Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. I love this first story so much
that I kept a picture of this guy. Hi. I'm
Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Brian has become
one of the most effective matchmakers in New York City,
except he's matching dogs. Once a week, he heads to
the animal care centers of New York City and loads
a shelter dog into a backpack labeled adopt Me, and
takes the dog out on an adventure subway rides walking around.
On a recent outing, the dog was Bertha, a white
pup with brown spots who had been found on the
streets in October. That's the picture I kept inside the
subway car. Bertha poked her head out of the backpack,
licking Brian NonStop and leaning into strangers for scratches. A
few days later, Bertha was adopted. Brian says that's the
goal of every outing so far. He's taken out eleven dogs.
Ten were adopted shortly after the videos were posted. The
lone exception involved a medical issue that needed to be resolved.
Brian writes playful captions for each video. For Bertha, he wrote,
Bertha loves kisses. Many mentions of kisses subway rides, hot
dog specific toys being held, and making friends or one
dislike certain stuffed animals. Ryan said, it's crazy to me
to be able to see a real world direct impact
that you're improving the life of another person and the
life of a dog because it took a few hours
to go make some content. Fantastic scientists may have found
a new ally against mosquitoes by turning one of the
mosquito's natural enemies into a precision engineered killer. Hope no
mosquitoes are listening to this episode. They're not going to
like this one. There's a parasitic fungus which attracts insects
with a floral scent, but only after it's killed its
first victim. Well, some scientists genetically modify the fungus to
produce the scent, constantly pumping out the scent around the clock.
The compound is safe for humans. It's even used in perfumes,
but irresistible to mosquitoes. In a test, the engineered fungus
wiped out about half the mosquitoes. Unlike chemical insecticides, which
mosquitoes are becoming resistant stance to this one has millions
of years of evolution behind it. Making it harder for
mosquitos to outsmart it. Now, what if they evolve to
avoid this chemical, that would mean they'd have to avoid
flowers entirely, which they need for food. Wow. Not good
news for mosquitoes. A French daredevil who's into bungee jumping
earned his second Guinness World Record by jumping at sixteen
different commercial bungee jumping sites over the course of eight years.
Francois's first record was by bunging jumping seven hundred and
sixty five times in one day. Wow, that's one jump
every two minutes. Now the second record jumping at sixteen
different commercial bungee jumping locations over the course of eight years.
Some of the places include Austria's rupert Herner bungee Jumping,
Canada's Greek Canadian Bungee, Nepal's The Last Resort, Switzerland's Double
O seven bungee verses, and Zambia's Shearwater bungee. Francois says,
while living my passion, I want to serve a good cause,
with the motto give as much as I jump. He
used his jumps to raise money for the Catholic charity
group Carretas. Here's one out of a movie. A drone
dropped steak and crab legs for a prisoner, but the
guards at the jail found it first. The meal was
dropped into the Lee Correctional Institution prison by a drone.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections went on social media.
They showed a raw steak still in the grocery store,
packing crab legs and old bay with the side plastic
baggies of marijuana and a couple of cartons of cigarettes.
All that was seized, as was the drone. Prison spokesperson said,
I'm guessing the inmates who were expecting the package or
crabby and good news if you like. Golden Retrievers and
he were in Buenos Aires. Golden Retrievers from all across
Argentina showed up at the Bosques del Palermo park and
turned the park into a giant living bowl of yellow fluff.
Golden retrievers sniffed one another enthusiastically. Some were dressed in
soccer jerseys, others in two two's. One wore a Star
Wars bandana. Meanwhile, a tea team of volunteers roamed with
the park with clipboards counting every single golden They could.
The tally came in twenty three hundred and ninety seven
Golden retrievers, shattering last year's world record of sixteen eighty
five set in Vancouver. Fausto is the event organizer. He's
also a Golden Retriever influencer thanks to his dog Ali.
Fausto said, this is a historic event and those are
your five good news stories for today. Have an awesome day.