Nov. 25, 2024

Three goats and a dog walk into a firehouse....

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Transcript

In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories, including the journey of a miniature boat named Inspiration that's part of an educational project, Australia's ambitious marine protection initiative, an amusing tale of goats and a dog wandering into a fire station, a couple's extensive four-year camper van adventure around the world, and the recovery of a lost Naval Academy ring 54 years later. Tune in for heartwarming tales and global adventures.
00:00 Miniature Boat Adventure
01:12 Australia's Ocean Protection Initiative
01:32 Goats and a Dog at the Fire Station
02:16 Chris and Marianne's Camper Van World Tour
03:59 David's Lost Naval Academy Ring Found
04:53 Conclusion and Sign-Off

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

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good news stories. What do you do when a miniature

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boat washes up on the beach? You put it back

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in the water. A miniature boat from the United States

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washed up on the shores of England. The boat is

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called Inspiration, to travel around nine thousand miles. It was

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sent from children in Rhode Island as part of a

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science experiment back in twenty twenty two. Well the boat

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has been renovated by local Sea Scouts and will be

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put back in Atlantic to see what happens next. Inspiration

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is part of a project called Educational Passages, which gives

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students across the US the opportunity to prepare and track

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their own mini boat while learning about ocean currents, weather

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and technology. Inspiration is three feet three inches in length.

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The boat has GPS and was filled with photographs and

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notes from students. How The scouts that carried out the repairs,

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William Lack, is part of the restoration team. He said

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the boat had some holes in it and the lots

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of scratches and it's ready to go and ship shape.

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The boat will be relaunched in December Australia has announced

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that we'll protect fifty two percent of its ocean territory.

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That's more than any other country on the world. They

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are expanding their sub Antarctic Marine Park, quadrupling the size

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of the existing marine reserve. As good as that news is,

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scientists are still concerned about critical marine ecosystems not having

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enough sanctuary level protection. This next one sounds like the

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opening to a joke. Three goats and a dog wander

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into a fire station. Now I did ask the AI

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to see if they could make a joke of it,

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and the AI could not make a joke of it.

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If you've got one, let me know. But three goats

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and a dog wander into the fire station. The crew

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of Engine five spotted a mother goat, two baby goats,

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and a dog walking past no humans. On Facebook, the

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fire department said the firefighters were concerned for their safety

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and with assistants from a neighbor walking his own dog,

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he placed a leash on the mother and walked the

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goat inside Station five. The two baby goats followed their

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mother to safety, the dog not so much. The neighbor

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secured the dog. We are told the goats were placed

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in a fenced in area behind the fire station until

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they were returned to their home, which is down the block.

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Chris and mary Anne had quit their jobs, sold their belongings,

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and decided to travel in a camper van for a

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four year adventure around the world. They have concluded their adventure.

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They started in January of twenty twenty, which if you're

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trying to do a world tour, not a good time.

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There was this pandemic Google it. It was a big deal,

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not good for travel. They had bought a campra van

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they called Trudy. It had forty thousand miles on it.

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They bought it for about twenty one grand. They sold everything.

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They wound up traveling sixty seven thousand miles and visited

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twenty nine countries, logging twenty eight million YouTube views. Marianne said,

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I think when you're sitting at a desk looking out

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the window and there's a brick wall, whether it's a

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weekend away or a whole craziness like we've done, I

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would encourage anyone to just get out if you got

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something that's stopping you, a fear message and I'll put

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you straight. It's been phenomenal, different places, different cultures, everybody's

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given us a warm welcome around the world. They traveled

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through Europe and arrived in Turkey just before the lockdowns.

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They wound up being Turkish residents for eighteen months before

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making the decision to ship the van to South Carolina

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and then drive across the US. They made their way

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to San Francisco, up to Vancouver, did some Alaska time.

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They swam in the Arctic Ocean. After driving one thousand

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miles along a dirt road, they crossed back into the US,

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drove part of Root sixty six into California. Down in

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New Mexico, they shipped the van from La to Japan,

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drove around Japan for three months, then jumped on a

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car ferry to South Korea. Then they didn't know what

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to do. China said no. They toured Malaysia and Thailand, India, Pakistan.

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They considered Saudi Arabia, but we're told the country doesn't

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allow right hand drive vehicles. So they went to South

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Africa Mozambique, is Zimbabwe, but Swana and then one last

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ferry home. Marian said, I really feel if we do

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nothing else in our life, we've done something fantastic. Hey,

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good news for David he's eighty two. He had lost

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his class of nineteen sixty four Naval Academy ring fifty

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four years ago when golfing with his father at the

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Uniontown Country Club near Pittsburgh. Lorenzo told the local news

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it survived combat, but it couldn't survive my golf game. Well, luckily,

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Michael was golfing at the same club recently, and he

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spotted a shiny object in the clay that had been

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exposed by recent rings. Can you guess what the object's

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gonna wind up being? Are you familiar with how this

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podcast works? Do you think there's a surprise twist here?

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There's not. Michael said, I saw the shiny thing, and

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I thought it was a beer cantab, but dug it

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out so nobody would step on it, and I saw

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it was a ring. He searched for the ring Zonner

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online and found a podcast episode in which Lorenzo had

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talked about his experiences in the military. Michael travel to

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Florida to present Lorenzo with the ring. He said, I

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knew I couldn't send this in the mail. I knew

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it had to be personally delivered. John. No world record today,

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No world record today. I know right you have a

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great day.