The $812,000 bottle of wine John can't pronounce
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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0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Wow, do you collect wine? A single bottle of a nineteen forty five kanti A my French is not the good domain de la romanae conti? I'm sure right now? That just sold for eight hundred and twelve thousand dollars at auction, making it the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. The previous record was only five hundred and fifty eight thousand back in twenty eighteen. What's so special about this particular nineteen forty five Well, that vintage was the last produced before the vineyard was replanted, meaning the grapes came from vines that had survived two World Wars and a century of Burgundy history in wine circles.
0:44 That's basically the Avengers of grapes. John has actually tasted the wine and said it is the greatest wine I've ever tasted. I would hope so at that price. Congratulations to a nineteen year old Mustang named Gringo Gringo in the Guinness World Record after performing thirty eight tricks in two minutes forty seven seconds. Gringo ran through a routine that included dancing, kicking a ball, waving a flag, ringing a bell and playing a keyboard with his nose. Now what's interesting is Gringo was trained by using clicker training and positive reinforcement techniques more commonly associated with dogs. The idea is simple for where the behavior you want and the horse actually wants to participate. Good news for an orangutan in the Jungles of North Sumatra. The orangutan used a canopy rope bridge to cross a road through the jungle.
1:32 The moment was caught on a camera and the people who had installed the bridge had been waiting for this moment. They were thrilled. Helen Buckland is the CEO of Sumatran Orangutan Society and said, waiting for this moment happened for over two years has been excruciating. Now that it has, we're overjoyed. So here's the deal. In that area, they're about three hundred and fifty wild orangutans trying to live their lives as a growing human population moves in around them. A road now cuts through the middle of their habitats, splitting the population in two. That creates all kinds of problems, one orangutans getting hit by cars and two Orangutans are especially vulnerable to genetic problems when a population becomes too isolated. If the two halves of the group can't mix, you get a weaker gene pool. During the two years when they were waiting for the orangutan, all kinds of other animals figured it out. Squirrels, langers, gibbons. They all started using them, but no orangutans. However, because orangutans are highly intelligent and very social. Now that one has used the bridge, others are expected to follow. A man in Paris when a Pablo Picasso painting worth one million dollars he had bought a ticket for one hundred euros. Not bad Ari found out about the charity Raffle completely by chance. He was eating a meal at a restaurant. He bought a ticket a few days later. Organizers called him Seti one.
2:43 The painting is called Head of a Woman, a portrait of Picasso's longtime muse and partner Dora, painted in nineteen forty one. The public market values around one point four to five million euros. The gallery that owned it offered it at a prefatial price for the Raffle. All one hundred and twenty thousand tickets were old worldwide, raising twelve million euros. So that's a good return on a painting worth one point four to five right, And the money was raised for Alzheimer's research. The raffle was organized by the Alzheimer's Research Foundation, which is based out of one of Paris's leading public hospitals and has become France's leading private financier of alzheimer related medical research. This is actually the third time the charity has raffed off of Picasso.
3:24 Back in twenty thirteen, a guy who worked at a fire sprinkler business in Pennsylvania won a Cubist period oil painting. In twenty twenty, an accountant in Italy one one her son had bought her a ticket as a Christmas present. And here's why your flight was delayed. You're not going to believe this one. A Southwest Airlines flight out of Oakland was delayed because of a passenger. The passenger was a robot. The robot's human companion boarded the plane with his four foot tall, seventy pounds robot named Bebop. Bebop had a ticket, a real ticket. A seat was purchased for Bebop the robot. The first problem was the airline staff said, Bebop can't sit in an aisle seat. Okay, fine, so they moved Bebops to the window seat. Then problem number two. Staff started asking about the battery. Turned out Bebop's lithium battery was larger than what Southwest allows as carry on items, so the battery had to be removed and confiscated before the plane could deport. The flight left one hour and two minutes late. How annoyed would you be?
4:20 And those are your five good news stories for today. Have a good one.
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