April 19, 2025

Judy Drench (The Lost Episodes)

Show Notes
Transcript

In this bonus episode of 'The Lost Five Good News Stories,' host Johnny Mack uncovers 5 Good Things in the news including he recovery of $8 million lost in a cryptocurrency scam, a professor's reunion with his ring lost 47 years ago, and the winners of the 2024 Comedy Wildlife Awards. Johnny also shares a tale of hikers rescuing a woman with a broken leg and a firetruck naming competition.

00:00 Introduction and Rediscovered Scripts
00:29 Courtroom Drama: Recovered Life Savings
01:22 Lost Ring Found After 47 Years
02:25 Comedy Wildlife Awards Finalists
03:23 Rescue on the Mountain
04:39 Naming the Firetruck

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with another

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episode of the Lost five Good News Stories. So what

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happened here is I opened up my file on my computer,

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which is called Good News twenty four, and I was

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just cleaning up the computer and I noticed a bunch

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of scripts that I never actually recorded for one reason

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or another. So I thought I'd dust them off and

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do some bonus episodes on Saturday. So when we were

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not recording in twenty twenty four, a Wichita courtroom had

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rang out with sobs and cheers when over two dozen

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people learned that their life savings had been recovered after

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being lost by the local bank. Yeah, over eight million

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dollars in funds were returned after the FBI located and

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seized a cryptocurrency wallet linked to an account in the

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Cayman Islands. This sounds like a movie. The bank's founder

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claims he had unintentionally lost it all by investigating in

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a sophisticated cryptocurrency scam. What kind of bank is the

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I'll tell you what kind. It's the kind where you

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lose your defense and you get twenty four years in

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prison for defrauding depositors and investors. The judge told the

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shareholders one by one they were going to be made

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entirely whole again after the FBI's Financial Crimes Division located

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the cryptocurrency account. Financial experts for mind, you'd make certain

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you understand the risks before any investment. Always good advice. There,

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a Canadian professor lost his ring while swimming in Barbados. However,

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forty seven years later, the man celebrated his eighty third

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birthday by putting the ring on again after it was

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found by a free diver. Oh my, the professor says.

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One day I took my younger son and waited into

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the ocean. He was knocked over by waves. I reached

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to grab all of him. He pulled on my hand

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and my mac alumni ring came off. We searched for it,

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but we were unsuccessful. He had received the ring in

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nineteen sixty five when he graduated from the Faculty of Science.

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Fast forward to twenty twenty four, when Johnny mack forgot

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to record this script, something unbelievable happened. Here's where it

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gets even more crazy. There was another MacMaster University scholar

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visiting Barbados, and that guy brought along an underwater metal detector.

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The free diver Alex found the ring. Luckily, the ring

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was engraved with the year nineteen sixty five and the

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initials FMP. That turned out to be Frederick Morgan Perigo,

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who is the aforementioned professor pretty cool. Back in twenty

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twenty four, when Johnny Mack forgot to record this lost script,

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we had the finalists for the twenty twenty four Comedy

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Wildlife Awards. The finalists included a smiling elephant seal, an

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otter holding its feet up in the post of a guru,

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a cheetah playing hide and seek, and a squirrel stuck

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head first in the nhole of a tree. Other images

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a raccoon appearing to whisper into a fellow raccoon's ear,

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a fish chasing an eagle across the sky, in a

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frog whose head is enveloped by a large bubble in

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the water. Now, had I told you about this, you

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would have been able to vote. But since I didn't

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tell you about it, let's look up who won your

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winner is. I'm tempted a Ryan seacrushed you and do

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it after the break, but I won't. I'll tell you now.

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Stuck squirrel Oh, this is so sad, not funny at all.

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You see a tree with a hole in it, and

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the squirrel is sideways but his legs are out sideways.

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Oh my, go to a comedywildlife photo dot com and

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a couple of those sub things you'll find it. Oh,

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poor squirrel. A woman broke her leg while hiking. She

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was rescued by a trio of young men who carried

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her all the way down the mountain on their backs. Wow.

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Ursula was out there doing a three point two mile hike.

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Her goal was to get to the place where she

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had scattered her mother's ashes twenty three years before. But

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Ursula is seventy nine now. She made it to the top,

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left some flowers, and heading down, stepped in a hole, fell,

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broke her foot, cried out for help. Three young hikers

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came to her side, called nine to one one. The

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search and rescue team said we'll be there in five hours. Yikes.

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Troy is an Air Force airman, was hiking up to

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look out with his fiance and a friend. Ursula's like,

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got any painkillers and they were like nope. So Airman

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Troy May told The Washington Post, I knew I was

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capable of carrying her down. I really didn't make much

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of a decision. I just knew I needed to carry

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her down if I could. He strapped her on his

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back and he started walking down three quarters of the

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one point eight miles that remained on the journey. On

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the way, they passed occupational therapist Emily, who helped Ursula

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with some breathing exercises and why this is amazing, and

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physical therapist Tim, who splintered her leg. I probably should

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have recorded this story last year. We would have all

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enjoyed it. Ursula wound up with eleven screws and a

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titanium plate. And they had a naming competition for a

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fire truck. Fifteen hundred different names for the truck were submitted,

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sixty seven hundred people voted. The nominees were Fred for

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fire rescue, emergency deployment. That's pretty good, Judy Drench, spraying mantis,

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the New Zealand words for water in abundance, and the

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words for fire warrior. Who do you think one? That's

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right Judy Drench sixty two percent of the votes. The

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airport traier person said, and just like the Grand Damu

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inspired the winning name, we're looking forward to our Judy

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Drench having a long instellar career at Hawke's Bay Airport,

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And those are your five good news lost stories for today.

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Back tomorrow with a normal episode.