July 19, 2026

Earth May Escape the Red Giant Sun and 900 Set a Dim Sum Record

Show Notes
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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a new study suggests Earth might avoid being swallowed when the sun becomes a red giant because mass loss could weaken solar gravity and tidal effects may be weaker than once believed, potentially letting Earth drift outward (though Mercury and Venus would not). In Portland, Sunshine Division opened a free food market in Slabtown that lets families choose items like a grocery store and aims to serve up to 100,000 households, with about 80% of food donated. In Michigan, Titan Plumbing found an engagement ring in a sewer line and reunited it with Carol, lost for about 10 years, with paperwork dating to 1965; it was cleaned and revealed to be white gold. In Texas, an overturned truck released two million bees, and beekeepers helped recover and transport them to a honey farm. In Seattle’s Chinatown International District, a dim sum dinner drew 900 attendees and Guinness counted 830 toward a new record, with 3,600 dumplings made by hand.
00:00 Show Intro
00:10 Earth Escapes Red Giant
01:27 Free Choice Food Market
02:07 Ring Found In Sewer
03:16 Two Million Bees Rescue
04:07 Dim Sum World Record
04:53 Wrap Up And Sign Off

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Caalaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. No good news. If you're planning on

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living a really, really long time and you're worried that

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the Earth would eventually be burned up by the Sun,

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scientists have some good news. You see, for years, astronomers

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believed that our fate was sealed in about five billion years,

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as the Sun reaches the end of its life and

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expands into a massive red giant star. Earth was expected

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to be swallowed whole. But hold on, a new study

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says maybe not. Researchers have found that the Earth could

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potentially escape thanks to a cosmic tug of war taking place.

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You see, as the Sun ages, it will grow larger

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and its gravitational forces will pul on the Earth more strongly.

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It was believed those forces would drag the Earth into

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the Sun. However, as the Sun expands, it will lose

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enormous amounts of mass. Losing mass weakens the Sun's gravity. Hmm,

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So which effect will win? The lead researcher, Mattz, explain

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that the Earth's fate depends on the delicate balance between

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the Sun's gravitational pull and the amount of mass the

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star sheds. Using more advanced models than were available to

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previous generations of astronomers, the research team found the Sun's

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title effects may be weaker than once believed. That means

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the Earth could escape could actually drift outward rather than

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spiraling inward. If you're living on mercury or venus, you're

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still hosed. In Portland, a nonprofit is changing the way

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food assistant works by giving families something many grocery shoppers

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take for granted choice. It's the Sunshine Division. They've opened

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a new free food market design to serve up to

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one hundred thousand households this year. It is in Portland's

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Slabtown neighborhood. It looks it feels like a traditional grocery store.

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Visitors grab a shopping car, you walk around, you pick

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your stuff. Executive director Kyle said. They get to take

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what's appropriate for their household. You might be lactilson tolerance,

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and maybe you don't want dairy, and I might be

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allergic to peanut butter. They got a great response. Every

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appointment on opening day was booked. More than one hundred

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people expected to fill their carts. The nonprofit estimates that

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about eighty percent of its food comes from donations. In Michigan,

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a woman was reunited with a treasured piece of jewelry

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that she thought was lost forever, thanks to a group

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of plumbers and a remarkable stroke of luck. The story

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began when a plumbing crew was called to deal with

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a sewer line issue at a shopping plaza. While working

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inside a pipe, one of the plumbers spotted something shiny.

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What is it? An engagement ring? The team at Titan

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Plumbing decided to see if they could track down the owner.

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That led them to a nearby business, where an employee

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remembered the story from like a decade ago, Yeah, like

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ten years ago. There this woman, Carol I accidentally dropped

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her engagement ring down a toilet. She and a friend

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tried everything they could do, even reached into the plumbing,

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but the ring was gone. And you know, Carol moved on,

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figures she'd never see it again. Well, Titan Plumbing shared

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news of the discovery on social media. They found Carol.

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She even brought paperwork dating back to nineteen sixty five

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to show it was hers. She and Roger have been

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married for more than six years, so that was kind

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of cool that they found the ring. It needed a

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professional cleaning, and it got one years of build up

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and convinced everyone was yellow gold. But you know what

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it was actually white gold. Jason is the GM at

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Titan Plumbing and said she put it on and she

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was crying. Johnny Mack, why relate for work? Boss? You

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have to see the amount of bees. You're not gonna

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believe how many bees you see? A Texas highway became

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the scene of an unusual rescue operation after an overturned

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truck released two million bees I said, two million bees

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into the surrounding area. This happened near Mauriceville, Texas, at eighteen.

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Wheeler tipped over while making a turn. The driver not injured,

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of course, not that's how this show goes. I'm not

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gonna have horrible stories. So the driver's okay, the truck

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I don't know, and the bees got free. Bee keepers

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from across the region responded to help recover the bees.

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Commercial operators and backyard hobbyists arrived at the scene, working

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side by side to collect the bees and safely transport

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them to a local honey farm. One local supply, the

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Queen Bee Supply, said, not something you ever want to see,

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but so nice to see beekeepers helping beekeepers, and in Seattle.

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I've got a Guinness World Record for you. You always do, John,

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We know, we know how the show goes, Okay, don't

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give you a hard time. This one was in Seattle's

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Chinatown International District. Community members gathered for what became the

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largest dim sum dinner ever accorded. To claim the title,

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organizers needed to surpass the previous record of seven hundred

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and sixty four diners that's set in Sydney, Australia in

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twenty nineteen. Well, the Americans blew that record away. Nine

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hundred people attended the event. Guinness officials confirmed that eight

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hundred and thirty participants met all of the requirements and

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were officially counted towards the record. Jade Garden restaurant owner

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Eric said the achievement was meaningful. I'm happy with this

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turnout and I'm especially happy that we got the record

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since my father and the chef team made the thirty

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six hundred dumplings by hand. Those are five good news

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stories for today. I'm hungry now, have a great day.