Nov. 29, 2025

Good Things for people who kind of look like Timothee Chalamet

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Transcript

A brotherhood of Timothy Chalamet lookalikes forms in New York's Washington Square Park, calling themselves the 'Brothers Chalamet.' A runaway flamingo prompts a search effort in England, likened to a rebellious teenager. A Chihuahua missing for five years is found 520 miles from home. An Australian man with 2,253 unique middle names reads his full name, setting a Guinness World Record. Lastly, a cuckoo bird native to Europe and Asia is spotted in Long Island, delighting local birdwatchers. These stories bring a mix of humor, unexpected reunions, and rare sightings.

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Callaroga Shark Media. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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If you skip Thursday's episode, it was Thanksgiving. I get it.

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I'm not offended. Go back and listen because story number

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five is particularly fun. Just trust me, Go back and

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at least listen to the fifth story. All right, today

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good news If you vaguely look like Timothy Shalla May.

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There's a whole group of you guys yeah in New York,

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a loose collective of Timothy Shalla May lookalikes now considers

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itself something of a brotherhood. They formed after an unofficial

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contest in Washington Square Park last October. That event drew

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thousands of people. I remember telling you about it, and

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even Timothy Shalla May showed up. Now the group says,

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you know, they have similar dark wavy here, but they

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acknowledged that they don't much look like each other, but

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they all sort of look like Timothy's Shalla May, and

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they referred to each other as the brothers Challa May.

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One guy in the group took some photos and put

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out a book called Call Me Timothy. He said, it's

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sort of a high representation of something that you could

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argue is a little low brow Sergio, a former hairstylist

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for Elton John and Niel Sedaka, love the details in

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this story. He was at the contest searching for talent

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for his hair product line. He says, Chela may increase

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my business and no one guy went all inception on this.

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He says, best case scenario, if I do become a

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successful actor, then I could say this all came from

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a YouTuber who made a lookalike contest of another actor,

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and then someone's going to make a lookalike contest of

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me in the future, and someone's going to win that,

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and then they're going to become an actor. In England,

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a naughty flamingo has escaped from a wildlife sanctuary. They're

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asking the public keep an eye out for a naughty

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teenager flamingo. The flamingo vaulted over the wall. Nick the

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sanctuary owner, said, I don't think she knows what she's

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looking for, to be honest, she's just like a naughty teenager.

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We had sightings back down and hide and she's been spotted,

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so we're desperate to hear that someone's found her. We

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need to get her back as soon as possible, or

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really beside ourselves to be honest, want you know if

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they find the flamingo. They did find a dog five

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years later, five hundred and twenty miles from home loos Dale.

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The chihuahua disappeared five years ago. Christy and Josh never

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knew what happened to the chihuahua. It was found wandering

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the streets of Florida. Five years later. Brianna and Daniel

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are a couple. They found the dog. They took care

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of it for a while, posted on Facebook. Eventually took

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it to shelter. The microchip scan showed the dog had

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been reported missing five hundred and twenty miles away. Again,

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it's a chihuahua, the owner say. It appears that the

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dog had been cared for during the time she was missing.

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She's a little bigger and she's put on a little weight.

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In Australia, the man with the world's longest name read

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out his world's longest name. It features more than two

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thousand middle names. It took him more than an hour

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to accomplish. Lawrence Watkins, I won't read his entire name.

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I mean, how long do you want the podcast to be?

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Had his name legally changed in nineteen ninety to include

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two hundred and fifty one middle names, earning him the

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Guinness World Record for longest personal name with twy two

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hundred and fifty three unique words. He said at his

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wedding it took the officials twenty minutes to read his

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full name, but when he read his own name for

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the Guinness video, it took more than an hour. His

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favorite of his names is Azy two thousand. He explains

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that means I have names from A to Z and

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I have two thousand names. And if you feel like

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you're going cuckoo on Long Island, well you're not. Bird

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watchers are all excited. Local birdwatchers spotted a cuckoo. No,

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a cuckoo is normally found from Europe to Japan. It

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winters primarily in Africa. It was spotted in Riverhead, so

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that's kind of out on the far end of Long Island,

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out by the Hampton's kind of sort of. The cuckoo

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was spotted by a golfer who sent the image to

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his nephew, who is an avid birder. The birder passed

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along to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca experts confirmed, yep,

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it's a cuckoo. Since then, the cuckoo has been logged

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more than two hundred times on the birding site e

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bird dot org. Experts aren't sure how it got there.

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They say it's juvenile, meaning it hatched earlier this year

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and likely became lost or blown off course during its

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migratory journey. Researchers say the common cuckoo has been documented

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only three other times in the eastern US and Canada.

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Jay who works at Cornell says this is definitely a

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major event for anyone birding in New York State and

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unusual enough for the broader region for a chance to

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see a bird they would otherwise be unlikely to see

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unless they went to Europe are Asia. If people see it,

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don't approach it, Leave it be, and those your five

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good news stories for today. Have a good day.