April 15, 2025

Advancements in Cancer Vaccines

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In today's episode, Johnny Macc shares five good things in the news. Ronan, an African giant pouch rat, has uncovered over 100 landmines, while David Rush aims for a new Guinness World Record by juggling in all 63 US National Parks. Julio, a cat missing for over seven years, reunites with his family thanks to a microchip. UK oncologist Leonard Lee is developing groundbreaking mRNA cancer vaccines. Additionally, an AI-generated avatar's appearance in a New York courtroom sparks debate. The episode concludes with a comment on the growing capabilities of AI voices.

00:11 Ronan the Hero Rat
01:01 David Rush's National Park Juggling Quest
01:37 Julio the Cat's Miraculous Return
02:09 Advancements in mRNA Cancer Vaccines
03:15 AI in the Courtroom

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Kalaroga Shark Media in there Shinny Mack with five good

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news stories. Good job out of Ronan. The rat you see, Ronan,

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an African giant pouch rat, is a land mine detecting rat.

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That's right. This is no ordinary rat. Ronan has become

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the first rat to uncover more than one hundred mines

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and other deadly war remnants. It's one hundred and nine

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land mines to be exact. Guinness said. Ronan's crucial work

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is making a real difference to people who've had to

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live with the fear that one misstep while going about

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their day to day lives could be their last. A

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local nonprofit currently has one hundred and four rodent recruits.

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They're known as hero rats. The rats are trained to

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sniff out chemicals that are found in land mines and

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other weapons have been on battlefields. Because they're small, the

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rats aren't heavy enough to detonate the mines. A hero

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rat can check the area of the size of a

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tennis court in about half an hour. It would take

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a human four times as long, plus it's dangerous obviously

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on the human front. David Rush, he's one of those

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guys that likes to set Guinness World Records. He's trying

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to get them to add a new category. He recently

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visited all sixty three US National parks over the course

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of five years. At each park, he took some time

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to film himself juggling. He's attempting to get Guinness to

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award him a title for the accomplishment, and explains, if

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I'm not the first to do it, which as far

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as I can tell, I aim, I'm at least the fastest,

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completing this journey in under five years. Well, how do

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you know his sons completed the Junior Ranger program at

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each park and if applied to originate the record for

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youngest brothers to earn Junior Arranger badges at all US

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National parks. Julio the cat has reunited with his family

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after seven years and four months, thanks to the animal's

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microchip the Windsor Essex Humane Society, he said. Julio the cat,

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when missing in twenty seventeen, somehow managed to avoid getting caught.

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Despite being microchipped and his owner conducting a wide ranging search.

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Julio shut up in the shelter was scanned. The cat's

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owner told the officials, I'd given up hearing that he

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was alive and found your Sally. It was unbelievable. I'm

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still in shock. Julio's back home, the owner says he's

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been happy to be cuddled and listening to relaxing cat music.

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An oncologist with the United Kingdom's National Health Service was

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working on mRNA cancer vaccines. The scientists believes the research

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might be a silver lining from COVID. Before COVID, on

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cologist Leonard Lee said, cancer vaccines weren't a proper field

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of research. Pretty much every clinical trial had failed with

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the pandemic. However, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.

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I'm no scientists, but as I understand here, these sort

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of inoculations work by giving the body instructions to fight

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troublesome cells. Lee tells Wired. Going from mRNA COVID vaccines

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to mRNA cancer vaccines as straightforward, same fridges, the same protocol,

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same drug, just a different patient. In the current trials,

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we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue,

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send it to the pharmaceutical company. They design a personalized vaccine.

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That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It's like fiction,

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Lee tells Wired. The results from the trials should come

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out by the end of the year or the beginning

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of next year. If successful, he and his team will

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have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine. Boy, if

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they've cracked that one, awesome, give them all the prizes.

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In New York, a judge was having none of this.

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The judge realized that the man addressing them from a

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video screen, who was a person about to present an

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argument in a lawsuit, not only didn't have a law degree,

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but didn't exist at all. Somebody sent an AI to court.

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The judge was doing the judge stuff and said, the

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appella has submitted a video for his argument. Okay, we'll

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hear that video. Now. On the video screen appears something

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resembling a man. The something resembling a man says, mate,

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please the court, I come here today, a humble pro

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say before a panel of five distinguished justices. The judge says,

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all right, hold on, is that the counsel for the case.

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The defendant said, I generated that. That's not a real person.

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It was an avatar generated by AI. The judge was

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not pleased. The judge said, it would have been nice

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to know that before you made your Apple, you did

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not tell me that, Sir, I do not appreciate being misled. Interestingly,

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in Arizona, their Supreme Court is using AI generated avatars.

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Daniel and Victoria are there to share the news that

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they are there to interpret court rulings for the public.

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AI voices are getting very very good. I work a

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lot with them. Trust me, they're pretty good. Those are

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your five good news stories. I'm live here today. Case

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you're wondering, this is not AI Johnny Mack. This is

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live me. But they're pretty good. All right, have a

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great day.