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

0:02 Why didn't it have to be snakes because we name the snake after Harrison Ford. High I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Harrison Ford's legendary Indiana Jones character may fear snakes, but the actor has a real reptile named after him. It's a new species of snake found in Peru, and it's been named I'm gonna butcher this tackemnoidis Harrison Ford. I I got that second part right to honor Harrison Ford's environmental advocacy. I didn't know that, as Harrison Ford is the vice chair of the nonprofit group Conservation International. Ford also has a spider named after him. Harrison said, scientists keep naming critters after me, but it's always the ones that terrified children. I don't understand. I spend my free time cross stitching, and I sing lullabies to my plans so they won't fear the night. Ford actually likes snakes and says snakes have eyes.

0:50 He can drown in, and he spends most of the day sunning himself by a pool of dirty water. We probably would have been friends in the early sixties. It's reminded that there's still so much to learn about our wild world and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere. An Australian mother is going to visit one hundred and forty countries and won't have to cook or clean for three years. How does this work? You book a three year cruise around the globe? Rena Cavazza says, I'll be traveling for over one thousand days on one single boat, one hundred and forty countries, three hundred and eighty two ports, thirteen of the fourteen Wonders of the World. Wow, I wonder which when she's missing? And that kind of sucks. Don't you want to see all of them? At that point, two of her children, Dom and Amelia, thought mom was crazy. Amelia said, my first reaction was yelza, and Dom said, three years on a cruise ridiculous. The cruise starts in Istanbul on November first, then heads down to South America, down the coast Antarctica, then up to North America as far as Alaska. From there, the cruise goes to Asia, down to Australia, New Zealand, back up to Southeast Asia, across to India, on to South Africa before heading to Europe, then to Iceland, back down the Mediterranean to Turkey. On November first, twenty twenty six, eight hundred other passengers are doing this thing. There'll be a doctor and dentist on board, but the casino has been converted to a business center, and you don't have to cook or clean because cleaners will do that for you once a week.

2:08 The cruise ship says you can bring on guests to stay in your cabin, or you can have guests come and pretty much rent a room like you would at a hotel. How much does this thing cost? Two hundred and forty grand woo. Shane Porter was struggling with two cancers when he bought a nineteen sixty nine Jeep Commando as a family fixer upper. He had hoped to create fond memories and what he knew could be his final years. From twenty sixteen to twenty twenty two, the family tinkered away. Unfortunately, Shane passed away at age fifty seven. The Jeep wasn't finished and the rest of his family just couldn't bear to work on the car, so they barely functioning car sat there for months. The family was unwilling to part with it, but one Day, a family friend and head of the Automotive technician class at Corona High School, pay the family a visit and said the jeep would be a stellar project for his students. Bob Mauger and the class worked on at Maugret told The Washington Post the kids aren't just learning how to fix their own car, but they're learning how to be a good human. That's what the world needs. The rebuild took fifteen months. At the end of July, the class presented the Porter family with the car sparkling with a new code of metallic paint. Shane's widow, Tiger, said they had no idea who we were, but they did it. This was truly a work of love. Great headline here. The Saco River Wildlife Center is in its era's era. Why they're a TikTok sensation. The main based wildlife Refuge posted about a fundraiser that featured Taylor Swift themed t shirts. Be sure it's replaced Taylor Swift with raccoons, possums, and skunks. Lauren Kennedy, as the Saco Rivers Director of Development, said the impact has been overwhelming. Not only have we raised over seventeen grand we were also increasing awareness of our organization and promoting the work of

3:43 wildlife rehabilitation. Kennedy said, I'm a huge swifty, so it's wonderful to be able to really connect with the community in this way. Choosing a baby name not always easy. Courtney and Oliver were going back and forth the possibilities Casey, Broody, and Jackson. They couldn't decide, so they decided We'll let Gus, the spaniel terrier pick. Here's how you do it. You get a bunch of balls, you write the name choices on it, You go to the park, you throw the balls, and you see which one Gus gets. Gus came back with Brody. Brody was born on July fifth. He's getting along great with Gus the dog. We were told Gus is a very clever dog. I think he knew very early on that I was pregnant and was pretending not to. One random night, I was laying there and Gus called it up to me and laid on my belly and the baby started going crazy. We struggled names so much. We like Jackson from the beginning, and Casey was a family suggestion. We went to a wedding and asked people their son's names and one said Brody and we loved it. Oliver wanted to know the name we were going with, so we had Gus to help. He picked Brody, and then he kept picking him. It was our favorite. Anyway. That's your five good news stories for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or are you Tube.

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