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

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm joining Mack with five good news stories. I'm here to tell you about the relationship between chihuahua Franny Joy and the mail carrier Dan. Recently, the three year old chihuahua Franny Joy ran outside to greet Dan the mailman, for the five hundredth time. That's right, it was ten twenty seven am. How did I have an exact count of this? Like? I could say around three hundred, but we're accounting from day one. Anyway, around ten twenty seven am, Dan's postle van pulled up in front of the house. The door opened, Franny burst out and spread to down the driveway to greet her friend. Hashtag Franny Life as more than seven hundred and fifty thousand followers on several social media platforms, Dan picked her up for the applause of three dozen onlookers. Before his daily ration of dog kisses, Dan says, there are dogs on my root that I get along with, but she runs out every day to my vehicle and I pick her up and let her kiss me. Dan himself has two dogs, but says this is the only dog in thirty nine and a half years that has done it like this. Thirty nine and a half is an interesting number.

1:08 It sounds like somebody is approaching forty years that is about to retire. He might have to work another decade plus. Though. If you don't want the dog to be sad, good news. Your dogs probably dream about you. Harvard University dream researcher Deirdre is author of the Committee of Sleep, and says that unlike dolphins, which sleep with half their brain while the other half remains awake, cats and dogs experience rapid eye movements sleep where I'm sleep. That means it's likely that the pets have dreams. David Penya Guzman is a philosopher. He speculates that the cat and dog dreams might involve what the animals smelled during a daily walk. Luciano is the mayor of a rural town of ten thousand people in Italy. He started doing a walk and they're super popular now. He says it's not easy because every weekend there are one or two or three or maybe more events than I want to attend. At every event, it's common to drink wine. It's not easy to say no.

2:00 Walks began as a gag between friends, he said. He gained weight after becoming elected mayor and was becoming more concerned about his jobs toll on his health before he won a third term in June. After he was reelected, it was clear that the wine and snack obligations would continue. Loved ones encouraged him to start walking. Word got out in the Mayor's Evening walks ballooned. Now the walks are a regular event in the town. On the last stroll, more than two hundred people went with him, including children and dogs. Third straight dog story, Hey, good news. The shingles vaccine made delay dementia. A study in the journal Nature Medicine suggests average those who got the Shindricks vaccine had an extra one hundred and sixty four days free from a dementia diagnosis over six years. Further work is needed to prove the link. Professor Paul Harrison said, even if it's a delay of one hundred and sixty four days, for example, on the public health level, that would not be a trivial finding. It's a big enough effect that if the link is proved, it feels meaningful to us.

3:00 I got another record for you. A vegetable enthusiast from Iowa has broken the record an eggplant eight point three three pounds. Dave had his eggplan examined by Inspector Ivan Hankins of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship's Iowa Weights and Measures Bureau. Wow, there's a mouthful, and I don't mean the eggplant, Dave told Radio Iowa. I've been growing eggplants for probably five years now. Two years ago I set the state record at five point six pounds. The previous record was an eggplant grown in England. That one in twenty twenty two is seven point twenty one pounds. Dave says, eventually I will have a plaque that says I grew the world's largest eggplant. Those are fuck good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, share it. Hopefully they'll like it too.

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