The Happy Pod: Why whales wear seaweed

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.3 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, why are whales wearing seaweed on their heads? We celebrate 100 years of Disney. And a listener shares her children's orchestra in Colombia.

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0:00.0	Life's Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service bringing you extraordinary
0:05.7	personal stories from around the globe.
0:08.6	Search for Life's Less Ordinary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:15.5	You know we love an animal story on the happy pod and this week we've got loads for you.
0:19.6	Stand by for whales, cats, kangaroos and Mickey Mouse.
0:23.5	Ah!
0:24.5	Oh boy!
0:25.5	How ya powers me Mickey Mouse?
0:27.5	Hey!
0:28.5	Pluttle!
0:29.5	This is Dan Yal in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and you're listening to the happy pod.
0:34.9	Hello, I'm Carolina Costa and I'm in Bogota, Colombia and you're listening to the happy
0:40.5	pod.
0:41.5	This is Andy Hyde from Durango, Colorado and you're listening to the happy pod.
0:49.8	On the way a new way of persuading children to try on glasses in Pennsylvania.
0:54.6	By the time they come to see me they've been to the eye doctor and maybe had drops in
0:58.6	their eyes and all sorts of intrusive things and so I hear I come at them trying to put something
1:03.2	on their face and they're like, no, get away.
1:05.5	In Kenya, innovation to offset climate change.
1:08.4	We are slowly learning how to deal with the droughts.
1:11.7	I can only hope that the younger generation pick up our ideas.
1:15.6	A hike through Sequoia National Park in California that could have broken a record.
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