Sept. 4, 2024

Goldfish Ponds, Gaming Feats, and Mice Baldness Cures!

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting news stories: a New York City puddle turned into a goldfish pond, a tech enthusiast connecting 444 game consoles to one TV, a single dad's 3D printed toys for children in need, a breakthrough in male pattern baldness research using ribose sugar, and a snake causing a power outage in Virginia. Enjoy these feel-good tales that highlight human creativity and kindness.

00:10 The Bed Stuy Goldfish Pond
01:12 444 Video Game Consoles on One TV
02:16 3D Toy Shop Teddy Hospital
02:55 Hope for Male Pattern Baldness
03:44 Snake Causes Power Outage

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Here's one from the New York City

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that I grew up in. I love this one. The

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puddle around a leaky fire hydrant New York City was

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converted into a makeshift goldfish pond. What do you think

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I was going to say? Some residents want to make

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it permanent. The hydrant, located in Bedsty in Brooklyn, has

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been dubbed the Bedsty Goldfish Pond after a resident and

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his friends released goldfish into the puddle. Neighbor Ken said,

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everybody takes a turn. Did you feed the fish? Did

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you check on the fish? The Department of Environmental Protection

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has repeatedly shut off the hydrant, but the locals keep

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reopening it to make sure the fish don't lose their home.

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I'm not sure this is the best long term solution

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for the fish. I kind of like the idea, but

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you know, as the Deep points out, there are real

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safety concerns with damage for leaking hydrants. It can impact

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the availability of water for fire emergencies, and it can

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impact water pressure and cost supply issues for the neighborhood.

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We love goldfish, but we know there's a better home

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for them than on a sidewalk. I can't argue with that.

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Fish loving neighbors have started to GoFundMe to raise money

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to give the goldfish a permanent outdoor home in the neighborhood.

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Gotta love this guy. He has hooked up four hundred

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and forty four video game consoles to a single TV.

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He's got a good switcher, I guess. Ibraheim says he

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uses an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of which switch

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boxes and converters he needs to turn on to play

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each console. The four hundred and forty four consoles are

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hooked up to thirty RCA switchers, more than twelve HDMI switchers,

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and various other modes of connection. Ibraheim says, after a while,

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I noticed I had a big stack of gaming consoles

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that I couldn't play. The TV ports are limited, and

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if I wanted to play, it could either unplug the

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existing console, or it could keep everything and add more

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switchers and more converters. By adding more switchers, the idea

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came to my mind to connect all of the gaming

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consoles and then contact the Gidness world records. He does

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point out a very important thing. If you notice the

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cables are almost all hidden. Some of these systems include

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a Magnavox Odyssey that's even before my time, Xbox three

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sixty is a Nintendo Switch we you, and even some

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extremely rare causoles like the Super a Can. I've never

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heard of that one, and I'm pretty deep into classic

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video games. He says, for him, the best gaming console

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of all time, number one, always forever Sega Genesis. Nick

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Hartman is a single dad and a three D printing hobbyist.

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He has created the three D toy shop Teddy Hospital.

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We make toys that don't exist, like little pacemakers and

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little tracheotomies, for children who are going through the hardest time,

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so that they can have a friend like them. Parents

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who are interested in getting a Teddy or doll for

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their children can request one through a form on his website.

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Folks can even donate to an ongoing fundraiser to help

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sponsor the special toys. The specialty Teddy bears include some

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with insulin pumps, foot splints, and even a mini dialysis

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machine that has helped a young girl better understand her

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dad's condition. Hardman says, I didn't know people needed toys

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like this, so I can make toys that don't exist.

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I can make a three D model, I can three

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D print it, and they seem to really help people.

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Good news. If you are experiencing male pattern baldness. There

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are currently two FDA proved drugs. There might be a

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third coming. A naturally occurring ribal sugar has already been

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used to successfully stimulate hair grow and mice a lot

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of mice walking around with male pattern baldness. You don't

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notice it, and neah mice suffer from this. Scientists say

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the promising discovery offers hope in the search for a

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cure for male pattern baldness. That is not easy to say.

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That was take six. I edited out the rest male

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pattern baldness. I think I have to stop swallowing my

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teas like the New Yorker and say pattern not pattern.

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The scientists found applying a small dose of the sugar

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helped to form new blood vessels, which led to hair regrowth.

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And if you're a middle aged mouse looking a hook

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up of the ladies, Hey, all right, we've heard from

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the utility company. We know why the power outage that

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affected eleven seven hundred of US has happened. This was

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in Virginia. It was caused by a snake. The crew

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is discovered a snake had slithered into a high voltage

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area and came into contact with a transformer. Electricity was

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store to all customers after about an hour and a half.

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The type of snake responsible for the outage was not identified.

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And what the story does not tell me that I'm

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curious about what happened to the snake. I'll repeat it's

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slowly into a high voltage area and came into contact

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with a transformer that probably didn't go well, did it?

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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Better news for the mice than the snakes. If you

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