Aug. 4, 2026

Renew your vows on the Water Slide

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: John and Keisha renewed their vows atop a 60-foot water slide at Land of Natura Water Park while attempting Guinness records, including six slide trips in wedding attire, as part of a 30-day cross-country vow-renewal tour. Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin created a prototype jacket that pulls moisture from the air to produce about three-quarters to one and a half pints of drinkable water daily, with potential uses for outdoor and emergency gear. Scientists found two ultra-low-density “cotton candy” gas giants, TOI 791b and TOI 791c, orbiting a dwarf star 1,100 light years away in a 5:3 orbital resonance. SB Mowing’s Spencer helped senior Debbie by clearing her yard, paying back rent, and facilitating donations that reached $685,000 for a trust. After a NYC taxi was destroyed during Knicks celebrations, French Montana-backed fundraising raised over $75,000 for the driver.

00:10 Vow Renewal Records
01:04 Water From Air Jacket
01:49 Cotton Candy Planets
02:39 SB Mowing Helps Debbie
03:35 Taxi Driver Fundraiser

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Kalaroga Shark Media by there of Johnny Mack with five

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good News stories. Congratulations to John and Keisha. They renewed

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their wedding vows at the Land of natur Or water Park.

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They did it at the top of the water slide.

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It was part of their mission to break the Guinness

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World Record for most vow renewal ceremonies completed in thirty days.

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After saying I do atop the sixty foot tall water slide,

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they kept the celebration going by going down the slide

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six times in one hour while still wearing their wedding attire. That,

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of course, was an attempt to break another Guinness World record,

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most trips down a water slide in a wedding dress

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within one hour. Apparently the record is six. I feel

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like you could break that one if you want to.

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The couple says, the tour isn't just about breaking records,

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oh no, because it sounds like it is. Instead of

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hosting one traditional wedding, they're traveling across the country to

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celebrate with friends and family wherever they live. And if

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you know a record happens to get broken along the way,

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you know it might happen their next renewal will schedule

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to take place at a distillery in Kentucky. Let's see

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what the scientists are up to. Engineers at the University

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of Texas at Austin have developed a prototype jacket that

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can pull moisture from the air and turn it into

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drinkable water. I like it. The high tech fabric collects

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water vapor from the atmosphere and channels it into a

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detachable harvesting unit. Those units are then placed into a

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small foldable collector and gently heated, releasing clean drinking water.

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The jacket can produce between about three quarters of a

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pint and one and a half pints of water each day.

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The tech could one day benefit hikers, campers, runners, agricultural workers,

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military personnel, and disaster response teams, anyone working where clean

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water is difficult to find. The researchers hope the technology

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will eventually be built into backpacks, tense emergency shelters, and

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other outdoor gear. Sounds really cool. Different scientists have discovered

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two extraordinary planets that are almost as large as Jupiter

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but so light they're actually less dense than cotton candy.

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Planets TOI seven nine to one b E TOI seven

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nine to one c orbit a small dwarf star about

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eleven hundred light years from the Earth. You'll find it

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in the constellation Volands. Although there are giant gas planets,

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each has an incredibly low density. Scientists say they're between

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twenty eight and thirty five times less dense than Jupiter,

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making them among the fluffiest planets ever discovered. Researchers believe

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the two worlds formed together and are locked in a

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rare orbital dance. For every five trips the inner planet

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makes around the star, the outer planet completes almost exactly three.

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Their gravitational pull on one another creates tiny changes in

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their orbits that allowed scientists to calculate their masses. Scientists

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are still trying to understand how the super puff planets formed.

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Spencer is the creator behind the popular sb mowing social

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media channel. He was contacted after an Uber driver told

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him about Debbie. Debbie is a senior who had fallen

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behind on rent and was struggling to make ends meet.

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She had a run of bad lock. She had been

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caring for her husband, who had cancer. He passed away.

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Then she lost money to a contractor who never completed

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promised work. Hey She had her hard damage by a

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neighbor who didn't pay for repairs and eventually fell three

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months behind on rent. So Spencer, the guy with the

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social media channel, found out about this and spent two

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days clearing her overgrown yard. Then helped her avoid the

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burden of holding a yard sale by taking items she

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planned to sell. He took those items to Habitat for

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Humanity and brought her the proceeds. His nonprofit sb mowe

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at Forward also paid Debbie's overdue rent. Then there was

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a go fundme. More than thirty two thousand people donated,

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raising over listen to this number six hundred and eighty

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five thousand dollars. That money was placed into a trust

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for Debbie's benefit, providing long term financial security. Now as

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great as this New York City summer has been with

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the World Champion Knicks, some people had to act like jerks,

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and there was one New York City taxi driver whose

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cab was destroyed during the celebrations of the NIXT Championship.

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But tot was caught in the middle of the postgame celebrations.

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A crowd dragged him from his taxi, damaged the vehicle,

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and smashed its windows. What are you doing people. Among

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the people that saw the clips on social media was

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rapper French Montana, who said he wanted to help the driver.

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They launched a GoFundMe. More than two thousand people donated

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and raised over seventy five thousand dollars for the driver.

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Nice job there, and how about you know, next time

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the Knicks win the championship, which will of course be

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next summer, we don't act like hooligans. And those are

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your five good news stories for today. Have a great day.