48-Year-Old Freshman Football Player

0:03 Hey there, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. Remember that island that I told you about recently? The one that showed up out of nowhere and then disappeared again? It's back. It turned up 18 miles away. Usually when you lose track of an island, you assume it's a map problem, but no. You may recall that residents spotted the new island on Williston Reservoir on July 12th and by August 5th it had disappeared. Well, BC Hydro spokesman Bob keeps trying to explain this thing away. He says driftwood can collect along the water's edge for years as that wood decomposes, plants and even trees can take root, creating what looks like an island. BC Hydro said it isn't an island so much as a loose collection of logs and decaying woody debris. The surface is unstable and unsafe to land on or climb across. For your safety, please keep your distance. And if you see a hatch there, the code is 4815162342. A dog named Chardonnay needed 16 seconds to set a Guinness World Record. What's the record for?

1:07 Jumping on people's backs. Yeah, Chardonnay needed 56 people to help her out. She is a four-year-old Australian shepherd. Her human friend Jennifer taught her how to jump onto her back a few years ago and That wasn't enough, so at a Riverhawks baseball game in Alberta, 56 fans lined up in the outfield and Chardonnay jumped from one person's back to the next. The record category allows a full minute for a dog to make the most jumps between people. Chardonnay finished with 44 seconds to spare. I guess they just needed more humans. Jennifer told the Washington Post, jumping across backs is just one of her many skills. That is fun. A retired firefighter in South Carolina has more than 2,000 pairs of socks. Buddy, you haven't seen my drawer. Oh, no, my drawer doesn't have pairs. I just have 2,000 individual socks.

1:52 Daryl started collecting socks after receiving socks for Father's Day. More arrived for birthdays and anniversaries. Then his family suggested, why don't we do something with it? He told the local radio and TV. My wife was like, yo, listen, you got so many socks here. And my grandkids came and told me, how about we try for the Guinness World Record? And I was like, you know what? Let's do it. His plan is to keep collecting socks through the end of the year and then ask Guinness to certify the record. He says new socks donated by the public will go to local shelters once he secures the title. Nice job there. How about this guy? He's 48 years old and he's a college freshman and he's on the football team. Justin, where's number 48? That's how old he is. He's a freshman defensive end for the San Jose City College Jaguars. He told the local news after his first game, I feel good. I mean, I'm sore all the time.

2:38 I haven't hit anybody in a football game in 30 years, so it felt good to do. He previously was playing college football 30 years ago, but was redshirted and then got injured and he couldn't play. Decades later, his son encouraged him to return to the field when he heard stories of other older men playing college sports. He explained his decision-making process. I came up with a pro-con list. The pro list was super long. The con list was, what if I get hurt? San Jose City College was open to giving him a chance, so he went to work and started weightlifting, put on 10 pounds of muscle, and said, I'm just sprinting all the time so my hamstrings are on fire. But at the same time, I realized I can do this. And in Athens, they are transforming the site of a former airport into one of Europe's biggest urban parks, creating a new massive green space designed to help cool one of the continent's hottest cities.

3:22 The new park will stretch more than 400 acres along the coast in southern Athens, making it the second largest city park in Europe. The entire park has been designed around keeping the area cooler. Researchers studied wind patterns, air circulation, and evaporation to determine where to put the pathways, plants, and other features. The goal is to make the park as much as 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than surrounding areas of asphalt and concrete. The plan includes 30,000 trees and 3 million smaller plants. Athens once held the world meteorological organization record for the highest temperature recorded in Europe after reaching 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Athens was also the first European city to appoint a chief heat officer to help deal with increasingly severe heat waves. Those are your five good news stories for today. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption, use the Apple Podcast app. Click the banner.

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