2000 American Flags, The Corpse Flower and The Decade-Old Parmesan Cheese

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories and happy Fourth of July. If you like flags, you might want to make your way to Seven Gables Park. Rudy Keller is retired high school teacher who en listen army of volunteers. They assemble and plant two thousand flagpoles in a park soccer field. Families leave placcards around the flagpoles in honor of a parent or child or spouse. Manhard Consulting and Engineering and Surveying firm use lasers to plot the twenty five neat rows eighty flagpoles in each row. The display stays up through July fourth, in a tribute to veterans, the fallen, active duty military, and hometown heroes. The laminated tags attached to the eight foot tall flagpoles bear their names and often a personal handwritten note left by their loved ones. Keller said, the message on that tag makes each flag special and humbling. I believe in what the flag stands for, and it's a beautiful event for the community. Some people are here for twenty minutes and some people are here for several hours. Pay attention to the number in the middle of this headline fishermen pull off dramatic rescue of thirty eight dogs treading water. What happened here? Bob had hired a local bass fishing guide named Jordan. They're out on the boat and they suddenly hear a lot of barking. They figured out some hounds had chased a deer into the lake. The deer was paddling along in a good clip, the hounds not so much. Jordan noticed the dogs were They're treading water and barking. By the time they got there, the thirty eight dogs were struggling to stay afloat. Bob said, we're just

1:36 flabbergasted because it's dogs everywhere, and they're all going in different directions because they can't see the bank on either side. The men knew that they were hunting dogs because they had large GPS collars on, which provided a good grip for hauling the soaking, wet dogs out of the lake and onto the boat. They had to make three trips to get them back in. Boy, that would have been stressful leaving a bunch of dogs out there to begin with. Meanwhile, in Japan, pots of lotus flowers are really pretty, but there's more than you might think about them. Some of them were grown from seeds found buried on a layer of dirt from a pond dug by monks there over two hundred years ago. The seeds were recovered when the pond was excavated twenty five years ago, and they're now bearing a special kind of lotus flower, the beyodo in temple lotus. It's milky, white and diaphanous. The monks say they're pleasing to look at during a moment of stillness. On the opposite spectrum of flowers, the corpse flower bloomed in San Diego at the San Diego Potanic Garden. I think you've missed it by the time you heard it.

2:30 I just missed it. I was in San Diego on Tuesday. The corpse flower began its odorous bloom on Friday. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, the putrid event only lasts for forty eight hours. The bloom of a corpse flower is uncommon, since most corpse flowers need seven to ten years to bloom for the first time, and only bloom again thereafter every four to five years. This particular flower last bloomed in twenty twenty one, which is three years. Hmmm. Ari Novi is the San Diego Potanic Gordon President and says the blooming of a corpse flower has become an international sensation, intriguing people from around the world with its fleeting flower. We are extremely fortunate to be presenting a bloom from our permanent collection, making this year's bloom even more special. The heat and smell or used to attract pollinator insects while also attracting curious humans. There was a live stream see if it's still up corpse cam and it's story number five, which you know. Lately I've been like, I don't know is this good news? But it's fun news anyway. A man has been warned of serious health consequences. Johnny Mac, this doesn't sound like fun at all.

3:36 Why are you making fun of the man. I'm not making fun of the man. I'm reporting of the news here. Man has been warned of serious health consequences after it was revealed he'd been using the same block of parmesan cheese for a decade. A Reddit user shared a photo which unsurprisingly featured layers of mold. The woman posted any Weird Subreddit and wrote, my stepdad has kept the same piece of parmesan cheese for over ten years. Rediturs We're curious. When asked, is he vacuum packing it, wrapping it in foil? Freezing it? Wan to know I was keeping it for so long? The original woman responded, just wrapped in plain foil. One person warned, that's not the good mold. Please don't eat this. Someone purporting to be a cheese expert said that sort of cheese easily keeps from many years. It's aged, as in unrefrigerated in a room for at least one year before even being sold, and then it keeps from many more years. Ten's a little excessive, but you could totally eat it. I'm just surprised that hasn't been eaten yet. A cheese expert said, as a general rule of thumb, black is the only color of mold that you don't want on cheese. Everything else is usually fine. Johnny Mac is not a cheese expert. I don't know how to advise you when you should or should not consume parmesan cheese. Please use my podcast only for entertainment purposes and not for your culinary delights. Please consult an expert. And those are your five good news stories for today.

4:54 Happy fourth of July see