The Skateboarding pig

0:02 The shark deck. Did you hear about the skateboarding pig? I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories lots unpack here. Alison was all happy when her husband floated the notion of expanding their family. Okay, that sounds great, so husband Vince shared that he had a long time dream of owning a pig. Alison wasn't immediately ready to commit, but they figured out a compromise. It's four years later and now they live with Norbert, the one hundred and fifty pound a pig. They also love a rescue rabbit who's mow and all over the dog. Norbert knows how to skateboard, so now he's a TikTok account and Instagram following the post more than sixty one hundred fans. Vince thinks that Norbert has the intelligence of a three to four year old, which has forced him and his wife to put locks on cabinets and the refrigerator. Sometimes Norbert opens the fridge and goes to town on the fruits and vegetables. Vince said, I knew would get some looks because we live in the suburbs and we have a pig, But I like seeing people's faces light up. It's been a positive experience all around, just being able to share Norbert's happiness and positive vibes of everybody. Norbert is litter box trained. I know you were wondering. Alison has warned people it can be a lot. People are like, I want a pig and I'm like, no, no, you don't take special people and commitment for the growing pains. Temperaments change and he's like a three year old. He has temper tantrums. You have to learn to curb that. A board pig or a frustrated pig gets destructive. So what you do is he teach them the skateboard right. Vince started training Norbert on a miniature skateboard when the pig was less than a year old. Norbert needs

1:33 fifteen to twenty minutes to pick up verbal commands. Vince said that led to a week's worth of thirty minutes skating lessons when Vince would use his foot to guide the skateboard as Norbert followed behind. Once Norbert learned to put one of his hoofs on the board, it wasn't long before he got on the board and used his back legs to propel himself forward. Now and Vince tells Norbert to get on the board. The skateboarding pig wises. Vince has tagged skating legend Tony Hawk and videos and social media posts in which Norbert becomes Tony Hog. Good news for Francesca Teal. She lost her ring in the ocean. The ring had once belonged to her great grandmother. She figured she never see it again. You listen to the podcast, do you know how this is? Imagine? I just teld you The story was, Yeah, she lost her ring and that's it. And I signed off and I was like, there's no happy resolve here. That would be a twist anyway. She had been wearing the family ring while sass like a football with her husband at North Beach and Hampton, New Hampshire. The ring fell off her finger. They spent hours searching the water for it, no luck. She posted a plea on her Facebook page, Hey anybody's seen her ring? Turns out a guy with a metal detector saw her social media plea for help, and he somehow found the ring. Leu ASKI strapped on a wetsuit and a headlamp. He went looking for the ring. First two days nothing, he said, I don't take failure all too well. I wanted to go back and give it one last shot. Day three bingo. He posted it and said, please tell me this is the rings I can finally get off this beach. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am Mary Kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel,

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4:10 Hey, nice job by Vernon Jackson. Interesting name there, because that's a subway stop on the seven train in New York City. You know where I grew up, but I went through that stop almost every day. I'm not making fun of your name, and mister Vernon Jackson, I just didn't put that together until right now anyway. Vernon Jackson he owns a Cincinnati barbershop and he takes care of his VIP clients, which are children with special needs. He says that's something he's done since twenty twenty one. I was hearing so many horror stories that parents were going through with other barbershops, and the barbers or stylus had no patients with their kids. I figured I'd compromise by coming in on my day off, so there'd be no other barbers or stylus in the shop and I could give them the full attention they need. He says having an empty shop helps some children who were sensitive to new environments and sounds his goals to help the children get acclimated to the barbershop so they can feel comfortable coming in when other employees and clients were there. Jackson says, when I first started promoting that I was going to come into my day off to do haircuts children with different needs. A friend of mine just randomly inboxed me and said, hey, vern, can I sponsor a haircut? Then more and more people asked donate money for haircuts, and Jackson started to go fund me. He says. Their parents that would pay any amount of money just for their child to have an experience like any other person. At the end of it, I could tell them it's covered. They say I gotta give you a tip, and I say, nope, trust me. This is part of the Gifted program. This is a gift from the community myself.

5:20 Please receive it. More Facebook. An adopted woman found her mother using a DNA site in Facebook after decades of searching that allowed her to meet her grandmother just days before grandmom passed away. Rachel Ruiz always knew she was adopted. When she turned eighteen, she was given a handwritten letter written by her birth mom for her future daughter, saying she hoped one day they would meet. It had limited information, Rachel said, I didn't feel like I needed to find answers to complete myself, but I'm so happy I found my birth family. She's now thirty five. She turned to ancestry dot com that helped her filling her biological mother Angie. When she found the fifty two year old Angie on Facebook, she knew instantly was a match because they looked so similar. Her parents had prepared to give her the package when she turned eighteen.

6:02 They said, they had this beautiful crocheted blanket she made me. She had a baby ring when she was born, a beautiful gold ring, and a written letter which said you were here with me for nine months. I will never forget you. I hope one day we will meet. That did meet up, and they went over to meet Grandma Mary, who passed away three days later. She said it was like her final life mission. I went to the funeral and I met my cousin's aunts and uncles. Rachel feels blessed to have two families, including a half sister who lived a few minutes walk away from her house in Utah. Wow, and all right, little Nellie, we're onto you. You see, Nellie's parents had just painted the wall. Mom came by and noticed some handprints on the wall. Who do you think did it? Mom said, I just moved and started painting the walls white. I didn't realize for an hour or so that she did it, so she asked the little girl, Hey, you know anything about these handbrits on the wall, and little Nellie said, oh, yeah, the dog Winston did it. Mom said, I just moved and started painting the walls white. I didn't realize for an hour or so that she'd done it.

6:59 I didn't expect Nellie to blame the dog, but I knew I had to record a reaction to my question as to who did it, as I knew it would be amazingly funny. Poor dog, you know, Nellie, humans and dogs have different pawprints. That's your five great news stories for today. Follow a show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Have a great day.