July 22, 2025 • 5 mins
This episode features a Scottish schoolgirl receiving a reply to her message in a bottle after 30 years, a Dutch sport that combines pole vaulting and long jump, a toxic crop fungus showing potential as a leukemia treatment, the discovery of the HMS Endeavor wreck, and a man being rescued from a glacier crevasse thanks to his chihuahua. Tune in for these uplifting and remarkable stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. It's yes, this show has a lot
of tropes. In one of the tropes is the Message
in a bottle? Well, good news. A Scottish schoolgirl's message
in a bottle got a reply after thirty years. Elena
sent the message in a bottle in nineteen ninety four.
(00:24):
She was twelve. It washed up across the north seat.
Who was found in Norway by a volunteer cleaning up
the beach. Look, somebody left this terrible bottle here on
this beach. I gotta clean this up. Well. Luckily the
volunteer found the message in a bottle and then sent
a postcard back to the sender to let her know.
Elena it's told BBC Scotland. She couldn't believe her original
letter was in such good condition after thirty years. The
(00:46):
original letter read, deer finder. My name is Elena. I'm twelve.
I'm doing a project on water, so I decided to
send a message in a bottle. My teacher's husband took
them and dropped them in the middle of the ocean.
When you find this message, please write back with your name.
Hobbies where you found the message, when and if you
could a little information about your area. You're sincerely Elena PS.
(01:08):
I come from Scotland. Well, Elena, I've got a postcard
from Pia. The postcard reads, my name is Pia. I'm
from Germany. Today I found your message in a bottle
on a tiny island around Vega and Norway. I'm here
for beach cleaning as a volunteer for four months, and
today we cleaned up Lachelle Oya and I probably pronounced
that incorrectly. Apologize. On the front of the postcard you
could see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fawn where
(01:29):
we live. You can also see the area around Vega.
I wonder when and where your teacher's husband through your
bottle in the ocean bs. I'm twenty seven years old
and I like rock climbing and sailing a lot, Elena says.
P and I have been keeping in touch and hopefully
we will continue to do so. The Dutch have a sport.
I'm gonna butcher this one too. I think it's pronounced
(01:49):
something like fear old jippin anyway, it combines pole vaulting,
long jump and sometimes swimming. Jacob Degrout holds the long
jump record at seventy three and said, this is really
a typically Dutch sport. I think it's because in the
rest of the world there aren't so many canals and
maybe people aren't as crazy. All right, how does this work.
You have to sprint towards the water. You'll launch yourself
(02:11):
into the air on a twelve meter carbon pole that's
roughly the height of a four story building. By the way,
think about that. Mid flight, you have to climb the
pole tilted forward and aim to land as far as
possible on a sand bank. If you miss, you'll land
in the canal. Jacob said it's extreme and crazy and addictive.
Local legend has it in fifteen seventy five, during the
(02:32):
Dutch revolt against the Spanish, one man hit his secret
message in his pole before slipping through enemy lines. It
became a sport. Later on, reportedly, in a bar, some
former sons got together, drank a little and said, I
can jump a canal, and the bar man said, maybe
there's money to be made. I'll make a canal of
five meters and they'll have to jump. Scientists are getting
(02:53):
it done, all right. There's a toxic crop fungus. It's
linked to the deaths in the excavations of ancient tim
like Toot and common you know, King Tut. Anyway, that
toxic crop fungus was recently used in a test against
leukemia cells. The result is a promising cancer killing compound
that rivals FDA approved drugs. Sherry Goo is a professor
(03:17):
at the University of Pennsylvania and the senior author of
a new paper who said fungi gave us penicillin. These
results show us that more medicines derived from natural products
remain to be found. When archaeologists opened up King Tut's
tomb in the twenties, there were some untimely debts among
the excavation team that fueled rumors of a pharaoh's curse.
Decades later, the doctors theorized that it was fungal spores
(03:40):
dormant for millennia. Those could have played a role. In
the nineteen seventies, twelve scientists entered the tomb of Casimir
the Fourth in Poland. Within weeks, ten of deema died.
Later investigations revealed that that tomb contained some yellow spores.
So all that's horrible, John, But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I get it. And I don't have a time machine.
But now to think that this could cure leukemia, that
(04:02):
would be amazing. Some maritime archaeologists believe they had found
the wreck of the HMS Endeavor. The Endeavor was piloted
by Captain James Cook throughout his first voyage to Australasia
and the South Pacific. The wreck is the previously unexamined
r I two three four nine off the coast of
(04:22):
Rhode Island. Long story short, on his third voyage around Pacific,
Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii during to speak with
the natives. The Endeavor was recommissioned as a military transport ship.
It was sold to a shipping firm and then renamed
the Lord Sandwich. It was scuttled during the American Revolutionary
War when he The archaeologists said, you'll never find a
sign saying Cook was here. But we've got a whole
(04:44):
series of things pointing to RI two three ninety four
as being Endeavor, and so far we found lots of
things that ticked the box for to be Endeavor. Nothing
on the side which says it's not in good news
for a man who fell into a glacier crevasse in Switzerland.
He was rescued by Bye No, not by Saint Bernard,
by a chihuahua. The man had filed down a twenty
(05:05):
six foot deep crevasse, leaving his chihuahua alone on the edge.
The man had an amateur walkie talkie managed to call
for help, but rescue workers couldn't figure out where he is.
Then what are The rescuers noticed a chihuahua who hadn't moved.
One of the officials say, thanks to the dog's behavior,
the crew was able to locate the exact side of
the accident. Rescuers went down to the casualty and we're
(05:26):
able to save them. It's fair to say that the
chihuaha's behavior contributed significantly to the successful rescue. Nice job, chihuahua.
And those are your five good news stories for today.
If you'd liked the program without commercial interruption or feed
drops or other stuff, go to calierg dot com, slash plus,
or if you're on Apple podcast click that better that
says Uninterrupted listening short version. Five bucks a month you
(05:47):
get this thing add free. You also get access to
twenty five other shows on the network ad free, including
Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week.
You have an awesome day,
Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. It's yes, this show has a lot
of tropes. In one of the tropes is the Message
in a bottle? Well, good news. A Scottish schoolgirl's message
in a bottle got a reply after thirty years. Elena
sent the message in a bottle in nineteen ninety four.
(00:24):
She was twelve. It washed up across the north seat.
Who was found in Norway by a volunteer cleaning up
the beach. Look, somebody left this terrible bottle here on
this beach. I gotta clean this up. Well. Luckily the
volunteer found the message in a bottle and then sent
a postcard back to the sender to let her know.
Elena it's told BBC Scotland. She couldn't believe her original
letter was in such good condition after thirty years. The
(00:46):
original letter read, deer finder. My name is Elena. I'm twelve.
I'm doing a project on water, so I decided to
send a message in a bottle. My teacher's husband took
them and dropped them in the middle of the ocean.
When you find this message, please write back with your name.
Hobbies where you found the message, when and if you
could a little information about your area. You're sincerely Elena PS.
(01:08):
I come from Scotland. Well, Elena, I've got a postcard
from Pia. The postcard reads, my name is Pia. I'm
from Germany. Today I found your message in a bottle
on a tiny island around Vega and Norway. I'm here
for beach cleaning as a volunteer for four months, and
today we cleaned up Lachelle Oya and I probably pronounced
that incorrectly. Apologize. On the front of the postcard you
could see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fawn where
(01:29):
we live. You can also see the area around Vega.
I wonder when and where your teacher's husband through your
bottle in the ocean bs. I'm twenty seven years old
and I like rock climbing and sailing a lot, Elena says.
P and I have been keeping in touch and hopefully
we will continue to do so. The Dutch have a sport.
I'm gonna butcher this one too. I think it's pronounced
(01:49):
something like fear old jippin anyway, it combines pole vaulting,
long jump and sometimes swimming. Jacob Degrout holds the long
jump record at seventy three and said, this is really
a typically Dutch sport. I think it's because in the
rest of the world there aren't so many canals and
maybe people aren't as crazy. All right, how does this work.
You have to sprint towards the water. You'll launch yourself
(02:11):
into the air on a twelve meter carbon pole that's
roughly the height of a four story building. By the way,
think about that. Mid flight, you have to climb the
pole tilted forward and aim to land as far as
possible on a sand bank. If you miss, you'll land
in the canal. Jacob said it's extreme and crazy and addictive.
Local legend has it in fifteen seventy five, during the
(02:32):
Dutch revolt against the Spanish, one man hit his secret
message in his pole before slipping through enemy lines. It
became a sport. Later on, reportedly, in a bar, some
former sons got together, drank a little and said, I
can jump a canal, and the bar man said, maybe
there's money to be made. I'll make a canal of
five meters and they'll have to jump. Scientists are getting
(02:53):
it done, all right. There's a toxic crop fungus. It's
linked to the deaths in the excavations of ancient tim
like Toot and common you know, King Tut. Anyway, that
toxic crop fungus was recently used in a test against
leukemia cells. The result is a promising cancer killing compound
that rivals FDA approved drugs. Sherry Goo is a professor
(03:17):
at the University of Pennsylvania and the senior author of
a new paper who said fungi gave us penicillin. These
results show us that more medicines derived from natural products
remain to be found. When archaeologists opened up King Tut's
tomb in the twenties, there were some untimely debts among
the excavation team that fueled rumors of a pharaoh's curse.
Decades later, the doctors theorized that it was fungal spores
(03:40):
dormant for millennia. Those could have played a role. In
the nineteen seventies, twelve scientists entered the tomb of Casimir
the Fourth in Poland. Within weeks, ten of deema died.
Later investigations revealed that that tomb contained some yellow spores.
So all that's horrible, John, But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I get it. And I don't have a time machine.
But now to think that this could cure leukemia, that
(04:02):
would be amazing. Some maritime archaeologists believe they had found
the wreck of the HMS Endeavor. The Endeavor was piloted
by Captain James Cook throughout his first voyage to Australasia
and the South Pacific. The wreck is the previously unexamined
r I two three four nine off the coast of
(04:22):
Rhode Island. Long story short, on his third voyage around Pacific,
Captain Cook was killed in Hawaii during to speak with
the natives. The Endeavor was recommissioned as a military transport ship.
It was sold to a shipping firm and then renamed
the Lord Sandwich. It was scuttled during the American Revolutionary
War when he The archaeologists said, you'll never find a
sign saying Cook was here. But we've got a whole
(04:44):
series of things pointing to RI two three ninety four
as being Endeavor, and so far we found lots of
things that ticked the box for to be Endeavor. Nothing
on the side which says it's not in good news
for a man who fell into a glacier crevasse in Switzerland.
He was rescued by Bye No, not by Saint Bernard,
by a chihuahua. The man had filed down a twenty
(05:05):
six foot deep crevasse, leaving his chihuahua alone on the edge.
The man had an amateur walkie talkie managed to call
for help, but rescue workers couldn't figure out where he is.
Then what are The rescuers noticed a chihuahua who hadn't moved.
One of the officials say, thanks to the dog's behavior,
the crew was able to locate the exact side of
the accident. Rescuers went down to the casualty and we're
(05:26):
able to save them. It's fair to say that the
chihuaha's behavior contributed significantly to the successful rescue. Nice job, chihuahua.
And those are your five good news stories for today.
If you'd liked the program without commercial interruption or feed
drops or other stuff, go to calierg dot com, slash plus,
or if you're on Apple podcast click that better that
says Uninterrupted listening short version. Five bucks a month you
(05:47):
get this thing add free. You also get access to
twenty five other shows on the network ad free, including
Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week.
You have an awesome day,
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