This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright and in this edition.

You're moving faster every day, Tom Cruise.

I can't keep up with you, Mr.

You're a flying machine.

You're a flying machine.

Look at him, go.

I meet this man who's helped thousands of stray dogs in

Thailand. Two childhood sweethearts reunited after more than 85 years. All these years just passed and then

suddenly we got in touch again. And I looked at the text and I thought to myself like history. Like what are you

talking about? And then that's when it clicked I thought to myself like history. Like, what are you talking about?

And then that's when it clicked in my head for a second.

I was like, okay, maybe this is kind of a big deal.

And historic moment in college basketball,

meet the first player with one arm to score during a game.

We begin with the story of a man in Thailand who's become an online celebrity after sharing

his stories of the abandoned street dogs he's fed, rehomed and treated.

Nile Harbison lives on the island of Kursa Mui in the Gulf of Thailand.

His story begins when he himself was

in a bad place, recovering in hospital from alcohol poisoning. He decided to turn his life around

and began to befriend some of the island's many stray dogs, and that became his mission, to

fix the global street dog problem. At his rehabilitation centre on the island,

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