Billy Joel's new dog, an escaped lion and Carrot Man

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories between now and Christmas. What we're going to do is on Monday and Wednesday, I will do the normal five good news stories on Tuesday and Thursday. Ast Ireland is going to help out. She's going to do five good news Christmas stories, so you'll still get me twice a week, and then you get Christmas stories twice a week that starts tomorrow. How about this story. Some tourists were stuck on a plane the reason they didn't have enough pilots. Michael was hoping to fly to Spain with his wife and son and found out that the grand delay was because they were missing a pilot. Luckily, Michael is a pilot. He called the bosses at the plane company and volunteered to take the plane the fifteen hundred miles or so. The company agreed, and Michael made an announcement. This is the captain speaking my wife, who's on Roe fifteen with my little boy. Hopefully he's asleep by now. I should keep it down or else I'll get told off. She rolled over and punched me in the back of the head and said, our flight's delayed. By two hours because they are minus one captain for the flight. So just before we went through security, I thought, I wonder if this is worth a phone call. I think it is because I'd like to go on holiday. I phone the airline and said, Hey, I'm standing in the terminal doing nothing.

1:15 I have my license with me, got my idea with me, and I'd very much like to go on holiday. If you need a favor, I'm standing here ready to go. They said, would phone you back. Thirty eight seconds later they phoned back and said, please, with a big cherry on top, can you fly the airplane. Please fasten your seat belts and prepare for takeoff. Billy Joel has adopted a dog, Bucky, the French bulldog. Billy shared the news on Instagram, writing, a year and a half ago we lost Rosie. We were waiting for the right rescue for our family. Billy shared a de gray puppy was at a shelter in San Diego with a bad case of mange when he was rescued by Road Dogs, who were a California based rescue dedicated to rehabbing and rescuing medical bulldogs and puppies with birth defects. Road dogs rescued the puppy and nursed him back to health.

1:57 Billy says, and now he's part of our family. Good news. Whose they caught the lion. A lion was prowling the streets of an Italian seaside town for several hours. Where'd the lion come from? Johnny Mack? He had escaped from a local circus. The Mayor's sold residents to stay home good advice, while police and circus staff combined to work together to try and catch the lion. The lion was eventually sedated and captured. Ronnie is responsible for the animals at ronnie Rollers circus, He said, Kimba, the lion pose little danger. He met with people in an environment he wasn't used to, and nothing happened. He didn't even for a second have the instinct to attack a person. Ronnie's fear was that someone could have hurt the lion out of fear or excess enthusiasm. The mayor commet did and said, I hope this episode can stir some consciences and that we can finally put an end to the exploitation of animals and circuses. Meanwhile, if you're walking around at cobble street in Paris, you'll find a tribute to one of Melbourne, Australia's most beloved identities. A tiny stencil artwork on a building depicts the back of a man in a check shirt holding a giant carrot from Melbourne. You know what this is? Carrot Man calls inner city Melbourne home. Carrot Man's real identity is Nathan. Nathan and his carrot have become a beloved fixture on the inner streets of Melbourne for more than a decade. He's also popular on the internet.

3:13 On Reddit, sub forms feature photos of Nathan alongside the carrot with revelers in a local nightclub or reading a book on the train, and there's an Instagram page titled where is carrot Man? How did this start? Well? Nathan decided to carry around a big object around town and make it easier to socialize after he moved from Brisbane to Melbourne in twenty nineteen. He shared that hed initially tried a giant turnip, and carrying it home, he noticed the joint brought to passers by. He also tried a giant octopus and his favorite, a squid, but neither got as good reaction as the carrot. So I just kept carrying the carrot around because it was the most successful thing at making people smile. Recently, two women visiting from Japan were in a drugstore. One burst out of the chain room excitedly calling a friend over. Pulling out her phone, she shared a photo of carrot Man she had taken earlier in the day. Carrot Man, says, shows it's across cultural all right.

4:01 Good news. If you want to live a long time, you should try this remote Greek island. The ninety nine square mile island of Acaria claims to have more nonagenarians than any other place on the planet. As you know, anthropologists have long pointed to fresh, healthy Mediterranean diets rich in fish and olive oil as a way to live long. The so called Blue Zone Somebody's been watching Netflix describes the regions dotted around the world where populations are thought to live the longest. The researchers found that most of the oldest islanders reported daily physical activity, healthy eating habits, no smoking, rich social lives, midday naps, and what was the good news, Johnny Mack, Most of them claim to still be sexually active. That's your five good news stories for today Tomorrow Astor. We'll have five good news Christmas stories and I'll be back on Wednesday with more of this style. If you like the show, tell a friend about it. Maybe they'll like it too. You can follow it for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, pocket casts, wherever you get your shows. We'll be back tomorrow