Jan. 12, 2023

Good news, Swearing is good for you PLUS Scruff the border collie has great recycling game

Good news, Swearing is good for you PLUS Scruff the border collie has great recycling game
A 13 year old border collie has been recycling!

Swearing is good for you!

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I'm Johnny Mack with five good news
stories. You know who's getting it done.

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Scruff, the border collie. Scruff
has become an unlikely recycling advocate after

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picking up more than one thousand littered
plastic bottles. I got to talk to

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my dogs and tell them to step
it up. Scruff likes to pick up

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the bottles and play with them for
a little bit before delivering them to his

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humans to be recycled. Scruff is
thirteen now and he used to enjoy stick

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fetching and then the vent said he's
getting scratched on the inside of his mouth

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wanting to try something plastic. His
humans said, this is a focus a

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job for him. He's a border
collige, so he loves to retrieve and

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collect different things and stuff like that. The human and Scruff go on two

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walks a day, one long walk
in the morning, usually between three and

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four miles wow, then a shorter
mile or so in the evening. Originally

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they will let Scruff play with the
bottles and they left them there. Then

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they felt bad thought people might think
we were leaving them there, so they

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started picking them up and keeping track
and sharing their monthly report with the hashtag

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Scruff's bottle patrol, and they have
a rule. They only pick up the

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bottles that Scruff sees. So if
the human sees a bottle there and the

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dog doesn't see it, that bottle's
not going anywhere. We were just curious

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to see how many he could collect. In November alone, Scruff picked up

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one hundred and four bottles. Even
though he's thirteen. He looks absolutely fantastic.

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His human says, Hopefully it sends
a good message out to other people

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around the world to pick up litter, don't leave animals to do it right.

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Gratulations. Joyce to Fall She's a
ninety year old Greek grandmother. She

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just graduated from Northern Illinois University.
Joyce says, we can never quit learning.

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If we have the opportunity, and
we're given the opportunity, there's no

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reason we shouldn't go for it.
She enrolled in college in nineteen fifty one,

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but wound up leaving after three years
to get married and she got busy

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as some kids some grandkids. But
in twenty nineteen, with the encouragement of

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her family, she headed back to
NIU with her original black and white student

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ID card. Awesome, it's probably
the same kind of junk drawer. I

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have to pick up where she left
off sixty eight years ago. The university

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staff dug through decades old records and
transcripts to find out what she needed to

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complete her bachelor's degree. They let
her finish a degree in general studies through

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online classes. She said, it's
nice to finish something he started. Don't

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give up. I know it could
be difficult, but everything in life has

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its ups and downs. Congratulation's choice. Max Cheveva Tanko had played hockey with

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Tyler Hess in summer camps. Max
is part of a group from Ukraine.

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It would come to the US and
when the wars started, Tyler Hess asked

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if Max could come with his family. Max is supported by the Minutes Hanka

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Hockey Association. They've been raising money
to help his hockey fees and beyond.

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Tyler's dad, Chess says of Max, he's got a good sense of humor,

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but it's really really serious, like
he's focused. Then after a game

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he gets over it and he's like
a kid. For now. He stays

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in touch with his Ukraine family through
the phone. Someday he plans on returning

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to Ukraine. First responders have rescued
an eagle impaled by a lightning rod a

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top one hundred and twenty foot radio
tower at Saint George Elementary in mclenney,

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Florida. Oh No, an eagle
got stuck at the top of the tower.

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The authorities realized someone would need to
go to the top of the tower

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to help the eagle. Crews headed
out to the tower, cut a hole

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in the fence, then one up
one hundred feet into the tower. The

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eagles found an obvious distress, but
they were able to get him. That's

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awesome, and hey, good news
for all of us. Be honest.

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A new scientific paper has confirmed how
powerful swear words could be. That's right.

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New research shows that swearing can make
you happier, fitter, I don't

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know that, more resistant to pain, and can increase your attention in memory.

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Yeah. The effects can include a
range of psychological, cognitive, and

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emotional consequences. Now I'm regretting that
I made this podcast clean. I could

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lose some weight. In a study, subjects who let rip with swear words

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were able to keep their hands in
a bucket of ice water for longer than

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non swears. Yeah, I'll believe
that one chanting a swear word was also

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shown to increase muscle performance during physical
exercise. Messages with swearing in them was

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seen as more genuine than those without. Remember with your swearing context is key.

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