The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news
for Shrimp the rooster. He's in love with one legged chicken Basil. They
lived together in an enclosure made of mats and baby gates at the Here with
Us Animal Sanctuary in Pennsylvania. Basil was taken in as part of a large
scale chicken rescue. Shrimp was saved one day before her youth and asia date
back in October. Basil had to have one leg amputated to do an infection
had to be brought inside for her safety. At the same time, Shrimp
was brought inside because he was being bullied by the other chickens. They're a
solid couple. They give each other treats, dance for each other, and
even refused to go to the vets separately. Amanda Clark, who's the founder
of Here with Us, said he was so interested in her through the baby
gate and did a little dance as soon as he saw her. It's sorry
to believe their love is real unless you see it. It's the cutest thing.
Ever. Whenever he can, he'll do a little dance in front of
her and PLoP berries down so she can eat. They don't have any fights
or anything like that. They really are the perfect couple. Hey, do
you want good food on a plane? Will? Good luck? Despite this
travel tip from a flight attendant, Camilla's have been a flight attendant for over
three years. She shared how she maximizes her chances of eating what she wants
on a plane. Says, if you've pre booked your seat, choose the
front of the plane or as closed to it as you can get an economy.
The food service usually starts from the front of the plane to get to
dine first. Sitting in the front rail also means you're more likely to get
your preferred choice of meal if two meal options are available. Here's a fun
fact. Due to different air pressure and dry air inside the airplane, our
sense of smell reduces roughly by twenty percent, and so does the sensitivity of
our taste buds, making the food taste blender. Therefore, aircraft food is
often oversalted. For that reason, I bring my own snacks when I fly.
Interesting. She also says, you know bottled water, it'd be my
first choice. The water tanks don't often get clean due to time constraints.
That being said, over my flying career, I drank countless cups of tea
and coffee when I needed a caffeine boost to stay up on night flights,
and I never had any issues scared. There for a second good news for
the cape On tree. It's a cessial oak, estimated to two be between
seven hundred and one thousand years old. The oak was awarded a grant of
around eighty five hundred dollars after one of its supporting limbs collapsed. You see
oaks that grow without any other trees nearby. It tend to grow in girth
rather than the height, and the cape On tree is an exceptional example of
the strange duality. The Tree Council recognizes the Capon as one of Britain's fifty
Greatest trees. There are stories that go back to at least the sixteenth century,
referring to the tree as a meeting place for brigands who would read across
the border in New England. Wow. The community Trust said, we wanted
to make sure we were doing everything we could to prolong the tree's life for
future generations. Alexandra Gamerzik is a nephrologist in Chicago. She helped two patients
get new kidneys by going from doctor to donor. She knows that some people
have questions about the living donor process, so she decided to undergo the procedure
herself. And when it came to decide who got her kidney, she said,
I couldn't pick with just one, and'd be like picking one child over
another. I can't do that. So I was just gonna help. I
just wanted to throw my kidney out into the pool and help someone who needs
it. So she took part in what's called a kidney pair donation. There
was a man in Virginia who was not a match for his wife who needed
a kidney, but Alexandra was. Alexandra gave that woman her kidney. Her
husband gave his kidney to someone else. Alexandra says the example she said has
already paid off. One patient who is skeptical about the transplant process is now
being evaluated for the procedure. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am
Mary kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends
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