The $10,000 Lobster Roll #NationalLobsterDay

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack of five Good News Stories. If you're listening in or around Boston, get moving. Holly's North End announced that in honor of National Lobster Day, which as you know, is today September twenty fifth, they are selling ten thousand dollars engagement lobster rolls, presented with a one in five eighths carrot diamond atop one point seventy five pounds of fresh lobster meat. Paul owns the Plaze and said the idea of filling the restaurant with friends and family and popping the question the most Boston whyever, seems like a fun idea. The signature lobster role is known as the USS Lobstitution Stuff, with twenty eight ounces of shellfish meat and served on a grilled long sub roll, and today, being National Lobster Day, comes with a certified round cut diamond halo engagement ring garnish. Now, if you don't want the side of diamonds, the sandwich itself can be purchased for just ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents and you can get that any day, not just on National Lobster Day. Their menu says twenty eight ounces knuckle and claw lobster, meet twist of lemon and mayo on a grilled long sub roll. Can you sink it? If you would like the side of diamond, it'll cost you an extra ninety nine hundred dollars and one cent. The price tag also includes closing down the restaurant for the couple and any guests they invite to this exciting engagement. So far, no takers, but you know you got a couple hours left. I hope you downloaded the show early. This next story here is a little naughty, but I'll watch myself, don't worry. So an interesting study

1:34 during their recent presidential debate, currently, web traffic to certain websites Nudge, Nudge, say no more plummeted. One of those certain websites said their traffic was down fourteen point eight percent during the debate. In Wisconsin, traffic to certain websites were down twenty two point six percent. However, as soon as the debate went to the first commercial at ten o six pm, certain websites say traffic went back up. Control yourselves to people, nice job. In Colorado, the c doot has built more than forty wildlife underpasses and three overpasses. These crossings aim too funnel animals into the safe passageway rather than crossing the road where terrible things might happen to them. Executive director Callahan says, in some of the cases, we've seen a ninety seven percent reduction in crashes. So if you had one hundred crashes last year on this ten mile stretch of highway, now you have three. They try to customize the crossings for individual animals. Apparently animals are like people and like different things. Were told. For example, deer, bears and mountain lions like underpasses, Elk. Bighorn sheep and pronghorn like overpasses. Smaller animals like mice, voles, weasels, snakes, and frogs like having a row of twigs and sticks they can hide in as they cross. Tunnels that are too long will frighten some species. We're also told some species like moose, deer, and coyotes figure it out pretty quickly. Elk, they're a little more prear cautious, take some time to use the overpass. Okay, ELK, it's all right. The deer began using the underpass before the crews were even done. Meanwhile,

3:07 a British explorer has discovered the source of an unshortered Amazon river after being stalked by jaguars and ravaged by army ants. There's a headline. Ash found the start of the Coppername River in Suriname. They also named two undocumented waterfalls, Dike's Falls and Wallace Falls, after team members who first spoted them in the largely unexplored jungle. Ash said, we've mapped the coordinates and took a screenshot for any mapping associations who want that. He had hired a helicopter to drop him into the center of the ex Dutch colony, which is ninety three percent forested. He and his team spent the next six days fighting their way upstream in kayaks. Ash says, it's crazy to think we're going to some places that the forest hasn't ever seen a human footprint before, and it's not surprising. It's brutal. In the jungle, they came across a terrifying goliath tarantula, which is the world's largest spider. But he said the scariest moment is when they woke to find fresh jaguar excrement just yards from where they had been sleeping. Ash says, we couldn't see it, but who knows how long it was potentially falling our tracks to camp. We also had army EMPs take over our camp completely. They were all over our hammocks and our tarp and they made four grown men stand at the side of the river bank waiting for them to pass.

4:17 The team survived on five hundred to six hundred calories a day. I can't even get through this program on six hundred calories. All right, this could be really good news. Cars and planes could soon be built from the world's strongest batteries. Researchers are working on massless energy storage. That's a structural battery that could cut the weight of a laptop by fifty percent, make cell phones as then as a credit card, or increase the driving range of an electric vehicle by up to seventy percent on a single charge. The idea here is the battery material becomes part of the actual construction material of a product. When cars, planes, ships, or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced. What a smart idea.

4:58 And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there's a link in the show notes tell you how that works. And please check out our sister podcast, Five Minutes of Gratitude a little mindfulness for you on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And I got to do a better job. I also host a different podcast. It's called Daily Comedy News, where I tell you about the comedians. I do that one seven days a week. That's Daily Comedy News. That one's a lot of fun as well. All Right, have an awesome day.