GOOD
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE, HAPPY TUESDAY.
TUESDAY.
TUESDAY. THIS IS LINDLAND AND COMPANY,
I'M CHRISTINE PULLARA, I WAS
JUST SITTING HERE AS I WAS
WAITING FOR THE SHOW TO START,
AND I THOUGHT, DO YOU HEAR THAT?
IT'S QUIET.
IT'S QUIET. YOU KNOW WHY?
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 10
MONTHS, MY LITTLE DIGITAL
LEARNER IS BACK IN SCHOOL.
CARA, I KNOW I CAN SPEAK FOR
YOU, WELL YOU KNOW THAT WILL, I
LOVE HER WITH ALL MY HEART, SHE
WOULD DRIVE ME CRAZY AND
LITERALLY AT 11 AM SHE WOULD
COME STROLLING IN, WANTING
WAFFLE OR SOMETHING AND YOU
WOULDN'T SEE ME I WOULD DO THE
HAND LIKE STOP IT.
BUT, I MISS HER.
I MISS HER WANDERING IN HER
PJS, I BET SHE, HER DIRECTOR
DOES, SHE WOULD BE LIKE YOUR
DAUGHTER IS IN THE SHOT, BUT
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, SHE IS SO
HAPPY TO BE BACK.
>> HAPPY, BACK TO SCHOOL, TO
YOU AND ALL THE PARENTS WHO
HAVE BEEN WAITING SO GLORIOUSLY
FOR THIS MAGICAL DAY.
I KEPT FORGETTING THAT THE
KINDERGARTEN THROUGH SECOND
GRADERS, I HAVE A SECOND
GRADER, WENT BACK TWO WEEKS
AGO, SO THEY ARE PHASING IN THE
REST OF THE CHILDREN NOW.
SO THANK YOU TO ALL THE
TEACHERS AND WORKERS THAT ARE
MAKING THIS PEER
>> FOR GETTING THE SCHOOLS
READY, CARA, I WENT TO DROP OFF
SUPPLIES ON FRIDAY, AND THEY
WERE ALL JUST LIKE SO EXCITED,
I COULD FEEL THEM BEAMING
UNDERNEATH THEIR MASKS.
ANYWAY, KUDOS AND PROPS TO ALL
OF OUR HARD-WORKING TEACHERS,
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK YOU
ARE DOING, AND YOU HAVE DONE.
WE APPRECIATE YOU, AND I
APPRECIATE YOU, CARA, AND YOUR
STORIES.
STORIES.
STORIES. >> I APPRECIATE YOU, TOO, LET'S
GET STARTED, I'M EXCITED ABOUT
THIS FIRST ONE BECAUSE I LOVE A
BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY, AND THAT
IS JUST WHAT ZACHARY AND ALEX
ARE GIVING TO US THIS MORNING.
ZACHARY AND ALEX GOT MARRIED
SHORTLY, A SHORT WHILE AGO,
THEY HAD TO POSTPONE THEIR
WEDDING A FEW TIMES DUE TO
COVID, BUT THEY GOT MARRIED
RECENTLY, AND HERE'S WHERE
THINGS GET INTERESTING, BECAUSE
THEY WERE ACTUALLY SET UP ON A
BLIND DATE IN 2016, AND THEY
STARTED REALIZING THEY WERE
FROM KIND OF THE SAME
NEIGHBORHOOD IN PHILLY, ZACHARY
HAD A BEST FRIEND THAT DATED
ONE OF ALEX'S GOOD FRIENDS,
THEY KEPT MAKING ALL THESE
CONNECTIONS, AND THEN ALEX'S
MOTHER WAS MOVING HER STUFF OUT
OF HER CHILDHOOD HOME, AND
FOUND THIS PICTURE OF A
PRESCHOOL PHOTO, WHERE ALEX IS
SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO A SWEET
LITTLE REDHEADED BOY, AND SO
THE MOM TEXTED HER DAUGHTER AND
SAYS, COULD THIS BE ZACHARY?
YOU KNOW WHAT?
IT WAS, THEY HAD WENT TO
PRESCHOOL TOGETHER DECADES
EARLIER, AND HAD MET SO, THEY
HAD MET BUT OF COURSE THEY
DIDN'T REMEMBER, AND IT WAS
FUNNY,
FUNNY,
FUNNY, >>
FUNNY, >> YOU DON'T REMEMBER HIM AT
ALL.
ALL.
ALL. DIDN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE HIM.
AND I DON'T KNOW, SERENDIPITY,
THERE ARE SO MANY WORDS WE
COULD USE TO DESCRIBE THIS THAT
HAS HAPPENED BETWEEN THE TWO OF
THEM, BUT SHE SAID THE STARS
ALIGNED, AND IT WAS JUST A
REALLY GOOD THING TO FIGURE OUT
THAT THEY HAD INDEED KNOWN EACH
OTHER FOR SO LONG, AND IT JUST
MAKES THEIR RELATIONSHIP EXTRA
SPECIAL.
SPECIAL.
SPECIAL. BUT, A BLIND DATE, NOT SO BLIND
DATE.
DATE.
DATE. PRETTY NEAT.
PRETTY NEAT. >> I LOVE THAT.
THAT IS DEFINITELY SAFE, IT WAS
WRITTEN IN THE STARS A LONG,
LONG TIME AGO.
I LOVE THAT, CARA.
>> WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED, THEY
HAD, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE
A DESTINATION WEDDING IN
MEXICO, AND OF COURSE THEY
DIDN'T DO THAT DUE TO COVID,
HER PARENTS WERE ABLE TO ATTEND
THEIR SMALL INTIMATE WEDDING,
BUT HER NEARLY 100-YEAR-OLD
GRANDFATHER WAS ABLE TO ATTEND,
AND THEY HONORED HIM ALONG WITH
THEIR SPECIAL DAY.
SO LOTS OF MEANING AND LOVE IN
THAT HOUSEHOLD, AND WE
CONGRATULATE.
CONGRATULATE. YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS ASK PEOPLE
IN THIS SEGMENT IF THEY CAN
GIVE TO GIVE, WE WANT TO
INSPIRE YOU WITH THIS SEGMENT
TO DO GOOD FOR OTHERS, SO OFTEN
TIMES WE WILL GIVE YOU
SOMETHING TO DO THAT MIGHT NOT
BE MONUMENTAL, IT'S SOMETHING
EVERYONE CAN DO, AND THIS IS
ONE OF THOSE STORIES.
LAURA IS A MOTHER, SHE HAS A
FAMILY, THEY'VE BEEN INTO
GIVING AND HELPING THOSE IN
NEED FOR QUITE SOME TIME, BACK
IN 2016, SHE STARTED DOING THIS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION VOLUNTEERING WITH THE NATIONAL
ORGANIZATION CALLED CUPID CREW,
THE VIDEO YOU ARE WATCHING IS
HER FIVE YEARS AGO, VISITING
ASSISTED-LIVING FACILITIES AND
NURSING HOMES, THAT'S WITH THE
CUPID CREW DOES, THEY GO IN AND
CHEER UP THE ELDERLY OR PEOPLE
WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE A VISITOR,
OTHER PROGRAMS LIKE ADOPT A
GRANDPARENT AND SO ON BUT OF
COURSE SINCE THE PANDEMIC,
THOSE IN ASSISTED LIVING
FACILITIES HAVE FELT MORE
ISOLATED SO, THE CUPID CREW
HAVE STEPPED INTO HIGH GEAR,
FOR THIS VALENTINE'S DAY, AND
LAURA IS AT THE HELM OF THAT IN
HER TOWN IN COLORADO, PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN NOTICING HER GOOD
DEEDS, SO THE TODAY SHOW GAVE
HER ALL THESE CARDS TO GIVE TO
THE ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY IN
HER HOMETOWN, FOR EACH MEMBER
TO HAVE, SO SHE IS DOING THAT
IN HER AREA BUT YOU CAN ALSO
GET INVOLVED, THE CUPID CREW IS
A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN GIRL
SCOUTS PARTNERED UP WITH THEM
THIS YEAR, GIRL SCOUTS ARE
SENDING LETTERS, IF YOU WANT
YOU CAN GOOGLE THE CREW FOR
ATLANTA OR WHATEVER TOWN YOU'RE
IN AND THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE
INFORMATION YOU NEED.
JUST A GOOD ORGANIZATION OF
MAKING PEOPLE FEEL LESS ALONE,
ESPECIALLY ON THIS SWEET
LOVER'S DAY, THAT'S WHAT MY 5-
YEAR-OLD CALLS IT, HE CALLS IT
LOVERS DAY.
LOVERS DAY. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO.
>> I LOVE THAT.
AND I LOVE YOU, THANK YOU FOR
THOSE GREAT STORIES, AND WE DO
WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU, IF YOU
HAVE A POSITIVE UPLIFTING
STORY, WE LOVE TO SHARE IT HERE
ON THE SHOW, JUST BECAUSE GO TO