Shake It Off! How Taylor Swift's music is teaching kids math! A man solves how to deal with that annoying person kicking your seat on the plane!

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. He good news for me. I'm going to see Taylor Swift tomorrow night. Yeah. Did I sell the ticke us from fifteen hundred dollars? I did not. I'm going to see the concert, but I'm hoping she doesn't start teaching us the timetables. You see, there's a teacher who's using Taylor Swift Shake it Off to teach math to children. What are you doing? Mister C has gone viral. He rewrote Taylor Swift Shake it Off lyrics to include multiplications. The new version is called count by eight. Students sing along to the iconic shake it Off while learning their times tables. The lyrics start and I'm not going to sing it. I can count by eight. Got so much of my brain eight sixteen twenty four four four four eight sixteen twenty four four four four mm. You can sing it yourself. Oh you want more lyrics?

0:50 Okay, thirty two forty but wait there's also forty eight, fifty six and sixty four. All right, I'm stopping. Want to watch the video. Look up at teach with mister C. He said his students are so hype for the RAS's tour. This is not his first math themed song. He previously taught geometry by singing along to Adele's Hello those lyrics, and I'm not gonna sing Hello from the other side. We never touch, We're parallel lines. Okay. This next story heartbreaking. It ends, okay, but we're gonna go on and down or here? All right. I read this and I was like, oh man, all right. Poor German shepherd Nikki spent months wandering the streets after her owner passed away. Even more heartbreaking, the dog was seen clutching at teddy bear in her mouth. There's pictures on the internet. I was like, I just wanted to cry looking at this thing.

1:41 Nicky made her way to South Leone Murphy Lost Animal Recovery. One of the rescue workers said, we have a name for him, Nicky, who honors Nicholas, Who's a young man that left us too soon. Nicky's owner died and was dumped with his teddy Bear. Struck with grief and loneliness, Nikki carries the teddy bear around everywhere. This is heartbreaking. Nikki has been matched with a foster family who have vowed to spoil her rotten until a new owner is found speaking in Nicky's voice. A rescue worker from Almost Home said, just checking in and let you know him with the best foster couple ever. One's name is Danny, the other one's name is Mommy. It was in really rough shape in the beginning. You see, I have heartworm disease. I also have a lot of other medical issues. But I'm seeing the vet, so I hope I can be the best I can. Good luck to you, Nicky. All right, now that I brought you down, let me bring you back up. A man took to social media to share the quote petty revenge. He took on an obnoxious plane passenger who wouldn't stop kicking his seat. All right, we're all in a good mood now, because like, yeah, what'd you do? So? The man said on Reddit. I turned around on my seat about four times to ask another passenger, could you hate your touch screen gently? Instead of banging it? She kept stabbing the screen and headrest while not giving a hoots. I clean that up a little. Each time I asked her to take care, you just stared at me in silence. After the fourth time, she replied, just deal with it. This is about a third of away into a thirteen hour flight, so he gave another passenger fifty bucks to mess with her. He at On my next bathroom break, I went up to the young man seated behind her and showed him a message I wrote on my notesap and said, the ladies sitting in front of you is playing whackam all with my head rest.

3:08 I'll give you fifty bucks if you mess with her for at least an hour. The guy laughed and nodded. About an hour later, I heard commotion behind me. The woman was saying quit it. The young man pretended to be asleep with his headphones on while purposely hitting her seat while readjusting. He just ignore her. When she finally got up and tapped him, he made a fuss about it, waking up in confusion, offered apologies, and continued on readjusting his feet every so often for what seemed like the rest of the flight. Upon exiting, I waited the gate for him, and he waved away my offer to pay him. Really nice guy. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews. I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in fiction is led by four longtime friends, The four of us with more than seventy five published books between us. Through end depth conversations and interviews, we discussed the books we've written, the books we're reading, and the art of storytelling. We are here with endless stories to support indie bookstores, authors, librarians and readers just like you. We are always seeking innovative ways to introduce dynamic voices and trends in publishing. On this channel, you will find hundreds of episodes with some of your favorite authors, including the four of us with our new releases. As we reveal the stories behind the stories, offer writing tips and talk about the creation of novels, memoirs, and nonfiction titles. So if you love books and you're curious

4:39 about the writing world, you are in the right place. You can listen to Friends and Fiction on any major streaming platform. This next stories a little naughty, so you might want to switch off the podcast if your kids are sitting next to you. A woman said she had no choice but to give her loud neighbors a note and a peace offering after she was kept up all night by their enthusiastic bedroom noises. Yeah, you know what was going on? In the other room. Ali just wanted to sleep, and she shared the note she wrote to them, which said, hey, neighbors, just a friendly reminder that the walls between our houses are much thinner than you might think. Congrats to you guys for your apparently very healthy sex life. Seriously good for you. However, I'd prefer not to be pored of it, and I'm sure you'd both prefer that as well. I plaud you both for your stamina. However, it's got another point that it's interfering with my sleep schedule, so I figured it was time to say something. Please accept these beers as a peace offering. I was hoping there might be enough to persuade you to maybe move your bed to the other side of the room. Apparently it has worked, and this next story I write for a podcast called Palace Intrigue. We cover the British royal family. I have seen this story in the past, but it resurfaced recently and it's a good one. Queen Elizabeth was quite funny. So one time the Queen was out walking on her Scottish estate and ran into some tourists. The tourists did not recognize the queen because she was kind of dressed down. As a story goes, two American hikers

6:14 were walking and they ran into the queen and they said hello. And the American man asked the woman, the queen, if she lived in the area, and the queen said, yeah, she has a house nearby. She said she lived in London, but also as a house you know over there over the hill. Any queen in disguise said she'd be coming up here for more than eighty years. The American starts thinking, goes, well, if you've been coming up here for eighty years, you must have met the queen. And the queen says, well, I haven't, and she points at her security guarden goes, but Dick meets with her regularly. So the guy asked Dick the security guard what the queen is like, and the security guard said, I was with her a long time. I could pull her legs, so I said. She could be very contankerous at times, but she's got a lovely sense of humor. Next thing, the guy comes around, puts his arm around the guard's shoulder, and before he could see what's happened, he gave his camera to the queen and asked her to take a photo of this, I swapped places that I took a photo of them with the Queen, and we never told them who she was. Can you imagine those people get home and they're showing everybody their photo and they're like, you realize that's the Queen. Those are five good news stories for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube you who have a great day.