Good News: You CAN look Tom Cruise in the eye PLUS Furbys are not spies

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Hey, good news. He can look Tom Cruise in the eye. There had been some rumors that you weren't allowed to. But when Tom was out promoting Mission Impossible, some of his co workers were like, that's crazy talk. Tom Cruise himself says the whole eye contact thing is the weirdest story he's ever heard about himself. His co star Simon Pegg said, Cruise is a normal dude who just took us go karting and zip lining. I've been able to hack my way through all the bizarre mythology that surrounds him. On one side, he's Tom Cruise, this film star if he wants to know about And on the other hand, he's just a guy. I like being a normal with him. A man burst into tears after being reunited with his dog who ran away. The dog ran away when his owner, Bubba, was in a coma. Bubba was putting an induced coma after being hospitalized with a bacterial infection.

0:53 He woke up from the coma and was heartbroken. He learned that his dog had gotten missing. Bubba was inconsolable to learn that four year old Bullet, the dog had disappeared. He had adopted Bullet after being forced to retire from his truck driving job for medical reasons. He said the dog pulled him out of a deep depression. Bubba said, I had been a long haul truck driver almost my whole life, but I could no longer work for health reasons. I was depressed because I couldn't work anymore. I don't like living off the government. I'd rather work, but life is what it is. The people are staying with at the time had a dog with babies. One of them wouldn't leave my side. I don't know why, but he started hanging out with me, so I adopted him. He really helped me emotionally and brought me so much happiness and joy. We hadn't been apart until he came up missing. He went on Facebook, asked for help and lost pet groups, and he said when he came up missing, I was devastated.

1:34 I was praying that he was safe and he'd be found. Him being gone was the hardest part of waking up. I was absolutely heartbroken to think I wouldn't be able to see him or touch him again. Bubba had been found and placed in foster care. Kim runs a dog rescue in Dallas and was in touch with Bubba. They're back together now. That's awesome. A team of researchers at Washington University in Saint Louis has developed a real time air monitor that can detect any of these SAARs COVID two virus variants that are present in a room in about five minutes. Spokesperson said, there's nothing at the moment that tells us how safe a room is. If you're in a room with a hundred people, you don't want to find out five days later whether you could be sick or not. The idea with this device is you can know essentially in real time or five minutes anyway, if there's a live virus in the air. That's pretty cool. Do you like hydrogen trains? Will Cood News The first hydrogen power train in North America is taking writers on a two and a half hour trip through central Quebec this summer. The tourist train runs from Manto Morrissey Falls in Quebec City to Bay Saint Paul. Runs Wednesday through Sunday until September thirty. Can carry up to one hundred and twenty people.

2:35 In two rail cars. Nancy Belly is the general manager of the private railway that runs the train, says, when you think that you'll left your car behind and get on board a train that amits water vapor, you feel like you're part of an important decarbonization movement in Quebec. Good news, Furbies are back. Baby, Yeah, remember thirty five years ago the furbies. They're making a comeback. The new and improved Furbye has its familiar giant eyes and yellow beak. It also box gibberish response to physical touch from its owners, like the nineteen ninety eight original, but hopefully less freaky. The Mirror shared some horror stories of furbies. There's one with two best friends. They remember being kids at a sleepover and they heard a strange sound at midnight. They said on Reddit. I woke up in the middle of night to hear he play with me and knocking on the bedroom door. Of course, my first instincts were to wake up my friend Olivia. We slowly opened the door and both furbies were staring at us. In nineteen ninety nine, furbies were banned by the NSA and American offices in the Pentagon administrators believed they could repeat or record top secret conversations. The NSA circle to the message to staff reminding them recording devices were prohibited. This includes toys such as Furbies. A spokesperson for Tiger Electronics at Hasbro said the government's information was based on funny yet incorrect rumors.

3:50 The NSA did not do their homework. Furby is not a spy. That's your five good news stories for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or YouTube wherever you get your shows. Have a great day. Hi, I'm Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major league soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.