
first for food, and so everybody gets up and keeps
talking to somebody about hunting. He just gets in line
and it's all kids and.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Keith he didn't get the memo.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well, he realized he was in line with a bunch
of kids, and he's like, should I be in the line,
And he goes, I'm already up here. I'm gonna go
and get my food, so kids eat first. Yeah, kids
get in line first. Kids and Keith, kids in the
ark get in line first. But yeah, that's a lot
of boy, that's a lot of kids.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Eddie, A lot of kids. Man, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Are you over stimulated?

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yes, it's just polar opposites. Because when we go to
my family, everyone just sits around and does nothing, like
they just want to sit down and watch TV, movies, football.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
You're like, you're my family dad when he was alive
here sitting around.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
Sitting around. But then we go to hers and they
all want to talk and like be social, and it's
like wow, polar opposites.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Uh, Tammy, I appreciate the call. That's a good call.
You got to sound to something pretty fun there.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Thanks you guys, have a great day.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
The good conversation A good deal.
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