Feb. 12, 2024
Around the World without Flying, Butterfly Rebound, and Underwater Living
Johnny Mac shares five positive stories in this episode. Danish traveler Thor Peterson completes a trip around the world without flying. A ten-year-old, inspired by a man's kindness crusade, undertakes his own acts of kindness. Bay Area's Andy Wang takes cleanup duties into his own hands, improving local dumping sites. Monarch butterfly populations see a significant boost in numbers after previous declines. Lastly, Dr. Joseph DeTourie ('Dr. Deepsea') breaks the world record by living underwater for 100 days, studying the effects of high pressure on the human body.
Thor Peterson's Incredible Journey Around the World
Max's 10 Acts of Kindness Inspired by Brian
Andy Wang's Mission to Clean Up the Bay Area
The Resurgence of Monarch Butterflies
Dr. Deep Sea's Underwater Adventure
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Calaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. Nice job
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00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.280
out of Thorpe Peterson. He's a
Danish traveler who has finished a trip around
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00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:21.039
the world. He spent nearly ten
years visiting every country in the world,
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00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.800
and he did it without flying.
In twenty thirteen, Thor read an article
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00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.120
about somebody who had visited all the
countries of the world, and Thor realized
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00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.560
he could do the same thing,
but without flying. His rules no flying,
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00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.640
no visiting home, and spending at
least twenty four hours in every country.
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00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.479
He hoped that he could live on
about twenty dollars a day and finish
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00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.759
his trip in about four years.
First part of the trip was pretty easy,
10
00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.560
although he had to quit his job
and leave his parents and girlfriend behind.
11
00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.079
He traveled across Europe and North America. In those places, his biggest
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00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.240
challenge was not spending too much money. Then it got harder. You know,
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00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.159
there's oceans and stuff. He had
to take boats. Sometimes it was
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00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.039
hard to find a boat. Sometimes
he was on a boat for days.
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00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.719
He traveled by taxi, bus,
train, even walked. He traveled in
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00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.519
cargo containers and in the backs of
trucks with fifty other people. Wow.
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00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.760
Sometimes he paid for a place to
stay. Sometimes people invited him into their
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00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.239
homes. Other times he slept outside. He was once held a gunpoint and
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00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.640
thought he might be killed. He
also got malaria, but he's optimistic.
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00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:19.719
He said, you might have to
try one thousand closed doors, but there's
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00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.959
always an open door somewhere. Never
ever give up. His girlfriend, special
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Woman, she visited him several times. On one trip, he asked her
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00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.920
to marry him, but because of
the pandemic, he got stuck in Hong
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00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:37.079
Kong for two years. Wow.
They got married online and his wife was
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00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.319
able to join him for part of
the time. He says he's looking forward
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to some quiet time to think about
his trip. A ten year old was
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00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.159
inspired by one man's kindness crusade and
vowed to complete ten acts of kindness to
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00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:52.959
celebrate his tenth birthday. Max was
a grandmaz watching TV and Max said,
29
00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.000
we were watching the news he was
on. In the background, I saw
30
00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:59.480
Brian's story. What's Brian's story was
a story about a Bay Area person named
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00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.000
Brian who his mission was to complete
thirty acts of kindness to celebrate his thirtieth
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00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.480
birthday. And Max said, I
thought it was so cool and I wanted
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00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:07.599
to do it too. Since Max
was about to be ten, he didn't
34
00:02:07.639 --> 00:02:10.919
go with thirty. He went with
ten makes sense. His first act,
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00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.319
he made hundreds of ham and cheese
sandwiches to be delivered to a San Francisco
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homeless shelter and who helped the Max
Brian nice job everybody staying in the Bay
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00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:27.360
Area. Andy Wang goes by the
moniker ping weather he's traveled across the Bay
38
00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.840
Area cleaning up illegal dumping sites.
He then uploads time lapse videos of before
39
00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.039
and after photos. He says,
it's like an art seeing the before and
40
00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.800
afters what's underneath the trash. Basically, I'm just trying to show people that
41
00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:42.520
actions have consequences, good and bad. Consequences bad if we do nothing and
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this is what we end up with. Good if we take the time to
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think about what we did and not
illegally dump. He says, I prefer
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doing it by myself. It just
gives me time to be by myself.
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00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.159
As I pick up the trash,
I think about life. I think for
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00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.599
me, it's a time to decompress. I've seen people post what they've been
47
00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.400
doing for their neighborhoods and just feels
really nice to know that I've inspired people.
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00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:02.479
Good news. If you're a monarch
butterfly, you guys are doing a
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00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.840
lot better. The last couple of
years, we heard that the numbers had
50
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:12.240
dropped. In the winter of twenty
twenty, researchers counted less than two thousand
51
00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.960
monarch butterflies. Over the past two
years, the numbers have grown to nearly
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00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:20.759
three hundred thousand. That said,
it's still about ninety percent below the historic
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00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.080
norms seen in the nineteen eighties,
when they were an estimated one to fifteen
54
00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.639
million monarch butterflies. I've never counted
butterflies, but one million and fifteen million
55
00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.159
seem like very different numbers. Guys. Back then, they would cluster on
56
00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:37.240
trees and numbers so great that their
combined weight would sometimes break tree branches.
57
00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.719
Emma Pelton oversees some of the counting
and says people get excited about these year
58
00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:44.520
to year variations. Compared to twenty
twenty, it definitely looks better, But
59
00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.759
when we zoom out look at the
numbers three decades ago, we'd see there's
60
00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.719
a long way to go. If
you want to be a butterfly counter you
61
00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.879
typically work in a pair. You
do your work in the early morning,
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00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.759
just after sunrise, when it's too
cold for the monarchs to fly. They
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00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.080
usually just on the tree branch and
you can count them pre easily. They
64
00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.960
wait for the temperatures to warm above
sixty degrees. Then the butterflies take off
65
00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.879
and search for water and nectar.
Emma reminds us. Without insects and plants,
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00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:14.879
we don't have a planet. Congratulations
to doctor deep Sea. He's Joseph
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00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:18.680
to Turi and he just spent one
hundred days living in a small room underwater.
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00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.879
He beat the world record. The
old record was seventy three days.
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00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.399
The hotel is twenty two feet under
the ocean's surface in a protected are in
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00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.319
Key Largo. Doctor deep Sea wanted
to learn how the pressure would affect the
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00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.519
human body over time. In the
undersea room, he was living with pressure
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00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:38.680
that's about sixty six percent greater than
the pressure on the surface. He believes
73
00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.000
that high pressure could help people live
longer and stay healthier as they get older.
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00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.720
He exercised in the morning. He
kept teaching his college classes, and
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00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.439
he had online chats with over fifty
five hundred students from fifteen different countries.
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00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:54.800
During his time under sea, he
became half an inch shorter. He also
77
00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.519
said he was able to sleep much
better, and when he got back to
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00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.639
the surface, he was happy to
see the sun again. That's your five
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00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:01.959
good news stories for to day.
If you enjoy the program, tell a
80
00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.720
friend about it. They might enjoy
it too, and you have a great day.
1
00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:12.359
Calaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. Nice job
2
00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.280
out of Thorpe Peterson. He's a
Danish traveler who has finished a trip around
3
00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:21.039
the world. He spent nearly ten
years visiting every country in the world,
4
00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.800
and he did it without flying.
In twenty thirteen, Thor read an article
5
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.120
about somebody who had visited all the
countries of the world, and Thor realized
6
00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.560
he could do the same thing,
but without flying. His rules no flying,
7
00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.640
no visiting home, and spending at
least twenty four hours in every country.
8
00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.479
He hoped that he could live on
about twenty dollars a day and finish
9
00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.759
his trip in about four years.
First part of the trip was pretty easy,
10
00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.560
although he had to quit his job
and leave his parents and girlfriend behind.
11
00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.079
He traveled across Europe and North America. In those places, his biggest
12
00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.240
challenge was not spending too much money. Then it got harder. You know,
13
00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.159
there's oceans and stuff. He had
to take boats. Sometimes it was
14
00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.039
hard to find a boat. Sometimes
he was on a boat for days.
15
00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.719
He traveled by taxi, bus,
train, even walked. He traveled in
16
00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.519
cargo containers and in the backs of
trucks with fifty other people. Wow.
17
00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.760
Sometimes he paid for a place to
stay. Sometimes people invited him into their
18
00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.239
homes. Other times he slept outside. He was once held a gunpoint and
19
00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.640
thought he might be killed. He
also got malaria, but he's optimistic.
20
00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:19.719
He said, you might have to
try one thousand closed doors, but there's
21
00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.959
always an open door somewhere. Never
ever give up. His girlfriend, special
22
00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.879
Woman, she visited him several times. On one trip, he asked her
23
00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.920
to marry him, but because of
the pandemic, he got stuck in Hong
24
00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:37.079
Kong for two years. Wow.
They got married online and his wife was
25
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.319
able to join him for part of
the time. He says he's looking forward
26
00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.599
to some quiet time to think about
his trip. A ten year old was
27
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.159
inspired by one man's kindness crusade and
vowed to complete ten acts of kindness to
28
00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:52.959
celebrate his tenth birthday. Max was
a grandmaz watching TV and Max said,
29
00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.000
we were watching the news he was
on. In the background, I saw
30
00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:59.480
Brian's story. What's Brian's story was
a story about a Bay Area person named
31
00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.000
Brian who his mission was to complete
thirty acts of kindness to celebrate his thirtieth
32
00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.480
birthday. And Max said, I
thought it was so cool and I wanted
33
00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:07.599
to do it too. Since Max
was about to be ten, he didn't
34
00:02:07.639 --> 00:02:10.919
go with thirty. He went with
ten makes sense. His first act,
35
00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.319
he made hundreds of ham and cheese
sandwiches to be delivered to a San Francisco
36
00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:22.120
homeless shelter and who helped the Max
Brian nice job everybody staying in the Bay
37
00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:27.360
Area. Andy Wang goes by the
moniker ping weather he's traveled across the Bay
38
00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.840
Area cleaning up illegal dumping sites.
He then uploads time lapse videos of before
39
00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.039
and after photos. He says,
it's like an art seeing the before and
40
00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.800
afters what's underneath the trash. Basically, I'm just trying to show people that
41
00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:42.520
actions have consequences, good and bad. Consequences bad if we do nothing and
42
00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.680
this is what we end up with. Good if we take the time to
43
00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.240
think about what we did and not
illegally dump. He says, I prefer
44
00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.800
doing it by myself. It just
gives me time to be by myself.
45
00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.159
As I pick up the trash,
I think about life. I think for
46
00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:55.599
me, it's a time to decompress. I've seen people post what they've been
47
00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.400
doing for their neighborhoods and just feels
really nice to know that I've inspired people.
48
00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:02.479
Good news. If you're a monarch
butterfly, you guys are doing a
49
00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.840
lot better. The last couple of
years, we heard that the numbers had
50
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:12.240
dropped. In the winter of twenty
twenty, researchers counted less than two thousand
51
00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:15.960
monarch butterflies. Over the past two
years, the numbers have grown to nearly
52
00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:20.759
three hundred thousand. That said,
it's still about ninety percent below the historic
53
00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.080
norms seen in the nineteen eighties,
when they were an estimated one to fifteen
54
00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.639
million monarch butterflies. I've never counted
butterflies, but one million and fifteen million
55
00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.159
seem like very different numbers. Guys. Back then, they would cluster on
56
00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:37.240
trees and numbers so great that their
combined weight would sometimes break tree branches.
57
00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.719
Emma Pelton oversees some of the counting
and says people get excited about these year
58
00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:44.520
to year variations. Compared to twenty
twenty, it definitely looks better, But
59
00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.759
when we zoom out look at the
numbers three decades ago, we'd see there's
60
00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.719
a long way to go. If
you want to be a butterfly counter you
61
00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.879
typically work in a pair. You
do your work in the early morning,
62
00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:57.759
just after sunrise, when it's too
cold for the monarchs to fly. They
63
00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.080
usually just on the tree branch and
you can count them pre easily. They
64
00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.960
wait for the temperatures to warm above
sixty degrees. Then the butterflies take off
65
00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:08.879
and search for water and nectar.
Emma reminds us. Without insects and plants,
66
00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:14.879
we don't have a planet. Congratulations
to doctor deep Sea. He's Joseph
67
00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:18.680
to Turi and he just spent one
hundred days living in a small room underwater.
68
00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:21.879
He beat the world record. The
old record was seventy three days.
69
00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.399
The hotel is twenty two feet under
the ocean's surface in a protected are in
70
00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.319
Key Largo. Doctor deep Sea wanted
to learn how the pressure would affect the
71
00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.519
human body over time. In the
undersea room, he was living with pressure
72
00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:38.680
that's about sixty six percent greater than
the pressure on the surface. He believes
73
00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.000
that high pressure could help people live
longer and stay healthier as they get older.
74
00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.720
He exercised in the morning. He
kept teaching his college classes, and
75
00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.439
he had online chats with over fifty
five hundred students from fifteen different countries.
76
00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:54.800
During his time under sea, he
became half an inch shorter. He also
77
00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.519
said he was able to sleep much
better, and when he got back to
78
00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.639
the surface, he was happy to
see the sun again. That's your five
79
00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:01.959
good news stories for to day.
If you enjoy the program, tell a
80
00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.720
friend about it. They might enjoy
it too, and you have a great day.