Jan. 13, 2026

Good News - Wallet found in lake 40 years later

Show Notes
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The first story recounts how a wallet lost by a dad decades ago in old Lakes was miraculously found and returned to his sons. The second story highlights the discovery of a 4,000-year-old tomb in Egypt belonging to a wizard/doctor named Titty Nfu. The third tale involves a Parisian receptionist heroically saving six people from a fire by traversing a narrow ledge. The other stories are for adults only.

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Kalaroka Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories parents. If you listen with the children.

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Out of the last two stories today are adults only.

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I'll warn you again. And when we get closer. Hey,

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good news. Dad lost his wallet decades ago. They found

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it in the chain Old Lakes. Carrie found a wallet

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in id belonging to John, who was able to find

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his sons and get the wallet back to them. Brothers

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Jim and Dan remembered back in the eighties when there

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were kids neighborhood dads were offering them fifty dollars to

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find keys or glasses or walts that had fallen in

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the water. Rarely did anyone find anything, Jim said. Everybody's

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lost something in the chain. You never expect to get

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it back. Every party something ended in the water. You

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help dads look for a wedding ring or a necklace,

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but you never found anything. Well, there it was Carrie.

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She felt something on her foot. She said it was

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a super thin old wallet. It had shells growing on it,

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and it had one thing in it, A driver's license

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for John with an address at a nineteen ninety one

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expiration date. The next day. She posted it on Facebook

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for local boters. Did anyone know this John? Does he

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still live at this address? Dan was at Chicago O'Hare

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Airport in Chicago. His phone started blowing up. People were like, hey,

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did you see this? And before he had to turn

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off his phone for the international flight, he got one

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message out to carry and said, Hey, that Ida is

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my dad. Now. Jim lives in Switzerland these days. He

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got a screenshot and it's next from his brother showing

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him the ID. Jim was like, what turns out? Back

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in the late eighties, they were on a boat. Dan said,

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I think I remember a timer. Multiple times Dad would

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jump in the water and go, oh crap, my wallet

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was in my pants. Dad passed away in twenty twenty.

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Mom said, I wish he was still here. He would

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have been shocked. I miss him a lot and something

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like this. It's like raising him from the dead. I'm

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happy he was found being where it was. That's something.

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Archaeologists have unearthy remains of what they believed to be

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a four thousand year old wizard slash doctor in Egypt.

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The tomb featured a false door and is adorned with

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vibrant engravings and was identified as belonging to Teti nib Fu,

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a physician. The evidence suggests that Teddy neb Fu was

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no ordinary healer. The inscriptions within his well preserved tomb

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have shed light on his life, revealing they had a

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complete set of titles. He apparently also served as Royal

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dentist and director of Plant Medicine. Scary story out of Paris.

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Smoke was coming out of an apartment window fire inside,

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two adults and four children were trapped. Fusinu never hesitated

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once he saw them, even though the only escape route

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was a narrow ledge sixty five feet in the air.

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Fasinu works as a receptionist at a secondary school. Stepped

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out on the ledge, mom passed a baby, who then

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handed the baby to a friend inside the neighboring apartment

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away from the fire. That repeated five more times as

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people moved across the ledge before Fasnu himself climbed to safety.

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He explained, it went on instinct. It's the hard telling

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you now you have to go saving a life, even

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if it's just one person, but especially several people at

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the same time, is something magnificent. All right, I'm gonna

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take the break here parents. If you're listening with the kids, stop,

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you're done for the day. You were dismissed. Everybody else,

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be back in a second. Okay, it's just adults only

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now right, Okay, just trying to tell you a fun story.

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Don't want to mess up anybody's family day. Just a

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fun story. Good news. There's not a dead body in

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the canal? Well, John, what's going on? Fresno police and

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firefighters were summoned to a canal the support of a person,

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possibly deceased, trapped against a great Oh no, this is terrible.

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Turned out it was a blow up doll. We'll leave

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it at that, and the kids are gone, right Because

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for twenty years, doctor Purva has been answering letters from

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children and their parents. The dentist got what looked like

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a ransom note. Each jagged letter traced over for emphasis.

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The message said I know it's you mom. A fourth

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grader named Cayden was suspicious that the tooth Fairy wasn't real, which,

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of course, the tooth Fairy is real, but Cayden was

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curious about the inconsistencies and the tooth Fairy's behavior. Look,

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the tooth Fairy's busy. After Caden lost his first tooth,

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he got one hundred dollars. When he lost his next teeth,

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he got less money. Yeah, the tooth Fairy isn't made

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out of money, Cayden relaxed. The variations in donations raised

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questions in Cayden's mind, so he wrote the letter. Well,

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the tooth Fairy wrote back, Dear Caden, writing to let

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you know that I received email notification of your baby

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tooth that was lost. How exciting. I'll stop by with

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a special surprise for your tooth. Remember, take very good

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care of your new teeth by brushing and flossing every night.

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Happy growing up, Remember doctor Purva. Back in two thousand

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and four, she made a new email address that included

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her nickname the tooth Fairy to help organize her dental

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school applications. Three years later, she got an email that said,

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Dear tooth Fairy, for two nights in a row, you've

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skipped Callums out. So he'll be at school today and

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do you think you can come? Well, I said school,

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I'd make him happy. Shrowe back. Hi, Callums mom, I'm

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sorry to miss Callums tooth. I've been busy picking up

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teeth from all the other little children's homes. It's been

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a busy season for me. I'll be sure to stop

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by tonight. Since then, the Talker has gotten about three

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to five emails a day, and she responds to every

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single one of them. When she knows that she won't

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be able to feel her email, she has on an

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out of office, letting families know the tooth Fairy will

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be there as soon as she can. Those are your

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five good news stories for today. Have a great day.