June 3, 2025

There's a Snake in my Margarita!

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. Matt trekked 53 miles dressed as a giant Eurasian Curlew to raise awareness for endangered species. Liesl set a Guinness World Record with her 1,035-piece Despicable Me Minions collection. A Florida woman protected her Chihuahua from a bear using a bag of cookies. An overturned truck in Texas spilled 8 million dimes, and a snake fell into a woman's margarita at a Virginia restaurant.

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

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figure stories. Nice job by Matt. He treked fifty three

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miles to raise funds and awareness for endangered species. Oh

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and I forgot to tell you he did the fifty

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three miles dressed as a giant bird. It wasn't just

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any bird. It was a ten foot long handmade costume

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of the Eurasian curlew, which, as you know, is Europe's

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largest wading bird, known for its thin, lengthy beak and

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declining population. Matt's costume was made out of polystyrene and bamboo,

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and he headed out on April twenty first, which is

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World's Curlew Day. The Earth has been celebrating World Curlew

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Day since twenty seventeen to raise awareness about habitat loss, land,

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used changes and climate change, which are all impacting the bird.

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I'm actually like a big, big environment guy. I'm all

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about conservation, helping the animals. But it is the story

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about a guy dressed as a bird, Matt said, does

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who know me? Well? No, I was eventually going to

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building giant curlew. She's a real beauty. I wanted to

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represent curlew as well, because there's such a beautiful bird.

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It took two days. Matt was a little worried about

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the wind because the costume is pretty light, but it

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all worked out in the end. Congratulations to Liezel. She

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has set a Guinness World record. She has assembled a

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one thousand and thirty five piece collection of Despicable Me minions.

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It took fifteen years, she explains. They're in every room

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and on every spare wall. The back of her car

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is filled with minions. And when to stop the traffic lights,

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I see people pointing and laughing and all the minions

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in my car. Some people call her Minion Lady. She

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even has a minion tattoo. So many people and kids

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comment on the tattoo and we start talking about our

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mutual love of minions. I remember laughing so much at

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the cute little pill shaped henchmen. They certainly made a

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huge impression on me. That's an understatement. Good job by

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a Florida woman. She protected herself and her small dog

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from a bay. How do you protect yourself from a bear?

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You throw the bear a bag of cookies. This is

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unofficial advice. Please don't take bear fending off advice from

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a guy in his basement doing goofy stories on a podcast.

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Please consult bear experts if ever confronted by a bear.

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Do not take my advice. But Kristin was out whether

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chihuahua Ringo. I love these stories. The devil's always in

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the detail. So Kristin and Ringo the chihuahua are out there,

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and there's a bear. Kristin told the News. I heard

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a bird. I was looking for a bird in a tree,

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and then I saw a black thing come up my leg.

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I thought it was an awf leash dog at first,

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and then I realized it was a giant head. The

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bear was particularly interested in Ringo, the thirteen pound chihuahua.

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Kristin said, I hauled him like a pinana in the air,

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and I spun around to get away. She kept spinning

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to keep ring away from the bear. She fell got

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some scraps my mom, she lives down the street. She

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just stopped and handed me a bag of cookies for

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my kids. I remember to have them in my hand.

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I took the bag. I whacked the bear across the

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face with the cookies, and then I threw them. The

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bear came for She sniffed, and she put her head down,

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sniffed the cookies, and we ran to the front door.

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Kristin has a good attitude. She has no problem with

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the bear, she says, I don't put blame on the bear.

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I'm sure she was just as scared as I was.

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I also host. I appreciate you supporting the show. In Texas,

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a truck overturned and lost its load of eight million dimes.

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Can you do the math? How much is eight million

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dimes worth? I'll tell you in a second. The Texas

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Department of Public Safety said the eighteen wheeler rolled onto

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its side in the southbound lanes of US eighty one

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SLASH two eighty seven near the Farm Road sixteen fifty

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five exit. The Fire Department confirmed the truck lost its

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load of eight million freshly minted dimes. How much is that?

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Eight hundred thousand dollars? The highway was closed for several

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hours while the dot crews cleaned up the loose change

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of That is a lot to pick up. And why

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did it have to be snakes? A snake? It fell

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from the restaurant's ceiling, landing in a margarita. Oh no,

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A Virginia woman was out. You know you're having a margarita.

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You're enjoying your drink. You have some Mexican food at

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the canteena or let, it sold the news. I leaned

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in to take a sip and I noticed something hitting

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me in the forehead. I looked at my husband, like,

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what is that? When I turned around, I saw the

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snake in my margarita. It was moving. It started wrapping

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around my straw. Restaurant workers attempted to get the snake

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to wrap itself around a stick, but ultimately another customer

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grabbed this snake and took it outside. The restaurant offered

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to move her to another table, but she was like no,

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I'm okay. She added, She's not going out to eat

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anytime soon. Hey, those are your five good news stories

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for today. You have an awesome one.