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Callaroga Shark Media. I am Johnny
Mack. Five good news stories. Good

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news from Marylyn. They found her
engagement ring fifty four years after it went

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missing. Wow. She lost the
ring while feeding hay to to cattle on

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the family farm in nineteen seventy.
After retracing her steps, she couldn't find

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it. Detectorist Keith Phillips recently called
the farm he wanted to explore the land

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for treasures. One evening, when
he was leaving, Marilyn said to Keith,

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never mind all this rubbish you're finding, go find my engagement ring for

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me. They laughed it off at
the time, but a week later he

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had found the ring. He said
it was buried eight inches down in one

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of the fields. It was quite
emotional, and Keith was quite emotional about

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it as well, because he was
so delighted that he found this ring for

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me. The part of the story
that grabbed me was that fifty four years

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ago is nineteen seventy now. Wow. Yikes. Researchers studying thousands of recorded

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call have discovered the sperm whale phonetic
alphabet for sperm whales. Bursts of clicks

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come in different varieties and form the
building blocks of speech. Jacob Andreas,

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At, Associate professor in electrical engineering
and computer Science, was one of the

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authors of the new study. He
said, the very important caveat to add

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here is we still don't know whether
you want to think of a coda as

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being a word, or like a
sentence, or like an individual val or

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consonant. The big payoff here is
the way you figure out they're actually talking,

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how the communication system works and what
things mean is by trying to link

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the specific calls to whales behavior.
They're working on that right now. Sperm

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whales don't sing like humpback whales,
as you know. They may clicks to

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detect prey. The phonic lips opened
very briefly and slapped back together, creating

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a loud click that is amplified in
the nasal complex. The sperm whale clicks

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reached the equivalent of about one hundred
and seventy decibels in the ocean. Sounds

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above one hundred and twenty decibels can
cause immediate damage to the human ear.

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Wow, you might want to be
friends with Christine from Massachusetts. She won

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a million dollars in the lottery twice
in the last few weeks. Her most

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recent prize was playing the one hundred
times cash ten dollars instant ticket game.

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She decided to receive the winnings at
a one time payment of six hundred and

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fifty thousand dollars before taxes. She's
gonna put that in the savings. Not

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sure what she did with the first
million dollars, but wow, you're pretty

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lucky there. Did you see the
New Planet of the Apes movie? It

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might be a cautionary tale. Scientists
observed Racus, the orangutan, pluck and

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chew up leaves of a medicinal plant
used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat

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pain and inflammation. The orangutan then
used his fingers to apply the plant juices

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to an injury on his right cheek. Afterwards, he pressed the choo plant

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to cover the open wound like a
makeshift bandage. Taras Stoinsky is the president

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and chief Scientific officer at the nonprofit
Dianne Fosse Guerrilla Fund. She said,

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if this behavior exists in some of
our closest living relatives, why could that

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tell us of how medicine first evolved. Astronaut George Taylor said, it's a

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madhouse all right, this one from
the New York Post. As I mentioned

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on a recent episode, maybe this
podcast should be four good news stories and

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a wacky story at the end.
I'm just trying to make you smile.

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The headline from the New York Post. I'm a teacher. I get a

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lot of weird gifts, but a
cremation coupon is my favorite. Yes,

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it was teacher appreciation Week. A
teacher shared on TikTok. I'm a public

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school teacher. I make forty three
thousand dollars a year before taxes, and

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this is everything I got in my
teacher Appreciation Week gift bag. In the

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bag a plastic water bottle from the
church, a stress ball, little notebook,

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a tube of chapstick, a key
chain with a matching lanyard, a

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Neutra grain bar, two pens,
a spray hand sanitizer, a cherry candy,

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a lollipop, and a cremation coupon. That's it. That's it.

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She got a cremation coupon. That's
it. Those are fuck good news stories

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for today. I hope you enjoy
the program. I'm laughing, I'm having

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fun. I hope you are too. Maybe a friend of yours would enjoy

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this a little story, share the
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You've heard the promo where we tell
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ninety nine. Okay, fine, Johnny

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Mac. I'll take the show ad
free for four ninety nine a month.

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You get the other shows too,
including Daily Comedy News, which I host

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seven days a week. And you
can test drive this for thirty days.

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So after thirty days you're like,
that was terrible, Okay, so don't

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renew all good, see you next
time. I have a great day.