A guy needs a bigger house for his Simpsons collection

0:01 I'm Jenny Mack with five good news stories. According to the Gallup National Health and Well Being Index, saying hello to more than one neighbor was shown to correlate with greater self perception of well being. Mister Rogers had this right, so the study was averaged across This is Deep five dimensions that included career, communal, physical, financial, and social wellbeing. The increase which grading a neighbor had led to a two point increase on a scale of zero to one hundred. Are you ready? Up until the sixth neighbor, you'd get two points for each neighbor you said hello to. After six, you get no more impact. So just say hi to your your first six neighbors and then that seventh guy. You can drive right past them, don't bother Men were more likely to greet neighbors than women. That actually surprises me, as were people with children under the age of eighteen. Yeah, that makes sense because you're walking around with the kids. You go hi. Individuals aged forty to sixty five plus were the most common greeters of neighbors, So your younger millennials and you gen Z's say hi man, Cassidy Beach, great name and it's relevant here. Cassidy Beach was on the beach and saw a dark green bottle with a letter in it. This one was found on the beach of the Turks and South Caicos Islands and the Caribbean, dated September twenty, two thousand and four. The bottle was cast adrift by mister Panelle Aimes, a commercial fisherman from nan Sucket between two thousand and two thousand and six. Aims through hundreds of these bottles off his boat into the Great South Channel. They've washed up and been found in Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, Great Britain, Florida, the Caribbean and the Canary Islands. Eighty people have taken the

1:33 time to remove the artificial quirks, read the letter inside and write back. Aimes said, you get your mail and you kind of know your bills and the familiar people who send stuff to you. But then all of a sudden you get an envelope and you go, oh, I didn't know that person. That's a bottle letter. John and carry Rickland are on a mission. They want to eat at every single diner in New Jersey. They've been at this since twenty fifteen. They told al Roker, we have more diners in New Jersey than any other state. We just thought it'd be cool to drive around the state and sample and eat at every one of them. They've calculated they're around four hundred and fifteen diners in New Jersey as of early August. They've been to two hundred and twelve now eight years and they're just more than halfway through. Wow. John says going to the diners like a treat and for Carrie, being able to visit different cities and try diners specialties is an adventure and feels like a vacation without the suitcase. A Rhode Island couple went out to dinner and they ordered an engagement ring. No, that wasn't the plan, you see, they ordered clams. Sandy was eating a clam and then bit into something hard and round. Was like, what the heck?

2:38 She spit it out. At first they thought it was a tooth. Nope, it's not a tooth. Have you figured this out yet? It was a pearl. She said. He couldn't have ever swallowed it was too big. They went to the jeweler. He put it in eighteen carried gold and made it beautiful. It just makes a whole ring pop and then the diamonds were put down lower. It's beautiful and the world's biggest Simpsons fan had to move to a bigger house because his collection was so big. Mark Venema has a mass thousands of items relating to the Simpsons, including clothing, newspaper clippings, homeware, claims as collections worth over fifty thousand dollars. Mark said, I deliberately don't keep track of what I've spent so I don't worry about it, and I think the number could be significantly more than the fifty thousand dollars. The Simpsons collection would have cost me upwards of twenty grand, but my wife thinks it's higher, and even then she's being conservative. I will literally collect anything, including clothing that doesn't fit me, newspaper clippings, and homewear.

3:29 If I can afford it, it's mine. I'm hoping to be buried with the collection Pharaoh style. We were looking to move into a smaller house and downsizing now that the kids have all left home, and I was hoping to generate some interest on Instagram. However, once I started posting content, I fell in love with it again. So now we've decided to buy a bigger house to accommodate all the stuff. Growing up, all my kids thought the collection was normal, as they've only known life with the collection when they were little. I was interested in shelving and hung most of the pieces on the walls, but I did lose a few items along the way. That's your five good news stories for to day. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, where you get your show as you have a great day.