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Sept. 4, 2024

Goldfish Ponds, Gaming Feats, and Mice Baldness Cures!

Goldfish Ponds, Gaming Feats, and Mice Baldness Cures!
Goldfish Ponds, Gaming Feats, and Mice Baldness Cures!
5 Good News Stories
Goldfish Ponds, Gaming Feats, and Mice Baldness Cures!

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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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Here's one from the New York City that I grew up in. I love this one. The puddle around a leaky fire hydrant New York City was converted into a makeshift goldfish pond. What do you think I was going to say? Some residents want to make it permanent. The hydrant, located in Bedsty in Brooklyn, has been dubbed the Bedsty Goldfish Pond after a resident and his friends released goldfish into the puddle. Neighbor Ken said, everybody takes a turn. Did you feed the fish? Did you check on the fish? The Department of Environmental Protection has repeatedly shut off the hydrant, but the locals keep reopening it to make sure the fish don't lose their home.

0:45 I'm not sure this is the best long term solution for the fish. I kind of like the idea, but you know, as the Deep points out, there are real safety concerns with damage for leaking hydrants. It can impact the availability of water for fire emergencies, and it can impact water pressure and cost supply issues for the neighborhood. We love goldfish, but we know there's a better home for them than on a sidewalk. I can't argue with that. Fish loving neighbors have started to GoFundMe to raise money to give the goldfish a permanent outdoor home in the neighborhood. Gotta love this guy. He has hooked up four hundred and forty four video game consoles to a single TV. He's got a good switcher, I guess. Ibraheim says he uses an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of which switch boxes and converters he needs to turn on to play each console. The four hundred and forty four consoles are hooked up to thirty RCA switchers, more than twelve HDMI switchers, and various other modes of connection. Ibraheim says, after a while, I noticed I had a big stack of gaming consoles that I couldn't play. The TV ports are limited, and if I wanted to play, it could either unplug the existing console, or it could keep everything and add more switchers and more converters. By adding more switchers, the idea came to my mind to connect all of the gaming consoles and then contact the Gidness world records. He does point out a very important thing. If you notice the cables are almost all hidden. Some of these systems include a Magnavox Odyssey that's even before my time, Xbox three sixty is a Nintendo Switch we you, and even some extremely rare causoles like the Super a Can. I've never heard of that one, and I'm pretty deep into classic video games. He says, for him, the best gaming console of all time, number one, always forever Sega Genesis. Nick

2:16 Hartman is a single dad and a three D printing hobbyist. He has created the three D toy shop Teddy Hospital. We make toys that don't exist, like little pacemakers and little tracheotomies, for children who are going through the hardest time, so that they can have a friend like them. Parents who are interested in getting a Teddy or doll for their children can request one through a form on his website. Folks can even donate to an ongoing fundraiser to help sponsor the special toys. The specialty Teddy bears include some with insulin pumps, foot splints, and even a mini dialysis machine that has helped a young girl better understand her dad's condition. Hardman says, I didn't know people needed toys like this, so I can make toys that don't exist. I can make a three D model, I can three D print it, and they seem to really help people. Good news. If you are experiencing male pattern baldness. There are currently two FDA proved drugs. There might be a third coming. A naturally occurring ribal sugar has already been used to successfully stimulate hair grow and mice a lot of mice walking around with male pattern baldness. You don't notice it, and neah mice suffer from this. Scientists say the promising discovery offers hope in the search for a cure for male pattern baldness. That is not easy to say.

3:22 That was take six. I edited out the rest male pattern baldness. I think I have to stop swallowing my teas like the New Yorker and say pattern not pattern. The scientists found applying a small dose of the sugar helped to form new blood vessels, which led to hair regrowth. And if you're a middle aged mouse looking a hook up of the ladies, Hey, all right, we've heard from the utility company. We know why the power outage that affected eleven seven hundred of US has happened. This was in Virginia. It was caused by a snake. The crew is discovered a snake had slithered into a high voltage area and came into contact with a transformer. Electricity was store to all customers after about an hour and a half.

4:03 The type of snake responsible for the outage was not identified. And what the story does not tell me that I'm curious about what happened to the snake. I'll repeat it's slowly into a high voltage area and came into contact with a transformer that probably didn't go well, did it? And those are your five good news stories for today. Better news for the mice than the snakes. If you like the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program commercial free, there's a link in the show notes, and for five dollars a month you get this one and a bunch of others without ads. You have an awesome day.