The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. I gotta
tell you, I do record a bunch of these back to back. There
are a lot of fun to do. I just I'm still laughing about the
one the other day from the mushroom Bread. In case you missed that one.
Once again, we have McDonald's secret menu items. I don't know what
it is about this podcast, always McDonald's stories. This comes from a McDonald's
employee who said for secret menu items, what tends to matter for availabilities not
the owner. It's the on duty manager and the location of the store.
There is no secret menu really. What these are our menu hacks, combinations
that aren't on the menu but are possible with the ingredients found around, and
some are more ingenious than others. He says customers can maximize their chances by
visiting McDonald's near college or high school, as those workers are more likely to
go along. You know, you get the teenager of the teenager doesn't care.
He added, if you go anytime after seven o'clock, you'll have better
luck than during a lunch period. Is when lunch is busy, you know,
And there's more rule savvy managers on duty. Right, So you pile
into the McDonald's at nine at night, and the teenager doesn't care. One
secret menu item is the McKinley Mac. What's that? It's a big mac
with quarter pounder meat. He said. It's kind of expensive, but basically
any store will do it as far as I know, The employee says.
Customers sometimes order a grilled cheese by asking for a plain cheeseburger with no meat.
He says, if you ask for this, look at the receipt.
If the cashier was new, you'll see ask me written on it, but
if they knew it was coming, you'll just see plain no regular meat or
something like that. Quality will vary based on how hot the bun was versus
how cold the cheese was. I personally don't suggest it, but if you
want a grilled cheese, technically that's one. There's also something called the mc
GB. I don't want to tell you what GB stands for because it's quite
naughty and involves a group. Leave it at that, he says. It's
only generally going to happen in a college town with a lax manager because of
its name, and they don't want other sensitive customers to be hearing those naughty,
naughty words. If you want to make GB, you better off just
asking for a mc chicken and a mcdouble and put it together rather than saying
that naughty name. For other Mick sandwiches generally the same rules as the MICGB.
Sometimes you'll get a hit, sometimes not. If not, you'll just
be told order them separately, put them together yourself. One user said I
used to make a quadruple cheeseburger on my own out of two doubles. I
was tempted to ask them to do it for me and save the extra bread.
Another user said I was drunk in order to mcdouble with six extra patties
and six extra slices of cheese cost me nine bucks. Now I'm not saying
he's a gold digger, but Darren Kemp pulled a stone weighing ten pounds.
More than half of it is gold. Is a photo of this. It
looks like he's a gold miner from the eighteen fifties. This rockets gigantic,
he tells CNN. When I hit my hand, my jaw dropped with it
was incredible. Once in a lifetime find. He runs Lucky Strike Gold,
which runs recreational prospecting trips into the gold containing regions of Australia known as the
Golden Triangle. H I wonder if this is just for publicity, But then
again, how do you fake at ten pound gold rock? Who knows?
Congrats? Good news for Felix the dog and his friend sent him in the
goat. They were dropped off by animal control, who had taken them from
a house whose owner had been hospitalized and there was no one else to look
after the dog and goat. The shelter realized the two were a special situation.
When they first tried to separate them sent him in. The goat was
very upset. She was bleeding and calling out to the dog. She was
so stressed and frantic. We realized we had to keep the goat and the
dog together. Generally, the shelter doesn't take in form animals, and after
ten days they told the owner, hey, you gotta take the animals back,
but he never did, so they put up an adoption notice. The
goat and the dog spent every hour together at the shelter except for when they
ate. Sin him in hates being apart from Felix, but if they ate
side by side, the bulldog would eat the goat food. Simon likes nothing
more than cuddling with Felix the dog or rumping around the dog yard, even
though it's AstroTurf. Felix is capable spending time away from his goat prowl,
but he returns. He always gives sent him in a bath with his giant
bulldog tongue. One of the shelter workers said, so we're duo, but
it works for them. Who are we to judge? They obviously love each
other. Good news somebody has adopted them together. Congratulations Cinnamon and Felix.
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shelters will tell you it's easier to get dogs adopted than cats. So the
Wayside Waves did something that got international attention and had found many of their cats
of Forever home. They posted a video on TikTok with some of the cats
up for adoption. It got over a million views. Thanks to the video,
all but two of the cats were adopted. I feel awful for those
two cats. One of the shelter workers said, we have comments from Brazil
and the Philippines and the UK and all these amazing places. They'll blinking for
fun ways to come up with their next adoption video. And a ten year
old girl made what her mom thinks is the sassiest card ever, complete with
the words you love vodka. Geordana received the gift and was thankful and said
she doesn't drink vodka. She talked to people at the school and the teacher
that helped great the card. Jordana. The mom said she had the card
behind her back. It was quite giggly, and she handed to me and
I was like, oh my, he was really unexpected. I did a
nervous laugh, like have you actually done this? I was quite shocked,
but I didn't mind because it's quite funny. She's outgoing and funny. She
was proud of it, she said. The teacher said it was great,
and they helped her to cut the bottle out of the stick on the front.
It was just getting worse. Not only she made the card, but
she'd involved teachers to bring attention to the fact that she's done this. We
had a parents' evening and the teachers thought she was great. They thought she
thought outside the box and it was really funny. But why if the mom
doesn't drink vodka. I don't know what's going on here. That's your five
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