June 20, 2026

Cat Adopts Bunny! The World's Largest Blanket Fort!

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a Canadian group celebrated the World Cup by setting a Guinness record for human foosball with 254 people attached to giant rods; a Noah Kahan lyric highlights Strafford, Vermont’s Elizabeth Mine cleanup and its 20,000-panel solar farm producing about 8.7 million kWh—powering over 1,300 homes; Southern California’s Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over all 10 lanes of US 101, under construction since 2022, has already been used by a hummingbird and aims to help mountain lions; an Oklahoma family took in a pregnant stray cat whose litter unexpectedly included a baby rabbit the mother cat accepted; and Las Vegas students built the world’s largest blanket fort at 14,103 square feet to unite the community and support foster and kinship families.

00:11 Human Foosball Record
00:43 Noah Kahan Solar Mine
01:56 Wildlife Crossing Progress
02:35 Cat Adopts Baby Bunny
03:24 Worlds Largest Blanket Fort
04:12 Wrap Up and Goodbye

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Kalaroga Shark Media are there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. You're enjoying the World Cup? Well, A group

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in Canada figured out a way to celebrate. They turned

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hundreds of people into giant foosball players, you know, table soccer.

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Just like table soccer, players were lined up while holding

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onto oversized horizontal poles, limiting their movement as they work

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together to kick a soccer ball and score goals. I

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kind of love this. Neil organized this thing. He said.

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Soccer is about teamwork, energy and shared experience, and a

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human foosball Guinness World Record brings those elements to life

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in a fun and unforgettable way. Two hundred and fifty

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four people attached to giant rods. Meanwhile, a lyric on

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Noah Khan's new album is shining a spotlight on one

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of Vermont's most remarkable environmental success stories. I'm going to

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see no in concert next month. On the song Haircut

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from his album The Great Divide, noahkhn reflects on his

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hometown of Stafford, Vermont. He sings, for two two hundred years,

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we laid bricks in the dirt, put solar on the

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copper mines. Many listeners said it was a poetic line,

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but residents of Stafford knew was a reference to a

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real project. The former Elizabeth Mine was once one of

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Vermont's most productive copper mines. The site closed down in

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nineteen fifty eight and left behind significant environmental damage, including

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contaminated waterways and toxic waste. By the early two thousands,

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nearby rivers were suffering from extremely high copper levels. Local

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residents face concerns about water quality and environmental health. There

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was a clean up effort led by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Then came an idea. Local advocates proposed covering the form

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of mine with solar panels rather than developing into farmland.

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In twenty twenty one, a twenty thousand panels solar farm

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was installed. Today, the solar array generates around eight point

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seven million kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to power more

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than thirteen hundred Vermont homes. Now let's see what they

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can do about stick season. Southern California the home of

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the world's largest wildlife crossing. The Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing,

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began construction in twenty twenty two. The massive overpass stretches

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across all ten lanes of US one oh one. Doctor

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Seth Riley of the National Park Service said this is

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a vital crossing and one of the last undeveloped areas

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on the one oh one, and building a safe passage

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gives us a chance to ensure the future of the

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mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains in the LA Area.

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Project officials recently reported seeing a hummingbird using this structure.

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Somebody tell the bird they probably could just float across.

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But okay, I'm happy it's being used, and I am

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in favor of animal crossings. In Oklahoma, a family that

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took in a pregnant stray cat wound up with a

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surprise addition to the litter. No, not on another cat.

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We'll find out what it is. Kathy said. The cat

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appeared on her porch about two months ago. Show off

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with the cat some food. The cat ran into the house.

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Kathy said she was incredibly tame and had been somebody's

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house cat. We were concerned about her because she had

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lost her family. They lost her, and she needed somebody

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to take care of her. On Momorial Day, the cat

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gave birth to five kittens. A couple days later, they

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were checking in on the cat and the family. Kathy says,

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we were checking on the kittens and my husband said

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how many kittens did she have? And I said five,

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and he said, well there's six. And I looked and said,

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that's a bunny. Yes. Somehow a baby rabbit has joined

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the cat family, and the mother cat appeared perfectly happy

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to treat it as one of her own. Kathy joked,

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thank god it wasn't a rat. Are you a fan

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of the show community, then you will like this story.

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Students from West Korea and Technical Academy help construct what

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is now officially the world's largest blanket for it. The

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massive structure was built inside the Desert Breeze Community Center

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in Las Vegas fourteen thousand, one hundred and three square feet.

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It was harder than you might think. You can't just

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drape sheets over furniture for the world record, oh No,

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Guinness requires there'd be no gaps larger than one inch

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anywhere in the structure. Every sheet had to touch the ground,

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and the interior needed to be large enough for people

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to comfortably sit inside. The project was about much more

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than breaking a world record. It was about bringing the

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community together, creating unforgettable memories for foster and kinship families,

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and raising awareness for the needs of children and caregivers

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in foster care. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. You have an awesome day.