A Birthday Invitation Gone Horribly Wrong and Inside the D.C. Trivia Cheating Scandal

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnning in five good news stories. It was a normal day in Montana and then locals saw on unusual sighting. Now I'm expecting a moose to be part of this story, but no, it's not a moose. It was an elephant on the loose in Butte, Montana. The incident was captured on video by locals. A man who appeared to be the handler of the elephant can be seen running alongside the large mammal. Brittany posted a video on Facebook and said an elephant walking down the road. Apparently the elephant had escaped from a local circus, which was holding a show at the Butte Civic Center. The circus did not immediately respond to a request for comment. At one point, the elephant went to the bathroom on somebody's lawn. The elephant was eventually caught and returned to the circus without injury.

0:51 Peta encouraged people not to buy tickets to any circus that forces animals to perform. Peter says elephants learn crucial social and behavioral skills from their mothers and other relatives with whom they share intense emotional bonds. Instead of experiencing all this in their natural homes. Elephants used in circuses are exploited and made to do meaningless circus tricks on the road. A hotel has won over some customers by mocking disgruntled guests who leave negative reviews. The Petite Hermitage Hotel in West California has a four point five star overall rating on Google and trip Advisor, and they mock anyone who leaves just one star. Rooms go for up to eight hundred and fifty dollars per night, and the hotel told some visitors they need a dose of reality. They signed off with replies like tally ho and even offered directions to a holiday inn, upset one customer. One review criticized their twenty eight dollars fried chicken sandwich is being inedible, proclaiming they'd rather have a Popeyes, to which the hotel said, we can only aspire to the culinary heights of the Popeye Sandwich, and we will endeavor to get there someday. Another review claimed the room had a bug infestation on the balcony, but misspelled petit as petits. I don't know, I splayed petit as pa ete. Maybe I'm not saying the first word correctly doesn't matter. The hotel wrote back, we do ask at a bare minimum that anyone leaving review does spell the name of the hotel correctly. It can lead to confusion, especially among the roach community. Ethan Levine is touring the United States to earn the Guinness title for most ceremonial first pitches thrown. On April tenth, he threw one for the Hartford yard Goats, four days later the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. From May eighth

2:25 through the twelfth, he's working on four different stadiums in the Greater Chicago area. Ethan said, I was just doom scrolling one night and thought of it and checked to see if there was a record. He figured a small town mayor somewhere must have a lifetime record for first pitches, but he found nothing. He contacted Guinness, so they told him it had set a benchmark of forty to qualify for the record, which is so far unclaimed. He hopes to throw fifty. Ethan says, a million cold emails and cole calls later, I'm sitting outside of Duncan Donuts Park. Oh A mom was left horrified. She tried to invite people to her daughter's first birthday party. But you know, she didn't want to send out paper invites, so she used one of those electronic things. She decided to import contacts, not realizing she wouldn't be able to unimport some of the contacts. She had to go on TikTok and caption her video if you received an invitation? No, you didn't, she said, I just made an invite for my daughter's first birthday party, and on evite it said import contacts. I thought it might be import to select through. No, it imported all four hundred and eighty seven of my contacts and invited them to the birthday party. Not only did it invite my boss and invited all my coworkers, all the people that have ever been stored in my phone, and it sent invitations based on how they're stored in my phone. I just want you to take a second thing about everyone stored in your phone and how they're stored on your phone, and then imagine them receiving the invitation. Wait, so, like, did it look at like how you have people labeled? Like? You know, I don't know how you have people on your phone. You might have Joe Garage right, Joe's Name's not garage, he's Joe from the garage. Or you know, maybe you

3:58 have an X. I want to know more. She explained she had someone saved in her phone as Derek, followed by an eyroll Emochi exactly what I'm talking about, and yes he did receive an invitation. Derek iyeroll Emochi another name that was in her contacts. Jess hit her car in the parking lot. That's amazing. On a Wednesday night, you'll often find me at the local brewery playing trivia, which is why I love this story from the Washington Post titled Inside the Cheating Scandal Rocking DC's trivia scene. The Post tells us most week added brewery in d C. It's friendly trivia night, but recently it became the epicenter of a very DC scandal. The Post says, by the time The Washington Post arrived to investigate, the brewery looked like it usually does, millennials mostly sipping craft beers at sticky wooden tables, But as patrons tip back pints, the staff scened on edge. Oh no, what happened?

4:50 One bartender wanted to talk about what went down, but then he hesitated, yes, Supervisor, Hey, supervisor, should you be involved in this? Supervisor said no, and you shouldn't be either. Uh oh, you see there were forty two teams playing trivia. Jacob a regular notice something amiss. There was no photo featuring the prior week's winners on the TVs. Then a slide appeared warning players against cheating. The warning said, don't use Shazam or your Apple Watch to figure out the songs on the music ground. Don't throw you up in the air while shazam is still on your Apple Watch over and could see that you're using it to cheat. Hmm. At my place, people go to the bathroom at interesting times. I'll leave it at that. One commenter on Twitter said how pathetic do you have to be to cheat at boord trivia? Another said cheating at trivia is a vile, sick o behavior and I will not rest until the cheater is brought to justice and shamed out of town. Towards the end of trivia night, they did a round about songs of betrayal, and then the crowd began singing along to Carrie Underwood's Before He Cheats. Those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy this content and you want to access it commercial free, become a subscriber on Apple podcast just four ninety nine at US dollars per I think could start with a free thirty day trial that a subscription gets you all the shows here on the network Daily Common News, I Host That, and Palace Intrigue and five Daily Trivia Questions and Monster Sharks and Dinosaurs and the rest of the shows. Or if you prefer to sport podcast using the value for value model, check out an app like Fountain Podcast Guru and True Fans can stream some SATs in my direction, or just follow the show for free like you've been doing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your shows, and you

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