A woman gets married at White Castle PLUS a cheese loving man doesn't like Mac and Cheese

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Congratulations to Jamie. She got married at the White Castle. Now I know you're probably like me and thinking, like, all right, this could be a wacky fast food story. No, it's actually a very sweet story. You see, when Jamie was twelve years old, she was out on her own. She said, I was in ninety four think about that number, ninety four foster homes, six shelters, a group home, at a treatment center, and they ran out of places to keep me. There are no beds, and by that time I realized the system was probably going to kill me, so I took off on my own. Jamie said, I was born at two adults who really should have had to apply for a license in order to procreate. The Arizona Children's Protection Services system in the eighties was really bad, like really really bad. I'd been running away for a few years prior.

0:45 By the time I was twelve, I figured out how to not run back into the system and how to stay out. She said, I'd been hungry for over a week when I came across my first white Castle. She can't remember exactly where it was, somewhere in the South. I walked into the White Castle, the first one I'd ever seen. The woman goes, oh, poor thing, You go on that a room, you get yourself cleaned up. So I did. I cried in the bathroom because I was being treated like a human. The White Castle woman bagged every burger cooking on the grill and gave it to Jamie. She said she was just going to throw them out anyway, so it was best to go feed somebody every time after that. When I saw White Castle, I knew it was somewhere that would be safe to run two and if I was starving, I'd be able to get fed. Fast forward to modern times, she was getting married and said there was only one acceptable location, White Castle, and the one they picked as a kitchen that can turn out food for two hundred guests with ease.

1:27 During the reception, guests a cheesecake on a stick and a literal mountain of sliders. The couple also had a giant slider cake made for the event. A suit at White Castle says Jamie's story serves as a reminder of the power of kindness and being there for one another as we keep focus on our purpose of feeding the souls of craver generations everywhere. I gotta get the corporate speak in right. Hey, a window cleaner has become an online sensation after pressure washing his hometown's pavements. Could you have done my house this weekend? That's what I did all day On Sunday. Andrew Carr was up with the streets in his town. They're covered in gum and dog poo and he couldn't take it anymore. Car said, every paving slab was covered in chewing gum, there was a dog mess. Was a sad site. Right then and there, I set myself a goal of cleaning the center of town up. I thought to myself that everybody complains about dog mess and chewing gum, but nobody does anything about it. I contacted the town council and said I wanted to clean the paths up, and they were like, yeah, sure. Good news for Chuke and eleven year old elephant living in Cambodia. Chuke has received a forty four pound prosthetic foot made out of recycled car tires and tow truck straps where truck's foot had to be ambusated after was caught in a potress snare.

2:34 Rotten but thanks to some fourteen hundred and fifty dollars in funding every year from Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK. Chuck gets a new prosthetic every six months, which allows him to walk, swim, and even run without difficulty. Cam runs the Paradise Wildlife Bark and said, because he's still growing, it needs replacing often and we've been sending payments to cover that. They were made out of recycled rubber and some velcro to tie it up. The keepers use a little contraption to isolate his leg in order to attach the prosthetic, but Chew helps along as if you were a human putting on a shoe, and he's rewarded at the end with a big juicy coconut. I am Patty Callaghan, Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is led by four longtime friends, the four of us with more than seventy five published books between us. Through end depth conversations and interviews, we discussed the books we've written, the books we're reading, and the art of storytelling. We are here with endless stories to support indie bookstores, authors, librarians, and readers just like you.

3:39 We are always seeking innovative ways to introduce dynamic voices and trends in publishing. On this channel, you will find hundreds of episodes with some of your favorite authors, including the four of us with our new releases, as we reveal the stories behind the stories, offer writing tips, and talk about the creation of novels, memoirs, and non fiction titles. So if you love books and you're curious about the writing world, you are in the right place. You can listen to Friends and Fiction on any major streaming platform. Hey, good news. If you've got a bunch of dirty diapers laying around, I don't know why you keep them around, but if you do, we can use them to replace some of the sand and concrete. Yeah, why not?

4:29 You see, disposable diapers are usually made from wood, pulp, cotton, rayon, and things like polyester, and because of that, not to mention you know what they're used for, they wind up in landfills. However, the folks are at the School of Environmental Engineering in Japan have worked with some colleagues to prepare concrete and water samples by combining washed, dried, and shredded disposable diaper waste with cement, gravel and water, so we won't need as much sand and good news. If you sell cheese, you're probably not going to go out of business, thanks to Mark King. Mark will p an entire block of cheese into a sandwich and would happily eat for a day if his wife, Tracy would let him eat cheese with every meal. But he doesn't do macaroni and cheese because it's not cheesey enough for him. Tracy said, my husband probably eats the most amount of cheese that's humanly possible.

5:14 He has two packs a day. He would eat a lot more, but I've calmed him down. I got a bit out of control, to be honest. I did a video on my TikTok account. I got millions of views and thousands of comments saying I'll have a heart attack and all that because of the cheese. But he's very healthy. I don't think I'll have a heart attack. He's so muscular. I took him to the GP for bloods and all that, and everything came back perfect. When we met twenty five years ago, he was doing this sandwiches. His favorite is a block of cheese in between two pieces of bread. He cuts it up. He has it with marmite, mayonnaise, and white pepper. Also, he doesn't like nachos. That's your five gut news stories for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Cheez