July 31, 2024

Pepper the Cursing Parrot

Show Notes
Transcript

00:00 Royal Golden Goat
00:50 Lunar Cave Discovery
01:43 Unicycling Across Ireland
02:21 Beaver Kits in England
03:18 Pepper the Parrot's Adoption Frenzy

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Chunny Mack with five

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good news stories. King Charles has bestowed a royal title

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on a rare golden goat breed. I'll have to tell

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the folks over at Pallace Intrigue, that's our daily podcast

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about the British royal family, off to tell them about

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this story. For now on, the goats will be known

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as the Royal Golden Grimsey Goat. The King picked out Tasman,

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an eight year old goat chosen to represent the breed.

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Rebecca is the owner of Tasman, and says hopefully this

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will raise awareness for the breed. The King pet the

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goat and offered the goat a compliment on the shade

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of its pale blonde goat. The goats are a rare

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breed and are considered at risk on the Rare Breed's

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watch List. Nice job, your majesty. Meanwhile, good news if

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you're hoping to live on the Moon. Radar data attained

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by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter has confirmed the presence of

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an underground cave on the Moon, accessible from the surface.

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The location is said to be the perfect spot to

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build a future lunar base. For a long time, scientists

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believe that there was a network of tunnels existing under

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the surface of the Moon, but now they know there

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actually is at least one. The cave is said to

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be about forty five meters wide and then eighty meters long.

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And I'm an American, so I have no idea how

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big that is. Let's say a meter is kind of

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like a yard, so kind of like two hundred and

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forty yards, so like six hundred feet, so like longer

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than a baseball field. Okay, I kind of get it.

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Don't blame me. We should have stuck with the metric

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system back in the seventies. Blame whoever's in charge back then. Anyway,

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I digress. The cave is in the Sea of Tranquility,

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best known for Neil Armstrong visiting it. The cave could

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serve as a human habitat for future explorer. Is very cool, John,

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Do you have a world record for us this episode?

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Of course I do. An irishman earned his second Guinness

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World record. Everybody wants to have multiple records. This guy

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wrote his unicycle the length of Ireland. That's three hundred

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and eight miles and it took five days, five hours

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and twenty three minutes. Aimen told Guinness that the title

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for fastest crossing of Ireland by unicycle appealed to him

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because it seemed like a perfect mix of daunting and ridiculous.

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At least he gets it. He said he traveled about

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twelve hours each day. He had a swollen ankle toward

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the end and that made each push of the pedals

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feel like torture, but said, as long as you're moving,

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you're peddling, hence my ankle swelling up from overuse. Meanwhile,

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over in England, they're celebrating the first pair of beaver kits.

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If anybody in trivia asks you what a young beaver

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has called, it is a kit. A pair of beaver kits.

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They first born in the country. Since they were reintroduced

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back to the country's north last year, four beavers were

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released into a twenty five acre habitat last year, part

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of a series of beaver returns that took place across

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the UK starting in twenty twenty one. Hazel and Chompy

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seem pretty happy and they have now established their home

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in Wallington. Paul Hewitt is a countryside manager and says

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beavers are changing the landscape all the time. You don't

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really know what's coming next, and that probably freaks some

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people out. They're basically for anarchists. This time last year,

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I don't think I fully knew what beavers did. Now

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I understand a lot more, and it's a massive light

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bulb moment. It's such a managic animal in terms of

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what it does. Hazel and Choppy have built some dams

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and that has resulted in the return of some wildlife

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like Kingfisher's herons and bats. Well good news for Pepper

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the Parrot. Pepper the Parrot has four hundred people looking

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to adopt him. Pepper was turned into a Niagara Falls,

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New York shelter and the parrot asked, do you want

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me to kick your button? He didn't even say, but

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he used the expletive. The shelter posted on Facebook. If

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you think Pepper's feathers are colorful, you should hear his

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language bringing home a cursing a conure. It might seem

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like a fun idea until Pepper offends Grandma's Tuesday night

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nating group. On the bright side, if you want to

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keep my announced company from dropping in, adopt Pepper they'll

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think twice about being cursed out by your new foul mouthed,

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feathered friend. The shelter said we had adoption offers from

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all over the country, including a Texas saloon owner named

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wild Bill and a former Navy sailor who said he

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had a vocabulary just like Peppers. Shelter says, it seems

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like everybody wanted a cursing parrot. White fronted Amazon parrots

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live an average of forty years, but with proper care,

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can live in their sixties and seventies. Pepper is in

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his mid twenties. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. I like that last one a lot.

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You have an awesome day.