Comfort TV, Pink Pigeons, Heroic Rescue, and Unique Side Hustles

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Hey, good news if you've been binge watching Gilmore Girls. It's been cold in the Northeast. I've been watching way more TV than usual. I have been binge watching Star Trek the Next Generation. And good news for me because psychotherapist Jill says that a rewatch offers a sense of safety, like a security blanket that can be physically calming. She explains, with so many stresses in everyday life, returning to a show that you've already seen can provide a sense of security. You see, there's actually a lot of safety in the sense that people already know what's gonna happen. They know the ending, so they don't necessarily have to invest as much mental energy, and they get to enjoy it a little bit more. It feels good. It's like a hug. It comes our nervous system because we know what's coming. The mind body connection gets to not think so much and we get to just be. It's more relaxing, and I don't think our minus to works so hard to pay tension that by default helps our bodies come be less active, be less tense.

1:05 Jill says, if you return to a show you love again and again, don't beat yourself up if it feels good and it's working right. Marie Claire got in on this trend. They published the thirty best comfort TV shows. Their list includes Friends, Shit's Creek, ted Lasso, Modern Family, New Girl, The Office, Parks and rec Buffy and Gossip Girl. Meanwhile, in the UK, a rare pink pigeon has been hand reared for the first time. Pink pigeons are found in the wild only on the island nation of Meridius in the Indian Ocean. Pink pigeons have been on the Endangered Red List for decades. They were on the brink of extinction in nineteen ninety one when it was believed there were just nine left in the wild, but dedicated conservation efforts have boosted their population. Tom works at the Pagenton Zoo, where they developed an innovative technique for hand feeding the baby birds. Instead of using conventional metal crop tubing, Tom developed a method that includes attaching a carefully sized catheter to a syringe, which can be gently placed on the baby bird's tongue so they can eat more naturally. Conservation efforts have boosted the pink pigeon numbers to around five hundred as of twenty eleven. That got it off the IUCN's critically Endangered list and they are now reclassified as vulnerable.

2:16 Congratulations to a school in Australia. It was named World Building of the Year. The Darlington Public School in Chippendale, Australia was described by judges as poetic and incorporates indigenous designs. The schools adorned with Aboriginal art and has a community garden where students can work on while learning about native produce. Paul is the program director of the World Architecture Festival, which runs the annual Warden said the result of the project is poetic, a building in which topography and landscape, inside and outside, form and materials flown seamlessly in an unexpectedly delightful way. It also is an inspirational proposition about the acknowledgment and reconciliation of historic difference, a pointer to brighter, better futures for all. Elaine was checking into work the community store. A boy ran in, Elaine said, The fear in his eyes scared me. They ran down to the river.

3:05 Another boy had fallen into the river. Elaine started shouting out to the boy in the water, keep your head above water. Seconds later, she herself was in the water, hearing the cracking of the ice beneath her. She said, by the time I was getting toward him, he was already starting to float down underneath the water. As soon as she was close enough to help the boy, the ice gave way beneath her. Then they were both treading in the frigid water, but she was able to get him to a patch of solid ice and hoisted him up. The boy remembered, if you ever find yourself in that situation, don't try to stand up, but always keep the lowest center of gravity possible to avoid breaking even more ice. The boy rolled like a seal onto the bank, but the woman herself was still in the water right. Every time she tried to pull herself out, the ice broke away.

3:46 Eventually she escaped herself and said, so I carried him with all my soaking clothes and his soaking clothes was more of a reflex. I didn't want to see this little boy down the river something worse happening to him, said, rather we risk my life than his. Got back to the store first, responders were there to rush the board to the hospital. He eventually regained a normal body temperature. Elaine went home and got a change of clothes. A woman's got an interesting side hustle where she's packeting like one hundred dollars for just one sale. I mean, you could do this yourself. Some people on social media are saying this is the life I need. So what is her side hustle? She sells her used Q tips, She shared on TikTok sticking a thing in her ear, getting out some earwax, popped it into a sealable bag and sent it off to whoever had purchased it from her.

4:38 She included a card that she'd kissed and signed it for the ear wax fans. People were curious, how do you know what's a charge? The woman explained. You charge whatever comes into mind, and the more wax, the better. Medical authorities remind you, as will five good news stories. Scraping the cotton bud alongside the sensitive inside of your ear can cause bleeding, which is difficult to deal with in the ear, as well is internal bruising. While cotton buds might look like they're the ideal ear tool, they are actually far from it. That is your medical warning and your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, you could tell a friend about it too. Now, for five bucks a month, you could do one or two things. You could buy some earwax, I guess, or you could get this show commercial free nothing about it.

5:21 Would you like somebody else's ear wax or would you like the show without commercials? It's kind of a no brainer right now. Most of you picked earwax, but for the rest of you, it's not that four ninety nine a month. There's a link of the show notes that'll explain to you how to get the show without commercial interruption. If you're on Apple podcast, just click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. And you know, I candidly I generate a lot of earwax because I do a lot of audio works, so I have headphones on all the time, and the more you wear headphones, the more earwax it gets created. I have found historically, having worked in radio audio for thirty years now. So maybe I will start a side hustle, but the meantime, just click on uninterrupted listen thing. I think that's better for all of us. See you next. Time, have a great day,