Oct. 20, 2024

The Hobby Horse Championships

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five inspiring and amusing good news stories. Highlights include: the IG Nobel Prizes featuring quirky research topics, Germany's first hobby horsing championship, Taiwan's new law banning wild animal performances, a bargain hunter winning a case against Cartier for mispriced earrings, and the successful reconstruction of a Bronze Era jar broken by a child. Johnny also encourages listeners to share the program and explore the sister show, Five Minutes of Gratitude.

00:11 IG Nobel Prizes Highlights
00:55 Hobby Horsing Championship in Germany
01:54 Animal Performance Ban in Taiwan
02:27 Cartier's Pricing Blunder
03:01 Bronze Era Jar Restoration

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. Let's take a look at some of the

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winners of this year's ig Nobel Prizes, the prize for

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Comical Scientific Achievement. Some of the winners included a study

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exploring the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, another

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that looked at the swimming abilities of dead fish. Winners

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were honored in ten categories, including for peace and anatomy.

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Some more winners. One showed a vine from Chile that

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imitates the shapes of artificial plants nearby. Another study examined

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where their hair on people's heads in the Northern Hemisphere

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swirled in the same direction as someone's hair in the

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Southern hemisphere. Now what's really annoying is I don't know

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what the results showed. I can't tell you. The awards

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ceremony was broken up by an international song competition inspired

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by Murphy's Law, including one song about coleslaw and another

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about the legal system. Meanwhile, in Germany, it was the

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first hobby horsing championship in Frankfurt. Hundreds of young riders

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competed in time jumping and style jumping on their wooden

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stick horses. Roughly three hundred riders, mostly kids, although twenty

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adults enrolled were watched by fifteen hundred spectators. Max Is

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fifteen He said, hobby horsing just gives me self confidence

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and I just enjoyed doing it with other people. Andreas

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is the managing director of public relations of the German

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Hobby Horsing Association. He says they're currently about five thousand

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active hobby horsers in Germany and two hundred and thirty

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clubs and adds, of course, when you see it it

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looks funny at first. In fact, it's a really strenuous sport.

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It's a mixture of athletics and gymnastics and you need

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to be in good shape for it. Flesh Is eighteen

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and said, it used to be we were laughed at

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for it, but when you're part of a larger group,

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I think it always works, and especially now, when you

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see something like that, you get a feeling of togetherness.

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Style jumpers were judged on their posture as well as

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jumping over the center of the obstacles, sticking the landing

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and keeping a steady pace. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, live performances

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by wild animals held in captivity, including performance by dolphins, tigers,

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and other non domesticated mammals, no longer permitted. Nice Job,

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Ministry of Agriculture. The Animal Performance Management Measures will forbid

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companies from forcing wild animals to perform or interact with people.

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Two private operators in Taiwan are still conducting performances involving dolphins.

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Their licenses expire in twenty twenty six, unless they're granted

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an extension. The Ocean Conservation Administration is advising them on

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how to eliminate inappropriate performances. Well, good news for a

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bargain hunter, bad news for Cardier. The bargain hunter got

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a pair of twenty eight thousand dollars earrings for twenty

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eight dollars after Cardier miss priced its jewelry online. Virgilio

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couldn't believe his eyes. Cardier refused to deliver. When they

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realized what had happened, they had dropped three zeros from

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the price. They offered Rgilio a refund for the twenty

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eight bucks and a bottle of champagne. He said, nodok

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them to Mexico's Consumer Protection agency, and he won. He

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posted on Twitter with the earrings war is Overdio is complying,

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all right. Remember I told you about the bronze era

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jar that was accidentally smashed by a four year old

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and they were gonna try and put it back together.

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They put it back together. The director of the museum said,

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he's just a kid. I think it somehow touches the

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heart of the people in Israel and around the world.

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Experts to use three D technology, high res videos, and

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special glue to reconstruct the large jar. Less than two

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weeks after it broke, the jar went back on display

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at the museum. There are a few hairline cracks, few

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pieces are missing, and there's a new sign that says

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please don't touch. Those are your five news stories for today.

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If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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They might like it too. If you would like this

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program commercial free, there's a link in the show notes,

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and please check out our sister show, five Minutes of

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Gratitude Number five Minutes of Gratitude. You have an awesome day.