Dec. 16, 2025

John Oliver's Record-Breaking Bob Ross Auction

Show Notes
Transcript

00:10 Rediscovered Bach Pieces Performed After 300 Years
01:15 John Oliver's Record-Breaking Bob Ross Auction
02:01 Eco-Friendly Artisans in Mumbai
02:24 The Search for Bradford Bear
03:21 Woman Found Alive in Coffin in Thailand
04:17 Conclusion and Sign-Off

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Kalaruga Shark Media. Hey there, Jummi back with five few

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news stories. Two musical pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach

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were performed for the first time ever, more than three

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hundred years after they were composed. Both pieces were written

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for the organ, and they are believed to date from

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the great composer's very early career, where he worked as

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an organ tutor. Germany's Culture minister Wolfram Weimer called the

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discovery the two pieces a great moment for the world

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of music. Both pieces were unsigned and undated. They were

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found in the nineteen nineties by Peter Woolney, a Belgian

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Bach researcher. He wasn't sure it had written them, but

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he suspected they might have been box It took thirty

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years to figure it out, he told the BBC. Stylistically,

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the works also contained features that could be found in

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box works from the period, but not in those of

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any other composer. That made him ninety nine point ninety

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nine percent sure that Bach had written the two pieces.

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They were played for the first time in the three

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one hundred twenty years by Dutch organist Tom Coopman at

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the Saint Thomas Church, where Bach worked for twenty seven

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years as a canter. That's nice. Good thought there As

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an aside. A recent concert in Austria saw a two

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hundred year old Mozart piece performed for the first time

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when it too was discovered by an archivist. John Oliver

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auctioned off a piece by Bob Ross. You know the

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guy that paints the happy Little trees on PBS. John

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Oliver had one of his pieces and he auctioned it

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off for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Cabin at Sunset

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was painted by Ross in season ten of The Joy

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of Painting. It set a new auction record for a

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Bob Ross painting of one million, thirty five thousand dollars

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after thirty five bids. John Oliver said, We've actually accumulated

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a bunch of weird artifacts on the show over the

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years that we could definitely auction off to raise some

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much needed money. I'm proud to announce last week Tonight's

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first ever auction in aid of public media. The proceeds

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from sales of Cabin at Sunset and thirty four other

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items from the TV show totaled one and a half

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million dollars, which was transferred to the Public Media Bridge Fund,

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which helped support stations and programs need of funding. In Mumbai.

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Some artisans are taking discarded rubber and turning them into

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sleek bags, shoes, and furniture that look like leather but

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are cruelty free and eco friendly. Their mission turned waste

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into art. They're also helping people who had lost their

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jobs to more. Studio pays fair wages, offers profit sharing

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and health insurance, and lets workers stay in their own

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communities while the creations travel to international galleries and art fairs.

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A school in England is asking for your help to

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find a missing teddy bear that was sent into the

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stratosphere with a weather balloon and it fell back to Earth.

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The Walhampton School said Bradford Bear was sent into the

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sky by seventh and eighth grade students working together with

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the Southampton University Spaceflight Society. A camera on board the

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balloon recorded Bradford the Bear's journey into the upper atmosphere

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and capture the moment when the bear was jostled free

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from his perch. Bradford Bear had been expected to parachute

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to safety along with the rest of the balloon's cargo,

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but something went sideways. And they're not sure where the

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bear is. The school set on social media. If you

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have any information regarding his whereabouts and no matter how small,

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please let us know. Video, footage or any details would

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be hugely appreciated. The bear did amazingly well. It reached

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an altitude of sixteen point seven miles above the ground.

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Officials at the school say, we have reassured the children

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he's very brave and resourceful. I'm sure he's fine and

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good news for a woman in Thailand. She's not dead.

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She shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin.

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She was brought in for cremation. Yeah, the sixty five

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year old woman's brother had driven her from a local

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province to be cremated. Then they heard a faint knock

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coming from inside the coffin. The temple's GM set us

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a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin,

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and everyone was startled. I saw her opening her eyes

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slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She

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must have been knocking for quite some time. The brother

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said the woman had been bedridden for two years. Her

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health went down. She was unresponsive and he didn't think

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she was breathing, so he placed her in a coffin

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and drove three hundred miles to a hospital in Bangkok,

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where the woman had previously expressed a wish to donate

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her organs. The hospital wouldn't accept the offer because the

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woman didn't have an official death certificate. The temple has

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a free cremation service, so that's why the brother went there,

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but they were also like, yeah, you don't have the

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right documents anyway, good news for that woman. Yikes. And

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those are your five good news stories for today.