March 8, 2025

White Claw Spill

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In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories, including a heartwarming tale of a man who gave his shoe to a blind traveler in need, the surprising beneficial effects of exercise on brain health, two half-sisters who found each other through a DNA test, a 17-year-old girl becoming the youngest to pass the California State Bar Exam, and a truck accident that spilled thousands of empty White Claw cans on the road in Arizona. Enjoy these feel-good stories and unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed! You also get 20+ other shows on the network ad-free!

00:00 Heartwarming Acts of Kindness in London
01:06 Exercise: Boosting Brain Health
01:41 Reunited Half-Sisters: A DNA Surprise
03:06 Teen Prodigies: Youngest to Pass the Bar
04:22 White Claw Spill: A Comical Traffic Jam

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

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good news stories. Police are on the lookout for a

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man now on the subway. Seems he gave his shoe

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to someone else. They were all at the King's Cross station.

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A train was approaching and a blind man tripped. An

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onlooker shared on Reddit. A few of us on the

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train helped the guy find a seat. Once the man

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sat down, he realized he had a missing shoe. It

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slipped between the platform and the train before the train

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left the platform. We all try to tell the train driver,

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but I'm guessing a miscommunication occurred and the train left

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the platform. The blind man got a bit panicked as

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he only had one shoe. This absolute hero, without hesitation,

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took off his own shoe and gave it to the

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blind man. It was a cold day and he got

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out at Liverpool Street to go and find himself a

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new pair of shoes. British social media is on the

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hunt for the man who gave up a shoe. The

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onlooker said it was such an act of kindness. It

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really showed that people are good and mainly we try

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to look after one another. I've only known London to

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be a kind place. Just to think of it and

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shivers down my spine. Good news if you work out.

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Working out amplifies neuron growth and may aid in nerve repair. Yeah,

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as you know, exercise is good for muscles and bones

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and stuff, but there are also benefits for the brain.

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According to MIT researchers, they found that exercise can significantly

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boost neuron growth by causing muscles to relax myokines. Hope

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I'm pronouncing that right. Those are biochemical signals that enhance

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neural development. The study suggests that targeted muscle stimulation could

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aid nerve repair and restore mobility in neurodegenerative diseases. So

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start working out a little bit more. You can listen

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to the show get a good five minute workout. In

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two half sisters had never met each other. They took

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a DNA test and found they had both given their

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children the other's name. Jessica's mother had been adopted. She

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was always curious about her family. She ordered a DNA

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test from ancestry dot com. Meanwhile, Nicole had already done

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a DNA test and was checking her profile one day

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and was shocked to find she had any new genetic match.

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She contacted the woman who Ancestry said was her half sister.

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They decided to meet up. It turned out Nicole had

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named her daughter Jessica, Jessica had named her son Nicholas.

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Nicole said, I personally feel that the universe brought us

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together now for a reason, but there was a plan

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all along. For Jessica, I was a double surprise. Not

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only did she have a sister, but the person she

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had called dad all her life was not her biological father.

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She explained, I was in shock at first after I

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read the message from Nicole, I went through so many

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emotions in about ten minutes. I felt the second grief

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for my father, who had already passed away, and then

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a sense of joy for these newfound family members. Jessica

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traveled from her home in Florida to stay with Nicole

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and Michigan and said, we so easily fit together, could

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just talk for ages with each other. I immediately felt

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like she was a mini me. There's still a mystery

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as to what happened fifty years ago. Jessica's parents died

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years before the two sisters met. Nichole's dad, who's also

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Jessica's biological father passed away twenty years ago. Nicole said,

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I grew up with our father in the home, but

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Jessica grew up not knowing him at all, with a

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different father. We've both lost all her parents, so there's

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unfortunately no one left to ask what happened. Congratulations to Sophia.

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She just became the youngest person who passed the California

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State Bar Exam seventeen years and eight months old. Now,

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if this story sounds familiar, yeah, you may recall about

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a year ago, the youngest man to pass the California

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Bar Exam was seventeen years at eleven months of age.

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That's her brother. State Bar Executive Director Leah Wilson said,

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the State Bar of California proudly congratulates Sophia Park on

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passing the California Bar Exam at just seventeen years old.

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This remarkable achievement follows her brother Peter's similar success last year,

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further highlighting their extraordinary dedication and talent. Shouldn't this be

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a show onli like Disney Plus like two teenage siblings

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or lawyers? That could be a show, right, you'd watch?

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Sofia has to wait until she turns eighteen to be

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sworn in. She plans to join the DA's office as

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a prosecutor, just like her brother. Oh yeah, this has

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to be a show, right the bad guys in there.

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You're like, who's this teenage girl prosecutor? And then like

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she's like really good and you get sent to jail

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for twenty five years. You'd watch we got to make

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this show. Prowd Dad says it's the result of four

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years of consistent, dedicated work. It didn't happen overnight. There

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are two other siblings. One is older. I don't know

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anything about the older sibling, and then there's younger Sarah,

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who yep, is attending law school. All right, good luck

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explaining your boss why you were late. You're there in

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Arizona and there's an accident up ahead. A truck overturned

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and spilled thousands of cans of white claw onto the road.

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They were empty cans. They were on their way to

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the recycling bind. Social media showed thousands of empty cans

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littering the freeway. This is five good news stories. So

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you know, the driver's okay, I'm not gonna like sandbag

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you with some horrible story at the end of the podcast,

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but yeah, I was on my way to work Boston.

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There was white claw all over the road. Uh huh, right,

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And those are five good news stories for today. If

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