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Cool Stuff Daily

Pothole Rescue and Weird Wednesday

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Coming up on today’s episode Potholes aren’t all bad, we’ll explain and Weird Wednesday. Plus this day in history - tragedy strikes the South Pole. Pothole Rescue (NDTV) Underwear Snake (UPI) World's Ugliest Lawn (UPI) (The Guardian) Mississippi River Record (UPI) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Instagram - Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

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0:07.7

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0:11.1

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0:12.9

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0:16.3

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0:17.6

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0:20.3

It's another edition of cool stuff

0:22.2

ride home i'm marcus pap joined by reggie rezoo on today's episode potholes aren't all that bad we'll

0:29.2

explain plus weird wednesday reggie's curated supply of bizarre stories from around the world

0:36.3

and this day in history tragedy tragedy strikes at the South Pole.

0:40.4

Coming up on Cool Stuff, ride home. Well, if you've never heard of a pothole saving someone's life,

0:46.0

prepare yourself. You're about to. In India, 80-year-old Darshan Singh Brar had been declared

0:51.9

dead by doctors after his heart stopped.

0:55.0

This after he'd fallen ill and consequently checked into a hospital four days earlier and placed on a ventilator.

1:01.1

Upon quote-unquote dying, the medical team removed him from the ventilator and prepared the quote-unquote body for transport.

1:08.0

It was during that ride from Patiala, and hopefully I'm doing that some justice,

1:13.3

to his home near Carnal, where relatives had gathered, food had been laid out, and would

1:18.4

had been collected for his funeral, that the ambulance transporting him hit a pothole.

1:24.0

Shortly thereafter, Brar's grandson, Baldwin Singh, who was riding with him in the ambulance,

1:29.1

miraculously noticed him moving his hand and was able to sense a heartbeat. He asked the ambulance

1:35.0

driver to head to the nearest hospital where doctors declared him to be alive. Shocking. Doctors at

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