Sept. 23, 2025

How many pairs of underwear can YOU wear at once?

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Johnny Mac shares five inspiring news stories. First, a Florida woman heroically saves her dog from an alligator by punching it. Second, a gathering of people named Ryan tries to set a Guinness World Record at Rytober Fest but results are not yet clear. Third, retired baseball player Anthony Rizzo enjoys a day at Wrigley Field with Eddie Vetter and Cindy Crawford while wearing a special jersey. Fourth, a motorcyclist in Saudi Arabia sets a world record by performing a nearly 1000-foot wheelie while holding the handlebar in his mouth. Lastly, an influencer named Giant Xander aims to set a record for wearing the most pairs of underwear to raise funds for a local charity, Market Street Mission.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. A Florida woman who's walking her dog

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near a creek. It's Florida. Guess what showed up out

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of the creek. That's right, an alligator and the alligator

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was trying to eat the dog. So what did the

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woman do? She punched the alligator in the face. A

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nice job by Danny. She was walking her four month

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old Shitsu Dax. An alligator shows up starts eating dackx.

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Danny told The New York Times. I turned and looked,

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and an alligator had him. The alligator's front teeth went

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through the collar of my dog. The alligator started dragging

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Dax into the water. Danny said, I just punched him,

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punched and punched. I punched him in the eye enough

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that he kind of let go. He unclamped a little,

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and I pulled off, but his teeth dragged down my arm.

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Don't mess with Danny. Danny was able to flip the

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alligator onto its back, allowing her and Jacks to flee

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inside the house. She recorded video of the alligator lurking

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behind her home. After the attack, she called the authorities.

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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission got rid of

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the alligator. You know, they trapped it and they moved

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it somewhere else. They didn't like get rid of it.

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They're not mean, Danny said, be careful with your dogs.

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These alligators are no joke. I mean fifteen feet He

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came out to get him. I didn't see him. If

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your friend Ryan wasn't around, he was probably at rye Toberfest.

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Ryan Meetup is a national organization that organizes events catering

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to people with the first name Ryan. They held right

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Toberfest in New York's Union Square, and like so many stories,

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there's always a Guinness record involved. I don't know what

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the Guinness people are doing anymore. They were trying to

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break the Guinness record for largest same name gathering first

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name only. The record was set in twenty seventeen by

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the Ivans. Twenty three hundred and twenty five people named Ivan.

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Alternate spellings like r Ian as opposed to the more

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common r y An are allowed, but last names do

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not count, and no Brian's are allowed. The website says

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Brian's are just b list Ryan's take it up with them,

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Brian don't get mad at me. Previously, the Ryan Rodeo

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in Texas tried to break the record, but that attempt

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fell short. Wrytobrafest twenty twenty three was attended by two

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hundred Ryans. The Ivans aren't even impressed by that. At

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the time of this recording, we don't have official numbers.

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It is unclear if the Ryans have defeated the Ivans.

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Baseball player Anthony Rizzo celebrated his retirement. He hung out

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in the bleachers at Wrigley Field. Rizzo almost caught a

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home run into the bleachers, but it went off his hands.

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A fan next to Rizzo said, yeah, that's why he's retired.

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He can't catch them anymore. Rizzo was out there with

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Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder. Rizzo joined in on the

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take me out to the Ballgame tradition. He sang along

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with Pearl Jams, Eddie Vedder, and supermodel Cindy Crawford. Not

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bad when you're the third most famous person in a

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singing group, Rizzo said, I have one day to really

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live it up. Rizzo wore a Cubs jersey signed by

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cancer patients visited by the Anthony Rizzou Family Foundation. Rizzo

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himself is a Hotchkins lymphoma survivor. I do have an

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actual world record for you. In Saudi Arabia, a motorcyclist

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performed a nearly one thousand foot wheelie while holding a

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handlebar in his mouth. Yes, it is the world record

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for wheelie while holding a handlebar in your mouth. Guinness,

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what are you people doing? I'm ed afman clamped his

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jaws around a handlebar of his motorcycle. He managed to

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ride nine hundred and eighty four feet three inches, officially

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breaking the record for greatest distance motorcycle wheelly held by mouth.

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He held his arms out at his side to balance

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himself while attempting the wheelie. The whole stunt took almost

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one minute. Yeah. Oh, let's do all the records today.

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This one is kind of close to my house. I

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should go meet this guy, Jian Xander on October twelfth.

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We'll be trying to set the record for wearing most

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pairs of underwear. He's trying to raise money for the

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local charity Market Street Mission. I know those folks, they

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do good work. You see. He was almost and living

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in his car at this time last year. Now that

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he's back on his feet. He's an influencer. Xander plans

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to live stream the stunt on social media so again

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October twelfth, if you want to watch this thing, He says,

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those eight to ten months were the roughest. Now I

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just want to be able to advocate for people who

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are in my situation and maybe help someone out of

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their situation by bringing awareness to this. Those are five

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good news stories for to day. You have an awesome day.