This week Tommy and I talked about everything from everyday heroes and Chernobyl wildlife to what we listen to as we sleep and meeting our heroes.
As always, we started with our good news segment, Lo and Rejoice. My story was about a college student named Ken Broskey who helped a 69 year old father and grandfather, Roland Gainer, meet his dreams of paying off his mortgage before he dies. Roland works as a real estate agent and an Uber driver and worked every spare moment so that his daughter, a waitress, wouldn't be left with the mortgage after Roland passed away. Ken was picked up by Roland during an Uber drive and was so inspired by Roland that he set up a GoFundMe page and had Roland's mortgage paid off within days. You can read more about these awesome guys here.
Tommy's story was about Chernobyl wildlife finally returning to the area after the 1986 nuclear disaster. Not only are they returning, but they're thriving. Scientists will have cameras up in the area until October of this year and we've got some footage of animals that have already reclaimed this land as home.
You can read more about the different types of animals and see more pictures of them here.
We also discussed the inspirational Randy Pausch and his inspiration lecture, now called "The Last Lecture".
After that we digressed, as we do, to many random topics:
Should dinosaurs be cloned?
Ash: I just picture everyone pooping
Tommy brought up the terrifyingly amazing Magnasanti, a perfect SimCity city created by college student Vincent Oscala. Luckily, Vincent is not an evil domineering overlord, because if he was, we'd all be screwed. Check out his perfect but terrible masterpiece:
As always, there's a ton more that I didn't cover here, but because we meander so aimlessly between topics there's no way to cover it all. Give this week's episode a listen and let us know what you think. We're on Twitter: @aGirlyMMA and @TommyToeHold. See you next week after we get done pooping!
