Episodes

  • Jet Airbnb, Rubik's Cube Robot, and Cat Quinceañera

    Jet Airbnb, Rubik's Cube Robot, and Cat Quinceañera
    Jun 8 2025
    Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. A man converts a 1970s private jet into an Airbnb in Wales. Purdue students create a robot that solves a Rubik's Cube in just 0.103 seconds. Jennifer discovers the only known prototype of the first Chinese typewriter in her basement, which is acquired by Stanford University. A cat named Holly Marie Gonzalez celebrates a quinceañera, helping to raise funds for an animal rescue shelter. Lastly, Oklahoma City police deal with an escaped cow causing a traffic delay on Interstate 40.

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    4 mins
  • Hormonal Hawk Attacks Bald Men

    Hormonal Hawk Attacks Bald Men
    Jun 5 2025
    Johnny Mac shares quirky and intriguing stories. He reports on a hormonal hawk named Jesse terrorizing bald men in the UK, the mental health benefits of growing and sharing seeds, self-repairing road materials, and biodegradable batteries. Additionally, he covers a global chess game where Magnus Carlson was forced to a draw by over 143 participants. For uninterrupted listening visit www.caloroga.com/plus
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    5 mins
  • There's a Snake in my Margarita!

    There's a Snake in my Margarita!
    Jun 3 2025
    Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. Matt trekked 53 miles dressed as a giant Eurasian Curlew to raise awareness for endangered species. Liesl set a Guinness World Record with her 1,035-piece Despicable Me Minions collection. A Florida woman protected her Chihuahua from a bear using a bag of cookies. An overturned truck in Texas spilled 8 million dimes, and a snake fell into a woman's margarita at a Virginia restaurant.

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    5 mins
  • GNS Sun June 1 woodpecker

    GNS Sun June 1 woodpecker
    Jun 1 2025
    A Massachusetts town deals with a woodpecker damaging vehicles. Teachers Grace and Kate from Vermont embark on a 300-mile bike ride to support immigrant students and raise funds for classroom essentials. Cigarro National Park expands by nearly 50 acres, enhancing connectivity with Sweetwater Preserve. A letter from a Titanic passenger, auctioned for $399,000, offers a historical glimpse days before the disaster. Lastly, a new technology in San Francisco enables proof of personhood through iris scanning, raising privacy and security questions.

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    5 mins
  • You May Also Like Eastwood Reloaded (Happy Birthday Clint!)

    You May Also Like Eastwood Reloaded (Happy Birthday Clint!)
    May 31 2025
    Clint Eastwood is more than a movie star—he’s a myth, a mayor, a meme, and maybe the last great American icon. In this cinematic biography told one film at a time, we break down the legend behind the lens.

    From spaghetti Westerns to Oscar-winning dramas, from Dirty Harry to political oddities like debating an empty chair, Eastwood Reloaded explores how one man reshaped the silver screen—and what it cost him to become the myth.


    Each 10-minute episode dives into a single chapter of Eastwood’s life or filmography, told by a single narrator and designed for easy bingeing. This is not a puff piece. This is a legacy under the microscope.

    Because legends don't just ride off into the sunset—they get deconstructed.
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    1 min
  • Unusual Escapes

    Unusual Escapes
    May 29 2025
    Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: a miniature dachshund named Valerie is found after 549 days on Kangaroo Island, a boa constrictor gets a new home with an animal control officer in Texas, an Iowa museum owner breaks a Guinness World Record with her spoon collection, police in Georgia are on the hunt for an escaped goat, and a California man attempts to evade arrest using an underwater scooter.

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    5 mins
  • Another Runaway Kangaroo and a Speeding Ticket Dispute

    Another Runaway Kangaroo and a Speeding Ticket Dispute
    May 27 2025
    Johnny Mac presents five intriguing good news stories. These include a runaway kangaroo safely captured in Florida, a Michigan woman reunited with her lost cat after three years, a Decatur resident who avoids speeding fines due to a typo on a school zone sign, newspapers publishing fake summer reading lists due to AI errors, and a man cleared after inadvertently aiding a gold toilet heist.

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    6 mins
  • How old do you look? New app will tell you how "old" you are

    How old do you look? New app will tell you how "old" you are
    May 25 2025
    Johnny Mac shares five positive news stories to brighten your Memorial Day weekend. Highlights include a new AI tool called Face Age by Mass General Brigham that predicts biological age from selfies, Harvard Law School's discovery of a genuine Magna Carta, comedian Sebastian Fowler's 3,333-mile cross-country BMX ride for charity, the precision of a new atomic clock called NIST-F4, and the adventurous tale of a loose pet kangaroo named Irwin.

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    7 mins
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