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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. I am Johnny Mack. Five good news stories. Good news from Marylyn. They found her engagement ring fifty four years after it went missing. Wow. She lost the ring while feeding hay to to cattle on the family farm in nineteen seventy. After retracing her steps, she couldn't find it. Detectorist Keith Phillips recently called the farm he wanted to explore the land for treasures. One evening, when he was leaving, Marilyn said to Keith, never mind all this rubbish you're finding, go find my engagement ring for me. They laughed it off at the time, but a week later he had found the ring. He said it was buried eight inches down in one of the fields. It was quite emotional, and Keith was quite emotional about it as well, because he was so delighted that he found this ring for me. The part of the story that grabbed me was that fifty four years ago is nineteen seventy now. Wow. Yikes. Researchers studying thousands of recorded call have discovered the sperm whale phonetic alphabet for sperm whales. Bursts of clicks come in different varieties and form the building blocks of speech. Jacob Andreas, At, Associate professor in electrical engineering and computer Science, was one of the authors of the new study. He said, the very important caveat to add here is we still don't know whether you want to think of a coda as being a word, or like a sentence, or like an individual val or consonant. The big payoff here is the way you figure out they're actually talking, how the communication system works and what things mean is by trying to link the specific calls to whales behavior. They're working on that right now. Sperm

1:34 whales don't sing like humpback whales, as you know. They may clicks to detect prey. The phonic lips opened very briefly and slapped back together, creating a loud click that is amplified in the nasal complex. The sperm whale clicks reached the equivalent of about one hundred and seventy decibels in the ocean. Sounds above one hundred and twenty decibels can cause immediate damage to the human ear. Wow, you might want to be friends with Christine from Massachusetts. She won a million dollars in the lottery twice in the last few weeks. Her most recent prize was playing the one hundred times cash ten dollars instant ticket game. She decided to receive the winnings at a one time payment of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars before taxes. She's gonna put that in the savings. Not sure what she did with the first million dollars, but wow, you're pretty lucky there. Did you see the New Planet of the Apes movie? It might be a cautionary tale. Scientists observed Racus, the orangutan, pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. The orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on his right cheek. Afterwards, he pressed the choo plant to cover the open wound like a makeshift bandage. Taras Stoinsky is the president and chief Scientific officer at the nonprofit Dianne Fosse Guerrilla Fund. She said, if this behavior exists in some of our closest living relatives, why could that tell us of how medicine first evolved. Astronaut George Taylor said, it's a madhouse all right, this one from the New York Post. As I mentioned on a recent episode, maybe this podcast should be four good news stories and

3:05 a wacky story at the end. I'm just trying to make you smile. The headline from the New York Post. I'm a teacher. I get a lot of weird gifts, but a cremation coupon is my favorite. Yes, it was teacher appreciation Week. A teacher shared on TikTok. I'm a public school teacher. I make forty three thousand dollars a year before taxes, and this is everything I got in my teacher Appreciation Week gift bag. In the bag a plastic water bottle from the church, a stress ball, little notebook, a tube of chapstick, a key chain with a matching lanyard, a Neutra grain bar, two pens, a spray hand sanitizer, a cherry candy, a lollipop, and a cremation coupon. That's it. That's it.

3:46 She got a cremation coupon. That's it. Those are fuck good news stories for today. I hope you enjoy the program. I'm laughing, I'm having fun. I hope you are too. Maybe a friend of yours would enjoy this a little story, share the podcast with them, and if you'd like all this ad free, open up the show in the Apple podcast app. You've heard the promo where we tell you about that, so you open up the podcast app and you go four ninety nine. Okay, fine, Johnny Mac. I'll take the show ad free for four ninety nine a month. You get the other shows too, including Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week. And you can test drive this for thirty days. So after thirty days you're like, that was terrible, Okay, so don't renew all good, see you next time. I have a great day.