Feb. 18, 2025

Baby Elephant Rescue, Poetry Pharmacy, and More!

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Join Johnny Mac for uplifting stories including the rescue of an elephant calf in India, the opening of a Poetry Pharmacy in London, Mittens the cat's unexpected airline journey, a German man's underwater Guinness World Record attempt, and the discovery of a massive shipwreck off England's coast.

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Callaroga Shark Media. By there, I'm shohnny mag with five

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good news stories. Good news for an elephant calf. The

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elephant calf had fallen down a well in an Indian village.

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The calf was rescued by a team of emergency responders.

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They had to demolish a wall of the well so

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a path could be created for the calf to exit.

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The hole. Took about an hour, and the baby elephant

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in the end joined us hurt nearby. That's great. Deb

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explains why poetry is in motion. She has opened a

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branch of the poetry pharmacy. The poetry Pharmacy answers the

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question what's the cure for a broken heart? What about grief, anxiety, loneliness?

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For those visiting the Poetry Pharmacy, you'll find it out

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on Oxford Street in London. They offer tonics to those

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sorts of emotional ailments. Deb explains that weddings and funerals,

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it's a poem that's read. It's the art that Bill

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in states of heightened emotion turned to the centerpiece of

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the poetry Pharmacy is a rich mahogany cabineting. Small glass

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bottles labeled with various emotions such as love, invigoration, pride,

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others a little more whimsical their appeals for dithering and

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for existential angst. There's a glass flask set high up

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that says serenity, keep out of reach of children. Mittens,

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the cat, is quite the frequent flyer. Her cage was

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overlooked in a plane cargo hold. She made three trips

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in twenty four hours between New Zealand and Australia. Mittens

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is eight years old, was booked for one way. Her

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human Margo said, she waited for Mittens to be unloaded

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from the plane's freight area three hours past no cat.

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Then the staffs hold Margo that the plane had returned

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to New Zealand with Mitton still on board. The return

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trip is seven and a half hours in the air.

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She said, how can this happen? That's a question I

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would have too. Sounds like she's a lot calmer than

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I would have been. Luckily, the pet moving company they'd

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use met Mittens in New Zealand ensure that she was

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back on the plane for another trip to Melbourne. Margo said,

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Mitten's basically ran into my arms and snuggled up in

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here and just did the biggest cuddles of alts Air

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New Zealand spokesperson said they'll reimburse all costs associated with

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Mitten's travel and we will work closely with our ground

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handler in Melbourne to ensure this does not happen again.

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I hope not. Johnny Mack, he got a Guinness record

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for a sure. A fifty nine year old German Man

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was attempting to break the Guinness World Record for longest

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time spent living in an underwater fixed habitat. The last

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update I have for you is that he was more

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than sixty days into the attempt. He says what he

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misses most is a shower. His living space is about

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three hundred and twenty two square feet. He has a

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toilet at TV, a computer bed, a stationary bike, satellite Internet,

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and multiple fans. He says it's not particularly hard. I

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don't feel like I'm suffering down here at all. The

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hardest point is sometimes I want to go diving. A

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man found something on Google Earth and wants to go

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find it. Josh explains, while scrolling through Google Earth, I

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stumbled across what looked like a massive shipwreck tuck way

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in a secluded cove along England's coastline. Naturally, I could

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resist the urge to go check it out myself. The

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height to the wreck was breathtaking, the rugged coastal cliffs,

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waves crashing below. He then embarked on a breath taking

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cliff edge walk. He warned, don't let its beauty fool you.

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This coastline is deadly. There were over one hundred and

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thirty registered shipwrecks here. He continued. In the hidden cove,

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he found the shipwreck and said, it looks absolutely massive.

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It looks like part of the ship is broken off.

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He climbed on the deck. He found a door surrounded

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by rusting ladders and windows. He went inside, found some

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deserted rooms and said, this is a crazy place. But

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it left me wondering why did this massive shipwreck here.

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Local residents were surprised by this. One said I leave

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in Cornwell. I had no clue that was there. Another said,

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I remember seeing that shipwreck years ago. It was in

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a much better state. Sad how time erodes these things.

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It's possible it was the RM mes Meuheim, a German

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cargo ship that ran aground in two thousand and three.

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The story goes that the chief officer on watch had

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caught his trousers in his chair, fell over and passed out.

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By the time he regained consciousness, there was nothing you

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could do to stop the ship from hitting the rocks.

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I'm not sure that was good news, John No, but

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it was definitely interesting. Anyway. Those are your four good

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