Aug. 21, 2024

Orange Lobster and Red Lobster PLUS a Groundhog in a Claw Machine

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories, including a groundhog found in a claw machine at a mini-golf course in Pennsylvania, a rare orange lobster rescued from a Red Lobster restaurant and now living in Denver's Downtown Aquarium, new rules for backyard chickens in Des Moines, an ultramarathoner setting a record in Malaysia to support girls and women's sports, and a 77-year-old woman looking for a new home for her unique collection of 163 bedpans. Plus, info on Johnny's other podcast, Daily Comedy News.

00:12 Groundhog in a Claw Machine
00:58 Rare Orange Lobster at Denver Aquarium
02:31 Des Moines' New Rules for Backyard Chickens
03:31 Ultramarathoner Sets New Record
04:15 Europe's Largest Bedpan Collection

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

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good news stories. So there you are. You're at the

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miniature golf course and you're playing the claw machine, you

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know the thing. You put in some coins and then

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the claw goes down. You pick something up. Maybe you

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get like a Teddy Bear or a blast of toy

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or something, or how about a live groundhog? Wait what?

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The Pennsylvania Game Commission said in a Facebook post that

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the game warden was called out to the Meadows Family

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Fund mini golf in Duncansville, you know the one. A

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groundhog how found its way into the claw machine. The

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game warden saw a wave of stuffed animals move as

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the groundhog scurried around underneath, and it popped its head

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out to assess the situation, So he put in a

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couple of coins and grabbed now. A representative of the

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company that operates the claw machine was called out to

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unlock it so that the game commissioner could remove the groundhog.

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The animal was not injured and was released back into

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the wild. If you're in Denver, the Downtown Quarium as

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a new resident a rare orange lobster. No it's not

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red and it's not blue, it's orange. It was rescued

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from a shipment of crustaceans delivered to a red lobster

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in Pueblo. An employee who is a dishwasher and quote

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head biscuit maker spotted the bright orange lobster while unpacking

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a shipment and alerted restaurant managers. They named the lobster

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Crush after the Denver Broncos legendary orange crush defense from

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back ye around seventy six to eighty six. The GM

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of the Red Lobster, Kendra, said, myself and many of

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my team were born and raised Denver Broncos fans, So

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as soon as we saw that orange color, we knew

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that Crush would be an excellent representation, and we want

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all our defensive line to be that good again. The

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Pueblo Zoo couldn't take Crush, but then they called the

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Downtown Aquarium and they were interested. Right away. They packed

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Crushed with ice packs and a plastic foam container and

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delivered it to the aquarium. The GM tells us as

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soon as they acclimated him to his quarantine tank at

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the Denver Aquarium, he was very active right off the bat,

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really exploring his little area. Ryan Herman, general curator at

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the Denver Downtown Aquarium, in a statement, said, We're thrilled

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to be able to share this very rare and extraordinary

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animal with the community and visitors to Colorado. I was

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curious where this thing came from. All right here it

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was shipped. It's in Denver after being captured and sent

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to a Red Lobster in Pueblo that had come from

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a supplier in Tennessee. Originally caught off the coast of Canada. However,

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the general manager of Red Lobster was unable to confirm

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which coast fun story there I Meanwhile, in Des Moines, Iowa,

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they have some new rules for backyard chickens and roosters.

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After some chicken and rooster fans paraded around city hall,

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city manager Scott Sanders released a statement saying he thinks

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that the city can find a way to amend the

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proposed restrictions on backyard chickens so that they will better

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serve the whole community. The proposal that got approval from

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a city council would have cut the number of birds

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allowed from thirty to twelve and ban roosters that are

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disturbing the piece in some neighborhoods. Chicken parade organizer Ed

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said the city seemed to be overreacting to a total

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of three complaints about chickens. The new rules should allow roosters,

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but require the licensing of chickens and a setup process

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for dealing with nuisance animals that can't contain their cock

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of noodle tools. So when I'm not doing this, I

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hosted another podcast. It's called Daily Comedy News and tell

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you what the comedians are up to. You know, people

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like Seinfeld and Chappelle and Gaffagan and Joe Rogan and

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you know everybody. So it's called Daily Comedy News, seven

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days a week, ten minutes long. Wherever you get your shows.

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Nice job by ultra marathoner and Natalie daw Natalie has

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set a new record for fastest crossing of peninsular Malaysia

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on foot. Natalie covered over seven hundred kilometers in eight

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days forty six minutes. To finish the course. She ran

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between eighty five to ninety five kilometers daily, starting as

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early as twelve thirty five am to avoid the heat.

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She says the last twenty kilometers of each day with

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the hardest I've ever experienced. She did this to raise

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money for a global charity that supports girls and women

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through sports that is called GRLS. You know girls get it.

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She says there is a huge gender gap when it

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comes to exercising, as females are forty percent less likely

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to be active, and the numbers even higher in underprivileged communities.

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And do you collect bedpants? Well? The owner of Europe's

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largest collection of bedpans is trying to find them a

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new home. She tried to sell them an auction didn't work.

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Mary said she started her unusual collection while helping out

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with rummage sales in nineteen eighty four. She told Suffolk News,

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I saw a slipper bedpan come in and I bought

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it for sixty four cents and that was the start,

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and I wanted to collect something different. It's snowball from

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there and I found myself going around as so many

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places to add to my collection. She now owns one

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hundred and sixty three different bedpans and has run out

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of room to store them. She said, I had a

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cupboard built to store them in my front bedroom, but

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I'm getting older, She's seventy seven now and need to

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clear some space. I hope they go to a good home.

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They're clean Washington and fantastic condition. Boy, I mean good

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luck with that. I recently had to empty out my

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mother's apartment. I had all this Waterford crystal I had

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to find a home for Luckily I did. There was

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some furniture. There was this table I loved. I had

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no room for it. I tried to give it away.

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Nobody wanted it. That one to charity. I don't know

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how you're getting people to take bedpands. I'm sorry. Those

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