Aug. 19, 2025

Humpback Whales - they're pretty cool dudes

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: an underwater photographer's close encounters with humpback whales, a dog surviving Texas floods by hiding in a washing machine, a 13-year-old message in a bottle reconnecting Anita and Brad with people in Ireland, a 1720 Lebanese cedar nominated for the UK's Tree of the Year for its cultural significance, and Jerry's Cafe in Arlington Heights, which employs adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Now. Apparently humpback whales are pretty cool.

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Alan is an underwater photographer. He takes pictures of the whales.

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He says, I've been bumped, rolled, whacked over, coupled by wales.

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I've had whales follow me to the boat. Wales have

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their own language. He told a story that he was

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swimming in the water and this mother humpback saw me.

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I thought something was wrong. She came over to me

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and started to try to lift me up out of

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the water so I could breathe. Apparently the mother humpback

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reacted the way she would with a young lan, saying

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they do it with their calves. When their calves are born,

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they can't swim, so they lift them up to breathe.

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Good news for a dog who survived the Texas floods

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by hiding in a washing machine. Cody told the local

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news his families at home had been flooded with waste

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high water in just twenty minutes. He didn't have time

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to look for the dog before going a higher ground.

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He's not being a jerk, he said. I had to

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break my window and When I climbed through, I heard

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scratching and a wimp. I turned my head around the

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corner and I saw him just floating in the water.

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Got another message in a bottle for you, John and Kate.

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John and Kate found one of these bottles. It was

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a note from Anita and Brad. John and Kate were

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walking in County Carey, Ireland. They found a bottle in

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it a note from Anita and Brad recounting a cherished

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evening they had spent dining on bell Island in Canada.

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The message read, Anita and Brad's day trip to Belle Island. Today.

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We enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other

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on the edge of the island. To found, please call

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us with a phone number. Thirteen years later, the bottle

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shows up in Ireland. The number wasn't good, but they

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checked Facebook. Anita responded, revealing that she and Brad had

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gotten married four years after sending the bottle. Yes, they

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live in Newfoundland. Brad said, we were just young people

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in love. We're now older people in love. We're glad

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that the story got out. We're meeting new friends because

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of it, and hopefully we'll get back to Ireland soon

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been a pretty whirlwind forty eight hours. It was Monday night.

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I was putting our young son to bed. My phone

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was ding ding ding ding, which was really unusual. Then

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I can hear Anita laughing the other room. I came

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out and she was like, you're not gonna believe this.

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That's awesome. In nineteen sixty six, the Beatles made a

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video for their song Rien. In it, They're in a

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tree Now. The tree is a finalist in the UK's

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Tree of the Year contest. The tree is nominated in

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the theme being Rooted in Culture. The Lebanese Cedar was

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planted in seventeen twenty. Other people who have visited the

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tree include Queen Victoria, the Sar of Russia, and the

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Shah of Persia. Woodland Trust saw cultural references from as

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far back as the sixteenth century to the tree. They

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think it might be a thousand years old. Wow. Branches

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of the tree were regularly cut back to encourage new growth,

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resulting in several huge digits extending in different directions. A

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nice job by Jerry's Cafe in Arlington Heights. If you

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visit Jerry's Cafe, you can grant breakfast and lunch, sandwiches, soups, salads, muffins, scones, brownies,

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large chocolate chip cookies. They've also, for two years been

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employing adults with intellectual and development disabilities. Co founder Amy

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said it's been an adventure. The success of Jerry's is

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truly our employees, our management, and our volunteers. It's time

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and treasure, but it's all for the growth and development

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of our employees. The cafe is named for Ann to Jerylyn,

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who was born with Down syndrome in nineteen fifty eight

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and died shortly before her fourth birthday. The business employees

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thirty five adults with disabilities between the ages of twenty

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two and fifty two. They work independently as barista's cashiers, greeters,

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baker's dishwashers, and sandwich and salad makers. Co founder Natalie

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Griffin said it's been a lot of marketing and trying

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to get people to stop at Jerry's knowing that we're

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more than just coffee, that we do have a mission

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on a purpose and we're supporting Jerry's Cafe instead of

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Panera and Jimmy Jones. You're giving jobs to people who

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have been overlooked in the past. And those are your

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