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June 18, 2026

Ricky Gervais Donkey, McDonald’s Hacks, Professional Queuer, Found Cash, and Record Guacamole

Ricky Gervais Donkey, McDonald’s Hacks, Professional Queuer, Found Cash, and Record Guacamole
Ricky Gervais Donkey, McDonald’s Hacks, Professional Queuer, Found Cash, and Record Guacamole
5 Good News Stories
Ricky Gervais Donkey, McDonald’s Hacks, Professional Queuer, Found Cash, and Record Guacamole

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Safe Haven for Donkeys named a foal “Gervase” after Ricky Gervais donated £100,000 as part of £2.5 million split among 22 animal charities; the charity treats donkeys across Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and parts of Egypt, and rescued a pregnant donkey, Debra, who gave birth at its Israel sanctuary. A McDonald’s employee says the drive-thru is usually faster due to timed metrics, suggests ordering a double cheeseburger “dressed like a Big Mac” for less, and says some locations may give away leftover hash browns near 11 a.m. A 23-year-old professional queuer, AJ, charges about £250 to stand in lines. A Jacksonville furniture restoration couple found $600 and a gold coin in a dresser. Mexico’s Avocado Festival set a Guinness record making 14,991 pounds of guacamole.

00:10 Donkey Named Gervais
01:10 McDonalds Speed Hacks
02:32 Paid Line Standers
03:35 Cash Hidden In Dresser
04:26 Guacamole World Record
04:50 Wrap Up And Goodbye

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0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. A donkey charity has named a donkey after Ricky Gervais. Why Ricky donated one hundred thousand pounds to help them with their work. Safe Haven for Donkeys was one of twenty two animal charities to benefit from a share of two and a half million pounds that Ricky Gervais has donated. The charity cares for donkeys in Israel, West Bank, Gozen parts of Egypt. They've been treating thousands of donkeys in the Gaza Strip, where a lack of fuel has forced people to rely on them as their main form of transport. Tiny foal named Jervase was born at the charity sanctuary in Israel. Her mother, Deborah, had been found abandoned in the desert. Deborah was around seven months pregnant and had no one to care for her.

0:48 A local woman contacted Safe Haven for Donkeys after finding Debor near her home. That same evening, Debra was transported to Safe Haven's sanctuary in Israel. Andy Is the chief executive for Safe Hay for Donkeys and said when Deborah arrived she was heavily pregnant and had no one to care for her. To see her now safe and calm with her fall beside her is incredibly moving. Gervais is full of life and already showing off her first teeth. Do you like McDonald's I know not everyone does. I'm a big McDonald's fan because anytime I go to Europe, I get thirsty, and in Europe it's hard to find either a cold drink or a big drink, and McDonald's will sell you both. So I'm a big European McDonald's fan. Emily has worked at two separate McDonald's and she has answered some of the questions. The big question, should you go in or should you go to the drive through?

1:34 Which is actually faster? Emily says the drive through is actually faster because it operates on a timer system that tracks how long it takes from the moment your car pulls up to the speaker to the moment you drive away with your food. They also post the results inside, and she says we would make this a sport to try to get the number down so people tend to care more about the drive through. Interesting if he also has a hack if you want a big Mac without the Big Mac price, she says, Order a double cheeseburger and ask them to dress it like a big Mac. That means big Mac sauce. Let us the works. All the additions like let us in Big Mac Sauce are free, so you get the same amount of meat and it's half the price. Good hack there. Also, if you'd like free hash browns, she says, walk into a McDonald's kind of as they're wrapping up the breakfast menu around eleven in the morning. Some locations will give away the leftover hash browns rather than throw them out. You just have to ask nicely. I'll give you that same note at Dunkin Donuts in the evening. Sometimes when they're wrapping up for the night, they'll give you some extra donuts if you buy one right. Here's a job professional line stander.

2:35 Inner They call it a professional cuer. But you know a guy who stands in line. He's AJ. He's twenty three years old. He gets paid to stand in line for other people, concert tickets, product launches, pop up stores, grand openings. If there's a line, AJ will stand in it, he says. I will cue for absolutely anything. For his first job, he showed up at eight pm for a nine am store opening, and found one hundred people already in line and anything with them. No food, no water, no coat. He had a small folding chair and that was it. He ended up ordering a pizza, but he loves it. He says. Instead of dreading thirteen hours of standing around, I ended up playing games with people like charades and heads up. I realized how terrible I was a general trivia. It was good. It was quite exciting.

3:17 Now he got tips from regulars who showed up in pajamas and sleeping bags. He said, it's like a whole living room setup. It's pretty crazy. So these days he's more prepared, better chair, sleeping, mad food, drinks. The works charges around two hundred and fifty pounds and says two point fifty for essentially not doing anything is good money. Good news for a couple who run a furniture restoration studio will be called Heirloom House in Jacksonville, Florida. They got an old dresser standard stuff for them. They restore and refurnish the old furniture. Then they noticed something wedged between two pieces of wood. It was a bundle of cash. They got out the camera started filming on TikTok. The husband sees it first says that's a good bit of money.

3:57 The wife says, I think that might be a twenty. They get the bundle loose with a screwdriver and they find a fifty then at the center of the bundle, one hundred dollars bill. Wife says, holy cow. The final tally ten to fifty dollars bills, one one hundred dollars bill. That adds up to how much everybody? Six hundred dollars? That's right. They also found a gold coin and a plastic protective case with a cartoon dragon on one side. They think it is a Chinese good luck coin of some kind. The husband said it's fake, but it's cool and congratulations to the folks. At the thirteenth annual Avocado Festival in Mexico, more than one thousand local growers and residents came together and mixed up fourteen nine hundred and ninety one pounds of guacamole in under two and a half hours. That is a gidness world record, beating the previous record of nine hundred and sixty one pounds set in twenty twenty two. The avocado growers are also proud.

4:49 It was a historic season and more than two point five billion pounds of Mexican avocados reached the US market. And those are your five good news stories for today. Have a great day.