July 17, 2025

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

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The TSA is allowing passengers to keep their shoes on, a 21-year-old man's incredible skateboarding journey from England to Africa, a breakthrough in Parkinson's disease research by the University of Sydney, Maria's Guinness World Record for the largest egg cup collection, and an incident in Australia where a two-foot green tree snake delayed a flight. Each story highlights acts of determination, scientific progress, and unique achievements, providing a dose of good news to brighten your day.

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

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good news stories. Hey, good news, The TSA is letting

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people keep their shoes on. Should we just wrap up

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now and all go on vacation? I mean, what else

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am I going to tell you that's going to be

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better news than that. Most passengers have been required to

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remove their shoes since two thousand and six, but at

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the time of this recording, some travel blogs were noticing

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that the TSA is no longer This is unofficial at

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the time of this recording, but the TSA apparently is

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no longer making you take your shoes off. The change

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was first noticed by a travel newsletter called gate Access.

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The guy who writes as a former TSA officer. He

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said he had seen a soft launch of the new

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policy at an airport, as well as an internal memo

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briefing officers about it. He says passengers should feel relieved

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knowing that technology advanced so significantly the TSA officers could

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detect threats while wearing shoes. In the old days, that

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wasn't the case. Let's hope that lasts. Some people hoping

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they'll let us bring shampoo bottles and maybe leave our

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laptop in her bag. That would all be nice. Congratulations

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to a twenty one year old man. He has skateboarded

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from England to Africa in fifty five days, fifteen hundred

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miles to Morocco. Sam said, I had my own challenges

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with mental health. The skate scene is very tightened it

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it's very community driven. He raised five thousand pounds for

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charity supporting well being in the skateboarding community. Sam said,

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I had my own challenges with mental health. The skate

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scene is very tightened. It it's very community driven, so having

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a service like that within the community is amazing. He

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covered between thirty and fifty five miles every day. Sam

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said it was definitely harder at first, but my body

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kind of got used to it pretty quick. I just

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felt like the norm because I'd wake up and I

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just knew I had to do it every day. Going

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up was definitely harder, but downwards is a saving grace

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because I could save all my energy going downhill. I

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wouldn't have to push, and it was super fun and

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the adrenaline was running. He did have a tumble on

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one of the hills. He said his arm got scraped up.

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He only fell one time during the whole trip. All

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the money will go to chair personally. He needs some

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new wheels for a skateboard, he said, I did the

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one pair of wheels and I'll say they're absolutely haggard.

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Good news. The University of Sydney has identified a new

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brain protein involved in the development of Parkinsons disease and

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they figured out a way to modify it and tested

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this on mice and they're pretty excited about it so far.

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Short version, it found that targeting the faulty sood one

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protein with a drug treatment using copper improved the motor

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function and mice. One of the scientists said, we hope

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that by treating this malfunctioning protein we might be able

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to improve the parkinson like symptoms in the mice we

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were treating. But even we were astonished by the success

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of the intervention. All the mice we treated saw dramatic

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improvement in their motor skills, which is a really promising

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sign that could be effective in treating people of parkinson

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disease too. In treating people of Parkinson's disease, the boy,

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that would be amazing. Congratulations to Maria. She has earned

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the Guinness World Record for her collection of over fifteen

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thousand egg cups fifteen four and eighty five to be specific.

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She's been collecting egg cups for over fifty years. The

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collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs, even some novelty cups

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bearing the images of Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield. Eleven

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hundred and forty three of her cups are currently on

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display at a local museum. While congratulations on that, and

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good news, it finally happened. After all those years of

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the joke, I've had it with these snakes on this plane. Well,

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in Australia, a snake on a plane has delayed a flight. Yes,

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I gotta love it. I had a call in Mark

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the snake hunter after a domestic flight was delayed for

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two hours after a snake was found in the plane's

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cargo hold. Passengers were boarding Virgin Australian flight VA three

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three seven at Melbourne bound for Brisbane. The snake condor

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tells us the snake turned out to be a harmless

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two foot green tree snake, but the snake hunter thought

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it could be venomous when he first approached it in

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the darkened cargo hold. It wasn't until I caught the

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snake that I realized it wasn't venomous until that point,

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it looked very dangerous to me. In that movie's no joke,

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the snake hunter said. I said to them, if I

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don't get this in one shot, the snake's gonna sneak

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through the panels and you're gonna have to evacuate the plane.

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Because at that stage I didn't know what kind of

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snake it was. But thankfully I got out on the

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first try and captured it. If I didn't get it

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that first time, the engineers and I would be pulling

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apart of Boeing seven thirty seven looking for a snake

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right now, The snake hunter said. It took him thirty

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minutes to drive to the airport, and then he was

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delayed by security. In all, the flight was delayed two hours.

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And those their five good news stories for today. This

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