Pigeon Fest

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey Thearon Johnny mc of five Couture Stories. Now, the other day I told you about the Naked five k this weekend. I understand maybe that's not your thing, and you're looking for something to do Saturday, why don't you head up to New York City for pigeon Fest. Pigeon Fest is a day long event featuring art exhibitions, science demonstrations, and the city's first pigeon impersonation pageant. Those will be on the high Line, which is a cool park in New York City. Pigeon Fest is noon to eight. It coincides with, of course, as you know you have it on your calendar National Pigeon Appreciation Day. The events also include a zoomba style pigeon dance party and a Pappa show put on by somebody who goes by Mother Pigeon, who's famous in New York for feeding the birds while dressed in a giant pigeon costume. One of the organizers told Time Out, in New York, love them or hate them, people are fascinated by our feather friends. This festival felt like a fitting way to celebrate New Yorker's dynamic relationship with art nature and most specifically, say it with me. Pigeons, All right, whose side are you on? The bullfrogs or the turtles? Will? In Yosemite National Park they have eradicated bullfrogs.

1:14 Why because the bullfrogs were non native and they had messed things up for California's only native turtle species, the Northwest pond turtle, had been proposed as a threatened species. Their biggest threat American bullfrogs from east of the Rockies. The American bullfrog was introduced back in nineteen fifty Brian Todd as a UC Davis professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. He said one reason American bullfrogs are among the top worst globally introduced pests is because they eat everything anything that fits into their mouth. They've been causing declines and native species everywhere they're introduced, which is around the world. Those pesky bullfrogs have made their way to Brazil, Ecuador, Cuba, Japan, Northern Italy, and Malaysia.

1:59 The team of bull frog eradicators took searches on foot during the day to locate and scoop bullfrog egg masses using pain strainers or mesh nets and then laid them out in the sun to dry. Adults were captured at night and euthanized. When the scientists said, as bullfrog presents declined, we started to hear other native frogs call and see native salamanders walking around. It's nice to be able to go back to these sites and hear a course of native frogs calling again that previously would not have been heard. Scientists are getting it done. This week. They've done a bladder transplant. The recipient had previously lost most of his bladder during a tumor removal process, leaving the remainder too small and compromise to work. Both of his kidneys were also removed due to cancer and ND stage kidney disease.

2:41 Had been on dialysis for seven years. The procedure involved the transplant of both the new bladder and a new kidney recovered from a donor. The surgeons first did the kidney, followed by the bladder. Then they connected the kidney to the new bladder eight hours. One of the doctors said the kidney immediately made a large volume of urine and the patient's kidney function improved immediately. There was no need for any dialysis after surgery and the urenterin properly into the new bladder. That is awesome. You ever host a show were're supposed to do five stories and you can't remember if you've done three or four. That's like a Clint Eastwood line there. Oh, which is a good time for me to promote. We've got another podcast, Eastwood Reloaded. I didn't do this on purpose. I actually lost count of how many stories I've done. How many stories you've done?

3:23 Punk three or four? Anyway, Eastwood Reloaded. It takes a look at the career of Clint Eastwood. It's a fun show. I'm the writer on that one. If you want to check out Eastwood Reloaded. If you would like this program, or Eastwood Reloaded, or the other ones on the network, including Daily Comedy News which I host. If you would like all those without commercial interruption, without feed drops, go to Caliro dot com, Slash plus, or if you're on Apple podcast, click the matter that says uninterrupted listening and they'll walk you through how that all works. And I have checked. I've done three stories, so there's two more to go. In Miami, a local business is sorting through thousands of donated sneakers to decide the best way to keep them out of landfill. Each pair will have a future either as recycled material or with a new owner who's going to continue to use them. Sneaker Impact proceeds around one million pairs of shoes every year through volunteer partners like running clubs. Americans will own an average of two hundred and fifty pairs of shoes in a lifetime.

4:18 I know I've got tons under the bed. I'm a runner, and they are differentely worn out depending on the pair. And I always get like a really different color, like a five morning, and like bright yellow, and make sure where the next ones are black and blue or rainbow. Otherwise I'm like, which pear is this all right? Shoes that are kind of cooked, they're shredded and sorted into foam and fabric, then sold as raw materials where they can be used to make things like carpet mats or floor mats. Others that still have some life in them are sent around the world for resale and good news for a cow. The cow was caught in a flood in Australia and found on a beach eleven miles away. Yikes. Multiple cows were swept away by floodwaters brought on by torrential rains and new south Way. Else Layla found the cow alive on Old Bar Beach. Officials came returned the cow to its owner. The owner said the cow has been removed from the beach and is being treated by a vet. And those are your five good news stories that I'll either see you a pigeon fest or the Naked five K and you have a great day.