Dec. 2, 2024
Turkeys dropped from a plane, Notre Dame rises from the ashes
We start with some incredible season of giving stories - an Alaskan pilot dropping turkey "bombs" to help feed her off-grid neighbors, and a wedding saved after the venue burned down (you won't believe what happened next!). Then, a Notre-Dame Cathedral update that will give you chills, as Paris's Gothic jewel reopens after an incredible restoration. Plus, meet Georgia Scully, who couldn't speak after a coma but could sing every word to Adele's greatest hits!
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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
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good news stories. I hope you had a nice holiday.
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I lost my voice for a lot of it, which
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is suboptimal if you make a living hosting podcasts. But
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we had some good news coming out of the weekend
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I want to share with you, So let me tell
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you what happened in Alaska. This incredible pilot named Esther
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Sanderlin was out there dropping frozen turkeys from her plane
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turkey bombing. While most of us were just trying to
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figure out how to carve our turkeys. Esther was flying
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over Squinna and west to sit in a valley making
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sure her off the grid neighbors had turkeys to carve.
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In the first place, she delivered between thirty and forty
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turkeys to families who otherwise might not have had much
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of a Thanksgiving dinner. You want to know what inspired
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all this. Esther was visiting one of her newer neighbors
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recently when they mentioned they were planning to split a
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squirrel three ways for dinner. She told KTU you last Monday,
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I just had a thought at that moment, you know what,
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I'm going to air drop them a Turkey for Thanksgiving
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because I recently rebuilt my first airplane with my dad,
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and so I can do that really easily. Up there
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in Alaska, you can't always just hop in your car
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and drive to the neighbor's house. As Esther explained during
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freeze up, you can't really get around, so you can't
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travel out there, but you can fly as long as
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you don't land. Remember that viral story from twenty sixteen
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about the grandma who accidentally texted the wrong number for
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Thanksgiving dinner, Well, Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton just celebrated
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their ninth Thanksgiving together last week. This year was extra
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special because Jamal got to host for the first time.
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He announced it on social media earlier in the month, saying,
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excited to announce that I'm hosting Thanksgiving this year for
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Wanda and I looking forward to a day filled with
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good food, great company, and lasting memories. Year nine coming soon.
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You know, this whole thing started because of a wrong
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number text back in twenty sixteen. Wanda thought she was
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texting her grandson about Thanksgiving dinner, but she got Jamal instead.
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When they figured out the mix up, Wanda invited him
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anyway and they've been getting together every Thanksgiving since. This
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next story made me really happy. On Friday, we got
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our first look inside the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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Well good news. Five and a half years after that
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devastating fire, President Emmanuel Macron took us on a televised
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tour of this Gothic masterpiece, and it's just breathtaking. He said.
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The blaze at Notre Dame was a national wound, and
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you have been its remedy through will, through work, through commitment.
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About two thousand people worked on this project, Masons, carpenters, restores, roofers,
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art experts, sculptors, engineers, and they've done what some people
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thought was impossible. The whole restoration cost about seven hundred
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million euros. But when you see what they've done, it's
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just well. As mccrin put it when he walked in,
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it is sublime. And get this, they didn't just repair it.
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They actually cleaned up years of soot and grime that
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had been there since the eighteen fifties. They're having their
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first Catholic Mass back in the cathedral on December eighth.
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Two years ago, Georgia Scully was in a terrible car
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crash in Huddersfield, England. The doctors told her parents she
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might never wake up from her coma, and if she did,
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she might not be able to walk or talk again.
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But here's where it gets incredible. When Georgia woke up
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four weeks later, she couldn't speak, but she could sing,
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and not just hum along. She could belt out Adele's
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Someone Like You word for word. Her mom, Sharon, tells
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it best. She said, when Georgia sang for the first time,
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it was like a miracle. We'd been sat by her
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bedside hoping she would talk, but she just burst into song,
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singing Adele to the whole war and everyone was laughing.
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It was the breakthrough moment and first sign that we
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had a piece of our Georgia back with us. The
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idea came from a charity called Day One Trauma Support.
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They suggested that Georgia's sister Nicole, create a playlist of
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her favorite songs. Pretty soon, Georgia wasn't just singing Adele,
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she was also rapping along to Cardi B's Bodak Yellow.
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Now this wasn't an easy journey. Georgia had thought she
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was sixteen and still in school when she was actually
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twenty three with a job. But two years later, she's
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made incredible progress. He has regained her speech and movement,
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she's getting back to the gym, and she's even riding
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the bus on her own. Georgia herself says, people don't
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realize the family need support as much as the patient.
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I still get very confused and muddled. But I think
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positively about the future now, and you know what, her
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mom says, They couldn't be prouder. Let me tell you
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about a wedding that almost went up in smoke, literally,
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just a couple of weeks ago. On November sixteenth, Meredith
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and Joshua Diedrich were all set to get married at
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the Lodge at Three Notched Brewery in Virginia. But at
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seven am on their wedding day, Meredith got a call
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from her mom with some unbelievable news their venue had
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burned down overnight. You want to know what she did,
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She laughed. She told People magazine what else is there
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to do but laugh it off and get this. Her
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bride'smaids even made a TikTok about it. But here's where
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it gets good. Instead of calling it off, everybody jumped
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into action. The three notched staff found them a new
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venue just seven minutes down the road at Blue toedside
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Er Farm. The whole crew, neon, bridesmaid's family, friends, parents,
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and staff from both venues all pitched in to move everything.
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Oh and just to add to the drama, her hair
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and makeup artist had been admitted to the hospital the
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night before. But wouldn't you know it, her sister's friend
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Autumn saw that TikTok video and drove two hours to
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come help. Meredith says it best. Our wedding was intimate
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and heartfelt. It wasn't what we originally planned, but it
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turned into a day filled with deep love, meaningful moments
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and memories will treasure forever. They even gave it a
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perfect name. They called it the Beauty from Ash's Wedding.
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You know what I love about this story. Sometimes the
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best moments come from the worst situations, especially when you've
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got good people around you. And those are your five
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good news stories for today. If you enjoyed the program,
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tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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I'm Johnny Mack. Have a great day.
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