Aug. 19, 2024

Do Dogs Dream PLUS Hey, that's a big eggplant!

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting stories, including the special bond between a Chihuahua named Franny Joy and her mailman Dan, the possibility that pets dream about their owners, a mayor in Italy encouraging community walks, a shingles vaccine that might delay dementia, and an Iowa man who set a new world record with an enormous eggplant. These delightful tales promise to bring a smile to your face and brighten your day.

00:00 Heartwarming Friendship: Franny Joy and Mail Carrier Dan
01:15 Do Dogs Dream? Insights from Harvard Research
01:43 Mayor's Evening Walks: A Community Tradition
02:32 Shingles Vaccine and Dementia: Promising Findings
02:59 Record-Breaking Eggplant: Iowa's Vegetable Enthusiast

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm joining Mack with five

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good news stories. I'm here to tell you about the

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relationship between chihuahua Franny Joy and the mail carrier Dan. Recently,

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the three year old chihuahua Franny Joy ran outside to

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greet Dan the mailman, for the five hundredth time. That's right,

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it was ten twenty seven am. How did I have

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an exact count of this? Like? I could say around

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three hundred, but we're accounting from day one. Anyway, around

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ten twenty seven am, Dan's postle van pulled up in

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front of the house. The door opened, Franny burst out

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and spread to down the driveway to greet her friend.

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Hashtag Franny Life as more than seven hundred and fifty

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thousand followers on several social media platforms, Dan picked her

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up for the applause of three dozen onlookers. Before his

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daily ration of dog kisses, Dan says, there are dogs

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on my root that I get along with, but she

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runs out every day to my vehicle and I pick

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her up and let her kiss me. Dan himself has

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two dogs, but says this is the only dog in

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thirty nine and a half years that has done it

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like this. Thirty nine and a half is an interesting number.

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It sounds like somebody is approaching forty years that is

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about to retire. He might have to work another decade plus. Though.

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If you don't want the dog to be sad, good news.

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Your dogs probably dream about you. Harvard University dream researcher

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Deirdre is author of the Committee of Sleep, and says

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that unlike dolphins, which sleep with half their brain while

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the other half remains awake, cats and dogs experience rapid

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eye movements sleep where I'm sleep. That means it's likely

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that the pets have dreams. David Penya Guzman is a philosopher.

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He speculates that the cat and dog dreams might involve

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what the animals smelled during a daily walk. Luciano is

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the mayor of a rural town of ten thousand people

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in Italy. He started doing a walk and they're super

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popular now. He says it's not easy because every weekend

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there are one or two or three or maybe more

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events than I want to attend. At every event, it's

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common to drink wine. It's not easy to say no.

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Walks began as a gag between friends, he said. He

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gained weight after becoming elected mayor and was becoming more

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concerned about his jobs toll on his health before he

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won a third term in June. After he was reelected,

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it was clear that the wine and snack obligations would continue.

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Loved ones encouraged him to start walking. Word got out

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in the Mayor's Evening walks ballooned. Now the walks are

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a regular event in the town. On the last stroll,

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more than two hundred people went with him, including children

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and dogs. Third straight dog story, Hey, good news. The

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shingles vaccine made delay dementia. A study in the journal

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Nature Medicine suggests average those who got the Shindricks vaccine

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had an extra one hundred and sixty four days free

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from a dementia diagnosis over six years. Further work is

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needed to prove the link. Professor Paul Harrison said, even

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if it's a delay of one hundred and sixty four days,

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for example, on the public health level, that would not

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be a trivial finding. It's a big enough effect that

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if the link is proved, it feels meaningful to us.

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I got another record for you. A vegetable enthusiast from

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Iowa has broken the record an eggplant eight point three

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three pounds. Dave had his eggplan examined by Inspector Ivan

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Hankins of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship's

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Iowa Weights and Measures Bureau. Wow, there's a mouthful, and

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I don't mean the eggplant, Dave told Radio Iowa. I've

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been growing eggplants for probably five years now. Two years

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ago I set the state record at five point six pounds.

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The previous record was an eggplant grown in England. That

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one in twenty twenty two is seven point twenty one pounds.

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Dave says, eventually I will have a plaque that says

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I grew the world's largest eggplant. Those are fuck good

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