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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind Podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: Quieter Now, but Still a Star, thirty three year old

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Speaker 2: cockatil sets Guinness World Record. Written by Heather Riggomann read

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Speaker 2: Budley Provost. Quieter Now, but Still a Star, A thirty

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Speaker 2: three year old cockatil sets the Guinness World Record. He's

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Speaker 2: still singing a song the world can't stop loving. Even

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Speaker 2: though Sonny doesn't talk as much as he used to.

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Speaker 2: These days, his voice is softer, his words fewer, his

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Speaker 2: melodies more like gentle echoes than full performances. But Sonny

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Speaker 2: is still making history and melting hearts as the world

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Speaker 2: oldest living cockatil. Late last year, Guinness World Records officially

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Speaker 2: named Sonny the oldest cockatile in the world. In January,

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Speaker 2: he turned thirty three, quietly breaking his own record and

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Speaker 2: more than doubling the average lifespan of his species. I

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Speaker 2: wonder if he knows he's famous. For Sonny's family in Illinois,

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Speaker 2: the title feels secondary. What matters most is that he's

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Speaker 2: still here. Sony has lived with Janet and her family

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Speaker 2: for more than three decades. He arrived as a tiny,

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Speaker 2: twelve week old bird, never meant to stay forever, just

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Speaker 2: long enough to become part of the household. But years

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Speaker 2: turned into decades, and Sony stayed. He watched life unfold

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Speaker 2: from kitchen counters and shoulders, from quiet afternoons to seasons

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Speaker 2: of change. He has been a great companion to me

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Speaker 2: all these years, Janet said, especially during the times when

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Speaker 2: her husband traveled for work. Cocktails typically live ten to

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Speaker 2: fifteen years. Sonny is more than twice at age. Now.

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Speaker 2: He's slower, quieter, his vocabulary, his dwindled to just a

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Speaker 2: few phrases, Ay, Sonny know and okay. The elaborate duets

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Speaker 2: he once performed while Janet showered have faded into soft

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Speaker 2: babble and gentle whistles. But the love hasn't faded at all.

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Speaker 2: Sonny still spends his days close to people, perched on

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Speaker 2: Janet's knee while she watches TV, greeting visitors who stop

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Speaker 2: by to give attention. He rarely stays in his cage,

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Speaker 2: except to eat, drink, or sleep. At this stage of life,

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Speaker 2: comfort matters more than routine, and yes, Sonny eats well.

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Speaker 2: His diet includes vegetables, protein rich foods, and one beloved staple,

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Speaker 2: freshly baked muffins Janet's Miles. When people ask about his longitivity,

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Speaker 2: crediting cleanliness, human food rich in protein and vegetables, human interaction,

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Speaker 2: and lots of love, it shows there's something quietly profound

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Speaker 2: about a bird who no longer performs the way he

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Speaker 2: once did, yet still folds the world's attention. Sonny reminds

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Speaker 2: us that worth isn't measured by volume or productivity. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's measured by presence, by consistency, by simply staying at

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Speaker 2: thirty three. Sonny may be quieter now, but his life

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Speaker 2: is still a song, one written in a small daily

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Speaker 2: rituals and shared space, in decades of devotion between a

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Speaker 2: bird and the people who never stop loving him. And

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Speaker 2: somehow that feels like the most beautiful record of all,

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Speaker 2: even to your old age and gray hairs. I am he.

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Speaker 2: I am he who sustain you. I have made you,

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Speaker 2: and I will carry you. I will sustain you, and

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Speaker 2: I will rescue you. Isaiah forty six's four Good Samaritan

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Speaker 2: saves pregnant woman from sinking car. She then has her

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Speaker 2: baby on her birthday. Written by Helrigerband read by Julie Provost.

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Speaker 2: A good samaritan saves a pregnant woman from a sinking car,

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Speaker 2: and then she has the baby on her birthday. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: heroes don't wear uniforms. Sometimes they're just passing by at

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Speaker 2: the exact moment someone needs them most, because us just

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Speaker 2: how God uses us to be his heroic hands and feet.

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Speaker 2: On a quiet Florida morning, Logan never expected his day

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Speaker 2: to turn into a life saving mission. But when he

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Speaker 2: spotted a car sinking into a pond near Interstate ninety

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Speaker 2: five and seek took over. Inside was a pregnant woman

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Speaker 2: trapped in, panicking as water filled the vehicle and time

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Speaker 2: was slipping away without hesitation. Logan ran toward the water

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Speaker 2: and swam out, figuring the distance and the rising fear

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Speaker 2: of what might happen if he didn't return time. The

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Speaker 2: moment felt surreal, even to him later. I just couldn't

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Speaker 2: believe that happened, Logan said. The exact moment I happened

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Speaker 2: to be driving by at the exact time as the

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Speaker 2: car tilted and disappeared beneath the surface, Logan managed to

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Speaker 2: open the door and guide the expectant mother to safety.

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Speaker 2: Within moments for Shushbuhners arrived and rushed her to the

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Speaker 2: hospital for medical care. What no one expected was what

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Speaker 2: came next. Just hours after being rescued, she reportedly gave

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Speaker 2: birth to her baby. The kind of story that feels

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Speaker 2: almost too beautiful to be real. A stranger diving into

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Speaker 2: unknown waters so a mother and her child could have

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Speaker 2: a future. Logan later admitted the rescue felt different from

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Speaker 2: anything he'd experienced before, even with his comfort in the water,

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Speaker 2: as comfortable as I am in the water, to feel

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Speaker 2: like how is capable being able to do something like that?

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Speaker 2: He shared, And maybe that's what makes this moment so powerful,

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Speaker 2: not just the bravery, but the timing. One man's willingness

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Speaker 2: to act before the turning point in a mother's story,

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Speaker 2: a reminder that compassion can change every in a single breath.

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Speaker 2: Somewhere in Florida, a baby began life with a story

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Speaker 2: already wrapped in courage and kindness, And somewhere else, a

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Speaker 2: good Samaritan went back to ordinary life, carrying the quiet

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Speaker 2: knowledge that he showed up when it mattered most, it's

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Speaker 2: the kind of story you can't help but share because

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Speaker 2: it reminds us that even in the most terrifying moments,

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Speaker 2: hope can arrive on two steady arms swimming through the water.

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Speaker 2: Greater love has no one than this to lay down

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Speaker 2: one's life for one's friends. John fifteen thirteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah