July 1, 2025

We found your mongoose at the brewery, where else would it be?

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Highlights include a controversial art show in Germany featuring chickens in diapers, a New Zealand flag exhibit that sparked debate, a couple's epic 11-month adventure down the Pan-American Highway, a hungry wild elephant causing minor chaos in a grocery store in Thailand, and a 14-year-old boy being rewarded for his honesty after returning a lost wallet containing $300. Some stories are funny, some controversial, and all are worth listening to!

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Here there Johnny Mack with fine good

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news stories. Now. Back in twenty twenty three, a construction

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worker had been rescued from the side of a burning

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high rise building. Thanks to a cream operator, he was

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able to move it close enough to a burning building

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to help a worker escape the fire. Well. Now Glenn

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has received a series of home improvements as a gift

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for the heroism that day. Now, sadly, Glenn has cancer.

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It has spread to his spine. An organization called Bucket

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List Wishes got in touch with Glenn and they said

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they wanted to help Glen fulfill a bucket list of

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his own. What did he ask for? New flooring and

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a garden shed for a home he had recently moved into.

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They also hooked him up with a fishing trip to

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a seaside resort. I wish you well, sir. Some giant

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troll heads are on a ship heading to the United States.

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They will join other trolls that are already part of

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a trail in Charlestown's Ni Integrant Park. Louise Bishop is

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the president of the South County Tourism Council, and Louise

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has been championing the creation of Rhode Island's troll trail.

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Recycling artist Thomas Dambo has built some trolls more than

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thirty five feet tall and more than twenty countries to

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highlight the importance of fighting for nature of the plants

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and the animals. Five of his trolls in Rhode Island

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will help tell a story and reveal clues that will

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assist visitors in solving a puzzle. This is totally going

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to work, Like I already want to go check this out.

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Good news for me. I only did four stories when

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I was in the studio, but I have an AI

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Voice clone which I'm using here to add one more.

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A UK startup is recycling pet ashes into artificial reefs

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to save marine life. Resting Reef calls its alternative to

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traditional burial methods a new tradition around death that truly

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honors life. It takes the ashes of a beloved pet

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and combines them with crushed oyster shells and concrete, which

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is then molded into reef structures in which fish species

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can thrive. Their first project placed twenty four memorial reefs

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for pet owners in the United States and UK. It

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was a huge success. Attracting eighty four fish species and

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achieving fish diversity fourteen times greater than nearby degraded areas.

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Congratulations to Stumpy the Lemur. Stumpy the Lemur has been

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officially named oldest lemur in the world each thirty nine.

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Stumpy's name is because of his slightly shorter tail. Stumpy

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was born June nineteen eighty six in England and has

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lived at the Five Sister Zeus since two thousand and five.

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One of the keepers at the zoo said Stumpy's birthday

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is a big event. He celebrates with his sons and

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enjoys a big birthday cake made from special primate pellet.

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Stumpy is the father of eleven lemurs and has twenty

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five grandchildren, six great grandchildren and one great great granddaughter.

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Lemurs in captivity typically lived twenty to twenty five years. Again,

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Stumpy is thirty nine. He does have some arthritis. He

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does need some extra care, such as some daily medications

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for said arthritis, but he's due. Okay, and good news.

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We found your mongoose. Your mongoose was at the bar.

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The mongoose escaped by burrowing out of his enclosure at

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the wildlife park and was loose for several days before

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showing up at the Heron and Breerly Brewery, about fifteen

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miles from the zoo. It's pretty far Gef was only

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born back at September, and it's now back at the zoo.

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Zoo officials think Gef may have escaped to search for

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a mate and would not be the first creature on

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this earth to head to the bar and search for

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a mate. The Zoo's gonna hook Geff up and send

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Geff to another zoo where he can join a breeding program.

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Hope that works out for you, buddy. And those are

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