The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news
if you're just trying to eat your fish and chips by the seashore in peace.
They've hired somebody to scare away those stupid seagulls. Corey makes like two
hundred and fifty dollars a day chasing away seagulls. The seagulls will come down
and steal chips from people's trees. But the seagulls are having none of this.
They've been taking revenge on poor Corey by leaving splotches on his car.
Every day, he dresses up in a seagull costume, which looks like,
say, a baseball mascot of a seagull. He says, people love it.
They approached me asking for pictures and whatnot. I feel like a bit
of celebrity. I just charge at the seagulls when I see them. I
also have to look out for them getting near people, and when they do,
I run at them get them away. I've had goals hit me on
the side of the face with their wings. They'll come down, they'll take
your food. They do it so quickly you don't even expect it. It's
quite frightening, especially for the older generation if they're walking alongside having some chips
and at the moment they won't leave my car alone. I clean it every
day. When I'm back, it's covered in seagull poop. He starts work
at six am. One day he made like eighty bucks and tips. It
was a wedding party and there was seagulls all over trying to get to the
people. I went over and did my job and they said thanks for doing
that looking after us. There maybe about fifty people. The shop owner said,
it took me so long to realize what we needed. A live descent.
If you spend some money every hour to keep the customers safe in the
seagulls away, it's good for the shop. Congratulations to ninety three year old
Joy Ryan. She has visited all sixty three national parks, calling it the
greatest privilege of my life. Joy and her grandson Brad started doing this back
in twenty fifteen and they visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. They
recently finished when they made it all the way to the South Pacific to American
Samoa See. I wouldn't have even thought about doing that. I would have
stayed to the probably the lower forty eight. Maybe you remember the other two
states. It wouldn't have occurred to me to go to American Samoa. Wow,
Brad sold, good morning America. We departed from our hometown in Ohio
at three am on Saturday. We took a two day break in o Wahoop
before boarding our final flights to Pago Pago, American Samoa. Three flights and
nearly seventeen flying hours. You can follow their insta at Grandma Joy's road trip.
Brad said, they're not done. They're going to take this thing international.
They're going to go to Kenya on a National Geographic Organized expedition as the
first stop on a mission a touch all seven continents. One of those continents
is Australia. Terrible Segue Johnny Back. Marine biologists are restoring populations of seahorses
off Australia's East coast. A generation ago, divers might have seen two dozen
white sea horses at a time off Sydney Harbor, but coastal development and boat
moorings have disrupted the habitat of the cool seahorses. Sydney Aquarium has a successful
breeding program after they hatch they're taking to the refugees and lowered down into their
hotels. The hotels, or essentially cages, meant for much larger animals,
they create plenty of nooks and crannies that serve as a habit for the seahorses.
Good news if you want to own a lighthouse. Apparently, the US
government rarely sells off lighthouses to nonprofits interested in conservation. However, if no
buyers come up, they auction them off to the public at prices ranging from
ten grand not beet nearly one million dollars little warning, though its total restoration
could be thousands of dollars, while a simple cleaning is much less. New
owners of lighthouses should expect to have to paint, clean, and possibly restore
broken or missing items. Most lighthouses do not have any utilities, so it'd
be a cost associated with making the lighthouse livable. This year's six lighthouses are
being placed on the notice of availability and four are going direct to public auction.
Get your Lighthouse Now. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am
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any major streaming platform. Hey, good news for Kate. We figured out
where your husband's been going. You see, Kate was walking her dog,
Grinson, around the city center and then the dog tried to make his way
inside the sports pub of the standoff, Kate tried to pull the dog and
the dog wouldn't budge. People on TikTok found this funny and said if the
dog stops at the betting shop, they'll be hell to pay. Another said,
well, now we know where your other half says when they're going for
a long walk, this is the real destination. Kate said, he's never
actually been inside that pub to my knowledge. If my husband was taking him
with a pub secretly, that'd be quite funny. He does go in other
pubs. She thinks the dog probably just wants the attention to food and just
loves social places. He's just a sociable dog. He loves people. He's
stubborn and anyone who has in Airdale would say the same. They have a
mind of their own, are very willful. The owners of the standoff have
promised Kate a free dinner and if Kate takes Grintson the dog there for real,
he can get a juicy steak. That's your five good news stories for
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