Feb. 6, 2025

Now I want fries

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting news stories. Sam, a seasoned outdoorsman, is found alive after surviving 5 weeks in the woods. Otter populations are bouncing back in New Mexico, thanks to conservation efforts. The United States returns 1,400 looted artifacts worth $10 million to India. Retired military dog Jacob reunites with his former handler, Sergeant Peyton May, rekindling their tight bond. Lastly, an Australian restaurant breaks a world record by cooking up an enormous 1,200-pound kebab and fries for festival-goers. Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed! You also get 20+ other shows on the network ad-free!.

00:10 Miraculous Survival of Sam
01:11 Revival of Otter Population in New Mexico
01:48 Repatriation of Looted Artifacts to India
02:38 Heartwarming Reunion of Military Dog Jacob
03:49 Record-Breaking Kebab at Australian Festival

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Shohnning Mack with five

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good news stories. Good news for Sam. Sam was found

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alive after being lost in the woods for five weeks.

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Sam had headed out for a ten day camping and

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fishing trip. Relative said he was well prepared and packed

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a wool hat and gloves, a hatchet, and plenty of

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peanut butter, but then he failed to return home. According

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to the BC Search and Rescue Association, more than one

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hundred and twenty volunteers were involved in the efforts to

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find him. Timber Bigfoot is the land and environment manager

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and member of the Prophet River First Nation. Their territory

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extends into the park. Timber said, it's an amazing environment

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and climate to try to survive. I think it's a

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miracle and I congratulate him for being such a tough person.

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Shawn state in his car for a couple of days,

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then walked to a creek where he camped ten to

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fifteen days, and he eventually moved down the valley and

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built a camp in a shelter in a dried out

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creek bed. Things apparently went sideways for Sam when running

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into some wolves and had to add lib a plan.

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Sam's grandma said, Sam's guy knows the woods. He's been raised,

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he's a hiker, he's a passionate fisherman. I don't know

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a story, but I'm sure it's going to be amazing.

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Conservationists in New Mexico are excited about the improving population

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of otters. Most of the state's oters were lost in

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the early nineteen hundreds because of unregulated trapping and habitat loss.

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Nick is a small mammal program manager for the New

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Mexico Department of Game and Fish. He told KRQE that

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thirty three otters were released in the state between twenty

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eight and twenty ten. By twenty eighteen, the otter population

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has grown to over one hundred. Nick says the otters

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provide the ecosystem service of being a top predator. To

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have them back on the landscape after being gone so long,

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it's really bringing back the native part of the landscape.

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It's good to have the species back in the role

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that's always played in our rivers and lakes. The United

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States has returned more than fourteen hundred looted artifacts worth

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ten million dollars. They've returned them back to India as

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part of an initiative to repatriate stolen art, the Manhattan

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District Attorney Office announced the traffic goods that had been

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recovered included items that until recently ron view at the

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New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, among them a sandstone

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sculpture of a celestial dancer that was smuggled from Central

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India to London before being illegally sold to one of

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the METS patrons and donated to the museum. Since its

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creation over a decade ago, the Manhattan DA's Antiquities Trafficking Unit,

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a task force of lawyers, investigators, and art experts, has

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recovered fifty eight antiquities valued at almost four hundred and

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sixty million dollars. Hey, CBS, there's one heck of as

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TV show to be made here picture Indiana Jones meets

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Blue Bloods. Get this done? Why is this not already

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on the air? Good news for retired military dog Jacob.

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Jacob was reunited with former US Army staff Sergeant Peyton May.

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Jacob and May served together for nine months in a

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rock and recently saw each other for the first time

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in years. Yeah. The eight year old dog had served

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as an explosive detection of patrol dog for nearly seven

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years of his life. Doctor Robin Ganzart his president and

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CEO of American Humans, the US's first national humane organization

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and the world's largest certifier of animal welfare. Doctor Ganzert says,

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we're grateful for the opportunity to bring a military working dog,

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Jacob home and reunite him with his best friend. Was

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it love at first sight? Sergeant May said when he

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first saw the dog, he thought this dog is nuts. However,

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they got along just great. Their time overseas strengthened their

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tight bond. They were together twenty four to seven, sharing

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a room and sleeping together in a twin sized bed.

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May and Jacob was separated in twenty twenty when the

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sergeant was reassigned to Joint Base San Antonio in Texas,

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and May was heartbroken af to leave the dog behind.

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When May learned that Yacob was retiring, he reached out

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to American Humane. They helped them connect. Now May is

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adding out on his next deployment to Italy and Jacob

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gets to come. May says he's looking forward to giving

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his former partner a relaxing retirement. An Australian restaurant cooked

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up a twelve hundred pounds of kabab meet in French

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fries to feed festival attendees and break a world record.

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The King Kobob House started with six hundred and six

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pounds of uncooked fries and more than thirteen hundred pounds

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of uncooked chicken and beef at the Campbelltown Street Festival.

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The finished kebab weighed in at six hundred and sixty pounds,

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served alongside five hundred and fifty two pounds of fries.

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Now I'm supposed to be recording a bunch of these today.

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Now I feel like going out and getting fries. Thanks

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to five good news stories. Now I'm hungry. The food

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was laid out on a series of tables measuring over

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three hundred feet long before being served to festival goers.

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Those are your five good news stories for today. I

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gotta go get lunch. You have a great day.