The Giraffe and the Chiropractor

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. I'm laughing because after I record these things, I have to save the file and call it something. The episode before this one GNS Cremation Teacher. It just seems funny. And the episode before that was GNS cheeseballs. All right, good news. A chiropractor has helped out a giraffe. He didn't think I was gonna say giraffe. Well maybe you did if you read the show description. The giraffe named Jerry as an owner who noticed that Jerry the giraffe was chewing abnormally. The owner called the chiropractor. The chiropractor saw Jerry the giraffe and posted a video of the adjustments. He made the video as a master at like seven hundred thousand views. In the video, the chiropractor feels Jerry the Giraffe's jaw and moves it from side to side. The chiropractor told USA Today, I noticed this jaw had more range of motion on one side than the other side. I facilitated that movement with an adjustment. Then I went and I checked on his cervical spine. When I found areas that didn't move very well. I put a little bit of motion into it. After that little procedure there, Jerry, the giraffe's joints moved a lot better.

1:12 The giraffe also wanted to be closer to the chiropractor, who said he was wanting to be closer to me. He was putting his head on me. He was wanting more attention, more affection. Was like I was giving him a hug and he was like, this is awesome. I love this story. One TikTok user wrote, giraffe kisses. Who could ask for more? Fellas, write this one down if your wife starts giving you a hard time, come the fall. Research finds brain benefits in watching sports. That's right, when we're sitting there on Sundays from like one pm Eastern to eleven pm Eastern, we are benefiting our brains. Watching an athletic game activates brain reward circuits. There's an even bigger boost when viewing a game with a large crowd, says the scientists, as it fosters a sense of community and belonging.

1:56 Professor Shintaro Sato says for those seeking to enhance their overall well being, regularly watching sports, particularly popular ones such as baseball or soccer can serve as an effective remedy professor. You need to baseball. It's not popular anymore. And you left out the NFL. I don't know about the stunny guys. A pair of climate solution firms have turned on the largest CO two vacuum in the world. The vacuum is capable of sucking thousands of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere. That's awesome. If somebody can figure out that tech, that's great. The ORCA facility is in Iceland. It's run by carb Fix. Carbon Fix says it can pull four thousand tons of CO two out of the atmosphere every year, the equivalent of taking eight hundred and seventy cars off the road. So we're gonna need tons of these things. But it gets better.

2:40 That was the Orca. Now they have the Mammoth plant that one can suck thirty six thousand tons of carbon out of the air every year. They didn't convert that to cars. I'll let you guys do the math. But it's more right more this is neat because I really like nature. Developers had offered a Texas family millions for their land. They decided they'd make it a park. Fifteen thousand acres will become a park in Travis County. Daniel tells the story, this is the spot, This is where developers stood and said, we could put a lot of houses on that hill over there. The former cattle ranch, you know, the one over on Highway seventy one in western Travis County, about thirty minutes west of downtown Austin, will become a park where hikers can take in hill country vistas and explore a tributary of Bee Creek that spills over a series of limestone ledges. The park is expected to open up the public sometime in twenty twenty five or twenty twenty six. George and his wife bought the first part of the ranch in the early seventies.

3:36 Over years, they added more land until it reached nearly sixteen hundred acres. They're now selling all but ninety acres of that land to Travis County for ninety million dollars, nearly thirty million dollars less than it's a praise value and far below the one hundred and thirty million that developers had offered. You know, you can sit here and be like, well, that's a lot of money, but it could have been a lot of money. And now to be a park, I think that's awesome. Well here's another one of those. Hey, John, I thought it was five good news stories, and it's actually four good news stories and a story just to make you laugh. I know. Again, the whole premise of this program is to make you have a happy day. I'm just trying to brighten your day. That's why there's not bad news. Well you know what I mean. Sometimes the guy get his card towed away the other day. Maybe that was bad news for him.

4:18 But you know, I'm just trying to make you smile, so I will share with you. I'm not sure what you could do with this information, but it's funny. A Chinese zoo is being criticized online after visitors complained about the pandas. All right, what's wrong with the pandas well? They're not so much pandas as they are painted chow chow dogs. Visitors to the Taijaw Zoo said they were surprised to discover the so called panda dogs that went on display at the beginning of May are dogs with their fur trimmed and died to closely resemble Chinese bears. A zoo spokesperson explain that the zoo put the dogs on display because it doesn't have any pandas. Yeah, so I don't have a lion. I'm not advertising come to John Safari. Oh no, that's not a lion. That's my golden retriever. But you know whatever, I don't have a lion. What do you want me to do? The spokesperson denied the fur dying process was in any way dangerous or harmful to the canines. A zoo employee told state run media that the panda dogs aren't meant to be deceptive. A signage posted at the enclosure clearly explains they are chow Chow's in disguise, and those are your five good news stories for today.

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