Three goats and a dog walk into a firehouse....

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. What do you do when a miniature boat washes up on the beach? You put it back in the water. A miniature boat from the United States washed up on the shores of England. The boat is called Inspiration, to travel around nine thousand miles. It was sent from children in Rhode Island as part of a science experiment back in twenty twenty two. Well the boat has been renovated by local Sea Scouts and will be put back in Atlantic to see what happens next. Inspiration is part of a project called Educational Passages, which gives students across the US the opportunity to prepare and track their own mini boat while learning about ocean currents, weather and technology. Inspiration is three feet three inches in length.

0:56 The boat has GPS and was filled with photographs and notes from students. How The scouts that carried out the repairs, William Lack, is part of the restoration team. He said the boat had some holes in it and the lots of scratches and it's ready to go and ship shape. The boat will be relaunched in December Australia has announced that we'll protect fifty two percent of its ocean territory. That's more than any other country on the world. They are expanding their sub Antarctic Marine Park, quadrupling the size of the existing marine reserve. As good as that news is, scientists are still concerned about critical marine ecosystems not having enough sanctuary level protection. This next one sounds like the opening to a joke. Three goats and a dog wander into a fire station. Now I did ask the AI to see if they could make a joke of it, and the AI could not make a joke of it.

1:42 If you've got one, let me know. But three goats and a dog wander into the fire station. The crew of Engine five spotted a mother goat, two baby goats, and a dog walking past no humans. On Facebook, the fire department said the firefighters were concerned for their safety and with assistants from a neighbor walking his own dog, he placed a leash on the mother and walked the goat inside Station five. The two baby goats followed their mother to safety, the dog not so much. The neighbor secured the dog. We are told the goats were placed in a fenced in area behind the fire station until they were returned to their home, which is down the block. Chris and mary Anne had quit their jobs, sold their belongings, and decided to travel in a camper van for a four year adventure around the world. They have concluded their adventure.

2:25 They started in January of twenty twenty, which if you're trying to do a world tour, not a good time. There was this pandemic Google it. It was a big deal, not good for travel. They had bought a campra van they called Trudy. It had forty thousand miles on it. They bought it for about twenty one grand. They sold everything. They wound up traveling sixty seven thousand miles and visited twenty nine countries, logging twenty eight million YouTube views. Marianne said, I think when you're sitting at a desk looking out the window and there's a brick wall, whether it's a weekend away or a whole craziness like we've done, I would encourage anyone to just get out if you got something that's stopping you, a fear message and I'll put you straight. It's been phenomenal, different places, different cultures, everybody's given us a warm welcome around the world. They traveled through Europe and arrived in Turkey just before the lockdowns.

3:10 They wound up being Turkish residents for eighteen months before making the decision to ship the van to South Carolina and then drive across the US. They made their way to San Francisco, up to Vancouver, did some Alaska time. They swam in the Arctic Ocean. After driving one thousand miles along a dirt road, they crossed back into the US, drove part of Root sixty six into California. Down in New Mexico, they shipped the van from La to Japan, drove around Japan for three months, then jumped on a car ferry to South Korea. Then they didn't know what to do. China said no. They toured Malaysia and Thailand, India, Pakistan. They considered Saudi Arabia, but we're told the country doesn't allow right hand drive vehicles. So they went to South Africa Mozambique, is Zimbabwe, but Swana and then one last ferry home. Marian said, I really feel if we do nothing else in our life, we've done something fantastic. Hey, good news for David he's eighty two. He had lost his class of nineteen sixty four Naval Academy ring fifty four years ago when golfing with his father at the Uniontown Country Club near Pittsburgh. Lorenzo told the local news it survived combat, but it couldn't survive my golf game. Well, luckily, Michael was golfing at the same club recently, and he spotted a shiny object in the clay that had been exposed by recent rings. Can you guess what the object's gonna wind up being? Are you familiar with how this podcast works? Do you think there's a surprise twist here?

4:32 There's not. Michael said, I saw the shiny thing, and I thought it was a beer cantab, but dug it out so nobody would step on it, and I saw it was a ring. He searched for the ring Zonner online and found a podcast episode in which Lorenzo had talked about his experiences in the military. Michael travel to Florida to present Lorenzo with the ring. He said, I knew I couldn't send this in the mail. I knew it had to be personally delivered. John. No world record today, No world record today. I know right you have a great day.