Oct. 21, 2025

The Top Dog Names of 2025

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In this episode, Johnny Mac covers five uplifting stories: 1) Chewy's list of the top 400 dog names for 2025, highlighting the top 10 names; 2) Kim's initiative to knit goods for a NICU during the pandemic, aiding families in a meaningful way; 3) A remarkable coincidence where two cousins from opposite sides of the ocean met at their ancestor's grave without planning; 4) An unusual incident where a truck spilled hot dogs across a Pennsylvania road, creating a slippery mess; and 5) The creation of a new portrait called the 'Algorithm King' by a robot artist named Ada, who is pioneering AI's role in art.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. Chewy has put out the list of the

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top four hundred dog names for dogs and puppies in

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twenty twenty five. Don't worry, I'm not going to read

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you four hundred names. But let's take a look at

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the list. Let's start with the top ten most popular

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dog names for twenty twenty five number ten Sadie, number nine,

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Buddy eight, Cooper seven, Bailey six, Charlie five, Max four,

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Lucy three, Daisy two Luna, and the number one most

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popular dog name for twenty twenty five, Bella. If you

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want to go on chewy dot com, they have this

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broken down by letter. I mean there's just a zillion ai'se.

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You want to name your dog with a que Quins

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and Quinn are up there. How about an X. Let's

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look up x Xena with an X after Xena the

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Warrior Princess. Remember the TV show. Yeah, the wys are

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Yara and Yoda, there, Zeke, Zelda, Zeus, and Ziggie. They

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did not provide numbers three ninety one through four hundred,

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or I would read them to you, But this is

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on chewy dot com. Back during the pandemic, Kim saw

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a Facebook post from the John Hunter Children's Hospital asking

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for knitted goods for the neonatal intensive care unit. Kim

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told the ABC they weren't getting people donating blankets and

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beanies and stuff because people couldn't go anywhere and do anything.

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I thought I can help with this on NIT up

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what I've got at home. Natalie is the NICU service

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manager at the hospital and says, our volunteers put together

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a pack for each family and that might include a quilt, bonnet,

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booties and a cardigan. It's really lovely milestone for parents

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to be able to dress their baby. So I have

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something that fits the baby and it looks cute. It's

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really special for the families. One mom said to know

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they're a ladies knitting at home and they'll never see

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the baby that they help. It's really cool. Just makes

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you feel like everyone's here to look after your baby.

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Two cousins from the opposite sides of the ocean randomly

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met up. They showed up at their ancestors grave at

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the exact same time. This was not a plan. Ian

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and Malcolm from the UK, were visiting the grave of

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their great great great grandfather Anthony. There they met Ran

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and his wife Janil, who were there from Kansas City

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to also visit the same grave. Malcolm said, you couldn't

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make it up. The other guys put on their trip

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a while ago too. We met at that precise moment,

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and now people are saying it's a divine intervention. I

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don't have a religious bone, but if we arrived an

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hour and a half later, we wouldn't have known they

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were there. Scientists have calculated the odds at twelve billion

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to one. The men are all fourth cousins, Malcolm said,

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was amazing. It was like we all knew each other.

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Then we went to a nearby pub where we found

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we had so much in common. That's a good time,

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all right, Johnny Mack? Why are we elate for work

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this time? Well, you see, boss, there was a truckload

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of hot dogs that spilled across the road in Pennsylvania. Yeah,

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there was a mechanical problem with the truck and it

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scraped the concrete divider and it ripped the trailer open,

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and then there were sausages all across the road. What

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did you eat the hot dogs? Now? Shrewsbury Fire Company

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Chief Brad said, once those leave the truck and hit

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the road, it's all garbage. A front end loader was

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used to scoop up the hot dogs. Chief Brad tells

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us I can tell you personally, hot dogs are very slippery.

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There's a new portrait. It's called the Algorithm King and

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has offered a glimpse of how members of the royal

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family may be painted in the decades to come. The

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Algorithm King was created by a robot artist named Aida Aida.

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Aida is the first robot to ever paint King Charles.

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Aida has previously painted a portrait of the late Queen

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Elizabeth II to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee back in twenty

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twenty two, Aida spoke to the UN and said, it

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is a privilege to be part of this remarkable event

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at the United Nations, surrounded by those shaping the future

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of technology and culture, presenting my portrait of His Majesty,

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King Charles. The Third is not just a creative act.

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It's a statement about the evolving role of AI in

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our society and to reflect on how artificial intelligence is

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shaping the cultural landscape. Oh Your Eye Rolling, a painting

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by Aida Sault at Southerby's in twenty twenty four for

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guess how much wrong one million dollars. Those are five

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