Sept. 9, 2024

Lucy the Bat Dog, um, you know...behind the mound

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Host Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories, including an orange lobster named Clementine released in Long Island, the return of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' to a Virginia library after 50 years, the rescue of Molly, a Bernese Mountain Dog trapped on a cliff, a 102-year-old woman's record skydive, and the playful antics of Lucy May the Batdog at a minor league baseball game.

00:00 Introduction and Orange Lobster Story
01:07 Return of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
01:33 Rescue of Molly the Bernese Mountain Dog
02:44 102-Year-Old Woman Becomes Oldest Skydiver in Britain
03:16 Lucy May the Batdog's Eventful Day

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Callaroga Shark Media another orange lobster? What is going on? Hello,

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Shawnnie Mack with five good news stories. Recently I told

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you about the orange lobster that wound up with the

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Broncos fans and made its way to an aquarium. Well

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there's another one. This one showed up at a store

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on New York's Along Island and it was released back

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in a Long Island Sound. Workers at the Southampton Stopping

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Shop the orange lobster alongside the standard brown lobsters that

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arrived in a recent shipment. The store offered the orange

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lobster to the Long Island Aquarium, but the Long Island

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Aquarium was like, we're good, No idea why they're good

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or not. The Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation learned about orange

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lobster and contacted Humane Long Island, which reached out to

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management at the stop and shop. The lobster, now named Clementine,

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underwent rehabilitation under the supervision of a vet before being

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released back in the Long Island Sound. Meanwhile, at the

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University of New England Peaches an orange lobster being studied.

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Researchers there recently hatched one hundred eggs and some of

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those lobsters are orange. Maybe it's a thing. Hey, good news.

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If you were looking to take Leaves of Grass out

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of the library in Virginia, it's back. I know it's

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been out for fifty years. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

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was checked out in nineteen seventy four the library system

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set on social media. That was the year our three

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libraries joined up to become the Appomatos Regional Library System.

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They said there won't be any charge for the exciting return,

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as the library system went fine free last year. It's

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unclear why the book has showed up. It was supposed

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to come back on June third, nineteen seventy four. Good

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news for Molly, a Bernese mountain dog that was marooned

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on an island. Sarah was working her Bernese mountain dog,

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Molly when the dog ran off in high winds. Searches

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on land and sea failed to find her, but then

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the crew of a passing fishing boat heard barking and

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spotted Molly clinging to a cliff edge sixty one meters

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above sea level. Somebody climbed down the cliff to free

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the dog. Would become trapped on a let edge after

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her leash got caught. Sarah says, they are heroes. She's

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completely fine, just a bit skinnier. Why did the dog

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take off? We think it was a rabbit. She kind

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of full force pulled the leash out of my hand

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and she stormed inland on the island, and she was gone.

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We went home felt very gloomy, was weird the first

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night without her. I felt like I left her behind.

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It felt pretty helpless and a bit hopeless. The boat's

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captain said, they were sailing around they thought they heard

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a dog barking. We're kind of looking at each other like,

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are we hearing things? What's going on? Captain John Paul said.

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Then we started looking at the cliff face where we were,

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and you could just see the dog's dark color and

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the rocks are quite dark as well, but the white

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chest of the dog. We could see the movement. We

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could see a bit of a red lead coming from

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the dog. There is video online showing the dog enjoying

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lots of pets and cuddles. Congratuate one hundred and two

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year old woman as she has become the oldest skydiver

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in Britain after jumping out of a plane at seven

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thousand feet. Manette said it was a bit scary. I

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must admit I shut my eyes very firmly. I just

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want other people were getting towards eighty and ninety not

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to give up anything. Two years ago, for her one

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hundredth birthday, she went to a racetrack where she got

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behind the wheel of a Ferrari and did one hundred

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and thirty miles an hour. When it says I've been

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so lucky to be fitting what, I've got to do

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something with it, and that's really the back of it.

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I can't just waste it. Other people are crippled with

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arthritis and I'm not all right. Lucy May the bat

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dog had a bad day. Lucy May was introduced by

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the Philadelphia Phillies, a single A affiliate team the Clear

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Order Thrushers. Lucy the Batdog's older sister, Layla, had retired

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as the team's batdog earlier in the year. Lucy ran

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out during the third inning. Instead of grabbing a bat,

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ran into the opposing team's dugout. Then the dog started

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running around the infield. The crowd went nuts, and then

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the dog pooped near the Pictures Mountains. Owner Andrew told

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the to local TV station. Once she squatted, I definitely

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went into panic mode. I think the word my fiance

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and I used was mortified. Dominic Repper is the team's

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promotion as manager, and he rushed in action to clean

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up the mess. He said, we kind of a feeling

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that something special would happen with her, and that'd be

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a fun event, but I don't think we could have

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imagined it would get taken to that level. The team

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has set on social media. Even though she didn't have

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it quite right, she has one thousand percent to keeping

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her job. And those are your five good news stories

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