Humpback Whales - they're pretty cool dudes

0:03 Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Now. Apparently humpback whales are pretty cool. Alan is an underwater photographer. He takes pictures of the whales. He says, I've been bumped, rolled, whacked over, coupled by wales. I've had whales follow me to the boat. Wales have their own language. He told a story that he was swimming in the water and this mother humpback saw me. I thought something was wrong. She came over to me and started to try to lift me up out of the water so I could breathe. Apparently the mother humpback reacted the way she would with a young lan, saying they do it with their calves. When their calves are born, they can't swim, so they lift them up to breathe.

0:46 Good news for a dog who survived the Texas floods by hiding in a washing machine. Cody told the local news his families at home had been flooded with waste high water in just twenty minutes. He didn't have time to look for the dog before going a higher ground. He's not being a jerk, he said. I had to break my window and When I climbed through, I heard scratching and a wimp. I turned my head around the corner and I saw him just floating in the water. Got another message in a bottle for you, John and Kate. John and Kate found one of these bottles. It was a note from Anita and Brad. John and Kate were walking in County Carey, Ireland. They found a bottle in it a note from Anita and Brad recounting a cherished evening they had spent dining on bell Island in Canada.

1:27 The message read, Anita and Brad's day trip to Belle Island. Today. We enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other on the edge of the island. To found, please call us with a phone number. Thirteen years later, the bottle shows up in Ireland. The number wasn't good, but they checked Facebook. Anita responded, revealing that she and Brad had gotten married four years after sending the bottle. Yes, they live in Newfoundland. Brad said, we were just young people in love. We're now older people in love. We're glad that the story got out. We're meeting new friends because of it, and hopefully we'll get back to Ireland soon been a pretty whirlwind forty eight hours. It was Monday night. I was putting our young son to bed. My phone was ding ding ding ding, which was really unusual. Then I can hear Anita laughing the other room. I came out and she was like, you're not gonna believe this.

2:11 That's awesome. In nineteen sixty six, the Beatles made a video for their song Rien. In it, They're in a tree Now. The tree is a finalist in the UK's Tree of the Year contest. The tree is nominated in the theme being Rooted in Culture. The Lebanese Cedar was planted in seventeen twenty. Other people who have visited the tree include Queen Victoria, the Sar of Russia, and the Shah of Persia. Woodland Trust saw cultural references from as far back as the sixteenth century to the tree. They think it might be a thousand years old. Wow. Branches of the tree were regularly cut back to encourage new growth, resulting in several huge digits extending in different directions. A nice job by Jerry's Cafe in Arlington Heights. If you visit Jerry's Cafe, you can grant breakfast and lunch, sandwiches, soups, salads, muffins, scones, brownies, large chocolate chip cookies. They've also, for two years been employing adults with intellectual and development disabilities. Co founder Amy said it's been an adventure. The success of Jerry's is truly our employees, our management, and our volunteers. It's time and treasure, but it's all for the growth and development of our employees. The cafe is named for Ann to Jerylyn, who was born with Down syndrome in nineteen fifty eight and died shortly before her fourth birthday. The business employees thirty five adults with disabilities between the ages of twenty two and fifty two. They work independently as barista's cashiers, greeters, baker's dishwashers, and sandwich and salad makers. Co founder Natalie Griffin said it's been a lot of marketing and trying

3:43 to get people to stop at Jerry's knowing that we're more than just coffee, that we do have a mission on a purpose and we're supporting Jerry's Cafe instead of Panera and Jimmy Jones. You're giving jobs to people who have been overlooked in the past. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption. If you're on Apple Podcast, click the banner it says Uninterrupted Listening. Five bucks a month you get this show daily comedy news which I howe seven days a week. Palace Intrigued Taylor Swift Today, five daily trivia questions, and a bunch of others, all without commercial interruption. All right, appreciate you listening. Have a great day.