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Can you believe it? Oh my god, we did it again. It's Friday. It's September. It's good news Friday. In September, we got a lot of good news for you. I've got one update for you about me. I also have Rosie O'Donnell, who met with Epstein survivors and created a very viral video. And we have this man here, a Stan Island deli owner, who rewards students good grades with prizes. Let's watch. Let's see my report guide. You may remember our story last year at this bodega on New York, Staten Island. I want to show you my report card. Where a report card might get you more food than a credit card. How many kids do you think you've helped now since then? Oh my god, thousands. Since 2023, manager Whale All-Cell, we has been rewarding good grades with cash prizes and free reign to pick anything from the store. And it's not just about showing an A-plus. If you're failing, we want to push you to get to do better. You don't have to get to a 98 plus average. No, all you got to do is just pass all your classes, improve, and then we'll give you a hundred dollars for improvement. From a 68 to a 94. Thank you. Man, I'm proud of you, bro. With Whale's encouragement students like Xavier here have improved their grades dramatically. While this grades for. Was that a hundred dollars? Holy shit. That's a lot of money. While this grades for grabs program has all. For the record, I love this. This is tugging at my heart. So grown in popularity. Whale says now students from all over the country come into the store and the gofummy that makes this possible has risen from $70,000 last summer to now more than half a million. Party is high nine and boom. But this past week, Whale decided to also use his growing platform to get out ahead of the school year too. We will count everything. How many books? Asking his more than one million followers on TikTok to help him give away school supplies to at least 3,000 students for the upcoming school year. First, they're got like seven boxes and then up to 15 to 25 a day. One day, I had 65 boxes in one day. As you can see, he received hundreds of boxes and there were lines wrapped around the block last Tuesday. Whale says he donated some of the supplies to local teachers who came into the store as well. They just want to do good. They just need that help and I'm glad that I can help. And guys, since that first giveaway was on a Tuesday, Whale is now hosting a second school supply giveaway this Saturday to make sure it gets to all the parents who were working during the first one. Well, that's amazing. And we do have his. We weren't planning on doing this, but we do have his GoFundMe link below if this inspires you at all. Throw him a buck, two bucks. What I love about this, I think it's becoming a theme on Good News Friday is that this is a Staten Island deli owner. He's a deli owner. Now, who would have thought that someone who owns a small deli could make such an impact on so many people, right? And it just started to be small, just given kids some help for good grades. So I just, I hope that inspires you. It inspires me. I'm like, shit, what the. We could be doing so much. I mean, we do, we try to do, we try to do what we can, but it really is just such an example of like, what could we be doing in our lives? Like, what are the small things we can be doing that can make a big impact? And the thing is it's, it starts small and you never know, these things can really grow out to big movements. So I'm so inspired by Whale and it's really incredible. And his go fund me is linked below if you feel the need to help out. But please do think about to yourself, like, what could I be doing? What can, it doesn't be big. There's just to be small. Small things can lead to big outcomes. All right, we're going to switch up something real fast. Wait, I had an update. What was my update? Oh my goodness, Friday update. It's not this. Mine was that I got a pumpkin spice latte. I was very excited about that at September. I'm very excited. I love, listen, I love pumpkin flavor. I love fall. And I wanted to rush towards the fall. And so I guess Starbucks offers it now. And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna get a pumpkin spice iced iced, but I got one. And it made me feel good. All right, now let's move on to this person who, I guess originally wanted to create the perfect day for his girlfriend has now. As I said, these things, the small things that I'm now they have Camp Goldie and New Jersey that has play dates for golden retrievers. There we go. That is the golden greeting as it's known at Camp Goldie and New Jersey, which offers our long play dates with about a dozen golden retrievers from out of the besties bar in there. It's over to the zoomie zone. Then some water play and a cool down in the snuggle spot. I guess it's cute. I mean, it's cute. Don't get me wrong. I love dogs, but it's a little like, what about, what about, you know, French bulldogs? What about Collies, you know, what about black labs? Only golden retrievers feel as a little something. I'm not sure I like that my dog couldn't go. Why not? Why not? Why only golden retrievers? Interesting. Interesting. But I'm glad that golden retrievers, which by the way, everyone loves a golden retriever. I'm glad they have somewhere to go, but it does make me wonder why not just let all dogs. Why has it be golden? Anyway, students above a school bus in Phoenix, serenaded a little boy for his second birthday. It's very cute. That's very cute. And I, yeah, that's huge. Shit. All right, moving on. We have Gloria Steinem who sadly passed away this week, goes without needing an introduction. She has been such a force for good. And it's so sad that not only did we lose Dolly Parton, now we've lost her, she has a message for you that she left that I would like to play for you. And by the way, I met her when I worked at a salon. When I worked at a salon, when was that 2005? I was a receptionist, not a hair stylist or a shampoo girl. I was a receptionist and she was one of the clients. She, she got her hair done there. So I got to briefly meet her. Only good thing to come out of that job. Hello, all you unique individuals out there. I'm so glad to be meeting you through the magic of the media. I wish I could meet each one of you in person. But in a way, this is what allows us now to see each other's lives, to influence each other's lives, to respect each other and to therefore perpetuate what we hope is a global democracy. Please feel free to respond in any way you can and please tell your own story. This is the most important thing we can do for each other, is to know each other through stories. And I hope so much that whoever you are listening right now, you are able to do what you love to be also the unique person you are. That's from a Netflix series that is called Famous Last Words, where folks I guess share their final messages that's released after they pass. Very, that's a very intense. Imagine being invited on that show. That's like, whoa, what are you like, what are you saying? Like if they invited me, Keith, what's your famous? Well, what do you know? What do you know? I don't even know what I would say. That just must be, I can't even put myself in that position where you're like, what's the last thing you want people to hear you say? I think I have to think about that right now, but I do appreciate her message and I do think it's important. But the thing is that not everyone has the opportunity to do what they love. I would like to create a society where more people are able to go after what they love rather than do what they hate in order to barely get by. But that was a very, that's very touching. All right. Now, Rosie O'Donnell, as we said at the top, invited some of the Epstein survivors to get together and sing. I am woman. Also, just before you see this, I want to say, I don't know what's what my YouTube algorithm. I'm not mad about it. At night, you can do this. It's free. The Rosie O'Donnell show is on YouTube like fans uploaded it and it has been. It's been the most comforting content to watch. I watched last night. They had a whole, you've got, you've, what was it called? You've got, what was the, you've got male episode with Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Keneer, and I'm going to remember her name. I'm going to remember her name. And Parker Posey. Anyways, but I've been watching every, it's, it's honestly, it's like, it just, this is me getting old. It's comforting because it's like, before, it's like, before shit got crazy. You know, it's like, it just feels so contained. It's just, I don't know. There's something about it that's nice for me. I just like to extend that to you. Maybe that's something you would enjoy watching, but I very much enjoy it watching before bed, it clears my mind in a way that many things don't. Anyway, but I'm very grateful for Rosie O'Donnell. And here she is just continuing to do such important work. - Instead of doing this, we would each hold hands, like we'll say it, and then lift our hands up together. Right, more than you like that, which is what I think. That was my first thought, right? But I know it's been very hard for you and with very little support. And I'm sorry that our country's so fucked up that this is what you have to live for, because you are all heroes and you're going to change how the world deals with child sex abuse. - I don't know, 'cause I'm feel like, is that going to get a copy? You have to be careful with these copyrights. I'll say this, I'm going to say this. There is a 99.9% chance that we are going to get a copy right? Notice for that. Now, what that's going to mean is that the person who wrote that song will get all the advertising revenue from this video. That means we will not. And that's OK. I think that's important that we show the full thing. But if you feel inclined, we do have memberships below and that helps support videos like this where we don't get advertising revenue. And you can hit the join button down below if you want to become a member and we are working on, we are working towards creating some really good membership perks. So stay tuned for those and we do appreciate everyone that supports the channel. And Rose O'Donnell is a legend. She's a legend. I'm glad she's keeping the Epstein story up and in the air. Good news. A student transforms school buses to help their community. What the hell could this be? Let's watch. Lucas Sweden has always had a unique eye. In the air in his workshop outside Louisville, Kentucky, he gives ordinary objects and entirely new purpose. The bed's a fun part. It's used garage door parts and as you pull it down, the weights go up. This picture perfect home. Wait, this is so cool. It was once a yellow school bus. This used to be the gate for our horses. After serving six years in the military, Lucas craved a new adventure. Now he's using those skills to build up his community, turning retired school buses into vehicles for change. I worked together with Lucas by first drawing up a plans on the whiteboard in my classroom. Working with these students at Southern High School to bring their blueprints to life. He put everything in from the flooring to raising the roof. The result, a bus that's also a library on wheels, a venue for clothing drives and a quiet space for students to decompress. And his next stop, he's working with another school to turn this bus into a grocery store to deliver foods to underserved areas. Those kids are inspired but they're also inspiring other people. I don't know. Where are all these buses coming from? That's crazy. Wow. I mean, I'm glad he's putting them in use. That's very creative and cool. Giving the next generation tools to drive their community forward. This group, this program, this bus, it lit something inside of me that I didn't even know I had. It showed me that I can be compassionate towards other people. I mean, I can do change for the community. Many people think you can't, but when you're given the opportunity, you can do anything. That's very cool. I don't even know how someone would come up with that idea. You just see a bus lying on the ground and you're like, you know, you know what I see? A library. That is a library, but it's incredible. You really don't know what you're capable of and how you can affect your community until you try. All right. We're going to switch gears because here are kangaroo, kangaroos beating the shit out of each other. Let's watch. I don't think I've actually ever seen this before. I feel like I've obviously seen the cartoons. I did not know this was a thing that actually happens. And I'm worried how violent this is going to be, let's see. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. He's like coating him on or the like what could you possibly be mad about your kangaroo? They really give each other chances to just be like, hey, buddy, you don't want to do this. You don't want to do this. Come on. Come on. Who's this over here? I feel like I feel like they're the instigator, they're the one that caused the thing. Did he tell someone some shit that they didn't want to hear? Oh, they're going to smack this shit out of each other. Oh, yeah, it's funny. I mean, it's not really boxing. That's like two gay people fighting. Okay. All right. Yeah, I've done worse at a gay bar to be clear. That's the whole clip. I thought they literally punched. That's fine. That's just that's a little bit of, you know, that's like a small disagreement. Okay. Well, there you go. That's good news Friday. There you go. I hope you appreciated this. 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