Nov. 6, 2024

China's Fake Pandas

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five heartwarming and quirky news stories. A Chinese zoo displays chow chows dyed to look like pandas. A penguin named Pen Chan escapes an event in Japan and travels 18 miles before being found. High school students in Virginia raise over $21,000 to buy their beloved custodian a Jeep. A UPS driver helps an elderly woman in distress and receives recognition and rewards. Lastly, a man in California discovers he's been paying his neighbor's electric bill for 18 years and finally gets it sorted. Tune in for some delightful stories to brighten your day.

00:10 Panda Dogs at Chinese Zoo
01:04 Penguin's Great Escape in Japan
01:53 High School Students' Heartwarming Gift
02:24 UPS Driver's Heroic Act
03:03 Man Pays Neighbor's Power Bill for 18 Years

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey they're Chiney Mack with five good

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news stories. This first story is so ridiculous. A Chinese

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zoo busted. You know those pandas they have, Yeah, they're

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not pandas. They're dogs with their fur colored to look

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like pandas. A video was posted to the Chinese version

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of TikTok. It went viral, and it showed two fluffy

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chow chow dogs with their fur color to resemble pandas

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at the Shanwei Zoo. But hey, relax the sign that

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clearly identifies the animals as panda dogs. The sign reads,

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we are called Panda dogs, a pet dog that looks

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like a panda, tied and dressed up by chow chow.

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We are gentle, smart, friendly, cute and adorable. A different

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zoo in China had a similar controversy earlier this year

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when their pandas turned out to be chow chow's with

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their fur dyed. The zoo spokesperson explained that the zoo

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put the dogs onto display because it doesn't have any pandas.

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Yeah we know. Meanwhile, in Japan, a penguin named pen

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Chun escaped from an event and was found two weeks later,

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after traveling eighteen miles. Penguins can move. Yeah. The penguin

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had escaped from an animal encounter event on a Japanese island.

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The penguin was allowed to swim. Oh, this makes more

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sense now, and it netted off area on the island,

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but managed to find a hole in the net that

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it escape. See. I was picturing this penguin walking eighteen miles.

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I'm not that smart. This makes a lot more sense now.

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Organizers said that Penchan was bred in captivity, had never

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been in the ocean before. There'd been multiple sightings before

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they finally found Penchan eighteen miles from where she'd escaped.

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Staff members rushed to the area. Penchan swam to them

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when they called her name. Everything is okay, Yeah, that's

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how this show works. I'm not gonna suddenly bomb me

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with some horrible ending to any of these stories. Some

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high school students at the James Madison High School raised

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five thousand dollars and forty eight hours for their custodian, Francis.

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The goal here is to raise enough money to get

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him a jeep. The students found out Francis wanted to

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own a jeep, Wrangler. They created a GoFundMe and raised

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over twenty one thousand dollars. Francis, in a video, said

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I can't believe this. Freshman. Bennett led the initiative with

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six friends, adding on the go fund page that Francis

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had moved to the US a few years ago and

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ever since we met Francis, he's been super kind and

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friendly and sometimes even says prayers for us. Nice job

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by UPS driver Raheem. He was passing through his normal

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route in Georgia. He saw an elderly woman collapsed on

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her driveway. He called DMS. He stayed with the woman,

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and he has started referring to Marie as grandmother. Marie

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was checking on the hospital where emergency brain surgery had

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to be performed. She made it through. Raheem started a

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GoFundMe to raise money for the family. He kicked the

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fun drive off with one hundred dollars of his own money. Recently,

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Raheem received a letter from UPS's chief executive officer for

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his acts of heroism and they hooked him up with

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tickets to the Florida State University football game. Well, good news,

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sort of, maybe bad news for one guy. A California

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man discovered he's been paying his neighbor's power bill for

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eighteen years. Ken noticed that his specific gas and electric

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bill was going up, so he tried to reduce his

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energy usage. Told the CBS Sacramento, I thought there was

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a leak, or someone was stealing my electricity, or the

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meter was faulty, because something wasn't right. The utility company

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sent somebody out to check out Ken's meter and discover

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the company had been charging him for the apartment next door.

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It may have been happening for eighteen years. In a statement,

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they said, we acknowledge an error occurred in this instance,

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and we're fully committed to rectify in the situation. So

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that's good news for Ken. But the people next door,

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your bill's about to go up. But those are your

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