The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. I've got
good news for you. If you're planning on seeing the Barbie movie, view
Cinema is offering customers who bring along a real life kin. You could get
a free tango ice blast or some popcorn. All you have to do is
head over to your local view screening on July twenty one, twenty two,
or twenty three, show the desk and minimum of two tickets any kin's brought
along. We'll also need to show a valid form of ID, including a
driver's license, a debit card, or a passport so they can ensure that
you're not another dollar in disguise. No Barbie is complete without their kin,
and like any fine accessory, you shouldn't be without yours. Sorry Ken.
If you have a partner, family member, a friend, colleague, or
Viga quintance who goes by Ken, you can have yourself a free retail item
for just bringing them along. What kind of retail item, Well, how
about a Barbie pink candy floss, tango ice blast slushed up just for you,
or if you prefer a regular popcorn. Any variation of Ken is welcome,
including but not limited to Kenneth, Kendrick Kendall, and Kenjie. As
long as your name starts with Ken, you're good to go. Good news
if you're into mermaids. Kind of sort of. The headline shocking mermaid like
remains have left local stumped. The remains washed up on an Australian beach.
Bobby Lee Oates thought she might have found a dead body or maybe a new
species. She said, we were driving along the beach looking for a campsite.
We couldn't help, but notice how much the skull looked to be in
the shape of a humans. I think I would have been a little more
freaked out about this than Bobby Lee was. She said it had a human
shaped skull with an elongated jawline and hair is similar to the color of a
cow or kangaroo, but with hair missing in many places due to decomposition.
It was like a mermaid shape, but harry because it seemed to have a
tail or a limb of some sort. Were shocked because it looked human to
start with. Then we were excited because I thought we had discovered a new
miracle species. On social media, one person said, you just caught a
mermaid. That's a mermaid another man, and I'm gonna go with this guy
said, that's a kangaroo. Carcass. A hair stylist from Ithaca, New
York, is trying to save the world's monarch butterflies. She's known as the
Monarch Butterfly Lady. Rose Cochrane has been rescuing butterflies for eighteen years. She
said, I got involved with Monarch Watch. They said monarchs are becoming endangered,
and I thought, well, what can I do help? So I
started trying to find caterpillars. Five years ago, Cochrane started a place terrariums
filled with milkweed and caterpillars in her salon, placing signs outside the building asking
clients not to slam the door because she'll bother the fragile creatures. One point,
she housed over three hundred butterflies. She said, I started realizing there
was a problem with the butterfly, so I started slowly bringing chrysalisses into the
salon, and I realized there was interest. Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on
milkweed. There's not enough milkweed. That's the issues. I'm trying to find
organic milkweed. The monarch butterfly population is decreased by more than eighty percent during
the last three decades. That decline is attributed to herbicide use in the US,
which has killed the milkweed. Cochrane said, each butterfly as an ID
number. I tagged one with Monarch Watch and they actually found one of my
butterflies in Mexico. It Flude twenty six, or moss from Ithaca Conquerence on
a mission, She's going to plant more milkweed and discourage the use of pesticide.
She said, it's going to take the world to get monarchs off the
endangered list. They'll be extinct if we don't all do our part to start
paying attention to our environment. I am Patty Callahan Henry, I am Mary
kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in
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any major streaming platform. Kalise Paris was the middle of getting married. The
minister asked the question, who gives this woman to be married to this man?
An answer I do, But the voice was not who is expected.
It came from her army son. Twenty three year old son Rafael had not
seen his mom in one to three years. He's based in New York,
Callise lives in Guyana. Rafael had planned this prize weeks in advance. He
even spoke to his mom in the night before the wedding, pretending to be
devastated that he couldn't be there. But in the end he made her special
day. That's awesome and a nice note for coach Richard. He works with
students at Charles Elementary School. He got a heartfelt thank you from first grade
student Jaden and a mug bearing the inscription A good coach can change the game.
A great coach can change a life. That's your five good news stories
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