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June 22, 2025

135 Year Old Tortoise is a father for the first time!

135 Year Old Tortoise is a father for the first time!
135 Year Old Tortoise is a father for the first time!
5 Good News Stories
135 Year Old Tortoise is a father for the first time!

Highlights include Goliath, a 135-year-old Galapagos tortoise, becoming a father for the first time; unique vegetable likenesses of celebrities at the Lambeth Country Show; the first video of a live Azis Antarctica squid filmed at 6,000 feet; the discovery and $7 million auction of a 1666 painting found in a barn attic; and a humorous misadventure involving hikers in the Adirondacks who mistakenly reported their friend dead while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms.


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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Congratulations to Goliath. Goliath became a father, is one hundred and thirty four years old and a tortoise. Goliath is a Galopagos tortoise that weighs five hundred and seventeen pounds. He's four point two feet long, and he hadn't fathered any offspring. After one hundred and twenty eight days of incubation, one egg that was laid January twenty seventh successfully hatched on June fourth. According to the Zoo Miami, Goliath officially hatched in Galapagos on June fifteenth, eighteen ninety. He arrived at the Bronx Zoo in July of nineteen twenty nine and came to Miami in nineteen eighty one.

0:48 The mother is Sweet Peace. She arrived at the zoo in nineteen sixty, so she's between eighty five and one hundred years old. An application has been made to the Guinness Book of World Records to officially recognize Goliath as oldest first time father in history. There's also some consideration for oldest first time parents in history. Now check your calendar. Although he became a dad at one hundred and thirty four. Now the June fifteenth is passed. Goliath is one hundred and thirty five. Congratulations to the family. At the Lambeth Country Show, vegetable likenesses of famous people have been put on display, including a vegetable likeness of Donald Trump and Dolly Parton. Callie Parton was made out of cauliflower. I assume Donald Trump was made out of butternut squash. Country Fair regular Maddie said it's unique and so witty and we love the political ones. Researchers have recorded a video of a three foot long deep sea squid species that had never been filmed nor seen alive. It is the Gonazis antarcticus, a squid only found in the frigid waters around Antarctica. Was discovered on Christmas Day. They knew the squid existed because it would turn up in fishing nets, but they hadn't seen a live one. It was spotted at a day of six thousand feet. While a lot of pricey artwork keeps showing up in like closets and stuff, a painting just sold for seven million dollars at Sotheby's, more than twenty five years after being found in an attic in a born in Connecticut. It's called View of a Linda Brazil with ruins of the Jesuit Church, who was painted by Franz Post in sixteen sixty six. It

2:21 had been owned by a bunch of Parisians, including Napoleon's uncle. Then it wound up in the US got caked with grime. George Watchers, the chairman of Southeby's North and South America, he said, of all the paintings we put up at Southeby's, probably forty percent or dirty. And good news, your friend's not dead. Two hikers in the Adirondacks called nine to one one. They reported that their friend had died, but it turned out they were just high. They'd taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and they were mistaken. A forest ranger responded to a call about a hiker who had reportedly died on Cascade Mountain. The hikers who called nine one one also said they were lost. Officials determined the hikers were quote in an altered mental state. The ranger escuoredd the two hikers down to an ambulance, which took them in the hospital and they found the third guy, and they brought the third guy to the group's campsite and they all met up later. Everybody's okay. Those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you'd liked the program without commercial interruption, go to calaruga dot com, slash plus, or if you're an Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. You have a great day.