Sept. 18, 2025

Good News about Mom's "Toy Story" surprise for son PLUS Dog Holidays!

Show Notes
Transcript

A mom surprises her college-bound son with a hallway filled with his childhood toys, inspired by Toy Story; a lab mix named Raider becomes the first morale dog on an active-duty Navy ship; SIP of Hope coffee shop donates all its proceeds to suicide prevention and mental health education; Doogie Sand Tiger sets a Guinness World Record with 3,569 pairs of Crocs; and a humorous rundown of 49 unofficial dog-related holidays.

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Calaroka Shock Media. Holy cow, I would never get through

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this first story in real life. Hi, I am Johnny

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Mack with five good news stories. So one mom sent

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her son off to college and she made a video.

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It's gone viral. Here's what she did. Her son walks

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out of his room and breaks in with smile as

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he heads towards the hallway and sees it lined with

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his childhood photos, toys and Teddy Bears, along with notes

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that read we love you and good luck in college.

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It was inspired by the movie Toy Story. The young

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man said, And I'm leaving for college today and my

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mom told me she had a surprise. All my childhood

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toys came to say bye. I as a dad, as

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an eighteen year old, I would never go through that

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without totally crying. The young man said. I was in shock.

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He was so shocking because I had forgotten those Teddy

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Bears even existed. So seeing them and my mom telling

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the stories behind it, and even seeing the pictures of

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me and those Teddy Bears, it was a lot in

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a good way. One year old lab mix Raider is

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the Navy's first ever morale dog to join active duty

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Marines and sailors. One year old lab mixed Raider underwent

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special training and is now the first ever morale dog

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to join active duty Marines and sailors on USS and

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Macon Island. For the past decade, San Diego nonprofit Shelter

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to Soldier has trained shelter dogs as psychiatric service animals

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for US veterans. When the training director, Nikki, started bringing

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therapy dogs and Navy ships, crews had won request, they

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were like, wish we had a dog that stayed on board.

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Can we take this dog on deployment with us? Nicky says,

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we were kind of like, actually, yeah, Raider, the dog

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now lives on the ship full time. He's been training

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to go to the bathroom on a potty patch, learning

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how to wear booties, protect his feet from hot surfaces,

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wearing eye protection, just getting used to all the noises

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on the ship. Meanwhile, another black lab rescued named Lady,

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is training to join the USS. Boxer. I find the

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name of the ship funny because it's a lab and

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it's a boxer. You get it, The organization says of Lady,

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She's already a star. That's awesome. Nice job out of Chicago.

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Local Coffee shop, Sip of Hope is the first coffee

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shop in the world putting all of its proceeds towards

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proactive suicide prevention and mental health education. The founder, Johnny

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knows nine people who have died by suicide. He formed

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the organization Hope for the Day as a way to

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take action. Sip of Hope has collaborated with Dark Matter Coffee,

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which supplies coffee beans for the shop. Both the shop

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and Dark Matter Coffee see no profit. The shop's mission

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is simply to raise funds for Hope for the Day.

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Very nice job there, all right, record time the Kroc

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King as a Guinness World Record. Dougie sand Tiger, is

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that your birth name? That is an awesome name regardless.

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Dougie sand Tiger said his fondness for Crocs footwear began

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at age sixteen due to his childhood and foster care.

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He grew up not knowing how to tie his shoes,

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he told local TV. Part of the foster care system,

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and people don't realize there is a lot of things

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kids don't get taught or miss along the way. Well,

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he now has thirty five hundred and sixty nine pairs

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of Crocs. He started to seek the Guinness World Record.

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In twenty twenty three, when his collection hit two thousand,

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he was awarded the record of thirty five sixty nine,

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but says now he's over thirty eight hundred. He hopes

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to eventually show off his collection by opening a croxium.

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And last time I promised you I would tell you

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the forty nine unofficial holidays with dog in the name.

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Are you ready? You got a pin, you got a

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piece of paper, You're gonna write these down. Let's fly

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through these. What if cats and dogs had a posable

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thumbs Day, French Bulldog Day, Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day, Dog

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Biscuit Appreciation Day, Dog Theft Awareness Day, Little Pamp Dog Day,

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Spoil your Dog Day, Work Like a Dog Day, Take

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your Dog to Work Day, National Dog Day, Bond with

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Your Dog Day, Dog Photography Day, Dog Walker Appreciation Day,

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Twin with Your Dog Day, Thankful for My Dog Day,

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Dog Separation Anxiety Awareness Day, Dogs in Politics Day. There

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are days celebrating ten different dog breeds and many many others.

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As for me, I want to celebrate Hey dog, will

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you come inside? Day? No joke in real life. It

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is now on the day I'm recording this it's twelve

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thirty three PM. I let my dog out somewhere around eight.

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I have pictures that I sent my wife with the

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dog being q at eight thirty, another one at ten

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thirty saying still out there. And now it's twelve thirty

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and the dog won't come in. It's this little, tiny

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dog that I can't catch. But I have some errands

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to run, so I want to celebrate. Hey dog, will

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you come in day? Those your five goodness noise for today.

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