Oct. 11, 2024

Beetlejuice Fanta, Beetlejuice Fanta, Helene, Helene, Helene

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories: Students excavating a Gaulish village in France find a 200-year-old message in a bottle, the world's largest cheesecake sets a new record at the Cream Cheese Festival in New York, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovers a unique rock formation, Augusta National Golf Club and Dolly Parton commit substantial funds for Hurricane Helene relief, and Fanta introduces a controversial Beetlejuice-inspired Halloween flavor. The script concludes with a humorous mention of Beetlejuice, encouraging listeners to try a commercial-free subscription for more content.

00:00 Introduction and Archaeological Discovery
01:02 World's Largest Cheesecake
02:12 Mars Rover's Zebra Rock
02:43 Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts from Dolly Parton
03:37 Fanta's Questionable Halloween Flavor

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnning back with five

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good news stories. Students working at an archaeological site in

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France made a fascinating discovery. They found a message in

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a bottle from an archaeologist who worked at the same

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site two hundred years earlier. The students were working on

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a dig at the remains of a Gaulish village endangered

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by cliff erosion when they found the small glass bottle

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inside a pot. The message reads PJ. Ferret, a member

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of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January

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eighteen twenty five. He continues his investigations in this vast

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area known as Caesar's Camp. The head of the local

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archaeological service said it was an absolutely magic moment. We

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knew there had been excavations here in the pass, but

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to find this message from two hundred years ago was

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a total surprise. Sometimes you see these time capsules left

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behind by carpenters when they build houses, but it's very

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rare in archaeology. Most archaeologists prefer to think that there

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won't be anyone coming after them because they've done all

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the work. The world's largest cheesecake was served at the

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Cream Cheese Festival. Lowville, New York, has an annual Cream

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Cheese festival. They hosted a successful record attempt featuring a

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fifteen thousand and eight pound cheesecake. I'm wondering why the

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extra eight pounds. Perhaps the story will reveal that to us.

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The team in Lowville had set the record for the

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world's largest cheesecake at the festival back in twenty thirteen,

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but they were beaten by a team from Russia who

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made a ninety three hundred and forty seven pound cheesecake

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in twenty seventeen. Derek Langdon is the quality manager at

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Craft Hines, and he said he and his team decided

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to smash that record. He said, if you're gonna beat it,

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you might as well go big. We decide we're gonna

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smash that record, make it almost twice as big as

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the last one. If they're gonna beat it, they're gonna

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have to go really big. It was go big. An

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educator from Guinness was there. They confirmed it weighed in

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at fifteen eight pounds. Jeremiah's the Cream Cheese Festival chairperson,

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and said, this is just unbelievable to have a record

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in only thirteen and win the record again this year

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just shows how this community comes together and we couldn't

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be more proud. The cheesecake was sliced and served to

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festival attendees. There were some leftovers which were donated to

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local food banks. Meanwhile, on Mars has that for a segue,

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the perseverance Mars rover settled on an extraordinary rock. It

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featured black and white striations like alpine granite. NASA scientists

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are excited, one of the mission members told earth dot com.

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The internet immediately lit up with speculation about what this

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zebra rock might be. We've enjoyed reading your theories to

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trying to figure out whether these stones were uplifted from

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the crust during an impact event, or if they were

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transported to the area from some significant volcanic event millions

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of years ago. Nice job by the Augusta National Golf Club.

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They have pledged five million dollars towards Hurricane Helene relief.

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Dolly Parton announced a one million dollar donation to the

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Mountain Ways Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing immediate assistance

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to Hurricane Helene flood victims. Statement, Dolly said, I just

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want you to know I'm totally with you because I'm

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part of you. Dolly shut up in a parking lot,

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spoke to two hundred and fifty community members and said,

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I just want you to know I'm totally with you

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because I am part of you. I love you. I

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look around and I think these are my mountains. These

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are my valleys, These are my rivers flowing like a stream.

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These are my people. Those mountain colored rainbows, these are

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my people, and this is my home. She then went

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into a version of Jolene. I'm not gonna sing it,

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but I'll read you the lyrics with some sort of cadence. Helene, Helene, Helene.

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You came in here and broke us all apart, Helene, Helene, Helene,

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We're all here to mend these broken hearts. You might

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have to head over to the UK to get this one,

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but Fanta has launched a quote unquote questionable Halloween flavor.

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People are mixed on this one. It's Beetlejuice. Fanta don't

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say that three times bad things might happen, a flavor

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inspired by the iconic nineteen eighty eight film Beetlejuice. That's

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too but fans are divided whether they like the taste

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of it or whether it's a little too quirky. Fanta

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Afterlife Zero Sugar is an apple flavored drink. On Reddit,

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somebody wrote I tried this and thought it was absolutely awful.

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Another said, you're one hundred percent right. One of the

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worst sodas I ever tried, and I bought two because

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I usually love apple flavored drinks. It tasted like how

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an apple scented candle smells, waxy medicine, and just plain bad.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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just to see what happens. Okay, are you ready? I'm

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Beetlejuice