1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five 2 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,599 good stories. Remember Chicago's famous rat hole if you know, 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,679 and I'll tell you about it. Well, anyway, it turns 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,679 out it wasn't a rat after all. Yeah, there was 5 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,160 this patch of sidewalk in Chicago that appeared to bear 6 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:26,480 the outline of a rat that had been like crushed 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,039 into wet cement decades ago, leaving behind an urban fossil. 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,880 This went viral a year ago after a comedian posted 9 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,759 it that drew a lot of crowds. The crowds got 10 00:00:36,759 --> 00:00:39,880 so intense, neighbors complained, and the city workers removed the 11 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,119 rat hole. Come on, guys, that's no fun. They did 12 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,119 put a plaque there, but come on, what are you 13 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,479 doing anyway. Researchers from the University of Tennessee, New York 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,520 Institute of Technology, and the University of Calgary, So this 15 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,320 is three different universities get involved with the rat hole. 16 00:00:56,359 --> 00:00:58,439 They say the rat was never a rat at all. 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,359 They compared photos and measure of the rat hole with 18 00:01:01,439 --> 00:01:05,680 local animal specimens. They concluded it was probably an Eastern 19 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:10,200 gray squirrel. They called out the creature's long fore limbs 20 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,680 and hind paws too big for a rat. They propose 21 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,680 the specimen be re christened the Windy City Sidewalk squirrel, 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,200 which is not as much fun as rat hole. Let's 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,519 keep the urban legend. Come on, scientists, and hey, city, 24 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,680 just put it back. In New Orleans, a family was 25 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,319 clearing weeds from their backyard. Can you guys come over 26 00:01:29,359 --> 00:01:31,680 if you've got some free time. They made a discovery 27 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,359 a nineteen hundred year old Roman tombstone in New Orleans. 28 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:40,920 What at first glance it looked like a marble tablet. Daniella, 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,400 a Two Lane University anthropologist, noted the Latin inscription, including 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,959 the phrase spirits of the dead. She was like, huh. 31 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,959 The fact that it was in Latin gave us pause. 32 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,879 I mean, you'd see something like that and you go, okay, 33 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:55,120 this is not an ordinary thing. Her colleague, Susan, who's 34 00:01:55,159 --> 00:01:59,599 a classical archaeologist, confirmed, oh, this is the long lost 35 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:03,480 grave more marker of a Roman sailor named Sexus Congenius Verus, 36 00:02:03,519 --> 00:02:06,079 who died at forty two years old after serving two 37 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:09,000 decades in the Imperial Navy. Don't forget we're in New 38 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,879 Orleans here. What happened the tablet had gone missing from 39 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:15,199 an Italian museum decades ago, who was thought lost after 40 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,280 World War two bombing destroyed much of the museum's collection. 41 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,560 Scientists compared the measurements. They matched perfectly and said, you 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,080 can't have better DNA than that. All right, what's the mystery? 43 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,719 Aaron was watching this story on the news and said, 44 00:02:27,759 --> 00:02:30,080 I know that stone. Aaron and her ex husband had 45 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,719 once used it as a Gordon decoration. She said, none 46 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:34,280 of us knew what it was. We're watching the video 47 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,680 kind of in shock. Aaron's grandparents had brought it from Italy, 48 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,400 where her grandfather was stationed during World War Two. Officials 49 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,479 are trying to get this thing home. Wow. Congratulations to Natalie, 50 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:48,560 who's eighty years old and from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. 51 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,879 She became the oldest woman ever to finish the Ironman 52 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,759 World Championship. Now, if you're not familiar with the iron Man, 53 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,599 you swim two point four miles, okay, then you hop 54 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,680 on your bike into one hundred and twelve, and then 55 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:04,919 you run a marathon. Coach Michelle said Natalie didn't even 56 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,599 learn to swim until she was sixty. She's truly gritty. 57 00:03:07,719 --> 00:03:10,360 Natalie is the definition of grit and gratitude. Grateful to 58 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:11,960 make it to the start line, grateful to get to 59 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,080 do something she loves every day, and grateful to aspire 60 00:03:14,159 --> 00:03:17,560 so many others. Sixteen hours, forty five minutes and twenty 61 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,680 six seconds. I don't know how you do it. I've 62 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,479 done the math on like how fast I run, so 63 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,879 assuming I don't fatigue, and I've done the math on, Okay, 64 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,439 if I started this thing and I swim and then 65 00:03:30,479 --> 00:03:32,560 I bike, and then I run my usual marathon pace, 66 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:35,560 ignoring that I've already swam and biked, and assuming I 67 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,479 don't fatigue at all, I can't do this thing before sunset. 68 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,280 This is so impressive to me. Congratulations. Henry the polar 69 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:44,680 Bear had a good day. He had a meal, a 70 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,240 fourteen hundred pound pumpkin. You got to do something with 71 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,479 these pumpkins, right. Henry lives at the Cochran Polar Bear 72 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,759 Habitat in Ontario. He was walking around and he was like, hey, 73 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:57,719 what's this? Was it? Big giant pumpkin? And first he's like, yeah, 74 00:03:57,759 --> 00:03:59,759 I'm not gonna eat that, but then he was like, 75 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:03,599 does look tasty. Amy works at the habitat and said 76 00:04:03,639 --> 00:04:05,520 one of My staff was driving up from down south 77 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,680 and ended up directly behind this pumpkin as it was 78 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,080 on the highway. She said, if she didn't take it, it 79 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,479 was going to head to the compost. So what do 80 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,680 you do? You feed it to the polar bear. Of course, 81 00:04:14,719 --> 00:04:16,920 you don't just drive by the giant pumpkin. You grab 82 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,079 it and you feed it to a polar bear. The 83 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,879 polar bear did seem to enjoy it, however, polar bears 84 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,439 need fat heavy meals like baby seals, and pumpkins are 85 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,560 all fiber. No gain. Regardless, it made for fun Instagram videos. 86 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:32,519 All right, John, what happened on your commute today? Well, 87 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,959 you see, I'm there on the train right and then 88 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,439 all of a sudden there was this sheep wearing a diaper. 89 00:04:37,959 --> 00:04:40,920 A diaper wearing a sheep aboard a high speed train 90 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,920 in Poland went viral. You think a member of parliament 91 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,199 posted the video. He was not amused. He said, I'm 92 00:04:49,199 --> 00:04:51,519 currently on a train of Warsaw and I wonder is 93 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,879 this still a passenger train or a cattle car. He 94 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,199 criticized the sheep's owner for the unconventional means of transport 95 00:04:58,399 --> 00:05:00,920 and as well as the train service for a lot it. However, 96 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:04,480 the train company rules do allow for animals to be 97 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:07,759 transported on its trains provided and I'm not making this up, 98 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,560 I'm not making a joke, providing that they're properly ticketed 99 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,800 and wearing diapers. And those are five good news stories today. 100 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:15,639 Have a good one.