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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. Congratulations to

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Jamie. She got married at the
White Castle. Now I know you're probably

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like me and thinking, like,
all right, this could be a wacky

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fast food story. No, it's
actually a very sweet story. You see,

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when Jamie was twelve years old,
she was out on her own.

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She said, I was in ninety
four think about that number, ninety four

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foster homes, six shelters, a
group home, at a treatment center,

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and they ran out of places to
keep me. There are no beds,

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and by that time I realized the
system was probably going to kill me,

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so I took off on my own. Jamie said, I was born at

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two adults who really should have had
to apply for a license in order to

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procreate. The Arizona Children's Protection Services
system in the eighties was really bad,

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like really really bad. I'd been
running away for a few years prior.

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By the time I was twelve,
I figured out how to not run back

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into the system and how to stay
out. She said, I'd been hungry

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for over a week when I came
across my first white Castle. She can't

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remember exactly where it was, somewhere
in the South. I walked into the

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White Castle, the first one I'd
ever seen. The woman goes, oh,

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poor thing, You go on that
a room, you get yourself cleaned

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up. So I did. I
cried in the bathroom because I was being

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treated like a human. The White
Castle woman bagged every burger cooking on the

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grill and gave it to Jamie.
She said she was just going to throw

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them out anyway, so it was
best to go feed somebody every time after

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that. When I saw White Castle, I knew it was somewhere that would

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be safe to run two and if
I was starving, I'd be able to

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get fed. Fast forward to modern
times, she was getting married and said

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there was only one acceptable location,
White Castle, and the one they picked

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as a kitchen that can turn out
food for two hundred guests with ease.

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During the reception, guests a cheesecake
on a stick and a literal mountain of

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sliders. The couple also had a
giant slider cake made for the event.

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A suit at White Castle says Jamie's
story serves as a reminder of the power

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of kindness and being there for one
another as we keep focus on our purpose

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of feeding the souls of craver generations
everywhere. I gotta get the corporate speak

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in right. Hey, a window
cleaner has become an online sensation after pressure

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washing his hometown's pavements. Could you
have done my house this weekend? That's

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what I did all day On Sunday. Andrew Carr was up with the streets

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in his town. They're covered in
gum and dog poo and he couldn't take

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it anymore. Car said, every
paving slab was covered in chewing gum,

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there was a dog mess. Was
a sad site. Right then and there,

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I set myself a goal of cleaning
the center of town up. I

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thought to myself that everybody complains about
dog mess and chewing gum, but nobody

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does anything about it. I contacted
the town council and said I wanted to

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clean the paths up, and they
were like, yeah, sure. Good

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news for Chuke and eleven year old
elephant living in Cambodia. Chuke has received

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a forty four pound prosthetic foot made
out of recycled car tires and tow truck

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straps where truck's foot had to be
ambusated after was caught in a potress snare.

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Rotten but thanks to some fourteen hundred
and fifty dollars in funding every year

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from Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK. Chuck gets a new prosthetic every six

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months, which allows him to walk, swim, and even run without difficulty.

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Cam runs the Paradise Wildlife Bark and
said, because he's still growing,

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it needs replacing often and we've been
sending payments to cover that. They were

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made out of recycled rubber and some
velcro to tie it up. The keepers

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use a little contraption to isolate his
leg in order to attach the prosthetic,

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but Chew helps along as if you
were a human putting on a shoe,

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and he's rewarded at the end with
a big juicy coconut. I am Patty

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Callaghan, Henry, I am Mary
kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and

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I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in
Fiction is led by four longtime friends,

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the four of us with more than
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end depth conversations and interviews, we
discussed the books we've written, the books

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we're reading, and the art of
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to support indie bookstores, authors,
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On this channel, you will find
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You can listen to Friends and Fiction
on any major streaming platform. Hey,

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good news. If you've got a
bunch of dirty diapers laying around, I

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don't know why you keep them around, but if you do, we can

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use them to replace some of the
sand and concrete. Yeah, why not?

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You see, disposable diapers are usually
made from wood, pulp, cotton,

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rayon, and things like polyester,
and because of that, not to

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mention you know what they're used for, they wind up in landfills. However,

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the folks are at the School of
Environmental Engineering in Japan have worked with

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some colleagues to prepare concrete and water
samples by combining washed, dried, and

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shredded disposable diaper waste with cement,
gravel and water, so we won't need

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as much sand and good news.
If you sell cheese, you're probably not

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going to go out of business,
thanks to Mark King. Mark will p

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an entire block of cheese into a
sandwich and would happily eat for a day

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if his wife, Tracy would let
him eat cheese with every meal. But

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he doesn't do macaroni and cheese because
it's not cheesey enough for him. Tracy

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said, my husband probably eats the
most amount of cheese that's humanly possible.

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He has two packs a day.
He would eat a lot more, but

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I've calmed him down. I got
a bit out of control, to be

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honest. I did a video on
my TikTok account. I got millions of

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views and thousands of comments saying I'll
have a heart attack and all that because

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of the cheese. But he's very
healthy. I don't think I'll have a

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heart attack. He's so muscular.
I took him to the GP for bloods

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and all that, and everything came
back perfect. When we met twenty five

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years ago, he was doing this
sandwiches. His favorite is a block of

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cheese in between two pieces of bread. He cuts it up. He has

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it with marmite, mayonnaise, and
white pepper. Also, he doesn't like

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nachos. That's your five gut news
stories for today. Follow the show for

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