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

0:03 Caloroka Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mac with five Good News Stories. Nice job by Jessica, who is standing on the side of the road dancing while dressed up like a turkey. This was for a fundraiser the Good News Rescue Missions twenty seventh annual Stuff the Truck food Drive was all about the turkeys. Jessica said the mission turned her life around, telling KRCR, the mission has let me find sobriety. I'm one hundred and eleven days sober and one hundred and thirteen days of being at the Mission. I'm in rehab. I do a program that not only helps me with alcohol and drugs, but it helps me with my traumas, trials and tribulations throughout my lifetime. I've been able to learn to work through those, and because of the Mission, I've been able to get the mental health I need, the medications I need, and the support that I've definitely needed all these years. The goal of Stuff the Truck is to collect a thousand turkeys and all the trimmings to feed an ever growing number of people.

0:59 At last check, they had collected more than one hundred turkeys and ninety large boxes of side dishes. If you see somebody dressed as a turkey pull over. Things worked out for Charlotte. One day, she was ready to end her life and step in front of a train. The driver of the train, Dave, slammed on the brakes after receiving notice of a pedestrian on the tracks. Dave brought the train to a halt and got down to talk to Charlotte for nearly half an hour before eventually getting her safely to the platform. Local police met the pair and helped Charlotte get in contact with local mental health support workers. Charlotte looked Dave up on Facebook the next day and sent a message saying thank you. Dave said, You're welcome. They started exchanging messages. They met for coffee.

1:40 Three years later they got married. Dave said, I needed to know she was al right. I'd contact with police to try to find out what happened to her, and just wanted to make sure she was safe. I felt like I had a duty make sure she was all right. We'd built that rapport by the side of the track. Charlotte says she hopes that by sharing her story, people will realize we're all capable of helping. Do you like playing pickleball. A lot of older people playing pickleball. Well, Lois is gonna kickear pickle She plays every Tuesday and Thursday. Did I mention she's ninety five years old, Yeah, she says. On top of this, I play cards every week. I picked up square dancing, and then I decided I wanted to play the mandolins. I bought some books and I do play and sing. I belong to the pickers and fiddlers.

2:21 We always did what the kids wanted to do. I've played basketball, football, you name it. My husband and I had a softball team with their daughters for years. Her husband passed away thirty years ago, and she decided to stay busy. She has six kids, twenty grandkids, thirty seven great grandkids, and now four great great grandkids. She says, I know one thing, you need to keep moving. Mike holds multiple Guinness World Record titles for speed eating and drinking. Well. He has broken the record for most hot sauce eaten in three minutes. He did this on the same day that he broke that record for a fastest time to drink a Capri son with a paper straw. Remember that story I told you about Yeah, same guy. Jack used a spoon to eat two pounds seven ounces of Sarasha hot sauce in under three minutes. Jacked old Guinness. A lot of people say your butt must burn a lot after you did that challenge, and he said, I've never actually experienced but burned before. It's a genetic mutation. It's my superpower. I guess, I guess, and China, I don't know what's going on with your zoos. An aquarium has been criticized after its star whale shark turned out to be a robots. Ocean World and Shinzen opened on October first after a five year renovation. People who took pictures show how the whale shark is clearly a robot. For example, gaps in the body where different pieces have been joined together can be seen. Visitors are upset because they had paid like thirty bucks a ticket. Ocean World said, hey, we put the robot on display because live whale sharks are now prohibited from being traded. I mean, yeah, good,

3:54 Then don't advertise a whale shark. We understand why you don't have one. You may recall early year of the year a zoo was accused of dying dogs to resemble pandas, and those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, there's a link of the show notes that explains how that happens. If you're on Apple Podcasts, click the banner. You can do a thirty day trial. Why wouldn't you thirty days no commercials. At the end of the thirty days you want to keep going, it's five bucks a month. If you're not on Apple Podcasts, click the link of the show notes, it'll walk you through it. And those are your five good news stories for today. Have an awesome one.