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Sept. 20, 2024

Cow Pies Powering Ships

Cow Pies Powering Ships
Cow Pies Powering Ships
5 Good News Stories
Cow Pies Powering Ships

In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: the innovative use of cow pies to power ships, a Spanish man's Guinness World Record for the largest collection of unique cell phones, an Alaskan flying instructor's transformation of old airplanes into luxury Airbnb accommodations, a truck crash in California that amusingly covered a highway in crushed grapes without injuries, and the capture of mysteriously loose goats in Kansas City, which will be put up for adoption if unclaimed.

00:10 Cow Pies Powering Ships
00:55 World Record for Nokia Phones
01:59 Airline Amusement Park in Alaska
03:18 Grapes Spill on California Highway
03:48 Mystery Goats in Kansas City


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0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm shining Mack with five good news stories. Hey, good news. They can now power ships with cow pies. Yes, that kind of cow pies. Biogas is a renewable natural gas which starts as organic matter. Yes we know. After being processed to remove impurities. Biogas has the same properties as a natural gas. Can be used for heating, generating electricity, and even transportation. So while you're sitting there this winter all nice and cozy, just think of where the gas came from. Shipping company Mitsui Osk will partner with dairy company Takanashi Milk Products to test the feasibility of using locally sourced biogas. That just sounds like code. As Japan aims to reach net zero emissions by twenty fifty, good luck to the scientists. I hope it works out. Meanwhile, a Spanish man with a special funess for Nokia phones earned one of those Guinness World Records. All right, what's this one? John? The man has collected thirty six hundred and fifteen unique cell phones.

1:07 Winceys said his love for phones started when it received a gray Nokia thirty two ten for Christmas. Back in ninety nine, and in two thousand and eight he started collecting the Nokia phones he was previously unable to afford. He eventually branched out and started collecting other brands of phones and has amass the world's largest collection of mobile phones. Wentce's tells the Guinness Book, the evolution of my collection was constant, although I had abandoned it for about a year. Then I returned to the Fray with the intention of getting an addition to all the phones that Nonokia launched on the market, those that it did not put on sale, the phones which we all know as prototypes. Some of the more unusual phones in the collection are the Yoda of This Starfighter, the Obi Wan Kenobi Cyborg, and the Potawan versions from the Nokia thirty two twenty Star Wars Episode three collection. Winces says, in my collection, I have very exclusive and difficult to find models. It's a collection that is still incomplete, but I continued to expand whenever possible.

2:00 Lying instructor in Alaska has a new gig. John is the manager of an airline amusement park complete with luxury accommodations built out of old decommissioned aircraft. He's been converting planes into airbnbs. He's in the process of converting a third aircraft while also building a cabin into the top of a runway control tower for unparalleled stargazing. He's also building a frisbee golf course, a volleyball court not right, and an authentic hangar display the ports ripped out of the old airplanes. He runs a pilot school, but never wanted to get into commercial aviation because of how boring it is. He says, driving for Uber is more exciting because you can talk to the passengers. I mean, I guess you could talk to the passengers on a commercial flight.

2:40 They might go insane, but you know this is your pilot speaking how you guys do and might get annoying after five hours. His original plan was developed his own runway and facilities for flying. Then he realized he had to add cottages for the students, and then from there he was like, well, it'd be cool if we got an old airplane. It's turned in a while, so let's make it really nice. We'll put a jacuzzi on the wing and a barbecue grill. Let's get two more and a three of them, and away we go. So what's it like to stay at this place? Well, the DC nine has heated floors, heated towel racks, a fully functioning kitchen, a fire pit, barbecue on the wing, as discussed, sleeps up to four and O'll run you four hundred and forty one dollars per night. I don't know what's going on in California. I feel like I'm doing a lot of these stories. Commuters on a California highway were given ample reason to be laid for work when a truck crashed and the roadway was covered in crushed grapes. The crash caused one of the trucks to spill its load of grapes on Highway one sixty five on a Wednesday morning.

3:34 The grapes were soon crushed by passing vehicles, creating a slippery mess. John, that's not really good news. That's a crash. No. The good news it's no injuries reported in the crash, and the idea of crush grapes on a highway is kind of funny, all right. In Kansas City, they caught the goats. The goats have been loose since early August. The goats were initially believed to be part of a Port KC grazing project a clear brush when they appeared along the river early August, but the k C Pet Project investigators said all our goats are accounted for. We don't know whose goats these are. Ryan Johnson is chief of Animal Services at CAC Pet Project and said, truly is a mystery. I'm not sure where these goats came from, why they're loose. We haven't been able to make a connection in an owner. Anybody supported ownership of missing them.

4:18 There were ten mystery goats they caught three seven stayed loose, but were finally wrangled by animal services officers last week along the Riverfront Heritage Trail. They were taking to Casey Pet Project's Wilp Park campus while officials continue to investigate. If no one comes forward, the mystery goats will be put up for adoption. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They like it too. Have a great day.