Nov. 22, 2024

The Fake Whale and the 95-Year-Old Pickleball Champion

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In this episode of '5 Good News Stories, Jessica's transformation through the Good News Rescue Mission, Charlotte's life-changing encounter with train driver Dave leading to their marriage, 95-year-old Lois thriving with various activities, Mike's unique speed eating records, and the controversy over a robot whale shark at Ocean World in Shenzhen. These stories showcase the strength of the human spirit and the impact of community support.

00:10 Dancing Turkey Fundraiser
01:06 A Life Saved on the Tracks
01:58 95-Year-Old Pickleball Champion
02:42 Speed Eating World Records
03:17 Robot Whale Shark Controversy

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

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Good News Stories. Nice job by Jessica, who is standing

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on the side of the road dancing while dressed up

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like a turkey. This was for a fundraiser the Good

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News Rescue Missions twenty seventh annual Stuff the Truck food

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Drive was all about the turkeys. Jessica said the mission

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turned her life around, telling KRCR, the mission has let

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me find sobriety. I'm one hundred and eleven days sober

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and one hundred and thirteen days of being at the Mission.

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I'm in rehab. I do a program that not only

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helps me with alcohol and drugs, but it helps me

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with my traumas, trials and tribulations throughout my lifetime. I've

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been able to learn to work through those, and because

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of the Mission, I've been able to get the mental

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health I need, the medications I need, and the support

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that I've definitely needed all these years. The goal of

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Stuff the Truck is to collect a thousand turkeys and

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all the trimmings to feed an ever growing number of people.

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At last check, they had collected more than one hundred

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turkeys and ninety large boxes of side dishes. If you

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see somebody dressed as a turkey pull over. Things worked

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out for Charlotte. One day, she was ready to end

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her life and step in front of a train. The

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driver of the train, Dave, slammed on the brakes after

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receiving notice of a pedestrian on the tracks. Dave brought

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the train to a halt and got down to talk

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to Charlotte for nearly half an hour before eventually getting

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her safely to the platform. Local police met the pair

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and helped Charlotte get in contact with local mental health

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support workers. Charlotte looked Dave up on Facebook the next

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day and sent a message saying thank you. Dave said,

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You're welcome. They started exchanging messages. They met for coffee.

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Three years later they got married. Dave said, I needed

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to know she was al right. I'd contact with police

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to try to find out what happened to her, and

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just wanted to make sure she was safe. I felt

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like I had a duty make sure she was all right.

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We'd built that rapport by the side of the track.

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Charlotte says she hopes that by sharing her story, people

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will realize we're all capable of helping. Do you like

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playing pickleball. A lot of older people playing pickleball. Well,

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Lois is gonna kickear pickle She plays every Tuesday and Thursday.

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Did I mention she's ninety five years old, Yeah, she says.

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On top of this, I play cards every week. I

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picked up square dancing, and then I decided I wanted

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to play the mandolins. I bought some books and I

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do play and sing. I belong to the pickers and fiddlers.

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We always did what the kids wanted to do. I've

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played basketball, football, you name it. My husband and I

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had a softball team with their daughters for years. Her

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husband passed away thirty years ago, and she decided to

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stay busy. She has six kids, twenty grandkids, thirty seven

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great grandkids, and now four great great grandkids. She says,

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I know one thing, you need to keep moving. Mike

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holds multiple Guinness World Record titles for speed eating and drinking. Well.

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He has broken the record for most hot sauce eaten

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in three minutes. He did this on the same day

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that he broke that record for a fastest time to

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drink a Capri son with a paper straw. Remember that

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story I told you about Yeah, same guy. Jack used

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a spoon to eat two pounds seven ounces of Sarasha

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hot sauce in under three minutes. Jacked old Guinness. A

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lot of people say your butt must burn a lot

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after you did that challenge, and he said, I've never

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actually experienced but burned before. It's a genetic mutation. It's

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my superpower. I guess, I guess, and China, I don't

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know what's going on with your zoos. An aquarium has

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been criticized after its star whale shark turned out to

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be a robots. Ocean World and Shinzen opened on October

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first after a five year renovation. People who took pictures

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show how the whale shark is clearly a robot. For example,

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gaps in the body where different pieces have been joined

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together can be seen. Visitors are upset because they had

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paid like thirty bucks a ticket. Ocean World said, hey,

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we put the robot on display because live whale sharks

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are now prohibited from being traded. I mean, yeah, good,

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Then don't advertise a whale shark. We understand why you

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don't have one. You may recall early year of the

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year a zoo was accused of dying dogs to resemble pandas,

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