The Happiness Experiment in Florida

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Nice job by a doctor in New York. He has taken upon himselves to not only save human lives, but dog lives. Doctor Brian is a urologist based in Buffalo. He's also a licensed pilot. He helps dogs from being killed. He works with animal shelters in New York and North Carolina to airlift dogs from animal shelters to foster homes. It's called Pilots En Pause and in the Middle There. It's a nonprofit that helps link pilots to different rescues and shelters that help move animals around from high kill shelters. Doctor Brian told USA Today it was kind of a natural thing. I became a pilot about twelve years ago, and I did it for many reasons. Part of it was to use my skills to help other people own animals.

0:46 I fly for a couple different organizations and we fly six children around. I also decided to fly for Pilots and Paws. He flies every forty six weeks and picks up dogs from high kill shelters and drops them off to foster and adoption homes on his last flight, he picked up eleven dogs on the flight. Brider that twenty, which is the maximum number of dogs he has carried on a single flight. He does occasionally fly for emergencies. He says, there was one dog that was pregnant and she was special needs, and I think she needed some kind of surgery too, so I ended up just flying her solo. He does not ask for any reimbursement for his flying time nor his fuel. He only does it out of the kindness of his heart. Each flight costs about seven hundred dollars, and you know it's a few hours every couple of weeks. Doctor Brian says, I've always been an animal lover. I've always been a dog lover. Animals or a population that can't really speak for themselves, just like children, they can be vulnerable. I've always been an advocate for that. So I decided to use my pilot skills to help a vulnerable population by doing as much as I can, hopefully better their lives and give them a second chance. Great job, dude, Good news out of Norway. Over the last hundred years, Norwegian forests have tripled in size, according to a new report, and just the last forty years, they've doubled in size. The local head of research said, we've had very good growth conditions for the forest over the past ten to twenty years.

1:52 There've been higher temperatures and longer summers. Well that's global warming. I'm not sure that's a good thing. Mister Norway anyway, isn't it good? Norwegian would? Meanwhile, the kids of one German household were getting excited. They were getting a new swimming pool. Yeah, the builders were there. They're building a below ground swimming pool. The men digging a trench noticed some small metal plates. Well what are these small metal plates? Turns out they are one thousand silver coins dating to the fourteenth century. Back in the day, you could have bought about one hundred and fifty sheep with those coins. In Florida, a man is deploying subliminal advertising to incite happiness. Gary King was climbing down from a latter He just popped up a sign in red and white that said happiness.

2:35 He says, all I'm doing is using one word. This word's been around forever, But where do you see it? You don't. He's been hanging metal happiness signs all around Saint Petersburg since twenty nineteen. It's part of the Happiness Experiment. He said. He received a letter from someone who wrote, I first saw the Happiness Experiment TB signs on the day of my miscarriage last year. The signs reminded me that it was all going to be okay and that I could find happiness during and after this. Another letter, a woman and bearing the burden of severe bipolar disorder almost ended her life on the way to the bridge. She saw one of the happiness signs and turned around with fresh perspective, and this seems like a good time for me to plug. The five Minutes of Gratitude show a good way to take five minutes and think about things.

3:16 It also comes with a daily affirmation five Minutes of Gratitude. Where I forget your shows. All right, I've got another Guinness World Record for you. This one the largest gathering of people wearing two piece pajamas. This happened at an Ikea in Sweden. That's right, Two and fifty two employees gathered at the first Ikea store in Sweden to hold the world's largest pajama party. Frodrika as the managing director of Ikea of Sweden and said, We're thrilled about this collective effort coming together to highlight the importance of sleep. Good sleep benefits everyone, and we believe that by prioritizing it, we can genuinely make a big difference. Small adjustments like choosing the right pillow or lighting can lead to big improvements. Wonder where we could get the right pillow or the right lighting. Hmm, I can't think of a store that sells those things. Our goal is to make these improvements accessible to everyone, because good sleep should be something everyone can achieve. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. And if you would like the program without commercials, there's a link in the show notes so that I'd tell you how to do that. And you have an awesome day.