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The Bobby Bones Show

TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (MON): Marine Surprises Mom By Returning Home After Serving 378 Days Overseas

The Bobby Bones Show

Premiere Networks

Music Interviews, News, Entertainment News, Music, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.89.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Tell Me Something Good is now its own podcast. Your daily dose of positive, uplifting news! What started as a normal day at the beach quickly turned dramatic when a paraglider fell from the sky. Luckily, this story has a great ending. Bobby shared a story about a mom who was working at her desk when her son surprised her by walking in.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.7

It's time for the good news.

0:06.8

Tell me something good.

0:10.3

Her name's Brooke.

0:11.3

She was working at her desk in Champaign, Illinois, when her son Clayton surprised her by

0:15.8

walking into her workplace after returning from overseas, 378 days.

0:22.0

Wow.

0:22.8

Dang.

0:23.4

He had been away from more than a year, told his family he'd be unavailable because

0:26.4

of a filled operation, which is what kept the secret.

0:30.0

Brooke said she had no idea.

0:31.1

He was home until he appeared in her office and spoke to her directly.

0:34.0

The surprise came 378 days after they were apart and he said seeing his mom again helped.

0:40.0

These stories are always great. WCIA, although they're starting now to make fake content of these.

0:45.3

Not bad, but you can go and there are places where you can rent the inside of an airplane and they always look a little fake.

1:11.1

And so there's one video that's gone super viral of a dad sitting on a plane. And his military son puts his foot up on his dad's foot. He's sitting behind him. And he takes his outside leg and he puts it on the, and the dad's like, Hey man, get your foot off my footrest. I've seen this.

1:12.2

And he doesn't look back.

1:12.9

So dumb.

1:13.9

And he like pushes it off.

1:24.7

And the guy's like, he, he puts it back up again. The guy goes, get off a footrest. And then he's ready to like fight the guy. He turns out of my son. So fake. It's fake. So fake. It is fake.

1:25.7

You can't tell that.

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