Sept. 6, 2024

Goldfish Rescue Mission in NYC

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories: A 94-year-old Englishman raises funds for hospice care by riding the world's fastest zip line; a chef with a motorcycle injury returns to the kitchen with the help of an innovative floating seat; an emaciated baby walrus in Alaska receives specialized care; a man discovers a decades-old riddle while redecorating his home; and a New York neighborhood rallies to rescue goldfish from a tree pit aquarium. Tune in for these heartwarming stories and more!

00:10 94-Year-Old's Zip Line Adventure
01:10 Innovative Floating Seat for Chef
02:07 Rescue of an Emaciated Baby Walrus
02:41 Cryptic Riddle Discovered in Home
03:21 Goldfish Rescue Mission in NYC

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, they are Shinny Mack with five

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good news stories. A ninety four year old Englishman decided

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to go on the world's fastest zip line to raise

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money for his local hospice care. He's a great grandfather

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of four. His wife passed away five years ago to cancer.

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For the last few months of her life, she had

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been cared for by Saint John's Hospice, which it also

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had provided end of life care for one of David's

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friends at mister Kilby. So ninety four year old at

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David and at mister Kilby's widow who's seventy took a

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trip to zip World for ride on the fastest zip

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line in the world that can reach speeds of one

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hundred miles per hour. David told the English news media SWNS,

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I've heard of the zip line, but I didn't think

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to do it until missus Kilby mentioned it to me.

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When we rang up to book it in, I said

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I was ninety four and they said I'm probably the

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oldest person to do it. They checked and I am

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the oldest person to do it. On the day, the

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zip line was over and done in less than a

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minute because it was so fast. I was nervous, but

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also excited, and I really enjoyed it. Using a crowdfunding page,

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they raised more than ninety five hundred pounds. Nice job there.

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A chef has been able to return to his kitchen

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thanks to a floating seat, which was invented after a

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motorcycle injury made the chef immobile. A sea shaped metal

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hook is suspended on a set of rails from the

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ceiling and allows Chef Lammer to float along the kitchen

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while setting his hands free to chop, dice, quarter and

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file A Ten years ago, Chef Lammer suffered a serious

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motorcycle injury that left him without the use of his legs.

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His friend Bernard ran a nearby zip line adventure course

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and had an understanding of like, how you could do

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this kind of thing. They developed standing Ovation, a one

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of a kind device that allows disabled users to sit

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comfortably on a bicycle seat at the point of a

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large hook. The hook is attached to a railing on

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the ceiling that allows the user to slide up and

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down the workplace that leaves your hands free for work.

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With Standing Ovation, Chef Lammer can pull a pot off

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the stove and with a small flick of his leg

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go gliding down the kitchen line of the prep station.

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He's working in the kitchen of his restaurant, Johanneskeller. Nice

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job there, everybody. A baby walrus was found emaciated and

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dehydrated in Alaska after her herd left the area. She's

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now getting specialized care at a facility and will become

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a species ambassador, the Alaska Sea Life Center explained in

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a news release. In rehabilitation, staff act as surrogates, sitting

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with the calf around the clock and providing intensive care.

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In the wild walrus calves remain with their mothers for

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one of two years. He can comfort through physical contact.

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Walruses are also highly social creatures. Chris Dodd is SeaWorld's

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chief zoological officer and said in a statement, Walruses are

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amazing ambassadors for the Arctic and an inspiration to us

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all to be better stewards of the planet we all share.

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A man has uncovered a cryptic riddle while redecorating his home,

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I'm intrigued or you, and he managed to track down

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the person who wrote it fifty years ago. Back in

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nineteen seventy five, Eileen was a teenager. The riddle says,

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I am here. You are there, separated by time alone.

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What's it like in the future? Or am I the path?

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You are my future? I am your past. I wish

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you a good day. Eileen is now in her sixties.

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Eileen shared on social media the family who found the

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poem found me and have been in contact with me.

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Some people on social media chimed in one set as

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a carpenter writing weird, cryptic nonsense for future readers inside

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of walls as one of my passions. All right, i'd

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teld you the other day about the Streets Aquarium, the

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goldfish that are just in a puddle somewhere in New

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York City. We've got an update for you if you

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missed Wednesday's show. There's some goldfish that were living in

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a tree pit often flooded by a leaky fire hydrant.

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One of the local SAIDs, since the water is always

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sitting there in the puddle, we decided to turn into

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something interesting. They fortified at the edges of the tree

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bed with rocks and brick. They bought one hundred goldfish

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from a bet store for sixteen dollars and dumped them in.

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Visitors have dubbed it the Hancock Street bedsty Aquarium. The

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news of the goldfish hit social media and some of

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your favorite podcasts. Well, it turns out two neighborhood residents,

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Emily and Max, carried out a rest mission. Using nets

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and plastic bags. They pulled about thirty goldfish from the

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two inch deep waters. They said they were rescuing the

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fish from inhumane conditions. Emily is a self described fish enthusiast,

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who said, I'm very aware of the optics of a

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white yuppie coming in the neighborhood and telling this man

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who's lived in the neighborhood's whole life, they doesn't know

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what he's doing. I do sympathize with that. I just

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don't want to watch forty fish suffocate in a puddle

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from their own waste. She's working to rehome the rescued fish,

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keeping them in tanks inside her apartment. Several people had

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contacted with her concerns about remaining fish. She says, I'm

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still concerned for the fish as well being, but I'm

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more concerned about the divisiveness in the community. The plan

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is to just keep the fish in place for a

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little longer two weeks at the time of me reading

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this to you and then donate them to neighborhood children.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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