I'm Johnny Maick with five good news stories. Congratulations Gary McKee, he ran
a marathon every single day of twenty twenty two. Nice job. He raised
over one million pounds for cancer charities. This story from the Mirror, Gary
said, I haven't had a beer all year. I've abstained from it.
The local brewery has been making a marathon man beer and they've been selling like
hotcakes while all profits going to my fundraising page. This streak of three hundred
and sixty five marathons no joke. He's previously run one hundred and one hundred
ten marathons in a row, and he said, you get used to running
one hundred and eighty five miles a week. Wow. I ran with a
guy this week that did one hundred and thirty six miles with me and can
run sub at three hour marathons. He didn't understand how I did it,
But when you make a commitment, you have to go through with what you
say. I'm still excited to open the door and see who's coming with me
because I've had a bit of a hamstring injury that slowed me down. But
what that's done is allowed more people to run with me. He averages four
hours running a day. He hadn't done a marathon on his own since July.
On Christmas Eve, fifty runners on to Father Christmas outfits to run with
him, and now on Christmas Day it's twenty other people around with him.
He has continued to work a shift as a team leader at a nuclear site,
which sometimes has meant running two marathons in the space of sixteen hours.
He said, I always say the lads and lasses that run with me,
there were good days and there were great days. There's no difficult or bad
days. Wow, I am impressed. I have run on marathon and I
trained in twenty twenty two before pulling out pretty late in the training due to
injury. And that one not long run a week isn't enough. I can't
imagine doing it every day. I would be so exhausted. Jess Mel,
she's thirty four, also had a challenge to try something new every day.
Three hundred and sixty five adventures later, she says she's the happiest she's been
in a decade. Originally the goal was one hundred tasks and one hundred days,
but she got rolling and didn't want to stop, so she extended it
to three hundred and sixty five tasks. I'll read the list in a second,
she said. The first one hundred I had to do one thing every
day. That was quite difficult, so I decided to continue for the rest
of the year. I decided I'd do three hundred and sixty five new things.
That way, I could do ten things in one day if I was
free and still have done three sixty five and three sixty five. That makes
sense to me, because doing one thing every day was very difficult. Life
kept getting in the way. I was gonna finish off by swimming in the
sea, but I hadn't gotten at three sixty five yet, so that ended
up being three sixty three or something like that. I did want to finish
off with something exciting, though, so in the end I finished up by
convincing my dad to let me sit on the roof of his car as he
drove down the road. That was quite random. That was only three sixty
four. My final one was making my first ever Instagram reel of some of
the things I've done in the year. You're ready for the list. This
is going to take a second. Got Instagram, made a Christmas dinner,
watched et, made a lampshade, did it backwards roll, let a radiator,
try to wear a gami, wentz a hot yoga, dyed my hair
pink, did a one thousand piece jigsaw by myself, tried a pot noodle
couple. He did a Rubik's cube, made muffins, visited an aircraft hangar
or got to start a plane, used the Scary gym equipment, got a
handed tattoo, watched the Great Escape, Learned how to do various type of
knots. Learned a shuffled cards, visited the sky Garden, completed a paint
by numbers, learned to pick a lock, completed the Crystal maze, changed
a car wheel, drank a shot out of a belly button, made fudge,
played golf, made pizza, drove my nieces in my car. Yeah,
I don't know about that one. Looked after my nieces by myself,
made a rainbow cake, tried embroidery, was part of a human pyramid,
bold without bumpers, visited a Mormon sample, tried to start a fire without
matches and failed. Watched a brass band called the Old Dirty Brasterards love It.
Attempted to learn to play the ukulelee. Watched Only Fools and Horses for
the first time. Yeah, some of these we could upgrade. A couple
of these pretty good list, but a couple of these we could upgrade.
Watched a foreign film without subtitles one on my first solo trip outside the UK.
Learned how to fix my boiler. One on a ghost walking tour.
Made jam made scones, went lambing, played skittles, explored somewhere near by
foot in my local area. Yeah, that's one of those. Maybe he
did like three hundred and fifty five things and there's a bit of a stretch
here. Went to Virginia water, joined an outdoor fit in his class.
Went on an organized walk. I like this one not safe for work.
I wonder what she did. Visited the Museum of London, made banana bread,
went on a Voka tasting tour, Tried moonshine seventy two percent strength WHOA,
visited the salt mines. Got pooed on by a bird. Now is
that something you try? Because the premise here where she was going to try
new things? So do you like go to the bird sanctuary and wait,
how does that work? I want more details? Went to Blue Water,
dried bubble tea, tried zoomba, went to the Bank of England Museum,
did a solo escape room. We got a sprays hand. As part of
getting the sprays hand, got totally naked in front of a stranger in their
kitchen and I just scrolled down and there's another tea, one hundred of theies.
Oh boy, let me skim. Tried mac and cheese, got sea
monkeys, tried breast milk, made a scarecrow, saw a change in royalty.
Is that something you planned to do or were you just around the day
the queen died? Two more consecutive and not safe for works. Sounds like
it was a fun weekend. Picked my nieces up from school. Not as
interesting as that other weekend of barely he caught a great my mouth streaked another
NSFW interviewed by the media, went line dancing, went speed dating, and
I skipped two hundred of them. As the snow started to fall. In
Buffalo last week, they had a horrible storm. Craig Elston's barbershop, See
and See Cuts, had electricity, heat and Wi Fi guy knocks on the
door looking for shelter. Elston was already stranded there with some clients, and
he said, sure, come on in. Eldon started to see how terrible
the storm was. He went on TikTok and Facebook Live and invited anyone in
the community he needed shelter to come and stay his barbershop. His TikTok video
got one million views. He said, in my first instinct is I have
a building with heat and lights. A lot of people don't why not open
my building up to the public. I did it just so people would have
somewhere to go. He estimates about fifty people came in and out of a
shop from Friday to Monday. Last week. He set around thirty stayed all
weekend. Some just came to warm up, charge their phones and use Wi
Fi to contact family. He slept in his barber's chair. Some other people
slept in the other barber's chairs on the floor in the back of the shop,
and they used barber keeps as blankets. Jessica Manning had a heart transplant.
She still has the old heart. She keeps it in a plastic bag
at her house. She was given a new heart via donation at the age
of twenty five. She donated her original heart to science. Ten months later.
She was told it was no longer needed, so she decided to keep
it. She plans to bury it in her garden. She says, when
I purchase a house, I want to bury it and plant a tree on
top and dedicated to my donor as a transplant recipient. It's almost impossible to
put it into words out thankful. We are not just to our donor,
but to the donor's family. Everything I do in life, I do for
my donor. Her old heart is kept in preservative fluid in a plastic bag.
She stores it in her bedroom, and she says, because it was
preserved, I didn't need to keep it in the fridge or freezer. It
also didn't sit well with me that my heart would be near my food.
I used to keep it in my wardrobe, but now I store it in
a drawer on my desk. Here a picture of the heart on TikTok.
Some of the comments why did I think it was a cookie before I read
the caption? Another joke you can wear it on your sleeve. Now that's
pretty good. And someone else suggested you can send it to your ex with
a dramatic message. And a little boy was concerned that his baby brother was
the only family member without hair. You know, babies sometimes they don't have
a lot of hair. So his brother used an orange worker and drew on
a pair of eyebrows and like a comb over kind of thing on his little
brother. His mom rushed to grab some soap and wipe off the drawings,
but she had to leave the little baby with some orange comb over on his
head for three days to avoid hurting his soft spot. She said, I
just started laughing. I was taken off guard. He looked like a little
old man. The pin was an orange color, so it made him look
like a little ginger. I turned around and the brother was coloring his head.
I said, what did you do? The boy said, he has
no hair, so he colored had some hair and eyebrows. The boy asked
if he was in trouble. He's not as long as he doesn't do it
again. Mom says, when I showed it to my husband, I walked
outside and brought the baby. He started laughing thing and asked who did this.
That's five good news stories for today, A little along there in the
middle. Don't forgot I skipp two hundred of them. Have a great day.
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