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0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnning back with five good news stories. Students working at an archaeological site in France made a fascinating discovery. They found a message in a bottle from an archaeologist who worked at the same site two hundred years earlier. The students were working on a dig at the remains of a Gaulish village endangered by cliff erosion when they found the small glass bottle inside a pot. The message reads PJ. Ferret, a member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January eighteen twenty five. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as Caesar's Camp. The head of the local archaeological service said it was an absolutely magic moment. We knew there had been excavations here in the pass, but to find this message from two hundred years ago was a total surprise. Sometimes you see these time capsules left behind by carpenters when they build houses, but it's very rare in archaeology. Most archaeologists prefer to think that there won't be anyone coming after them because they've done all the work. The world's largest cheesecake was served at the Cream Cheese Festival. Lowville, New York, has an annual Cream Cheese festival. They hosted a successful record attempt featuring a fifteen thousand and eight pound cheesecake. I'm wondering why the extra eight pounds. Perhaps the story will reveal that to us.

1:20 The team in Lowville had set the record for the world's largest cheesecake at the festival back in twenty thirteen, but they were beaten by a team from Russia who made a ninety three hundred and forty seven pound cheesecake in twenty seventeen. Derek Langdon is the quality manager at Craft Hines, and he said he and his team decided to smash that record. He said, if you're gonna beat it, you might as well go big. We decide we're gonna smash that record, make it almost twice as big as the last one. If they're gonna beat it, they're gonna have to go really big. It was go big. An educator from Guinness was there. They confirmed it weighed in at fifteen eight pounds. Jeremiah's the Cream Cheese Festival chairperson, and said, this is just unbelievable to have a record in only thirteen and win the record again this year just shows how this community comes together and we couldn't be more proud. The cheesecake was sliced and served to festival attendees. There were some leftovers which were donated to local food banks. Meanwhile, on Mars has that for a segue, the perseverance Mars rover settled on an extraordinary rock. It featured black and white striations like alpine granite. NASA scientists are excited, one of the mission members told earth dot com.

2:27 The internet immediately lit up with speculation about what this zebra rock might be. We've enjoyed reading your theories to trying to figure out whether these stones were uplifted from the crust during an impact event, or if they were transported to the area from some significant volcanic event millions of years ago. Nice job by the Augusta National Golf Club. They have pledged five million dollars towards Hurricane Helene relief. Dolly Parton announced a one million dollar donation to the Mountain Ways Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing immediate assistance to Hurricane Helene flood victims. Statement, Dolly said, I just want you to know I'm totally with you because I'm part of you. Dolly shut up in a parking lot, spoke to two hundred and fifty community members and said, I just want you to know I'm totally with you because I am part of you. I love you. I look around and I think these are my mountains. These are my valleys, These are my rivers flowing like a stream.

3:16 These are my people. Those mountain colored rainbows, these are my people, and this is my home. She then went into a version of Jolene. I'm not gonna sing it, but I'll read you the lyrics with some sort of cadence. Helene, Helene, Helene. You came in here and broke us all apart, Helene, Helene, Helene, We're all here to mend these broken hearts. You might have to head over to the UK to get this one, but Fanta has launched a quote unquote questionable Halloween flavor. People are mixed on this one. It's Beetlejuice. Fanta don't say that three times bad things might happen, a flavor inspired by the iconic nineteen eighty eight film Beetlejuice. That's too but fans are divided whether they like the taste of it or whether it's a little too quirky. Fanta Afterlife Zero Sugar is an apple flavored drink. On Reddit, somebody wrote I tried this and thought it was absolutely awful.

4:08 Another said, you're one hundred percent right. One of the worst sodas I ever tried, and I bought two because I usually love apple flavored drinks. It tasted like how an apple scented candle smells, waxy medicine, and just plain bad. And those are your five good news stories for today. A reminder, if you would like to program without commercial interruption, it's just five bucks a month. If you're on Apple Podcast, there's a banner. Click on the banner. You could try it out for thirty days. If you're like, yeah, that wasn't worth five bucks, don't run out. That's cool. I don't mind. And I'm gonna leave you with one more word, just to see what happens. Okay, are you ready? I'm gonna say the word one more time. I don't know what's gonna happen when I say this word. Are you ready? Beetlejuice