Nov. 4, 2024

Unusal Items Left In Hotel Rooms

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. A New York City neighborhood on Roosevelt Island installs turkey crossing signs for a locally popular turkey named Rosie. A student invents the world's smallest vacuum cleaner using a pen and a tiny motor. A lost cat named Shoto is miraculously found 2,000 miles away from home after three years. Gray wolves make a promising comeback in California, with over 40 now living in the state. Finally, Hotels.com lists some of the most unusual items left behind in its rooms, from a pet lizard to a Rolex watch.

00:10 Turkey Crossing Signs in New York City
01:36 World's Smallest Vacuum Cleaner
01:59 Lost Cat Found 2,000 Miles Away
02:48 Gray Wolves Making a Comeback
03:26 Unusual Items Left in Hotels

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. This first headline confused me. It is New

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York City neighborhood is the first with turkey crossing signs. Now,

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I grew up in New York City, and I was like,

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what Turkey's New York City, huh. But it turns out

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it's on Roosevelt Island. If you're not familiar with the terrain,

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Manhattan is what most people think of as New York City.

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Just to the east of Manhattan is the East River,

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which isn't even a river. That's a story for another day,

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which separates Manhattan and Queens. In between those is a

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tiny place called Roosevelt Island where you can live. But

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Roosevelt Island is like not New York City at all

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in vibe anyway, Roosevelt Island will become the first neighborhood

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in New York City to put up turkey crossing signs

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and a bid to protect a turkey that has recently

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made the area of her home. The bright yellow signs

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will warn drivers and again on Roosevelt Island, you don't drive.

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You kind of go across this bridge and put your

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car in a parking lot and you can walk the

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whole thing, but anyway, the yellow signs will warn drivers

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to keep their eyes peeled for Rosy the Turkey. Rosie

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the Turkey is first showed up in May. One of

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the locals, Judies, said, I worry because miss Turkey Rosie.

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She doesn't have a good sense of direction. She just

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walks the midll the street. She doesn't know any better.

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I think people realize she's a wild animal and should

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be respected. She should safely cross the streets of New York.

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Bryant is a spokesperson for Roosevet Island. He said, you know,

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it only took one visit for our father friend and

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realize Roosevelt Island is the place to be. Beautiful, green spaces,

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quiet streets, a friendly and welcoming community. It's no wonder

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why she decided to set up shop here and become

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a local celebrity. A student has built the world's smallest

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vacuum cleaner. It measures just one quarter inch at its

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shortest axis. To Palla spent about two hundred and thirty

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eight dollars transforming his pen into a vacuum. He says

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the tiny vacuum creates suction via a tiny rotating fan

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powered by a four vault vibration motor, and it picks

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up particles of dust that can then be emptied. Here's

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another one of those pets turning up after many miles

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and many years. Lost cat turns up two thousand miles

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from home after nearly three years. The Deacon Humane Society

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said a skinny stray cat was brought in by a

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member of the public. Staff members were left in disbelief

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when his microchip identified him as Shotto. Chotto was reported

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missing in Texas in January of twenty twenty two, somehow

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made it to Massachusetts. Shoto's owner, Carla said she was

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suspicious when a Massachusetts area came up on her phone.

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She answered it and found out they found Shoto. She says,

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no one except for Shoto, we'll ever know how he

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got to Massachusetts, what the experience he who we met

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along the way. That adventure will forever remain his secret.

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Carla drove twenty six hours to go pick up Shoto.

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The shelter said, we're honored to have reunited this family

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after such a long time apart thanks to the amazing

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power of a microchip. Good news. If you're a gray wolf.

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You guys are coming back, baby. The last gray wolf

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in California was killed in nineteen twenty four. California went

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nearly a century without a gray wolf, but in twenty eleven,

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a gray wolf across the border from Oregon into California.

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Since then, their numbers are rising. Now they're over forty

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gray wolves in the state. Officials have reported a new

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pack of gray wolves. Wolves are a good thing. When

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forty one wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, it was a

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benefit for plants and animals alike. Some ranchers are a

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little stressed, but California has a program to reimburse and

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help farmers. If you know, stuff happens. This is fun.

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This comes up every year. Hotels dot Com revealed some

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of the most unusual items left behind at its hotels,

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including a pet lizard. The most common items left behind

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phone chargers and toiletries that make sense. Some unusual items

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left behind a rolex, a different watch worth six million dollars, oops,

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a car tire, an engagement ring, a tooth, two full

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leg casts, a pet lizard, and a chick. Hotels dot

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Com said the lizard and the chick were reunited with

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their owners what about the car tire. Nobody can about

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the car tire. Unusual service room requests include caviar, hot dog,

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fresh goat, milk, and and these are separate requests. This

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is not one crazy request. And four pounds of bananas

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and a high five from a team member to ensure

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their room service request was read. Dude, you are high maintenance.

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And those are your five good news stories for today. Hey.

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I also host a podcast called Daily Comedy News, seven

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days a week if you want to check that out.

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Also check out our sister show, Five Minutes of Gratitude.

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Start your mornings with some mindfulness. If you would like

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to show without ads, there's a link in the show

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notes to tell you how that works. And you have

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an awesome day.