Good News: (11.13.25)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Moan Sally Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I love you. I love you, Sally. God bless you
for putting up with him. Curtis, you make my morning.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good morning, Good morning, hy Good morning everyone, and welcome
to another hour of the Mon Sally Morning Show. This
is ridiculous. My name is Moe. She's my wife and
co host caretaker of cats. Good Morning Sally. Hello, and
that guy over there is producer Curtis.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hie bringing the good news today.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
We like to start your day off with some positive vibes,
and I want to start It's not necessarily good news.
I mean, I guess it's good news, good news for him.
It's also sad news. But in case you did not
see the news last night, Steve Weigel, our friend, chief
meteorologist at WPTV News Channel five, is retiring.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, he made it official. They made the announcement yesterday.
They did. I know.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
He got a little choked up. Of course, Well wouldn't
you talk absolutely after what twenty seven years in this market?
Say his name? What's that?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You just said? Our friend?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
You didn't say his name. I did not say Steve
played played the thing there, Steve the regal Steve Weigel.
All right, I guess it means more coming from me. Yeah,
Steve Weigel, a friend, my brother from another mother.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
We get to people.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Saying, some people say that I'm his father.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
May you're like three years apart.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Thank you Curtis for bringing that up. Let me just
go ahead and wait that at you. Yeah, Golf and Buddy,
I mean we've spent We've spent hours and hours together,
you know, with his lovely wife Karen Weigel. You know,
we vacationed together. We you know, uh, and Steve and
I used to talk about retiring years ago. We would
talk about retiring. It's like the race to retirement, and

(01:47):
he beat me.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
So good for him, well deserved.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
You know, he has guided us through you know, major
major storms and hurricanes, and he's just been He's been
the VOI during any hurricane. He has been the voice
here in South Florida. So anyway, congratulations Steve Weegel on
your retirement from Channel five.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well deserved.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Sally So, an official in Illinois, just helped the family
of a World War II veteran. His name is James
Bennett get back his purple heart. Okay, So, James passed
away in nineteen ninety. He was seventy six years old.
And you know, during the war, during World War Two,
he was wounded not once but twice, and he got
a purple heart. So after the war, Bennett and his

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wife settled in Chicago. Great man. He volunteered with the
local fire department and police departments. He also prepared toys
for kids with disabilities. This was a really amazing man.
But he decided to put his purple heart in a
safe deposit box. Then years later, after his death, the
box became unclaimed. So when that happens, anything in it,
I guess becomes property in the bank. Yeah, So the

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bank then put it on display. They have a display
case with things that were unclaimed, and the Illinois State
Treasurer noticed the heart and thought it should go back
to his family, and here he is along with Bennett's niece.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
It turns out a lot of people store their military
medals in a bank safe deposit box to keep them
from being stolen or burnt up in a house fire.
And I hope that this also encourages other people to
look into getting their purple hearts from their family members.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And it did. The discovery inspired the treasurer to launch
what's now known as the Operation Purple Heart. It's a
state program that tracks down loss medals and returns them
to veterans families. Nice. So far, they've had seventeen successful
you know, returns.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Nice, very nice. What a great story. That's crazy about them?
The profit.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
You yes, but if you have one, make sure your
family knows about it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Don't you wonder how many safe deposit boxes are sitting
there with what's in them valuable stuff, money, God only knows.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I know my mother had three of them.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh my god. Yeah, crazy. All right, there you go today,
he's good news.