July 15, 2025

Cheese Spill, Emu Adventure, Ancient Sword, T-Rex Races, and Bunker Living

Show Notes
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First, a mozzarella cheese spill on a Pennsylvania interstate causes a quirky traffic incident. Next, a pair of emus escape in Minnesota but are quickly found. A remarkably preserved 1,000-year-old sword is displayed at a museum. The annual T-Rex World Championship Races sees 300 participants in inflatable dinosaur costumes, some even skydiving. Lastly, a woman finds an affordable underground bunker to live in California, providing a unique housing story.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there Shohnny Mack with five good

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news stories and laughing at this first story. Hey, why

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relate for work? Well, boss, you gotta understand. The interstate

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was covered with mozzarella cheese. Firefighters were called in to

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an interstate in Pennsylvania. There was a crash three tractor trailers,

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the result mozzarella cheese being spilled across two hundred yards.

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The Snowshoe Fire Company set on social media that there

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was a crash at mile marker one five on I eighty,

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leaving a debris field. I know that I eight well,

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I've read in Chicago and back many times. This is

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a good chance. I don't know the particular mile marker,

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but this is a good chance that that I eight

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at that point is two lanes anyway eastbound I eighty

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closed at mile marker one five because of two hundred

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yards of mozzarella cheese. The firefighters arrived unseen and determined

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one of the trucks had been hauling boxes of mozzarella

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cheese yes and was spent wide open with debris all

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over the roadway. They determined no HASMAT response was needed,

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but all the cheese was heading to the landfill, as

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all the cheese had been deemed unsalvageable due to being

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unrefrigerated for hours. And I will personally editorialize and being

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spread all over an interstate highway. Now, I am well

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aware of the tropes of five good news stories. Right,

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We've got the y relayed for work, the New World Record,

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and good News we found your animal. Right, I get it.

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But they're fun stories, which is why I do them.

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The devil's always in the details. So good news we

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found your EMUs. A pair of EMUs had escaped from

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their home in Minnesota. Tom said someone left the gate open.

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He told CBS, I figured the way they can move.

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Who knows where they'd end up. They were out near

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Rush Lake Road. The county Sheriff's office set on social

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media calling all EMU owners. We did make calls to

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Liberty Mutual Insurance. This is not their EMU. It also

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isn't Kevin from the popular movie Up. If you happen

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to know the owner of this EMU, please have them

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reach out to dispatch to let us know. Tom contacted

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the sheriff's office. He said the sheriff called back and said,

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we know where the emos are someone else in the

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area that owns EMUs thought they were his, so he

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ran and captured them and brought them home, and he realized,

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wait a minute, these are not my EMUs. See, I

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told you the devil's of the details. So that's why

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we're doing why relate for work. A one thousand year

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old sword has gone on display. It was found in

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a river. It dates back to around ten fifty or

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eleven fifty. The sword is remarkably well preserved after a

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thousand years. Only the organic components, like the wooden grip

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and any leather wrappings have succumbed to time. The sword

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is over three feet in length. It has a crossguard

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and a semi circular pommel. Basically, if you're imagining a

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medieval sword in your mind, that's what this looks like.

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Someone else described it as what a sword would look

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like if he asked a nine year old boy to

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draw a sword. That's how I described the scar on

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my arm. So I had like a dot like the

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size of a period removed for a skin cancer scare.

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The scar that I have from that little tiny thing

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is like if you told a kid draw a scar.

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It is tremendous. I was shocked. I mean, I'm glad

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that they got it out, but like, oh my goodness,

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I can't believe the size of the scar in my arm. Now.

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Luckily it's high up on my arm that you know,

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unless I'm walking around shirtless, he won't see it. But boy,

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it looks like if a kid drew a scar. The

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museum said in a statement, Medieval swords were deeply personal possessions.

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They were either buried with their owner or alternatively deposited

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into water as part of a ritual. In that latter case,

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they were often exceptionally well preserved. This sword could be

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wilded with one hand. A cross was inlaid on one

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side of the blade near the crossguard. Another one composed

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of diamonds. Sounds like a cool sword. Congratulations to the

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three hundred people who donned inflatable dinosaur costumes and took

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place in the annual t Rex World Championship Races. It's

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held annually since twenty seventeen. This year, the t Rex

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World Championship Races also featured an aerial event. Three people

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in t Rex costumes jumped out of a plane and

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parachuted down onto the field. No good news if you

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weren't there. ESPN two is going to air it sometime later.

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This summer. A woman moved from New York to California.

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She found a place. It's just five hundred dollars a month.

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That's pretty good. Caitlyn has a twelve hundred square foot place. Oh,

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I forgot to mention. It's an underground bunker. Yes, a

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subterranean shelter, you know, the kind of thing they used

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to build to avoid the atomic bombs. Caitlyn has a

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master bedroom with a bathroom, a fully equipped kitchen, a

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lounge area, eighteen bunk beds, an extra bathroom, two additional toilets,

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and another ship. She proposed to the owners that she

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could live in and maintain the bunker and garden for

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just five hundred dollars a month. A typical one bedroom

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in that area would cost around two thousand dollars. And

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she adds, and I don't pay utilities. How do you

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get to the bunker? She has to pass through a

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hydraulic door, go down fifteen steps, and stride past a

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blast proof door. Because it's underground, no sunshine, so she

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has some artificial sunshine in her bedroom. She says, in

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the winter it can be a little tough because it's

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constantly dark, both inside and outside the bunker. She hasn't

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plan to live there forever, but she has negotiated with

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her friend to let her stay for another year, to

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which the friend has already agreed. And those are your

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