A shihtzu walks into a bar...

0:03 Caloroka Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Bad story to begin with, but it ends kind of okay. A two year old shitsu named Rex dashed into a bar when the dog ran in during a soccer game. Dan, the manager, took the puppy, took him to the vet to see if he was okay and find out where he had come from. Dan was shocked to learn that Rex's owner had passed away. He now lives at the bar. Dan says, he's been great. All the customers love him. They even buy him presents. He loves attention, he loves treats. He's so spoiled. If we have takeaway, he has takeaway. If we have roast dinner, he has roast dinner. When we first took on new this period it was difficult. You're trying to run a business, there's a dog running around the place. It could be tough.

0:48 But now he likes to sit down at chill. It's like he's found his home. Now. He's well trained and we're self thrilled to have him with us. He sits and waits people to come in and inspects them. We don't know how he knows which guess are up to know good, but he's usually right. He's a well behaved dog, but I think he needs a girlfriend. Good news, seventy is the new sixty. Scientists have figured out that age related to clients experienced by older adults have significantly slowed down, according to a new study from Nature Aging. They attribute this to improvements in education, nutrition, and sanitation across the twentieth century. Professor John Beard of Columbia University said, for example, a sixty eight year old born in nineteen fifty had a similar capacity to a sixty two year old born a decade earlier. Those born in nineteen forty had better functioning than those born in nineteen thirty or twenty. If we had compared someone born in nineteen fifty with someone born in nineteen twenty, would have likely observed even greater improvements.

1:40 But there's nothing to say we'll continue to see the same improvements moving forward, and changes such as the increasing prevalence of obesity might even see those trends reverse. But overall, trends were very strong and suggest that for many people, seventy really may be the new sixty. Remember those horrible fires earlier this year. While the Wildlife Conservacy is doing a cancer study based on firefighters who battled the Palisades fire. The goal is to track how the extreme conditions increased the firefighter's risk of cancer. Doctor Matt Ron is the executive director of the Conservatory and says this is the equivalent of a nine to eleven scale exposure incident, and we need to start treating them like this. The firefighters who battled the Palisades blaze were exposed to hazardous substances like carbon monoxide and heavy metals. Those can lead to cancer.

2:27 Ron said, this isn't just a wild fire where vegetation is burning. This is, you know, thousands of homes a contamination event. Fifty participating firefighters had their blood drawn, provided a year ine sample, and shared personal details. Researchers hope to turn their work into a multi generational study and see if there can be improvement in firefighter protective gear, precautions and interventions. Some volunteers have made a giant quilt of one thousand blankets in memory of homeless people who died in the cold. It's the Homeless Memorial Blanket Project. They've been working on it for four years. Their goal is to honor those who have lost their lives while living on the street and advocate for future without homelessness. After hundreds of blankets are collected, they're laid out on a display for the public to see and learn more about the safety risks of homelessness, like hypothermia, which takes the lives of an estimated seven hundred un house people in the US every year. If you're interested in joining future homeless memorial blanket projects, you can go to their Facebook group. In Wales, the Ambulance Service has given a list of their most inappropriate calls to their nine to nine to nine emergency number, so that's their version of nine to one one here in the States. The Welsh Ambulance Service said those included a finger stuck in a beer bottle and a person whose pet alligator got loose and probably got talked about on this program. The organization said in twenty twenty four they got four hundred and twenty six one hundred and sixteen calls. Of those, sixty three eight hundred and thirty six, that's fifteen percent were determined not to be life or death emergencies. One caller called in with a chip tooth, another couldn't remove a

3:59 bracelet the alligator once said it got loose and I'm scared to death. I don't like it. I think it's under the sofa. Another caller said, I stuck my finger in a plug socket. I didn't feel any effect, but I'm ruling out if I electrocuted myself. One caller said the cotton from the end of a Q tip was stuck in someone's ear. Another said, I've got a question. My general practitioner refuses to give me sleeping pills. How do I get a hold of sleeping pills? This is nine to one one they're calling or nine on nine. Andy Swinburne is the executive director of Paramedicine and reminds everyone our Emergency Amulus service exists for those whose life is in imminent danger. That's people in cardiac arrests, those with chest pains, breathing difficulties, loss of consciousness, choking, severe allergic reactions, catastrophic bleeding, or someone having a stroke. It's really important to apply common sense and make the right call.

4:46 Those are five news stories for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption or feed drops, go to caliberga dot com, slash plus, or if you're on an Apple podcast. Click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. You have an awesome day.