Jan. 14, 2025

The Christmas Gift lost in the wall for 48 years

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting news stories, including an Illinois man discovering a vintage Christmas gift 48 years later, a study showing the mental health benefits of open-world video games, a seven-year-old boy's survival after being lost in the Zimbabwean savannah, a UK zoo turning donated Christmas trees into zoo enrichment, and a record-setting martial arts group in India.

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00:00 Introduction and Christmas Surprise
01:11 The Benefits of Video Games
02:09 A Boy's Survival in the Savannah
02:49 Recycling Christmas Trees for Zoo Animals
03:39 Record-Breaking Martial Arts Feats

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

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good news stories. Now this time of year, you might

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be like, you know, I thought so and so would

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get me a Christmas gift, and they did. In your

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feel a little sad well, Christmas came forty eight years

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late for an Illinois man who was doing some renovations

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at his childhood home and he found a present that

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had fallen behind a wall. Back in nineteen seventy eight,

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Tim was renovating in the bathroom at his parents' house

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when he found something inside the wall. He told people,

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we took out a medicine cabinet before we dry wall,

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and I thought I'm better just looking there to make

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sure nothing's back there, And then there it was. It

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was a Christmas gift that was for Tim back in

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nineteen seventy eight. He said his parents used to hide

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gifts in the homes attic and that one must have

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fallen into a cross s base. What was it? A

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set of now vintage matchbox toy airplanes. His mom didn't

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recall even buying them. Tim said, so, I have one sister,

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and my mom has always been very picky about getting

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the exact same amount of gifts. So we've been joking

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that I've been screwed out of one of my presents

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for forty six years. You know here in twenty twenty

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four Turn twenty twenty five vintage matchbox Toay Airplanes is

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a pretty cool gift. I used to and still love

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video games as a gift. And that's a segue because

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the next time somebody suggests that playing video games is

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bad for you, you show them this study. Researchers from the

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Imperial College London and the University of Graz in Austria

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surveyed more than six hundred postgraduate students about playing open

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world video games. What did the scientists find out? Games

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like Zelda and even Red Dead Redemption can significantly enhance

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cognitive escapism, They promote relaxation and improve overall mental well being,

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The Journal of Medical Internet Research tells us open world

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refers to games that provide a large, freely explorable environment

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where players can move and interact with the with the

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game world with minimal restrictions. They offer large detailed worlds

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to explore. Specifically, the games may feature an expansive world

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filled with diverse landscapes, towns, and hidden secrets. On the scientist.

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With rising rates of stress, anxiety, and sadness among young

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people today, these games could end up playing a key

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role in reducing stress and enhancing mental health. Next story

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is wild seven year old boy survived a week lost

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in the savannah of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management

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authority they go by zim Parks received notice of a

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missing boy on December twenty. Zim Park says that fellow villagers,

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police officers and park rangers organized a search party, but

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they were hindered by heavy rains. On December thirtieth, human

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footprints were found that eventually led rescuers to the boy

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in the early morning hours the next day. Zim Park

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says it's estimated the boy walk through the harsh terrain

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of the lion infested a national park for thirty miles

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from his village to the point where he was found.

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During the period, he survived on wild fruits and would

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dig a small hole in the dry river bank to

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access underground water to drink. Good news. If you're thrown

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out your Christmas tree and you don't know what to

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do with it, donated Christmas trees can enrich the habitats

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of zoo animals. A zoo in England is asking residents

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to donate their used to Christs trees. Noah's Ark Zoo

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Farm in Bristol say they've diverted fifteen thousand Christmas trees

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from contributing to landfill waste. The zoo's curator, Chris says

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the trees make a real difference in the animals lives. Some,

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like an elephants, like to eat them. Others like bears

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and rhinos, like to forage in between them. Other animals

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just like to rub up against the trees and enjoy

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the pine scent. Chris says, for the elephants, their habitat

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is full of sand, which means we could bury the

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trees and stand them up to make a whole forest

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for them to come explore. They'll lead them a bit,

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they'll throw them around, they'll explore for the food we

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put in. As for the bears, they like to pile

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the trees up in a big mass. They compared it

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to how a dog treats a pile of leaves. All right,

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Johnny Mack, you probably have a Guinness World Record for us.

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I sure do. In India based Martial Arts Collective have

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a set of record. The Burgh Calls, a martial arts

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group took on the title for most coconuts smashed around

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a person blindfolded in one minute. They did this on

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an Italian TV series which I'll pronounce as Low Show

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Day Red, which I'll translate for you in case you

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couldn't figure it out. It's the record show. I think

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it's on in Milan. The blindfolded martial artist managed to

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smash sixty nine coconuts in one minute without injuring his teammate.

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That beat the previous record, which was fifty. They also

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recently set a cucumber record, not the one from the

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other day with the cards. This is a different one.

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This one was most slices of a cucumber with a chainsaw.

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But wait, there's more. The cucumber is in a person's

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mouth and the person with the chainsaw is blindfolded. No,

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thank you, jeez. Those are your five good news stories

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for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend

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show notes, so that explain how that works. You have

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a great day.