Aug. 14, 2025

The $87,840 Cheeto

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In this episode, Johnny Mack shares five heartwarming and intriguing stories. We learn about the world's oldest llama, White Top Deron, who comforts children with chronic illnesses at North Carolina's Victory Junction Camp. A New Zealand military chaplain reunites a fallen sergeant's lost medals with his family. In the Czech Republic, a record-breaking 2,461 participants take part in a polar bear dip. A Burger King in local honors a late regular by engraving his name on his favorite chair. Lastly, a Cheeto shaped like the Pokémon Charizard is auctioned for an astounding $87,840.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mac and the

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world's oldest yama is getting it done by comforting chronically

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ill children in North Carolina. The yama is like twenty

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eight years old now. He's named white Top. White Top

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dethrone the Dilaight Yama, who was the previous Greenness World

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record holder for oldest yama. The Dilai Yama had passed

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away in twenty twenty three, shortly after its twenty seventh birthday.

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White Top was donated to the Victory Junction Camp in

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two thousand and six. The camp founded by Kyle Petty,

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the son of NASCAR great Richard Petty. The year round

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free camp is designed for children with conditions that include cancer,

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kidney and heart disease, cerebral palsies, bina bifida, and an

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array of neurological and physical disabilities. White Top is relaxed

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and sweet and chill. He lies still while camper is

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pet him. Billy Davis is the camp's barn director and

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says he really gets to help campers come out of

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their shell when they interact with him. He can be

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kind of intimidating at first, but once they come over

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to them and love them and pet him. They realize

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how sweet he is. White Top as a friend a

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cow named Guscus. Normally you must live fifteen years. In

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New Zealand, a military chaplain has recovered some war medals

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and will reunite them with the man's family. New Zealand

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Sergeant William O'sha passed away during an RAF bomber raid

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over Hamburg in nineteen forty two. His medals were given

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to his widow and but then the family lost track

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of the medals. In nineteen ninety, Royal Australian Air Force

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chaplain Hayden Lee saw the collection of four authentic medals

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at an auction, noticed one was missing a ribbon clasp

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for bomber Command unions. Its absence meant the man who

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the marichiuchu had died. The chaplain said, Once I purchased

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the medals and was able to look up a little

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more information about Billy, I was able to confirm that

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he didn't have his other awards, so I contacted New

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Zealand Honors and Awards to be able to apply for

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that for him. After obtaining the bomber class, he tried

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to track down the family Oshay's grand niece Karen, had

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put herself in the paperwork as Billy's next of kin,

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and the chaplain was able to get the metals back

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to the family. That's pretty cool. Some cold water swimmers

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in the Czech Republics set a new record for largest

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polar bear dip. Twy four hundred and sixty one polar

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bear swimmers jumped in the water, breaking the previous record

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of seventeen hundred and ninety nine swimmers. They couldn't get

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one more person and make that an even eighteen hundred,

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like maybe the guy taking the photos jump in with us, dude.

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For the record to be recognized, the participants have to

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be wearing bathing suits, be at least waist deep in

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the water, and stay there all together for at least

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one minute. Can I tell you When I was in

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Antarctica over Christmas break last year, a bunch of people

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did the going into the ocean thing. My daughter did it.

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I did not do it. I have no regrets. Why

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Johnny Mack, You're only an Antarctica once. Why wouldn't you

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do that? Because two days earlier we had camped out

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overnight and I've never been so cold in my life.

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So I was like going in freezing water, No thank you,

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because also understand, if you go in the water in Antarctica,

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first of all, you have to get out of your clothes,

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go in the freezing water. Then you have to come off,

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dry off, put your clothes back on. But now you're

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still on the island and you have to get into

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the little raft boat to take you back to the

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main boat to take you back to the hot shower.

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No thank you. I have no regrets on that. If

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I ever have regrets on that, I'll just go down

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the Jersey shore in the middle of January and jump

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in the water. I digress. David organized the event and

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said checks are a nation of polar swimmers. He himself

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set a world record four years ago and men swimming

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under ice. He swam two hundred and sixty five feet

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Not for me. A ninety one year old man was

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a regular at burger King. When he passed away, the

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staff requested that his name be engraved into the chair

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in which he always sat. They check with burger King Corporate,

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and burger King Corporate was like, yeah, okay. The man's daughter,

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Jenny said, someone came to the church and said the

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whole crew of Burger King is here, and they brought

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a chair. I said, what the Burger King crew was

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in their Burger King uniforms. They had brought the chair

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that the man had always sat in into the back

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of it. They'd used a wood burner to engrave his name,

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the date of his birth, and the date of his death.

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One of the Burger King employees, Monica, who attended the funeral, explained,

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he'd walk in, we'd have his order ready for him.

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That was his seat. He'd always sit there every morning,

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so we had to bring his chair. The man had

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celebrated his ninetieth birthday there. His last meal ended up

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being chicken nuggets, a milkshake, and a cookie. A cheeto

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shaped like the Pokemon cherizard was auctioned for eighty seven

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and forty dollars. That's right, he missed out on this one.

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The description was presented is a three inch long flame

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and hot cheeto. And I didn't drop the g there.

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That wasn't the Queen's accent. It's actually spelled flami n apostrophe.

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That's right. A flame and hot cheeto in the shape

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of Pokemon cherizard. A fixed to a customize Pokemon card

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and encapsulated in a clear card storage box. It was

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initially discovered and preserved sometime between twenty eight in twenty

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twenty two. You can't narrow down when you have found

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the Cheeto within four or five years. Really, there were

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sixty bids on the Flaming Hot Cheeto. The winning bid

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was seventy two grand plus a buyer's premium. That's a

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big premium because the thing went for eighty seven eight

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forty yikes. Well, and people have a lot more time

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than I have, they have more money than I have.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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If you're eating cheetos, you know, don't just polish them off.

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Take a look. One might be worth eighty grand. So yeah,