The Kindness Club! PLUS who put all this corn under the floorboards????

0:02 The shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. A man was baffled he discovered one hundred and fifty pieces of corn on the cob under his floorboards. You may have heard the broom over the show or I was asking, what's the plural of corn on the cob? Is it corns on the cob? Corns on the cobs? Corn on the cobs? I don't know, but he found one hundred and fifty of them. They were under the floorboards. He was working on his eighteenth century house. He decided to take a look under the floorboards and he found the corns on the cobs. His guess is that a previous homeowner must have put the corn in there as a form of insulation of sworts, but he said there was no smell.

0:43 It mostly likely didn't buy a grade because the weather didn't get to it and it was closed off. One jokester on Reddit said, your house is built on an ancient corn barrel ground, you run the risk of chicken ghosts coming to claim it. That's right, poultry geists. A more serious user said, hey, call your local university. There might be extinct strains of corn in there. Nice job, out of two fifth graders in Green Springs. They're Layla and Maddie, and they noticed kids weren't being quite as nice as they used to be, and they decided to take action. Rather than respond to cruelness with cruelness, they chose kindness. They created the kindness Layla said, it kind of started when some of the fifth graders were not being nice to each other. There was a big change from the start of the year. It didn't feel right, and I felt like if we had the club, something could change. They meet during lunch break. It's open to anybody in the fifth grade. Maddie says. We do a bunch of different activities.

1:30 Right now, we're making bracelets. They're planning on making some posters featuring kindness slogans. They'll be displayed around the school. Layla says, we want to spread a message that everybody needs to be treated with respect and kindness. We want them to know you can always change if you think what you're doing is wrong. Good job out of Maury Gronstrom, a biochemist. Maury is sourcing microalgae from the Baltic Sea and using science and stuff to use the algae as a replacement for plastic. The plan is to use microalgae as ingredients for a hope of products. In addition to cosmetics and human food, the micrology extracts can be used into churgents, animal feed, packaging, and even as a replacement for plastic. And I love this next sentence. She asked, just imagine if Ikea asked for her algae based meatballs globally, which could happen?

2:21 I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am Mary Kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is led by four longtime friends, the four of us, with more than seventy five published books between us. Through end depth conversations and interviews, we discussed the books we've written, the books we're reading, and the art of storytelling. We are here with endless stories to support indie bookstores, authors, librarians and readers just like you. We are always seeking innovative ways to introduce dynamic voices and trends in publishing. On this channel, you will find hundreds of episodes with some of your favorite including the four of us, with our new releases, as we reveal the stories behind the stories offer writing tips and talk about the creation of novels, memoirs and nonfiction titles. So if you love books and you're curious about the writing world, you are in the right place. You can listen to friends and fiction on any major streaming platform. You know, it's never too late to put out your first album, and that's what eighty year old Sylvia Dan did. She's a Romanian folk singer. She learned folk songs from her grandmother. She spent her life caring for livestock in the Carpathian Mountains, and now she's storing on an album that was released in the UK.

3:46 The album's called inter Being. It was recorded in a remote village. A team of artists, videographers, photographers, and musicians traveled to the village, which is one hundred and eighty kilometers north of Bucharest, to record with Dan and local musicians on tradition old Romanian flutes. Dan says the album means a lot to me. It makes me proud that future generations will hear my ancestors songs. Music and nature are embedded in our blood, and I'm so happy that money raise will help restore the landscape near my village. It's been devastating to see the destruction and this project gives me hope. Well, maybe she should team up with Linn Cole, who's a grandmother, A young grandmother at fifty seven. Lynn Coole to grandma, goes to EDM clubs on her own. She's been to more than fifty EDM festivals just this year. She says she enjoys the parties with no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.

4:32 She's just there for the music. Lynn, who's from Sydney, said, my fun is pure, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. I try to show you don't need any of that. Have fun Hart style music. When you enter a festival, the music's loud. Everyone's just as excited as you are to be there. We're all there for one reason to connect to the DJ and their music. No matter the age, the energy and the vibe is so amazing. I greet old friends I met at past festivals, and I always make new ones. I love people and I love to hug. Unfortunately, she can't find people her own age to go. What she says, let go to all my festivals by myself. I'll be waiting a long time for someone my age to join me. My children don't go to reeves anymore, so I go by myself. My kids are okay with it. She recently retired and bought a camper van so that you can go to other festivals across Australia. That's your five good news stories for today.

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