Tell Me Something Good is now its own podcast. Your daily dose of positive, uplifting news! Bobby shared a story about students in the auto tech program who are gaining hands-on mechanical skills while making a meaningful impact in their community. Bobby shares what was a life saver yesterday for he and his wife and updates us on how physical therapy is going.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time for the good news. It's something good.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Around the room. I'll go first. Kind of annoying because
it rained yesterday, But what was great about it is
it was like forty two degrees, so it wasn't a
freezing rain, and we had a bunch of ice that
were my wife's pregnant. She's really avoiding all ice all
the time, so it kind of it melted, like all
of the ice on all of the surfaces outside, so
(00:29):
now she can walk around a little bit out there.
And we just needed it because everything was still iced over.
I was stuck in traffic. Though I'm never in traffic
because come to work early. I'm never on the road
at five o'clock PM, but I was yesterday because I
had we recorded twenty five whistles yesterday. Then I went
(00:49):
to brain therapy my therapist. Then I went to physical
therapy after that. So all those rain together and it
was five o'clock and I'm on the road and I'm like,
I hate this, just not work, so I have to
go to this every day.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So your therapist, when you say brain, you mean like talk, yeah, therapy, Okay,
I didn't mental health.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I was working on my mental health and my physical health.
I was telling my wife yesterday, Oh, you.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Were so on top of it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's pretty common. Try to schedule stuff near.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh, it's common to have those on the same day.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I did. In physical therapy yesterday, I ran for
ten minutes, but I did five minute walk, five minute
jog in the anti gravity treadmill. And really they say
anti gravity, they just basically put you in this air balloon.
It takes you to like seventy percent of your body weight.
The last time I did that, Oh, I should do
(01:43):
this is my tell me good. The last time I
did that only got through two and a half minutes
and had to quit because my ankle was killing me.
I did all ten minutes. It hurts today a little bit,
but I think there's been some progression. I was worried
when I fell on the ice last week that I
had reinjured my ankle. But after I ran for ten minutes,
it hurt a little, but I do feel progression. I'm
almost back. I mean, who knows, who knows what kind
(02:03):
of athlete I woulna decide to.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Be when you're back, Like, what do you what's your goal?
It's your goal to be back.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I feel like I'm an empty canvas right now. If
I want to get into marathon running, oh, you're back
in professional pickleball.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Don't do a marathon after your foot but I could.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I could start training. You could, but you're not going
to do it right out of the gate, All new canvas.
I haven't done anything in three months to tell me
something goods those two things, Amy, What do you have?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So at the beginning of the year, I set out
to read more and I've officially finished, like it's still
what We're very early February and I've already read three
books and I'm about to.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Finish my fourth.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's really great.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'm a whole new person, Like I can't wait to
like get ready for bed and get in bed and read.
And I have my little night light that is like
an amber color so it doesn't mess with, you know,
my circadian rhythm, and I I don't know, it's like,
who am I Like last night my boyfriend called me
and was.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Like, hey, what are you doing. I was like, I'm
already in bed. I'm reading. You know, this is the
year that I read.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's great. It's fine to finish books.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's so fun. This is not me.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I mean, I've been kind of an okay reader, but
not really. I mean the fact that I'm on my
fourth book for the year. That's more than I read.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In the last few years combined. Yeah, making it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I've listened to some I've listened to books, and
so I guess I'm separating that from listening to actually
reading and carving out time. And I kept thinking, like,
I don't really have time for that, and it's like
I have time, it's just am I going to watch
a TV show or I'm gonna am I gonna read
a book?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Are you?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Four books?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Are we talking?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Like?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Hunter Page was.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The longest one, and that one I just that that's
a real one. Like that one I got into.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The other CAG.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Was really impressive.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The other two no, no, no, the other two are Emily
had books, and they're just like rom calm, romance types books,
and they're very easy reads. They're not like The Nightingale
was heavy. And that's why I'm kind of cleansing my
palette because The Nightingale's historical fiction and it's heavy stuff.
So I'm cleansing my palette with these little rom com.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Books that I still count.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I really love I know, but they're an easy read,
and so then I'm ready for my net. I say
all this that if anybody else has a once I
get done with Beach Read, which is what I'm on now,
I want another historical fiction book, so i'll take recommendations.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm not a big historical fiction guy, so I don't
have a good recommendation. I read that one, but then
I read another book that was the real version of
that kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh well, I also like true, so i'll take it nonfiction,
no man, non.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Fiction, Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right. Yes, you know, I call an infinite super baby,
so I'm not going to be that judgment.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I know my brain I was like, yeah, i'll take
a true story which is non fiction.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It's similar to The Night Gil.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, it's basically a real version of that story. The
problem with reading books on an iPad, which I often do,
is that I forget the titles of the books. I
forget the authors of the books, and I don't know,
I don't know, like what the cover looks like, because
all I'm doing is going back to it and it's
just a page that i'm reading. So okay.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Also, I think this month helped me out lunch Box.
To your point of what am I reading is, well,
we lost power for several days and I was staying
at my house, so I was sitting by my fire
reading for when normally we would have been doing other things.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A Woman of No Importance The untold story of the
American spy who helped win World War Two.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oo oh heck, yeah, I'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's a version of that story that you read, I mean,
very similar.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, well, probably I'm able to get into it more
knowing that it's.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You read at Midnight Library I talked about a long
time ago. It's straight fiction. So I'm not a fiction
hater at all. I like Cleansed the Palace a little bit.
With fiction. It's just hard for me to find a fiction.
But I actually know in the first two nights if
I don't like it, I love the Midnight Library. It
was so good the Midnight Library. It's straight fiction, though,
(06:11):
So what's that about. I think you just read it
that I'm not gonna hear that. Author Matt Haig h
a I G. Also wrote The Life Impossible, which is great.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Is that also fiction?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah? I mean, if we're just going down this here,
h don't believe everything you think was really good. Project
Hill Mary straight fiction is awesome. That's gonna be a movie.
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah. I read that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I finished The Some of Us, which is good. That
is that is it's non fiction. It's a lot of data.
It's The Some of Us, what racism costs everyone and
how we can prosper together by Heather like Life. Yeah,
(07:02):
it's good.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Stupid question, but like you know, when you talk about
movies and shows, like everyone's always like, oh my gosh,
have you seen this? How do you find a new.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Book like this right now?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah? Much like a Netflix show, it's people recommending or
go to good Reads. This is not a commercial for
good Reads.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Is that a website?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's yeah, Oh, basically people review stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Speaking of that's what your wife sent me. I know
the next book I'm reading, And she said she it's
from her good Reads. Man, what's it called. There's birds
on the cover. And I was like, oh, it's meant
to be birds.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I read Man search for Meaning by Victor E. Frank
has a bird on it. Did you read that?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
No, that's I know. I haven't read it yet.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
She just sent me the thing the other day of like,
because we were like, should we start like a little
texting book club.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's like, maybe yellow Face is so good?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's fiction? Also, you've read.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So it's the Correspondent.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I've read that.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, she said that's on her.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know people are getting anoyed that us talking about books.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Why Bob said, I thought you said you gave up reading.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
He's going over like this is what he's read.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
In the last thirteen months or so. This is I've
read a bunch of this. Uh last year, I read
Chaangang All Stars fiction.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bro, It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I know Mike's wife read that one too. Yeah, she
liked that one.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Really like that one.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm going to order the course.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
For me, this is my version of meditating though. What
reading yep, Because I'm like rushrush Truss calendar, calendar, calendar,
next thing, run, jump, go, get yet dead. If I
have a book, I have to focus or I'll read
lines and lines of pages of pay to be like,
what did I just read? I don't even know what
I just read, so I got to go back and
do it again. It is very much a focused type
(08:43):
thing for me. The daily Stoic, one of my favorite
books ever.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Amy, is it hard for you because you're dyslexic?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Reading has been difficult for me?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Read it from the back, the forward she had from
the back.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Dude, But I think right now, since I have the momentum,
I gotta.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Stick with it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah, it's so fun when you're like.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
When you have the momentum and I have to keep going,
And so some of the pages, I'm like, shoot.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I just read that page. I have no idea what
I just read all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So I'll either go back or it'll work itself out.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'll do one more. I'll talk about that book Yellow
Face for a second, because I pulled up because I
remember was about author who was faking like she wrote something.
But it is about a white author, June Hayward, who
steals and publishes a manuscript from her recently deceased Chinese
American friend under the the pseudonym Juniper Song, which is
a Chinese American name. But she has it her friend died,
(09:38):
and again her friend's Chinese, and so she has to
kind of act like she wrote. She wrote. That's book minute.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, book minute. I mean I think more people are
into books than you think. Listeners are the ones that
recommended all the Emily Henry books to me, and I'm
rolling through them.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's pretty cool though. When you finish books, then you
can add it to your collection.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's fun and nothing feels better than when someone else
also read a book that you read. You're like, have
you read? They're like, yeah, have we just become best friends?
Lunchbox tell me, I'm good.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yeah. So we have this ice storm and power went
out a lot of places. Tree branches fell, and there
has been tree branches on my power line connecting to
my house, just weighing it down like almost to the
ground in the backyard. Luckily it hadn't snapped. And there
were sort of linemen from Des Moines, Iowa driving through
(10:33):
the neighborhood yesterday and they saw it, jumped out of
the truck, got the equipment and got the branches off
the wire. So it never snapped.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's good, okay, but you had power.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I had power, but I was still worried that it
was going to disconnect from my house because the tree
branches were on it. And they always say you don't
want to touch a tree branch that's on.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A power line.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They do say that, them say that.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
And so I just left it alone.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What not a great conductor, though, But you don't want
touch anything touching the tree line?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Say that again?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh wood is not a good powers with tree wood?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Would well, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
What like?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Would come on Wayne's World, The Old House.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Puppet and Joey.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah anyway, No, but.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I just want to shout out the guys from des Moines, Iowa.
My wife did. I wasn't home.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dang.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, they're probably big fans of the show though. And
they happened to see some branches on our wire. And
that's what they're in town to do, is just drive
around and find branches on wires, and they boom took
them off.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
In case anyone's wondering, drywood is a poor conductor of electricity,
acting as an insulator, primarily because it lacks, for you,
electrons necessary for electrical current to flow.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
What about wet wood?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What about a good question.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Problem?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, we don't know that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, I wouldn't touch anything.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
No, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So the more moisture it has, I'd assume worse it
could be bad for you. Water soaked or green wood
is more conductive than dry wood. Water inside the wood
acts as an electrolyte, so water would be it. But
it's not all water, so probably still not a great conductor.
But I wouldn't mess with it. I wouldn't mess with it,
even as it straight wood or as Amy says, what
did you say, wet wood?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Wet wood? What's the opposite to dry eddie?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
All right, so last Friday, I guess that's when it
was like really freaking cold five degrees or seven degrees
or something. It wasn't the single digits, and my heater
was not getting above seventy like we had set it
to like seventy five, and it was just blowing and
blowing and blowing, and it was seventy five because because
just trying to get it up it was it was
(12:53):
still it was still chilly on my first floor. And
so I'm like, well, this is great, Like my my
heater is going out. And we'd been running it for
two weeks straight. So I shut it down and I
bought space heaters from Walmart, and I was like, all right,
this is just how we're gonna live until all this
ice goes away. Well yesterday, you know, you were sending
it rained and it melted everything. So I was like,
(13:14):
you know what, this is a good time to just
check the heater.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Dude, it works. I turned it on, and so what
was that?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It was ice?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I think the ice it was frozen outside and the
fact that it wasn't five degrees yesterday it was forty.
It actually worked normal. So I was thinking, we're just
gonna do. We're gonna be a space heater home for
the rest of the winter.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's a big commitment, which is a little scary, but
it's a fire risk. I feel like, yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm thinking too though, Like, isn't that gonna be cheaper
than running the heater plugging in two little space heaters?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, but you're not. Everything's not gonna be heated.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You're just gonna have two little space heaters and you're
a family of six.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And little spaces are gonna be heated.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It's just the first floor though.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh the upstairs is fine. The upstairs fine, Well, then yeah,
maybe you're good because at not you just turn them off.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But then you're gotta walk way down to turn them
all before it gets warm again, right, Like, no, don't
you're not gonna do that don't do that, Okay, tell
me to go. Good job every body there.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You go, it's time for the good news by.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Students in the Auto Tech program at Luisa County High
School are learning how to actually fix cars, but they're
also learning how to get back to the community. So
the program has eleventh grader's fixing not only cars that
have been donated to give away, not only parts from
cars that dumps, but also teachers, other students, and other
people's cars that like a part of the school. They
(14:31):
fix their cars for free.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's crazy. That's because the first part is I get
like you're but it's like if a teacher, if mister
Tollinson's truck's got a muffler that's making noise, you go
and you fix that form right.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But then it's also there's oversight, right, it's like what
it gets double checked by the.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I'm sure I think somebody check. I don't think there's
just like kids running like yeah, all good, I've never
heard of that. That's awesome. If they actually help people
at the school with their cars, so not only routine repairs,
but they also restore cars I was talking about earlier,
and they donated to single mothers in need. They're an
organization there. Holy crap, that is a great story. WTVR.
(15:14):
That is what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That was telling me something good. It's time for the
good news.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Last week, the ice storm hit Mississippi hard. Interstate fifty
five was just full of a bunch of stranded semi trucks.
But Clyde Vinnem and his son CJ. They saw the news.
They like, we need to jump into help. They got
their jeeps and ropes and they went to the interstate
and pulled out hundreds of eighteen wheelers. Wow, in jeeps,
(15:44):
which is crazy, Like I have a jeep and I'm like,
I don't think I can pull an eighteen wheeler out
of anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I think it probably just needs a little boost.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But they were saying, too wench.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Some of these drivers had to spend the night in
their trucks because they were just stuck on the side
of the road.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And so we saw guy tried to take on a hill.
Most of the road was okay, and we were driving
and we saw up on the interstate. Most of the
interstate was okay except the ramp. It was uphill. This
a team lover was like, as screw it, I'm gonna
try it. Done blocked the whole ramp too.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
That's what the that's what Clyde was saying. Said, a
lot of these trucks were trying to go up ramps
and hills. They got stuck, they slid off, and they
couldn't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Good old Clyde. Yeah, and so CJ and Clyde and
CJ probably Clyde Jr.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh, good points CJ.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Clyde Jr. Yeah, there you go. You guys, you didn't
get that, No, no, not at first. That's what it's
all about.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That was telling me something good.
It's time for the good news. It's something good.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Around the room. I'll go first. Kind of annoying because
it rained yesterday, But what was great about it is
it was like forty two degrees, so it wasn't a
freezing rain, and we had a bunch of ice that
were my wife's pregnant. She's really avoiding all ice all
the time, so it kind of it melted, like all
of the ice on all of the surfaces outside, so
(00:29):
now she can walk around a little bit out there.
And we just needed it because everything was still iced over.
I was stuck in traffic. Though I'm never in traffic
because come to work early. I'm never on the road
at five o'clock PM, but I was yesterday because I
had we recorded twenty five whistles yesterday. Then I went
(00:49):
to brain therapy my therapist. Then I went to physical
therapy after that. So all those rain together and it
was five o'clock and I'm on the road and I'm like,
I hate this, just not work, so I have to
go to this every day.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So your therapist, when you say brain, you mean like talk, yeah, therapy, Okay,
I didn't mental health.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I was working on my mental health and my physical health.
I was telling my wife yesterday, Oh, you.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Were so on top of it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That's pretty common. Try to schedule stuff near.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh, it's common to have those on the same day.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, I did. In physical therapy yesterday, I ran for
ten minutes, but I did five minute walk, five minute
jog in the anti gravity treadmill. And really they say
anti gravity, they just basically put you in this air balloon.
It takes you to like seventy percent of your body weight.
The last time I did that, Oh, I should do
(01:43):
this is my tell me good. The last time I
did that only got through two and a half minutes
and had to quit because my ankle was killing me.
I did all ten minutes. It hurts today a little bit,
but I think there's been some progression. I was worried
when I fell on the ice last week that I
had reinjured my ankle. But after I ran for ten minutes,
it hurt a little, but I do feel progression. I'm
almost back. I mean, who knows, who knows what kind
(02:03):
of athlete I woulna decide to.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Be when you're back, Like, what do you what's your goal?
It's your goal to be back.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I feel like I'm an empty canvas right now. If
I want to get into marathon running, oh, you're back
in professional pickleball.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Don't do a marathon after your foot but I could.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I could start training. You could, but you're not going
to do it right out of the gate, All new canvas.
I haven't done anything in three months to tell me
something goods those two things, Amy, What do you have?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So at the beginning of the year, I set out
to read more and I've officially finished, like it's still
what We're very early February and I've already read three
books and I'm about to.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Finish my fourth.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's really great.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'm a whole new person, Like I can't wait to
like get ready for bed and get in bed and read.
And I have my little night light that is like
an amber color so it doesn't mess with, you know,
my circadian rhythm, and I I don't know, it's like,
who am I Like last night my boyfriend called me
and was.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Like, hey, what are you doing. I was like, I'm
already in bed. I'm reading. You know, this is the
year that I read.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's great. It's fine to finish books.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's so fun. This is not me.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I mean, I've been kind of an okay reader, but
not really. I mean the fact that I'm on my
fourth book for the year. That's more than I read.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In the last few years combined. Yeah, making it.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And I've listened to some I've listened to books, and
so I guess I'm separating that from listening to actually
reading and carving out time. And I kept thinking, like,
I don't really have time for that, and it's like
I have time, it's just am I going to watch
a TV show or I'm gonna am I gonna read
a book?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Are you?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Four books?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Are we talking?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Like?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Hunter Page was.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The longest one, and that one I just that that's
a real one. Like that one I got into.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The other CAG.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Was really impressive.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The other two no, no, no, the other two are Emily
had books, and they're just like rom calm, romance types books,
and they're very easy reads. They're not like The Nightingale
was heavy. And that's why I'm kind of cleansing my
palette because The Nightingale's historical fiction and it's heavy stuff.
So I'm cleansing my palette with these little rom com.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Books that I still count.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I really love I know, but they're an easy read,
and so then I'm ready for my net. I say
all this that if anybody else has a once I
get done with Beach Read, which is what I'm on now,
I want another historical fiction book, so i'll take recommendations.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm not a big historical fiction guy, so I don't
have a good recommendation. I read that one, but then
I read another book that was the real version of
that kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh well, I also like true, so i'll take it nonfiction,
no man, non.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Fiction, Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right. Yes, you know, I call an infinite super baby,
so I'm not going to be that judgment.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I know my brain I was like, yeah, i'll take
a true story which is non fiction.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
It's similar to The Night Gil.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, it's basically a real version of that story. The
problem with reading books on an iPad, which I often do,
is that I forget the titles of the books. I
forget the authors of the books, and I don't know,
I don't know, like what the cover looks like, because
all I'm doing is going back to it and it's
just a page that i'm reading. So okay.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Also, I think this month helped me out lunch Box.
To your point of what am I reading is, well,
we lost power for several days and I was staying
at my house, so I was sitting by my fire
reading for when normally we would have been doing other things.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
A Woman of No Importance The untold story of the
American spy who helped win World War Two.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oo oh heck, yeah, I'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
It's a version of that story that you read, I mean,
very similar.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, well, probably I'm able to get into it more
knowing that it's.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You read at Midnight Library I talked about a long
time ago. It's straight fiction. So I'm not a fiction
hater at all. I like Cleansed the Palace a little bit.
With fiction. It's just hard for me to find a fiction.
But I actually know in the first two nights if
I don't like it, I love the Midnight Library. It
was so good the Midnight Library. It's straight fiction, though,
(06:11):
So what's that about. I think you just read it
that I'm not gonna hear that. Author Matt Haig h
a I G. Also wrote The Life Impossible, which is great.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Is that also fiction?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah? I mean, if we're just going down this here,
h don't believe everything you think was really good. Project
Hill Mary straight fiction is awesome. That's gonna be a movie.
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah. I read that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I finished The Some of Us, which is good. That
is that is it's non fiction. It's a lot of data.
It's The Some of Us, what racism costs everyone and
how we can prosper together by Heather like Life. Yeah,
(07:02):
it's good.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Stupid question, but like you know, when you talk about
movies and shows, like everyone's always like, oh my gosh,
have you seen this? How do you find a new.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Book like this right now?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah? Much like a Netflix show, it's people recommending or
go to good Reads. This is not a commercial for
good Reads.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Is that a website?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's yeah, Oh, basically people review stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Speaking of that's what your wife sent me. I know
the next book I'm reading, And she said she it's
from her good Reads. Man, what's it called. There's birds
on the cover. And I was like, oh, it's meant
to be birds.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I read Man search for Meaning by Victor E. Frank
has a bird on it. Did you read that?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
No, that's I know. I haven't read it yet.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
She just sent me the thing the other day of like,
because we were like, should we start like a little
texting book club.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's like, maybe yellow Face is so good?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's fiction? Also, you've read.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So it's the Correspondent.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I've read that.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, she said that's on her.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know people are getting anoyed that us talking about books.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Why Bob said, I thought you said you gave up reading.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
He's going over like this is what he's read.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
In the last thirteen months or so. This is I've
read a bunch of this. Uh last year, I read
Chaangang All Stars fiction.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bro, It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I know Mike's wife read that one too. Yeah, she
liked that one.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Really like that one.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm going to order the course.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
For me, this is my version of meditating though. What
reading yep, Because I'm like rushrush Truss calendar, calendar, calendar,
next thing, run, jump, go, get yet dead. If I
have a book, I have to focus or I'll read
lines and lines of pages of pay to be like,
what did I just read? I don't even know what
I just read, so I got to go back and
do it again. It is very much a focused type
(08:43):
thing for me. The daily Stoic, one of my favorite
books ever.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Amy, is it hard for you because you're dyslexic?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Reading has been difficult for me?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Read it from the back, the forward she had from
the back.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Dude, But I think right now, since I have the momentum,
I gotta.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Stick with it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah, it's so fun when you're like.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
When you have the momentum and I have to keep going,
And so some of the pages, I'm like, shoot.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I just read that page. I have no idea what
I just read all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So I'll either go back or it'll work itself out.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That I'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'll do one more. I'll talk about that book Yellow
Face for a second, because I pulled up because I
remember was about author who was faking like she wrote something.
But it is about a white author, June Hayward, who
steals and publishes a manuscript from her recently deceased Chinese
American friend under the the pseudonym Juniper Song, which is
a Chinese American name. But she has it her friend died,
(09:38):
and again her friend's Chinese, and so she has to
kind of act like she wrote. She wrote. That's book minute.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, book minute. I mean I think more people are
into books than you think. Listeners are the ones that
recommended all the Emily Henry books to me, and I'm
rolling through them.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's pretty cool though. When you finish books, then you
can add it to your collection.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's fun and nothing feels better than when someone else
also read a book that you read. You're like, have
you read? They're like, yeah, have we just become best friends?
Lunchbox tell me, I'm good.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Yeah. So we have this ice storm and power went
out a lot of places. Tree branches fell, and there
has been tree branches on my power line connecting to
my house, just weighing it down like almost to the
ground in the backyard. Luckily it hadn't snapped. And there
were sort of linemen from Des Moines, Iowa driving through
(10:33):
the neighborhood yesterday and they saw it, jumped out of
the truck, got the equipment and got the branches off
the wire. So it never snapped.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's good, okay, but you had power.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I had power, but I was still worried that it
was going to disconnect from my house because the tree
branches were on it. And they always say you don't
want to touch a tree branch that's on.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
A power line.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
They do say that, them say that.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
And so I just left it alone.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What not a great conductor, though, But you don't want
touch anything touching the tree line?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Say that again?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh wood is not a good powers with tree wood?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Would well, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
What like?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Would come on Wayne's World, The Old House.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Puppet and Joey.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah anyway, No, but.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I just want to shout out the guys from des Moines, Iowa.
My wife did. I wasn't home.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Dang.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, they're probably big fans of the show though. And
they happened to see some branches on our wire. And
that's what they're in town to do, is just drive
around and find branches on wires, and they boom took
them off.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
In case anyone's wondering, drywood is a poor conductor of electricity,
acting as an insulator, primarily because it lacks, for you,
electrons necessary for electrical current to flow.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
What about wet wood?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
What about a good question.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Problem?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, we don't know that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, I wouldn't touch anything.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
No, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
So the more moisture it has, I'd assume worse it
could be bad for you. Water soaked or green wood
is more conductive than dry wood. Water inside the wood
acts as an electrolyte, so water would be it. But
it's not all water, so probably still not a great conductor.
But I wouldn't mess with it. I wouldn't mess with it,
even as it straight wood or as Amy says, what
did you say, wet wood?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Wet wood? What's the opposite to dry eddie?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
All right, so last Friday, I guess that's when it
was like really freaking cold five degrees or seven degrees
or something. It wasn't the single digits, and my heater
was not getting above seventy like we had set it
to like seventy five, and it was just blowing and
blowing and blowing, and it was seventy five because because
just trying to get it up it was it was
(12:53):
still it was still chilly on my first floor. And
so I'm like, well, this is great, Like my my
heater is going out. And we'd been running it for
two weeks straight. So I shut it down and I
bought space heaters from Walmart, and I was like, all right,
this is just how we're gonna live until all this
ice goes away. Well yesterday, you know, you were sending
it rained and it melted everything. So I was like,
(13:14):
you know what, this is a good time to just
check the heater.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Dude, it works. I turned it on, and so what
was that?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It was ice?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I think the ice it was frozen outside and the
fact that it wasn't five degrees yesterday it was forty.
It actually worked normal. So I was thinking, we're just
gonna do. We're gonna be a space heater home for
the rest of the winter.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's a big commitment, which is a little scary, but
it's a fire risk. I feel like, yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I'm thinking too though, Like, isn't that gonna be cheaper
than running the heater plugging in two little space heaters?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, but you're not. Everything's not gonna be heated.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You're just gonna have two little space heaters and you're
a family of six.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And little spaces are gonna be heated.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It's just the first floor though.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh the upstairs is fine. The upstairs fine, Well, then yeah,
maybe you're good because at not you just turn them off.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But then you're gotta walk way down to turn them
all before it gets warm again, right, Like, no, don't
you're not gonna do that don't do that, Okay, tell
me to go. Good job every body there.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You go, it's time for the good news by.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Students in the Auto Tech program at Luisa County High
School are learning how to actually fix cars, but they're
also learning how to get back to the community. So
the program has eleventh grader's fixing not only cars that
have been donated to give away, not only parts from
cars that dumps, but also teachers, other students, and other
people's cars that like a part of the school. They
(14:31):
fix their cars for free.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That's crazy. That's because the first part is I get
like you're but it's like if a teacher, if mister
Tollinson's truck's got a muffler that's making noise, you go
and you fix that form right.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
But then it's also there's oversight, right, it's like what
it gets double checked by the.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I'm sure I think somebody check. I don't think there's
just like kids running like yeah, all good, I've never
heard of that. That's awesome. If they actually help people
at the school with their cars, so not only routine repairs,
but they also restore cars I was talking about earlier,
and they donated to single mothers in need. They're an
organization there. Holy crap, that is a great story. WTVR.
(15:14):
That is what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That was telling me something good. It's time for the
good news.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Last week, the ice storm hit Mississippi hard. Interstate fifty
five was just full of a bunch of stranded semi trucks.
But Clyde Vinnem and his son CJ. They saw the news.
They like, we need to jump into help. They got
their jeeps and ropes and they went to the interstate
and pulled out hundreds of eighteen wheelers. Wow, in jeeps,
(15:44):
which is crazy, Like I have a jeep and I'm like,
I don't think I can pull an eighteen wheeler out
of anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I think it probably just needs a little boost.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But they were saying, too wench.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Some of these drivers had to spend the night in
their trucks because they were just stuck on the side
of the road.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And so we saw guy tried to take on a hill.
Most of the road was okay, and we were driving
and we saw up on the interstate. Most of the
interstate was okay except the ramp. It was uphill. This
a team lover was like, as screw it, I'm gonna
try it. Done blocked the whole ramp too.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
That's what the that's what Clyde was saying. Said, a
lot of these trucks were trying to go up ramps
and hills. They got stuck, they slid off, and they
couldn't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Good old Clyde. Yeah, and so CJ and Clyde and
CJ probably Clyde Jr.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh, good points CJ.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Clyde Jr. Yeah, there you go. You guys, you didn't
get that, No, no, not at first. That's what it's
all about.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That was telling me something good.
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