Aug. 7, 2025

Unwanted Amazon Packages

00:11 Good News for Older Dogs 00:57 Discovery of New Frog Species 02:10 World Record for Jigsaw Puzzles 03:23 Famous Retired Japanese Racehorse 04:07 Unwanted Amazon Packages To become a premium subscriber (no ads and no feed drops)...

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00:11 Good News for Older Dogs
00:57 Discovery of New Frog Species
02:10 World Record for Jigsaw Puzzles
03:23 Famous Retired Japanese Racehorse
04:07 Unwanted Amazon Packages

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

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good news stories. Good news for older dogs. The Gray

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Muzzle Organization has announced that they are giving one point

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five to seven million dollars in grants to one hundred

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and nineteen animal welfare groups in the United States. Denise

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Fleck is the director of the organization and says, if

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fifty is the new thirty for humans, why not for

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our older best friends. Senior dogs have so much life

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to live and love to give, and yet they're often

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last to be adopted and the first at risk when

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shelters run out of space. Grant recipients in thirty three

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states can now fund medical and dental care adoptions, foster homes,

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hospice programs. Two of the grant recipients this year are

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Saar's Promise, which was founded in honor of Zora the Dog,

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and the Golden Bark Foundation, founded in twenty twenty two

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and run entirely by volunteers. Do you like frogs, Well,

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apparently there are three a few types of frogs. Well,

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I don't think the frogs are new, just we didn't

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know about them. Three new types of frogs were discovered

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during off road scientific expeditions in the Andes Mountains. Herpetologist

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Herman Chavez led the research and said they're small and unassuming,

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but these frog are powerful reminders of how much we

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still don't know about the Andes. Let me see if

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I can get this right. One of the frogs is

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named Pristamantis Chinguelis. That frog was discovered on a cliff

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side and has a body dotted with prominent large tubercles

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on both sides. Its high pitched peep can be heard

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on human knights. Another frog is the Pristamantis Nunas Cortes

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that has large black blotches on its axilli and groins,

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named after ornithologist Elio Nunez Cortes. Oh, I see the

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Nunias Cortes. I like that. That's cool. Nunia's Cortes was

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a conservation trailblazer in the region. That's awesome, and the

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smallest of the three frogs was found nestled at a

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chilly altitude of ninety eight hundred feet, is the p

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yungke Yo nke Its name is a no to young

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k yon Que, which is a sugarcane spirit consumed by

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locals to brave the cold. I was starting to wonder

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whatever happened to records, because I felt like, for like

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six months, every episode of the show had me telling you, hey,

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somebody broke a record, and then they were like three

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weeks with no records. Records are back, babe. A Washington

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woman has earned the Guinness World Record for her collection

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of four thou sixty different jigsaw puzzles. You know that

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doesn't sound like that many, Like I'm not even trying,

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and I think I have like eight in the house. Liza,

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it's sold Guinness. She started collecting puzzles in twenty nineteen.

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I mean, yeah, six seven years, so you could probably

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break this record. No offense, e Liza, even she says,

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I didn't set out to break the world record. I

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just fell in love with puzzling, but not just any puzzles,

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Ravensburger puzzles. I love their quality, their design, the history

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of puzzles. It just became a passion. And what's a

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Raisin Burger puzzle? I need to know more. I went

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on the internet. People are searching for the question what

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is so special about Ravensburger puzzles. The answer every piece

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in a Ravens Burger puzzle is crafted to fit perfectly

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with its adjacent pieces, ensuring a satisfying and frustration free experience.

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Is that not all puzzles, or just maybe some puzzles

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aren't that well made? Who knows the previous record in

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our remine. The record is now four thy sixty. The

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previous record was twenty twenty two. Now that seemed really assailable.

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No good news for a retired Japanese racehorse, Ara Urrara

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is twenty nine years old, retired from racing in two

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thousand and four, and never ever won a race. The

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horse was famous for wearing a Hello Kiddy mask and

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losing every one of her one hundred and thirteen races. Well.

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The horse is now famous thanks to a mobile game

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which features anime style humanlike characters with horse ears and

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tails engaging in track races. The fictional horror Urrara characters

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bio states she's always smiling no matter how many times

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she loses, she always tries her best and looks on

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the brighter side of things. The game is called Uma

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Musseimi Pretty Derby. If you'd like to visit the actual horse,

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you can schedule visits on the farm's website and our

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final story today. I guess this is more bad news

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than good news. The headline a California woman's home has

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been flooded with unwonted Amazon packages. Now, some immature people

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who host really similar podcasts of this one might have

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been sitting in their basement studio giggling at this. But

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that's not cool, nothing funny about this at all. Now,

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apparently every single box contains a fake leather carseat cover

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from one particular brand and was sold by a Chinese

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company on Amazon. Now what happened here is the woman's

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address was listed as the company's addressed for returns. The

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online seller. Reviews are filled with complaints about the seat

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covers not fitting Amazon, and a statement said we've apologized

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to the customer and are working directly with her to

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pick up any packages while taking steps to permanently resolve

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this issue. I guess seat covers aren't the worst thing.

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Another woman in Virginia had the same issue. She received

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a box containing one thousand I'll just describe them as

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things made out of rubber. Use your imagination, and those

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