TSA says keep your shoes on BUT Actual Snakes On A Plane

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Hey, good news, The TSA is letting people keep their shoes on. Should we just wrap up now and all go on vacation? I mean, what else am I going to tell you that's going to be better news than that. Most passengers have been required to remove their shoes since two thousand and six, but at the time of this recording, some travel blogs were noticing that the TSA is no longer This is unofficial at the time of this recording, but the TSA apparently is no longer making you take your shoes off. The change was first noticed by a travel newsletter called gate Access. The guy who writes as a former TSA officer. He said he had seen a soft launch of the new policy at an airport, as well as an internal memo briefing officers about it. He says passengers should feel relieved knowing that technology advanced so significantly the TSA officers could detect threats while wearing shoes. In the old days, that wasn't the case. Let's hope that lasts. Some people hoping they'll let us bring shampoo bottles and maybe leave our laptop in her bag. That would all be nice. Congratulations to a twenty one year old man. He has skateboarded from England to Africa in fifty five days, fifteen hundred miles to Morocco. Sam said, I had my own challenges with mental health. The skate scene is very tightened it it's very community driven. He raised five thousand pounds for charity supporting well being in the skateboarding community. Sam said, I had my own challenges with mental health. The skate scene is very tightened. It it's very community driven, so having a service like that within the community is amazing. He

1:34 covered between thirty and fifty five miles every day. Sam said it was definitely harder at first, but my body kind of got used to it pretty quick. I just felt like the norm because I'd wake up and I just knew I had to do it every day. Going up was definitely harder, but downwards is a saving grace because I could save all my energy going downhill. I wouldn't have to push, and it was super fun and the adrenaline was running. He did have a tumble on one of the hills. He said his arm got scraped up. He only fell one time during the whole trip. All the money will go to chair personally. He needs some new wheels for a skateboard, he said, I did the one pair of wheels and I'll say they're absolutely haggard. Good news. The University of Sydney has identified a new brain protein involved in the development of Parkinsons disease and they figured out a way to modify it and tested this on mice and they're pretty excited about it so far.

2:19 Short version, it found that targeting the faulty sood one protein with a drug treatment using copper improved the motor function and mice. One of the scientists said, we hope that by treating this malfunctioning protein we might be able to improve the parkinson like symptoms in the mice we were treating. But even we were astonished by the success of the intervention. All the mice we treated saw dramatic improvement in their motor skills, which is a really promising sign that could be effective in treating people of parkinson disease too. In treating people of Parkinson's disease, the boy, that would be amazing. Congratulations to Maria. She has earned the Guinness World Record for her collection of over fifteen thousand egg cups fifteen four and eighty five to be specific.

3:00 She's been collecting egg cups for over fifty years. The collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs, even some novelty cups bearing the images of Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield. Eleven hundred and forty three of her cups are currently on display at a local museum. While congratulations on that, and good news, it finally happened. After all those years of the joke, I've had it with these snakes on this plane. Well, in Australia, a snake on a plane has delayed a flight. Yes, I gotta love it. I had a call in Mark the snake hunter after a domestic flight was delayed for two hours after a snake was found in the plane's cargo hold. Passengers were boarding Virgin Australian flight VA three three seven at Melbourne bound for Brisbane. The snake condor tells us the snake turned out to be a harmless two foot green tree snake, but the snake hunter thought it could be venomous when he first approached it in the darkened cargo hold. It wasn't until I caught the snake that I realized it wasn't venomous until that point, it looked very dangerous to me. In that movie's no joke, the snake hunter said. I said to them, if I don't get this in one shot, the snake's gonna sneak through the panels and you're gonna have to evacuate the plane.

4:12 Because at that stage I didn't know what kind of snake it was. But thankfully I got out on the first try and captured it. If I didn't get it that first time, the engineers and I would be pulling apart of Boeing seven thirty seven looking for a snake right now, The snake hunter said. It took him thirty minutes to drive to the airport, and then he was delayed by security. In all, the flight was delayed two hours. And those their five good news stories for today. This show is so much fun to do. Thank you for listening. If he would like it without commercial interruption or feed drops or other stuff, go to calaberga dot com, slash plus, or if you're on Apple Podcast, click that banner that says uninterrupted listening and you have an awesome day.