Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark media, guys, what are we doing? Hi? I'm
Johnny Mack with five news stories. Organizers of the World
Stone Skimming Championships in Scotland set a cheating scandal led
to the disqualification of several competitors. As you know, the
World Stone Skimming Championships are an annual celebration of the sport.
It's held every September. The rules require the stones thrown
by competitors to skim across the surface of the water
to be naturally occurring slate stones from the island, but
several competitors this year brought rocks that appeared to have
been shaped and smoothed by a machine. Do you need
to win the stone throwing contest that badly that you're
gonna cheat? What is wrong with you? Kyle Matthews is
the event's tossmaster. He told the Scottish Mail. I got
calls from concerned competitors. They were worried people might think
that's how things are done here. I contacted the individual
who had admitted their transgressions and I had to disqualify
them to give them credit. They deeply apologize for bringing
the sport into disrepute and accepted disqualification and we accept
that that's the end of the matter. Well no, this
is now being talked about on an international podcast. This
is very embarrassing for the sport of stone throwing. Mister
Matthews said. Organizers are considering new rules for future competitions,
requiring participants to choose from stone selected by officials instead
of finding your own. But see that's not fun. I
like finding my own. Let these cheaters go and have
their own like man made stone throwing contest and don't
hold it in Scotland. Let's keep this competition pure. The
first round of the competition features competitors attempting to skip
their stones across the surface of the water to the
back wall of the quarry that's about two hundred and
six feet. Those who qualify for the second round then
engage in a sauce off to determine the winner. Congratulations
to Jonathan Jennings out of Kentucky. He became the competition's
first ever American winner. In the adult male category of
this year's event, Lucy Woods won the adult female category
for the sixth time. Now, if you hang out with
Johnny Mack, he will often say to you two beers,
not eight. Two beers is a nice hang with friends.
Eight is something else entirely, And now researchers have found
this to be true. They find the chimpanzees eating fermented
fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly
two alcoholic drinks per day. That's right. The researchers analyzed
twenty one species of fruit regularly eaten by chimpanzees in
Uganda to measure the alcohol content. They tell us, across
all sites, male and female chimps are consuming about fourteen
grams that's like half an ounce of pure ethanol per
day in their diet, which is equivalent to one standard
American drink. When you adjust for body masks, it's like
two drinks. We're gonna have to get these chimps in
White Castle to, you know, take the edge off on
the walk home. Scientists tell us human attraction at alcohol
probably arose from this dietary heritage of our common ancestor
with chimpanzees. New York City is turning food waste into
black gold to improve these cities' soil health. Waste items
like watermelon rines, greasy pizza boxes, and you're trimming they're
being composted at the Staten Island compost Facility. They take
in one hundred to one hundred and fifty tons of
organic material every day. There used to be a garbage dump.
Is that Is that a I feel like that's not
a PC term? Am I allowed to say garbage dump?
Or am I gonna get canceled? There used to be
a sanitation facility on Staten Island. It was just like huge, huge,
but they close that down a while back. Tuffs University
will be tuition free for US families earning less than
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The president of Toughs
University said, we're sending a clear message that Toughs is
committed to meeting the full need of all its students.
US undergraduate students whose families make less than one hundred
fifty thousand dollars a year will attend tuition free beginning
in the fall of twenty twenty six. Students with an
annual family income of less than sixty thousand dollars will
typically receive a financial aid package with no student loans.
The new policy, known as the Tough Tuition Pact, is
meant to ensure that students from all backgrounds know that
a tough education is within reach. I lost track of
how many stories. I've recorded a bunch of these today,
including the Halloween ones, and I'm a little punchy from
doing those because those made me laugh. Let's see what
did I do? I did? The Stones is one, Beers
is two. Why don't you edit this out, John, because
that's not fun. Black Gold composting was three, toughtless four. Okay,
it's five good news stories and this is story number five.
It's one of those world records and it's not you know,
what would those guys do, those guys that make stuff up?
They would hop on one leg while juggling. But that's
not enough. They always have to add like a third thing.
Hop on one leg while juggling in fourteen seconds in
the rain. Well, it's not that at all. This is
the Guinness World Record for the largest pizza party. Why
wasn't I invited to this? The Taste of new Haven
held a record attempt at the new Haven Green. More
than no nine thousand slices of pizza were handed out.
I would have had three, four, I mean, if they
were free, definitely would had three. There were forty five
hundred and twenty five participants, breaking the record of just
thirty three hundred and fifty seven participants set by the
Pizza World Champions in Sulsan twenty twenty three. Now, some
lazy matthire forty five twenty five times two is around
nine thousand, but somebody must have had one slice, so
I could have had a third slice to balance that out.
Togains to the nine thousand slices. The new Haven mayor
on social media said new Haven has once again demonstrated
it's pizza supremacy and why the Elm city is the
pizza capital of the country and the world. With four
five hundred and twenty five Pizza Party participants, the love
for pizza and new Haven was literally palpable and unclear display.
And those are five good news stories for today. I'm hungry,
have a good day.