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Calaruga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with five good news stories between

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now and Christmas. What we're going
to do is on Monday and Wednesday,

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I will do the normal five good
news stories on Tuesday and Thursday. Ast

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Ireland is going to help out.
She's going to do five good news Christmas

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stories, so you'll still get me
twice a week, and then you get

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Christmas stories twice a week that starts
tomorrow. How about this story. Some

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tourists were stuck on a plane the
reason they didn't have enough pilots. Michael

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was hoping to fly to Spain with
his wife and son and found out that

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the grand delay was because they were
missing a pilot. Luckily, Michael is

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a pilot. He called the bosses
at the plane company and volunteered to take

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the plane the fifteen hundred miles or
so. The company agreed, and Michael

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made an announcement. This is the
captain speaking my wife, who's on Roe

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fifteen with my little boy. Hopefully
he's asleep by now. I should keep

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it down or else I'll get told
off. She rolled over and punched me

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in the back of the head and
said, our flight's delayed. By two

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hours because they are minus one captain
for the flight. So just before we

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went through security, I thought,
I wonder if this is worth a phone

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call. I think it is because
I'd like to go on holiday. I

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phone the airline and said, Hey, I'm standing in the terminal doing nothing.

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I have my license with me,
got my idea with me, and

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I'd very much like to go on
holiday. If you need a favor,

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I'm standing here ready to go.
They said, would phone you back.

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Thirty eight seconds later they phoned back
and said, please, with a big

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cherry on top, can you fly
the airplane. Please fasten your seat belts

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and prepare for takeoff. Billy Joel
has adopted a dog, Bucky, the

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French bulldog. Billy shared the news
on Instagram, writing, a year and

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a half ago we lost Rosie.
We were waiting for the right rescue for

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our family. Billy shared a de
gray puppy was at a shelter in San

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Diego with a bad case of mange
when he was rescued by Road Dogs,

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who were a California based rescue dedicated
to rehabbing and rescuing medical bulldogs and puppies

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with birth defects. Road dogs rescued
the puppy and nursed him back to health.

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Billy says, and now he's part
of our family. Good news.

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Whose they caught the lion. A
lion was prowling the streets of an Italian

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seaside town for several hours. Where'd
the lion come from? Johnny Mack?

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He had escaped from a local circus. The Mayor's sold residents to stay home

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good advice, while police and circus
staff combined to work together to try and

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catch the lion. The lion was
eventually sedated and captured. Ronnie is responsible

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for the animals at ronnie Rollers circus, He said, Kimba, the lion

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pose little danger. He met with
people in an environment he wasn't used to,

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and nothing happened. He didn't even
for a second have the instinct to

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attack a person. Ronnie's fear was
that someone could have hurt the lion out

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of fear or excess enthusiasm. The
mayor commet did and said, I hope

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this episode can stir some consciences and
that we can finally put an end to

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the exploitation of animals and circuses.
Meanwhile, if you're walking around at cobble

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street in Paris, you'll find a
tribute to one of Melbourne, Australia's most

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beloved identities. A tiny stencil artwork
on a building depicts the back of a

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man in a check shirt holding a
giant carrot from Melbourne. You know what

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this is? Carrot Man calls inner
city Melbourne home. Carrot Man's real identity

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is Nathan. Nathan and his carrot
have become a beloved fixture on the inner

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streets of Melbourne for more than a
decade. He's also popular on the internet.

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On Reddit, sub forms feature photos
of Nathan alongside the carrot with revelers

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in a local nightclub or reading a
book on the train, and there's an

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Instagram page titled where is carrot Man? How did this start? Well?

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Nathan decided to carry around a big
object around town and make it easier to

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socialize after he moved from Brisbane to
Melbourne in twenty nineteen. He shared that

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hed initially tried a giant turnip,
and carrying it home, he noticed the

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joint brought to passers by. He
also tried a giant octopus and his favorite,

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a squid, but neither got as
good reaction as the carrot. So

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I just kept carrying the carrot around
because it was the most successful thing at

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making people smile. Recently, two
women visiting from Japan were in a drugstore.

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One burst out of the chain room
excitedly calling a friend over. Pulling

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out her phone, she shared a
photo of carrot Man she had taken earlier

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in the day. Carrot Man,
says, shows it's across cultural all right.

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Good news. If you want to
live a long time, you should

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try this remote Greek island. The
ninety nine square mile island of Acaria claims

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to have more nonagenarians than any other
place on the planet. As you know,

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anthropologists have long pointed to fresh,
healthy Mediterranean diets rich in fish and

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olive oil as a way to live
long. The so called Blue Zone Somebody's

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been watching Netflix describes the regions dotted
around the world where populations are thought to

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live the longest. The researchers found
that most of the oldest islanders reported daily

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physical activity, healthy eating habits,
no smoking, rich social lives, midday

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naps, and what was the good
news, Johnny Mack, Most of them

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claim to still be sexually active.
That's your five good news stories for today

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Tomorrow Astor. We'll have five good
news Christmas stories and I'll be back on

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Wednesday with more of this style.
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