The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Congratulations to
Jamie. She got married at the White Castle. Now I know you're probably
like me and thinking, like, all right, this could be a wacky
fast food story. No, it's actually a very sweet story. You see,
when Jamie was twelve years old, she was out on her own.
She said, I was in ninety four think about that number, ninety four
foster homes, six shelters, a group home, at a treatment center,
and they ran out of places to keep me. There are no beds,
and by that time I realized the system was probably going to kill me,
so I took off on my own. Jamie said, I was born at
two adults who really should have had to apply for a license in order to
procreate. The Arizona Children's Protection Services system in the eighties was really bad,
like really really bad. I'd been running away for a few years prior.
By the time I was twelve, I figured out how to not run back
into the system and how to stay out. She said, I'd been hungry
for over a week when I came across my first white Castle. She can't
remember exactly where it was, somewhere in the South. I walked into the
White Castle, the first one I'd ever seen. The woman goes, oh,
poor thing, You go on that a room, you get yourself cleaned
up. So I did. I cried in the bathroom because I was being
treated like a human. The White Castle woman bagged every burger cooking on the
grill and gave it to Jamie. She said she was just going to throw
them out anyway, so it was best to go feed somebody every time after
that. When I saw White Castle, I knew it was somewhere that would
be safe to run two and if I was starving, I'd be able to
get fed. Fast forward to modern times, she was getting married and said
there was only one acceptable location, White Castle, and the one they picked
as a kitchen that can turn out food for two hundred guests with ease.
During the reception, guests a cheesecake on a stick and a literal mountain of
sliders. The couple also had a giant slider cake made for the event.
A suit at White Castle says Jamie's story serves as a reminder of the power
of kindness and being there for one another as we keep focus on our purpose
of feeding the souls of craver generations everywhere. I gotta get the corporate speak
in right. Hey, a window cleaner has become an online sensation after pressure
washing his hometown's pavements. Could you have done my house this weekend? That's
what I did all day On Sunday. Andrew Carr was up with the streets
in his town. They're covered in gum and dog poo and he couldn't take
it anymore. Car said, every paving slab was covered in chewing gum,
there was a dog mess. Was a sad site. Right then and there,
I set myself a goal of cleaning the center of town up. I
thought to myself that everybody complains about dog mess and chewing gum, but nobody
does anything about it. I contacted the town council and said I wanted to
clean the paths up, and they were like, yeah, sure. Good
news for Chuke and eleven year old elephant living in Cambodia. Chuke has received
a forty four pound prosthetic foot made out of recycled car tires and tow truck
straps where truck's foot had to be ambusated after was caught in a potress snare.
Rotten but thanks to some fourteen hundred and fifty dollars in funding every year
from Paradise Wildlife Park in the UK. Chuck gets a new prosthetic every six
months, which allows him to walk, swim, and even run without difficulty.
Cam runs the Paradise Wildlife Bark and said, because he's still growing,
it needs replacing often and we've been sending payments to cover that. They were
made out of recycled rubber and some velcro to tie it up. The keepers
use a little contraption to isolate his leg in order to attach the prosthetic,
but Chew helps along as if you were a human putting on a shoe,
and he's rewarded at the end with a big juicy coconut. I am Patty
Callaghan, Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and
I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is led by four longtime friends,
the four of us with more than seventy five published books between us. Through
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On this channel, you will find hundreds of episodes with some of your favorite
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You can listen to Friends and Fiction on any major streaming platform. Hey,
good news. If you've got a bunch of dirty diapers laying around, I
don't know why you keep them around, but if you do, we can
use them to replace some of the sand and concrete. Yeah, why not?
You see, disposable diapers are usually made from wood, pulp, cotton,
rayon, and things like polyester, and because of that, not to
mention you know what they're used for, they wind up in landfills. However,
the folks are at the School of Environmental Engineering in Japan have worked with
some colleagues to prepare concrete and water samples by combining washed, dried, and
shredded disposable diaper waste with cement, gravel and water, so we won't need
as much sand and good news. If you sell cheese, you're probably not
going to go out of business, thanks to Mark King. Mark will p
an entire block of cheese into a sandwich and would happily eat for a day
if his wife, Tracy would let him eat cheese with every meal. But
he doesn't do macaroni and cheese because it's not cheesey enough for him. Tracy
said, my husband probably eats the most amount of cheese that's humanly possible.
He has two packs a day. He would eat a lot more, but
I've calmed him down. I got a bit out of control, to be
honest. I did a video on my TikTok account. I got millions of
views and thousands of comments saying I'll have a heart attack and all that because
of the cheese. But he's very healthy. I don't think I'll have a
heart attack. He's so muscular. I took him to the GP for bloods
and all that, and everything came back perfect. When we met twenty five
years ago, he was doing this sandwiches. His favorite is a block of
cheese in between two pieces of bread. He cuts it up. He has
it with marmite, mayonnaise, and white pepper. Also, he doesn't like
nachos. That's your five gut news stories for today. Follow the show for
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