April 20, 2025

Lost Loch Ness Camera Found! Did it spot Nessie?

Show Notes
Transcript

Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting stories: a pet bird saved from a python by a professional snake catcher, an Egyptian free diver setting a world record for underwater pull-ups, a North Carolina family reuniting with their husky after three years, new advancements in brain-computer interface technology that translates thoughts into speech, and the recovery of a 55-year-old camera from the depths of Loch Ness. Each story brings a smile and a sense of wonder.

00:31 Rescue of a Pet Bird from a Python
01:26 World Record for Underwater Pull-Ups
02:04 Reunion with a Missing Dog
02:45 Brain Implant Translates Thoughts to Speech
03:35 Loch Ness Monster Camera Discovery

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. I am in a good mood behind

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the scenes here. I tend to jump in the studio

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and record like two weeks of these while I'm in

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the zone. I've got all the stories written, and I'm

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in you know, the equipment setup, and I've got my

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voice working and everything. And just having recorded a bunch

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of these, they're just happy stories, and you know, thanks

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for listening. It's a fun show to do. Good news.

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For a pet bird, a python was trying to eat it.

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A professional snake catcher was called out. The python had

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squeezed its head into the bird's cage. Stuart posted a

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video to social media showing the scene. Stuart works for

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Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers twenty four to seven and explains,

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thankfully we got here in time. When I arrived here,

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just then the bird and the snake were literally touching

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noses in between the bars of the cage. Unfortunately, many

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bird and other small animal cagors are still sold regardless

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of whether there's snakeproof or not. In our industry, it's

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hard seeing so many families lose their pets because of this,

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He adds, you can't blame the snake for seeing the

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bird as a meal. It can't differentiate wild birds to

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bet birds. It's simply trying to feed itself. We're just

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lucky for the bird's sake. We came quickly enough. The

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snake was relocated into a wilderness area to find its

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next meal wild birds. You're on your own, ah, Johnny Mack,

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you probably have a world record for us. I sure do.

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An Egyptian free diver plunged into the Red Sea to

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break the record for most pull ups under open water

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with one breath. That's right. Romy swam twenty nine feet

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six inches straight down and there was a pull up

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bar there, as there tends to be, he told Guinness.

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A lot of people think it's easy because you're pulling

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yourself up underwater. The boyantcy will help you, which is true.

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But the challenge was actually pushing back down. That was

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really the challenge, because I'm resisting the water and I'm

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doing this on a single breath at a depth of

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nine meters. He did thirty three pull ups, then he

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had a come up Ferrari. He said, it's a pretty

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indescribable feel. One of the people who are in the

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history books. Now it's too big for my brain to absorb.

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A North Carolina family spotted their missing dog on Petfinder.

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They were like, hey, that's Kaz. Kaz had been missing

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for three years, about thirty five miles away. Derek is

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the local animal control supervisor. He told McClatchy news, my

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team and I were overwhelmed with joy. While we reunite

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animals with our owners daily, it's rare to see a

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reunion after such a long period. He thinks it's because

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Kaz is a husky and explains huskies are well known

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for their intelligence, high energy levels, and independent nature, offer

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earning the reputation of being escape artists. These traits can

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lead them to find creative ways to leave their homes.

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CAS's case, that's what happened. Scientists are getting it done lately.

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This is another a great story. A brain implant translates

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thoughts to speech in an instant. Researchers are working on

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a device known as a brain computer interface. They added

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AI algorithms to it that decoded sentences as a woman

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thought of them, and then spoke them out loud using

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a synthetic voice. Previous efforts were able to make sounds

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after the user finished an entire sentence. The current one

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can detect words and turn them into speech within three seconds.

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So in the past, what would happen is you'd write

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a sentence, the other person write a sentence, you'd have

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to write another sentence. Didn't flow like a normal conversation.

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BCIs that stream speech in real time are the next

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level in research because they allow users to convey tone

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and emphasis. Researchers personalize the synthetic voice to sound like

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the woman's own voice from before her injury by training

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AI algorithms on recordings from her wedding video. And one

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of the tropes of this podcast is there seems to

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be just a lot of Lockness Monster stories and I

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enjoyed doing them. So. Back in the seventies, some scientists

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placed several cameras inside plastic trap boxes and sent them

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down to the depths of Lockness to hopefully capture pictures

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of the loch Ness Monster. One of the cameras has

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been recovered. Fifty five years ago. Biologist Roy Mackel deployed

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the cameras. One of them was recently discovered during a

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test dive of an unmanned research submersible in Lockness. The

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camera's mooring system had gotten tied up in the propellers

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of the sub. By the way, the sub in question

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is the infamous body mcboat face. Do you know this? One?

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Long story short? They did a poll to let the

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public name the sub, and the public voted on body

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mcboat face. So there's body mcboat face down in Lockness,

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swimming around it gets tangled. Here's this camera from fifty

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five years ago. Sam Smith is a robotics engineer with

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a body mcboat face and said, while this wasn't a

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fine we expected to make, we're happy that this piece

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of Nessy hunting history can be shared and perhaps at

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least the mystery of who left it in the lock

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can be solved. That's when they tracked it back to

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the guy from Chicago, Adrian Shine, as a naturalist who

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got involved with all this, and Adrian's been studying Lockness

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for half him for fifty years himself. Shine, in a

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press statement said it's remarkable that the housing has kept

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the camera drive for the past fifty five years, lying

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more than four hundred and twenty six feet deep in Lockness. Well,

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they developed the film and yes, the lockness Monster is

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real and nobody in the world reported it. And you're

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learning this from me on no, no, no, of course not.

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They unfortunately did not find any photos of NeSSI, although

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they did recover some beautiful photos of the Deep Dark Lake.

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The truth is out there. Those are five good news

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stories for today. Appreciate you have a great day.