March 7, 2026

A Rock mysteriously moved 1700 miles on its own

Show Notes
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Host Johnny Mack presents five good news stories: a small climbing rock called “Portable the Rock” disappeared from Squamish, British Columbia and was later spotted 1,700 miles away at the Iron Man bouldering area in Bishop, California, with plans to return it; six American bison (three males, three females) were released onto Native prairie land at Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve in Kane County, Illinois, marking their return after about 200 years; in China, doctors preserved a 30-year-old woman’s severed ear by grafting it to the top of her foot for five months before reattaching it to her head; in California, $6,270 in lost cash and personal items were found scattered in a front yard and returned after deputies identified the owner via social media; and a train from Hull to Liverpool in the UK was delayed after a driver reported an emu on the tracks, which was safely removed before service resumed at 10:14 AM. Johnny also promotes an ad-free podcast option via Apple Podcasts for $5 per month and notes the show has gone three episodes without a world record story.

00:11 The Traveling Boulder
01:10 Bison Return to Illinois
01:34 Ear Saved on Foot
02:27 Lost Cash Returned
03:11 Ad Free Listening Plug
03:29 Emu on the Tracks

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I am Johnny Mack with

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five good news stories. Now this one bewilders me. A

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small rock beloved by climbers in British Columbia as resurfaced

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seventeen hundred miles away. Now the rock, known to climbers

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as Portable the Rock, which is an interesting name given

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the story. Anyway, Portable the rock had been at the

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base of the Superfly Boulder in Squamish, BC, where it

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was commonly used for practicing balance and grip techniques, and

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then one day it was gone. Then on Reddit, people

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said the rock had shown up at the base of

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the iron Man bouldering area in Bishop, California, seventeen hundred

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miles away. Ethan the climber ran into it and said,

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the minute I saw the shape, I knew it was it.

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It just looked like home. It felt like home, It

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wayed like home. How the rock traveled from Squamish to

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California is unknown. Ethan the climber said the rock was

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slightly greasy, but otherwise was fine, and they're going to

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bring it back to its original location. Very very strange.

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Good news for a herd of six American bison three

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males and three females. They've been released onto native prairie

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land In Illinois, the bison her back after roughly two

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hundred years. This happened at the Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve

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in Kane County, sixty miles northwest of Chicago. A tribal elder,

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Robert told CBS News, it's different when you're welcoming them

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back home. That's their home, not mine. In China, doctors

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preserved a woman's severed ear by grafting it onto her foot,

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allowing the ear to survive until it could be reattached

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to her head. The patient, identified as thirty year old

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Miss Sun, had lost her ear in an industrial accident.

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Doctors determined that the blood, vessels and nerves of the

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injury were too damaged for immediate reattachment, so they used

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a technique known as heterotopic survival, in which severed body

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parts are grafted to another location to maintain blood flow

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and tissue viability. Miss Son's ear was attached to the

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top of her foot. Why the doctors say the skin

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at the top of the foot shearer's characteristics with the ear,

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including thinness, stable circulation, and similarly sized blood vessels. For

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five months. Miss Sun had to wear a shoe several

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sizes larger than usual. Doctors did reattach the ear. Miss

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Sun is now recovering. Wow. In California, a man had

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lost sixty two and seventy dollars worth of cash, but

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good news. The Nevada County Sheriff's Office said that a

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member of the public contacted the office to poor he

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had found several personal possessions in the front yard of

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his home, not belonging to anyone at the home, along

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with some loose cash scattered on the property amounting two

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sixty two to seventy Deputies were able to identify the

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owner of the cash on social media. They said his

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cash and items had been in a satchel but was

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left unsecured in error and had fallen out on his

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walk home. The man retraced his steps after realizing what happened,

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but wasn't able to f on his money or stuff. Operations.

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Captain Rusty said the Good Samaritan serves as a reminder

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that doing the right thing doesn't require recognition, only compassion

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and the willingness to act. If you would like this

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Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week,

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Pallace Intrigue about the British Royal family. They've been in

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the news a lot lately, and a bunch of others.

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If you want to check that out now, John, why

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we alate for work? Well, you see, Boss, I was

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there on the train and then they were delayed because

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there was an emu on the tracks. Yeah. A train

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driver traveling from Hole to Liverpool reported seeing an emu. Now,

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an emu is native to Australia and this happened in

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the UK. The emu was safely removed from the area.

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How it got there, I can't tell you, But what

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I can tell you normal service resumed at ten fourteen am.

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Network Rail was sorry to anyone who's journey was affected,

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presumably including the emu. Those are your five good news

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stories for Tenday Now. Interestingly enough, as I host the show,

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we went three straight episodes without me having to do

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a world record story that in itself may be a

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record you have a great day,