The 63 Leaf Clover and the candidate who got zero votes

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Kalaroga Shark Media congratulations to a man
who has broken the Guinness World Record by

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growing a sixty three leaf clover.
That's a lot. I'm Johnny Mack with

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five good news stories. Yoshiharu Wata
Nabe tells Guinness. Since the number of

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leaves has increased a year by year, I've been aiming for the Guinness World

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Records title ever since. Waa Nabe
said he used a combination of letting his

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clover patches pollinate naturally and hand pollinating
those with the most leaves. Sometimes the

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number of leaves can go down,
and sometimes you end up with the normal

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three leaf clover. We know that
genetics are involved in a higher number of

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leaves, we don't exactly know how
it works. Sixty three leaves beats the

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previous record of fifty six set back
in two thousand and nine. Wa Nabe

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says, people say that a four
leaf clover brings you happiness. Would be

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great if the sixty three leaf clover
would bring surprise and pleasure to people.

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A man in the Netherlands assembled a
team of engineering experts. He has built

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the world's longest bicycle. How long
is it? One hundred and eighty feet

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and eleven inches long. You guys
couldn't get the full one eighty one.

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What's going on here? Ivan said
he'd been dreaming of building the world's longest

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bike ever since he was a young
boy. He said one time he had

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a Guinness World Records book in which
it came across the record. How does

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it work? One team member operates
the handlebars up front, another pedals in

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the back. The team then broke
the record for the world's longest tandem bike

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by adding extra pedals and more team
members into the mix. Ivan says,

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we left nothing to chance in terms
of safety. You can see this,

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for example, in the fact that
the cyclists are not outside the structure but

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inside it. The bike will now
make its home in a local history museum.

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Boy, I missed everything in San
Diego last week. When I was

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there, the San Diego Zoo,
which is where I was, announced the

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birth of a female Barret's taper.
The taper is an endangered animal native to

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Mexico and Central America. The zoo
said. The calf is now on display

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alongside the facilities Capybaras in an enclosure
look located in the Elephant Odyssey section of

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the zoo. I was up there. I took some selfius with the elephants.

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The zoo said an announcement. Luna
is bonding with her calf by vocalizing

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her, licking her, and keeping
a close eye on her at all times.

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These dog stories are incredible. You
hear one of these every few months.

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A Marylyn Man's lost dog turned up
two years later, one thousand miles

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from home. I don't know how
this happens, Tony said his dog Luna,

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vanished from their home after chasing some
wild animals into the nearby woods and

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never returned. Tony said he never
gave up hope that he would see Luna

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again, but he was shocked to
receive a phone call recently. Animal control

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told him a dog had been found
wandering in the parking lot of a Walmart

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and was scanned from microchip and it
was Luna, a thousand miles away.

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Tony said it was long distance,
but at nothing in comparison to the love

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that I have for my dog.
You just wonder, like, how did

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these dogs travel a thousand miles.
I'm glad Luna is okay, and as

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I've been doing lately, story number
five, maybe it's not necessarily good news.

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Maybe I need to change the name
of the podcast to four good news

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stories and one quirky one. But
you get the idea. We're just trying

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to have a good time here.
Felix ran for an election. He became

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the first candidate in Canada's history to
get zero votes in a contested federal election.

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I'm not here to make fun of
him. He thinks it's fun too.

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Felix was one of eighty four candidates
to run in a Toronto by election

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after he and seventy six others were
approached by Election Reform Group Longest Ballot Committee,

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which packed the race with candidates to
successfully create the longest ballot in Canadian

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history. Felix received zero votes.
He said he didn't even vote for himself.

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He's not a Toronto resident, he
wasn't eligible to vote, he sold

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CBC News. When I saw the
result, I was like, well,

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I'm the true Unity candidate. Everyone
agreed not to vote for me. Those

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are your five good news stories for
today. If you enjoy the program,

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tell a friend about it. They
might like it too. You have an

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awesome weekend. I'll see on Monday