Aug. 14, 2024

Cocaine Sharks

Show Notes
Transcript

00:16 Quirky Shark Story
00:51 Jobby the Parrot's Adventure
01:22 Diamonds on Mercury
02:33 Alex Trebek's Forever Stamp
02:58 Giant Sandwich Challenge

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Now sometimes I work in quirky stories.

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The end goal here is to make you smile, so

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you have a nice day. And here's a quirky one.

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Sharks off Brazil, I've tested positive for cocaine. The drug

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was found in thirteen wild Brazilian sharp nosed sharks tested.

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Say that three times fast. I got it on the

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first try, with a concentration as much as one hundred

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times higher than previously reported for other aquatic creatures. What

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is going on? Researchers have long suggested that sea life

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could be impacted by drugs dumped into the water by smugglers. However,

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the study is very limited and the impact of cocaine

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on all aquatic life is not yet fully known. Good

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News Jabi the parrot is back home after a wild weekend.

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Jabi the parrot left home slightly after midnight on a Saturday,

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prompting his owners put up posters and share appeals to

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find him. He was eventually found at the local hospital's

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maternity unit, eating of chips and playing around. The owner

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was contacted by a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth maternity unit.

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We are told the parrot seems in good spirits chipper

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and is happy. He had a wild weekend and now

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he's like, I just need to rest. I've been there, Jabi.

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Good news if you like diamonds, but you're gonna have

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to work for it. Scientists believe there's a layer of

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diamonds eleven miles thick on Mercury. A researcher at the

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Center for a High Pressure Science at Technology Advanced Research

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in Beijing says, we know there's a lot of carbon

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in the form of graphite on the surface mercury, but

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there were very few studies about the inside of the planet.

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In the study, researchers plast graphite in a special pressure

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machine along with a smattering of elements believed to be

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rich in Mercury's mental layer, including silicon, titanium, magnesium, and aluminum.

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They subjected that mixture to seventy thousand times the pressure

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of Earth at sea level and at two thousand degrees salesias,

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which for you fahrenheit officionados is a thirty six hundred

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and thirty degrees. Those are the conditions believed to have

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been present when Mercury was forming. Four point five billion

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years ago. I know I'm being goofy here, but science

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really is amazing, isn't it. So if you want to

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go mine the diamonds, remember you're gonna have to send

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some mining equipment to Mercury. Your equipment is going after

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with stands surface temperatures hotter than five hundred degrees fahrenheit,

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And I guess you'll need somebody who wants to buy them.

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I'll take stamps for two hundred dollars. Alex Trebek now

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has his own stamp, a Forever stamp, available via the

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United States Postal Service. A video previewed the stamp, which

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gave the answer. This naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz

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show Jeopardy for thirty seven seasons. Who is Alex tur Beck?

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Ken Jennings, who currently host Jeopardy, said, I'm excited to

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announce Alex Trebek will receive a stamp. It came out

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on what would have been Alex's eighty fourth birthday. Are

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you hungry? How about a sandwich that's almost ten feet long?

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A South African restaurant served up a three meter long sandwich. Again,

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we're doing metric conversions today, nine point eight feet the

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sandwich produced by Annie's Ladies Barn Cape Down follows a

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previous burger they made in twenty nineteen that weighed two

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hundred and seventy three pounds. Boy, imagine if you want

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that medium well, I hope the middle layer wasn't too pink.

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With no less than ten layers of fillings, the sandwich

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tipped the scales at one hundred forty five pounds. It

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took over four hours to prepare. It cost one hundred

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and sixty dollars for all the ingredients. That doesn't sound

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like all that much now that you say it. Forty

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four pounds of meat, three types of sliced sausage from

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steak to burger patties and chicken file ats, three layers

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of French fries that weigh twenty two pounds to break

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up the meats, a layer of klamari for those who

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prefer seafood, and finally, a generous helping of onion rings

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on top. All in a sandwich. There were sauces from

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garlic to cheese, pepper, mushroom, tartar depended on the layer.

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The sandwich purveyors said the the biggest challenge was finding

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a bread roll to fit it all in. They had

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to have three feet long rolls, especially baked, and join

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them together. The sandwich was a take on the Gatsby,

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which is a renowned South African takeaway meal that is

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usually made up of sloppy French fries and meat and

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a chunky bread, and was traditionally served big enough to

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feed multiple people. The sandwich is now long gone if

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you were hopping on a plane to go get a

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piece of it, but it did feed about one hundred

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and forty people. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a

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in the show notes and you have an awesome day.