Feels Good: Messi The TSA Dog and Car Fire Heroes

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Spread show is on. He feels good, good news, happy stories.
We share him with you every day on the show. Caylen,
what'd you find?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you Jason for sending my favorite story perhaps ever.
Meet Messi. He's the longest serving TSA passenger screening K
nine at Reagan National Airport. His coworkers say he's lovable
and hard working and he was clearly born to work
for TSA because he enjoys watching airplanes. And after six
years of serving his community, he's officially retiring. Following his

(00:28):
final shift of searching for traces of explosives. His last
sniff was a planted training aid to get him to
his retirement party, where he identified the device and he
was showered with tennis balls. Messi's handler, Peter, will now
adopt him in his retirement. He removed his do not
Pet patch to mark his transition from a working dog.

(00:50):
Messi will now spend his time lounging and playing with
tennis balls whenever he wants.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I love those dogs. Always freaked me out too. I
have nothing in my bag. I don't have anything. I
don't have heroin or coke normally, and but yet every
time I'm like going through customs or TSA and I
see a dog, I like, get my stuff. In movie C.
I'm afraid they're gonna smell something that's not there.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
You know, especially now because they make you do that
little waltz little the dogs like going between the people.
I'm like, what is going on?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't even think about it, Like today's not the
day for a prank. They're messy, like we ain't playing,
you're bloays trying to get the Sacramento A right, Like
I've never been to Sacramento. But anyway, in Minnesota, a
team of Good Samaritans and highway rescue personnel we're able
to get together to save a stranger trapped unconscious inside
a burning car. I want to believe that I'm one

(01:43):
of these people that would like jump into action and
like that adrenaline would take over and that you would
put aside the fact that you could die. You know,
it's to lift the car and whatever. But yeah, there
were six people that pulled over, left out of their
cars and then went to an s that had run
off the highway and burst into flames. Along with the

(02:04):
Freeway Incident Response Team in Minnesota, a bunch of people
were there. They smashed the windows. They pulled the man
out to safety. He was a seventy one year old
who lost consciousness behind the wheel of his Honda and
when color and motion returned to his vision, that was
when the window was smashed. They pulled him out. He lived,
he's alive today because of six or seven, five or
six good Samaritans who stopped to help, which is incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, it really is.