Nov. 8, 2024

Never feed the raccoons

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five intriguing good news stories: a woman's escape from aggressive raccoons after decades of feeding them, actor Damien Lewis leading a flock of sheep across the River Thames in a historical reenactment, a festival in Cyprus creating a record-breaking 246-foot sausage kebab, a pair of adventurers walking across the nation of Tuvalu in under a minute, and the return of the World Egg Throwing Championships. Each story is filled with surprising twists and quirky details, ensuring an entertaining listen.

00:00 Raccoon Invasion
01:17 Damien Lewis and the London Sheep Drive
02:14 Record-Breaking Sausage Kebab in Cyprus
02:42 Walking Across Tuvalu in Under a Minute
03:32 World Egg Throwing Championships

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Caalaroga shark media. Well good news a woman is safe

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for being hounded by one hundred raccoons. Hello, shouting back

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with your five good news stories. Kevin is a spokesperson

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for the Sheriff's office. He said a woman called nine

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one one having had to flee her property after fifty

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two one hundred raccoons descended upon her home and were

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acting aggressively. She told deputies she started feeding a family

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of raccoons decades ago, and it was fine until about

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six weeks ago, when the number showing up went from

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a handful to around one hundred. Spokesperson Kevin says she

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said the raccoons were becoming increasingly more aggressive, demanding food.

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That they would hound her day and night, scratching at

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the outside of her home. At the door she pulled

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up by car, they would surround her car, scratch the car,

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surround her if she went for the front door or

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went outside at all. The raccoons saw the house as

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a food source, so they kept coming back to it,

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and they kept expect acting food. Videos from the Sheriff's

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office show raccoons milling around trees. Deputies who responded to

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the call did observe fifty to one hundred raccoons. Spokesperson

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Kevin said this is a nuisance problem kind of her

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own making, that she has to deal with. I may

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give you another pro tip, don't feed the bears. Actor

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Damian Lewis, you know that guy Billions Homeland. That guy, Yeah,

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he drove a flock of sheep across the River Thames.

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Lewis is among thousands of people granted the honorary title

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of Freemen of the City of London, which in medieval

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times came with the right to bring livestock across the

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river to market without paying tolls. Well recently, during the

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annual London Sheep Drive, more than one thousand freemen exercised

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that right, many wearing black hats and red cloaks. Lewis

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wore his grandfather's wolf coat and carried a crook as

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he led the sheep over the Southwark Bridge. Damien said

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it was fabulous. Manny Cohen is the master woman at

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the Worshipful Company of Woolmen and said the ancient sheep

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driving tradition was revived around fifteen years ago and has

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become a major charity fundraising event. There are no plans

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to bring back other privileges for the free men, such

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as the right to carry an unsheathed sword in public

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and to be escort at home if found drunk. Johnny Mack,

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you got a record for us, I sure do. A

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festival in Cyprus served up a sausage kebab that measured

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two hundred and forty six feet long. The Saint Lazarus

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and His Little Friend Savas Festival is an annual charity

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event honoring Saint Lazarus. The event raised money for charities,

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including the Saint Lazarus Center for People with Disabilities. The

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two hundred and forty six foot sausage kebab required a

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team of about thirty people to lift. I don't know

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what they did with all the extra sausage, but I'm

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gonna give them a tip. Don't feed the raccoons. Have

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you ever walked across an entire country? Hudson and Emily did.

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They walked across the entire South Pacific nation of Tuvalu

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in under a minute. Emily was on Instagram and said,

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walking across this country took me less time than walking

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from my car into target. The two Pennsylvania natives or

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trying to visit every country on our ear. So far

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they've hit one hundred and eighty three of one hundred

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and ninety five on their list. Tuvalu has under twelve

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thousand people and measures ten square miles. Now, how did

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they get across in a minute if they picked the

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part where it's only sixty six feet wide? Emily said,

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this should only be done by professionals. You have to

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take intense preparation, serious hydration and the best of the

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best snacks. And good news. If you're me and got

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to the end of the script and realized, oh, you

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didn't have a fifth story, you only have four, well,

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luckily for me, I have other scripts, so let me

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pull this one up. The World Egg Throwing Championships are

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back for the twentieth anniversary. The event was founded in

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two thousand and five and has seen competitors from all

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around the world go heads ahead, with New Zealand coming

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out victorious in the inaugural competition back in two thousand

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and five. Each heat seems team tossers throw an egg

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to catchers over distances that increase by ten meters each time.

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The five bears that successfully throw the egg the furthest

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without smashing their egg, go through to the Grand Final.

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Next year's Grand Final will take place Sunday, June twenty ninth,

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twenty twenty five. Andy Dunlop, presidents of the World Egg

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Throwing Federation, says it might not be a javelin, but

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it is considered an extreme sport. People have said egg

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throwing isn't a real sport, but of course it is.

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It's not like a javelin, where you've just got a

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guy throwing a pointed stick down a field. This you've

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got to throw the egg over an ever increasing distance

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and you've got to catch it without breaking the egg.

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Nobody in javelin throwing tries to catch the javelin. That's

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a good point. I'm not sure if five good news

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stories for today or did I do six? My mistake,

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I thought I did four. Did you get a bonus one?

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Go back and count? Who knows? Who cares? It was fun.

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You have a great day.