Oct. 17, 2024
A 4-Year-Old's Museum Mishap OH NO!
In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five intriguing good news stories. A 4-year-old boy accidentally breaks a 3,500-year-old jar in an Israeli museum, but the museum invites the family back for a tour. Coach Ryan potentially sets a new Guinness World Record by making 1,134 three-pointers in an hour. Charlie, an elephant in captivity for 40 years, is released back into the wild in South Africa. Thomas, a python hunter in the Florida Everglades, talks about the challenges and rewards of hunting invasive Burmese pythons. Lastly, a truck accident in Los Angeles spills French fries all over the highway, causing significant traffic delays but no injuries. Tune in for more details and feel-good moments.
00:15 A 4-Year-Old's Museum Mishap
01:08 Coach Ryan's Record-Breaking Feat
01:30 Charlie's Return to the Wild
02:03 Python Hunting in the Everglades
04:35 French Fry Traffic Jam in LA
05:05 Closing Remarks and Show Info
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Kalaroga Shark Media. Oh no, parents, you've been here, You're
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gonna know this feeling and the pit in your stomach.
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Him Chinny Mack with five good news stories. A four
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year old boy accidentally smashed a thirty five hundred year
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old jar. His family was touring a museum in Israel.
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The boy came across crockery that dates back to the
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Bronze Age roughly twenty two hundred to fifteen hundred BC.
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The father said his son pulled the jar slightly because
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he was curious about what was inside. You know what
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happened next, a smash. Dad's told the BBC. I was
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in shock. His first thought was it wasn't my child
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that did it? Oh, yes, it was, dad. The museum
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said it wasn't behind glass or anything, because they believe
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people should enjoy historic items without obstructions. The museum was
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cool about it, though, they said in this case, the
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jar was accidentally damaged by young child visiting a museum.
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The museum believes the jar could be restored order to
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return to be displayed once again to show there's no
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hard feelings. The museum invited the child and family back
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for an organized tour. Keep your hands in your bucket son,
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all right, good job by coach Ryan. He may have
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broken a Guinness World record by shooting and thirty four
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three pointers in one hour. The previous record of one thousand,
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seventy seven was sent in twenty twelve. Coach Martin said,
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it's really just taking one shot at a time and
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having confidence in yourself and knowing they're prepared to do it.
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He's waiting back to here from Guinness to see if
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he officially took the title. In South Africa, the last
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elephant in South Africa's national Zoo was released back into
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the wild after forty years in captivity. The elephant was
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captured in nineteen eighty four when Charlie the elephant was
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just two years old. He was taken to a circus
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in South Africa and train to perform tricks until the
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early two thousands. Then he wound up in the zoo
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out of concern for his health, and animal welfare groups
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have been advocating for his release back into the wild.
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He was released at the Shambala Private Reserve in South Africa.
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The reserve is famous for reintegrating animals back into the
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wild and has a thriving population of elephants. Charlie is
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already showing signs of a successful release. Do you like snakes?
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Indiana Jones might want to become friends with Thomas. Thomas
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drives the middle of the night through the Everglades because
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when the dew point drops, it's time for pythons. Thomas says,
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I catch more pythons. When that happens, It'll make things
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start moving. He's a contractor with the Florida Fish and
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Wildlife Conservation Commission. He has hunted Burmese pythons in the
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Everglades for eleven years. He participates in the Florida Python Challenge,
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which is hosted by the Wildlife Commission to incentivize people
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to track down these invasive Burmese pythons that thrive in
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the wetlands. The pythons are notoriously hard to spot in
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the wild. Each female can lay twenty nine to fifty
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eggs on average. Their impact has been devastating. In one
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study from twenty twelve, the United States Geological Survey found
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that populations of raccoons had declined by ninety nine point
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three percent, opossum's down ninety eight point nine percent, and
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bobcats down eighty seven point five percent since the earth
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early two thousands. That's why they're hunting the snakes. More
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than six hundred hunters participated in this year's A Python Challenge.
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Grand prize winner who humanly kills the most snakes receives
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ten thousand dollars. There are contractors. They get thirteen dollars
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an hour while driving the back roads, eighteen dollars an
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hour if they walk into the swamp, no thank you,
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and you get paid per snake fifty for the first
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four feet in length, plus twenty five dollars per subsequent foot.
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Thomas says, you're not gonna make a living doing this
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full time. There's no way you could do it. Somebody
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run the math on that Florida prohibits hunters from using
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firearms to kill pythons, and pythons are not venomous, so
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capturing them is a hands on experience. Tom ray Hill
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is a fellow contractor, says there's an art to catching
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a snake. Instead of jumping on the snake, you just
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kind of gently get up to it and just pick
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it up. Then you can stroke their belly, their belly scales.
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You just pick up a wild python and do this.
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Thomas described a time he caught a seventeen foot python.
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All right, let's do the math there, right, seventeen feet,
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fifty dollars for the first four feet, twenty five bucks
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for each subsequent foot, So that's thirteen times twenty five.
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What's that two hundred fifty three hundred something dollars and
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then fifty like a four hundred dollars snake. Your math
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may vary. When he caught the seventeen foot python, he
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and his wife had to dance around the snake before
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he could wrangle the animal and control its head to
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keep the predator from plunging at them. Even then, a
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hundred needs a helper to keep the snake uncoiled until
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it calms down and can be double bagged to prevent escape.
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Once the snakes are caught, the hunters of twenty four
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hours to deliver them to the wildlife agency. It's illegal
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for any person other than a licensed contractor to transport
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a live invasive snake. Well, try explaining this one to
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your boss. Why were you late? Well, you see in
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La here the highway was backed up because a semi
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truck covered the roadway in boxes of French fries. The
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California Highway Patrol said the French fry truck crashed about
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three twenty in the morning on the southbound five and
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spread dozens of boxes of fries across the roadway. Traffic
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was backed up for several miles during the morning commute
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while crews worked to clear the freeway of fries. Two
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lanthes of traffic were reopened by eleven fifteen. No injuries
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were reported. And those are your five good News stories
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All right, you have a great day.
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