Feb. 16, 2025

The Spitting Llama

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories: the memorable meet-up of the world's tallest and shortest women in Kazakhstan; the first international rewilding of tigers; an innovative AI mediation tool; Multi Story Orchestra's unique approach to bringing classical music to young people; and a hilarious viral video of Marie's encounter with a spitting llama, or possibly alpaca. Get all these feel-good stories and learn how to support the show for an ad-free experience.

00:11 World's Tallest and Shortest Women Meet
00:44 Rewilding Tigers in Kazakhstan
01:03 AI Mediation Tool for Common Ground
01:43 Multi Story Orchestra's Unique Performances
02:23 Viral Llama Spitting Incident

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny mag with five

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good news stories. The world's tallest woman and the world's

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shortest woman met up for tea. The world's tallest woman

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is seven foot one, the shortest woman two foot one.

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The shorter woman explained, it was so amazing meeting for

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the first time. Was difficult for us to make eye

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contact at times to do our heigh difference, but it

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was great. We do have things in common. We both

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love makeup, self care and doing our nails. The shorter

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woman explained, I'm used to looking up and seeing people

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taller than me, but I was so happy to look

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up today and see the world's tallest woman. I'm delighted

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I got to meet her. She's so good natured and

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I felt very comfortable talking to her. In Kazakhstan, the

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first international rewilding of tigers Yeah tigers have been reintroduced

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to the state nature reserve more than seventy years after

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they vanished from the area. Bodonna and Kuma were relocated

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from a Dutch sanctuary and released into a semi natural enclosure.

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The project aims to rewild fifty tigers by twenty thirty five.

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An AI mediation tool is trying to help people find

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common ground. It's a chatbot kind of thing that creates

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group statements that reflect majority and minority views, helping people

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defind areas of agreement. Scientists a Google designed what they

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call the Habermiths Machine, a large language AI inspired by

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German philosopher Jurgen Habermiths and Jurgen's theory of communicative action,

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the idea that common understanding foster's cooperation. So what the

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AI does is it takes in different views on a

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contentious topic and comes up with a set of statements

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that are designed to keep everyone happy. Researchers found that

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people like the machines outcomes of fifty six percent of

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the time compared to statements produced by human mediators. Good

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job by the Multi Story Orchestra. They bring classical music

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to young people who might not otherwise encounter classical music.

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They were performing in a parking lot in South London.

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The Multi Story Orchestra has made a habit of performing

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in unconventional spaces, often parking lots, and bid to bring

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classical music to young people. Founded in twenty eleven by

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composer Kate and conductor Christopher, they collaborate with local choirs

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and instrumentalists along the way. Dupree has been part of

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Multi Story since he was twelve, initially playing clarinet before

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going on to sing with the ensemble as part of

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its Young Creatives program. Dupree says, it's more than an orchestra.

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It's a family where performers come together to create something extraordinary. Well,

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there's Marie and she decides, Hey, I'm gonna pet that lama.

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She assumed that the lama would be into being pet.

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The problem is the lama was not in the mood.

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Is a viral TikTok post shared by Marie. It's been

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viewed more than forty six million times. In the video,

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Marie can be seen approaching what she believed to be

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a lama, although might be an outpaka lama or oupaka,

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was standing by itself in a petting area. Marie got

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close the alpac i'll tucked its ears back. What happened next?

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The apack I'll got right in Marie's face and spit

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on her. Marie screamed, then captured the video, never touching

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a lama again. According to BBC Wildlife Magazine, there could

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be several reasons why lamas and upaka spit. It's typically

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used as a warning to other members of the same

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species to chill out. Wildlife Magazine explains, like us, lamas

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and alpacas have different personalities, and the grumpier individuals are

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most likely to spit. They say, there are telltale warning signs,

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and if you want to look out for a potentially

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spitting lama or alpaca, what they do is they flatten

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back their ears, they puff air from their nostrils, they

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tip their chin back while leaning forward. Then they spit

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on you. We're told that the spit is a foul

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smelling mix of gastric juice and undigested plant material. And

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