Elephants vs. Bees

0:03 Caloroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Chenny Mack with five good news stories. A couple built themselves the do it yourself tiny house that's for under forty thousand dollars. Brook and Saw built the house entirely themselves. It's just thirty six feet long, but they say it is everything we need. On TikTok, Brooks said, we're so happy with how our house turned out. We couldn't be happier with our little house. Apparently there's a spacious kitchen with plenty of storage space. What's that like in a living area with a breakfast bar style table area in sofa? Brook says, we have plenty of storage with shelving and cabinets. There's a walk in shower, a sink. Upstairs. They have a balcony style bedroom with a double bed. Brooks said, we designed building the house ourselves. We didn't really have an official set of plans or blueprints. We just drew out what we wanted with a pencil on a large poster board and that's how we referenced throughout the whole build well. Saul is a professional carpenter and woodworker, so he knows what he's doing. It wasn't easy getting this thing done. They were rejected from taking out a loan and they had to do extensive research to find an area where it's legal to just build your own house. Good news. If elephants have been ruining your crops, we figured out how to stop it. We're gonna use bees. In Kenya, people are using bee hive fences. Kenyan Farmer charity says the bee high fences came to our rescue. We used to hate elephants a lot. But what happened is you'd spend all farming season growing stuff, and then the elephants would show up and either trample on your stuff or eat

1:33 your stuff. Conservation efforts have been going well. Elephant populations in the area have risen almost three hundred percent since the nineteen nineties and they are now like fifteen thousand elephants. That's good. The charity Save the Elephants is working with villagers to turn them into bee keepers. The elephants are scared away by the hum of seventy thousand bees. The hives installed by Save the Elephants are hung from greased wire to protect them from badgers. There's a lot going on here, but there's also a trip water in case the elephant gets curious and is like, hey, what's this. It'll shake the beehive and out come the bees, and then the elephant goes I'm out of here. Congratulations to the band Miners and Sons. They've set the world record for deepest concert underground. Yes, Miners and Sons played at eighty eighty six feet and eleven point three one inches below sea level Inside of Mine. Percussionist Norms said the minus spent sixty eight years taking rock out of the place and then spent one day bring it back. I love it, Norm, that broke the previous record. I know you're curious. The previous record for deepest concert underground was played by the Chaft Bottom Boys that back in twenty twenty.

2:38 They only played sixty two hundred and thirteen feet three point oh five inches below ground. Step it up. In Tennessee, a bear went into a candy shop. A video posted to TikTok shows the bear enjoying some snacks and points out that the bear didn't pay for the snacks. Onlookers took photos. Employees try to coax it out of the shop. None of that work. They called the police. Now if You're like, what are the please gonna do? The PD said that the officers have training from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency on how to respond to bear calls, and they pointed out that the bear seemed to show a preference for Charleston choos and Hershey's kisses. All right, this one showed up in the inbox. It's the twenty twenty four most sinful cities in America. John, this is five good news stories. Don't worry. I have the least sinful cities for you. That will be the good news if you live there. Otherwise, maybe not so good news. The survey was based on seven sinful behaviors, including anger, hatred, jealousy, excesses, vices, greed, lust, vanity, and laziness. All right, should we do? Most sinful? We should?

3:41 You're curious? All right? Number ten Saint Louis nine, Dallas eight, Miami seven, Phoenix six, Dender five, Philly four, Atlanta three, La two, Houston one, Las Vegas. No way, Las Vegas says all those things. Who knew? John gets to the good news. I will the least sinful city tenth least Fort Wayne, Indiana, nine South Burlington, Vermont eights Bridgeport, Connecticut, seven, West Valley City, Utah, six Cape Coral, Florida, five Madison, Wisconsin, four Pearl City, Hawaii. Three Port Saint Lucie, Florida, spring training home of the New York Mets. Two Fremont, California, and the least sinful city Columbia, Maryland. Congratulations. Some fun facts here. San Francisco has the lowest share of obese adults, two point five times lower than Akron. Akron, you guys have the highest. And Fremont, California has the lowest share of adult smokers, four times lower than Detroit. Detroit, you have the most. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They may like it too. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption, if you're on Apple Podcast, click that banner where it says uninterrupted listening. If you're not on Apple, there's a link of the show notes.

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