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Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Chunny Mack with five

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good news stories. That's so much fun doing regular stories

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Yesterday I'm like, eh, I'm gonna pop back on and

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do regular five good news stories again. Not that I

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don't like the Christmas. I love the Christmas obviously, but

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I just like mixing it up. There's no real rules here,

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just trying to make you smile and have a nice day,

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all right. Police in New Jersey said reports of monkeys

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on the loose. Uh oh, I'm in New Jersey. What

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Apparently these monkeys were on the loose in Newark? Oh good?

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It was a social media hoax perpetuated by photos and

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videos that appear to be AI generated. The public Safety

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director of Newark said police received a report of wild

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monkeys on the loose in Newark. Now, if you've ever

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been to Newark, highly unlikely, And that came a day

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after local animal control received similar reports of monkeys loose

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on the streets of Newark. Again highly unlikely. The public

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safety director said officials have not located any monkeys. Any

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photos or videos posted on social media regarding this incident

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are likely AI generated, he said likely. He didn't say definitely,

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So there may be wild monkeys out there. Be careful. Hey,

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good news. If you like a casual walk, just four

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thousand steps once or twice a week might help you

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live longer, especially if you're a senior. A new study

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published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that

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older women who took at least four thousand steps on

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one or two days a week had a twenty six

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percent lower risk of death and a twenty seven percent

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lower risk of heart disease compared to those who didn't walk.

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The four thousand researchers tracked this for a decade. All right,

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so this wasn't a flighty thing. They tracked thirteen thousand

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women with an average age of seventy two over the decade.

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Those who hit the four thousand step mark did really well.

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In Austria, they're turning power lines into public arts. The

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Austrian Power Grid teamed up with designers to create Austrian

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power Giants. These are massive pylons shaped like animals representing

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each of Austria's nine states. Yeah, you know those big

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aluminum looking things out I know what they're made out of,

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But you know those pictured things with the power lines. Yeah,

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you've seen this, John, Why are you try and explain

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to us what a power pylon is? I don't know,

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all right, what are the nine? Well, there's a stork

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and a stag. Those are both prototypes that have already

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been tested for stability and high voltage performance. There's plans

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to install more. The officials say, if a community sees

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a pylon as a landmark rather than an isore, acceptance follows.

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That makes sense, all right. More science for you. Engineers

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at the University of Surrey have created a plastic eating

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robotic fish that powers itself by turning microplastics into energy.

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Which sounds great at first, until the robotic fish take

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over the world. If they're powering themselves. Let's be careful scientists,

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what are you doing using a microbial fuel cell. Gilbert

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with two l's feeds on pollution, meaning the more plastic

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it eats, the more energy it has to keep swimming.

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This sounds like a science fiction movie that is going

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to go sideways. I'm not sure this is good news.

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This might be apocalyptic news from Johnny Mack today. As

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it glides through the water, Gilbert filters out small particles

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as small as two millimeters and it glows in the dark,

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so researchers can track it. For now, Doctor Roberts says,

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we don't know where the vast majority of plastic dumped

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in our waterways ends up. We hope the robofish and

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its future descendants descendants are the first steps in the

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right direction of helping us control this plastic pollution problem. Sure,

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but what is your solution to controlling the robofish population? Hey,

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good news for Norbert the pig. He set a record.

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He was showing off his skateboarding skills. Norbert took a

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thirty three foot ride in just over eleven seconds. That

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sounds awfully fast. It, of course, is the record for

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the fastest ten meters pushing a skateboard by a pig.

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Norbert's friend, Vincent the Human, said, I had my board

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from when I was a kid. I figured, man, try

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the pig on it. I went outside, laid the board

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down and took out some unsalted peanuts of streets. In

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about fifteen minutes, I had the pig standing on the board.

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After a couple more sessions, he was pushing himself down

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the street. Norbert even has a new nickname. It is

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Tony pork in honor of legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk. Next thing,

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you know, they'll be Hawks skateboarding and what will we

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nickname them? I don't know, knows your fine good news

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stories for today. Hey, if you would like this thing

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hope you have a great day. See you then,