Calaruga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories between
now and Christmas. What we're going to do is on Monday and Wednesday,
I will do the normal five good news stories on Tuesday and Thursday. Ast
Ireland is going to help out. She's going to do five good news Christmas
stories, so you'll still get me twice a week, and then you get
Christmas stories twice a week that starts tomorrow. How about this story. Some
tourists were stuck on a plane the reason they didn't have enough pilots. Michael
was hoping to fly to Spain with his wife and son and found out that
the grand delay was because they were missing a pilot. Luckily, Michael is
a pilot. He called the bosses at the plane company and volunteered to take
the plane the fifteen hundred miles or so. The company agreed, and Michael
made an announcement. This is the captain speaking my wife, who's on Roe
fifteen with my little boy. Hopefully he's asleep by now. I should keep
it down or else I'll get told off. She rolled over and punched me
in the back of the head and said, our flight's delayed. By two
hours because they are minus one captain for the flight. So just before we
went through security, I thought, I wonder if this is worth a phone
call. I think it is because I'd like to go on holiday. I
phone the airline and said, Hey, I'm standing in the terminal doing nothing.
I have my license with me, got my idea with me, and
I'd very much like to go on holiday. If you need a favor,
I'm standing here ready to go. They said, would phone you back.
Thirty eight seconds later they phoned back and said, please, with a big
cherry on top, can you fly the airplane. Please fasten your seat belts
and prepare for takeoff. Billy Joel has adopted a dog, Bucky, the
French bulldog. Billy shared the news on Instagram, writing, a year and
a half ago we lost Rosie. We were waiting for the right rescue for
our family. Billy shared a de gray puppy was at a shelter in San
Diego with a bad case of mange when he was rescued by Road Dogs,
who were a California based rescue dedicated to rehabbing and rescuing medical bulldogs and puppies
with birth defects. Road dogs rescued the puppy and nursed him back to health.
Billy says, and now he's part of our family. Good news.
Whose they caught the lion. A lion was prowling the streets of an Italian
seaside town for several hours. Where'd the lion come from? Johnny Mack?
He had escaped from a local circus. The Mayor's sold residents to stay home
good advice, while police and circus staff combined to work together to try and
catch the lion. The lion was eventually sedated and captured. Ronnie is responsible
for the animals at ronnie Rollers circus, He said, Kimba, the lion
pose little danger. He met with people in an environment he wasn't used to,
and nothing happened. He didn't even for a second have the instinct to
attack a person. Ronnie's fear was that someone could have hurt the lion out
of fear or excess enthusiasm. The mayor commet did and said, I hope
this episode can stir some consciences and that we can finally put an end to
the exploitation of animals and circuses. Meanwhile, if you're walking around at cobble
street in Paris, you'll find a tribute to one of Melbourne, Australia's most
beloved identities. A tiny stencil artwork on a building depicts the back of a
man in a check shirt holding a giant carrot from Melbourne. You know what
this is? Carrot Man calls inner city Melbourne home. Carrot Man's real identity
is Nathan. Nathan and his carrot have become a beloved fixture on the inner
streets of Melbourne for more than a decade. He's also popular on the internet.
On Reddit, sub forms feature photos of Nathan alongside the carrot with revelers
in a local nightclub or reading a book on the train, and there's an
Instagram page titled where is carrot Man? How did this start? Well?
Nathan decided to carry around a big object around town and make it easier to
socialize after he moved from Brisbane to Melbourne in twenty nineteen. He shared that
hed initially tried a giant turnip, and carrying it home, he noticed the
joint brought to passers by. He also tried a giant octopus and his favorite,
a squid, but neither got as good reaction as the carrot. So
I just kept carrying the carrot around because it was the most successful thing at
making people smile. Recently, two women visiting from Japan were in a drugstore.
One burst out of the chain room excitedly calling a friend over. Pulling
out her phone, she shared a photo of carrot Man she had taken earlier
in the day. Carrot Man, says, shows it's across cultural all right.
Good news. If you want to live a long time, you should
try this remote Greek island. The ninety nine square mile island of Acaria claims
to have more nonagenarians than any other place on the planet. As you know,
anthropologists have long pointed to fresh, healthy Mediterranean diets rich in fish and
olive oil as a way to live long. The so called Blue Zone Somebody's
been watching Netflix describes the regions dotted around the world where populations are thought to
live the longest. The researchers found that most of the oldest islanders reported daily
physical activity, healthy eating habits, no smoking, rich social lives, midday
naps, and what was the good news, Johnny Mack, Most of them
claim to still be sexually active. That's your five good news stories for today
Tomorrow Astor. We'll have five good news Christmas stories and I'll be back on
Wednesday with more of this style. If you like the show, tell a
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