Turkeys dropped from a plane, Notre Dame rises from the ashes

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. I hope you had a nice holiday. I lost my voice for a lot of it, which is suboptimal if you make a living hosting podcasts. But we had some good news coming out of the weekend I want to share with you, So let me tell you what happened in Alaska. This incredible pilot named Esther Sanderlin was out there dropping frozen turkeys from her plane turkey bombing. While most of us were just trying to figure out how to carve our turkeys. Esther was flying over Squinna and west to sit in a valley making sure her off the grid neighbors had turkeys to carve. In the first place, she delivered between thirty and forty turkeys to families who otherwise might not have had much of a Thanksgiving dinner. You want to know what inspired all this. Esther was visiting one of her newer neighbors recently when they mentioned they were planning to split a squirrel three ways for dinner. She told KTU you last Monday, I just had a thought at that moment, you know what, I'm going to air drop them a Turkey for Thanksgiving because I recently rebuilt my first airplane with my dad, and so I can do that really easily. Up there in Alaska, you can't always just hop in your car and drive to the neighbor's house. As Esther explained during freeze up, you can't really get around, so you can't travel out there, but you can fly as long as you don't land. Remember that viral story from twenty sixteen about the grandma who accidentally texted the wrong number for Thanksgiving dinner, Well, Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton just celebrated their ninth Thanksgiving together last week. This year was extra special because Jamal got to host for the first time.

1:31 He announced it on social media earlier in the month, saying, excited to announce that I'm hosting Thanksgiving this year for Wanda and I looking forward to a day filled with good food, great company, and lasting memories. Year nine coming soon. You know, this whole thing started because of a wrong number text back in twenty sixteen. Wanda thought she was texting her grandson about Thanksgiving dinner, but she got Jamal instead. When they figured out the mix up, Wanda invited him anyway and they've been getting together every Thanksgiving since. This next story made me really happy. On Friday, we got our first look inside the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Well good news. Five and a half years after that devastating fire, President Emmanuel Macron took us on a televised tour of this Gothic masterpiece, and it's just breathtaking. He said.

2:17 The blaze at Notre Dame was a national wound, and you have been its remedy through will, through work, through commitment. About two thousand people worked on this project, Masons, carpenters, restores, roofers, art experts, sculptors, engineers, and they've done what some people thought was impossible. The whole restoration cost about seven hundred million euros. But when you see what they've done, it's just well. As mccrin put it when he walked in, it is sublime. And get this, they didn't just repair it. They actually cleaned up years of soot and grime that had been there since the eighteen fifties. They're having their first Catholic Mass back in the cathedral on December eighth. Two years ago, Georgia Scully was in a terrible car crash in Huddersfield, England. The doctors told her parents she might never wake up from her coma, and if she did, she might not be able to walk or talk again.

3:03 But here's where it gets incredible. When Georgia woke up four weeks later, she couldn't speak, but she could sing, and not just hum along. She could belt out Adele's Someone Like You word for word. Her mom, Sharon, tells it best. She said, when Georgia sang for the first time, it was like a miracle. We'd been sat by her bedside hoping she would talk, but she just burst into song, singing Adele to the whole war and everyone was laughing. It was the breakthrough moment and first sign that we had a piece of our Georgia back with us. The idea came from a charity called Day One Trauma Support. They suggested that Georgia's sister Nicole, create a playlist of her favorite songs. Pretty soon, Georgia wasn't just singing Adele, she was also rapping along to Cardi B's Bodak Yellow.

3:49 Now this wasn't an easy journey. Georgia had thought she was sixteen and still in school when she was actually twenty three with a job. But two years later, she's made incredible progress. He has regained her speech and movement, she's getting back to the gym, and she's even riding the bus on her own. Georgia herself says, people don't realize the family need support as much as the patient. I still get very confused and muddled. But I think positively about the future now, and you know what, her mom says, They couldn't be prouder. Let me tell you about a wedding that almost went up in smoke, literally, just a couple of weeks ago. On November sixteenth, Meredith and Joshua Diedrich were all set to get married at the Lodge at Three Notched Brewery in Virginia. But at seven am on their wedding day, Meredith got a call from her mom with some unbelievable news their venue had burned down overnight. You want to know what she did, She laughed. She told People magazine what else is there to do but laugh it off and get this. Her bride'smaids even made a TikTok about it. But here's where it gets good. Instead of calling it off, everybody jumped into action. The three notched staff found them a new venue just seven minutes down the road at Blue toedside Er Farm. The whole crew, neon, bridesmaid's family, friends, parents, and staff from both venues all pitched in to move everything.

5:03 Oh and just to add to the drama, her hair and makeup artist had been admitted to the hospital the night before. But wouldn't you know it, her sister's friend Autumn saw that TikTok video and drove two hours to come help. Meredith says it best. Our wedding was intimate and heartfelt. It wasn't what we originally planned, but it turned into a day filled with deep love, meaningful moments and memories will treasure forever. They even gave it a perfect name. They called it the Beauty from Ash's Wedding. You know what I love about this story. Sometimes the best moments come from the worst situations, especially when you've got good people around you. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

5:46 I'm Johnny Mack. Have a great day.