The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five Good News Stories. Do you
like acorns? Probably not as much as Brian, who's seventy six. He's
been hoarding a tree seeds and hopes to send some over to Ukraine, as
he describes trees as a sign of life. Brian has a collection of more
than ten thousand. He says, I'd also like to educate children about trees,
how important they are for our environment, and how easily they can be
grown. I just don't have the finances to be able to take my projects
further to the next stages. I don't know what to do with them all
now. He stores the seeds in his garage and loft. He even bought
an extra fridge to keep them cool. They need to chill for a month
before they can germinate. He even has a small forest planted in an old
kitchen sink. Maybe we should get him a piece lily because NASA says the
peace lily can help remove dust and toxins from the air. The peace lily
takes moisture in from the air through its leaves, and what's better is it
doesn't need direct sunlight to thrive. It'll thrive in bathrooms and bedrooms and help
improve air quality. It's pretty and it's low maintenance. Thanks peace, Lily.
How about the flight attendant who spent an entire trip holding the hand of
a nervous flyer. Floyd Dean Shannon won the hearts of people around the world
after a photo went viral showing him sitting on the floor of the plane during
a flight from North Carolina to New York. There was an anxious woman on
the flight. A fellow passenger said the woman was so nervous about flying,
so he explained every sound and bump and even sat here holding her hand.
When it got to be too much for her, he said, I got
you. Was just very reassuring, told her not to worry. He was
gonna be totally safe, and she was tearing up. With every little noise.
She'd be like, what's that. He said, That's okay, it's
just the jet bridge pulling away or whatever the case may be, and it
really helped her. I just really hope that Floyd gets what he deserves,
which is everyone's love, everyone's praise, everyone's admiration. I'm so happy he's
getting recognition. I really hope it leads to good things for him. Good
news, they found Nugget the dog. It took seven years and Nugget was
found seventeen hundred miles away, but they found Nugge. Nugget went missing in
twenty fifteen in Farmington, New Mexico, and showed up in Travelers Rest,
South Carolina. Jennifer in South Carolina was sitting on a porch was raining.
She saw a limping dog on the road. Jennifer said, my first thought
is I need to take him to the vet and get him checked for a
microchip. They did that, and it turned out the owner lived seventeen hundred
miles away in New Mexico. The owner said, when Gin texted me,
I was like, wait what. That dog never left my side. I
thought he'd walked off to die because he was already old. It is unclear
how Nugget, the dog, who's now sixteen, ended up so far from
home. They suspect Nugget might have been picked up by somebody on a road
trip who decided taking the pet, not realizing that Nugget was microchip and belonged
to somebody else. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am Mary kay
Andrews. I'm Kristin Harmel and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is
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platform. And good news for some English soccer fans, the beer gut delivered
in time way Do you hear this? They were stuck on a delayed train,
so they ordered beer delivery from Uber Eats. They gambled that the Uber
Eats would show up before the train got to the next station. They were
on their way to watch west Ham play Brighton, but the train delays turned
their one hour trip into three and a half hours. They had brought two
beers each for their ten o'clock train, but didn't get to Brighton until one
thirty. As they were approaching three Bridges station, they decided to put it
on an order with Uber Eats, hoping that they could time this out.
They'd promised the delivery driver and extra twenty if he managed to get the four
beers and two siders to them on time. They shot this on video and
they were communicating with Gino, the driver who was waiting for them clutching their
order at platform five. The nerve racking clip shows Jordan, who only had
a one minute window, hopping off the train looking for Gino. Gino was
there. They got their beers and presumably made it to the soccer game safely.
Who knows, I don't have that part of the story. That's your
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