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

0:03 Callaroga shark media shunning back. I read ahead. I know what the first story is. That's why I'm laughing. Ay, I'm johnning back with five good news stories. A British woman had applied for a job back in nineteen seventy six. She wanted to be a motorcycle stunt rider. Well, Tizzy told the BBC. I always wondered why I never heard back about the job, and now I know why. The letter recently arrived back in her mailbox with a note at the top saying late delivery by the post office. Found behind a drawer only about fifty years late. I'll add the word oops. Tizzy said, how they found me when I've moved house fifty odd times and even moved countries four or five times as a mystery. It means so much to me to get it back all this time later. I remember very clearly sitting in my flat in London typing the letter. Every day. I looked for my post but there was nothing there, and I was so disappointed because I really really wanted to be a stunt rider on a motorcycle. She's now seventy. You know, fifty years went by here, fifty despite not getting that job.

1:06 She went on to become a snake handler, an aerobatic pilot, and a flying instructor. The Royal Mail said, yeah, wait, no, no, what happened? It was probably found somewhere recently and put back in the mail. Congratulations to a goat he ran three miles of a local half marathon. Joshua the ten year old goat got excited when runners in the Conception Bay South Trailway Trek half marathon ran past Joshua the Goat's pumpkin patch. The details are what make these stories awesome. All right, So there's the ten year old goat, he's living there in his pumpkin patch, and a bunch of half marathoners run by. What happened, John Well, he broke free from his tether and he joined in the race.

1:48 Taylor the human said, Joshua the Goat ran about three miles. You know how Taylor found out about it. Facebook people were posting photos of a goat running in a half marathon, and Taylor was like, hey, Taylor caught up to Joshua the Goat and loaded him into the car. Wait, how slow is Joshua the goat or how fast is tailor? Taylor? Found out the goat was pretty popular, and jove Taylor to a spot about eight hundred feet from the finish line so the goat could complete the race. Now, hey, hey, I've run half marathons. I don't care if you're a goat. You gotta run all thirteen point one. I'm not giving credit here for three miles and then a ride to the finish line. That's not how these races work. Town officials said, join us and congratulations Joshua on his first ever race. You run the full thirteen, Joshua, then we'll talk.

2:34 Got another Guinness World record for you. What's this one, John? It's the world record for pulling a pair of cars thirty two miles and twenty four hours. Josh and James are brothers. They used to have the record back in twenty twenty one when they pulled cars side by side for distance of twenty two point eighteen miles. James said, what made our record different In the heart behind it, it wasn't about being the best. It was about being the best together, showing a sense of brotherhood and solid already over self self would have said, I want to be the best no matter what. But the way we did it together. That was our record. In Kansas City, the National World War One Museum and Memorial opened a one hundred year old time capsule. This one contained items including newspapers and a letter from President Coolidge. Time capsule was buried inside the museum's Liberty Memorial Tower nineteen twenty four, with instructions to open it in twenty twenty four, which must have seemed like the far off, distant science fiction future.

3:29 Right look at us, here we are now. Part of the problem was, you know, time capsules are buried. There were eighteen inches of limestone and concrete. Officials will say the presence of nitrate film and the container was another complication because nitrate is known to be highly flammable, all right, So they got it out. They opened it up. There was a copy of the Constitution, newspapers, a Bible, and a copy of the US Declaration of War from April nineteen seventeen. Also some letters, including one from Coolidge and several Allied commanders who had attended the Liberty Memorials nineteen twenty one groundbreaking ceremony. There were also some signatures from people the officials couldn't identify. They are believed to be members of the team who assembled the time capsule. All Right, your boss wants to know why you were late. Here's what you tell them. There was a first seal on the train tracks, so well, it don't help if you work in New Zealand, where this actually happened. The Department of Conservation set on social media commuter trains were delayed when the first seal was spot in the middle of the tracks in the suburbs of Wellington. The seal isn't an unusual site around Wellington, however, it was quite skinny and didn't seem phased by its predicament, which could indicate signs of fatigue. The Department of Conservation said the seal didn't need to catch the train in the end, as doc rangers gave it a ride to the South Coast, where were safely released away from people and dogs. And those are your five good news stories for today. Don't forget We've got a bunch of shows on the network, including Five Minutes of Gratitude if you want to start your morning with some mindfulness, Olivia's Got You Hooked Up Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

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