The Bobby Bones Show - TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (MON): Listener’s Daughter Won Over $10,000!

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Tell Me Something Good is now its own podcast. Your daily dose of positive, uplifting news! Caller Gina has a personal story on how her daughter won a bunch of money on a cruise after recently turning 18 years old and gambling for the first time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And there is so much news, information, commentary coming at you all day and from all over the place. What's fact? What's fake? And sometimes what the F. So let's cut the crap, okay? Follow the Amy and T.J. podcast, a one-stop news and pop culture shop to get you caught up and on with your day. And listen to Amy and T.J. on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. It's time for the good news. Tell me something good. I want to go to Gina in North Carolina,

who's got to tell me something good for us. Hey, Gina, you're on the show. Good morning, studio. Good morning. Yes, Bobby. My granddaughter turned 18 in March, and she graduated high school in June. So her dad and stepmom gifted her with a cruise.

They left day before yesterday, and yesterday they were supposed to dock at Massa, but there was a storm, so they had to stay on the ship. Well, she, of course, had never gambled before, but she went down to the casino, and she sent me a screenshot. She said, I put in about $40, and on the screenshot, it showed she was up $800-some dollars. So it was like, you know, all some, don't, you know, don't blow it. Well, next thing I know, I'm getting a FaceTime call, and she's like, Gigi, I just won the jackpot. I said, yeah, right. Don't crank me.

You know, not at all. And she said, no, for real, for real. And she turned the screen to the total on the bandit. And she won over $11,000. Wow. That's crazy. She's 18. First time ever.

Amazing. That's cool. Wow. I've never hit anything like that. I haven't played a lot of slots. But she hasn't either. It's her first time to gamble. Yeah.

And guys, guys, the storm kept her on the boat. Yep. This is God. It meant to be. Wow. So, oh, you think it was God? Yeah. I think God's like, I think she should win the jackpot today. Hey, so what happened? Did she not, did she keep all the money? She didn't like lose a bag, does she?

Oh, no. It just happened yesterday. And then she sent me a screenshot. They paid in cash. So she sent me a shot of all these bands of bills. Oh, boy. She would have to hold out some for taxes. But it was God because she, um, she's made it through her first year of college debt free. but she was going to be looking at some loans in the fall. Tell if she better not gamble that. Yeah, stay away. Yeah, stay away.

Don't go back because the urge is to go back. Because you think, wow, this happens every time. Do not go back. That's a great story. Gina, thank you for the call. We really appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome. All right.

See you later. That was Tell Me Something Good. It's time for the good news. With producer Eddie. Tell me something good. Keith Tidwell, he works at the Kroger Grocer Store, in Macon, Georgia. He works in the produce department. He works the night shift. And there's a lady named Debbie who goes in there and shops. She sees Keith all the time. She's never met him.

But one day, Debbie's driving down the road, sees Keith walking in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere. So she stops and says, hey, you work at Kroger. I know you. Do you need to ride somewhere? He said, yeah, can you take me home? They start talking. Turns out Keith doesn't have a car. He walks to work five miles every single day. So Debbie says, no more. I'm taking you to work every day that I can't. Wow. I don't think I'd have picked anybody up on the road. Yeah. So shout out to her. Yeah, shout out to her. She recognized old Keith. Well, and then Keith to get in the car. Well, did they not go fund a car for him? Well, not yet. Okay, update us. Not yet. That's usually how he's in here. It's a good story.

And also, everybody, just be careful picking up people on the road. Make sure you're sure that's the guy from Kroger. Yeah, make sure he still has his apron on from work. Just make sure it's really that guy. You have your name tag? Yeah. Are you, are you, that's a great story. Good one. That's what it's all about. That was tell me something good. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what you're saying.

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What Coogler did that I think was so unique. He's the writer-director. Who do you think he is? I don't know. Do you meet the like the president? You think Canada has a president? You think China has a president? the law cruzette.

God, I love that thing. I use it all the time. I wrap it in a blanket and sing to it at night. It's like the old Polish saying, not my monkeys, not my circus. Yep. It was a good one. I like that saying.

It is an actual Polish saying. Yeah. It is an actual Polish saying. Better version of Play Stupid Games, win stupid prizes. Yes. Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift, who said that for the first time.

I actually, I thought it was. I got that wrong. Listen to the Nick Dick and Poll show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's go to Tammy in Massachusetts. Hey, Tammy, you're on the show. Hi, Bobby.

Hi, everyone. You were talking about traditions for Christmas. And one of the traditions I started when my kids, well, even before I had kids, is we stayed home for Christmas, me and my husband, so that my kids could have Christmas at home so that the grandparents and all them learned right away that to come over right, you know, at Christmas Day, we would go out Christmas Eve or we'd go with family on any other day during that Christmas holiday week to exchange gifts.

But Christmas Day was for the kids. I can see. They would come. Yeah, I'm sorry to me to interrupt. I can see where that would be something you could do if you all lived in the same town. Like if your grandparents lived in the same town, they could come over. You know, with my family, my wife's family specifically. they all live in different states.

Like she's got a brother in a different state, sister in a different state, we're in a different state. So if anybody stays at home, they just don't see the grandparents or anybody else because, well, they're in a different state. But yeah,

I completely get it because you want Santa to be able to come to the house. On Christmas Day. Like, you have to explain to Santa Claus to go to somebody else's house. That's probably a whole conversation. Santa, here's the forward address. Like when you have mail forwarded.

We're not going to be at a real. You're going to go to this chimney. It's not going to be there. So what we need you to do is go to this other house. So that's probably. Do you have to do that with your kids? Because you're always in different state. You're in Texas.

We are. And I love what she's saying. We didn't do that, though. Like, I wish we could have done that earlier to women. You know what? Christmas is going to be at our house. The precedent is we're staying. But you would never see anybody else if you didn't.

But you give them the option. Come here if you want to spend Christmas. Because regardless, we're going to go to their house. It's just not going to be on Christmas Day. Okay. So you guys would then come home before Christmas. Yeah, so what we do now, though, since I didn't do what she is doing, we just do like Christmas way earlier, like on the 18th. Where?

It's so weird at our house. It's so weird. Yeah. That's not Christmas? Wake up in the morning and you just pretend, you act like it's the whole thing? Yeah. Do you tell Santa to come on the 18th? He's got to come earlier because we're not going to be home.

Instead of doing the forwarding address, you got to come to our house a little early. That was weird. Trust me. Even for me who's not a big Christmas guy. That's weird. I mean, you guess you're going to do what you got to do, but I mean. So then what about on the actual 25th when you're at? In Texas?

One of the grandparents' house. Santa goes to that house and brings more gifts. And they're like, wow, it's Christmas. And then we go to the other family's house, like either my wife's or mine. And then there's another Christmas, like three days later. Does Santa come there? No, no. That's more stocking stuffers.

Like leftover stock and stuffers. You've put yourself in a predicament. Big time. Just try, basically just to keep everyone happy. You know, it's not, dude, I'm telling what she is saying, I should have done. Is it because y'all are traveling and the gifts are too heavy or big to take with you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you do it.

But he's also saying he wished he would have set the president. They would just stay home on Christmas Day. No, I get that. I'm still wrapped around Christmas on the 18th. Oh, yeah, me too. It's weird. That's, I, well, you could just ship them. But then you have to ship it back.

It's a lot. We do ship them. What about if you put a picture of it in an envelope? So. You get that when you get home. That happened with us. Oh. Not for Caitlin and I.

No, it wasn't for us. But it happened for us in our group because Caitlin's brother and sister-in-law were there and their kids. And Santa came and dropped a bunch of presents off at our Fayetteville house. And then so some of the stuff didn't make it, but Santa put it at the wrong house. And so they had a picture of it for their kids. Yeah. Like some of the stuff did, but some didn't. Like one of the big things was they were like, oh, there's a picture.

Does it hit the same with the picture? To me, because I'm an adult. Not you. Yeah, but no, I don't think it hits the same. But there's so, like there was for sure overstimulation happening with the kids because they were opening, let's say, nine presents. The one that's not there, I don't think, affected them that much because there were eight that were there. Yep. So did it hit different?

I don't know. It was just so much overstimulation. That's like when my dog has like two bowls of food at once. It doesn't know where to. He's like, ah. Like if it's, that's what it felt. like a little bit. But yeah, the Christmas thing is tough.

And it will be tough with us with the baby, except I think we'll just always be gone. It seems like y'all's tradition is to always be at her family's house. And I've said to her before, she's lucky all my family's dead. There's no fighting on where we go. That's a weird way to put it.

I know. That's why I just took a deep breath because I'm like it's heavy, but it's also like I get it. Yeah, I know what you're. There's absolutely no talk or debate on where we go for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Because there's nowhere for me to go. Like, on that side. Because everyone's... Yeah, my mom's dead. I don't know my dad.

You know, I don't go to Arkansas. Keith's house. So, where do we go? I know. And it's like for you, there was... She hits a lottery. She had the Powerball. I know.

But some people who have lost with their parents, like, they kind of, they want that struggle. I kind of would like the struggle. No, the struggle's not, trust me. Yeah, because it would mean my parents were here. Amy, you'd rather your mom and dad be dead. Apparently. Amy, you got a real good. You don't know how good you got it.

They're still alive. It'd be terrible. Yeah, and I also don't mind it. It's just a lot. It is. It's a lot, dude. But you have four. Four boys.

So when you go to grandparents' house with four. they have to know the house is about to be turned over, right? Yes. Well, no, what's crazy is when we go to my wife's family's house, they have nine cousins. Oh, so it's just, it's... Nine cousins and they're all boys except one girl. So you're talking what?

But there's nine kids already going to be there. So they know that there's about to be a fundamental change in their living situation. Yes. Wow. Yeah. We went to... We do this every year, but Caitlin has...

has like a grandparent who has a barn and all cousins. There's like 70 people. Second, third. I don't even know everybody there. And we took Keith with us to that, to her family's thing in Oklahoma. That's awesome. And they say, okay, and there's an order they do it, but they don't announce the order anymore. Because everybody there is just family.

And so they know, they're like, okay, up first for food. And so everybody gets up. And Keith's talking to somebody about hunting. He just gets in line. And it's all kids and Keith. He didn't get the memo He realized he was in line with a bunch of kids And he's like

Should I be in the line? He goes, I'm already up here I'm going to go and get my food So kids eat first Yeah kids get in line first Kids and Keith Kids in Arkansas kids get in line first But yeah that's a lot of boys

That's a lot of kids Eddie A lot of kids man It's crazy Are you overstimulated? Yes It's just polar opposites Because when we go to my family Everyone just sits around and does nothing

Like they just want to sit down And watch TV Movies, football You're like your mom and your dad when he was alive. It was all sitting around. Sitting around. But then we go to hers and they all want to talk and like be social. And it's like, wow, polar opposites.

Tammy, I appreciate the call. That's a good call. You got us on to something pretty fun there. Thanks. You guys have a great day. She's still there. Great. Good conversation.

Yeah, good deal. On paper, the three hosts of the Nick Dick and Poll show are geniuses. We can explain how AI works. data centers, but there are certain things that we don't necessarily understand. Better version of Play Stupid Games, win Stupid prizes. Yes. Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time. I actually thought it was.

I got that wrong. But hey, no one's perfect. We're pretty close, though. Listen to the Nick, Dick, and Poll show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Amy Rovock alongside T. From the Amy and TJ podcast. And there is so much news, information.

commentary coming at you all day and from all over the place. What's fact, what's fake, and sometimes what the F. So let's cut the crap, okay? Follow the Amy and T.J. podcast, a one-stop news and pop culture shop to get you caught up and on with your day. And listen to Amy and T.J. on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Saturday, May 2nd, country's biggest stars will be in Austin, Texas. at our 26 I-Hard Country Festival presented by Capital One. Tickets are on sale now.

Get yours before they sell out at Ticketmaster.com. That's Ticketmaster.com. Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist and hosts of the podcast, a slight change of plans, a show about who we are and who we become when life makes other plans. I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change. We have to be willing to live with a kind of uncertainty. that none of us likes. You can have opinions.

You can have like a strong stance. And then there's your body having its own program. Listen to a slight change of plans on the I-HeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's Financial Literacy Month, and the podcast, Eating While Broke, is bringing real conversations about money, growth, and building your future. This month, hear from top streamer, Zoe Spencer. and venture capitalist Lakeisha Landrum-Pierre as they share their journeys from starting out to leveling up. There's an economic component to communities thriving.

If there's not enough money and entrepreneurship happening in communities, they failed. Listen to Eating While Broke from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.