Are those 100 snakes in your pants?

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with five good News Stories. A retired couple. They're making the rounds. They're trying to visit every Texas Roadhouse restaurant in the United States. I've been to one of them, and I thought it was pretty good. Mike and Judy started this back in two thousand and three. Wow, they're from a place in Virginia. They first went to Texas Roadhouse in two thousand and three when Judy's brother took them to one in Knoxville. After going to about thirty seven different Texas Roadhouses, Mike looked at the couple's credit card and started a spreadsheet to keep track. Mike told USA Today, I was like, Okay, let's see how many we can go to. In twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, they went to nearly one hundred.

0:47 At last check, they've been to four hundred and thirty four of them. He says. They're supposed to be between six hundred and fifty and seven hundred and the United States alone, so we've knocked down quite a few of them. Mike says, it's good food, I hope. So if you've been to four hundred of them. We don't like fancy food. We don't like what they call fine dining. It's just too rich and it's not worth the price to start with. To us, he enjoys the Texas Roadhouses six ounce sirloin with salad and baked sweet potatoes, but because he goes to so many of them, he likes to switch things up. Now. He typically orders sirloin, pork chops, the pulled pork, and the chicken tenders. Judy, his wife, typically gets the shrimp and chicken dishes, sometimes ribs. A man was inspired to become a neurosurgeon by watching Grey's Anatomy. Steven is now thirty five. He first watched the show in high school.

1:34 When he was in the fourth year of his residency program at Duke University Hospital, there was an announcement that the show's producers were recruiting medical consultants to work on season nineteen. Stephen jumped at it. He said, I was interested in it immediately because watching Grace Anatomy in high school inspired me to get into neurosurgery. He was selected to be a consultant, providing advice on scriptwriting and guiding actors, and after a successful debut in twenty twenty two. They kept him on a right for season twenty as well. He's now in the sixth year of his residency program. He even appeared as an extra in one episode. He explained, I'd be consultant on what type of injury he could bring two characters working in different medical departments together. For example, if they needed a reason for a neurosurgeon and a cardiotheratic specialist to be in a room together, I'd come up with the injury that meant they were both needed.

2:20 Oh man, that's so fun. One hundred and twenty five dolphins were stranded off Cape Cod One Rescue organization calls it the largest single mass stranding event in decades. The dolphins were herded in highly coordinated response effort to encourage their movement back to deeper waters, first on foot, than switching to boating efforts as the water returned to high tide. It was a twelve hour, exhausting response in the unrelenting sun, but the team was able to overcome the challenges and give the dolphins their best chance at survival. Meanwhile, a former Hollywood producer turned rancher is rescuing mustangs and wild donkeys. From being sold at auction. Claire said she first became aware that the West wild mustangs are being rounded up by the Bureau of Land Manager meant and sold that auction.

3:01 She realized this meant that horse families were being separated against their will. She founded Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary, intending to provide nine thousand acres of grazing land where mustangs and wild donkeys can roam in familial peace for the rest of their days. She uses a network of photographers to track members of horse families and even herds, and uses the money made through her nonprofit operations to buy the horses at auctions and then they're reunited at her ranch. She says, it's kind of like being a wild horse detective if we rely on the photographers who go out in the wild. There are certain herds, especially in Oregon, where people name horses as they become well known on these Facebook pages. All right, I got a question, are there was one hundred snakes in your pants or you know the rest of the joke? Yeah, man will stop by customs trying to enter China from Hong Kong, six draw string bags sealed with tape were reportedly found stuffed in the man's pockets as he tried to go through the checkpoint undetected customs was like umm No. Once opened, each bag was found to contain living snakes in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and colors. After counting, a total of one hundred four snakes was found. Some of the snakes included a milk snake, a Western hognose snake, a corn snake, a Texas rat snake, and a bull snake.

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