The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news
for Diane Gordon. Her car broke down. Well that's not good news,
Johnny Mack. Why are you being such a jerk. No, she had
a walk to work and one day on the walk she found fifteen thousand dollars
as well fourteen seven and eighty dollars to be exact. Yeah, about a
year ago, Diane Gordon's jeep Liberty broke down and ever since she's been walking
two and a half miles each way to and from work five days a week.
She couldn't afford a new car. One day, she spotted a ziploc
bag with the fifteen grand in it. I happen to look down there was
a bag of money. I picked it up and there was some papers that
went with it, and I turned it over and there was even more money.
She knew that keeping the money would be life changing, but she refrained
from opening the cash field bag. I just looked at it and I knew
it wasn't mine. I knew what I needed to do. She went in
to a gas station and called the police, ready for the twist. The
police called her back at two hours and said they found whose money it is?
Now, I'm thinking, like, all right, drug dealers or something.
No, it was a young couple who had gotten married earlier in the
day. The police chief said there were wedding cards with a name on it.
We were able to get the money back to them. Gordon said,
if it doesn't belong to you, you don't keep it. I didn't do
anything special. All I did was return something that didn't belong to me.
But wait, there is more. So. Stacy Connell, whose husband was
the police officer that responded to the initial call, was touched by Gordon's selflessness
set up a go fund me. Stacy Connell said, as a police officer's
wife, I typically hear the bad things, so this was obviously heartwarming.
I was hoping we could get her a car in less than a week.
More than sixty thousand dollars was donated from strangers. Gordon used the money.
She's got a brand new green Jeep Compass. She says, I absolutely love
it. It's got a steering wheel, warmer and a backup camera, all
these things I've never had before. He's also looking forward to driving to work
and I'll only take ten minutes instead of an hour. A jogger at San
Francisco's Ocean Beach helped save a dog who was trapped under some large rocks.
The jogger was running along the beach here to bark side to stop, and
he found a dog looking up from the rock. Animal control officers raced to
the scene pulled the dog to safety. It's not clear how the dog became
trapped. The dog's named Gwen, and it was reunited with their family.
That's awesome. How about this one? A Portland senior tracked down an Okinawan
family based on the photos left behind in an album her late husband plucked from
the shrapnel strewn beaches of Okinawa in nineteen forty five. Yeah, nineteen forty
five, the Navy and Marines landed on the beaches of Okinawa during the closing
stages of the war the Pacific. Duke Wheedon stormed the beaches as part of
the Third Wave. He found himself holding a black photo album filled with pictures
of family, toddlers and the high schoolers. Duke had enough humanity in him
to hope that one day the album might be returned. After the war.
Duke passed away in twenty twelve. His youngest son, Ken, found the
album in his navy trunk in the family home in Portland, Oregon. Duke's
second wife, Carolyn said, most family members thought it was lost cause,
reminding me how long ago it had happened and how many people had been killed
in the war, in addition to those who died of old age. My
youngest son and his friend, however, started the search within husiasm. They
made a few calls, most of which were never returned. Carolyn mentioned it
to her guitar teacher, who immediately called his Japanese friends. They translated every
page of the photo album. Then they randomly ran into former Marine officer Eric
Lundbergh, who used to teach English on Okinawa and he lived there with his
family. Lundberg happened to be visiting Portland. He heard about the search and
he said, all right, I'll be the boots on the ground, And
when he got back to Okinawa started talking about it. Carolyn said, I
made copies of some of the photos for them and immediately recognized the logo on
the shirts of a youth group. Amazing was that back in Okinawa, our
volunteers went to the town hall and ask about members of the society and found
themselves standing in front of a man who was the elder of the group.
He recognized a friend in the photos. He called the friend's sister to come
immediately. She not only recognized her brother, but also saw herself in some
of the photos. Everybody met up in Okinawa. They took a new photo
to commemorate this most extraordinary union of family, place and memory. Wow.
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Good news, if you're a wood stork, you're coming off the endangered
species list. The wood stork faced extinction in nineteen eighty four. The population
a decreased from twenty thousand nesting pairs to less than five thousand. A recovery
program was started. Today, the wood stork breeding population is doubled to ten
thousand or more nesting pairs. Wood Storks will remain a protected species. And
yep, I've got another McDonald's story for you. I know, I can't
believe how many of these are. All right, here is the trick of
getting fresh fries without asking for no salt. This from TikTok user Joda.
See, all right, how do you get fresh fries at McDonald's. What
out having to ask for no salt? And why would I ask for no
salt? Because that way you get a new batch and then you add your
own salt. Right, However, Jodice on TikTok says that's completely unnecessary slows
down the entire operation for yourself and other customers. Here's that hack. Just
say you want the fries drop fresh. Nine times out of ten, the
fries are already drop fresh. She also explained why you can never get a
milkshake. You know how. It's like a joke, but it's true.
The ice cream machine is always broken at McDonald's. She said, the ice
cream machine is rarely broken, at least in my location. We just don't
want to change the heavy bags of shake mix. She also said McDonald's employees
are not allowed to take tips, just in case you wanted to tip us,
but I still took them though. Hey, that's your five good news
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