Leave the Leaves: Tell my wife I don't need to rake the leaves!

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. I am Johnny Mack with perhaps the goodest good news I've ever done on the show, And please tell my wife about this one. A Wildlive conservation group is encouraging Americans not to rake the leaves. Yes, I agree, let's not rake the leaves. How about it's Saturday and we just sit around and watch sports all day and maybe play some video games, listen to podcasts, not rake for five hours. I hate the leaves. I mow my lawn, I do the pool, I'll do other chores. I hate the leaves thing. Let's leave them all right? What's the deal here, John? Stop your rant. The organizers of leave the Leaves love it, say Songbirds, small animals, amphibians, and reptiles all rely on the leaf later in some way.

0:50 Many beloved insects species like butterflies. You like butterflies, don't you? Motts and fireflies use the layer as a safe spot to wait out the winter, and others forage in and even eat the decomposing leaves. You can leave the little twigs and stems too. Many insects, like native bees, over winter inside of hollow dried flower stems or in decaying logs. And branches. You try explaining that to my wife, It's not gonna work. Florida officials announced the discovery of two eighteenth century onion glasses. The Division of Historical Resources announced on social media they found some barnacle covered bottles. They said meticulously slow cleaning and drying the layers was surely a challenge, but the bottles remained intact and then were consolidated with paraloid B seventy two, which, as you know, is an acrylic rosin based consolidate typically used in glass and ceramic conservation. Yeah, we know. Mark Ard is the director of External Affairs for the Florida Department of State. He told Fox News. While the exact ship is not identified, the vessel was part of the Spanish plate fleet that was sailing from Cuba bound for Spain in seventeen fifteen.

1:53 The seventeen to fifteen Spanish Plate Fleet was lost at sea along Florida's east coast after encountering a hurricane. It is believed the bottles contained some sort of alcoholic spirit. The bottles are very fragile, and for them to first survive the destruction of the ship and then being submerged under water for over three hundred years is incredible. All right? Picture this. You're in the steamy jungles of Madagascar. You and your research team discover not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, seven new species of frogs, and I have to give them names. All seven types of frogs come from the frog genus Buufis bo Phis boufis at admit bird like whistling sounds rather than croaks.

2:36 Professor Miguel Vinces is a man after my own heart. He was part of the naming crew and he's a trekkie and he said, that's why we named the frogs. Kirk Picard, Cisco, Janeway, Archer Burnham and Pike Johnny Mack. You got a world record for us today? I sure do. An Indian man showed off his engineering skills. He crafted the world's smallest washing machine, this one one point two inches by one point three two inches by one point five to two inches. Not sure my pants are going to fit in there. To qualify for the record, he had to demonstrate that his washing machine was functional and could run a full cycle, wash, rinse and spin. It weighs zero point eighty eight ounces, slightly more than two oriole cookies, Today's shows a lot of fun. I'm having a great time right. The American Humane Hero Dog Awards have announced their five finalists for twenty twenty four. These finalists are America's most heroic canines. They will compete for the Hero Dog title at the upcoming awards gala in Florida.

3:35 The categories include Law Enforcement, Service, Therapy, Military, and Emerging hero Dogs. The finalists include Samson, the science service dog who assisted his owner, neuroscientist Joey, in recovering from a traumatic brain injury. Samson learned over two hundred and forty five commands. Then there's Bo, the bloodhound who works for the police in North Carolina who's known for finding missing persons, including children. And Seene. Penny's a shelter dog who survives severe abuse and leg amputation and now inspires children as a therapy dog and advocates for animal protection laws in Kentucky. Nicki is a Belgian at Melanoy German shepherd mix with the US Coast Guard. Nicki has completed over two hundred and fifty security missions, including detecting firearms and aiding high profile events. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like to show without commercials, so there's a banner. If you're on Apple Podcasts, click on that. You can get thirty day free trial. You get this one, and there's like twenty other shows on the network. You get them all commercial free. You can test drive it for thirty days.

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