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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: After his truck became a meme, the community stepped up

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Speaker 2: with a huge act of kindness. Written by Heather Riggleman,

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Speaker 2: read by Julie Provost. After his truck became a meme,

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Speaker 2: my community sepped up with a huge act of kindness.

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Speaker 2: Mo Ryo's pickup truck was impossible to miss. It rumbled

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Speaker 2: through South Bend, Indiana like a story on wheels, a

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Speaker 2: bright green Chevy Silverado that looked like it had lived

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Speaker 2: a hundred lives. From the front, it seemed almost normal,

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Speaker 2: but from the sides in the back, the bed was

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Speaker 2: crushed and buckled, scraped and dented, with parts that looked

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Speaker 2: like they were holding on by grace. Along People stared,

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Speaker 2: people laugh people took pictures. Some even wondered if it

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Speaker 2: was real at all. I thought it was ai. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know if it was real. When resident said, I

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Speaker 2: did a double take because I couldn't believe the side

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Speaker 2: of it. Another admitted MO didn't mind much. The damage

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Speaker 2: was the result of years of mishaps. He said, we're

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Speaker 2: too many to recount. Let's go with what didn't happen

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Speaker 2: to it, he joked. And because Indiana doesn't require reaching

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Speaker 2: vehicle inspections, the truck stayed street legal, even as it

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Speaker 2: became something of a local legend Online. Thousands of people

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Speaker 2: shared photos and pook fun turning his batter truck into

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Speaker 2: a spectacle. But one person saw something different. Colin Crowell,

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Speaker 2: the owner of a local detailing shop, looked past the

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Speaker 2: twisted metal and saw a man. I just thought, there's

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Speaker 2: got to be something more to why this truck looks

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Speaker 2: like that, Colin said, I just put two and two

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Speaker 2: together that this is the person's only means of transportation.

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Speaker 2: What others turned into a joke, Colin turned into a question.

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Speaker 2: What does this man need? So he reached out. He

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Speaker 2: connected with MO, and then he did something quitely brave.

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Speaker 2: He invited the community to care. Colin launched a crowdfunding campaign,

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Speaker 2: hoping to help MO get a safer, more reliable vehicle.

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Speaker 2: What happened next felt like something only God could orchestrate.

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Speaker 2: About five hundred people responded, Strangers gave, neighbors, shared a

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Speaker 2: story spread not as a joke anymore, but as an invitation.

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Speaker 2: In the end, about twenty two thousand dollars was raised,

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Speaker 2: far more than anyone expected. Moe was overwhelmed. That's the

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Speaker 2: part that knocks me over, man, he said, Here's a

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Speaker 2: human being seeing another human being struggle, and I'm like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: what did I do to deserve this? Mo had worked

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Speaker 2: most of his life, most recently at a dollar Tree,

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Speaker 2: and he'd been dealing with health issues that make dependable

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Speaker 2: transportation especially important for getting to doctor's appointments. That old

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Speaker 2: truck wasn't a quirk, it was a lifeline. Last week,

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Speaker 2: Mo took the Silverado on its final drive to a

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Speaker 2: local Chevy dealership, where he was surprised with a shiny

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen Silverados to replace it, a safe truck, a

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Speaker 2: depennable one, a fresh start up, four good tires. But

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Speaker 2: the real gift wasn't something that came with keys. The

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Speaker 2: whole thing is not about me, he said. It's about

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Speaker 2: this community bonding together. God is good and maybe that's

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Speaker 2: what kindness really is. Not the flashy kind, not the

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Speaker 2: kind that goes viral for being clever or cutting. But

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Speaker 2: the kind that sees, the kind that pauses long enough

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Speaker 2: to ask why, the kind that recognizes that behind every

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Speaker 2: strange story is a human heart carrying something heavy. Mo

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Speaker 2: needed transportation, but he also needed hope. South Bend gave

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Speaker 2: him both because God knows exactly what we need, and

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Speaker 2: He often chooses to deliver it through each other. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: he sends help disguise as a stranger with a question.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes he answers prayers through a community with open hands.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes he takes a beat up green truck and

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Speaker 2: turns it into a living reminder that we are not

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Speaker 2: meant to struggle alone carry each other's burdens, and in

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Speaker 2: this way you will fulfill the law of Christ Galatians six'.

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Speaker 2: Two these two mini golden doodles are the best part

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Speaker 2: Of this was Conson hotel written By Michelo godonni read

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Speaker 2: By July. Provost if you walk into The hilton And Downtown, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 2: wisconsin you might find two dogs at the, hotel running

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Speaker 2: up and down the. Aisles if you're, lucky they might

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Speaker 2: come bag you for a pet or a belly. Rub

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Speaker 2: they really are THE vip. Guests they bring joy to

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Speaker 2: me every Time i'm. Here one visitor, said it makes

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Speaker 2: me want to come to, work and it makes everybody.

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Speaker 2: Happy Daniel, lovett a bellman and shuttle, driver, said the

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Speaker 2: two many golden, Doodles milli And, sadie are owned by

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Speaker 2: Concourerge Rusty. Dollar everybody loves. Them it Took rusty a

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Speaker 2: year to Convince Hilton corporate to let him bring the,

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Speaker 2: dogs and they've been a huge. Hit the dogs even

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Speaker 2: have their own monitor playing videos of, them a sign

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Speaker 2: indicating whether the dogs are, there and a sign that

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Speaker 2: reads all guests must be approved by the. Dogs i've

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Speaker 2: had hotels call me and, say how did you get

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Speaker 2: a program like this? Started and what shall we? Do russy,

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Speaker 2: Said but it's not really a. Program it's just two

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Speaker 2: pups hanging out a hotel at people tell me my

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Speaker 2: mom died, recently my doctors, passed and suddenly we're in

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Speaker 2: this big conversation about life and, things and the dogs

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Speaker 2: just sort of open up that door that let people.

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Speaker 2: Enter rusty. Said they sort of have this unifying factor

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Speaker 2: that sort of just brings people, together unlike Anything i'm,

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Speaker 2: Seeing rusty. Says guests at The hilton were already allowed

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Speaker 2: to bring their, dogs So rusty's manager somewhat forced the

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Speaker 2: hotel to allow the dogs to. Stay milly came first

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Speaker 2: And sadie came. Later my manager but would be with

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Speaker 2: corporate on the phone and he would, say we're going

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Speaker 2: to have a. Dog you figure it. Out we're going

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Speaker 2: to have a. Policy and he would hang up the

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Speaker 2: phone and he would say to, Me, rusty just keep

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Speaker 2: Bringing millie to, Work rusty. Said when they finally got,

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Speaker 2: Approval rusty was astonished that it had lasted for more

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Speaker 2: than a couple of. Weeks rusty won't work at the hotel,

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Speaker 2: forever so it's uncertain what will happen when he. LEAVES

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Speaker 2: i don't know what the future is, here BUT i

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Speaker 2: know what is done is very valuable AND i would

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Speaker 2: hate to see it just, disappear, Right russy, Says but for,

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Speaker 2: now the dogs are still around five days a. Week

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Speaker 2: what a charming. IDEA a lot more hotels should keep

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Speaker 2: a dog or cat or. Two they are bound to

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Speaker 2: have plenty of.

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