Sept. 20, 2025

Good News about an M&M spill on local highway, host abandons podcast

Show Notes
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A painting looted by the Nazis during World War II has been recovered in Argentina.

The wreck of a ghost ship, the FJ King, has been found off Wisconsin's coast after decades.

A 29-year-old woman completed a cross-country journey on a skateboard to honor her late stepfather and raise money for spinal cord research.

A Canadian man became the first to receive a vision-restoring tooth-in-eye

John shares a lighthearted story about thousands of M&M bags spilling onto a New Jersey highway, with no injuries reported

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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A painting that had been looted by the Nazis during

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World War II has been turned over to the police

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in Argentina after a years long search. A Dutch investigative

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news outlet contacted the real estate agency, who called the cops.

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But when the cops showed up, the painting was gone.

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So one of the people at the house was a

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descendant of a Nazi party official who during the war

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transported large quantities of hard currency, diamonds, and artworks that

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had either been stolen by the Nazis or sold to

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the Nazis under duress from their Jewish owners. That party

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official fled to Switzerland that eventually moved to Argentina, bringing

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with him portrait of a lady. Anyway, so the cops

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show up. The descendant of the Nazi had tried to

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hide a portrait of a lady before the police raids.

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When the cops showed up, there was just a picture

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of a horse on the wall, but walmarks and even

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a hook behind it showed that a painting may have

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been moved. A descendant of the original owner said it's

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encouraging that the painting is now with the authorities and

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that it's no longer missing. I'm relieved that it's now

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in a safe and secure place in Michigan. They have

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found the wreck of a mysterious ghost ship, the FJ.

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King sang in eighteen eighty six off the coast of

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Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin, but for decades they haven't been able

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to find it because of conflicting reports from its captain

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and a lighthouse keeper. Fishermen have claimed to have netted

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parts of the wreck, but nobody could find it. A

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team of researchers from the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association and

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the Wisconsin Historical Society located the ghost ship on June

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twenty eighth. You see what happened was the captain thought

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they were about five miles off the coast. The lighthouse

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keeper thought they were far closer. So the scientists set

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up a two mile grid around the area identified by

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the lighthouse guy, and using side scan soner they picked

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it up pretty quickly. One of the researchers said, a

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few of us had to pinch each other. After all

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the previous searches, we couldn't believe we had actually found

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it and so quickly. Congratulations to a twenty nine year

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old woman. She became the first to cross the United

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States on a skateboard. She was honoring her stepfather, whose

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ashes were carried in a necklace. Brooke on a skateboard

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three two hundred and twenty six miles from Santa Monica, California.

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Her journey ended when she walked into the Atlantic Ocean

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on Virginia Beach after one hundred and nineteen days on

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the road. She lifted her skateboard over her head and

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couldn't help but think about her stepfather, Roger, who made

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it all happen. Late in life, brook stepfather had broken

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one of his vertebrae and became a quadriplegic. As his

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health got worse, stepfather and daughter talked about Brook's dream

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of cross country skateboarding. Originally, she had planned to push

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him across the finish line in a wheelchair. Roger passed away,

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Brooke had more motivation than ever. She raised money for

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Wings for Life, a nonprofit dedicated to spinal cord research.

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She shared her feet on social media and included a

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voicemail from Roger that she had randomly found Roger said

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in the voicemail, Everything's gonna be fine. We'll get through it.

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Brent has become the first Canadian to receive an osteo

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odonto care prosthesis. Hopefully I got that right. That translates

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to a tooth in eye prosthetic. Brent's tooth has been

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surgically implanted into his eye to act as a lens fixture,

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which has enabled him to see again. He had already

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been through fifty surgical transplants and procedures. He had received

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a rare reaction to ibuprofen when he was thirteen that

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left severe burns on his cornea. Why a tooth, It's

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made of the hardest material produced by the body. A

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hole is drilled through the canine tooth and a high

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tech lens is fitted inside. The tooth is then attached

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to the cheek through the eye, and an aperture to

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the retina and optic nervous created so the light can

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enter the lens and reach it with glasses. He now

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has about twenty thirty vision and good news for me.

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I'm gonna leave right now. My wife just texted me.

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This is a real thing that happened in Warren County,

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New Jersey, not too far from my lift. Thousands of

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bags of eminem can have been spilled across Interstate eighty.

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So I got to hop in the car because Johnny

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Mack likes his M and MS. Now, I'm not being

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a jerk. I don't do these stories when anybody's injured

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or something horrible happens. Everybody's fine, But apparently a tractor

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trailler carrying a full load of M and ms has

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been in an accident, and there were dozens of boxes

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of M and ms spilled onto the roadway. Again, I

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gotta go help the police clean this up. And you

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know I might pocket a couple long the way. And oh,

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so your five good news stories for today? And also

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why I'm late for work and not recording more episodes

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of the podcast Johnny Mack Loves em and M's all right,

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have a great day.