I hope mom didn't toss your Boba Fett

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Happy birthday to Nicki. Nicki turned thirty seven. All right, why is that good news? John? I mean, why you don't like Nicki. Nicky's a mandrill monkey who lives at the Phoenix Zoo and has been confirmed as the oldest mandrill monkey in the world. Nicki was born at the Oregon Zoo on January thirteenth, nineteen eighty seven, and has lived in Phoenix the last six years. Like anybody else, you get old, you want to get out of the cold weather. You moved to Phoenix right. Zoo officials told Guinness that Nicki is more than twice the eighteen point three year median life expectancy of a mandrill. Nicki's half sister, Victoria, lived to be thirty five before passing away in April of twenty twenty two. Nicky's caretaker explains that my joke was on target. The caretaker, who is not named, says, I think it helps not having harsh winters, as the cold is hard on the joints. Her manjuil companions are also very late. She's adopted a good routine the oldest managel on record was a female who was confirmed to be forty back in two thousand and four. Jim Baker wanted to have a family.

1:08 She was diagnosed with endometriosis in twenty seventeen that cut down her chances of conception. She was given only a fifteen percent chance of conceiving a baby naturally. Strangers donated thirteen thousand dollars for her to undergo IVF. She said, my chances were slim. I hit a brick wall. It's soul destroying. Jim's friend Jen set up a fundraising page to help pay for the IVF. This story ends well. Little baby clover Iris entered the world seven pounds eight ounces. Jim said, I wasn't incredibly fussy with sperm donors, but I have a thing for redhead guys and managed to get one. He's a baker and does charity work. He sounded grounded. The baby looks like me and my dad. Mike Boland puts on a one man show. He also puts on a one hand show. Mike has found ways to make light of his limb difference throughout his life. Last month, he took the stage at the Herberger Theater in Phoenix to share more about his life. He said, no problems having one hand. It's something I can't imagine having two hands. As I say, sometimes I don't know how you people walk around with those two things. It's not something I'm used to. My mom and dad were very supportive and they never gave me a break. Because I had one hand, I was expected to do everything that my brother and sister were expected to do.

2:14 As a teenager, he took up bowling and says I won my first state bowling title by the time I was sixteen. By the time I was twenty one or twenty two, I was able to earn my PBA card and bowl on the Pro Bowler's Tour and be the first person with lim loss to do that. I don't bowl at all anymore. What I do now is I volunteer for the Arizona Disabled Sports. They have a bowling program, and I think I have more fun volunteering for the program at Arizona Disabled Sports than I ever did on tour. He also hosts a podcast called We Are Not Stumped. Congratulations to Luke and his father Mike. They have set the world record for world's fastest drone with an average top speed of two hundred and ninety eight point four seven miles per hour. We got to get this thing to three hundred guys, let's try this again. The drone is called the quad Copper Peregrine two, replacing the quad Coppter Peregrine one, which had reached two hundred and forty seven miles per hour. The drone is three D printed carbon fiber, battery operated and remote controlled. To get to the record, they flew the drone in two runs in opposite directions, demonstrating its ability to navigate tailwinds and headwinds. They clocked an actual top speed of three hundred and seventeen miles per hour and an average of two ninety eight point four to seven.

3:23 And I hope your mom didn't throw out your Star Wars figures because an extremely rare Boba Fet figure was auctioned for five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Heritage Auctions said the action figures now the world's most valuable vintage choy, breaking the record from a barbie bearing a one carrot diamond that sold for three hundred and two grand and twenty ten. This Boba Fet is hand painted and fires the rockets. Remember when we all got Boba Fet, we didn't. Boba Fet figures came out before Boba Fet was even in the movies, and we got these and he had this cool rocket and it was like, oh, that's neat. But there were prototypes where the rocket at actually fired. If you're old enough, you remember the seventies there were a bunch of toys that had firing rockets, and then kids were swallowing the rockets and bad things happened, so then they stopped with all the rocket firing. Well, this is only one of two surviving examples made for Kenner as a line of Star Wars toys in the seventies. Auctions Executive vice president Joe Maddalena said, the rocket firing Boba Fett action figure from long ago became such a mythic icon that people worldwide know about it, even if they don't collect anything at all. We knew this one had a chance to enter the record books, and it was thrilling to see it become the most valuable toy in the world. A different Boba Fet, released in seventy nine, sold for eighty four three hundred and seventy five dollars in the auction. That figure was still sealed in its original packing. I mean, yeah, I get it. I'd like to have eighty four thousand, But I also got to play with Boba fet for forty years. You know what I'm saying. Sometimes you got to take things out of the case. And those are your five good news stories. If you would like this program add free, what you can do is look in the show notes. It says cali Roga dot com slash plus click that it will

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