Dec. 20, 2024

Lost Job Application from 1976 and a Half-Marathon Goat (who cheated!)

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five feel-good stories. A British woman receives a job application response 50 years late, a goat named Joshua runs a part of a half marathon, two brothers break a Guinness World Record by pulling cars, a 100-year-old time capsule is opened in Kansas City, and a fur seal causes train delays in New Zealand. Tune in for these heartwarming stories and more good news.

00:15 Lost Job Application from 1976
01:18 Marathon Goat's Unexpected Race
02:34 Brothers Break Car-Pulling Record
03:06 Opening a 100-Year-Old Time Capsule
04:12 Seal Delays Train in New Zealand

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Callaroga shark media shunning back. I read ahead. I know

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what the first story is. That's why I'm laughing. Ay,

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I'm johnning back with five good news stories. A British

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woman had applied for a job back in nineteen seventy six.

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She wanted to be a motorcycle stunt rider. Well, Tizzy

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told the BBC. I always wondered why I never heard

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back about the job, and now I know why. The

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letter recently arrived back in her mailbox with a note

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at the top saying late delivery by the post office.

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Found behind a drawer only about fifty years late. I'll

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add the word oops. Tizzy said, how they found me

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when I've moved house fifty odd times and even moved

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countries four or five times as a mystery. It means

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so much to me to get it back all this

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time later. I remember very clearly sitting in my flat

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in London typing the letter. Every day. I looked for

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my post but there was nothing there, and I was

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so disappointed because I really really wanted to be a

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stunt rider on a motorcycle. She's now seventy. You know,

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fifty years went by here, fifty despite not getting that job.

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She went on to become a snake handler, an aerobatic pilot,

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and a flying instructor. The Royal Mail said, yeah, wait, no, no,

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what happened? It was probably found somewhere recently and put

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back in the mail. Congratulations to a goat he ran

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three miles of a local half marathon. Joshua the ten

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year old goat got excited when runners in the Conception

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Bay South Trailway Trek half marathon ran past Joshua the

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Goat's pumpkin patch. The details are what make these stories awesome.

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All right, So there's the ten year old goat, he's

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living there in his pumpkin patch, and a bunch of

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half marathoners run by. What happened, John Well, he broke

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free from his tether and he joined in the race.

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Taylor the human said, Joshua the Goat ran about three miles.

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You know how Taylor found out about it. Facebook people

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were posting photos of a goat running in a half marathon,

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and Taylor was like, hey, Taylor caught up to Joshua

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the Goat and loaded him into the car. Wait, how

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slow is Joshua the goat or how fast is tailor? Taylor?

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Found out the goat was pretty popular, and jove Taylor

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to a spot about eight hundred feet from the finish

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line so the goat could complete the race. Now, hey, hey,

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I've run half marathons. I don't care if you're a goat.

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You gotta run all thirteen point one. I'm not giving

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credit here for three miles and then a ride to

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the finish line. That's not how these races work. Town

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officials said, join us and congratulations Joshua on his first

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ever race. You run the full thirteen, Joshua, then we'll talk.

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Got another Guinness World record for you. What's this one, John?

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It's the world record for pulling a pair of cars

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thirty two miles and twenty four hours. Josh and James

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are brothers. They used to have the record back in

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twenty twenty one when they pulled cars side by side

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for distance of twenty two point eighteen miles. James said,

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what made our record different In the heart behind it,

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it wasn't about being the best. It was about being

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the best together, showing a sense of brotherhood and solid

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already over self self would have said, I want to

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be the best no matter what. But the way we

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did it together. That was our record. In Kansas City,

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the National World War One Museum and Memorial opened a

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one hundred year old time capsule. This one contained items

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including newspapers and a letter from President Coolidge. Time capsule

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was buried inside the museum's Liberty Memorial Tower nineteen twenty four,

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with instructions to open it in twenty twenty four, which

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must have seemed like the far off, distant science fiction future.

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Right look at us, here we are now. Part of

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the problem was, you know, time capsules are buried. There

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were eighteen inches of limestone and concrete. Officials will say

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the presence of nitrate film and the container was another

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complication because nitrate is known to be highly flammable, all right,

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So they got it out. They opened it up. There

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was a copy of the Constitution, newspapers, a Bible, and

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a copy of the US Declaration of War from April

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nineteen seventeen. Also some letters, including one from Coolidge and

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several Allied commanders who had attended the Liberty Memorials nineteen

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twenty one groundbreaking ceremony. There were also some signatures from

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people the officials couldn't identify. They are believed to be

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members of the team who assembled the time capsule. All Right,

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your boss wants to know why you were late. Here's

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what you tell them. There was a first seal on

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the train tracks, so well, it don't help if you

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work in New Zealand, where this actually happened. The Department

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of Conservation set on social media commuter trains were delayed

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when the first seal was spot in the middle of

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the tracks in the suburbs of Wellington. The seal isn't

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an unusual site around Wellington, however, it was quite skinny

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and didn't seem phased by its predicament, which could indicate

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signs of fatigue. The Department of Conservation said the seal

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didn't need to catch the train in the end, as

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doc rangers gave it a ride to the South Coast,

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where were safely released away from people and dogs. And

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those are your five good news stories for today. Don't

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