July 29, 2024

The World's Largest Pizza Party

Show Notes
Transcript

00:00 Introduction and Parrot Conservation Efforts
00:54 Bloomberg's Billion-Dollar Gift to Johns Hopkins
01:43 Discovery of Hermes Statue in Ancient Sewer
02:26 Umpires Strikeout Cancer Foundation
03:16 World Record for Largest Pizza Party

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Two of the world's most endangered parrots

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have been put together as part of a breeding program

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to help save the species from extinction. They are red

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fronted macaws and they've arrived at the twy Cross Zoo

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in Lester, England. Scientists are hoping the parrots will fall

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in love and breed. There are a fewer than three

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hundred remaining in the wild. Assistant bird curator Reese McKee

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great name. All these scientists have great names in these stories.

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Reese said, it's always an exciting day when a new

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animal arrives at the zoo, but being reunited was a

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special moment. You see, fifteen years ago one of the

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parrots had been hatched at the zoo, So now to

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give him a home here at the zoo where he'll

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continue the conservation journey and hopefully breed more of this

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rare species, it's very momentous for me. Michael Bloomberg's Bloomberg

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Philanthropies has announced a one billion dollar gift to make

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medical school free at Johns Hopkins University for most students WOW,

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beginning this fall. Johns Hopkins will offer free tuition for

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medical students coming from families earning less than three hundred

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thousand dollars a year, which represents about ninety five percent

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of all Americans. Johns Hopkins will also cover living expenses

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and fees for students from families who earn less than

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one seventy five K a year. Bloomberg says, as the

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US struggles to recover from a disturbing decline in life expectancy,

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our country faces a serious shortage of doctors, nurses, and

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public health professionals, and yet at the high cost of

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medical nursing and graduate school, two often borrow students from enrolling.

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By reducing the financial barriers to these essential fields, we

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can free more students to pursue careers they're passionate about.

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That's awesome. Some archaeologists have found a marble statue of

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the Greek god Hermes. They found it in a sewer.

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Some Bulgarian archaeologists were doing some routine excavations. They found

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a pristine marble statue of the messenger god Hermes, perhaps

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buried detect it from some over zealous Christianized Romans. The

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Hermi statue was found in the sewers of a lesser

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known ancient site near the border with Greece. The director

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of the excavation said, we found it by accident. It

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was amazing, a whole statue appeared in front of us.

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The theory is that when the Romans came, they were

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already a Christian nation and any images of the pagan

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gods would be seized, so perhaps they hid the statue

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in the sewer to protect it. Well, it worked. We

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found it. If you're in Las Vegas and you're wondering

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why the umpires are wearing gold instead of their usual

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blue or black, it's because they are members of the

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umps Strikeout Cancer Foundation. They're raising money and bringing awareness

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to their cause. Umpires Bob and Jeff started the organization

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in twenty eleven when one of their fellow umpires was

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diagnosed with colon cancer. Bob says, Dave was diagnosed with

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terminal cancer and couldn't work. We decided to do a

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fundraiser support his family. The fundraiser was successful, and we

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wondered how many Daves could use our assistance. Bob says

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it's important for the public to see that umpires and

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officials are human too, which parents can sometimes forget in

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the heat of a competitive game. Oh, I've seen that

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happen many times. The Empire says, we're not invincible. We

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go through the same things you do. It's important that

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we break down the barriers between parents and officials. All right, John,

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do you have a world record for us on this episode?

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Of course I do. It seems to be the summer

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of world records and Princess Cruises coordinated its fleet of

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love boats to break the Guinness World Record for largest

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pizza party at multiple venues. Who knew that was a record?

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Day teams up with chef Tony to provide pizzas across

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the Prince's fleet. Cath that Stubing would be proud of this.

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For the record attempt, on Friday, Guinness confirmed that more

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than sixty thousand slices Quick math how many pies is

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that were served across the cruise line, successfully setting the

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record for the world's largest pizza party at multiple venues.

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The record attempt required sixty five hundred and twelve pounds

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of dough, thirty four hundred plus pounds of flour, thirteen

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hundred plus pounds of pepperoni. Did you have to have

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pepper Ronnie, why is PEPPERI we can't have plain pizza

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to break this record? Interesting? And twenty three hundred plus

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pounds of cheese, oh yeah. And of course there's a

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marketing aspect to this. The Princess Cruises will now have

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some new brands of pizza that they're marketing and that's

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why they did this. And those are your five good

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news stories for today. And now I Mungery, you have

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a great day.