Good News 10/5/25

Mindy and Debbie share good news with listeners!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, we are getting ready for our five
o'clock hour on What Matters. Debbie Bettendorf is filling in
for Mikayla today, who is in Hawaii. This is our
good News segment, which is sponsored by Tattletale. We just
had a great conversation with Brian hess and oh.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We did he couldn't hear.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hopefully it worked out okay, but it sounded okay on
our end, and right our listeners let us know that
things are okay. So this is where we do our
good news segment, which we're very thankful that Tattletale sponsors
that as well. I want you to listen to this.
This is my good news. It's something that you don't
need to see. All you have to do is hear.
This is a middle school a middle school girl who

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was singing the national anthem before it said some type
of game. But I'm looking at the gym she was in,
and there was a match, so it could have been
before a wrestling match. So listen to this. Sound producer, Chris,
go ahead and play it. This is again a middle
school girl. H do we have it?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Hit? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Can you imagine going to watch your son or daughter
whatever Wressell and this girl, middle school girl, just says
the national anthem, not the socks off.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I mean, you'd be sitting there like blown back, like
I bet everyone was sitting there with their mouth open
like it's like we are.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
That was incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That was God given right there.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Incredible. Wow. Who do you have a good news story
to share? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well I do because a few months ago my dad
had a stroke and he it was an intense stroke.
I mean it was and he is in his eighties,
and I am so thrilled and feeling so grateful to
announce that he is doing really well. I mean he
is walk he should use his walker, and he's a
little stubborn about that.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, it's that generation.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's crazy. And when I try to help him, he
kind of like, I help you, hold on to you,
you don't hold onto me. I mean it's.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
But Debbie, that's really I mean. And I because he's
how old exactly eighty eight eighty eight and he had
a stroke.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, on May twentieth he had And I told him,
I said, Dad, you are an example for other people
much younger than you, yep, and your age, that perseverance, prayer,
doing what you need to do and having people who
can advocate for you when you know what, if you're
out there and you have a loved one, go to

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that doctor's appointment with them. If they're in the hospital,
stay with them, stay there. My sisters and I and
my mother, we took turns and we were always there
for him to advocate for him.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's not good news, that's great news. Can you even
worry about our parents when they're in their eighties they
have a stroke and now he's doing outstanding. W I'm
glad you shared that with us.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
All right?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Coming up in our five o'clock hour, guys, dreams, what
do you dream of? Do you have that same dream over?
Do you ever wonder what does this mean? Is there
a hidden meaning behind these dreams. We're going to have
that conversation when we come back. You're listening to What
Matters show, and we are so glad you hear everybody.
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