The McDonald's Order Experiment - a burger with nothing, not even the burger
In this episode, host Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: Max the Cat receives an honorary degree from Vermont State University, the Seva Collective Food Pantry in Santa Ana provides free groceries to those in need, 21-year-old Bailey brings joy and fitness to senior homes through boxing lessons, a rural volunteer fire department receives a $500,000 donation for new equipment, and a McDonald's fan humorously pranks the restaurant with a bizarre triple cheeseburger order.
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Callaroga Shark Media it's graduation season.
Congratulations to Max the Cat, who has
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graduated from Vermont State University. Yeah
Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good
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news stories. A Vermont University has
given an honorary degree, a Doctor of
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litter a Chure to Max the Cat, a bluff member of its community.
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The school set on Facebook. Max
the Cat has been an affectionate member of
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the Castleton family for years. The
cat lives nearby the campus, and owner
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Ashley said, he decided he'd go
on campus, and he just started hanging
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out with the college students and they
love him. He's been socializing on campus
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for about four years. Students get
excited when they see him. They take
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selfies with them. He goes on
tours with the prospective students, refer to
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Ashley as Max's mom. Graduates who
return to town ask how Max is doing.
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Unfortunately, Max wasn't able to participate
in the graduation. His degree was
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delivered later on Well congratulations, kiddie, nice job. But by a drive
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through food pantry in southern California.
Each car is met by volunteers who plays
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bundles of fresh produce and two weeks
worth of groceries in the trunk, all
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for free. This is the Seva
Collective food pantry in Santa Ana, California.
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Bandana Singh is one of the co
founders and said, when we first
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started, we were driving to La
Downtown food market. We were driving to
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central California to pick up citrus.
We were kind of all over the place.
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Four million meals later. Their goals
to get fresh food as well as
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shelf stable food to every family's car
or car who comes through the drive.
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We have cars line up as early
as three or four in the morning.
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We don't start the drive until nine
thirty am. So to us as the
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volunteer team, it tells us the
need is there and we want to do
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whatever we can. A twenty one
year old is helping the elderly and senior
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homes stay fit with boxing lessons.
Bailly says, sport and exercise cheer people
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up. We make jokes and we
have a laugh with them every day.
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Bailly now takes his fitness classes into
twenty to thirty different daycare homes, guiding
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residents through one hour sessions from simple
boxing drills to hand eye coordination games.
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Each resident gets to wear boxing gloves
that are neon pink, yellow and green
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BA able to share this tidbit get
ready for this one. One of the
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care homes recorded a video saying how
much they enjoyed the session, and one
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woman said how much he loves my
legs. Good news for a volunteer fire
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department. They'd been using equipment from
the nineteen eighties. They just received a
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half million dollar gift from a local
resident. Fire chief Mark Harden said the
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fire department needed a lot of work. Not many of the trucks were in
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operation, not many of them ran, only one was running. A ninety
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one year old resident, Sam Sloan, donated half a million dollars. The
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chief said, never in a million
years what I have expected anything like this
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for a rural fire department. In
March, at the end of our first
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quarter, we had one hundred and
sixty nine dollars left in our bank account.
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The money's going to allow them to
buy three new fire engines and new
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equipment for all the volunteers. The
existing gears, such as coats, hard
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hats and other tools were almost all
from the eighties and nineties, and this
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one out of the UK made me
laugh. A McDonald's fan ordered a triple
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cheeseburger with everything removed. A man
was annoyed that the local McDonald's kept getting
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the order wrong. He thought it
had made a crystal clear for them,
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so he decided to test this out. He was wondering if they would get
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this order right, joking that they
usually mess up. He was convinced they
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would not be able to properly put
together a triple cheeseburger with everything removed.
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This was his order, triple cheeseburger, no ketchup, no pickle, no
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dice, onions, no beef,
no mustard, no regular bun, no
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American cheese, no salt. That
order still cost five dollars and forty nine
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cents. The service fee was three
dollars. The tax is forty two cents.
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Greg tipped a delivery driver eleven dollars
all together, and the order came
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to almost twenty dollars. So what
showed up a wrapper and a mccrispy box,
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He said, I ordered a triple
burger, not a mccrispy. Somehow
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they still managed to screw up my
order. Those are your five good news
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