Sir Hissalot snakes away

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Shiney Mack with five few new stories. We have another lost ring that has been found. This won a nineteen thirty eight class ring found in the parking lot at Starbucks, and they were able to get it back to the original owner's granddaughter, Laurie said she found the Virginia Tech Class of thirty eight ring in the parking lot of a Starbucks in Wilmington. She told TV I just noticed a shiny object in the corner of the parking lot, and I thought, this is a beautiful ring. I'm a sentimental person and I appreciate family heirlooms, so I just didn't feel right to get rid of it or sell or give it away. She did some online research she found the original owner was Virginia Tech graduate Wallace Garst, who had died several years ago. Garst had a son who passed away in twenty twenty four. That obituary included a photo that showed him wearing his father's ring.

0:56 From the obit they were able to find the granddaughter, Laura, who said, I feel it serendipitous that my dad was reaching out. He knew I'd been thinking about him, and he was popping in to say I'm here, what a nice story. In Iowa, a nine foot python was found in somebody's yard. Yikes, but good news. The python has found a new home in Illinois. The Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control said. The python, given the name Sir Hisslot I love it. Sir Hisselot, was found in a residence front yard. Officials weren't sure if Sir Hisslota had escaped from his home or was abandoned. Animal care manager Ray sold the Gazette newspaper we can't confirm for sure if the python was abandoned, as it's entirely possible that it may have escaped some type of enclosure. But there is potentially some suspicion that it was abandoned because in my experience, this is a rather common thing for people to do and they can no longer care for them.

1:45 Sir Hisslot has a new home in Illinois, where they would be cared for by a partner organization. The story hears says they didn't identify Sir Hisselot's new home for privacy concerns. Nice job. Out of French Polynesia, they announced the creation of the World the World's largest marine protected area. It is nearly one point nine million square miles. Of that, four hundred and twenty four thousand changed square miles will be designated as highly or fully protected, meaning only traditional coastal fishing, eco tourism, and scientific research are allowed. Practices like deep sea mining and bottom trawling restricted across the entire marine protected area. That's awesome. You know when somebody's being a little bit of a jerk and they're like, what's this. It's the world's smallest violin that I'm playing for you. You know when people do that. Well, a team of physicists have used nanotechnology to create the world's smallest violin. It's so small it can't be seen without a microscope. The platinum violin measures thirty five microns. Now you're like, John, I know a lot of things, I don't know what a micron is. Well, let me tell you.

2:48 A micron is a measurement unit equal to one millionth of a meter. The violin is smaller than a human hair. A human hair can be seventeen to one hundred and eighty microns. The world's smallest violin is thirty five microns. The scientists say, though creating the world's smallest violin may seem like fun of games, a lot of what we've learned in the process has actually laid the groundwork for the research we're now undertaking. That technology is nano lithography, technology that allows scientists to build and study nanoscale objects and structures. And I know I do a lot of this type of story, but this one has a big number in it. Good news. We found your sixty cows. Yeah, I mean funny, not funny. Someone set about sixty cattle loose.

3:34 Officers responded to a report of cows on the loose at around two am on a Sunday morning. They showed up and they found sixty cows, calves, and bulls had been released or from the pasture. Two of the bulls went over to the third hole of the Lone Tree Golf and Events Center. Locals are being asked to report any additional cattle sightings because they're not sure the numbers actually sixty. So if you see a cow loose, call the officials and be like, hey found another one around Gentrytown pork And those are your five good news stories for today. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption or feed drops, there's a link of the show notes. The short version is for five bucks a month, you get this show Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week, and twenty five plus others on the network.

4:14 You get all those ad free feed drop free link of the show notes. Calli roga dot com slash plus. If you're an Apple podcast, click the matter that says uninterrupted listening and you have an awesome day coming up. A bonus interview our sister. I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great, thank you. That's so generous of you. Car that's great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well that's not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this all authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened.

5:05 And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial statements, and I had more money there than I was really using. It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now, why should I wait until I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that's what finally started this, and I said, well I'll do it. Now. Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest. So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can connect, and I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward to and give it to you. But what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan?

6:27 What's that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time. And so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier. And so you know, that had to be written about cause I wanted other people to see what they did so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.

7:09 Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy. They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so greatful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude. And I put them in my will and they could accept that, and I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.

8:08 They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked, and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we'll do it, because say, we're going to wait until you die, Why not do it now? And they did that and it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

8:48 And now you cannot believe what these people they're traveling all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have. I have. You know, when you're in those depths, it's really it could be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn't a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn't ask that I should have?

9:45 How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made the decision that I want to be happier, and I'm like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard, but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

10:41 I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A revolutionary way to increase happiness? Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold, And it's now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot cog and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much for the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun.