Sept. 20, 2024

Cow Pies Powering Ships

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: the innovative use of cow pies to power ships, a Spanish man's Guinness World Record for the largest collection of unique cell phones, an Alaskan flying instructor's transformation of old airplanes into luxury Airbnb accommodations, a truck crash in California that amusingly covered a highway in crushed grapes without injuries, and the capture of mysteriously loose goats in Kansas City, which will be put up for adoption if unclaimed.

00:10 Cow Pies Powering Ships
00:55 World Record for Nokia Phones
01:59 Airline Amusement Park in Alaska
03:18 Grapes Spill on California Highway
03:48 Mystery Goats in Kansas City

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm shining Mack with five

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good news stories. Hey, good news. They can now power

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ships with cow pies. Yes, that kind of cow pies.

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Biogas is a renewable natural gas which starts as organic matter.

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Yes we know. After being processed to remove impurities. Biogas

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has the same properties as a natural gas. Can be

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used for heating, generating electricity, and even transportation. So while

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you're sitting there this winter all nice and cozy, just

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think of where the gas came from. Shipping company Mitsui

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Osk will partner with dairy company Takanashi Milk Products to

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test the feasibility of using locally sourced biogas. That just

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sounds like code. As Japan aims to reach net zero

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emissions by twenty fifty, good luck to the scientists. I

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hope it works out. Meanwhile, a Spanish man with a

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special funess for Nokia phones earned one of those Guinness

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World Records. All right, what's this one? John? The man

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has collected thirty six hundred and fifteen unique cell phones.

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Winceys said his love for phones started when it received

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a gray Nokia thirty two ten for Christmas. Back in

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ninety nine, and in two thousand and eight he started

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collecting the Nokia phones he was previously unable to afford.

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He eventually branched out and started collecting other brands of

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phones and has amass the world's largest collection of mobile phones.

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Wentce's tells the Guinness Book, the evolution of my collection

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was constant, although I had abandoned it for about a year.

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Then I returned to the Fray with the intention of

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getting an addition to all the phones that Nonokia launched

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on the market, those that it did not put on sale,

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the phones which we all know as prototypes. Some of

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the more unusual phones in the collection are the Yoda

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of This Starfighter, the Obi Wan Kenobi Cyborg, and the

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Potawan versions from the Nokia thirty two twenty Star Wars

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Episode three collection. Winces says, in my collection, I have

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very exclusive and difficult to find models. It's a collection

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that is still incomplete, but I continued to expand whenever possible.

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Lying instructor in Alaska has a new gig. John is

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the manager of an airline amusement park complete with luxury

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accommodations built out of old decommissioned aircraft. He's been converting

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planes into airbnbs. He's in the process of converting a

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third aircraft while also building a cabin into the top

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of a runway control tower for unparalleled stargazing. He's also

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building a frisbee golf course, a volleyball court not right,

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and an authentic hangar display the ports ripped out of

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the old airplanes. He runs a pilot school, but never

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wanted to get into commercial aviation because of how boring

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it is. He says, driving for Uber is more exciting

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because you can talk to the passengers. I mean, I

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guess you could talk to the passengers on a commercial flight.

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They might go insane, but you know this is your

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pilot speaking how you guys do and might get annoying

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after five hours. His original plan was developed his own

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runway and facilities for flying. Then he realized he had

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to add cottages for the students, and then from there

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he was like, well, it'd be cool if we got

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an old airplane. It's turned in a while, so let's

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make it really nice. We'll put a jacuzzi on the

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wing and a barbecue grill. Let's get two more and

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a three of them, and away we go. So what's

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it like to stay at this place? Well, the DC

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nine has heated floors, heated towel racks, a fully functioning kitchen,

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a fire pit, barbecue on the wing, as discussed, sleeps

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up to four and O'll run you four hundred and

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forty one dollars per night. I don't know what's going

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on in California. I feel like I'm doing a lot

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of these stories. Commuters on a California highway were given

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ample reason to be laid for work when a truck

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crashed and the roadway was covered in crushed grapes. The

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crash caused one of the trucks to spill its load

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of grapes on Highway one sixty five on a Wednesday morning.

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The grapes were soon crushed by passing vehicles, creating a

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slippery mess. John, that's not really good news. That's a crash. No.

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The good news it's no injuries reported in the crash,

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and the idea of crush grapes on a highway is

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kind of funny, all right. In Kansas City, they caught

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the goats. The goats have been loose since early August.

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The goats were initially believed to be part of a

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Port KC grazing project a clear brush when they appeared

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along the river early August, but the k C Pet

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Project investigators said all our goats are accounted for. We

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don't know whose goats these are. Ryan Johnson is chief

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of Animal Services at CAC Pet Project and said, truly

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is a mystery. I'm not sure where these goats came from,

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why they're loose. We haven't been able to make a

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connection in an owner. Anybody supported ownership of missing them.

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There were ten mystery goats they caught three seven stayed loose,

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but were finally wrangled by animal services officers last week

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along the Riverfront Heritage Trail. They were taking to Casey

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Pet Project's Wilp Park campus while officials continue to investigate.

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If no one comes forward, the mystery goats will be

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put up for adoption. And those are your five good

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

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a friend about it. They like it too. Have a

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great day.