Aug. 12, 2025

The Vegetable Orchestra and Seinfeld Night

Show Notes
Transcript

00:00 Introduction and First Story: The 20-Foot Python
01:02 Second Story: The Generous Seat Swap
01:52 Third Story: Antelope Reintroduction in Kenya
02:30 Fourth Story: The Vegetable Orchestra
03:19 Fifth Story: Seinfeld Night at the Brooklyn Cyclones Game

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Caloroga Shark Media. There, I'm shining Mack with five good

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news stories. I'm laughing because I'm not really sure this

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first story's good news, but I like the weird stories

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too well. Good news if you like snakes. And La

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Willman pulled into the parking garage and she noticed something

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on top of the dumpster. It was twenty feet long.

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Can you guess what it was? That's right, a snake,

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a python to be specific. Teresa got home and was like, hey,

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what's that? And it was indeed a twenty foot python.

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She called the cops. They were like, call animal control.

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She said, I tried and couldn't get through to animal control.

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The cops were like, snake wrangling isn't what we do,

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So they had a call Joseph, the Southern California Reptile Hunter.

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The reptile hunter got the snake and took it away

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to be examined by a vet. They think it was

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perhaps possibly maybe ill and had been abandoned in the trash.

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Pythons are not native to the United States, but a

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lot of people keep them as pets. Throw away your pets.

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That's not cool. On a plane. A senior citizen suffers

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from claustrophobia. The senior citizen offered a man in the

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aisle seat one hundred bucks to switch seats. He was like,

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now I'm good, not that he's being a jerk about

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the seat, not that he wouldn't give up the seat.

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He didn't want the money. The one was like, take

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the hundred bucks, and now I'm good. No, take the

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hundred bucks. She eventually told him to give some of

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the money to his kids as a lesson that being

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kind bring rewards. The man explained. As I approached my seat,

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an elderly lady was having a hard time getting her

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bag in the overhead, so I offered to help. She

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ended up being in one D. I was one se

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This must have been one of those four seaters, right,

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because otherwise C and D would both be aisles, wouldn't they. Yeah,

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she immediately said she'd pay me one hundred dollars to

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swap seats because she feels claustrophobic in the window seats. Yep,

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there you go, bigo. Once you read the story, head

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Johnny Maack in this particular seat configuration, even though I

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prefer an aisle seed, I told her I'd gladly switch

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for free good news if you were an antelope in Kenya.

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Seventeen mountain bongos have been flown to Kenya from the

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Rare Species Conservation Center in Florida for eventual reintroduction into

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their natural habitat in Kenya. Mountain bongos are a subspecies

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of bungo, which, as you know, are the largest of

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the forest dwelling antelopes. Scientists believe that the mountain bongo

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became a four species when climate change turned savannah areas

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into forests thousands of years ago. The last time a

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shipman of animals this big made it to Kenya was

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two thousand and four, when eighteen animals arrive safely. Those

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guys successfully integrated with the wild population. Scientists are site

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congratulations to the orchestra that plays instruments made from vegetables.

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They learned Ann his world record. The Vegetable Orchestra and

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eleven Piece Orchestra, formed in Vienna in nineteen ninety eight,

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has performed a total of three hundred and forty four

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concerts using specifically made instruments like a carrot recorder, a

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cucumber phone, a radish base flute, percussive pieces of eggplant

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and of course a leak violin. The orchestra on their

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website explains, we believe that we can produce a sound

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that cannot easily be produced by other instruments. You can

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hear the difference. It sometimes sounds like animals, sometimes just

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like abstract sounds. The orchestra does have a request please

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stop asking if they're vegetarians. They said on their website,

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no we are not. Don't ask again. We've heard this

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question three million times, and you just see this one

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in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Cyclones game. They're a minor

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league baseball team. They had their annual Seinfeld Night this year.

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They had people do the Elaine Bennis dance, remember that

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from the Seinfeld episode. I don't even know how I

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would describe it. It's not a very attractive dance. George

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Costanza once described it as a full body dry heave

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set to music. Congratulations to Olivia, a New York based actress.

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She was named the winner of the contest. Fans attending

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Seinfeld Knight also received a limited edition creamer bobblehead. Those

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are your five good news stories for today. Have a

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good one.