December 8, 2025 • 7 mins
Mindy and Mikaela's weekly dose of good news involved a man in his 80's can finally retire after getting $1.7 million! Also, a deceased family member makes a statement!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
So good news is what we do now, which is
always sponsored by Tattletale. It is.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're going to get to a couple of good news
headlines in a minute, but first we're going to take Sandy. Sandy,
you're on the line about a strange relatives. We were
talking a little bit about that earlier. How would you
like to contribute to that conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Well, you know, unfortunately this has become just extremely widespread,
especially with the twenty something kids out there and their parents.
And there are actually Facebook groups with thousands of people
on there for parents of estranged children, parents of the
(00:44):
strange children. It's emotionally devastating for the parents some of
these kids, you know, they're stressed out or whatever. They'll
go to a counselor counselor will see we'll just ghost them,
you know, ghost your parents. And I'm sixty one, and
I'll tell you what my dad, I couldn't do it.
I just couldn't do it to my parents. And it's
(01:06):
going on now. I have two examples. My son had
told me one time, Mom, you'd have to tie me
up and sit fire to me for me not to
talk to you. But I bothered him, you know, I would.
I would tell him what to do all the time.
Do this, do that, you need to do this? You know.
He was in his twenties and he got sick of it.
He didn't answer the phone one time for about three weeks,
and I about lost my mind. So I drove over
(01:29):
to his apartment and I said, look, you know what's
going on. He said, I just can't take it. You know,
you constantly tell him what to do. And I apologized
and we have a fantastic relationship. Now I quit doing
what I was doing. But the other side of the
coin is my sister. She was She died in July.
No one knew in the family that she died because
(01:52):
she wouldn't talk to anyone. And I lived four miles
from huh. And it's heartbreaking, you know, I just can't
imagine dying alone. And the last thing is, you know,
if you apologize to someone, if you're a strange from
someone and you apologize, try to resist the temptation that
if they tell you this is why you know they're
(02:13):
not talking or whatever, try just to listen. Don't get
immediately defensive and say why did this, why did that?
Just listen and apologize and you know it may work,
it may not, but it's just heartbreaking this epidemic that's
going on. It's everywhere it is.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's so wild to see it. And mindy, I for
some reason that algorithm has hit me when I've seen
that on Facebook and whatnot. I mean, so many people
are talking about it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, well, Sandy, thank you calling in. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Good to have perspective. All right, we've got a couple
of minutes. Let's get in a good news headline.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So my good news story was seen across the world
because it spread like wildfire. And when something really good happens,
that's what you like to see, because a lot of
times it's something native that spreads like wildfire and everybody
sees it. You're like, oh, but this was about a
Michigan veteran. Did you see this? He was working at Myers. Yes,
(03:17):
at eighty eight years old. He's now able to retire.
At eighty eight years old, he's able to retire. He
had to work forty hours a week because the pension
was taken away and his wife was sick, and so
he had to keep past his wife died. Yeah, so
he had no choice but to keep working. So an influencer.
We hear a lot about influencers and social media and
(03:37):
also about GoFundMe accounts. Are they good, are they bad?
It just really all depends. But this influencer heard about
this eighty eight year old Michigan veteran and you know what,
he raised one point seven million dollars. Amazing for this
eighty eight year old. He presented it to him, he said, listen,
this is not fake, it's real. The veteran just start crying.
(03:59):
He was so touched. He now has one point seven
million dollars. He can retire at eighty eight years old
after the pension was taken away.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I was I teared up when I saw it. Yeah,
it was that was really amazing to see the kindness
of a community for this guy.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Total strangers just pitching in money from GoFundMe. One point
seven million dollars. Now, yeah, it's still story of a
long time after those years. And just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
If you guys haven't seen it, definitely google it or
look forward on your social media feeds.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's a good one.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If you just look up ed bombas b A m
b As, it comes right up and really he looks
good for eighty eight he could enjoy that money.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, I thought he looked pretty good too. Mine kind
of has a Thanksgiving moment to it. I thought this
was cool. And you know, we like to talk to
our friend Tina blanken Ship from time to time.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
About what might be going on beyond.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So a New Jersey family was just moments away from
enjoying a Thanksgiving meal together and they were giving a
little bit of this girl is reading something about her
aunt who had passed just the year before, and they're
getting applause from what she's reading, and then all of
a sudden, the table came crashing down when she's talking
(05:17):
about her aunt who had just passed.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh like the ant spirit did that? Yeah, I mean,
that's that according to you, Why did they say the
table came crashing down? Was just out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was out of the blue. The entire spread, it's
this massive table. It looks fine, but then bam, she's
all like, nobody knows what happened.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
See, I believe in that stuff. Of course, I'm going
to say that was the aunt saying, I hear you,
I get it. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm with you this Thanksgiving. Even though that's so cool, cool,
and someone had made a point, this is a story
that's going to be passed down from generation to generation
in that family.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, So anyway, I thought that was a sweet little story.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We have Jody on the line, but we can can
we get Jody at the top of the five o'clock.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Is Chris, Can we get her now?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
We can take her now?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, all right, Jody? Hey, you must matter because we're
usually out of time right now at the top of
the hour. But what's on your mind there? Jody?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Hi, ladies, how are you?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
We're great?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh good? Listen to you guys all the time. I
just calling to say how We're just so excited for
the Valleydale Ballroom Christmas Dance. We were there, remember when
Dina Martin played a couple of years ago. Yes, yes, show.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hey, it was outstanding.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That was shortly after my mom passed away, and I
would have loved to have had her there to hear
Dina Martin, and it was kind of emotional for me personally,
but it was a beautiful show. Around Christmas time. Well,
stay tuned, Jody, because we're giving away tickets to this
year's Christmas dance at Valleydale.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh great, great, Okay, I will do that. We're gonna
do it in the five o'clock hour, so stick around.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Thanks for calling.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Happy, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Jody. Gosh, random phone call,
but you got a.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Lot that was great. Merry Christmas, Jody.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
All right, this is what matters on six ten WTVN
So good news is what we do now, which is
always sponsored by Tattletale. It is.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're going to get to a couple of good news
headlines in a minute, but first we're going to take Sandy. Sandy,
you're on the line about a strange relatives. We were
talking a little bit about that earlier. How would you
like to contribute to that conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Well, you know, unfortunately this has become just extremely widespread,
especially with the twenty something kids out there and their parents.
And there are actually Facebook groups with thousands of people
on there for parents of estranged children, parents of the
(00:44):
strange children. It's emotionally devastating for the parents some of
these kids, you know, they're stressed out or whatever. They'll
go to a counselor counselor will see we'll just ghost them,
you know, ghost your parents. And I'm sixty one, and
I'll tell you what my dad, I couldn't do it.
I just couldn't do it to my parents. And it's
(01:06):
going on now. I have two examples. My son had
told me one time, Mom, you'd have to tie me
up and sit fire to me for me not to
talk to you. But I bothered him, you know, I would.
I would tell him what to do all the time.
Do this, do that, you need to do this? You know.
He was in his twenties and he got sick of it.
He didn't answer the phone one time for about three weeks,
and I about lost my mind. So I drove over
(01:29):
to his apartment and I said, look, you know what's
going on. He said, I just can't take it. You know,
you constantly tell him what to do. And I apologized
and we have a fantastic relationship. Now I quit doing
what I was doing. But the other side of the
coin is my sister. She was She died in July.
No one knew in the family that she died because
(01:52):
she wouldn't talk to anyone. And I lived four miles
from huh. And it's heartbreaking, you know, I just can't
imagine dying alone. And the last thing is, you know,
if you apologize to someone, if you're a strange from
someone and you apologize, try to resist the temptation that
if they tell you this is why you know they're
(02:13):
not talking or whatever, try just to listen. Don't get
immediately defensive and say why did this, why did that?
Just listen and apologize and you know it may work,
it may not, but it's just heartbreaking this epidemic that's
going on. It's everywhere it is.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's so wild to see it. And mindy, I for
some reason that algorithm has hit me when I've seen
that on Facebook and whatnot. I mean, so many people
are talking about it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, well, Sandy, thank you calling in. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Good to have perspective. All right, we've got a couple
of minutes. Let's get in a good news headline.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So my good news story was seen across the world
because it spread like wildfire. And when something really good happens,
that's what you like to see, because a lot of
times it's something native that spreads like wildfire and everybody
sees it. You're like, oh, but this was about a
Michigan veteran. Did you see this? He was working at Myers. Yes,
(03:17):
at eighty eight years old. He's now able to retire.
At eighty eight years old, he's able to retire. He
had to work forty hours a week because the pension
was taken away and his wife was sick, and so
he had to keep past his wife died. Yeah, so
he had no choice but to keep working. So an influencer.
We hear a lot about influencers and social media and
(03:37):
also about GoFundMe accounts. Are they good, are they bad?
It just really all depends. But this influencer heard about
this eighty eight year old Michigan veteran and you know what,
he raised one point seven million dollars. Amazing for this
eighty eight year old. He presented it to him, he said, listen,
this is not fake, it's real. The veteran just start crying.
(03:59):
He was so touched. He now has one point seven
million dollars. He can retire at eighty eight years old
after the pension was taken away.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I was I teared up when I saw it. Yeah,
it was that was really amazing to see the kindness
of a community for this guy.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Total strangers just pitching in money from GoFundMe. One point
seven million dollars. Now, yeah, it's still story of a
long time after those years. And just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
If you guys haven't seen it, definitely google it or
look forward on your social media feeds.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's a good one.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If you just look up ed bombas b A m
b As, it comes right up and really he looks
good for eighty eight he could enjoy that money.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, I thought he looked pretty good too. Mine kind
of has a Thanksgiving moment to it. I thought this
was cool. And you know, we like to talk to
our friend Tina blanken Ship from time to time.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
About what might be going on beyond.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
So a New Jersey family was just moments away from
enjoying a Thanksgiving meal together and they were giving a
little bit of this girl is reading something about her
aunt who had passed just the year before, and they're
getting applause from what she's reading, and then all of
a sudden, the table came crashing down when she's talking
(05:17):
about her aunt who had just passed.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh like the ant spirit did that? Yeah, I mean,
that's that according to you, Why did they say the
table came crashing down? Was just out of the blue.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was out of the blue. The entire spread, it's
this massive table. It looks fine, but then bam, she's
all like, nobody knows what happened.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
See, I believe in that stuff. Of course, I'm going
to say that was the aunt saying, I hear you,
I get it. I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm with you this Thanksgiving. Even though that's so cool, cool,
and someone had made a point, this is a story
that's going to be passed down from generation to generation
in that family.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, So anyway, I thought that was a sweet little story.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We have Jody on the line, but we can can
we get Jody at the top of the five o'clock.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Is Chris, Can we get her now?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
We can take her now?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, all right, Jody? Hey, you must matter because we're
usually out of time right now at the top of
the hour. But what's on your mind there? Jody?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Hi, ladies, how are you?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
We're great?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh good? Listen to you guys all the time. I
just calling to say how We're just so excited for
the Valleydale Ballroom Christmas Dance. We were there, remember when
Dina Martin played a couple of years ago. Yes, yes, show.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Hey, it was outstanding.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That was shortly after my mom passed away, and I
would have loved to have had her there to hear
Dina Martin, and it was kind of emotional for me personally,
but it was a beautiful show. Around Christmas time. Well,
stay tuned, Jody, because we're giving away tickets to this
year's Christmas dance at Valleydale.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh great, great, Okay, I will do that. We're gonna
do it in the five o'clock hour, so stick around.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Thanks for calling.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Happy, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Jody. Gosh, random phone call,
but you got a.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Lot that was great. Merry Christmas, Jody.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
All right, this is what matters on six ten WTVN
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