Alligator hits up The Tiki Bar

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Wow, this is really great. A three year old girl who was born deaf can hear now after breakthrough gene therapy. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Opal underwent gene therapy injection to her right ear in twenty twenty three. Who was a fifteen minute procedure. She was under general anesthesia. They delivered a working copy of the otof gene into her right cochlea. During that same procedure, doctors placed a cochlear implant on her left ear. She can now hear for the first time. That's amazing. Her parents say she can hear normally even when the implant on her left ear is turned off.

0:45 This was part of a clinical trial. They say eleven of the twelve patients experienced clinically meaningful improvements in hearing within weeks of the procedure. Good news. If you're a cave roosting bat, your populations in Wisconsin are recovering from a fungal epid. You know, I was happy this summer the bats were back in my yard. So sometimes if I go swimming at night. In olden times, the bats would come out of the tree. They never bother the humans. The bats would come down and grab a bug off the top of the pool and go back to this tree. And I used to enjoy that, and then like for a few years, there weren't any bats at all. This summer there were at least two bats. I know there were two because I saw them simultaneously skimming bugs. I was happy to see them back. I don't know if it was because it was a hot summer or what.

1:27 I'm not a bats scientist. I digress. In Wisconsin, wildlife authorities are reporting for the third year in a row, the bat population seems to be rising. Numbers of little brown bats, big brown bats, tricolored bats, and northern long eared bats are estimated via citizen surveys. Each year. The estimates have been going up. That's great. You see bats hunt mosquitoes all right. Now you're into the bats exactly now. The fungus is rotten. The fungus wakes bats from hibernation. The sudden jolt of metabolic energy needed to leave the state of hiber nation depletes fat reserves during the winter and confuses the bats. They leave the cave and then they freeze to death. All that is called white nose syndrome.

2:11 Bat conservationist Merlin Tuttle told Joe Rogan the average number of human fatalities from bats every year is one. He added that more people get rabies from dogs in this country, and our spouses kill us off by the thousands. Interesting perspective there. On the Rogan Show. In Florida, the police relocated an alligator that was hanging out at the tiki bar. We don't want alligators here at the tiki bar. The Stewart Police Department on social media said it was not a rowdy tourist dodging their bar tab, it was an actual alligator. The party seeking reptile has been relocated to a more suitable venue where the only cocktails are in the swamp and the sun never sets on a happy hour. There's a Jimmy Buffett song on there somewhere, all right, John, why we allay for work? Well, you see, boss, there were forty six thousand pounds of apple sauce on the highway. Yeah.

2:58 This happened on I fifty even at mile marker seventy six, at around five in the morning on a Monday. No injuries reported in the incident. Again, I always want to be clear that I'm bot out to be a jerk on the show. It's five good news stories that don't tell accident stories where terrible things happen. Everybody's okay, except for the apple sauce. Rix Towing was summoned to the scene to assist with the cleanup. Rix said, about forty six thousand pounds of apple sauce billed on the roadway. That's the equivalent of one hundred and eighty four thousand and four ounced apple sauce containers. What was a tow truck guy gonna do with apple sauce? So that's what I want to know. And good news, We caught the monkey. How did we catch the monkey? Johnny Mack? Obviously with coffee.

3:39 There was a spider monkey running loose through town in South Carolina. Casey was helping out at the fall Fest on a Saturday. She heard rumors of a monkey running loose through town. She connected with Mayor Brandon and Mayor Brandon's wife, Laura. They headed over to the area of the last reported monkey sighting, near the Twirl restaurant. She told the local paper. Sure enough, the monkey was hanging on the back of a vehicle by the barber shop. The great thing about these stories is always the details. Now, the monkey had a leash, Casey said. She was hollering. You could tell she was scared. So Casey tried an experiment. She placed her cup of hot coffee on the ground, removed the lid, and stepped back. The monkey came over to be like, Hey, what's this. Casey had outsmarted the monkey.

4:22 She stepped on the leash caught the monkey. Turns out the monkey belongs to Ava. And those are your five good news stories for today. You have an awesome day.