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

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media by there Johnny Mack with five good news stories, good job by the scientist, and good use of technology. A deaf girl tried on a pair of high tech fifteen hundred dollars glasses which allow her to see conversations in real time. Kendall was born profoundly deaf due to malformations in her inner ears. Her mother saw caption glasses on TikTok. The glasses transcribe speech into words in real time and display them on the lenses. Mom said Kennall had no idea of these even existed, so when she put them on I started talking. She was completely shocked. She's just blown away. She even cried a little bit because she couldn't believe she could see what I was saying right in front of her. How awesome.

0:44 The glasses connect via bluetooth to an app that uses voice recognition technology to transcribe spoken words onto a tiny screen embedded inside the lenses. Mom says she can't hear herself speak, so she uses the glasses to check if she's pronouncing words right. She'll say mom, Mom, and wait to see if it pops up. When it does, she gets so excited The glasses also store conversations in the app, meaning that Kendall can review important discussions later, such as instructions from her teachers or doctors. Mom says, this is a huge step for inclusion. These glasses provide full access to conversations in real time, and that is life changing. That's awesome. Good news for a local turtle who had fallen into a sewer. This in Florida. A turtle in the sewer led to all sorts of jokes about the teenage mutant ninja turtles. This turtle neither a mutant nor a ninja. Captain Wilkins and his team received the call from a local. The captain says, the call came into the firehouse and the lady was obviously distraught. She was telling us the turtle was in a drain. It had been there for three or four days. She called multiple people to help it out. No one was coming. The turtle was in a storm drain. There was enough water to keep the turtle skin moist, but around the turtle were piles of muck and debris. The police held up the turtle and asked what he should be called. Some children said mister Pickles, because he had gotten himself. A mountain in New Zealand has been granted the same legal rights as a human. The indigenous people there consider the mountain to be their ancestor. Manga was granted human rights.

2:11 The rights will be used to uphold the mountain's health and well being, including protecting the wildlife that flourishes there. A newly created entity will be the voice of the mountain. The entity will include members of the Maori community and members appointed by the country's Conservation Minister. Taranaki is the third natural feature in New Zealand to be granted legal personhood. Nice job. In Colorado, one city no longer has any homeless veterans living on the street. In twenty twenty three, the mayor of Denver launched the All In Mile High initiative to produce all homelessness in the city. The program prioritized ending veteran street homelessness. Street homelessness means when someone lives on the street or in other places not intended for human habitation, with no safer, sheltered place to go at night. The city sheltered more than twenty two hundred people experiencing homelessness, and as of December, the city officially ended street homelessness among vetters and good news for Nicole.

3:03 She's not dead, she explains. She was left frightened and surprised as a text informed her she was dead according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration system. She told NBC four, it appears that I am deceased. I'm tempted to go into the ex parrots sketch here, but I won't. I got a little frightened, I'm not gonna lie and surprised. I'm alive. I'm here. The DMV types told her she can't renew her license. Then she got a letter from the IRS describing her as a deceased taxpayer. It gets less funny. Health insurance for the mom and her three kids were canceled. She said, this really really messes up my life. It has affected me a lot. It's affecting my health. She then got a call from Social Security, who said, oh, typo, sorry, you see a funeral home, try to report someone else dead and got a digit wrong in the Social Security number and submitted Nicole's number instead.

3:53 The solid Security Administration told NBC four, hey, man, our records are highly accurate, less than poor. I ain't three to three percent of the three million death reports we get every year are corrected. That suggests, though, that this happens to around ten thousand people every year. Attorney Joseph McClelland until the network, and this happens on an almost daily basis. The impact is the worst impact you can have on your credit report. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Hopefully they'll enjoy it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, if you're on Apple podcast there's a banner it says uninterrupted listening. Click on that. For four to ninety nine a month, you'll get the program without commercials, and also some other shows on the network, including Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week. If you're not on Apple Podcasts, there's a link in the show notes. I'll tell you how you can do it on other podcast platforms. Have an awesome day,