Oct. 23, 2024

Butt Breathing, Bear Raids, and a Lego Up Your Nose

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five good news stories, including bizarre scientific discoveries like mammals breathing through their rectum, a cat named Drifter being rescued after 8 weeks in a sewer, a bear raiding a refrigerator, a man setting a record for bursting balloons with boxing gloves, and a 26-year-old Lego finally being removed from someone's nose.

00:16 The Ig Nobel Prizes: Butt Breathing and More
01:27 Drifter the Cat's Miraculous Return
01:51 Bear Raids the Refrigerator
02:19 David Rush: Record-Breaking Balloon Burster
02:54 Lego Stuck in Nose for 26 Years

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Caalaroga Shark Media. I'm laughing before we get to this

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first story. Hello, I'm shining back with five good news stories.

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All right, John, what's so funny? I told you about

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the ignobles the other day. The Ignoble prizes meaningless scientific discoveries.

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Here's one. Researchers have discovered that mammals can breathe through

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their butts. That's right. After a series of tests on mice, rats,

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and pigs, Japanese scientists found that animals absorb oxygen delivered

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through the rectum. This achievement is described as one that

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first makes people laugh and then makes them think some

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more fun at the ignobles. The twenty four seven lectures

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experts explain their subject in twenty four seconds, then in

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seven words, and then paper plane throwing. The UK investigated

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claims of extreme old age tend to come from areas

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that have short average life spans and a historical lack

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of certificates. And I found out the answer to the

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hair thing. A French study found that Scalpierre tends to

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whirl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the

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southern hemisphere. Interesting. The Japanese scientists with the butt breathing

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were curious could humans benefit from having oxygen pumped up

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their backsides. Their paper described how internal ventilation offered a

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new paradigm. The team is running a phase one trial

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in human volunteers. Good News. Drifter, a cat is back

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home after sneaking outside and getting trapped in a sewer

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for eight weeks. Drifters three years old. His owners presumed

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that he went out to check out the construction underway

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in the neighborhood. The family hung up posters, searched across

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the city, couldn't find it. They were going to have

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a memorial service, and then some neighbor kids came over

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and said they heard me outing coming from a storm

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drain over at the construction site. Drifters back home safely.

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Good news. We figured out who rated the refrigerator. Now,

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if you listen to the show regularly, you could probably

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guess that's right. Hey, bear bears have been pretty active

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this year. Scott shared video of a bear wandering into

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his South Lake Tahoe cabin. The bear opens the fridge

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makes a snack out of a bottle of jelly. That's

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like a stereotypical bear man. The California Department of fish

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and wild life say bears are stocking up for the winter.

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They're about to begin hibernating in Idaho. A man with

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more than one hundred and eighty guttess world records added

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another title. David rush aka record Breaker rush on YouTube

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has set the record for most balloons burst with boxing

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gloves in one minute. The record had been thirty three.

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While he was training, he got up to thirty seven.

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He trained some more, got up to sixty eight. He

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said it takes sixty times longer to set them up

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down the pop them, so I had to make the

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official attempt to count his final record. You're never gonna

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guess this number again. I'll remind you the initial number

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was thirty three, and he took it up to sixty eight.

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The record is now three hundred and twenty seven. Wow.

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Good news for Norton. After twenty six years, they finally

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got the lego out of his nose. He says, I

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can smell colors now. Twenty six years ago, Norton was

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playing with some legos and stuck one in his nose.

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He posted a video Lego stuck in my nose for

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nearly three decades, finally comes out. I can smell colors now.

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Thirty years ago, he tried to get the lego piece

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out with a lego man, thinking the two pieces could

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you know, click together and pull it out. He said

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it was like a rescue mission that didn't go as planned.

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The lego man also got stuck. Mom used tweezers to

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move the toys, but unbeknownst to them, a tiny piece

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of the lego remained. Norton said he's been blowing his

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nose in the shower for the past six months, per

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doctor's advice, because of the arid conditions where they live

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in Arizona. Today, I was blowing my nose in the

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shower and lo and behold, I blew out a lego

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dot that's been at my nose for at least twenty

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six years. And I don't know what to think of this.

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What are you gonna do with the lego? He plans

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to take it to the doctor and discuss the incident.

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Those are your five good news stories for today. If

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you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They

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