The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Fifi the
dog we've seen enjoying a large bed to herself while on an eleven hour flight
from China to Turkey. Yeah, Fifi doesn't fly economy. Fifi flies business
class. The owner explained, I adopted Fifi when she was one year old.
We believe this is her first flight, and we decided to fly business
and have Fifi in the cabin with me because I couldn't deal with her being
in the hold and the cargo. She's my sidekick and I don't like to
be away from her, and she's the same. Must be nice, A
nice job. By Max. He's thirteen. He lived more than one thousand
nights outside in memory of a family friend who had passed away of cancer.
He's announced the end of his epic campout. He came to be known as
the Boy in the Tents. He started sleeping in his garden in March twenty
twenty at the age of ten. His fundraiser raised enough to fund fifteen full
time aspice nurses WOW. During his time outside, he was awarded a British
Empire Medal and camped out in front of places like the London Zoo ten Downing
Street, a Rugby stadium, and he received a tent from Bear Grillis.
The plan for his final fundraiser was he hosts three music stages along with an
exhibition of previously unseen movie memorabilia. Max said it was amazing that so many
people got in touch from all over the UK wanting to mark my three year
anniversary of camping out, but I wanted to stay close to home and celebrate
with friends and family nearby. We're going to camp out on the grounds amongst
the sculptures and have a big party. There's going to be bands and live
music, fireworks and foods, special guests, axe throwing and really cool movie
memorabiliy. It's going to be epic. His sleepout began March twenty seven,
twenty twenty, in memory of Max's friend and neighbor Rick Abbott, who passed
away in twenty nineteen. US officials are working to restore more large bison herds
to Native American lands. The FEDS have also announced twenty five billion dollars in
federal spending for bison conservation. American bison, also known as buffalo, have
bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the eighteen hundreds,
but they remain absent from most of the grasslands they once occupied. Many tribes
of struggled to restore their deep historical connections to the animals. By eighteen eighty
nine, only a few hundred bison remained. They do remain functionally extinct,
wow, and more work is needed to return the animals to tribal lands and
restore the grasslands they depend on. Eighty two tribes now have more than twenty
thousand bison and sixty five herds. Numbers have been growing in recent years,
along with the desire among Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of the animals. Becky
Ball works for Boeing, you know, an airplane company, and she noticed
that the powerball jack pat had reached seven four seven million dollars. That spoke
to her, so she bought a lottery ticket. Can you figure out where
this story is going? Do you listen to the podcast? That's right?
It won We don't know how Becky feels about this. She's released no statements,
interviews, or information about herself, but she told reporters privately she intends
to share the money throughout her extended family. I am Patty Callaghan, Henry,
I am Mary Kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson
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and on any major streaming platform. Boor Denise. Denise made a simple request
to have a huge banner made ahead of her son's christening. Don't worry,
this won't end horribly, but apparently the wording was lost in translation. Denise
told the staff, I just want on your Christening day. It seems simple
enough, And then when she went to pick up the banner, it said
I just want on your Christening day, she said. When I opened the
banner, my brother's wife just shrieked, Oh my god. My brother was
so embarrassed. He was meant to be the godfather. I just laughed and
thought, oh my god, it was so funny. How can you mess
it up that badly? That's your good news stories for today. Follow the
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