Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.
If you skip Thursday's episode, it was Thanksgiving. I get it.
I'm not offended. Go back and listen because story number
five is particularly fun. Just trust me, Go back and
at least listen to the fifth story. All right, today
good news If you vaguely look like Timothy Shalla May.
There's a whole group of you guys yeah in New York,
a loose collective of Timothy Shalla May lookalikes now considers
itself something of a brotherhood. They formed after an unofficial
contest in Washington Square Park last October. That event drew
thousands of people. I remember telling you about it, and
even Timothy Shalla May showed up. Now the group says,
you know, they have similar dark wavy here, but they
acknowledged that they don't much look like each other, but
they all sort of look like Timothy's Shalla May, and
they referred to each other as the brothers Challa May.
One guy in the group took some photos and put
out a book called Call Me Timothy. He said, it's
sort of a high representation of something that you could
argue is a little low brow Sergio, a former hairstylist
for Elton John and Niel Sedaka, love the details in
this story. He was at the contest searching for talent
for his hair product line. He says, Chela may increase
my business and no one guy went all inception on this.
He says, best case scenario, if I do become a
successful actor, then I could say this all came from
a YouTuber who made a lookalike contest of another actor,
and then someone's going to make a lookalike contest of
me in the future, and someone's going to win that,
and then they're going to become an actor. In England,
a naughty flamingo has escaped from a wildlife sanctuary. They're
asking the public keep an eye out for a naughty
teenager flamingo. The flamingo vaulted over the wall. Nick the
sanctuary owner, said, I don't think she knows what she's
looking for, to be honest, she's just like a naughty teenager.
We had sightings back down and hide and she's been spotted,
so we're desperate to hear that someone's found her. We
need to get her back as soon as possible, or
really beside ourselves to be honest, want you know if
they find the flamingo. They did find a dog five
years later, five hundred and twenty miles from home loos Dale.
The chihuahua disappeared five years ago. Christy and Josh never
knew what happened to the chihuahua. It was found wandering
the streets of Florida. Five years later. Brianna and Daniel
are a couple. They found the dog. They took care
of it for a while, posted on Facebook. Eventually took
it to shelter. The microchip scan showed the dog had
been reported missing five hundred and twenty miles away. Again,
it's a chihuahua, the owner say. It appears that the
dog had been cared for during the time she was missing.
She's a little bigger and she's put on a little weight.
In Australia, the man with the world's longest name read
out his world's longest name. It features more than two
thousand middle names. It took him more than an hour
to accomplish. Lawrence Watkins, I won't read his entire name.
I mean, how long do you want the podcast to be?
Had his name legally changed in nineteen ninety to include
two hundred and fifty one middle names, earning him the
Guinness World Record for longest personal name with twy two
hundred and fifty three unique words. He said at his
wedding it took the officials twenty minutes to read his
full name, but when he read his own name for
the Guinness video, it took more than an hour. His
favorite of his names is Azy two thousand. He explains
that means I have names from A to Z and
I have two thousand names. And if you feel like
you're going cuckoo on Long Island, well you're not. Bird
watchers are all excited. Local birdwatchers spotted a cuckoo. No,
a cuckoo is normally found from Europe to Japan. It
winters primarily in Africa. It was spotted in Riverhead, so
that's kind of out on the far end of Long Island,
out by the Hampton's kind of sort of. The cuckoo
was spotted by a golfer who sent the image to
his nephew, who is an avid birder. The birder passed
along to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca experts confirmed, yep,
it's a cuckoo. Since then, the cuckoo has been logged
more than two hundred times on the birding site e
bird dot org. Experts aren't sure how it got there.
They say it's juvenile, meaning it hatched earlier this year
and likely became lost or blown off course during its
migratory journey. Researchers say the common cuckoo has been documented
only three other times in the eastern US and Canada.
Jay who works at Cornell says this is definitely a
major event for anyone birding in New York State and
unusual enough for the broader region for a chance to
see a bird they would otherwise be unlikely to see
unless they went to Europe are Asia. If people see it,
don't approach it, Leave it be, and those your five
good news stories for today. Have a good day.