Dec. 30, 2025

The $30,000 Pokeman Card

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Johnny Mac presents five uplifting news stories from Britain and beyond: A 63-year-old army veteran named Nick, suffering from COPD, arthritis, and PTSD, received a major surprise when a cleaning company owner cleared his overgrown backyard and raised about $14,000 for him via GoFundMe. In Norway, a hiker discovered an Iron Age reindeer trap that dates back between 500 AD and 500 BC. Conservationists in the Caribbean successfully boosted the population of the critically endangered lesser Antillean iguana on Anguilla's Prickly Pear East island. GameStop in Texas conducted its most valuable trade-in ever by paying a customer over $30,000 for a rare Pokemon card. In New York, a loose horse running along the Van Wick Expressway near JFK Airport was safely captured and returned to Curley's Cowboy Center.

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Caloroka Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. In Britain, a sixty three year old

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Army veteran has received a life changing act of kindness

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after cleaning company owner not only clear to his backyard

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for free was all overgrown, but surprised him with about

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fourteen thousand dollars in a car. Nick suffers from COPD

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arthritis and PTSD. He'd been unable to maintain the garden

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weeds had grown six to eight feet tall. Ben and

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his team spent two days clearing the jungle, replacing broken fixtures,

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cleaning gutters, and building vegetable beds. After learning of Nick's struggles,

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including losing his job when his car broke down and

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being unable to reach affordable groceries twelve miles away, Ben,

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who owns the cleaning service, launched to GoFundMe donations led

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to a surprise presentation of a check of around fourteen

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grand Nick described the moment as feeling like a five

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year old kid. On Christmas morning, the hiker in Norway

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discovered a one of a kind wild reindeer trap. It's

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the kind that iron age inhabitants would have used. To

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catch dinner, alongside the large wooden trap where hunting supplies

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and other artifacts. They're not exactly sure whether this is

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from It's somewhere between five hundred ady and five hundred BCS,

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so that's a thousand years. But the Norwegian Iron Age

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was characterized by a settlement of various fewords by wealthy

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individuals on expansion in the organized hunting of wild reindeer,

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consisting of two parallel fences made of many wooden cut logs.

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Their appearance above an ice sheet startled a local hiker

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named Helge. The hiker called the museum to come investigate.

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Excavations revealed that the reindeer killed trap aided hunters by

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funneling the animals through a narrow, predictable passage where they

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could be shot with arrows. Good news for the lesser

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Antillean iguana, You and the other iguanas are back from

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the brink of extinction. The species is critically endangered, with

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fewer than twenty thousand adults left across the Eastern largely

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due to invasive green iguanas that outcompete them and spread

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deadly diseases. By twenty sixteen, the invasive iguanas were overrunning

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the main island of Anguilla. Conservationists there had to locate

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the last twenty three native iguanas to predator free Prickly

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Pair East right so to prevent inbreeding, conservation teams partnered

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with Foresty, Wildlife and Parks Division in Dominica and agreed

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to send ten young iguanas to boost genetic diversity. Less

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than five years later, well that worked out. There's now

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more than three hundred adult and adolescent iguanas on Prickly Beast,

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making it one of only five locations worldwide where the

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species is stable and growing. Game Stop announced a customer

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in Texas traded in a Pokemon trading card in the

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most valuable single trade in ever recorded in GameStop history.

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How much Johnny Mack thirty four and ninety four dollars

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and seventy cents. The cord is a fully authenticated PSA

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ten halo gangar No idea what any of that means,

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but I just read it. The card was put through

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the required inspection, verification and compliance procedures, who was found

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to have a fair market valuation of thirty three, eight

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hundred and eighty three dollars. The store paid the customer

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thirty thousand, four ninety four to seventy. Critics were like, hey,

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you paid thirty three hundred dollars under fair market value.

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What's up with that? GameStop wanted none of that, They said.

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Any trolls who publicly claimed that GameStop trade and values

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are bad are hereby factually and demonstrably incorrect. Any prior

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in ongoing objections to our trade values are now deemed

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without merit and factually invalid. And good news if you

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lost your horse over by Kennedy Airport, the port authority

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has successfully captured a loose horse that was found running

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along the Vanwick Expressway. Now, if you're from New York

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City or the area, you're like, wait what, And if

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you're like, what's the Vanwick Expressway, It's where George Costanza

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got stuck on the Seinfeld episode trying to get to

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the airport. It's notorious. It's always backed up. Right now,

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it's backed up. I don't even know when you're listening

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to this, is it? Three of them more? Where you are,

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it's backed up. Lieutenant Louise and Officer Nicholas, we're on duty.

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Reports came in of a horse darting through traffic near

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JFK Airport. Witness videos showed the horse running along the

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Vanwick Expressway and an airport exit ramp. Officer Nicholas was like,

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if somebody's probably riding a horse. Once officers got a

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closer look, they realized it was a loose horse with

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no saddle of reins, only a halter. They caught up

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with a horse. Lieutenant Luise stuck out his hand and

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the horse was like okay, and let him grab the halter.

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The horse had escaped from Curly's Cowboy Center. The horse

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was unharmed and returned to its home at Curly's Cowboy Center.

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Those are your five good news stories for today. You

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have a great day.