Heartwarming Efforts by The Lost Stuffy Project

00:11 Heartwarming Efforts by The Lost Stuffy Project
01:45 Plants Communicate Under Stress
02:31 Lost Dog Rescued in Alaskan Wilderness
03:23 World's Most Expensive Cheese Auctioned
04:03 Blueberry Spill Causes Traffic Jam
 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. Can you remember those just awful awful
floods in Texas? One group, the Lost Stuffy Project, is
trying to make it at least a little bit better.
Some of the campers had brought along stuffed animals. One

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girl had brought a stuff brown dog she'd named rough Ruff.
Another had a pink poodle blanket she had called her Guppy.
There were stuffed lambs, monkeys, bears. The Lost Stuffy Project
just trying to bring every small measure of comfort possible
to families affected by the flood by replacing the stuffed
animals and blankets and other comfort items. The girl who

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had rough Roff had been evacuated from the camp by helicopter.
When she left her cabin, she was clutching the dog,
but somewhere in the chaos, Roughroff was lost. The girl's
mom later contacted the Lost Stuffy Project, asking if there's
any way that could help. The mom said she'd had
the stuffed animals since she was a baby. Lost Stuffy
Project went to work. They posted a photograph of rough
Ruff on Instagram. The group figured out the brand guns

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and the name of the dog by brand Mutsy. Internet
Salutes went out to track down a replacement and say
they were able to return the dog to the family
in under two days. Randy Jaffey is the founder of
the Lost Stuffy Project and said I've worked with kids
and families in horrific situations for about fifteen years. In
those situations, she kept returning to that he ever turning
a child's most treasured comfort item. The group aims to

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find the best possible replacement knew is ideal, but sometimes impossible.
Sometimes the only options are well worn replacements. They work
with a volunteer in Michigan who does a stuffy rehab.
That person does a deep cleaning, replaces the in size
any holes, and does a full makeover before it's return
to the family. Switching gears, Scientists have found that plants
make a series of sounds to indicate they're under duress.

(01:50):
Certain animals can actually hear the sounds. There's a genus
of moths known to lay its eggs on the leaves
of the tomato vine so that the larvae have a
food source when they emerge. Scientists at Tel Aviv University
performed a series of trials to see if this would
lay their eggs on plants which were making sounds. The
hypothesis would be that if moss could hear the sound,

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they might avoid laying their eggs on the quote unquote
screaming plants. The result exactly that the study will now
make a catalog of sounds from different plants to see
how many, if any, animals are reacting to them. Now
they're not claiming sentience. They're saying the sounds are made
by changes in the physical structure of leaves, so it's
not vocalization, but it is a sound. Interesting good news.

(02:32):
A dog lost in the Alaskan wilderness was found by
a pilot nine days later. Lewis and Amber were camping
near Carmen Lake over the fourth of July. Coda got
spooked and ran off. Lewis said, we tried to grab
his collar. He grabbed his frisbee and said, I'm out
of here. They posted in Facebook groups that caught the
attention of volunteer searcher pilot John Kagerer. John landed As

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played about half a mile from where Coda disappeared, and
the dog appeared within minutes. Here comes the dog, but
it wouldn't get any closer than about ten feet to me.
He used some dog treats he keeps in his plane
the lower coda to come close enough and secured coda
with a rope, got him back on the plane, reunited
him with his owners. Amber said that sucker punch in

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our stomach for nine days and afterwards was like this
huge weight was lifted off your shoulder. Just amazing to
have him back home. Do you like cheese? The world's
most expensive cheese has sold for forty two thousand and
two hundred and thirty two dollars a Cabrolet cheese aged
in a cave for ten months. It reached top marks
in a competition in Spain and was auctioned off for

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forty two grand. The cheese was created by the on
Hel Diaz Herrero cheese factory and purchased by a restaurant,
Eliegard de Coyoto. The cheese five pounds, made with cow's milk,
aged for ten months in the Los Maso's cave, which
is nearly five thousand feet above sea level. The regulatory
Cancil dop Cabrales named it best cheese of the competition.

(04:00):
Ah yes, it's another one of the troops of this program,
Why are you late for work this time? While you
see boss? Somebody spilled blueberries all over the highway. Police
in British Columbia said there was a literal traffic jam
on the highway after a pickup truck lost its load
of freshly picked blueberries. A white pickup truck had stopped

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at the corner. When it started up again, some crates
of the blueberries fell into the roadway, The cops explained.
Some crates when crashing down on the roadway. Thousands of
blueberries spilled out onto Louheed Highway, creating a sticky messer
vehicles that drove over the fruit. Police officers were called
to the juicy incident. They used to shovel to push
the blueberries out of the way. The road is now reopened,

(04:42):
so get to work. Well yeah, and those are your
five good news stories for today. This one was a
little funky. I try you have a good day.