May 10, 2025

From Racing Great-Grandpas to Rescued Chickens (The Lost Episodes)

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, Johnny Mack presents five uplifting news stories. Highlights include Eric, an 85-year-old Welsh running athlete, racing his great-grandson; the development of a pesticide-neutralizing vaccine for bees; a study suggesting that light exercise reduces dementia risk; Megan's cat winning a lottery ticket; and Oklahoma Highway Patrol rescuing chickens stranded on the highway.

00:00 Introduction to The Lost Five Good News Stories
00:32 Eric's 85th Birthday Race
00:59 Vaccine Breakthrough for Bees
01:30 Exercise and Dementia Prevention
02:41 Monkey the Cat's Lottery Win
03:08 Oklahoma Highway Patrol Rescues Chickens

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

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episode of the Lost five Good News Stories. Now, if

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you don't know what's going on here, I recently found

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a file on my computer called good News twenty four

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which had apparently quite a few scripts I never recorded

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last year. So what I thought i'd do is all right,

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I'll record them and i'll make them extras on Saturday,

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so it's still good news, it just might have a

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little dust on it. For example, Eric celebrated his eighty

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fifth birthday a few months ago, he decided to race

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his great grandson. Eric told the BBC I intended on walking,

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but when I got there with my great grandson, I

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decided to run the race. His great grandson beat him

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by seven minutes. Now Eric is no slouch. He is

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a pioneering Welsh running athlete. He's medled at eighteen consecutive

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British Masters Championships at various distances. Meanwhile, while scientists have

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developed a vaccine for bees that helps protect the bees

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from harmful pesticides, researchers found that feeding beads hydrogyll microparticles

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in sugar water boosted bees survival rates. By thirty percent

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when exposed to lethal doses of a pesticide class that

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I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce. The particular

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pesticide damage the bees nervous systems. The treatment binds to

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and neutralizes the pesticide, allowing to pass through the bees

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without causing them many harm. Bees are going to be

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happy for that. Scientists are getting it done. They have

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determined that even a little exercise can reduce the risk

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of dementia. The British Journal of Sports Medicine published a

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study that examined cognitive function with the aim of understanding

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the impact of exercise. The researchers took into account variables

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like age, diets, smoking and alcohol, nightly sleep, educational attainment.

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They controlled for those factors. They found that even weekend warriors,

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you know, people that exercise once or twice a week,

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were twenty five percent less likely to develop mild dementia

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than those who didn't exercise at all. Those who were

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regularly active at least three times a week were eleven

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percent less likely. Now, interestingly, those who are regularly active

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at least three times a week were eleven percent less likely. Yeah,

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I'm making the same face you are right now. The

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study didn't get into while the weekend warriors are actually

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doing better than the regular exercisers, is the lesson here

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to exercise less that could be good news in itself.

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Don't take medical advice from some dude recording a podcast

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in his basement. Get actual medical advice from professionals. Use

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five Good News Stories for entertainment purposes only. Scientists estimate

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that thirteen percent of mild dementia cases could be avoided

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if all middle aged adults exercise at least once or

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twice a week. A social media star, Megan regularly posts

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videos of her cat Monkey Now. A few months ago, again,

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these are the lost episodes of five Good News Stories.

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Megan had gone to the convenience store with Monkey. Monkey

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showed up with a lottery ticket. She scratched it off.

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She thought she had won five pounds, but no, she

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had won tenuns. A social media user said, see he's

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providing for you and good news. Out of Oklahoma last September,

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these are the lost episodes. Some Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers

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rescued some chickens that had fallen off the back of

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a truck and were stranded on the Highway. The OHP

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set on social media that the truck with a makeshift

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trailer lost multiple chickens over the course of about a

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mile westbound. This happened on I forty four, so if

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you were in traffic a few months ago and you're like,

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what is going on? There were chickens on the I

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forty four. Trooper Carlos saw a woman trying to corral

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a chicken using the concrete barrier, so he relieved her

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of her duties. According to social media, trooper Carlos was

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able to wrangle the chicken and the rest of the

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birds were eventually successfully rescued. The OHP said sometimes even

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the chicken needs help crossing the road. Love it, that's it.

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See you next time. Back tomorrow.