What was in the World's Largest Time Capsule?

0:08 Hey there, I'm Chevny Mack with five good news stories, and boy, I'm starting to feel old. They opened up the world's largest time capsule. It was buried in nineteen seventy five. Dude, I remember nineteen seventy five. Whatever you put in a time capsule, I probably have some of that stuff in the house. All right. This was in Nebraska. Harold Davison had created the time capsule. His daughter Trish was there as the master of ceremonies, carrying out her father's vision for the grand opening of the time capsule. Inside stacks of letters and boxes, cassette tapes. I've got some of those in the other room. I can go get them right now if you want to hear him pet rocks. Remember that a teal patterned suit. Wait for this, an entire yellow Chevy Vega wrapped in a plastic tarp.

0:54 I wonder how that held up. You get some money for that. Trish, the daughter, said, this is the culmination of fifty years of planning on part of my father. There were packages from I'm going to say three thousand people, letters and packages, letters to themselves, letters to the grandchildren, letters to the airs. So when they opened this thing, It started with a large concrete pyramid which was sealed over the time capsule as if it was like from the Pharaohs. They had to remove that with a cream now. Interestingly, the pyramid was added later on when they found out that this particular time capsule no longer had the world record for biggest time capsule in the world, so they went back and added the pyramid. Stephanie went there and said, my parents didn't think they'd be here fifty years later to retrieve it with us. She traveled from Colorado to get a cassette tape with a message from her mother and said, it's pretty special to know that their voices are in there. I haven't heard it in a long time.

1:43 That's kind of cool. Mister Davison, who built the thing, had built a ventilation system to prevent mold growth. The daughter said probably eighty percent of everything put inside was retrievable and intact. Chris showed up from Virginia. He recognized his mother's handwriting and opened a letter that wished him a happy edation career in life. That is pretty cool. Good news, we captured your wallaby. The wallaby had been on the run for two weeks. In New York. You know, if I did this story in Australia, you'd be like, all right, a wallaby whatever. But in New York. Yeah, I did escape from a New York zoo. Dan is the director of the zoo, and he was worried about Mac, the walibe. Dan said Mac had been living her best life, living in the bushes, ignoring food laid out to bait her into traps. A vet was keeping an eye on Mac.

2:28 Mac back safely now. A sixteen year old boy had been struggling at school and not fitting in due to learning difficulties, so more than a thousand motorcycle riders escorted the bully teenager to his prom. The young man wore a one of a kind black suit made by his mom and said, I never, in my wildest dreams imagine this many bikers would be in one place for one person. It's insane. I'm still in shock. I used to say I felt alone, but I don't feel that way anymore. The family expected around fifty bikers to show up, but a thousand did. They lined up to take photo, shake the young man's hand, pass on some kind words. Others brought birthday cards for him. Mom said the last three years were very difficult, but he kept going, did his exams and now he's all done. The young man has advice, saying, with bullies, if you just ignore them and power through, you can expect a great result. A Danish family has shared on Instagram a new member of their family. It is a wild Eurasian crow. The crow comes and visits them, including the dog, including the cats, but the crow is really there for Otto, the little boy. Yes, Russell, the crow shows up. Otto the boy had found the orphaned juvenile bird. Otto's mom and dad couldn't find anyone in the area to rehab the bird, so the family nursed the bird back to health, and over time the crow grew to trust the family. Now the family now has a young baby, and every now and then the crow comes by and tries to steal the baby's pacifier. And a man has put his father's ashes into the fretboard of his guitar, saying, the dad will still be with me at all the shows. Mark learned to lay the

4:00 guitar from his father, who passed away on Christmas Day of twenty twenty two. Dad used to travel hundreds of miles to attend his son's gig, they'd have a beer and catch up. Mark's sister use some of her dad's ashes to make jewelry. That gave Mark the idea of doing the same for his guitar. His friend Sam runs Sam's Guitars. Sam said, first I was wondering how it would work. That the more I thought about it, and they did a few test runs on a spear guitar, neck I had it, and then I realized it wouldn't be too difficult to complete it. Mark said, We put some music on the background, had a couple beers and made a thing of it. Sam did the work while the shop was shut and was caring and really respectful. I wish Dad was still here, but doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me, and you've always got your memories. This way, he'll still be with me at all the shows, and this has given me a sense of closure. And those are your five good News stories for today. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption, feed drops and the other stuff, go to Calarroga dot com, slash plus, or if you're on Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening and it'll take you from there short version five bucks, well that goes away. You have an awesome day.