1 00:00:02,319 --> 00:00:06,519 I'm Johnny Maick with five good news stories. Congratulations Gary McKee, he ran 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:10,679 a marathon every single day of twenty twenty two. Nice job. He raised 3 00:00:10,679 --> 00:00:14,960 over one million pounds for cancer charities. This story from the Mirror, Gary 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,879 said, I haven't had a beer all year. I've abstained from it. 5 00:00:18,039 --> 00:00:21,640 The local brewery has been making a marathon man beer and they've been selling like 6 00:00:21,679 --> 00:00:25,440 hotcakes while all profits going to my fundraising page. This streak of three hundred 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,800 and sixty five marathons no joke. He's previously run one hundred and one hundred 8 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:32,759 ten marathons in a row, and he said, you get used to running 9 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:35,600 one hundred and eighty five miles a week. Wow. I ran with a 10 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:38,399 guy this week that did one hundred and thirty six miles with me and can 11 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,439 run sub at three hour marathons. He didn't understand how I did it, 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,719 But when you make a commitment, you have to go through with what you 13 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:46,920 say. I'm still excited to open the door and see who's coming with me 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,600 because I've had a bit of a hamstring injury that slowed me down. But 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:53,119 what that's done is allowed more people to run with me. He averages four 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,399 hours running a day. He hadn't done a marathon on his own since July. 17 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,799 On Christmas Eve, fifty runners on to Father Christmas outfits to run with 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,760 him, and now on Christmas Day it's twenty other people around with him. 19 00:01:03,879 --> 00:01:07,359 He has continued to work a shift as a team leader at a nuclear site, 20 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:11,359 which sometimes has meant running two marathons in the space of sixteen hours. 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,560 He said, I always say the lads and lasses that run with me, 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,680 there were good days and there were great days. There's no difficult or bad 23 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,519 days. Wow, I am impressed. I have run on marathon and I 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,040 trained in twenty twenty two before pulling out pretty late in the training due to 25 00:01:25,079 --> 00:01:27,719 injury. And that one not long run a week isn't enough. I can't 26 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,680 imagine doing it every day. I would be so exhausted. Jess Mel, 27 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:36,760 she's thirty four, also had a challenge to try something new every day. 28 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:41,159 Three hundred and sixty five adventures later, she says she's the happiest she's been 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,719 in a decade. Originally the goal was one hundred tasks and one hundred days, 30 00:01:45,079 --> 00:01:47,799 but she got rolling and didn't want to stop, so she extended it 31 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,799 to three hundred and sixty five tasks. I'll read the list in a second, 32 00:01:51,959 --> 00:01:53,200 she said. The first one hundred I had to do one thing every 33 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,519 day. That was quite difficult, so I decided to continue for the rest 34 00:01:56,519 --> 00:01:59,120 of the year. I decided I'd do three hundred and sixty five new things. 35 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:00,879 That way, I could do ten things in one day if I was 36 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,400 free and still have done three sixty five and three sixty five. That makes 37 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,039 sense to me, because doing one thing every day was very difficult. Life 38 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,919 kept getting in the way. I was gonna finish off by swimming in the 39 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,479 sea, but I hadn't gotten at three sixty five yet, so that ended 40 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,560 up being three sixty three or something like that. I did want to finish 41 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,800 off with something exciting, though, so in the end I finished up by 42 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,360 convincing my dad to let me sit on the roof of his car as he 43 00:02:21,439 --> 00:02:23,400 drove down the road. That was quite random. That was only three sixty 44 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,879 four. My final one was making my first ever Instagram reel of some of 45 00:02:27,879 --> 00:02:30,400 the things I've done in the year. You're ready for the list. This 46 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:32,560 is going to take a second. Got Instagram, made a Christmas dinner, 47 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:38,639 watched et, made a lampshade, did it backwards roll, let a radiator, 48 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,319 try to wear a gami, wentz a hot yoga, dyed my hair 49 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,039 pink, did a one thousand piece jigsaw by myself, tried a pot noodle 50 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,159 couple. He did a Rubik's cube, made muffins, visited an aircraft hangar 51 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,199 or got to start a plane, used the Scary gym equipment, got a 52 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,240 handed tattoo, watched the Great Escape, Learned how to do various type of 53 00:02:55,319 --> 00:02:59,919 knots. Learned a shuffled cards, visited the sky Garden, completed a paint 54 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,280 by numbers, learned to pick a lock, completed the Crystal maze, changed 55 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,159 a car wheel, drank a shot out of a belly button, made fudge, 56 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:12,080 played golf, made pizza, drove my nieces in my car. Yeah, 57 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,360 I don't know about that one. Looked after my nieces by myself, 58 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,240 made a rainbow cake, tried embroidery, was part of a human pyramid, 59 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,840 bold without bumpers, visited a Mormon sample, tried to start a fire without 60 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:28,879 matches and failed. Watched a brass band called the Old Dirty Brasterards love It. 61 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,199 Attempted to learn to play the ukulelee. Watched Only Fools and Horses for 62 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:35,759 the first time. Yeah, some of these we could upgrade. A couple 63 00:03:35,759 --> 00:03:38,280 of these pretty good list, but a couple of these we could upgrade. 64 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,879 Watched a foreign film without subtitles one on my first solo trip outside the UK. 65 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:44,919 Learned how to fix my boiler. One on a ghost walking tour. 66 00:03:45,159 --> 00:03:50,680 Made jam made scones, went lambing, played skittles, explored somewhere near by 67 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:55,280 foot in my local area. Yeah, that's one of those. Maybe he 68 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:59,599 did like three hundred and fifty five things and there's a bit of a stretch 69 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,360 here. Went to Virginia water, joined an outdoor fit in his class. 70 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,479 Went on an organized walk. I like this one not safe for work. 71 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:12,199 I wonder what she did. Visited the Museum of London, made banana bread, 72 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,680 went on a Voka tasting tour, Tried moonshine seventy two percent strength WHOA, 73 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:23,240 visited the salt mines. Got pooed on by a bird. Now is 74 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,920 that something you try? Because the premise here where she was going to try 75 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:30,879 new things? So do you like go to the bird sanctuary and wait, 76 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,040 how does that work? I want more details? Went to Blue Water, 77 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,000 dried bubble tea, tried zoomba, went to the Bank of England Museum, 78 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:40,079 did a solo escape room. We got a sprays hand. As part of 79 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,480 getting the sprays hand, got totally naked in front of a stranger in their 80 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,399 kitchen and I just scrolled down and there's another tea, one hundred of theies. 81 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:55,000 Oh boy, let me skim. Tried mac and cheese, got sea 82 00:04:55,040 --> 00:05:00,480 monkeys, tried breast milk, made a scarecrow, saw a change in royalty. 83 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,000 Is that something you planned to do or were you just around the day 84 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:10,560 the queen died? Two more consecutive and not safe for works. Sounds like 85 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,040 it was a fun weekend. Picked my nieces up from school. Not as 86 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:16,399 interesting as that other weekend of barely he caught a great my mouth streaked another 87 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:23,040 NSFW interviewed by the media, went line dancing, went speed dating, and 88 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,600 I skipped two hundred of them. As the snow started to fall. In 89 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:31,079 Buffalo last week, they had a horrible storm. Craig Elston's barbershop, See 90 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,519 and See Cuts, had electricity, heat and Wi Fi guy knocks on the 91 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,639 door looking for shelter. Elston was already stranded there with some clients, and 92 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,600 he said, sure, come on in. Eldon started to see how terrible 93 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,439 the storm was. He went on TikTok and Facebook Live and invited anyone in 94 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:48,079 the community he needed shelter to come and stay his barbershop. His TikTok video 95 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,079 got one million views. He said, in my first instinct is I have 96 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:54,360 a building with heat and lights. A lot of people don't why not open 97 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,160 my building up to the public. I did it just so people would have 98 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,160 somewhere to go. He estimates about fifty people came in and out of a 99 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:02,439 shop from Friday to Monday. Last week. He set around thirty stayed all 100 00:06:02,519 --> 00:06:05,319 weekend. Some just came to warm up, charge their phones and use Wi 101 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,000 Fi to contact family. He slept in his barber's chair. Some other people 102 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,720 slept in the other barber's chairs on the floor in the back of the shop, 103 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,399 and they used barber keeps as blankets. Jessica Manning had a heart transplant. 104 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,759 She still has the old heart. She keeps it in a plastic bag 105 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,160 at her house. She was given a new heart via donation at the age 106 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,519 of twenty five. She donated her original heart to science. Ten months later. 107 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:30,360 She was told it was no longer needed, so she decided to keep 108 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,120 it. She plans to bury it in her garden. She says, when 109 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,120 I purchase a house, I want to bury it and plant a tree on 110 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,759 top and dedicated to my donor as a transplant recipient. It's almost impossible to 111 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:41,040 put it into words out thankful. We are not just to our donor, 112 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:43,959 but to the donor's family. Everything I do in life, I do for 113 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:47,319 my donor. Her old heart is kept in preservative fluid in a plastic bag. 114 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:50,120 She stores it in her bedroom, and she says, because it was 115 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,480 preserved, I didn't need to keep it in the fridge or freezer. It 116 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,120 also didn't sit well with me that my heart would be near my food. 117 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,319 I used to keep it in my wardrobe, but now I store it in 118 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,319 a drawer on my desk. Here a picture of the heart on TikTok. 119 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:03,959 Some of the comments why did I think it was a cookie before I read 120 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:08,560 the caption? Another joke you can wear it on your sleeve. Now that's 121 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,079 pretty good. And someone else suggested you can send it to your ex with 122 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,240 a dramatic message. And a little boy was concerned that his baby brother was 123 00:07:16,279 --> 00:07:20,040 the only family member without hair. You know, babies sometimes they don't have 124 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:25,480 a lot of hair. So his brother used an orange worker and drew on 125 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,079 a pair of eyebrows and like a comb over kind of thing on his little 126 00:07:29,079 --> 00:07:31,439 brother. His mom rushed to grab some soap and wipe off the drawings, 127 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,800 but she had to leave the little baby with some orange comb over on his 128 00:07:34,839 --> 00:07:39,439 head for three days to avoid hurting his soft spot. She said, I 129 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,800 just started laughing. I was taken off guard. He looked like a little 130 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:44,079 old man. The pin was an orange color, so it made him look 131 00:07:44,079 --> 00:07:46,560 like a little ginger. I turned around and the brother was coloring his head. 132 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,920 I said, what did you do? The boy said, he has 133 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:51,879 no hair, so he colored had some hair and eyebrows. The boy asked 134 00:07:51,879 --> 00:07:55,519 if he was in trouble. He's not as long as he doesn't do it 135 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,040 again. Mom says, when I showed it to my husband, I walked 136 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,560 outside and brought the baby. He started laughing thing and asked who did this. 137 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,240 That's five good news stories for today, A little along there in the 138 00:08:05,279 --> 00:08:07,680 middle. Don't forgot I skipp two hundred of them. Have a great day. 139 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,079 Daily Comedy news podcast ten minutes a day about your favorite comedians Chapelle, 140 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,959 Gaffigan, Rogan, mullaney, plus late night recaps. 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