Off Campus Star Kidney Chain Hero, $1.9M for a Veteran, and Pigeons’ Liver Compass

0:03 Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnnie Mack The Five Good News Stories. Belmont Camelli is a twenty eight year old actor. You might know him from the Prime video series Off Campus. I know my daughter was watching that one. As the show got more popular, viewers noticed that Belmont has two small scars on his abdomen. Now come turns out those are from twenty eighteen when he donated a kidney. His childhood friend, Brendan went into kidney failure needed dialysis every single day. Camellie volunteered to be tested as a potential donor. The bad news he was not a match for his friend, but he found another option. He joined something called a paired kidney exchange program, where incompatible donor recipient pairs get matched with other people in similar situations.

0:48 Kamelli donated his kidney to a stranger would set off a chain reaction, a fourteen person transplant change that delivered new kidneys to seven different patients. At the time on Instagram yesterday, I was blessed with the opportunity and privilege to save a life. The fact of the matter is that most of us have two good kidneys, but thousands of people struggled to live day to day with only one failing kidney. Every day twenty people die waiting for a kidney transplant. His friend finally received the kidney he needed after six years of waiting. Kim Ellie said him so grateful to be part of this swap program involving fourteen people and blessing seven patients with new organs and brighter futures. Soon, my pain will disappear, my scars will fade away, but the love in my heart from this experience will forever remain ed. Bambas is an eighty eight year old veteran. Until recently, he was working as a cashier at a grocery store in Michigan. He retired from GM back in ninety nine, but after his wife passed away and after his pension was cut, he went back to work. An Internet creator, Samuel found Ed's story. Samuel has more than fifteen million followers across to Instagram at TikTok, and he'spilled his audience by finding people in need and doing something about it. So he set up a GoFundMe for Ed shared the story with his followers. Over sixty six thousand people donated. More than one point nine million dollars ED could finally retire. Ed said, when Sam first came into my life, I thought it was just being kind of one old man working at a grocery store.

2:06 I had no idea would turn into something that would touch so many people. The fundraiser changed my life, but would say with me. Even more was realizing how many strangers were willing to stop listening my story and help. The two have now teamed up for a campaign called four Year Service, a nationwide effort to help fifty veterans in fifty states. It launched on May first. They've already raised over a million dollars. Ed said, for me, it's personal. It's my way of saying to those veterans, I see you, I apprecure what you've done, and I want to pass along the kindness that was shown to me. I know what it feels like to work hard, to struggle quietly, and not want to ask anyone for help. A lot of veterans are like that. Scientists have been studying pigeons, and we have learned that pigeons navigate with their liver. For nearly one hundred years, researchers have been trying to figure out how pigeons find their way home. Humans have been taking advantage of that ability for thousands of years, using pigeons to carry news notes, military messages. And we've known for a long time that birds, fish, and turtle used the Earth's magnetic field as a built in compass, but nobody could decide how the pigeons were doing it.

3:02 Martin works for the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, and he said, the magnetic sense. That's been this mystery for almost one hundred years. So what they did was they temporarily striped pigeons of iron rich immune cells and then let the birds fly. The pigeons couldn't find their way. Take away those liver cells, take away the sense of direction. The immune cells sit right next to nerve fibers in the liver. Now, this is interesting. The magnetic compass seems to get scrambled on overcast days because pigeons also use the sun as a backup navigation system. In Michigan, every year at Airport High School, graduating seniors show for their last day of school in style, and by style we mean tractors and ATVs and golf carts.

3:43 It's called tractor Day. It's ped atradian since the nineteen eighties. This year, around one hundred and fifty seniors took part, rolling into the parking lot by seven thirty in the morning. Chase as a senior, He said, we're just a farm school. It's a tradition. Everybody's done up before us. We just carry it on. Chase showed up in a case three h five magnum and the same tractor as family uses to grow soybeans and corn. Austin showed up at a fully restored nineteen forty farm mall, a a tractor that originally belonged to his great great grandfather. And in Stone, Massachusetts, the police have a problem. Someone turned in a puppet to the police station. They need to find the owner. Now, when I say puppet, I don't mean a sock puppet or a hand puppet. This thing is seven and a half feet tall. It's an animatronic marionette with red hair, no eyes and a clown costume. No eyes, creepy and it's not like the eyes fell out. It's just a smooth face where the eyes should be. The stoneam pdee posted it on social media and said we're attempting to locate the owner of this puppet that was turned into the station. If this belongs to you, if you recognize it from your nightmares, please contact us to arrange pickup.

4:45 People on social media figured it out. Apparently it's a spirit Halloween product called Bobby Strings. It retails for about three hundred and ten bucks. If you're in the Stonham area and you're missing your creepy puppet, contact the local PD. And those are your five good news stories for today. Have a good one.