Sept. 11, 2024

Emu on the Loose, Parrots Victory, and a Naked Bike Ride

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Top 5 Heartwarming Stories: Cell Phone Safety, Genius Dogs, Emu on the Loose, Parrots Victory, and Naked Bike Ride

Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: a WHO review finds no link between cell phone use and brain cancer, scientists discover some dogs can remember toy names for years, a loose emu surprises a Pennsylvania woman, a Manhattan woman wins a legal battle regarding her emotional support parrots, and highlights from the annual Philadelphia naked bike ride promoting eco-friendly transportation.

00:11 Cell Phone Radiation and Brain Cancer
00:51 Dogs' Remarkable Memory for Toys
01:44 Loose Emu in Pennsylvania
02:04 Manhattan Woman's Eviction Over Support Parrots
02:45 Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack, who with your

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five good news stories? Hey good news. A review commissioned

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by the World Health Organization looked into the potential risks

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of cell phone radiation and has found no connection between

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cell phone use and brain cancer, even for people who

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spend all day glued to their phone. Eleven experts from

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ten countries looked over decades of scientific research. They found

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the risk of brain cancer did not increase even with

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prolonged cell phone use to find as ten years or

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more among those who spent a lot of time on

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their phones or for people who made a lot of calls.

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Ken Karapitis is a lead author of the review and

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said the results are very reassuring. Karapita said that having

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more cell phone towers actually reduces the amount of radiation

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admitted from cell phones because they don't have to work

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as hard to get a signal. Meanwhile, scientists have discovered

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that some dogs have a remarkable ability to learn the

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names of toys. A Border callie known as Chaser learned

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the name of more than one thousand toys. Now, researchers

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have discovered that some dogs can remember the name of

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a toy even when they haven't seen it for years.

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In a new study, dog owners brought the toys out

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of retirement. Three dogs had all twelve. So here's the study.

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They showed dog twelve new toys. The toys were then

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put away for two years. Then two years later the

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dog owners brought the toys back. Three dogs knew all twelve,

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another had eleven. After allowing the dog to inspect the objects,

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each owner placed five or six of the test toys

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in one room in their home, alongside eight of the

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dogs other toys. The owners moved into a second room

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and asked their dog to get each of the test

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toys one at a time. The results were that the

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dogs picked the correct toy forty four percent of the

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time on average, some at a success rate of up

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to sixty percent. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a woman couldn't believe

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her eyes. She looked out on the street and saw

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a loose EMU boy. I'll tell you, since the summer,

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there's just been random animals walking down the streets. I

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feel like I'm telling at least one of these stories

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every week. Ariel said. I rubbed my eyes and said,

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I'm really seeing what I'm seeing Apparently the emas would

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escape from a property just a few streets away. Somebody's

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got a pet emu. Meanwhile, a woman in Manhattan was

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facing a viction over her three emotional support parents. She's

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now going to be paid one hundred and sixty five

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thousand dollars in damages, plus five hundred and eighty five

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thousand dollars for her apartment under a consent degree announced

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by federal prosecutors. Merrill had purchased an apartment in nineteen

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ninety nine moved into it with her birds neighbors. Charlotte

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started complaining in twenty fifteen, telling the Daily News, Oh God,

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I wake up still with nightmares of them screaming in

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my head. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection

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sent inspectors fifteen times, but didn't find any excessive noise,

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and inspector wrote, no birds, no screeching, no noise. All right.

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If you're wondering why I was down in Philadelphia recently,

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you know I'm a big fan of the annual Philadelphia

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Naked Bike Ride. The annual ride started in two thousand

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and nine. It's built as promoting cycling as a key

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form of transportation and fuel Conscious Consumption Organizer Stress Hover.

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You aren't required a ride completely nude. You can get

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as bare as you dare. The ride wasn't limited only

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to bicycles, but welcomed all forms of human power transportation,

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including roller blades, skates, skateboards, scooters. Twelve miles down the

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Benjamin Franklin Parkway pass City Hall, passed Rittenhouse Square and

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into South Philly before heading back north around the US Mint.

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You're practically rocky without clothes. Now. This park cracks me up.

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Use your imagination. They used to have the ride in September.

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Enough of the naked riders mentioned it was a little cold,

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so they moved it to August, when you know, things

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are a little warmer. And those are your five good

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news stories for today. What I did say anything you

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enjoy the program at tell a friend about it. They

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may like it too. If you'd like the program without

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commercial interruption, there's a link in the show notes. I'll

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tell you how to do that. All right, You have

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an awesome day.