May 15, 2023

The Christmas Decorations Are Up! (checks calendar, sees it is May)

The Christmas Decorations Are Up! (checks calendar, sees it is May)

Sure Patches the cat WAS 40 pounds but Patches is trying to work out 4 times a day.

A guy climbed three mountains with a fridge on his back.

And a woman already has her Christmas Decorations up. The radio stations will be changing formats any second now...

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. The next

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time I ask you to help me
move, I don't want to hear it.

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Because Michael Copeland has climbed the highest
mountains in England, Scotland and Wales

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with a refrigerator strapped to his back. That's right. Michael Copeland wanted to

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raise money for charity. He climbed
three peaks within twenty four hours with a

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refrigerator strapped to us back to raise
money for the mental health charity Mind.

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Copeland said the fridge represents the burden
that mental health can have on us all.

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I'm a massive overthinker and always think
I'm not good enough. I always

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want to be doing more. He
had to overcome grueling weather conditions including heavy

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rain, snow, and forty mile
an hour winds, So suddenly helping me

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carry the TV up four stairs doesn't
sound so bad, does it. He

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ended up running downhill with the fridge
from the summit of Snowden to complete the

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challenge just in time. He said
the whole challenge felt like a movie with

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the changing weather conditions thirty to forty
mile an hour winds as we were going

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up snow, so it almost felt
like a grown adult was trying to push

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me over. Good news for African
leopards. A synthetic fur distribution program is

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protecting a sacred connection to African leopards
and thus saving the animals themselves. You

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see, in Southern Africa, leopards
have long been harvested for their beautiful spotted

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furs. Those are often used in
ceremonies by cultural and religious groups in the

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area. So a global wildcat conservation
organization called Panthera has partnered with area communities

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and world class designers to distribute synthetic
furs for ceremonial garb. New data suggests

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the initiatives have tripled the leopard population
in the region. Very cool. Lamar

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Johnson did twenty eight years in prison
convicted of a murder he didn't commit.

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When a judge overturned the conviction,
he said, the first thing he remembered

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was feeling lighter. It's like twenty
eight years of weight was slowly being lifted

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among his supporters in the courtroom.
During his final hearing, his pen pal

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of more than twenty years, who
had always believed in his innocence, Jinny

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Shrap, in his eighty years years
old. She wrote him weekly letters while

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he was in prison. Johnson was
convicted in nineteen ninety four of the murder

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of one of his best friends.
Several years later, the true culprits confessed

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to the crime, but didn't overturn
his sentence. The Innocence Project got involved.

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Took a while. All along,
Sharpin never stopped sending letters. Johnson

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said. Over the years they connected
so well. Sharp And said, I

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did share things with Lamar, and
he shared things with me. Because we

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were that connected. I was always
happy when I saw a letter in the

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mailbox that was from him. She
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streaming platform. Good news for Patches the

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can't Patches is six and weighs forty
pounds. Well, Patches is now hooked

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up with human k Ford, who
has adopted Patches. They're trying to help

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Patches loose and weight. Patches then
got down a thirty eight point eight pounds.

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Patches is seeing a certified feline specialist
in his diet is pretty experimental right

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now. He's a big eater,
but he seems to like Pattee and liver

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Ford wanted to adopt a large cat
for at least three years. She had

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spotted a big cat on Facebook while
spending time with her grandchildren and told to

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her grandchildren she wanted to adopt the
big cat and name him Schmorgas Board.

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I wanted to help out. It
wasn't just about naming Schmorgas Board. But

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when you're dealing with grandkids, it's
fun to create a story. Because the

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years went by, her family would
nudge here to find a massive cat to

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help. Recently, her daughter sent
her a post about Patches and said,

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this is your moment. Ford reached
out and his adopted Patches. Patches will

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keep the name Patches. The goal
now is to make sure Patches gets three

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or four focused ten minute exercise sessions
a day. Ford says, it's not

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like I can look at him and
say, hey, it's two o'clock.

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Time to work out, and good
news, ticktocker, it's Christmas time all

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year already? Has the Christmas decorations
up? John? Did you record this

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months ago? No? John?
Is this you run? No? It's

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May fifteenth, everybody, Yeah,
Christmas two hundred days away or so.

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The ticktocker, we don't know her
name, has stuff all over the place,

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including a mat next to the kitchen
sink that reads marry Everything. There's

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tinsel around the window. All her
videos contain up each Christmas music such as

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Holly Jolly Christmas or let it snow. Someone in the comments joke they've been

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waiting for Christmas since January first.
My wife usually starts the Christmas music the

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day after Halloween, so maybe she's
not so bit. Those are five good

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