June 28, 2026

America’s Most Misspelled Words, a Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant, and More Good News

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories, starting with Unscrambler.com’s analysis of Google searches for spelling help, led by “bougie,” followed by “favorite” and “through,” plus state-by-state examples like Florida searching “school” and Georgia “chihuahua.” He highlights The Long Table, a restaurant with one or two dishes nightly where everyone sits together and pays what they can; it served 38,305 meals last year, about half below cost and 10% free, and its founder Tom hopes others adopt the model. Next is a new Przewalski’s horse foal at the Bronx Zoo and the species’ recovery from extinction in the wild, including 2024 transfers from Prague Zoo to Kazakhstan. He notes a Guinness record as Holly “the Lawn Queen” mows a football-field area in 14:51, and ends with a New Jersey doorbell camera capturing two black bears, including one ringing the bell.

00:11 Most Misspelled Words
01:04 State by State Spelling
01:34 Pay What You Can Restaurant
02:53 Bronx Zoo Wild Foal
04:10 Lawn Queen Record
04:46 Bear Rings Doorbell

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. All right, today, I have for you

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America's most misspelled words. A website called Unscrambler, unscrambler r yeah, unscramble,

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lure no, unscrambled lu ruh uh. We should do America's

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most unpronounceable words U N S c R A M

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B L E R E r okay, unscramble ruhr dot com.

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I'm leaving all that in that website anyway. The lies

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Google search data from January through mid May of this year.

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The most searched word for spelling help this year was

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bougie b O U g I E. Number two was

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favorite American spelling f A V O R I t E.

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Number three was through t h R O U g

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H then business tomorrow because deaf beautiful, knee sign before

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e and separate. They also broke it down by state.

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Florida's most search word was school make your own joke.

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Colorado's was color. Georgia looked up Chihuahua chi hua Hua.

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Louisiana was curious about restaurant. North Carolina and Virginia were

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both stumped by spaghetti Minnesota was searching for ukulele uk

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u l e l E. Oregon was struggling with diamond,

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and Texas was trying to figure out how to spell recycle.

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There's a restaurant called the Long Table. The concept is

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simple and radical. There are one or two dishes on

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the menu. Each night, You sit wherever there's space, and

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you pay whatever you could afford. No proof required, no

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separate line for people can't pay full price. Everyone sits

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together at the same long wooden table, shoulders shoulder, and

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eats the same food On a typical night. The suggested

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base price to cover costs around ten British pounds. If

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you could pay more, you're invited to. If you need

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to pay less or nothing at all, that's cool. Two

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Last year, the Long Table served thirty eight three hundred

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and five meals. About half were paid below cost and

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ten percent were completely free. The people who can pay

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more effectively help cover the people who can't. One of

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the regular set. I come here because everyone can eat here,

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so you don't just find one class of people. A

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lot of people sitting here and paying nothing. But I've

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seen people in front of me paying double what's on

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the menu. Well, one night, they had panzerati, a Southern

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Italian deep fried cousin of a cal zone, served with coppanata,

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a rocket salad, homemade pesto, and thick slices of bread.

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The restaurant was founded by Tom, a fifth generation baker

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who grew up above his family's bakery. He said his

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grandfather had a chain of twenty two hot bread shops

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and made a point of hiring people fresh out of

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prison and then putting their names above the door. Ian's Bakery,

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John's Bakery, et cetera. There are now two locations, but

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Tom says his ambition isn't mass expansion, but helping others

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adopt the model for their own communities. That's pretty cool.

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There's a new addition to the Bronx Zoo. A new

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foal has been added to its herd of Shavalski's orse.

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Those are considered the world's last truly wild horse, meaning

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that they diverged from domestic horses over five thousand years

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ago and were never domesticated. Compared to a typical horse,

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they're smaller and stock here, with a large head, thick necked,

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short legs, and a zebra like upright main No forelock.

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That's the hair that falls between a horse's ears on

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a regular horse. These animals look ancient because they are.

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The Shavalski's horse once roamed across Europe and Asia. A

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human settlement pushed them further and further east till the

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only place they could be found was in the Mongolian

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steps of the Gobi Desert. By nineteen sixty nine, they

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were officially declared extinct in the wild. Every single Shavalski's

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horse alive today is descended from just fourteen individuals, fourteen animals,

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with the genetic foundation of the entire species now good news.

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Zoo bred horses were reintroduced into their native grasslands in

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China nineteen eighty nine and Mongolia in nineteen ninety two.

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The population has been slowly rebuilding. Fewer than two thousand

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exists globally, but again it's more than fourteen. In twenty

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twenty four, three horses named Zoro, Zeta and Epsilon travel

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three thousand miles by truck and plane from the Prog

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Zoo to a protected reserve in Kazakhstan. They were the

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first of forty horses planned for that reserve. Got a

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new Guinness World record for you. This is for fastest

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mowing of an area the size of an American football field,

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and that has been broken by the lawn Queen. Holly

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goes by the nickname the lawn Queen. She took a

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mower out to the turf Mutt Great Lawn at Waterfront

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Park in Louisville, Kentucky, and moted a football field sized

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area in fourteen minutes fifty one seconds. I got to

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get her over to my house. You know what I

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think after I record this episode, I need to cut

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the grass. This for real. I'm not doing a bit,

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just reminding me I have to cut the grass today.

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There are rules. The grass had to be at least

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six inches high before the mowing started. All hell the

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lawn Queen. And if you hear the doorbell ring, you

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might want to check your camera before you open it.

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A woman, Naomi, lives up in Sussex County, New Jersey.

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Sometimes I'm up that way and it's, you know, a

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little bit of the wilderness there. Her doorbell camera rang.

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Who's at the door. It's a a pair of black bears.

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One of the bears walked up to the porch, sniffed around,

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and triggered the doorbell with its nose. New Jersey Fish

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and Wildlife Services says black bear sightings have been reported

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in all twenty one counties in New Jersey. The advice

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from Fish and Wildlife is a standard bear guidance. Secure

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your food, lockdown your trash, eliminate antiodors that might attract

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the bears. But they have not given any guidance on

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what to do if a bear rings your doorbell. They

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only suggest don't answer it case you're curious. Black bears

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are not typically aggressive toward people. That's said, a three

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hundred pound bear on your porch, it's not something you

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want to mess with. And those are your five good

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news stories for today. Have a good day.