Feb. 25, 2025

Caption Glasses, Rescued Turtle, Legal Rights for a Mountain, Homeless Veterans, and a Mistaken Death

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. First, high-tech glasses enable a deaf girl to see conversations in real-time, significantly enhancing her communication abilities. Next, a turtle is rescued from a sewer in Florida. In New Zealand, a mountain is granted the same legal rights as a human, acknowledging its cultural significance. A city in Colorado has successfully ended street homelessness among veterans. Finally, a woman hilariously and frustratingly deals with being mistakenly declared dead by multiple government agencies. End your day with these feel-good stories!

00:11 Life-Changing Glasses for Deaf Girl
01:19 Rescue of Mr. Pickles the Turtle
02:00 Mountain Granted Human Rights
02:30 Ending Veteran Homelessness in Denver
03:01 Nicole's Bureaucratic Nightmare

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Caloroga Shark Media by there Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories, good job by the scientist, and good use

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of technology. A deaf girl tried on a pair of

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high tech fifteen hundred dollars glasses which allow her to

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see conversations in real time. Kendall was born profoundly deaf

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due to malformations in her inner ears. Her mother saw

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caption glasses on TikTok. The glasses transcribe speech into words

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in real time and display them on the lenses. Mom

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said Kennall had no idea of these even existed, so

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when she put them on I started talking. She was

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completely shocked. She's just blown away. She even cried a

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little bit because she couldn't believe she could see what

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I was saying right in front of her. How awesome.

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The glasses connect via bluetooth to an app that uses

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voice recognition technology to transcribe spoken words onto a tiny

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screen embedded inside the lenses. Mom says she can't hear

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herself speak, so she uses the glasses to check if

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she's pronouncing words right. She'll say mom, Mom, and wait

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to see if it pops up. When it does, she

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gets so excited The glasses also store conversations in the app,

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meaning that Kendall can review important discussions later, such as

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instructions from her teachers or doctors. Mom says, this is

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a huge step for inclusion. These glasses provide full access

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to conversations in real time, and that is life changing.

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That's awesome. Good news for a local turtle who had

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fallen into a sewer. This in Florida. A turtle in

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the sewer led to all sorts of jokes about the

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teenage mutant ninja turtles. This turtle neither a mutant nor

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a ninja. Captain Wilkins and his team received the call

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from a local. The captain says, the call came into

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the firehouse and the lady was obviously distraught. She was

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telling us the turtle was in a drain. It had

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been there for three or four days. She called multiple

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people to help it out. No one was coming. The

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turtle was in a storm drain. There was enough water

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to keep the turtle skin moist, but around the turtle

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were piles of muck and debris. The police held up

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the turtle and asked what he should be called. Some

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children said mister Pickles, because he had gotten himself. A

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mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal

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rights as a human. The indigenous people there consider the

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mountain to be their ancestor. Manga was granted human rights.

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The rights will be used to uphold the mountain's health

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and well being, including protecting the wildlife that flourishes there.

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A newly created entity will be the voice of the mountain.

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The entity will include members of the Maori community and

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members appointed by the country's Conservation Minister. Taranaki is the

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third natural feature in New Zealand to be granted legal personhood.

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Nice job. In Colorado, one city no longer has any

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homeless veterans living on the street. In twenty twenty three,

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the mayor of Denver launched the All In Mile High

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initiative to produce all homelessness in the city. The program

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prioritized ending veteran street homelessness. Street homelessness means when someone

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lives on the street or in other places not intended

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for human habitation, with no safer, sheltered place to go

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at night. The city sheltered more than twenty two hundred

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people experiencing homelessness, and as of December, the city officially

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ended street homelessness among vetters and good news for Nicole.

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She's not dead, she explains. She was left frightened and

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surprised as a text informed her she was dead according

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to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration system. She told NBC four,

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it appears that I am deceased. I'm tempted to go

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into the ex parrots sketch here, but I won't. I

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got a little frightened, I'm not gonna lie and surprised.

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I'm alive. I'm here. The DMV types told her she

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can't renew her license. Then she got a letter from

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the IRS describing her as a deceased taxpayer. It gets

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less funny. Health insurance for the mom and her three

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kids were canceled. She said, this really really messes up

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my life. It has affected me a lot. It's affecting

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my health. She then got a call from Social Security,

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who said, oh, typo, sorry, you see a funeral home,

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try to report someone else dead and got a digit

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wrong in the Social Security number and submitted Nicole's number instead.

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The solid Security Administration told NBC four, hey, man, our

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records are highly accurate, less than poor. I ain't three

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to three percent of the three million death reports we

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get every year are corrected. That suggests, though, that this

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happens to around ten thousand people every year. Attorney Joseph

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McClelland until the network, and this happens on an almost

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daily basis. The impact is the worst impact you can

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have on your credit report. And those are your five

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