June 12, 2025

Pigeon Fest

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In this episode, Johnny Mac brings you five heartwarming and intriguing stories. First, he highlights Pigeon Fest in New York City, a unique event celebrating National Pigeon Appreciation Day with art exhibitions, a pigeon impersonation pageant, and more. Then, he discusses the success of eradicating invasive bullfrogs in Yosemite National Park to save the native Northwest pond turtle. The show also features a groundbreaking bladder and kidney transplant success, a Miami business recycling thousands of sneakers to keep them out of landfills, and the miraculous survival of a cow swept away by floodwaters in Australia. Additionally, Johnny promotes another podcast, Eastwood Reloaded, dedicated to Clint Eastwood's career.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey Thearon Johnny mc of five Couture Stories. Now,

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the other day I told you about the Naked five

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k this weekend. I understand maybe that's not your thing,

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and you're looking for something to do Saturday, why don't

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you head up to New York City for pigeon Fest.

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Pigeon Fest is a day long event featuring art exhibitions,

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science demonstrations, and the city's first pigeon impersonation pageant. Those

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will be on the high Line, which is a cool

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park in New York City. Pigeon Fest is noon to eight.

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It coincides with, of course, as you know you have

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it on your calendar National Pigeon Appreciation Day. The events

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also include a zoomba style pigeon dance party and a

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Pappa show put on by somebody who goes by Mother Pigeon,

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who's famous in New York for feeding the birds while

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dressed in a giant pigeon costume. One of the organizers

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told Time Out, in New York, love them or hate them,

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people are fascinated by our feather friends. This festival felt

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like a fitting way to celebrate New Yorker's dynamic relationship

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with art nature and most specifically, say it with me. Pigeons,

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All right, whose side are you on? The bullfrogs or

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the turtles? Will? In Yosemite National Park they have eradicated bullfrogs.

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Why because the bullfrogs were non native and they had

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messed things up for California's only native turtle species, the

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Northwest pond turtle, had been proposed as a threatened species.

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Their biggest threat American bullfrogs from east of the Rockies.

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The American bullfrog was introduced back in nineteen fifty Brian

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Todd as a UC Davis professor in the Department of Wildlife,

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Fish and Conservation Biology. He said one reason American bullfrogs

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are among the top worst globally introduced pests is because

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they eat everything anything that fits into their mouth. They've

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been causing declines and native species everywhere they're introduced, which

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is around the world. Those pesky bullfrogs have made their

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way to Brazil, Ecuador, Cuba, Japan, Northern Italy, and Malaysia.

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The team of bull frog eradicators took searches on foot

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during the day to locate and scoop bullfrog egg masses

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using pain strainers or mesh nets and then laid them

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out in the sun to dry. Adults were captured at

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night and euthanized. When the scientists said, as bullfrog presents declined,

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we started to hear other native frogs call and see

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native salamanders walking around. It's nice to be able to

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go back to these sites and hear a course of

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native frogs calling again that previously would not have been heard.

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Scientists are getting it done. This week. They've done a

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bladder transplant. The recipient had previously lost most of his

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bladder during a tumor removal process, leaving the remainder too

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small and compromise to work. Both of his kidneys were

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also removed due to cancer and ND stage kidney disease.

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Had been on dialysis for seven years. The procedure involved

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the transplant of both the new bladder and a new

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kidney recovered from a donor. The surgeons first did the kidney,

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followed by the bladder. Then they connected the kidney to

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the new bladder eight hours. One of the doctors said

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the kidney immediately made a large volume of urine and

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the patient's kidney function improved immediately. There was no need

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for any dialysis after surgery and the urenterin properly into

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the new bladder. That is awesome. You ever host a

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show were're supposed to do five stories and you can't

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remember if you've done three or four. That's like a

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Clint Eastwood line there. Oh, which is a good time

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for me to promote. We've got another podcast, Eastwood Reloaded.

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I didn't do this on purpose. I actually lost count

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of how many stories I've done. How many stories you've done?

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Punk three or four? Anyway, Eastwood Reloaded. It takes a

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look at the career of Clint Eastwood. It's a fun show.

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I'm the writer on that one. If you want to

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check out Eastwood Reloaded. If you would like this program,

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or Eastwood Reloaded, or the other ones on the network,

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including Daily Comedy News which I host. If you would

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like all those without commercial interruption, without feed drops, go

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to Caliro dot com, Slash plus, or if you're on

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Apple podcast, click the matter that says uninterrupted listening and

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they'll walk you through how that all works. And I

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have checked. I've done three stories, so there's two more

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to go. In Miami, a local business is sorting through

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thousands of donated sneakers to decide the best way to

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keep them out of landfill. Each pair will have a

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future either as recycled material or with a new owner

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who's going to continue to use them. Sneaker Impact proceeds

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around one million pairs of shoes every year through volunteer

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partners like running clubs. Americans will own an average of

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two hundred and fifty pairs of shoes in a lifetime.

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I know I've got tons under the bed. I'm a runner,

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and they are differentely worn out depending on the pair.

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And I always get like a really different color, like

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a five morning, and like bright yellow, and make sure

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where the next ones are black and blue or rainbow.

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Otherwise I'm like, which pear is this all right? Shoes

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that are kind of cooked, they're shredded and sorted into

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foam and fabric, then sold as raw materials where they

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can be used to make things like carpet mats or

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floor mats. Others that still have some life in them

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are sent around the world for resale and good news

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for a cow. The cow was caught in a flood

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in Australia and found on a beach eleven miles away. Yikes.

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Multiple cows were swept away by floodwaters brought on by

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torrential rains and new south Way. Else Layla found the

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cow alive on Old Bar Beach. Officials came returned the

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cow to its owner. The owner said the cow has

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been removed from the beach and is being treated by

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a vet. And those are your five good news stories

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that I'll either see you a pigeon fest or the

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Naked five K and you have a great day.