1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:05,040 I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. We'll bend in a little bit. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,519 This first stories good news, bad news, good news. In the 3 00:00:07,639 --> 00:00:12,599 end, Scott Stallings got a package for Christmas and included an invitation to play 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:15,880 in the Masters. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah, the Masters said, 5 00:00:15,919 --> 00:00:18,160 hey, come play, you'll be a guest of the PGA Tour. 6 00:00:18,359 --> 00:00:22,800 Turns out wrong, Scott Stallings. There's a professional golfer, Scott Stallings, 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,920 who qualified for the Masters by reaching the tour championship that Scott Stallings didn't know 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,079 what happened until the first. Scott Stallings sent up a series of messages on 9 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:36,560 Instagram alerting him to the mail mix up. On Instagram, non golfer Scott 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,079 Stallings, it wrote, high Scotts, my name is Scott Stallings as well. 11 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,159 I'm from Georgia. My wife's name is Jennifer. Two. Received FedEx 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,439 today from the Masters inviting me to play in the Masters Tournament April six through 13 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,159 nine, twenty twenty three. I'm one hundred percent sure this is not for 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,759 me. Well, good news. Golfer Scott Stallings says, we're playing in 15 00:00:56,799 --> 00:01:00,280 to give non golfer Scotts some practice round tickets and take him to it on 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,399 Monday night for doing the right thing. That's a lot of fun. I 17 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:06,840 like this guy, Pepe or Tis. He is a kindred spirit of mind. 18 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:10,959 So what he's doing in Seville, Spain, anytime he sees an abandoned 19 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,959 plant, he's trying to save it. I do this. I'll see the 20 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,319 neighbors. They there are some plants. I actually call myself the plant Whisperer. 21 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:19,079 I would take the sickest plant you've ever seen and nurse it back to 22 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:23,319 health. I'm not always successful, but I just feel bad for these things 23 00:01:23,359 --> 00:01:25,599 because they're living things. It's just like, hey, I'll throw it out 24 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,480 and I'll tell you the story to second. At the first sign of a 25 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:32,719 clutch of abandoned green shoots or forsaken flowers, Pepe and his team spring into 26 00:01:32,719 --> 00:01:36,560 action. They snap photos and upload them to social Mediaport says, one could 27 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,400 say we're a team of rescuers. The goal is to save plants. Their 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,040 group now has twenty four hundred members. They've stumbled across orchid speaking out of 29 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,040 a rubbish band or towering plants dumped into dumpsters. They post them with the 30 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,359 exact location to allow them to be picked up by anybody willing to give them 31 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,599 a new home. Others use the group to offer plants they can no longer 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,760 care for, maybe they have space constraints or an imminent move, where t 33 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:01,400 says it's a reclamation of the plant as a living being. People need to 34 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,799 realize these aren't just objects to be used and discarded. They deserve respect, 35 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:08,680 care, and a measure of dignity. Following the holiday season, he's worried 36 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,319 about fir trees, pines, and points set as. He says, many 37 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:16,159 of them are sold at cheap prices and people buy them as temporary decorations without 38 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:19,719 knowing how to take care of them, or businesses by them because they look 39 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,719 nice in the restaurant and the store, and toss them when the holidays are 40 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:28,680 over. A Nashville school has created a marketplace to combat absenteeism. Administrators at 41 00:02:28,759 --> 00:02:32,680 Nashville's Warner Elementary School they were worried about these schools high levels of absences. 42 00:02:32,759 --> 00:02:37,080 I'll tell you the numbers in a second. There wow these schools. Principal 43 00:02:37,159 --> 00:02:42,719 Ricky Gibbs noticed a correlation between chronically apps and students and families that needed support. 44 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:46,879 Backed by community donations, they set up a marketplace called the Warner Exchange. 45 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,280 Again, it's Warner Elementary School. It opens one day every month. 46 00:02:50,759 --> 00:02:54,280 Every student at school gets five Warner Bucks for every day they come to school. 47 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:59,120 The families can then use those dollars to buy items from the Warner Exchange. 48 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:02,039 The items basic household items like cleaning products or baby food, diapers, 49 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,319 and other necessities that families using their daily lives. The items are priced around 50 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:09,560 what they would be at local grocery stores. Gibbs said, if we're truly 51 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,439 trying to change family history, if we're truly trying to change children's trajectory, 52 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,800 you don't do that through a handout. We can only do that by ensuring 53 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,599 that they receive a world class education. But you can't ensure a child receives 54 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:25,599 a world class education if they're not in school absentees and was at forty two 55 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:30,639 percent WOW when the program started. It's down at twenty eight percent today. 56 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:32,759 Nobody has complained yet, but Gibbs says, if we do run into a 57 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:37,039 situation where a parent is upset they can't access the space because their child hasn't 58 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:39,000 been a school, I would just reply, I'm beset your child isn't at 59 00:03:39,039 --> 00:03:43,560 school, so now we're both upset. Now time out here, I deliberately 60 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:46,879 misread the quote. This is the school principle. I'm going to read you 61 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:51,360 the quote as transcribed here. I'm upset your child ain't at school, so 62 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:57,840 now we're both upset. One hundred year old Nancy Epley makes custom jackets by 63 00:03:57,879 --> 00:04:00,840 hand. She gives them away. She's stitched together about two hundred quilted coats, 64 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,080 each of which tells a personal tale. Back in October, a senior 65 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,479 living community in Lexington, Virginia, hosted an art show. Twenty five women 66 00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:13,879 modeled custom jackets made by one hundred year old Nancy Epley. One after another. 67 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:17,040 The twenty five women appeared, each wearing a hand sewn customized jacket. 68 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,879 Epley started making the jackets in nineteen eighty. She started by crafting one for 69 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,560 herself, and as compliments poured in, she made them for other people. 70 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,560 She says, I've always loved clothes, so I decided I'd make a jacket 71 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,879 for myself. People are like, where'd you get that jacket? I was 72 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:32,560 so flattered. It just went from there. Before beginning a jacket, Epley 73 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,040 asked the wearer questions about style, what colors do you like next to your 74 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,360 face? Do you want to call her? Then she instructs them to make 75 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,319 a list of all the things that matter in their lives, their hobbies, 76 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:46,079 what they'd like to remember. Ursulla Keilly is eighty seven on her list, 77 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,480 where her family in marriage. She says, the jacket really represents my life, 78 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,800 in my family's life. If there's a fire, this is the only 79 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:55,040 thing I would take and I'd run. And good news if you like free 80 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,920 pizza. But likely only good news if you like free pizza and you're in 81 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,720 Edinburgh. Mark Wilkinson, he owns Pure Pizza in Morningside. He's trying to 82 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,399 help people struggling with the cost of living crisis. He's offered to give everyone 83 00:05:06,519 --> 00:05:10,560 in Edinburgh a free pizza. Don't quote me on that. Don't be like, 84 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,720 hey, Johnny MAXs had this free pizza here. I'm just tell you 85 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,319 the story. Everyone. Seems like a pretty high promise. But Mark Wilkinson 86 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,600 is quote is saying, I'm very happy with my plan because it's a win 87 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,680 win win for everyone. The customers benefit, the supplier's benefit, my team 88 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,720 of chef's benefit, as it gives them more hours of work. He estimated 89 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,079 it would cost him about twelve thousand pounds. His ovens have the capacity to 90 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:31,560 make eighteen pizzas every six minutes. The free pizzas will be given to people 91 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:38,000 who visit a shop in Morningside Drive during January, although not between five thirty 92 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,759 and eight thirty pm. He hopes that anyone takes up the offer will pass 93 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,959 on the act of kindness in their own way. You only have to provide 94 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:47,360 a valid mobile number, Wilkinson says. I hope my idea doesn't get out 95 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,839 of hand, but I'm not going to start asking for proof of address. 96 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:53,399 They won't have to bring in a council tax bill with their address audit. 97 00:05:53,519 --> 00:06:00,600 Have a great day. I love ya, Mot France's host to a daily 98 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:05,439 podcast about the British royal family called Palace Intrigue. Did you see what Megan 99 00:06:05,519 --> 00:06:11,319 Michael did in her latest documentary or what Prince Harry said in his new book. 100 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:15,879 While the Kings and Queens and Princes and princesses are ready to explode, 101 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:20,360 Andrew is ready to implode. Royal sources are jumping at the bit. The 102 00:06:20,439 --> 00:06:26,720 inlaws just can't stop. 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