March 4, 2025

10 year old calls police...for help with homework

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. A ten-year-old's math emergency call to 911 gets answered by a helpful deputy. SeaWorld celebrates the 40th birthday of Best Friend, the oldest known macaroni penguin in North America. A town council in Scotland receives court approval to sell an old marble bust found as a doorstop, benefiting the Common Good Fund. A survey reveals younger generations are more engaged in doing good deeds. Lastly, a reptile wrangler carefully extracts a massive carpet python from a barbecue grill. Enjoy these feel-good stories and learn how to get an ad-free podcast experience with Calaroga Shark Media.

00:00 Math Homework Help
01:01 Best Friend the Penguin
01:29 The Marble Bust
02:12 Americans Doing Good Deeds
02:51 Python in the Barbecue

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. The Shawano County Sheriff's Office set on

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social media that a dispatcher answered a nine to one

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to one call from a ten year old who called

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to say he needed help with his math homework. He

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stated that his family wasn't very good at math either,

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and he needed help. The dispatcher explained to the young

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caller that nine one one is not the right number

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to call for homework help, but she offered to help.

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She had some time, so she said, all right, can

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I help you with the program? And he gave this

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long problem with decimals. She wasn't able to help them,

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so she informed him, well, let me see if I

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can get a deputy near your residence. Deputy Chase was

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in the area and he's like, all right, I'll ahead

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on over and take a look at the math problem.

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Chase wrote in his report, personally, I'm not overly proficient

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when it comes to math, but nonetheless I responded to assist.

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The police tell us. The young caller was given a

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business card and was told We're always here to help,

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except next time, use the non emergency line. Happy birthday

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do best Friend, who celebrated his fortieth birthday at SeaWorld

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in San Diego. Best Friend is the oldest known macaroni

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penguin in North America. Forty is well beyond the expected

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lifespan of fifteen to twenty years for a macaroni penguin

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in the wild. Best Friend's daily activity has include bubble

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blowing in his water tray, playing with trickling hoses, and

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letting out ecstatic calls when spoken to. He'll even curl

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up in your lap for a nap when he's in

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the mood. A town council in Scotland was given the

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go ahead by a local court to sell a marble

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bust that was found propping open a Gordon shed. The

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bust was purchased by the town council in nineteen thirty

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for five dollars and depicts the man after whom the

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town gets his name, Sir John Gordon. The bust was

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sculpted in seventeen twenty eight. It disappeared for decades. It

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was rediscovered being used as a doorstop in a shed.

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There was a discussion about displaying it as a historical peace,

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but a local authority said the value made securing insurance

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very difficult, so it's they had locked away from public

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view for a lot of time. It was shown in

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the louver in twenty sixteen at the J. Paul Getty

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Museum in la. The town is now clear to sell it.

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The money will go to the Common Good Fund. Good News.

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More Americans doing good deeds. Fifty nine percent of Gen

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Z and millennials responded to a survey they say they

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are doing more good. Of the Gen Exit baby Boomer surveyed,

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forty seven percent said they did as much good as

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they wanted to. One fifth of younger generations gave themselves

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an A for the amount of good they've done. Only

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ten percent of older respondents gave themselves an A. So

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what motivates people to give back to their community? Forty

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seven percent said satisfaction of giving forty three percent a

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sense of purpose. Other responses wanting to make the world

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a better place, emotional wellbeing and community connection, showing my

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children how to support their community, physical health benefits, skill

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development and networking opportunities. A reptile wrangler responded to a

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home because a massive carpet python was found hiding inside

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a barbecue grill. The Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers twenty four

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to seven Love that title posted a video on social

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media Stuart Mackenzie and the video says, I've just seen

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it still to suppear up under the barbecue. He opens

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the bottom of the barbecue reveals the back half of

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the snake as it makes its way up into the

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cooking area. Stewart explains, it's not what you need in

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the barbecue. He had to partially disassemble the barbecue to

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remove the snake without injuring it. The social media post said,

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although this snake was quite easy to get a hold

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of from the beginning, the snake would have held on

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type with the top half of its body and gotten

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quite the fright. Yikes. That's your five good news stories

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