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May 1, 2025

Dachshund Parade, Bottle Kicking and the Best Pizza is in Montreal?

Dachshund Parade, Bottle Kicking and the Best Pizza is in Montreal?
Dachshund Parade, Bottle Kicking and the Best Pizza is in Montreal?
5 Good News Stories
Dachshund Parade, Bottle Kicking and the Best Pizza is in Montreal?

Johnny Mac shares five unique and positive news stories. Highlights include a Guinness World Record for the largest dachshund dog walk in Regensburg, Germany, an ancient English sport called bottle kicking, the best Neapolitan pizza winner from Montreal, collectible trading cards featuring elderly men in a Japanese community, and an extensive beach cleanup effort in New Jersey. Each story showcases community spirit and some unexpected twists, emphasizing the importance of connection and cleaning up our environment.

00:14 Largest Dachshund Parade
01:10 Traditional English Sport: Bottle Kicking
02:03 Best Naples Style Pizza in Montreal
03:07 Japanese Trading Cards Featuring Elders
04:21 New Jersey Beach Cleanup Highlights

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0:03 Kalaroka Shark Media. Hither, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Join me today as I mispronounced a whole bunch of German words, I've got a Guinness World Record for you. This one happened in Reagansburg, home of the dashhound themed Dockel Museum. They hosted the largest Dashound dog walk when the Dackel Parade featured at least eight hundred and ninety seven Wiener dogs walking with their owners. Some counts indicated there may have been as many as eleven hundred and seventy five dogs, but Guinness would only confirm eight hundred and ninety seven. Seppi Kopelbeck, who founded the Dockel Museum with her husband Oliver Stores, wanted to bring some positive energy to the community. Seppi explained, the Dashound isn't political. For the Dashound, all people are equal, regardless of skin color or where they come from. I just find the two numbers eight hundred and ninety seven and eleven hundred and seventy five to be dramatically different. I get that the dogs are small, but you can't get the count right within two hundred and eighty. Yeah, whatever, two villages in England faced off in a local sport known as bottle kicking. It was the annual Halleton bottle Kicking event. This took place eastern Monday and saw a residence of two villages competing to transport three bottles, which are actually small wooden barrels, across a stream on the border of the two villages. Two of the quote unquote bottles, which are actually small wooden barrels, are filled with beer and the third, which is the dummy barrel, is just

1:34 solid wood. Phil Allen is the chairman of the organizing committee. Heats all the BBC. It's been another really exciting one. Halladin scored first. They look like they do it again quickly. It's been really good. Apparently bottle kicking goes back more than one thousand years to Pagan times. Some local historians believe it dates back two thousand years. Hallaton won and they were lifted onto the butter Cross, which is a local stone monument, to drink from an open barrel before the rest of the beer was distributed to the crowd. That's a good time. Congratulations to the winner of the world's Best Naples style pizza. Where do you get the world's best naple style pizza. Did you get it in Naples? No? Do you get in Italy? No? You go to Montreal, the one in Canada. Mirco Degatta is the winner of the Umberto Furnito Award for Best Pizza Neapolitana at the International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas. Degatta has been the executive chef at Pizzeria Number nine hundred for thirteen years.

2:33 His pizza was judged on the marinara. Very simple pizza then, in many ways is the most challenging, he told the CBC. There's a lot of pressure. Well, I love pressure. You have follosome strict rules about the joe, the fermentation, the weight of the joe, how much tomato sauce to use, and how many seconds you cook When you do choose to do a marinara, as I always do. You have four ingredients. You have tomato, sauce, oregano, olive oil and corlic. So it's really simple pizza to eat, but the hardest to cook because you need the right spot at the right time, the right So head on up to Montreal. Eight dollars we'll get you a pie. That's pretty cheap for a pie. When are how big the pie is? A Japanese community center has released some collectible trading cards. All right, that's fun. What can we collect? Johnny mack well.

3:14 On the cards are featured the town's elderly men. The town is seeking away for the younger generation to connect with the elders, so they went with trading cards in the spirit of Pokemon. Okay. The character is portrayed on the Pokemon like cards or the town's ojison, which is apparently Japanese from middle aged or older community members. One of the creators of the card said, we wanted to strengthen the connection between the children and the older generations of the community. There are so many amazing people here that it was such a shame that nobody knew about them. Since the card game went viral, so many kids are starting to look up to these men as heroic figures. Costs less than a dollar per card. Three bucks will get you a set of six that includes a shiny card.

3:55 So what can I collect? Johnny mack Well. There are forty seven characters, including Soba Master, where mister Takashita. He's an eighty one year old maker of soba noodles. There's also mister Fuji, a sixty seven year old former prison guard turned community volunteer. His card is so sought after the kids will approach him asking for an autograph. Mister Fuji explained, I was honestly shocked when they asked me to sign it. I never imagined I'd become a training card. Let alone have fans and nice job. By a New Jersey group, they were heading up the beach clean up operations. They said their twenty twenty four efforts resulted in two hundred and seventy six eight and ninety nine pieces of trash being cleaned up, including a rubber foot, a full can of Ravioli, and a set of vampire teeth. I'm a big fan of the beach. Please clean up after yourselves.

4:44 Clean Ocean Action release the twenty twenty four Beach Sweeps report. They say the Dirty dozen the twelve most commonly found items on beaches include plastic bottle caps that make sense, but come on clean up after yourself, food and candy wrappers, same note straws, plastic bottles, cigarette filters, plastic cat brings, cigar tips, metal drink cans, packing foam, paper pieces and assorted pieces of plastic again, I'll say, please clean up after yourselves. Some of the more unique items included the vampire teeth, the rubber foot, the ravioli, a punching bag, a full container of wah Wah brand sausage and eggs. A wah Wah is a local convenience store in the New Jersey area. A gallon of maple syrup. Why did you bring that to the beach? I mean, I can understand bringing the sausage and eggs to the beach, but why the maple syrup and a VISA line retainer, A message and a liquor bottle a Victoria's Secret bra. I think I know what happened there. I'll move on. A jar of marijuana, an inflatable hot tub, a bedpan, multiple uncooked hams. I wonder if it was a rum ham.

5:45 Either got that or not? A boat cabin door, and a bathroom sink. Okay, five good news stories for today. Please clean up after yourselves and have a great day.