Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnnie Mack with five good news stories between
now and Christmas. On Monday and Wednesday you get regular me and on Tuesday
and Thursday, Aster Ireland is chipping in and doing five good news Christmas stories.
Today's regular although a little Christmas see because I got a job for you.
You can get paid to watch holiday movies, but you better get moving.
Cabletv dot Com is looking to hire someone to fill their chief of Cheer
position. It'll pay you twenty five hundred dollars and give you a one year
membership to a handful of streaming services. You have to commit. The website
says, one of our favorite holiday traditions is breaking out the bin of old
VHS tapes, or more realistically, the holiday sections of our favorite streaming services
and watching some classic seasonal movies. If you feel the same, we have
good news for you. You could get paid twenty five hundred dollars just for
keeping up this festive tradition. You have to apply by Friday, December first.
Cabletv dot Com will pay for seven subscriptions over the next year. These
subscriptions are Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Max, Apple,
TV Plus and Hallmark Movies. Now, oh there's a catch. You
know. You don't just get this. You have to keep track of each
movie and rank it across three categories Nostalgia, heartwarming, storytelling and holiday cheer.
You'll also have to rank these seven streaming services in terms of accessibility,
functionality, and holiday movie selection. If you win, they'll contact you via
email by Tuesday, December fifth. Good news if you've been staring at the
cover of led Zeppelin four all these years and you're like, who is that
on the cover? Lot Long is the name of the man. He was
a roof Thatcher born in eighteen twenty three and died a widower in eighteen ninety
three, years after getting his picture taken by the first head of the School
of Photography at the University of Westminster. Brian Edwards is a researcher from the
University of West England. He was slipping through antique photo collections as part of
a project and he came across a photo of a bearded man stooping over the
weight of a burden of sticks slung over his back. Edwards told the BBC
I instantly recognized the man with the sticks. He's often called the stick Man.
There's more part of former signature matches some of the handwriting on the led
Zeppelin four album. The black and white photograph has a thumbprint in the corner.
It looks like it's the original. Apparently the selection of the photo for
led Zeppelin four was part of a scheme to deliberately play down the album,
with Robert Plant finding the image of the stick Man in a shop and reading
compairing it to a scene of urban decay without any words. Good news.
If you get overloaded with noise and lights and stuff, Walmart will lower the
lights, turn off the radio, and change their TV walls to a static
image for daily Sensory Friendly hours. Love It museums and other cultural institutions that
cater to children spearheaded these special hours more than a decade ago. Walmart said
the stores are making shopping more inclusive for those with sensory disabilities by taking measures
to create a less stimulating environment. The Sensory Friendly hours and you're gonna have
to get up early eight to ten am local time and all US and Puerto
Rico stores there is no planned end date. Good news for the owner of
a bright red Ferrari well former owner because they just sold it for fifty one
point seven million dollars including buyer's fees. That's the kick. When you spend
fifty one million dollars on a car and then like the state registration still seventy
five bucks. That's annoying. Despite that huge price, it fell short of
the auction house's expectations. Two bidders drove the price to forty seven million dollars
before auction house fees. Wow. Four million dollars in fees. Yikes.
There are only thirty six Ferrari two to fifty GTOs at existence, produced between
nineteen sixty two and nineteen sixty four. Owners of the car instantly become members
of an exclusive club that includes Nick Mason, the drummer for Pink Floyd.
Southamy's described this car as one of one you see. Although it looks almost
identical to it two to fifty GTO was really configured as at three thirty LM
and even rare car with a slightly larger engine converted it to a two to
fifty GTO later in sixty two. It's the only one ever raced by Scuderia
Ferrari, the car maker's racing division, Ferrari sold it to a Sicilian surgeon
in nineteen sixty four for six thousand dollars. The car, known as chess
He number thirty seven to sixty five, failed to approach the current auction record
for classic car. That happened last year when sotheby sold a Mercedes Benz three
hundred SLR woolen hats coup for one hundred and forty four million dollars. As
for the red Ferrari, now going for fifty one point seven million, I
bet you wish he had picked it up in nineteen eighty five. Back then
it sold for five hundred thousand dollars. Congratulations to Helen Williams. Helen has
set the Guinness World Record for making the longest handmade wig. This one is
eleven hundred and fifty two feet five inches. She spent eleven days and twenty
five hundred dollars to create the hair piece. It took one thousand bottles of
hair, twelve cans of hairspray, thirty five tubes of hair glue, and
sixty two hundred and fifty hair clips. Helen Williams said this achievement is one
of the best things that's ever happened to me. I still can't believe it.
After completing the hairpiece, finding a place to lay it out and measured
accurately was difficult. She laid it out on a highway. She's now displaying
the wig in her so people can come and look at her record setting efforts.
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