March 15, 2025

Whale Swallows Kayaker!

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five remarkable and uplifting good news stories. From a thrilling kayaking encounter with a humpback whale to innovative coral restoration projects by Ohio State researchers, this episode highlights extraordinary events and impactful initiatives. It also covers heartwarming stories like a young girl and her cleft-lipped dog, a Brazilian couple celebrating 84 years of marriage, and a hidden historical sketch below the Lincoln Memorial. Tune in for a dose of positivity and fascinating news!

00:00 Introduction and Kayaking Adventure
01:27 Innovative Coral Restoration
02:25 Heartwarming Cleft Lip Story
02:57 Record-Breaking Marriage
03:33 Lincoln Memorial's Hidden Secrets

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

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Good News Stories. Did you see this video? You probably did.

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A guy was out kayaking and he was swallowed by

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a humpback whale. The video is like, whoa, what's going

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on there? They have it on film. This story extra

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speaks to me because over a winter break, I was

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in Antarctica. For real, I went down to Antarctica and

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for real I was kayaking. I could share you the

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photos if you want. And in those waters were humpback whale.

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So it's very easy for me to imagine myself being like, hey,

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this is kind of cool kayaking and then getting eaten

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by a whale. But this is five good News Stories, right,

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So I'm not gonna be like yeah, and then the

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guy died and you know, it's a horrible story. That's

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not how this show works. Adrian was kayaking with his

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father in Chile when he felt an impact on his

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back that knocked him out of his kayak. His father

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captured the video as Adrian briefly vanished into the mouth

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of a humpback. Adrian wasn't sure what the heck was

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happening until the well spit him back out on the water.

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He says, at first I thought it swallowed me whole,

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although I didn't really know what it was. And then

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when I got back to the surface, I realized it

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was a whale. I also knew there wasn't that much

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danger unless it started jumping or knocked my dad off

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the boat, because it would be very difficult for us

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to get back to shore. He was not injured. He

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was able to reunite with Dad and get back to

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shore and said, when I was inside it, I remember Pinocchio,

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who was also swallowed by a well. Scientists at Ohio

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State are working with a special kind of light that

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it attracts microscopic organisms that coral feed on. The device

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is called the Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array use EELA,

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I guess UZALA. It's an autonomous programmable underwater light and

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they're working with the help of the Coral Restoration Foundation

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in Florida. Researchers found that the UZALA could greatly enhance

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local zooplankton density and increase the feeding rates of both

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healthy and bleach coral. When coral feed on larger quantities

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of zooplankton, it makes them stronger and more likely to

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be resilient against certain environmental threats like heat stress or

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ocean acidification. Andrea's leading the study and says coral reefs

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house one third of all marine species yet occupy less

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than one percent of the ocean. By improving coral health

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and survival rates could help reduce the time it takes

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for corals to grow to a size suitable for outplanning

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onto reefs. This would not only enhance the successive coral

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restoration projects, but also reduce the operating costs associated with

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growing and maintaining nursery corals. Kinley was born with a

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cleft lip, and so was her dog. Tenny. The dog

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was also born with a cleft lip. Kinley used to

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ask her mom Kimberly, while she was different from other kids.

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Lindsey started Cleft Rescue and said our mission is combined

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the two different cleff communities, the human community and the

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canine community. We get puppies from all across the country.

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She says that many humans with clefts adopt dogs with

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kleffs thelighting and their shared difference. They love that the

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puppies look like them. It's really special. Kinley asked her

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mother one night if dogs also have cleft lips, and

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then Mom was like, of course they do. Congratulations to

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a Brazilian couple. They are celebrating eighty four years of marriage.

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They got married in nineteen forty Manuel's one hundred and

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five Maria one hundred and one. They were awarded the

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title from Guinness. They set the record at eighty four

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years in seventy seven days. They met in nineteen thirty six,

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married in Brazil in nineteen forty thirteen children, fifty five grandchildren,

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fifty four great grandchildren, and twelve great great grandchildren. The

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longest marriage ever eighty eight years in three hundred and

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forty nine days. David and Sarah Hiller were married in

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eighteen oh nine. In Canada, experts believe that the Lincoln

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Memorial is sitting above a racy secret. Apparently forty five

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feet below the Lincoln Memorial is a sketch of a

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woman suspected to be a scandalous silent film star. There's

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a drawing of Feta Barra on the pillars of the

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basement of the memorial in Washington, d C. Depicting the

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profile of a woman with dark lipstick, dark eyebrows, dark

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eye makeup and a cigarette hanging from her lips. Next

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to the sketch the word vamp. Barra rose to fame

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in silent films beginning around nineteen fourteen, often playing the

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evil seductress. In nineteen fifteen they were finishing the foundation

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pillars for the memorial. She had her breakthrough role in

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a film called A Fool There Was, in which she

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played a character called the vampire, eventually shortened to vamp.

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Her character is the origin of the term we use

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today to refer to a seductive woman who exploits men.

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Apparently there are other sketches down there, doodles of the

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cartoon characters Mutt and Jeff, and a figure believed to

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be President Woodrow Wilson. He was in office during the construction.

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The drawings are suspected have been done with carpenter's pencils

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because everybody had them in the slot of their bib overalls.

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And those are five good news stories for today. If

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