Nov. 18, 2024

From Ancient Seeds to an Artisanal Cheese Heist

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Johnny Mac shares five heartwarming and intriguing good news stories. The stories include the end of a 31-year treasure hunt for the Trail of the Golden Owl, Pennsylvania students breaking the egg drop world record, scientists growing a tree from a 1,000-year-old seed, an elaborate theft of artisanal cheddar cheese in the UK, and a unique baked potato-themed wedding reception. Johnny also promotes the premium subscription for ad-free listening and additional podcast content.

00:00 Introduction and Gratitude
00:18 The End of a 31-Year Treasure Hunt
01:28 Record-Breaking Egg Drop
02:03 Ancient Seed Sprouts New Life
02:48 The Great Cheese Heist
03:41 Bizarre Wedding Reception

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

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good new stories. By the way, before we start, Thank

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you so much for listening. The show has done really well.

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It was my wife's idea, A good idea, wife, right, yeah,

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all right. After thirty one years, a treasure hunt that

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had drawn in thousands of enthusiasts across France might have

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come to an end after social media accounts linked to

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the treasure hunt said the token needed to claim the

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grand prize has been found. This is the Trail of

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the Golden Owl, based on a book of riddles published

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back in nineteen ninety three. Participants had to solve eleven

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puzzles in the book and a twelfth one that was

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hidden to decipher the exact location of the token. A

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message on the discord app said, don't go digging. We

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confirmed that the Golden Owl countermark was on Earth last night.

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It is therefore useless to go digging, and a documentary

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posted on YouTube the creators said he financed that's the

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creation of the prize and owl made of six pounds

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of gold and fifteen pounds of silver with diamond chips

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on its face. They buried a replica of the owl,

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keeping the original in a safe place. The original is

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currently estimated at one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars value.

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In order to claim the treasure, the winning player would

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need to submit the replica along with the answers to

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all of the book's riddles. Curious to see how that

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plays out. That's fun, right, all right? I got a

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Guinness World Record for you, shaker. Here's this one. A

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team of Pennsylvania students broke the record for dropping an

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egg from a height of eighty three feet without breaking.

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That broke the record of fifty four point one three

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feet set in twenty twenty three. These were high schoolers,

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and one of them told Patch it was a lot

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of video evidence and paperwork to compile over the past

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few weeks, but it was definitely worth it. Hopefully this

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record will be like our egg, unbroken for quite some time.

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You know, now that I do this show, the record's

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probably been broken like five times. So I want of

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those guys that likes breaking records. These things happen so fast.

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Scientists have grown a tree from a one thousand year

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old seed found in a cave. It may be the

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lost medicinal plant mentioned in the Bible. The seed was

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discovered in pristine condition. It had fallen from its tree

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one thousand years ago and had grown into a mature tree.

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Botanists or examining it believing it may be an extinct

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species extinct note more that was used for medicinal purposes,

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even receiving a nod in the Bible. Despite being one

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thousand years old, the seeds sprouted after five weeks. The

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tree is now fourteen years old. It's ten feet tall.

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It's amazing. I've got a tree in the ar that

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I planted myself, that I brought home in a Honda Odyssey,

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and now I look at this thing, and I'm like,

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how did that fit in the car? I understand how

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trees grow. This next story is pretty scary. Imposts stole

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thousands of pounds of posh cheddar cheese. The UK is rattled. Yes,

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the British artisanal cheese community is upset about the Great

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Cheese Ice of twenty two. Twenty four. Imposters stole tens

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of thousands of pounds of high value cheddar Cheesemaker Niel's

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Yard Dairy announced that it had been the victim of

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a sophisticated fraud resulting in the loss of Cheddar. The

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good news is British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is on

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the case. He explained in an Instagram video that there

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were only a small handful of real Cheddar cheesemakers in

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the world. He called the theft a real shame. Everyone

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is working with local law enforcement and international authorities to

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track down the culprits. The business says, while the cheese

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may never be recovered, our priority is to share openly

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what has happened and to prevent it from happening to

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other cheese businesses. And good news, if you like baked potatoes,

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you would have had a great time at this wedding.

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One woman did not have a great time at the wedding.

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She shared her experience on Reddit. She said she attended

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her cousin's wedding. She went to the reception and she

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was greeted with nothing but a baked potato bar. Every

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guest got to munch on exactly one baked potato with

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a few topics to choose from, and nothing else. She wrote.

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My younger cousin got married a few years ago. The

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ceremony was nice. The cowboy theme wasn't my jam, but

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that's what they like, so it wasn't unexpected. The recession

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was when it got odd. The dinner was a baked

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potato bar, just potatoes, one per guest. You could have chili, cheese,

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sour cream, onions, and or lettuce. That was it. No alcohol,

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no cake, no desserts except for candy bars. I wonder

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what kind of cheese. I wonder if it was cheddar.

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