Dec. 9, 2024

Banana Phobia in Swedish Politics PLUS Coldplay Saves The Day

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In this episode, host Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. First, a Swedish minister's unique phobia of bananas leads to banana-free official visits. Second, an emperor penguin named Gus travels 2,200 miles from Antarctica to Australia. Third, Japanese engineers create a wooden satellite set to launch next year. Fourth, a Rhode Island man breaks a world record with his collection of 1,019 energy drink cans. Finally, Coldplay's Chris Martin helps a young boy at a concert find a safer spot, impressing fans.

00:12 Banana Phobia in Swedish Politics
01:12 Emperor Penguin's Journey to Australia
01:57 Wooden Satellite by Japanese Engineers
02:42 World's Largest Collection of Energy Drink Cans
03:41 Chris Martin's Heartwarming Gesture

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Callaroga shark media. All right, this first one's fun and hello.

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I'm shohnny McK with five good news stories. Good news.

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If you have a phobia of bananas, a Swedish minister

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has got your back. Government officials are asking for rooms

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to be banana free. Some local media has quoted leaked

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emails in which staff working for one of the ministers

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have asked for any bananas to be removed before official visits.

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The minister has posted in the past on social media

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saying she has the world's weirdest phobia of bananas. The

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posts have since been deleted. A second Swedish politician also

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said on Twitter that she too had banana phobia and

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was with the first minister on the issue. Scientists tell

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us banana phobia can be triggered by seeing or smelling bananas,

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and can cause symptoms like anxiety and nausea. Emails were

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sent in advance of official visits, including to a VIP lunch,

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asking for no bananas. Her fellow politician said, we have

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had many tough debates about conditions and working life, but

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on this issue we stand united against a common enemy

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and Emperor Penguin has made it all the way from

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Antarctica to Australia. That's twenty two hundred miles. The Australian

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Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions said the male penguin,

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whose name is Gus, was malnourished when he was first

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spotted near Denmark. No, not that Denmark, the one that's

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two hundred and fifty miles south of Perth in Western Australia.

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Aaron was outsurfing and said, there was this big bird

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in the water, and we thought it was another sea bird.

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But then it kept getting closer to the shore and

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it was way too big, and it stood up and

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waddled right over to us. Aaron's theory is that Gus

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thought we were penguins because of our wetsuits. Gus initially

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weighed in at fifty one pounds, which is far less

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than the one hundred pounds you'd expect an emperor penguin

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to be. The department says they're looking into whether or

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not it's feasible to bring Gus back to Antarctica. Japanese

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engineers have made a satellite out of wood. They're going

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to launch it in summertime next year. Now you're like wood, well,

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you see in space, there is no oxygen for the

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wood to burn, there's no moisture cause it to rot,

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there are no microbes to eat it away. The biggest

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risk to a wood satellite would be burning up in

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the atmosphere, which is exactly the idea to Kyo doy Is,

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a Japanese astronaut and aerospace engineer with Kyoto University, and said,

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all the satellites which re enter the Earth's atmosphere burn

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and create tiny alumina particles which float in the upper

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atmosphere for many years. Eventually it'll affect the environment. The

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Lingo sat is about the size of a coffee mug.

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It will orbit for six months before being allowed to

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fall into the atmosphere, where it will burn. Congratulations to

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a Rhode Island man. He has a mass the world's

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largest collection of energy drink cans. That's right, Joel has

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one thy and nineteen energy drink cans. He goes by

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the nickname Caffeine Man on YouTube. He has received official

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confirmation from Guinness that he possesses the world's largest collection

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of energy drink cans. Sorry, I lost my dead bad

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delivery there. Some of these stories are ridiculous. This show's

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just supposed to be fun, you know Joel's old TV.

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I never thought i'd have a gidness world record for anything.

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The channel started being successful and I just kept collecting cans.

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At one point I said, I wonder how many I have.

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I counted them all up and it ended up being

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a world record. My wife would have started throwing them

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out one thousand and eighteen cans ago. I had a

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videotape the whole thing. I also had to take pictures

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of each and every can. And what was time consuming

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was I didn't know they needed an itemized list of

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every single can. It took a long time to type

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up the list. He added that his favorite flavor his

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Ghost Energy drinks Swedish fish. Hey nice job by Chris Martin.

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You know him from Cold's Play. They were doing a

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show in Sydney and a young boy got caught up

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in the crowd. Footage posted to TikTok shows Chris Martin

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pointing to the child in the standing section, saying, hey,

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sit down, Okay, you don't have to be squeezed. A

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security guard helped the boy move toward the stage. Martin insisted,

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you don't have to be squished. By all these adults.

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You sit right here, my little brother, a TikToker, says

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Chris try to help the boy find a spot that

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wasn't crowded and offered him the best view possible. Fans

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were impressed. One on social media said, I just love him.

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