April 16, 2026

Gravedigger retires at age 92

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Johnny Mac shares five stories: Alan, a grave digger at Galveston Cemetery in Indiana, is retiring at 92 after setting a Guinness World Record for 73 years and 75 days on the job, a role he began as a one-week fill-in in 1952; a Flaming Hot Cheeto shaped like the Pokémon Charizard (“Cheeto-ard”) sold at auction for $87,840 after being bought on eBay for $350; Gloria, a 62-year-old immigrant from Barbados and Florida waitress, has served over 270,000 meals to people experiencing homelessness since 2012, reaching up to 600 during COVID; Kentucky authorities warn the public not to approach a loose emu named Mystery; and a truck spill of hundreds of gallons of syrup shut down westbound I-10 in California for about nine hours.

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

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good news stories. Congratulations to Alan. He holds the world's

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record for most years digging graves, the record seventy three years.

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Alan is retiring at age ninety two after digging graves

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at Galveston Cemetery in Indiana for seventy three years and

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seventy five days. He got the job after covering the

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shift of the previous guy who was supposed to cover

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for a week back in nineteen fifty two. It turned

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into a career and by twenty twenty one he had

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the record for longest career as a grave digger. Previous

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record sixty eight years, one hundred ninety one days. His

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son Dean, said he was planning on digging for a

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few more weeks, but after a spell of not feeling well,

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we believe he's accepted his decision, both mentally and physically.

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Alan is feeling better. In case you're curious, the Auguinness

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World Record said the auction of the cheetahzard has resulted

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in a new record. Now, if you're like, what's a cheetosard,

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obviously it is a flaming hot cheeto shaped like the

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Pokemon Cherizard, the cheetosard was auctioned off for eighty seven thousand,

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eight hundred and forty dollars, proving someone has too much

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money or maybe they don't anymore. That earned the record

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for highest price paid for a video game Likeness corn

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Snack Dave is the head of consignment for Golden Auctions.

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He said, part of what makes this item so fun

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and unique is it bridges two fandoms, Pokemon and Cheetos.

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The Cheeto was originally purchased on eBay by Paul for

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three hundred and fifty dollars, and I'll remind you he

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sold it for eighty seven, eight hundred and forty dollars.

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Who bought that. I don't know. Nice job by a

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waitress in Florida. Gloria has quietly built one of the

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most impactful grassroots feeding operations in the country, serving more

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than two hundred and seventy thousand meals to people experiencing

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homelessness since twenty twelve. Gloria is a sixty two year

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old immigrant from Barbados. She started small cooking out of

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her home and four Lauderdale with whatever she could afford

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from her waitress salary. She said, I started with buying

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a little bit of spaghetti and ground beef, and I

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started with forty meals. The next week, I went to sixty,

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then eighty. Before you knew it, it was two hundred meals

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every weekend. Today she purchases large quantities of chicken, fish,

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fresh produce, rice, bread, and bottled water, enough to feed

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one hundred and seventy five to two hundred people regularly.

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At the peak during COVID, she was serving up to

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six hundred meals. She says, when it's cold, wendy, raining

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doesn't matter, we have to show up. A warning from

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the hardin County Sheriff's office, Please do not try to

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approach or catch the emu. Authorities in Kentucky have said,

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Mystery the emu got loose when storms knocked down her

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shelter in her fence. Mystery the emu escaped from the

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owner's property on Salt River Road, you know the place.

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The police said, Please do not try to approach or

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catch her. EMUs will run if frightened, which makes it

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harder for her owner to safely get her home. At

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the time of this recording, I have no update on

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the emu name mystery. It remains mystery, all right, John,

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Why relead for work this time? Well? Yeah, see, boss,

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and I was driving there on the itin in California

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and suddenly this truck turns over and spilled syrup all

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over the road. Yeah no, this happened. Boston closed the

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highway for like nine hours. Hundreds of gallons of syrup

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were spilled all over the tin coltrans showed up. They

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tried to use an absorbent material to clean up the syrup,

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but it was too sticky, so they had to bring

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a water truck to hose down the roadway. The westbound

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lanes were closed for like nine hours, and they didn't

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open up the lanes until eight pm. So that's why

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I was late. And those are five good news stores

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for today. I have a good one.