Good News if you like a big pizza party

0:03 Callaroga Shark media, guys, what are we doing? Hi? I'm Johnny Mack with five news stories. Organizers of the World Stone Skimming Championships in Scotland set a cheating scandal led to the disqualification of several competitors. As you know, the World Stone Skimming Championships are an annual celebration of the sport. It's held every September. The rules require the stones thrown by competitors to skim across the surface of the water to be naturally occurring slate stones from the island, but several competitors this year brought rocks that appeared to have been shaped and smoothed by a machine. Do you need to win the stone throwing contest that badly that you're gonna cheat? What is wrong with you? Kyle Matthews is the event's tossmaster. He told the Scottish Mail. I got calls from concerned competitors. They were worried people might think that's how things are done here. I contacted the individual who had admitted their transgressions and I had to disqualify them to give them credit. They deeply apologize for bringing the sport into disrepute and accepted disqualification and we accept that that's the end of the matter. Well no, this is now being talked about on an international podcast. This is very embarrassing for the sport of stone throwing. Mister Matthews said. Organizers are considering new rules for future competitions, requiring participants to choose from stone selected by officials instead of finding your own. But see that's not fun. I like finding my own. Let these cheaters go and have their own like man made stone throwing contest and don't

1:36 hold it in Scotland. Let's keep this competition pure. The first round of the competition features competitors attempting to skip their stones across the surface of the water to the back wall of the quarry that's about two hundred and six feet. Those who qualify for the second round then engage in a sauce off to determine the winner. Congratulations to Jonathan Jennings out of Kentucky. He became the competition's first ever American winner. In the adult male category of this year's event, Lucy Woods won the adult female category for the sixth time. Now, if you hang out with Johnny Mack, he will often say to you two beers, not eight. Two beers is a nice hang with friends. Eight is something else entirely, And now researchers have found this to be true. They find the chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day. That's right. The researchers analyzed twenty one species of fruit regularly eaten by chimpanzees in Uganda to measure the alcohol content. They tell us, across all sites, male and female chimps are consuming about fourteen grams that's like half an ounce of pure ethanol per day in their diet, which is equivalent to one standard American drink. When you adjust for body masks, it's like two drinks. We're gonna have to get these chimps in White Castle to, you know, take the edge off on the walk home. Scientists tell us human attraction at alcohol probably arose from this dietary heritage of our common ancestor with chimpanzees. New York City is turning food waste into black gold to improve these cities' soil health. Waste items

3:06 like watermelon rines, greasy pizza boxes, and you're trimming they're being composted at the Staten Island compost Facility. They take in one hundred to one hundred and fifty tons of organic material every day. There used to be a garbage dump. Is that Is that a I feel like that's not a PC term? Am I allowed to say garbage dump? Or am I gonna get canceled? There used to be a sanitation facility on Staten Island. It was just like huge, huge, but they close that down a while back. Tuffs University will be tuition free for US families earning less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The president of Toughs University said, we're sending a clear message that Toughs is committed to meeting the full need of all its students.

3:48 US undergraduate students whose families make less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year will attend tuition free beginning in the fall of twenty twenty six. Students with an annual family income of less than sixty thousand dollars will typically receive a financial aid package with no student loans. The new policy, known as the Tough Tuition Pact, is meant to ensure that students from all backgrounds know that a tough education is within reach. I lost track of how many stories. I've recorded a bunch of these today, including the Halloween ones, and I'm a little punchy from doing those because those made me laugh. Let's see what did I do? I did? The Stones is one, Beers is two. Why don't you edit this out, John, because that's not fun. Black Gold composting was three, toughtless four. Okay, it's five good news stories and this is story number five.

4:32 It's one of those world records and it's not you know, what would those guys do, those guys that make stuff up? They would hop on one leg while juggling. But that's not enough. They always have to add like a third thing. Hop on one leg while juggling in fourteen seconds in the rain. Well, it's not that at all. This is the Guinness World Record for the largest pizza party. Why wasn't I invited to this? The Taste of new Haven held a record attempt at the new Haven Green. More than no nine thousand slices of pizza were handed out. I would have had three, four, I mean, if they were free, definitely would had three. There were forty five hundred and twenty five participants, breaking the record of just thirty three hundred and fifty seven participants set by the Pizza World Champions in Sulsan twenty twenty three. Now, some lazy matthire forty five twenty five times two is around nine thousand, but somebody must have had one slice, so I could have had a third slice to balance that out.

5:28 Togains to the nine thousand slices. The new Haven mayor on social media said new Haven has once again demonstrated it's pizza supremacy and why the Elm city is the pizza capital of the country and the world. With four five hundred and twenty five Pizza Party participants, the love for pizza and new Haven was literally palpable and unclear display. And those are five good news stories for today. I'm hungry, have a good day.