Taylor Swift except it is raccoons, possums, and skunks. PLUS Snake named after Harrison Ford!

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Why didn't it have to be snakes
because we name the snake after Harrison Ford.

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High I'm Johnny Mack with five good
news stories. Harrison Ford's legendary Indiana

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Jones character may fear snakes, but
the actor has a real reptile named after

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him. It's a new species of
snake found in Peru, and it's been

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named I'm gonna butcher this tackemnoidis Harrison
Ford. I I got that second part

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right to honor Harrison Ford's environmental advocacy. I didn't know that, as Harrison

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Ford is the vice chair of the
nonprofit group Conservation International. Ford also has

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a spider named after him. Harrison
said, scientists keep naming critters after me,

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but it's always the ones that terrified
children. I don't understand. I

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spend my free time cross stitching,
and I sing lullabies to my plans so

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they won't fear the night. Ford
actually likes snakes and says snakes have eyes.

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He can drown in, and he
spends most of the day sunning himself

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by a pool of dirty water.
We probably would have been friends in the

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early sixties. It's reminded that there's
still so much to learn about our wild

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world and that humans are one small
part of an impossibly vast biosphere. An

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Australian mother is going to visit one
hundred and forty countries and won't have to

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cook or clean for three years.
How does this work? You book a

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three year cruise around the globe?
Rena Cavazza says, I'll be traveling for

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over one thousand days on one single
boat, one hundred and forty countries,

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three hundred and eighty two ports,
thirteen of the fourteen Wonders of the World.

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Wow, I wonder which when she's
missing? And that kind of sucks.

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Don't you want to see all of
them? At that point, two

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of her children, Dom and Amelia, thought mom was crazy. Amelia said,

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my first reaction was yelza, and
Dom said, three years on a

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cruise ridiculous. The cruise starts in
Istanbul on November first, then heads down

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to South America, down the coast
Antarctica, then up to North America as

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far as Alaska. From there,
the cruise goes to Asia, down to

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Australia, New Zealand, back up
to Southeast Asia, across to India,

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on to South Africa before heading to
Europe, then to Iceland, back down

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the Mediterranean to Turkey. On November
first, twenty twenty six, eight hundred

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other passengers are doing this thing.
There'll be a doctor and dentist on board,

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but the casino has been converted to
a business center, and you don't

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have to cook or clean because cleaners
will do that for you once a week.

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The cruise ship says you can bring
on guests to stay in your cabin,

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or you can have guests come and
pretty much rent a room like you

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would at a hotel. How much
does this thing cost? Two hundred and

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forty grand woo. Shane Porter was
struggling with two cancers when he bought a

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nineteen sixty nine Jeep Commando as a
family fixer upper. He had hoped to

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create fond memories and what he knew
could be his final years. From twenty

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sixteen to twenty twenty two, the
family tinkered away. Unfortunately, Shane passed

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away at age fifty seven. The
Jeep wasn't finished and the rest of his

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family just couldn't bear to work on
the car, so they barely functioning car

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sat there for months. The family
was unwilling to part with it, but

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one Day, a family friend and
head of the Automotive technician class at Corona

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High School, pay the family a
visit and said the jeep would be a

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stellar project for his students. Bob
Mauger and the class worked on at Maugret

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told The Washington Post the kids aren't
just learning how to fix their own car,

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but they're learning how to be a
good human. That's what the world

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needs. The rebuild took fifteen months. At the end of July, the

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class presented the Porter family with the
car sparkling with a new code of metallic

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paint. Shane's widow, Tiger,
said they had no idea who we were,

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but they did it. This was
truly a work of love. Great

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headline here. The Saco River Wildlife
Center is in its era's era. Why

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they're a TikTok sensation. The main
based wildlife Refuge posted about a fundraiser that

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featured Taylor Swift themed t shirts.
Be sure it's replaced Taylor Swift with raccoons,

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possums, and skunks. Lauren Kennedy, as the Saco Rivers Director of

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Development, said the impact has been
overwhelming. Not only have we raised over

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seventeen grand we were also increasing awareness
of our organization and promoting the work of

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wildlife rehabilitation. Kennedy said, I'm
a huge swifty, so it's wonderful to

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be able to really connect with the
community in this way. Choosing a baby

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name not always easy. Courtney and
Oliver were going back and forth the possibilities

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Casey, Broody, and Jackson.
They couldn't decide, so they decided We'll

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let Gus, the spaniel terrier pick. Here's how you do it. You

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get a bunch of balls, you
write the name choices on it, You

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go to the park, you throw
the balls, and you see which one

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Gus gets. Gus came back with
Brody. Brody was born on July fifth.

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He's getting along great with Gus the
dog. We were told Gus is

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a very clever dog. I think
he knew very early on that I was

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pregnant and was pretending not to.
One random night, I was laying there

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and Gus called it up to me
and laid on my belly and the baby

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started going crazy. We struggled names
so much. We like Jackson from the

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beginning, and Casey was a family
suggestion. We went to a wedding and

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asked people their son's names and one
said Brody and we loved it. Oliver

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wanted to know the name we were
going with, so we had Gus to

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help. He picked Brody, and
then he kept picking him. It was

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our favorite. Anyway. That's your
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