The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with five good news stories. There was a bald
eagle who had gone viral for trying to hatch a rock. Well, good
news for Murphy, the thirty one year old eagle. He's now taken care
of an orphaned eaglet at a Missouri bird sanctuary. So back in March,
the sanctuary explained that building a nest and nurturing a rock as if it's an
egg is a hormonal response to spring. They clarified, Murphy is not hurt,
sick, or otherwise in distress. He's built a nest on the ground
and is very carefully incubating a rock. We wish him the best of luck.
Then in April, the sanctuary received a bruised and battered orphaned eaglet.
His nest had been blown down in a storm. The sanctuary needed to introduce
the chick to an adult eagle for fostering. They decided they'd give Murphy a
chance. Murphy's dad instincts were already in high gear, but at thirty one
years old, he had never raised a chick before. It's definitely a gamble,
but was the chick's best chance. Baby rock was removed and the chick
was introduced. The eaglets has been bonding beautifully with Murphy. Congratulations to Dylan
and Garrett. They have designed the world's best paper airplane. They are actually
bowing engineers. It took them twenty minutes to fold the airplane, which eventually
flew two hundred and ninety feet, a Guinness World record. It wasn't a
classic paper airplane design. They used their knowledge of aeronautics and origami to design
something with the same characteristics as a supersonic aircraft. They said, we try
to mimic the design of various hypersonic vehicles with travel at speeds over MAC five,
so we decided to call our plane MAC five. They selected the A
four, which is European size paper with the maximum weight of one hundred grams
per square meter. Reasoning the heavier the airplane, farther one could throw it.
We found the optimal angles about forty degrees off the ground. Once you're
aiming at that high, you throw it as hard as possible. That gave
us our best distance. It took simulations to figure that out. I didn't
think we could get useful data from a simulation on a paper airplane. It
turns out we could meanwhile in your car, if you're like annoyed with all
the screens, can we just have some buttons and knobs like we used to?
Well, good news, they're coming back. The head of Hunday Design
said, we've used physical buttons quite significantly the last few years. We will
continue to have physical dials. I agree, Just give me a radio button.
It gets a little hard punching around on everything, you know, I
just want to hit ac blast. I don't want to go through a screen.
Good news from Melissa and Mark. They saved twenty five thousand dollars by
salvaging items from their own scrapyard for their wedding. After they got engaged,
they decided to build their wedding by using some of the hundreds of thousands of
items brought into their scrapyard. They eventually found tables, chairs, decorations,
even their engagement rings. Melissa said, to have a wedding that was different
was always my aim. I love to stand out from the crowd. I
felt it was my challenge to make our wedding from things we could reuse and
recycle. Melissa said, I'm so passionate about saving things from landfill, so
with my wedding, I wanted it to be as vintage as possible. I
love the salage with things with the history, I wouldn't dream of buying something
too modern. With a bit of TLC, you can make something completely new
and totally unique. I am Patty Callahan Henry, I am Mary Kay Andrews,
I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is
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pub crawl dressed as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, you just might run
into sir Ian McKillen Ben Coyles was celebrating his twenty second birthday. He was
all dressed up. They walked into the next bar and there's sir Ian.
His friend Felix said, we had no idea it'd be there. We were
on our penultimate pub when someone comes up and asked we we'd like our Gandalf
to meet the real Gandalf. So I turned around. I assume it's gonna
be somebody pulling my leg. I'd turned around. It's sir Ian McKillen ben
said. He asked me how old I was and said, happy birthday.
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