June 7, 2026

The $812,000 bottle of wine John can't pronounce

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a single bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti sold for $812,000, a record driven by its last pre-replant vintage from century-old Burgundy vines, and John calls it the greatest wine he has tasted. A 19-year-old mustang named Gringo set a Guinness World Record by performing 38 tricks in 2:47 using clicker training and positive reinforcement. In North Sumatra, an orangutan finally used a canopy rope bridge installed to safely cross a road splitting a habitat of about 350 wild orangutans, easing risks like car strikes and genetic isolation. In Paris, a man won Picasso’s 1941 “Head of a Woman” via a 100-euro charity raffle that sold 120,000 tickets and raised 12 million euros for Alzheimer’s research. A Southwest Oakland flight was delayed after a passenger’s four-foot, 70-pound robot, Bebop, had its oversized lithium battery removed.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Wow, do you collect wine? A single

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bottle of a nineteen forty five kanti A my French

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is not the good domain de la romanae conti? I'm

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sure right now? That just sold for eight hundred and

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twelve thousand dollars at auction, making it the most expensive

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bottle of wine ever sold. The previous record was only

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five hundred and fifty eight thousand back in twenty eighteen.

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What's so special about this particular nineteen forty five Well,

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that vintage was the last produced before the vineyard was replanted,

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meaning the grapes came from vines that had survived two

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World Wars and a century of Burgundy history in wine circles.

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That's basically the Avengers of grapes. John has actually tasted

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the wine and said it is the greatest wine I've

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ever tasted. I would hope so at that price. Congratulations

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to a nineteen year old Mustang named Gringo Gringo in

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the Guinness World Record after performing thirty eight tricks in

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two minutes forty seven seconds. Gringo ran through a routine

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that included dancing, kicking a ball, waving a flag, ringing

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a bell and playing a keyboard with his nose. Now

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what's interesting is Gringo was trained by using clicker training

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and positive reinforcement techniques more commonly associated with dogs. The

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idea is simple for where the behavior you want and

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the horse actually wants to participate. Good news for an

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orangutan in the Jungles of North Sumatra. The orangutan used

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a canopy rope bridge to cross a road through the jungle.

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The moment was caught on a camera and the people

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who had installed the bridge had been waiting for this moment.

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They were thrilled. Helen Buckland is the CEO of Sumatran

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Orangutan Society and said, waiting for this moment happened for

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over two years has been excruciating. Now that it has,

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we're overjoyed. So here's the deal. In that area, they're

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about three hundred and fifty wild orangutans trying to live

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their lives as a growing human population moves in around them.

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A road now cuts through the middle of their habitats,

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splitting the population in two. That creates all kinds of problems,

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one orangutans getting hit by cars and two Orangutans are

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especially vulnerable to genetic problems when a population becomes too isolated.

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If the two halves of the group can't mix, you

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get a weaker gene pool. During the two years when

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they were waiting for the orangutan, all kinds of other

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animals figured it out. Squirrels, langers, gibbons. They all started

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using them, but no orangutans. However, because orangutans are highly

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intelligent and very social. Now that one has used the bridge,

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others are expected to follow. A man in Paris when

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a Pablo Picasso painting worth one million dollars he had

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bought a ticket for one hundred euros. Not bad Ari

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found out about the charity Raffle completely by chance. He

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was eating a meal at a restaurant. He bought a

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ticket a few days later. Organizers called him Seti one.

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The painting is called Head of a Woman, a portrait

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of Picasso's longtime muse and partner Dora, painted in nineteen

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forty one. The public market values around one point four

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to five million euros. The gallery that owned it offered

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it at a prefatial price for the Raffle. All one

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hundred and twenty thousand tickets were old worldwide, raising twelve

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million euros. So that's a good return on a painting

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worth one point four to five right, And the money

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was raised for Alzheimer's research. The raffle was organized by

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the Alzheimer's Research Foundation, which is based out of one

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of Paris's leading public hospitals and has become France's leading

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private financier of alzheimer related medical research. This is actually

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the third time the charity has raffed off of Picasso.

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Back in twenty thirteen, a guy who worked at a

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fire sprinkler business in Pennsylvania won a Cubist period oil painting.

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In twenty twenty, an accountant in Italy one one her

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son had bought her a ticket as a Christmas present.

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And here's why your flight was delayed. You're not going

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to believe this one. A Southwest Airlines flight out of

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Oakland was delayed because of a passenger. The passenger was

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a robot. The robot's human companion boarded the plane with

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his four foot tall, seventy pounds robot named Bebop. Bebop

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had a ticket, a real ticket. A seat was purchased

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for Bebop the robot. The first problem was the airline

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staff said, Bebop can't sit in an aisle seat. Okay, fine,

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so they moved Bebops to the window seat. Then problem

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number two. Staff started asking about the battery. Turned out

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Bebop's lithium battery was larger than what Southwest allows as

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carry on items, so the battery had to be removed

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and confiscated before the plane could deport. The flight left

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one hour and two minutes late. How annoyed would you be?

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have a good one.