Oct. 25, 2024

Sir, this is Dover Delaware PLUS the itchy butt bull knocks out the power

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. First, a boat in the English Channel was saved after a misplaced emergency call to Dover, Delaware. Second, Polish divers discovered a 19th-century shipwreck filled with crates of champagne. Third, a study confirmed that flipped coins are likelier to land the same way they started. Fourth, a stunt driver set a new Guinness World Record for the highest car bungee jump. Finally, a bull named Ron inadvertently caused a power outage for three villages by scratching against a pole. Listeners are encouraged to check out the sister podcast 'Five Minutes of Gratitude' and support the show through provided links.

00:11 Rescue in the English Channel
01:32 19th Century Shipwreck Discovery
01:54 Coin Toss Hypothesis Tested
02:23 Highest Car Bungee Jump
03:00 Bull Causes Power Outage

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Well good news for a boat that

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needed to be rescued. They were in the English channel

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and they called in an emergency called a Dover the

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rom is. The call went to Dover, Delaware, not Dover, England.

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The police dispatchers and Delaware are being lauded for helping

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direct rescuers to a boat foundering in the English channel. Dover,

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Delaware received a call from an Albanian man who thought

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he was calling Dover, England. His boat was sinking again.

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You know how the show works. I'm not going to

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tell you at the end like this went sideways in

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the man drowned. That's not how the show works. The

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man on the boat did an internet search for Dover

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Police department called the first one on the screen. Delaware

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realized trying to tell the guy, no, no, no, it's

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not us. Call England. Communications operator Mackenzie Atkinson kept the

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man on the line and took some critical information. The

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man gave the coordinates of the vessel. Meanwhile, Communications Officer

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Connor Logan began making international notifications. Within four minutes, he

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established contact with several agencies, including the US Coast Guard,

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the French Coast Guard, His Majesty's Coast Guard in England,

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and the United Kingdom's Maritime and Coast Guard Agencies Coordination Center,

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as well as police stations in Dover, England. Fifteen minutes

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and forty eight seconds after the initial call, rescuers were

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on the way to the vessel. Everybody on board was

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safely returned to Dover, England. Oh, let's stay on the

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seas for a minute. A group of divers from Poland

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and stumbled upon a nineteenth century shipwreck loaded to the

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brim with crates of Champagne. Tomas as the group leader

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and said in his forty years of diving, it often

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found rex with a bottle of two, but crates of

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Champagne was a first. Sweden's regional authorities has been notified

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so they can begin planning the excavation. Having a lot

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of fun with the Ignoble prize this week, keep this

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one in your back pocket. This could come in and

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fifty researchers flipped three hundred and fifty seven hundred and

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fifty seven coins to test a hypothesis. The hypothesis by

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a former magician and professor of statistics suggested tossed coins

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are slightly more likely to land the same way up

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as they started. The work supports the predictions, so you know,

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next time you call heads, you might want to make

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sure you have the heads face up. Here's another Guinness

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World Record. A professional stunt driver went bungee diving inside

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a car. Laurent is a professional stuntman and race car driver.

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His car was attached to eight bungee cords dropped from

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a crane at a height of two hundred and thirteen

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feet and three inches, meeting the exact goal set by

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Guinness World Records to originate the title of highest car

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bungee jump. This was organized by the marketing director of Nissan,

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who said the stunt seemed like a logical next step

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after various TV commercials featured the particular model of Nissan

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engaging in extreme sports like skateboarding and paintball. News we

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figured out who cut off the electricity. It was a

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bull with an itchy butt. Yeah. It was between ten

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and eleven pm on Thursday when Ron the bull decided

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to scratch himself up against a pole. The transformer fell

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It missed Ron, who would have been shocked by eleven

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thousand volts. That would have been bad. Unfortunately, three nearby

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villages were left without electricity. A local said, we got

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up around six am. We saw a big generator sitting

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at the botto of our road, all linked up to

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the poles. We thought that was a bit strange. We

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went to feed our cows and my husband noticed the

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transformer box had been knocked off the pole. We'd put

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two and two together and realized the bull had been

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scratching against the pole and it knocked the box off

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the pole while the wires were down in the field

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as well. The bull looked a little bit stunned, but

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I don't think he really knew what had happened. During

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the night, the woman explained, the bulls are always itchy

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when they go out. Ron weighs over at sun, so

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he's been rubbing and pushing against this pole and knocked

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it off. We've seen them shake the wires when they

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do it, but for the box to come off, well

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that's new. Ron spent the rest of the day relaxing

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in the field. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. If you enjoy this program, tell a

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