April 8, 2025

The $33 Nutella Croissant Craze

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Johnny Mac highlights a Trinity College student's campaign to stop inappropriate behavior towards the Molly Malone statue in Dublin. Next, he covers the preservation of the ancestral home of Harley-Davidson co-founder William C. Davidson in Scotland, thanks to a successful crowdfunding effort. The third story features cooperation between Argentina and Chile to protect the endangered Darwin's Rhea. Johnny then shares a humorous account of a North Carolina man scaring off a bear with a bear costume. Finally, he discusses a Liverpool cafe's introduction of a giant $33 Nutella croissant that has sparked curiosity and debate. Enjoy these feel-good stories and share the podcast with friends!

00:25 Campaign to Protect Dublin's Molly Malone Statue
01:58 Saving the Ancestral Home of Harley-Davidson Co-Founder
02:45 Conservation Efforts for Darwin's Rhea in Argentina and Chile
03:42 Man in Bear Costume Scares Off Real Bear
04:20 The $33 Nutella Croissant Craze

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

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good news stories. I just got back from Ireland and

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you can catch up with my travels there on the

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Travel Is Back podcast. Several episodes about Ireland, and this

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first story today I actually learned about when I was

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over there, and then when I got back home, I

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saw it in the news. Let me tell you about

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a college student who has launched a campaign to stop

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a Dublin statue from being groped. There's a statue of

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the fictional Molly Malone. I saw it. There's a myth

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that touching Molly Malone will bring you good luck. Now,

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the statue has a low cut dress, and people like

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to grab the statue by the statue's breasts, which are

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worn away. And the statue is a dark color, and

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those look like a bright like bronze kind of color

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because so many people have rubbed that area. A local

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tour guide told me they keep painting it over and

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over and people keep funneling the statue. Tilly Cripwell said,

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generally it's people standing up to get a picture and

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groping Molly's breasts, usually from behind, often to get people

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kissing her breast or putting their faces in them, and

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they're generally really loud and rowdy. When you're busking, you

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spend a couple hours at a time in the spot,

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and I just saw this behavior so often and one

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day I had just enough and I thought, if I'm

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going to continue to busk there, then I need to

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stop that. She's twenty three and a student at Trinity College,

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which is just a few blocks away. I was actually

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there on Saint Patrick's Day and they had Molly Malone

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covered up a little bit to get people to cut

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it out. What Tilly wants is to have the statue

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raised on a higher pedestal, which will match the majority

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of male statues here, and also have the whole statue

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repainted so that there's no discoloration on her breast. The

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main thing for me is this really bad example on

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the standards we're setting for behavior around women in society.

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Good luck with her, cause I would agree with her

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as somebody who saw the statue once for two minutes.

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I think it could be on a higher pedestal. That

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is not crazy. Talk to me. The ancestral home of

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the co founder of the Harley Davidson motorcycles has been

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saved from demolition. The house went on the market was

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about to be scooped up by developers. The Davidson Cottage

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is in Scotland. It was home to William C. Davidson,

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who emigrated to America in eighteen fifty seven. Three of

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his children teamed up with twenty year old William Harley

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to create the Harley Davidson Company. Some Harley Davidson enthusiasts

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started to go fund me. They raised more than three

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hundred thousand pounds. One of the leaders of the group

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says this incredible milestone would not have been possible without

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the dedication and generosity of so many. We extend our

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heartfelt thanks to everybody who attributed to the fundraising efforts,

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especially the Harley Davidson riding community and our supporters worldwide.

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The final funding generously provided by Harley Davidson reinforces our

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shared commitment to honoring the Davidson heritage. Good news. If

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you were a Dorwin's Rea. You are a massive flightless

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bird that can run up to thirty seven miles per hour,

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and the governments of Argentina and Chile have struck a

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deal to help you. Guys in Patagonia, the birds are

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pretty common, but in Chile, the three foot tall bird

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is locally endangered and teetering towards extinction. Sebastian di Martino

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is the conservation director of Rewilding Argentina and said, we've

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secured individual rays from healthy and abundant populations in Patagonia Park,

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Argentina with minimal impact to the group. The birds were

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moved fifty five miles, which doesn't sound like a lot

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for bird, but I'll remind you they're flightless birds. That's

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a long walk for bird. Chris Tompkins is president of

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Tompkins Conservation and says if we want to reverse the

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mass extinction crisis, international cooperation is going to be essential.

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Nice job, everybody. This next one really cracked me up.

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I wish I could share the picture with you, but

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I'll I'll try and explain it. A North Carolina man

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decided to get rid of a persistent bear problem in

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his backyard by putting on a bear costume. There are

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funny pictures you could see the man. Just picture your

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stereotypical bear costume that doesn't really look like a bear.

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A black bear enters the card, the man emerges in

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his bear costume, standing like a man, not like a bear.

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The man in the bear costume kept walking near the bear,

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even growling at the actual bear. The black bear started

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to run away, bossed at the edge of the property

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to be like the heck is that, and then gave

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up and the black bear went back into the woods.

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Can I interest you in a thirty dollars nutella croissant?

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It's actually going to cost you thirty pounds and I

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didn't feel like doing the conversion there, but it's roughly

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about it. Thirty three dollars nutella croissant. How's that? A

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cafe in Liverpool introduced a giants new pastry. The thirty

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three dollars croissant is filled and drizzled with nutella. Some

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think it could feed three to four adults. Liverpool based

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musician Raheem shared on Instagram it's the return of the

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giant croissant, but this time it's in nutella. You could

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pre order yours in any cafe. That led to some questions.

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One person asked, can you keep up a production on

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demand or do we have to schedule massive croissants in advance?

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What's the ETI at production? Raheem as short of everyone,

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they can make more than we could eat, so they'll

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definitely keep up with the demand. When critics said, no

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one would eat all this, so it's just a waste

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of food. In case you're curious, P and D Grand

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Cafe has previously sold giant croissants in plain and pistachio flavors.

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They also have some less common flavors like raspberry flour.

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The flaky buttery pastries are made fresh every morning by

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the cafes master bakers, and those five good news stories

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for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a

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friend about it, they might enjoy too. Let's grow this

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have an awesome day.