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SN25 - Kindness and Courage
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Jeff and Sam share a little happiness on this Monday. Enjoy.
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Sources:
- He Was Injured with Crutches When a Group of Scary Teens Offered ‘the Kindness of Strangers’
- Bystander Becomes ‘Lifesaver’ Leaping into Ocean When Bull Shark Bites Swimmer Off Deserted Beach
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Transcript
Introductions and lighthearted banter
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Hello. Hi. What you doing over there? Nothing. Nothing? You dropped something again? did. It's an ongoing thing over here. or i didn't I don't think I've realized how frequently I dropped stuff until well i did until it was being recorded.
00:00:38
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So, happy Monday.
Importance of ratings and listener engagement
00:00:41
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Happy Monday. It's the 12th of May. Today. be the table And here's the deal.
00:00:51
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Here's the deal. It's Monday. So we're here to talk at you. We're here to talk to you. We're here to say, hey, why don't you hit the star button on the app? Like our show. Give us ratings. Review us.
00:01:02
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Particularly the ratings. like Particularly. Hit the stars. Give us some stars. One's fine. Three's better. Five's the best. Hit the five stars.
00:01:14
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Five stars. Five stars. Please. Above and beyond. Five stars. Because think we're above and beyond. We are. Some say over the top. Some say over the dongle.
Binge-watching 'The Terror' and its allure
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00:01:27
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So we're going to give you a couple of happy stories today. to start your week off right yes but first you gonna tell me that you started watching the terror i did and um you know famous last words i sit down to watch i'm like i'm gonna watch one episode next thing you know it's four o'clock in the morning and i'm still watching the show so think i'm on episode five um it's so dark
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I know there's so much. I feel like my mind is broken because i don't know what I was expecting, but like
00:02:13
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something's going on uhu and it's only going
Discussion on HMS Terror and Erebus's true events
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get worse. And then of course I told you that I looked up that one part because I had to, because i had to. um and so that part is coming up and,
00:02:27
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I'm not thrilled about that, but I need to know what happens to the rest. So much has happened. I don't even remember that part. Yeah, but I'm, as you are aware, I'm part that creature.
00:02:41
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Yeah. So it affects me more. Yeah. Yeah. Something's happening. Something's going on. HMS, the terror. HMS terror. HMS terror. And HMS Erebus. God. And it's based on true events with some stuff added into it, but it's based on true events.
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It's on Netflix. Watch it
Appreciation for 'The Terror' cast and 'The Head'
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if you like scary stuff. And last night I finished it. There was a thunderstorm. Window was open. Listening to the thunder. Watching some scary shit.
00:03:12
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Loved it. Yeah. Best thing ever. Yeah. Best thing ever. ah definitely – it's – you know, and it's not the entire thing is not gripping and on the edge of your seat, right? But it's just enough that you don't want to stop.
00:03:29
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And the episodes are short enough that you're like, okay, I can just get one more. i can just get one more. So – It's also got a rock star cast. I mean, some of this some of those people... i mean, the one...
00:03:42
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one of the guys is in that show that I told you to watch, The Head. oh god I've seen the first episode of that. What do you think? Love it. Yes. like It's also Scandinavian. There's like a bunch of Swedish, Danish yes danish people in it. Yeah.
00:03:57
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yeah So a lot of Danish being spoken, spoke, spoken, whatever.
Heroic story: Blake Donaldson's shark attack rescue
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So do you have a good story? do you have a happy story?
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I do. It's very short and sweet, but it's about um an average dough Joe becoming hero. An average Joe? An average Joe becoming a hero. im like yeah I'm bumbling my words right now.
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Okay. Do you want me go first? You want to go first? right. Very quick. From Australia, Jeffrey. Down under. Down under. Melbourne, Sydney, Perth.
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Gunya Beach and Bundina. Oh, okay. um To Blake Donaldson was on the beach with his partner when he heard screaming from 30 feet beyond the water's edge.
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Standing stock still in a pocket of red was 57-year-old Meng Yong Zhang, though Donaldson couldn't see it at the time. A bull shark, one of three species that account for the majority of serious bites worldwide, had nibbled...
00:05:07
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about 15 inches of Zhang's leg. And though it would end up that would end up being the extent of the damage, she was incredibly scared.
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um She said she felt something and then I just saw lots and lots of blood coming out and the water just became too red and red and red and then I was so scared.
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She didn't want to alert the shark, which I don't know if that's a thing. So she screamed for help to Donaldson, who was the only other person on the beach that day.
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Donaldson said, I just had to jump in. The fight or flight kicks in and I just made the decision. Sure, there could be a shark, but my reaction was, I just have to save this woman. He succeeded, and once back on the shore, Eileen, Blake's partner, administered first aid.
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Paramedics later described Zhang as having lost a, quote, catastrophic amount of blood. Her consciousness did not hold up during the trip to the hospital, and she passed out. But the bite was not fatal. Zhang woke up to find that surgeons had also been able to save her leg.
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It's difficult to know exactly how big the shark would have been to just take 15 inches, but both sharks have the most bite force in terms of pounds of pressure per square inch of any shark alive today.
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A month after recovery, Zhang and Donaldson met up face-to-face through 60 minutes.
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They were... you you can watch the YouTube clip of it, and it's so sweet because he's just kind of like... welcome i couldn't have done anything else and she's just blubbering all over him thank you so much and he saved her life it's one of those things where we we say it all the time on this show where the the actual heroes don't draw attention to themselves right they just say and just did what anyone would do just did what anybody would do that's absolutely right and it's just so sweet because four bull sharks are very aggressive
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And then you're one of the, you're that survivor shark attack. Yeah, she did.
00:07:19
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Okay, so my story comes from Good News Network from the Guardian originally.
Teenagers defy stereotypes with acts of kindness
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So it's about a man named Richard Munoz who broke his ankle playing basketball and needed corrective surgery, which left him on crutches.
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He was living in the city and the typical day in the life of Mr. Nunez was like he had to walk a lot beyond the door of his apartment, like he had to go to the grocery store sometimes. And outside of his apartment, there's a park, and it's always occupied by a group of teenage teenagers.
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And every day after school, these teens would hang out there, smoke cigarettes, make snide comments to occasional occasional passersby. Munoz never got involved. But the route to the corner store was through that park. So when he left, he had to hobble his way...
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to the corner store with his crutches through the park. And he'd go get the groceries. Now he could have those delivered, but like sometimes you just need to go, you know? And it was in pursuant to one of to one such need that he entered the park on his crutches one day coming home from the corner store with milk only to see the group of teenagers there.
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Now, he tried to pass them without rousing them, and he heard one of them call out something to him. he didn't understand He didn't understand what he said. Munoz was like, i'm going to keep walking. I'm going to keep walking. And he tried to ignore them, but like his pulse was getting quicker, and a few of the teenagers stood up and started approaching him.
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To his surprise, they came to offer him a helping hand with his bags, which he accepted nervously. He said, quote, a lot of people were kind to me during that injury experience, but a few weren't kind at all.
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But by far the most helpful were those teenagers.
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Throughout the rest of his recovery, the park, the teenagers were a constant helping hand, taking the garbage out, letting him cut in line in front of them at the store, and regularly asking if he needed a hand with anything.
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By the end of the experience, he wrote a letter to the school administrators explaining the good des the good deeds of the teenagers and suggesting that they be recognized with their kind efforts. Though the author, Munoz, admitted he didn't know if the letter had been received or not.
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He said, quote, I'd been bullied a lot in high school and the experience helped me resolve a lot of the residual wariness I had about groups of teenagers, wrote Munoz. Quote,
00:09:54
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It also showed me that we can't define strangers from the small glimpses we see of them, even if we see them every single day. Those teens were more than their stereotype, and I am grateful for it.
00:10:09
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That's so sweet. Isn't that a good one? That's good. You can't, you know... It's kind of... it's It's, you know, you could you could expect that to go the other way, right? Yeah, absolutely. They come up to him they knock his crutches out, they bully him. Put the cigarette out on him.
00:10:27
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that dark I'm just saying. Okay. You said my little girls in last week's story were dead. They were. You can't prove they weren't. They were never seen again. Come on.
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Come on. I'm just saying. Yeah. ah Anyway. so ah okay. Maybe I need to look a little bright here. They were so sweet. They were so sweet.
Final call for five-star ratings with humor
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So that's it for today.
00:10:49
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um Give us five stars. Give us five stars. We're going to hound you. If you're one of the people that come up to us and tell us that we said something on the show, that we said something and we don't remember what we said, or that you quote us or you do something to us because of this show, or you look up a story, we're going to say, but did you give us five stars?
00:11:11
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And if you didn't, I'm going to slap you with my wand. That I have in my hand with the pink bow on it. The fairy wand. The fairy wand. Okay. Well.
00:11:21
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And I will condemn you to the vortex of fuckery, which is down the road from the Hall of Flames. It is indeed. It is indeed. um But what goes in the Hall of Flames is our poppy sodas. Hell yeah. Because they always bring us joy on these hot summer days and even in the cold winter months.
00:11:39
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who So happy Monday, y'all. Have a good week. Yes. Happy Monday, everybody. bye