July 3, 2025

Chickens in Diapers at a Cathedral with the German President

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Highlights include a controversial art show in Germany featuring chickens in diapers, a New Zealand flag exhibit that sparked debate, a couple's epic 11-month adventure down the Pan-American Highway, a hungry wild elephant causing minor chaos in a grocery store in Thailand, and a 14-year-old boy being rewarded for his honesty after returning a lost wallet containing $300. Some stories are funny, some controversial, and all are worth listening to!

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Kalaroga Shark Media. There, I'm Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories now. Sometimes, to be honest, it's not necessarily

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a good news story. It's just a weird story to

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make you smile. So here's one. It was a show.

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It was called Westphalia Side Story. It was part of

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a celebration to mark the twelve hundred and fiftieth anniversary

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of Westphalia, which is a region in northwestern Germany. Okay,

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why is this interesting? Well, it was in a Catholic cathedral.

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It featured raw, plucked chickens wrapped in diapers. The archbishop

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was there and so was the President of Germany. Video

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footage shows one woman and two shirtless men singing a

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song translated to mean meat is meat. One of the organizers, Rolf,

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said it wasn't meant to be a spoof at all,

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as Westphelia is a rural dominated region with a turbulent history.

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Our research was focused on that. People did get upset

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about it. There's a petition signed by more than twenty

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two thousand people that is asking the archbishop for personal apology,

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and they want him to reconcentrate the cathedral. The German

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president has not commented on the controversy. Let's stay controversial.

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There was a controversial art exhibit involving a flag. The

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flag invited gallery visitors to please walk on Me. The

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artwork was titled Flagging the Future. It featured a New

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Zealand flag with the words please walk on Me stenciled

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across it. It was displayed on the floor of an

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art gallery. A veterans group denounced the piece as shameful

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and offensive. The museum set a sharp escalation in the

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tone and nature of the discourse, moving well beyond the

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bounds of respectful debate had prompted the flag's removal. Are

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you got any good news for us in this episode? John?

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What's going on all right? How about a couple They

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spanned forty grand traveling forty thousand miles down the world's

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longest road. Matt and Rachel spent eleven months traveling down

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the Pan American Highway. They visited sixteen countries. They started

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in Canada. They spent fifteen grand on a Dodge Ram

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pickup truck, added a camper, and spruced it up to

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become their reliable ride. Not everything went great. What kind

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of episode is this? John? They had a near death

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experience when their truck almost plunged into an abyss in Peru.

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Luckily they did not. Matt said, the freedom this trip

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gave us is insane. We spent eleven months visiting some

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of the best countries of the world. It's been dawning.

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This lifestyle has given us so much freedom, The freedom

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of living in the van, being able to be where

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you want to be each day, waking up with a

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different view. When you backpack and fly everywhere, you end

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up missing so much. Where's the drive gives you that

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adventure and excitement that nothing else can. This isn't his

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first one, he said. Seven years ago, I drove from

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London to Mongolia in a crappy car that your grandma

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would drive. After doing that, I got the sense of adventure.

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When I first met Rachel, she said she wanted to

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go traveling and told her wait a couple of years.

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I got a plan. She was on board. In Thailand,

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a hungry wild elephant created havoc in a grocery store.

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The elephant had strolled in from a nearby national park

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and helped them himself to some food on the shelves

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of the grocery store. They tried to show the elephant out,

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but you know it's an elephant. Was like, yeah, whatever.

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Eventually the elephant backed out of the store and was

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still holding a bag of snacks with his trunk. Good news,

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he didn't really damage the store. He did leave some

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mud tracks on the floor. That's gonna happen. Good news

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for Cody, his karma was rewarded. You see, Cody's fourteen,

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and he had found a wallet while riding his bike.

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In the wallet three hundred dollars cash and some credit cards.

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Now Cody himself was saving money for an electric bike.

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You know, the pocket of three hundred dollars. You know,

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you know what I'm saying. Nope, he turned it in.

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He explains, I thought somebody would feel really bad if

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they lost it, so I was like, I better return this.

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He remembered a few years ago when his father had

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lost his wallet, and it kind of taught me how

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bad it is to take someone's money, like because their

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wallet is basically their life. Mom probably posted about this

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on a local Facebook page. Another good samaritan decided to

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reward Cody with thirty five hundred dollars. The good samaritan

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asked Mom to send him a link to electric bike

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and he bought it for Cody as a gift. That's

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pretty awesome. And those are your five good news stories

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for today. Are two weird stories and three okay stories.

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I don't know what we did today, but it was fun.

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Did you enjoy it? Yeah, and your friend might enjoy

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the program too, So tell them about the show and

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tell them you know, but don't start with the one

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about the cathedral and the chickens. That one's a little weird,

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but for the most part he does a pretty good show.

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You could tell him something like that. I would understand,

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right of a great day.