Jan. 30, 2025

Will the bananas appear again on February 2nd?

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting news stories. Discover the mystery of the banana plates in England, the mayor of Belcastro's tongue-in-cheek health proclamation, and the heroic act of a retired police dog named Bear. Celebrate the improved HIV treatments leading to the closure of a specialized camp and learn about a green sea turtle named Charlotte, who can now swim thanks to a custom 3D-printed harness.

00:00 Mysterious Bananas
01:00 Italian Town Bans Sickness
01:51 Heroic Police Dog Bear
02:30 HIV Camp Closes Due to Medical Advances
03:08 3D Printed Harness Saves Sea Turtle

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Callaroga Shark media. All right, this first was ridiculous. I'm

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shutting back with five good stories. With February second approaching,

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let's keep an eye on beast in England. You see

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over there, someone's been leaving a plate of peel bananas

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on a street corner on the second day of each

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month for over a year. Residents are trying to solve

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the mystery who's been doing this. Claire figured this out

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that the banana plates were being left on the second

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day of each month and put up a sign reading

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please respectfully, no more bananas. The uncollected plates and rodny

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bananas leave such a mess. Happy New Year. Despite the sign,

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someone still left a plate of bananas on January second,

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Claire said, I've asked all around the local community, but

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no one really knows, and no one could tell me anything.

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I think it's a special thing for someone. I wish

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them well, but if they could come back and clean

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up the mess a few days later, that'd be lo Hey,

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good news. If you don't like to get sick, you

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gotta move to Italy. You see. The mayor of bel

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Castro has issued a proclamation banning local residents from getting

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sick you're not allowed to get sick. The mayor issued

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a proclamation ordering residents not to contract any serious illnesses

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that could lead to the need for emergency medical attention.

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Residents were also ordered not to engage in activities that

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could lead to serious injuries, and were advised to instead

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spend the majority of their time resting why it was

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meant to be a tongue in cheek way to draw

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attention to the shortcomings of local healthcare infrastructure. The mayor

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said about half the village's twelve hundred residents are over

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the age of sixty five. The nearest er is thirty

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miles away. It is only accessible via a road with

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an eighteen mile an hour speed limit. The village has

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an on call doctor, but the service is not available

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during nights, weekends, or holidays. Nice job by Bear, the

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retired police dog. Bear is a twelve year old German

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shepherd and receive the Lifesaver Award from the Thin Blue

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Poff Foundation, a charity that helps police dogs, and that

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same charity had previously partially paid for one of Bear's surgeries.

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You see, Bear was out for a walk. The walk

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was aimed at rehabilitating Bear's stamina following surgery to remove

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some tumors. During the walk, Bear led Julia and husband

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Ian into the deep brush where a man had fallen down.

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The guy was immobile and confused, and the authorities were

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already out looking for the guy. Julia says, for Bear

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to get this award now in his retirement is very special.

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We're all super proud of him. A camp for kids

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with HIV is closing after thirty years. Well, why is

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that good news, John? Well, because HIV treatment has improved

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so significantly. The number of babies contracting the viers through

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their mothers through pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding has declined so

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much that the camp no longer needs to exist. There

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aren't enough kids in need. That's great. In the US,

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the perinatal HIV transmission rate is now less than one

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percent thanks to anti retroviral medications. One Heartland in northern

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Minnesota had welcomed young camp mp is living with or

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affected by HIV AIDS for thirty years. The eighty acre

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site is going up for sale. Good news for Charlotte,

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the green sea turtle. Charlotte can now swim again thanks

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to an innovative three D printed harness. Poor Charlotte was

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struck by a boat back in two thousand and eight.

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The incident caused Charlotte to have what biologists call positive

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buoyancy syndrome or bubble butt syndrome, a condition that traps

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air in the back of the turtle's shell and still

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it's it's rear end up at a forty five degree angle,

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you know, so you can't really swim. Claire is an

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aquarist at Mystic Aquarium and said when turtles get hit

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by boats, their shells can deform slightly, and that deformity

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causes air to get trapped on the back of their shells.

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Instead of sitting naturally buoyant like turtles do, they sit

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with their butts up in the air. Mystic reached out

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to a three D printing company to create a weighted

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harness that would allow Charlotte to swim more easily. Nick

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works for the three D printing company and said they

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probably we've been trying to solve is essentially putting weights

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on the back of Charlotte, which sounds very simple but

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ended up being a very challenging process. The only way

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to really get something to stick to Charlotte was to

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build a custom device to help create a customized harness

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that would fit comfortably and snugly to Charlotte's unique geometry.

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So far, so good. Congratulations Charlotte, nice job, scientists and

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everybody involved there. And those are five good news stories

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