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Rest of the World Report | Good News Sunday Edition · The Rest of the World Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, beautiful humans.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez with The Rest of the World Report for Sunday morning, November 1st.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quick note about tomorrow morning's edition before I start.
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  SPEAKER_00: In short, there will not be a morning edition.
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  SPEAKER_00: My wife comes home right around the middle of when I would normally be researching
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  SPEAKER_00: and recording the edition after being gone for a month.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as you can imagine,
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  SPEAKER_00: I will be busy and I'll be back tomorrow night with the evening edition
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'll cover the full days and weekends worth of news.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, on to the good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: A kangaroo found about three kilometers out in Boston Bay,
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  SPEAKER_00: South Australia, got a ride back to shore on a fishing boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jake Murray, a diver and farmer, was on a routine fishing trip off Port Lincoln with his crew.
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  SPEAKER_00: Skipper Ryan Smith said, he reckoned there was a roo in the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, I should not ever try to do an Australian accent.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crew doubled back to check, and sure enough, it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: Murray estimated that the male kangaroo was about three kilometers offshore,
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  SPEAKER_00: and The crew opened the boat's sea door,
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  SPEAKER_00: which comes down to the level of the water, and got under the animal's arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: They brought him aboard and held him there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Murray hugged the kangaroo to keep it calm and controlled his legs,
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  SPEAKER_00: which he called mighty and powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: As had my legs been described.
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  SPEAKER_00: He described the animal as exhausted and waterlogged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Miguel Villaruel, a diver from the Galapagos Islands, was among the crew.
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  SPEAKER_00: Murray said it was the first time Villaruel had seen a kangaroo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Murray told him, I've never seen this in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Murray was stumped at how the kangaroo ended up so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: He guessed that the calm, flat water or the tide might have carried it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he started joking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Probably a teenager trying to impress his mates going for a swim.
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  SPEAKER_00: He figured the kangaroo must have had a big night and one of the boys put a dare on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back ashore, the kangaroo sat on the beach for a bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he hopped away.
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  SPEAKER_00: 53 Orangutans Pulled From the Fire A rescue group in Indonesia has pulled
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  SPEAKER_00: at least 53 orangutans out of wildfires burning across Borneo.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fires began in July and have burned forest and peat land that feed
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  SPEAKER_00: the critically endangered animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Indonesian government warned that they could continue until November,
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  SPEAKER_00: worsened by a severe El Niño.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iari, a primate rescue nonprofit, has been responding since August.
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  SPEAKER_00: Its teams have dealt with stranded animals and with several mothers
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  SPEAKER_00: and infants rescued in critical condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some orangutans were released to the Ganung Palung National Park five hours away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Iari uses a drone to find burned areas where the orangutans may be living,
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  SPEAKER_00: when rescuers then drive for hours to the burned forest with tranquilizers
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  SPEAKER_00: and sometimes use a net.
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  SPEAKER_00: In mid-October,
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  SPEAKER_00: the group's spokesperson,
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  SPEAKER_00: Eribertus Sociati,
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  SPEAKER_00: said Iari had rescued 49 orangutans since August and was caring for 90.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over the previous three years, it had rescued three to five animals in a year.
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  SPEAKER_00: A new photo shows Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carmel Liano Sanchez,
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  SPEAKER_00: a wildlife veterinarian who co-founded Iari, holding a young orangutan named Irene.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yano Sanchez said Irene looked stressed and very thin.
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  SPEAKER_00: She may have gone for days without finding any food in this devastated forest, she said.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of the survivors remain under veterinary care,
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  SPEAKER_00: and in mid-October, the center said it had enough capacity.
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  SPEAKER_00: By October 25th, it was full.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seasonal rains have been delayed from October into November.
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  SPEAKER_00: International Animal Rescue,
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  SPEAKER_00: Yari's partner, puts the total at 59 and is running an urgent fire crisis fund.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says Yari needs firefighting equipment,
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  SPEAKER_00: including pumps,
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  SPEAKER_00: drones, and communication towers and extra staff to relieve exhausted teams.
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  SPEAKER_00: Donations can be made through the fund's page linked below.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wrong turn saves 14.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wrong turn sent a stranger down a Georgia road and 12 children got out of a burning house.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man identified as Mr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Casey was driving home to Alabama with his son when
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  SPEAKER_00: the GPS sent him down Highway 114
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  SPEAKER_00: James Burke said Casey had never been on that road before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Casey told him he knew something kept bringing him down it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Burke had fallen asleep in his recliner on Saturday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: His wife, Loretta, 11 children, and one grandchild were asleep in their beds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Casey had seen the fire from the top of a hill.
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  SPEAKER_00: He went inside and woke Burke.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, you got to get out of here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your house is on fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Casey then helped pull all 12 children from the house and helped get firefighters to the scene.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fire destroyed the house and two cars.
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  SPEAKER_00: Loretta Burke said the family would not have made it if it had been another five minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Burks have fostered more than 500 children over 15 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neighbors and strangers called the next morning to ask what the family needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of the children have since moved to other foster homes,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the Burks are looking for a rental big enough for the 14 of them
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  SPEAKER_00: while they rebuild, and they hope to keep fostering.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Six years without a win.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Dartmouth High School Spartans of Nova Scotia have not won a baseball game
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  SPEAKER_00: in six years, and the players say they're having a great time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Captain Curtis Nelgrove said that when the team loses, it usually loses by the mercy rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: That means giving up 10 runs within a set number of innings,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it happens about 80% of the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even through these large defeats, everyone has a blast, he said.
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  SPEAKER_00: The team sets no performance standards.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no barriers to joining.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of the young men had never had the chance to play baseball before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alex Ansoms said he never played baseball before joining,
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  SPEAKER_00: but he tried to make up for it by being a vibes guy and pumping the team up.
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  SPEAKER_00: The team was once co-ed,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the women split off and formed their own team and joined the women's league.
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  SPEAKER_00: They soon won a game for the school.
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  SPEAKER_00: Team member Benjamin Boner said it was pretty awesome to see
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  SPEAKER_00: the Spartans baseball win a game, even though it's not his team.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, an adorable Halloween story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christoph Wagner of Austin has given away almost 7,000 free Halloween costumes,
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  SPEAKER_00: many of them made himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: The idea came in 2016,
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  SPEAKER_00: Wagner says,
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  SPEAKER_00: after he moved into his first house in Austin and started getting trick-or-treaters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of the children wore Star Wars and Toy Story costumes, others wore torn t-shirts.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says Halloween can be an equalizer,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he wanted every child to be able to dress up and be anybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the time, he was a mystery shopper who evaluated resale stores.
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  SPEAKER_00: He bought about $1,500 worth of items for about $40 at a Goodwill center in Texas,
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  SPEAKER_00: adapted them, and hung 50 or 60 costumes in his garage that September.
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  SPEAKER_00: People came and took them all.
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  SPEAKER_00: The biggest thing he remembers, Wagner says, is the laughter of the kids and their parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: He still buys his materials at resale stores, then washes and repairs them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Old table runners and placemats get dye, sewn decorations, and a wig.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 2023, he made the project a non-profit called October's Child.
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  SPEAKER_00: The giveaway now includes makeup, pumpkin carving sets, and pet costumes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And volunteers help.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wagner says he doesn't ask whether a family is needy.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says the point is to make Halloween magical for every kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wagner expects to give away 2,000 costumes this year out of school.
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  SPEAKER_00: The giveaway was set up for Saturday, September 26th.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that last little story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last night I was walking Dexter out and about and all of the little monsters
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  SPEAKER_00: and vampires and witches and everything else in between.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just so adorable.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Rudy Martinez.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will see you all again tomorrow.
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