Eclipse Fun Facts, an Earthquake Vasectomy and the world's oldest man

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Happy Eclipse Day. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Just want to thank all the new listeners. Apple podcast featured the show and the program got five times as popular last week. So if you're new, welcome, please hit the follow button on Apple Podcasts. You don't miss an episode. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Right, it's Aclipse Day. Couple fun facts for you. The moon is busy today. It's going to eclipse not only the Sun but also Venus. Will disappear from the sky starting at twelve thirty four Eastern daylight time and reappear at one forty eight pm the next oculation of Venus Europe September twenty five. The eclipse begins today, it ends tomorrow because of the magic of time zones. As the eclipse sun rises in the Pacific Ocean and crosses the line islands of Kiribati, it'll be April ninth. There. This is the longest totality on land in thirteen years.

0:56 Parts of Mexico will experience a totality lasting four minutes twenty eight seconds. It's the longest since twenty ten. If you were down on the Easter Islands checking that one out. If you're in Dallas, soak this one in. You won't get another solar eclipse in Dallas until twenty three forty five. The last one in Dallas eighteen seventy eight. This eclipse is part of an alignment known as Saros one thirty nine. That alignment will peak in twenty one eighty six July sixteenth. In particular, if you want to put it on your calendar in twenty one eighty six, the totality will last seven minutes twenty nine seconds off the coast of Brazil. That will be the longest solar eclipse that signed to say will ever occur. This is the second eclipse in just over six and a half years. If you're in an area in Missouri, Kentucky, and Illinois, they also experienced the Great American Eclipse in twenty seventeen.

1:42 For me, I went down to Nashville to see the one in twenty seventeen. It was a perfectly sunnied morning. I had a rented car in case the weather was bad and I was gonna drive somewhere in case the weather went sideways. I got beat by one cloud. There was one cloud in the sky at a block the eclipse for me, so I am obsessed with sea. This eclipse today, it'll be North America's longest totality since eighteen o six. That one was four minutes twenty six seconds on June sixteenth, eighteen o six, in Salem, Massachusetts. I wonder if they thought witches were involved. You may be able to see Comet twelve p Ponds Brooks, look about twenty five degrees northwest of the Sun, close to Jupiter. The next solar eclipse the United States Alaska March thirtieth, twenty thirty three, the contiguous US two more in twenty forty four and twenty forty five, And if you enjoy two days eclipse, the same eclipse will happen on May eleventh, twenty seventy eight. That one will have a totality of five minutes and forty seconds.

2:38 So if you're young enough you can catch that one. I'll be in my low one hundreds, but if I'm around, I'm going to make an effort to go see it. Did you joy the earthquake on Friday? I know West Coaster is like, yeah, big deal, but those of us on the Northeast, it was a big deal. And it was a big deal for Justin Allen. He was in the middle of the getting of aseectomy. Justin said, I thought the doctor was messing with me. He had to stop because everything was shaking. I thought maybe a train was passing or was something that happens at the office. Even the doctor was like, I think this is an earthquake. I figured he was messing with me, but he had to stop. The doctor put the tools down for a moment and we talked about how we'd never forget where we were during the earthquake. Alan says everything turned out great. I feel as good as I possibly can, and the numbing is starting to wear off. New Yorker has had a lot of fun with the earthquake. One person opposed on social media if I die from an earthquake and in a midtown Dwayne read, I'm going to be pretty ticked.

3:28 The world oldest man says the secret to his long life is moderation and fish and chips every Friday. John Alfred Tinniswood is one hundred eleven and has been confirmed as the new holder of the title by the Guinness Book. This follows the death of Venezuelan Juan Vincente Perez, who passed away recently at age one hundred and fourteen on March thirty first, a man in Japan, a jesub burosnobe, who passed away at age one twelve. That makes John Alfred Tinniswood at one eleven, the oldest man born in Liverpool August twenty sixth twelve after the sinking of the Titanic. He never smokes, rarely drinks, and follows no special diet aside from fish and chips once a week. Good news for nineteen cats who roam the presidential Palace in Mexico. The President has declared them to be living fixed assets. That obligates the Treasury to give them food and care for the rest of their lives, even after the president leaves office in October. They asked the cats for a comment. Cats, Bowie, Cocoa and Olin declined to comment. NewBay said meow, all right, I hope you weren't on this flight. It was a three hour flight from New Zealand to Auckland and a man has been fined six hundred Australian dollars Why Johnny Mack he was urinating in a cup during a flight delay you know, I can kind of understand, I said, kinda depends how long the delay was, you know, if it was like a fifteen hour delay, at some point, hey, can I go to the bathroom or flight attendants. However, this plane had only been on the tarmac for about twenty minutes waiting for a gate, and then the man did what he had to and probably could

5:00 have waited twenty minutes. An eyewitness said. The man was obviously quite drunk. Oh and it gets worse. He spilled the cup on a flight attendant as he left the plane. You're welcome for that visual. Those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, push that follow button. Tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you enjoy me, I also host a podcast called Daily Comedy News, seven days a week about the comediens. Give that one a shot. It's a nice, friendly show like this one, no cursing, et cetera, and I'll meet you here on Wednesday. Enjoy the clips.