Dec. 18, 2025
137 T-Shirts during a Half Marathon
Jenny Mac shares uplifting stories, starting with private chef Maddie Goldberg who now turns leftover ingredients into meals for a Toronto food bank. Next, Cassie's foundation, Broken Biscuits, which supports disabled dogs through a specially designed dog park. In Ohio, conservationists celebrate the return of the fisher animal, not seen since the 1800s, thanks to local conservation efforts. The Olympia Music Foundation's work of rescuing and repairing discarded musical instruments for underprivileged kids is also featured. Finally, David Ricker sets a unique Guinness World Record by wearing 137 T-shirts during a half marathon.
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Jennie Mack and I'm gonna
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lay there because I didn't have my scriptop. But I
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could redo it, but I just find it's more fun
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to leave these things natural and honest. A good job
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out of private chef Maddy Goldberg. She has spent years
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working in fine dining, but these days she's just as
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likely to be found cooking at a Toronto food bank
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and sharing the results online. Once a week, she sets
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up the kitchen at the York Fort Food Bank, where
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she has about two hours to turn whatever leftover ingredients
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she has into roughly one hundred meals. She told CBC,
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I don't care who I'm cooking for. It's the same.
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I'm going to be producing the same food obviously, I'm
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just using different ingredients and the inspiration is maybe a
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little different at a food bank, but technique wise, it's
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exactly the same. She initially was working with basic pantry
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staples like potatoes and eggs, but word quickly spread throughout
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Toronto's community. Other chefs began reaching out with excess ingredients
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left over from pop up events. She told the CBC,
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good quality ingredients they can't fathom throwing out every single
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cucumber I'm chopping right now is imperfect, but I'm going
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to turn it into something delicious and visually appealing. I
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think that's hopefully going to be the new realm of
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fine dining. Food's not perfect, but see how amazing I
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can make a taste. Nice job by Cassie. Fifteen years ago,
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she founded Broken Biscuits, a charity that supports disabled dogs.
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With the help of generous donors, friends, and volunteers, they
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have built what is believed to be the first dog
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park specifically for disabled dogs. The seven acre park includes
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a racetrack and skate rink for dogs and wheelchairs, where
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dogs can pass their learner driver's test after being outfitted
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with their wheelchairs. There's also a cafe in fixtures like
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stables and the small houses for shy dogs. They're also
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live cameras twenty four to seven so owners and volunteers
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can monitor the puppies to make sure they're playing safely.
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The organizations shared in a social media post tripause, blind death, paraplegics,
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iveded Warriors, congenital birth deformities, amputies and where different is great,
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Let's celebrate it loud and proud. Now good news if
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you host a podcast called five Good News Stories and
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you're recording your show and you're like, oh wait, you
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already did this story here. Remember the guy sticking matches
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up his nose. You did that already, So that can't
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be number three. So good news that you have a
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friend in Richard. Richard listens to the show, and he
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had earlier today, as I'm recording this, sent me a
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story Richard saving the day. Thank you friend, And Richard
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has brought us good news about a critter called a fisher.
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The fisher was spotted in an Ohio County for the
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first time since the eighteen hundreds. Cleveland metro Parks went
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on Instagram. They shared trail cattage footage of a fisher. Now,
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I don't know what a fisher is. I'm from Queens,
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New York City. We had pigeons. Is it a bird?
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Is it an animal? I don't even know what to google.
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I googled fisher animal. I'm learning on the fly. Here
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Wikipedia tells me the fisher is a carnivorous mammal native
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to North America, A forest creature whose range covers most
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of the boreal forest in Canada into the northern United States.
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The fisher is similar to, but larger than, the American martin,
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again from Queens, New York City. That's not helping me yet.
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Fishers have few predators besides humans. They've been trapped since
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the eighteenth century for their fur. Their pelts were in
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such demand that it became locally extinct in several parts
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of the US in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Despite the name fisher, the animal is not known to
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eat fish. The name is related to the word fisch,
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meaning a European polecat. Okay, now I know how to
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describe it. It's kind of like a pole cat. The
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metro Parks said, this is tremendously exciting as this is
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yet another native Ohio and mammal species to be documented
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for the first time in Cleveland Metroparks. The return of
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fishers and other species like otters, bobcats, and trumpeter swans
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or a result of conservation efforts and emphasized the importance
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of our healthy forests, wetlands, waterways and natural areas in
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Cleveland water Parks. The fisher has had a similar comeback
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in neighboring Pennsylvania. Richard, thanks for sending that one. Over
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that was clutched today, Buddy. Nice job by the Olympias
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Music Foundation. They take musical instruments to get thrown away,
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they rescue them, fix them up, and place them into
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the hands of kids who otherwise would have access. The
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Olympius Music Foundation recently gave a one hundred and fourteen
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year old repaired cello to a student named Jason. You know,
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I should look these guys up. When my mother passed away,
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we were cleaning out her apartment and I got possession.
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Is it's still here? Did my wife snipe this thing?
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I'm gonna be so mad if she did. No, it's
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still here. I have this accordion. It is not new,
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and I looked on eBay. It's not like it's super
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valuable or anything. But I'm like, I'm not gonna just
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throw this thing away. I don't know what to do
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with it, but it's been sitting here. It's right behind
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me in the office where I record because my wife
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doesn't come in here and this is where I hide things.
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She'll be so mad if she finds out I didn't
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throw away the acordian. But I don't want to just
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throw away the accordion. I should reach out to the
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Olympius Music Foundation. The Recycled Orchestra Project collects unwanted violins, cellos,
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and flutes, trains teachers to do basic repairs, and gives
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the restored instruments along with free lessons to kids from
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low income amilies. All right, another Aguinness World record by
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that guy David record breaker Rush, who has way too
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much free time. He has broken the record for most
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T shirts worn during a half marathon. The previous record
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one hundred and eleven the new record one one hundred
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and thirty seven T shirts, which is forty eight pounds
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of shirts. He had attempted to break the record at
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the famous Idaho Potato half marathon, but had to call
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it off when he reached one hundred and fourteen T
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shirts and started to lose circulation in his neck. Yeah,
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the record's not worth that, buddy. But he came back
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and tried the record again once again at the famous
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Idaho Potato half marathon. This time he managed to finish
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the race while wearing one hundred and thirty seven shirts.
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I didn't see a time there, probably about an hour
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faster than I would finish it wearing one T shirt.
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Rush said it was a mix of determination, creativity, endurance,
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and a lot of T shirts. And those are your
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five good news stories for today, Richard. Thank you, see
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you tomorrow.
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