Marathon runner gets a helping "shoe" from a spectator!

Marathon runner gets a helping "shoe" from a spectator!

Episode Transcript

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The Morning Breeze on demand. Soour Brighter Side Today takes place in Mexico
City. This happened just a fewweeks ago at the Mexico City Marathon.
Okay, that's where hay Sus Villanuevawas. He was just there as a
spectator watching the marathon, as onedoes, so when he noticed a runner
with an issue. The runner's nameis Jerry Manzano, and at this point

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in the race, one of hisshoes had fallen apart, like the soul
separated. It's like a full onblowout, but it was just one of
his shoes, and hay Sus issitting there watching all of this, so
he's like, hey, man,you want mine, thinking that he was
just kind of being funny, andJerry actually said, uh, can I
please? He wore a spectator's shoethe marathon. Yeah, so he walked

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over. They changed exchanged shoes,and in fact, hay SUS's shoes were
two sizes too big for Jerry,but he's like, I'm gonna make this
work. Put it on only oneof the shoes he had, so he
had had his original smart and thenthen he kept his He had his original
and they took the new one andwas able to finish the race. Not
only finish the race, but hequalified for the Boston Marathon, which was

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his goal. And if you're amarathon or you know how difficult that it
is to qualify Elite the ultimate onewith a spectators shoe on. So those
guys have now have a new bondfor life. That is, so they
do. And it's a it's ashoe way too big for Jerry. But
hey, Sus Villanueva, good job. That's quick thinking. Think of all
the sporting events in the world,even fans and stands at like football games

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or baseball games, how everybody's alwaysyelling out and heckling like hey, yeah
you want you know, blah blahblah. Can you imagine if that happened
more where people are like, yeah, come on down, why don't you
come down? It's exactly what happenedhere. Hey, SEUs was just like
I was just being funny. Thatis an awesome story. Hey, you
never know, very cool. We'regonna put more on this on The Morning
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