TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (MON): Abby Making A Big Life Change

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2:02This Women's History Month story introduces kids to women who change sports by trusting themselves and moving differently. Listen to Adventures of Curiosity Co. every Monday from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. It's time for the good news. Tell me something good. We'll connect with everybody on the boat in just a second. But we do have four people here in the room today. It is Kick Off Kevin, Abby, Mike, and myself. So let's all do a tell me something good. Abby, I'm going to go to you first. Give me something good. Okay, so my mom just got in town and I love spending time with her. She lives in Kansas, but she's in town and this weekend was awesome. We went to the zoo for the first time with my fiance and his kids and her and I don't know, we've never been to the zoo and we got a membership for Christmas, so that was fun. But something crazy happened. I don't know if it's actually good. Hopefully it'll get better. But there's a playground there that is super nice. I mean, I've never seen one like it.

3:03It's like a jungle gym that's just like made out of wood. They have nets that you can climb up and all that. And I was following my fiance's son. He's four, like underneath there. And I was kind of running but crouched over and I like hit my head. And I like blacked out for a second. It was the craziest thing. And I have like a huge bump on my head. And my neck like went back and I heard it just crunch. Like I literally thought I broke my neck. Is the good thing you didn't die from the story itself? Maybe. Well, I guess the good news was we had a great time until this happened. And I just had to tell you guys. How was the zoo? It's awesome. They didn't have the giraffes out, which was, I was a bummer and then no lions. Because I really wanted to see those. But zoo's kind of make me sad anyway. Me too. Yeah. They're like all, you know. Animals that shouldn't be where they are. Trap in the cage. Yeah. But it's a really nice zoo. Yeah. But I'm going to the chiropractor today. So hopefully there's good news for that. Did your mom have fun? Yeah. She really did. Did she stay with you guys? Uh huh. Yeah. How'd that go?

4:03Good. She's helping me like, I'm still cleaning out my house because I moved in with my boyfriend. And I'm trying to get rid of things to rent it out. And so she came here to like help me do that. Oh, you decided to rent? Yes. Yeah. So why did you come up on that decision? Well, it's like my first house I've ever bought. So I have like this. I don't know. It's sentimental to me to like get rid of it. It was my first house in Nashville. And I was like, I just want to rent it for now. I've never been to landlord. So that makes it nervous. Well, I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. I'm not asking like that. Yeah. I just wonder why you thought it'd be the appropriate time to rent and not sell. I know. Good question because I would make a lot of money on it from when I bought it. What do you? Yeah. Did you do the work to figure out how much you had? Uh-huh. Yeah, I would like double, basically. Well, the great thing about renting is that you will still be building on that and you'll also be making money per month. You're not going to do a property manager. You're going to be the landlord? No. Actually, I'll probably do that because I want a property manager. That makes you nervous. I don't want people calling me all the time.

5:03That's what sucks about being a landlord. Yeah. But a property manager you have to pay. Right. What is it? Like 15% or more? I don't know. Yeah. I don't think I've rented a place. I don't think I've rented a place. Really? Yeah, I don't think so. No. And like, I take care of my stuff. I'm very like paranoid about anything. I'm going to be like, don't touch the walls. Don't do it. Don't do it. That's going to be hard. Yeah. Because people are naturally going to wear and tear the house. Yeah. Like, I would want to be like, no shoes. Yeah, you can't do that. They live there. They get to kind of make those rules. No parties. I'm watching. No, I'm just kidding. I'm going to get to screen people for rental. When do you want to rent the house out? Probably within the next two months. I would hope. I'm just trying to, yeah. Do you have a bunch of stuff in there? Yeah. I do. I've accumulated it. Because I've been in Nashville over 10 years. And I just don't need it. You know, we get like a lot of free stuff. What are you doing with all the stuff? Donate. I'm trying to figure out what. I have a room in there that I'm moving.

6:03Everything that I just want to like sell or donate or all that. And then I want to take the stuff that I love. I'm going to like touch everything, you know? And be like, do I love this or not? It's like the Marie. What is it? Yeah. It's like, does this bring me joy? When does your mom go home? I haven't booked the flight back yet. She can stay alone when she wants. Yeah. Wow. She's so fun. She's just always up for anything. So we just hang out. Do you see the physically you guys look the same? I don't, but I get that all the time. They're like twins. I don't see it. But you don't see it. I really don't. Yeah. Someone was saying something about me and a relative. And I was like, I don't see it. But then I saw the picture of you and your mom. You look exactly the same. And I wonder if that's just generally the case. You don't see it. I really don't. And neither does she. People come up all the time. They're like, are you guys related? Your sisters or whatever. And I'm like, I don't see it. And she's always like, sorry, Abby. That's fun. Yeah. Kick off Kevin. Yeah. I really good thing. I just celebrated my one year anniversary. Wedding anniversary with the wife.

7:05And I surprised her with dinner that night. I'm like, you were like to give gifts. And I had her set up all day. She's like, where are we going for dinner? We got to take the kids. We have two nine-month-old twins. So we got to take the kids. And I'm like, don't worry about it. We'll take care of it. And then later that night, two of her friends showed up to watch the kids. And we got to go enjoy night by ourselves. Oh, you had that all planned out? Oh, yeah. She had no idea. Were you nervous leaving the kids? No. No. She's a lot more nervous than I am. I'm more of like, okay. If we can get two hours ourselves, we need to go. She's like, how can we leave them? Can we leave them? But I'm more of, if we trust them, and they're obviously two of her best friends, we trust them, then I'm fine, mentally. Did you feel like you needed two people to watch two kids? Yes. Because it's a lot. We don't, yeah. Even the only one that we really trust watching them by themselves is my mom. Even like her parents were like, I don't know if they can handle two. Massive difference. Huge. Because you can't, especially they're both crawling now, and climbing, and eating things, and sticking their hands and things. So it's like, as soon as you leave them,

8:05you turn around for 20 seconds, and they're just doing something around the other side of the room, hands and something, and the dog bowl, tipping over the dog bowl, all that good stuff. When you come home, is she ready to pull her hair out some days? Oh, yes. I always tell her, I'm like, when I get home, just take an hour or two to yourself. You gotta go to the gym, gotta go for a walk. Go take a nap. I don't care anything. All handle the kids. You just take a break because she needs it. So you can watch them both. Yes. What's the trick? Not to get too high or low. Pretty much. And just to be able to, well, we have a play pin to that health. Just stick them in there and have them entertain themselves, and they can't get out of there. It's kind of like a cage, you know? So that always helps. Well, she trusts you to watch both kids? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did it the other night. She went to some consignment thing on Saturday night, and I had to put them down, bathe them, put them down, and all that. And she's a little reluctant, but she now trusts me nine months in. We got there. Is there a difference with how you treat each kid based on what their personality is?

9:05For sure. Yeah, the girl, our little girl, she's a wild, wild child. So she'll just start screaming and yelling. She just really found her voice. So she'll literally just be like, ah! For no reason. And then our little boy, he'll be in the corner by himself, just like playing with a book or playing with something else where her, I have to really give her the attention. And him, he can kind of just do his own thing. This is Janna Kramer from Wine Down with Janna Kramer. We've all been there. You're trying to get dinner started, or just need 10 minutes of peace to finish a phone call. You want to give your kid something to do, but you want it to be good content. Well, that's where Lingo Kids comes in. It's an app for kids two to eight that focuses on pure interactive joy. It turns their time into an adventure, when they're exploring and playing in a safe space built just for them. You get a moment to breathe, and they get an experience they're actually excited about. It's the kind of win-win every parent needs. Lingo Kids, everything kids love. Give your kids the play they love.

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13:09I've had a clip go pretty viral, considering I just put it up last night, of Luke Combs giving me dad advice where he goes, baby doesn't need you. He's like, the mom is what's gonna need you. And I can never predict what's gonna go viral or not, but this thing has gone super viral. Your thoughts on that? Yeah, that's absolutely true. The first couple of months, especially, I always told people the number one advice I gave them was like new dads was be there for the mom, especially as a guy, as a male, like you can't really provide anything, you know, other than just a comfort or just the help wherever needed, or you know, the mother, they want to be with the mother, they want to, you know, get the milk, all that stuff. So you just kind of got to be there for her, for your wife, so she can relieve the duties and just get some stress off of her. Absolutely true. Mike D. Tell me something good. I finished a book. The longest book I've ever read in my life, Project Hill Mary. I am just such a slow reader and I felt so good after finishing that I, I want to read more.

14:10Yeah, finishing a book feels awesome. It was such an investment. 476 pages. I know because I counted them. I had to like read, okay, I'm going to read 20 and then I'm going to get it down a little bit closer. It was hard for me, but I loved it. It's a great book too, huh? Yeah, now I can't wait for the movie. Same. It's awesome. What sucks for me is my vision is so bad that if I read on my iPad, 99% of the time, and I have to, I'll look at the page numbers, and then I have to make the font a little bigger, so then the page numbers go up, and I know it's all the same. It's the same amount of words, but because the page numbers will go from like 330 to 480, I'm just a font change, that's a little disheartening sometimes. Yeah. But that book's awesome. It was really good, and I'm excited because a lot of the stuff I couldn't really envision in my head because it's really science-heavy at times, so I can't wait to see like, oh, that's not what I envisioned at all. Mine's probably going to be, and I talk about this and maybe you've already heard it in part two, but I was not as seasick as I thought I would get it. First, when I got on the boat, and I started moving, I was a little, ooh, I had some burpees, and you can hear all that.

15:10But I was worried about that, about the cruise, and so that was good, the food was really good. Not that I'm surprised by that, it's just I was just shocked at the scale of a cruise, just how massive those boats are. And we've already recorded part two, so I don't know when you're hearing this, but they're all still on the cruise ship. There were parts of the cruise ship, I didn't even know existed. I didn't know there was a basketball gym on the cruise. I had no idea that you could play basketball. You ever been on the cruise? No, never. Unbelievable how big the boat is. And again, I've seen them, I've driven by the water and seen these cruise ships, but when you get on one from the inside, it looks like a convention center, not even a regular hotel, like a convention center hotel that just goes on forever, and it's 15, 20 stories tall. I was surprised that the theater was so big that Eddie and I played in. It looked massive. We were going to it to play the show, we hadn't been there until we played the show. I guess we went to it for sound check at 4 p.m. before we played.

16:10And I thought it was gonna be super small, because we're on a boat. It's 1000 people theater. I have a conference room picture in my head. Me too. Yeah, I was massive. And so, yeah, it was really good. Truth, do you guys have FOMO for not going? Kevin. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I didn't think I would. I was like, ah, that sounds exhausting. And then I see all the pictures and videos. And I love, you know, the weather, the sun, the ocean, all that stuff. So yeah, I did. After I left, they ran into a little rain at night. I think that would have been cool. Mm-hmm. Being out on the ocean. Yeah. In the middle of not a water, like a wave storm, because they didn't hit that, but like just like rain would have been cool, because you don't have to go out on your deck and you're not getting wet. But I thought that would have been cool. I had a little FOMO after I left too, because they were doing some other fun stuff. I didn't know there was a basketball gym. That really gives me FOMO. Yeah. I would have been up there. Yeah. Abbie Jeff FOMO. Are you kidding me? Yes. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I love cruises and water. We'll have to figure it out. It looks so pretty. We'll have to figure it out next year,

17:10because somebody obviously has to stay back. Dang. I know. The hard one. It's been the wheel. Just open me on it. I'm just kidding. Don't put me on it. Mike, any FOMO? Not so much about being confined on a boat. That kind of freaks me out. But I do like the beach. When everybody was posting the beach pictures, I was like, oh, it looks fun. I could use a little sunshine right now. When they were all at the beach, I did not have FOMO. Really? I don't like the beach. Yeah. That part when the boat. I like just being in my room and shutting the door and just chilling with... I had my laptop, I had my phone. Why if I was good? There's really nothing I could do work-wise. That felt good. No, that's the part I wanted to enjoy. They put in a picture out in the water by some rocks. I'm like, that's what I like to do. Yeah, if... Go listen to that. They're all up on the boat. There's a reason that we recorded the first part of the show before they left because we weren't sure we could get a show on. But it was good. It was a great trip. And they're still out there and you guys can go and sign up for next year

18:10because a lot of people on the boat already were at TopShelfCountryCruise.com. All right, good job, everybody. That was Tell Me Something Good. It's time for The Good News. Which party? Down is something good. Two guys in Michigan broke a world record and raised money for charity by playing Pickleball for 28 straight hours. Whoa. Brad Haverkamp and Caleb Dang. I can't think I could stay up for 28 hours at this point. They played Pickleball for 28 hours. Michigan guys broke the Guinness World Record for longest marathon playing singles Pickleball with a 28-hour game. The men played for 28 consecutive hours and were only allowed a five-minute break each hour to use the bathroom. And again, they raised a bunch of money because they were live streaming it. That's from UPI, but it does remind me of the record that Ray Mundo said. How long did you fish pump for? Yeah, we clocked in at 17 hours. It wasn't 24. But that was line dancing. Oh, he lined dance front. He did. How long? 24. Yeah. That was cool. Are you and Guinness? Or do we just do it?

19:10Yeah, I don't think we ever made Guinness. I believe we had to videotape the whole thing. You can't do that, really. Without live streaming, there's real no way to save all that video. The only time I've ever seen the guy in the suit, the Guinness guy is when we did the food packing thing. I've never seen that guy. You mean in person? Yeah. Yeah. Because he was there to clock our record of packing the most hunger relief meals for Haiti in a certain amount of time. I feel like a very specific thing. Yeah. It was. But there is. So when to talk Kansas previously held the record and then we beat it here in Nashville. Yeah. So we took the record from Kansas. You guys could probably beat this pickleball guy's record. Who's you guys? Who's you guys? Ray and Lunchbox. Okay. Like if they really wanted to. I think they could go 29 hours. I mean, not with bathroom breaks every hour. Yeah. I mean, I'd go to sleep and wake up and see if you were still going. But I think you could do it. Anyway, good on those guys for raising money. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. Oh! It's time for the good news. With Lunchbox. Yeah. It's something good. Last week there was a deadly avalanche in Lake Tahoe

20:12and then there were six skiers that were stranded. And they had no cell phone service. Luckily, Apple products have emergency SOS via satellite and they were able to communicate with rescuers and boom, send them their location for four hours. They went back and forth with the rescuers, let them write to them and saved them. Wow. Yeah. I would have no bars. I'd like for that to kick in. I know. But if you're in an emergency situation. Oh, no. I'm glad it does. But I would also like to kick. Just like check your. Hey. Check your. Man, you always bring up a good point too. Just like if you can call like why not just give us the bars. If there's extra bars to be had. Why can't we have the bars? It's got to be expensive, right? Then make your network better. And if you can afford to pay for it then pay for it. Yeah, you're rich company. Anyway, that's a great story. I mean, how cool is it? You don't have any service but you're still able to get rescue? That's crazy. It's like if a phone doesn't have service, no bars or even a carrier.

21:12You can still call 911 with it because of that. Okay, give us the bars. That's what I say. There are times I'm on the fly. I can't talk to the person. On the interstate, it clips out sometimes. That's a great story though. Good one. That is what it's all about. That was tell me something good. This is Danielle Fischel from Pod Meat's World. If you're like me and have kids between the ages of two and eight, you know that not all apps are created equal. My four and six year old will just explore like little screen time Magellan's clicking any and every button until I've received 10 notices of apps and in-game coins they're trying to buy. In reality, I just want something that still gets them excited but also has them using their brains. And that is why I love lingo kids. It's an absolute blast and perfect to keep them engaged in thinking. It's a world of interactive games, music they'll want to sing along to and stories that spark their imagination. It's high energy, vibrant, and it keeps them actively playing

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23:14I would just want you to listen to me more often and evaluate situations with me and lead me towards success. Listening is a form of love. Find resources to help you support your kids and their emotional well-being. It's sound it out together.org. That's sound it out together.org. Brought to you by the Add Council on Pivotal. On the Adventures of Curiosity Code podcasts, what if the right fit isn't what everyone expects? In the case of the right fit, Ella explores movement, confidence, and belonging and learns that not all strength looks the same. This women's history month story introduces kids to women who change sports by trusting themselves and moving differently. Listen to Adventures of Curiosity Code every Monday from the Black Effect podcast network, on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Guaranteed Human. Guaranteed Human. Guaranteed Human. Guaranteed Human. Guaranteed Human.

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