June 14, 2026

Nature Festival Dress Code Requires Clothes, the Unicycle Granny and the Sexy Priest Calendar

Show Notes
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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Organizers of England’s Cumbria Nature Festival clarified on social media that it’s for naturalists, not naturists, asking attendees to dress appropriately and offering genuine refunds to anyone expecting a nudist event, though none have been needed. In Durham County, North Carolina, the sheriff’s office warned residents about a very large pig on the loose, urging people to report sightings but not attempt capture, and noting the owner is unknown. A long-running Quebec study of northern gannet eggs found levels of “forever chemicals” have dropped dramatically from a 1990s peak. Linda, 69, was confirmed by Guinness as the world’s oldest unicycle rider, extending a record she first set in 2023. Finally, Italy’s “Sexy Priest Calendar” cover model Giovanni, featured for many years, revealed he is not a priest.

00:17 Nature Festival Dress Code
01:22 Giant Pig On The Loose
02:08 Forever Chemicals Decline
02:40 Unicycle Granny Record
03:34 Sexy Priest Calendar Twist

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Callarogashark Media. I'm sorry, I'm late there. I'm jutting back

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with five good news stories. It's just distracted thinking about

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this first story. The organizers of the Cumbria Nature Festival

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in England, that's right. The Nature Festival felt the need

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to let everyone know that the Nature Festival is not

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a nudist festival. At least one prospective visitor had asked

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about the details, festival organizers posted on social media. Cumbria

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Nature Festival is primarily aimed at naturalists, not naturists. While

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we aim to be as inclusive as possible and certainly

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do not judge anyone, we are aiming the event at

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wildlife enthusiasts. Please do dress appropriately. They offered a free

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refund to anyone who is hoping to come naked. Damn

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is one of the organizers. He told the BBC the

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whole thing sounds funny, but the offered or refund is genuine,

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he said. We have an alter had to refund anyone,

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so we're hopeful our offering has been sufficient to retain

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their interest. Despite composing a Driss code just to keep

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everything straight here, Naturalists study nature. Naturists prefer nature without clothing.

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The Durham County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina has a

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situation they are handling it. There is a very large

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pig on the loose. The pig was spotted on Mason

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Road and Durham County police showed up. They didn't see

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the pig. The Sheriff's office took to social media to

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lert the public. They described the pig as the new

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heavyweight champion and their hem ambassador. Boy, these police departments

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love doing these things. But they clarified, he's a really

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big pig. We're talking absolute unit status. He's living his

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best life on the lamb, but would like to get

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him somewhere safe before he decides to move into someone's backyard.

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Residents are asked to report any sightings of the very

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large pig, but do not attempt to capture the very

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large pig. Also, the pig's owner has not yet been identified.

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A little more serious forever her chemicals are down, this

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is good news. Scientists have been studying the eggs of

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northern gannets. Those are large seabirds on the coast of Quebec.

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They've been collecting data for fifty five years, and a

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new study found that levels are so called forever chemicals

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in eggs have dropped dramatically. Forever chemicals don't break down

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in the environment. They accumulate. They get into the water,

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into the fish, into the birds that eat the fish,

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and then into the eggs. The good news to see

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that those levels are down from a peak in the

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nineteen nineties. Congratulations to Linda. She is the unicycle granny.

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At sixty nine years old, she's been confirmed by Guinness

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as the oldest unicycle writer in the world. She started

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riding a unicycle at age ten never stopped. When she

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went to Florida State University, she performed in the flying

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Circus program there that led to a circus career and

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eventually work as a Hollywood stunt performer. These days, she

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performs in regional and community theater productions. Now, what's even

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more interesting, this is not the first time she held

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the record. She first earned the title of world's oldest

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unicycle right her back in January of twenty twenty three,

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when she was sixty six and two hundred and thirty

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four days old, and she's now extended the record to

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sixty nine one eighty nine And as this article points out,

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she keeps getting older and keeps setting the record further

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and further. How can you catch her? She told Guinness,

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Start very young and never stop. And some shocking news

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out of Italy. Have you been to Rome? Have you

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seen the calendar with like the handsome priests on it.

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If you've been to Rome and you've walked around the

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touristy areas, you have seen this thing. Well, we have

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found out that the handsome men in priestly at Sire

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might not be priests. I know this isn't exactly good news, John,

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I'm sorry. Gavanni has been the cover shot for the

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so called Sexy Priest Calendar for many of the last

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twenty three editions. Now, the day that I'm recording this story,

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my daughter happens to be in Rome. I sent her

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the story and she sent me back a picture of

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the calendar. So this is still a thing. She sent

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me back a picture of the exact guy I'm talking about,

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Javona on the cover. Giovanni wears a clerical collar and

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flashes a smile. He said he was seventeen years old

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when friends put him in touch with the photographer. The

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whole thing was a lark. Giovanni is now thirty nine

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and is not a priest. Those are your five good

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news stories for today. Have a great day.