The $33 Nutella Croissant Craze

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. I just got back from Ireland and you can catch up with my travels there on the Travel Is Back podcast. Several episodes about Ireland, and this first story today I actually learned about when I was over there, and then when I got back home, I saw it in the news. Let me tell you about a college student who has launched a campaign to stop a Dublin statue from being groped. There's a statue of the fictional Molly Malone. I saw it. There's a myth that touching Molly Malone will bring you good luck. Now, the statue has a low cut dress, and people like to grab the statue by the statue's breasts, which are worn away. And the statue is a dark color, and those look like a bright like bronze kind of color because so many people have rubbed that area. A local tour guide told me they keep painting it over and over and people keep funneling the statue. Tilly Cripwell said, generally it's people standing up to get a picture and groping Molly's breasts, usually from behind, often to get people kissing her breast or putting their faces in them, and they're generally really loud and rowdy. When you're busking, you spend a couple hours at a time in the spot, and I just saw this behavior so often and one day I had just enough and I thought, if I'm going to continue to busk there, then I need to stop that. She's twenty three and a student at Trinity College, which is just a few blocks away. I was actually there on Saint Patrick's Day and they had Molly Malone covered up a little bit to get people to cut

1:33 it out. What Tilly wants is to have the statue raised on a higher pedestal, which will match the majority of male statues here, and also have the whole statue repainted so that there's no discoloration on her breast. The main thing for me is this really bad example on the standards we're setting for behavior around women in society. Good luck with her, cause I would agree with her as somebody who saw the statue once for two minutes. I think it could be on a higher pedestal. That is not crazy. Talk to me. The ancestral home of the co founder of the Harley Davidson motorcycles has been saved from demolition. The house went on the market was about to be scooped up by developers. The Davidson Cottage is in Scotland. It was home to William C. Davidson, who emigrated to America in eighteen fifty seven. Three of his children teamed up with twenty year old William Harley to create the Harley Davidson Company. Some Harley Davidson enthusiasts started to go fund me. They raised more than three hundred thousand pounds. One of the leaders of the group says this incredible milestone would not have been possible without the dedication and generosity of so many. We extend our heartfelt thanks to everybody who attributed to the fundraising efforts, especially the Harley Davidson riding community and our supporters worldwide.

2:38 The final funding generously provided by Harley Davidson reinforces our shared commitment to honoring the Davidson heritage. Good news. If you were a Dorwin's Rea. You are a massive flightless bird that can run up to thirty seven miles per hour, and the governments of Argentina and Chile have struck a deal to help you. Guys in Patagonia, the birds are pretty common, but in Chile, the three foot tall bird is locally endangered and teetering towards extinction. Sebastian di Martino is the conservation director of Rewilding Argentina and said, we've secured individual rays from healthy and abundant populations in Patagonia Park, Argentina with minimal impact to the group. The birds were moved fifty five miles, which doesn't sound like a lot for bird, but I'll remind you they're flightless birds. That's a long walk for bird. Chris Tompkins is president of Tompkins Conservation and says if we want to reverse the mass extinction crisis, international cooperation is going to be essential.

3:33 Nice job, everybody. This next one really cracked me up. I wish I could share the picture with you, but I'll I'll try and explain it. A North Carolina man decided to get rid of a persistent bear problem in his backyard by putting on a bear costume. There are funny pictures you could see the man. Just picture your stereotypical bear costume that doesn't really look like a bear. A black bear enters the card, the man emerges in his bear costume, standing like a man, not like a bear. The man in the bear costume kept walking near the bear, even growling at the actual bear. The black bear started to run away, bossed at the edge of the property to be like the heck is that, and then gave up and the black bear went back into the woods.

4:20 Can I interest you in a thirty dollars nutella croissant? It's actually going to cost you thirty pounds and I didn't feel like doing the conversion there, but it's roughly about it. Thirty three dollars nutella croissant. How's that? A cafe in Liverpool introduced a giants new pastry. The thirty three dollars croissant is filled and drizzled with nutella. Some think it could feed three to four adults. Liverpool based musician Raheem shared on Instagram it's the return of the giant croissant, but this time it's in nutella. You could pre order yours in any cafe. That led to some questions. One person asked, can you keep up a production on demand or do we have to schedule massive croissants in advance? What's the ETI at production? Raheem as short of everyone, they can make more than we could eat, so they'll definitely keep up with the demand. When critics said, no one would eat all this, so it's just a waste of food. In case you're curious, P and D Grand Cafe has previously sold giant croissants in plain and pistachio flavors.

5:15 They also have some less common flavors like raspberry flour. The flaky buttery pastries are made fresh every morning by the cafes master bakers, and those five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might enjoy too. Let's grow this thing together. I appreciate you sharing the show, and you have an awesome day.