Aug. 24, 2025

The strawberry ice cream eating Fuzzy The Bear

Show Notes
Transcript

Sharks equipped with sensors can help predict hurricanes. Sienna, a shelter dog, intuitively detected a man's seizure and found a forever home. In another story, volunteers escort ducks to the town center every evening. A 12-year-old boy named Jace fulfilled his dream of playing football with the Carolina Panthers through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Finally, a bear named Fuzzy was caught enjoying strawberry ice cream in an ice cream shop, causing minimal damage.

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good new stories. It's hurricane season and they had Hurricane

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Aaron last week and making a mess of the shore. Well,

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good news. Sharks can be used to predict storms. That's right.

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If you outfit a shark with a sensor on their

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dorsal fin, they can help scientists better understand Atlantic hurricanes. Now,

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I don't know where you get the shark or how

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you go. Hey shark, I'm just gonna attach this to

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your fin. But I'm not a scientist. I'm a guy

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in a basement recording ridiculous news stories. You see, the

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sharks swim to areas inaccessible to scientists. These sharks monitors

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collect information like water temperature and depth, and those can

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be used to predict the power and trajectory of storms.

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They're also apparently less expensive to operate than drones. Good

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to know. Hey, an update on Sienna. Remember Sienna, the

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shelter dog who had detected a man's oncoming seizure even

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though hadn't been trained to do so. Deanna has found

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it forever home. You may recall in June, Sienna broke

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away from a crowd of dogs walking right up to

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a man, She sat down, looked him in the eye,

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put her pawn his leg, and refuse to leave his side.

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And eyewitnessed said she sat quietly at his feet, refused

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to budge, softly placed his pawn his leg. Wasn't a trick,

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it wasn't prompted. It was pure intuition. Josh had forgotten

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to take his epilepsy medication that morning. Sienna somehow knew

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about it. Anyway, Sienna the shelter dog now has a

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forever home. The locals at the shelter mind, you don't

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overlook the stray dog that's in your local shelter. All

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of them have amazing traits about them. I have two

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shelter dogs. Good news for some ducks. Fifteen local humans

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are taking rotating shifts to personally escort twenty ducks to

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the town center every evening. The ducks start there fifteen

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minute walk from the Codbeck Record around eight thirty pm.

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If you head over to the Market Square parking lot

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and they sleep there until four point thirty the next morning.

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Why do the ducks do this? No, no one knows,

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But luckily they have a human escort now. A local

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said it's really heartwarming and adorable escorting the ducks on

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their walk. Whenever they're leaving the river, they start quacking.

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They march up in two battalions. Volunteers place traffic cones

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around the ducks. They watch over them until things quality

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it down around eleven pm on weeknights and two thirty

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in the morning on weekends because there might be some

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drunk revelers from the local pub. This seems to be seasonal.

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The ducks start doing this in June and they do

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it until the beginning of December. Who knows what they

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do in the winter. A nice moment for twelve year

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old Geese. He got to play in an NFL exhibition

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game with the Carolina Panthers. Two years ago. Mom started

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to notice bruises building up on her son's body. Jase

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has a rare bone condition that can lead to leukemia.

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He would need a marrow transplant. He got the transplant,

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and then the Make a Witch Foundation notified him that

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he could choose a dream to help him carry through

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his recovery. He wanted to be the quarterback for the

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Carolina Panthers. The Panther were like okay. He signed a

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contract with the gm and they drew up a play

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with the offensive coordinator and met the mascot got jersey

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number twenty six with his name on the back. Then,

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at an intrat squad scrimmage at Panthers fan Fest night,

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the coaches sent him out. He took the ball on

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a hand off outside the ten, raced around the left

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end headed towards the end zone. Touchdown and good news

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if you're a bear that likes ice cream. Yeah, bear

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broke into an ice cream shop. So bad news if

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you own an ice cream shop because a bearer broke

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in and I assumed there was some damage. But good

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news for the bear. This is a positive show. I'm

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going to take the bear's point of view on this one.

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The bear helped itself to some strawberry ice cream. The

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El Dorado Sheriff's Office were called in reports of a

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bear eating ice cream. Their social media posts that the

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deputies could barely believe their eyes. They saw a large

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bear behind the counter of the shop eating a strawberry

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ice cream. The Sheriff's office said the bear only showed

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interest in the strawberry ice cream particular. It's like my

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mom only likes strawberry ice cream. And she passed away.

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Maybe she's come back as a bear. That'd be some

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good news. Anyway. The bear left the store with some

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encouragement from local deputies, were told Fuzzy the Bear. I

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don't know how they got the bear's name, but apparently

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its name is Fuzzy. Fuzzy the bear caused hardly any

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property damage and there was hardly any cleanup. And those

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are your five good news stories for today. If you'd

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