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  • Knitted Police Slow Traffic

    Knitted Police Slow Traffic
    2026/11/12
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: In a small English village with speeding problems, a resident knitted life-sized “police officers” in hi-vis uniforms, and drivers slowed down due to quick visual recognition of the uniform; local police didn’t object. Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station researchers studying reefs in American Samoa observed some corals recovering full color from bleaching in as little as seven weeks, suggesting variability and possible genetic or structural advantages in certain colonies. Ottawa bookshop The Spaniel’s Tail moved 7,400 books via a 280-person human chain, and the books arrived in near-perfect alphabetical order. Brazil’s Senate voted 75–1 to shift the mandatory workweek limit from six days to five. Finally, Helga, 99, repeated her wing-walking stunt to reclaim the oldest wing walker record, now under Guinness review.


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  • Accessible Nature Trails

    Accessible Nature Trails
    2026/11/10
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: researchers confirmed wild Spix’s macaws in Brazil for the first time in 24 years, with DNA and behavior indicating successful reproduction after coordinated captive breeding and reintroduction efforts. In Nigeria’s Niger Delta, Martha and a women’s group in Rivers State have replanted over 40 hectares of mangroves, helping fish and juvenile sea life recover. Cambodia’s Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin population reached an estimated 118 after six new calves, aided by gillnet bans and sanctuary zones supported by WWF. In Phoenix, 12-year-old Sloane organized a diaper drive after learning SNAP can’t buy diapers, collecting 52,925 for nonprofit SEAZ. In Wisconsin, the 450-foot Hidden Valley Trail offers braille-guided accessibility for blind visitors.



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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

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    Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

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    4 分
  • Woman spends her birthday in a sinkhole

    Woman spends her birthday in a sinkhole
    2026/11/08
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: fishermen and forest officials in West Bengal rescue a 3–4-day-old Asian elephant calf from floodwaters, reunite it with its herd, and confirm it is healthy; Zoe leaves a $75,000-a-year mechanical design job in Chicago after visiting Yellowstone to work as a seamstress for Xanterra, earning $19.25/hour with $96/month dorm housing; Yellowstone’s geology team collects 280 hats and other lost items from geothermal areas, including lens caps, sunglasses, Invisalign retainers, AirPods, slime, and coins; in Brazil, the Araticum initiative unites 180+ groups across nine states to restore 4.5 million acres of the Cerrado by 2030, mapping 50,000 acres under restoration and gathering seeds from 150+ native species; and on Long Island, Danielle falls into an eight-foot sinkhole caused by an unmapped well, is rescued by responders, and they sing “Happy Birthday” as it is her birthday. e Cerrado


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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

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  • Don't Paint The Turtles

    Don't Paint The Turtles
    2026/11/07
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: two first-ever recorded olive ridley sea turtle nests were found in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach, California, with 204 eggs moved to the Aquarium of the Pacific as scientists link the event to warming ocean temperatures pushing species north. In southeast Mississippi, veteran April runs Gulf Coast Primate Sanctuary for 22 rescued primates and a veteran program called Unplugged that uses trust-building with animals to help veterans heal. In Borneo, Borneo Futures pays villagers to photograph wildlife, generating 378,000 observations from 800 participants across nine communities and providing income while documenting biodiversity. Charles, exonerated by DNA after 20 years in an Idaho prison, co-founded San Diego’s Innocence Center with Greg and Amanda Knox. In Kentucky, a rehab center is removing blue paint from an eastern box turtle’s living shell.


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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

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    Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

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  • Fat Bear Week

    Fat Bear Week
    2026/11/05
    John shares five good news stories: an emu named Sideneck escapes an open gate at Tuckin’ Hay Farm and is brought back after a spirited chase and negotiation while the alpacas watch; Fat Bear Week draws over 100,000 votes and is won by 20-year-old Bear 89 “Backpack,” estimated at 1,000–1,200 pounds and known for staying out of drama; 12-year-old Sloan in Phoenix runs her fifth annual diaper drive, exceeding her 22,500 goal by collecting 30,000 diapers for Nourish Phoenix; Field Museum researchers and Women in Science interns identify a 309-million-year-old fossil, naming it Jeanapriton masonesis (“Jean’s crawler”); and retired FBI agent Dave, through the Lost Apple Project, has recovered 30 once-lost historic apple varieties since 2012.


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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

    Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! For Apple users, hit the banner which says Uninterrupted Listening on your Apple podcasts app.

    Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

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    5 分
  • Puppy TV

    Puppy TV
    2026/11/03

    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: In Australia, prisoner Andre, 55, won a Supreme Court of Western Australia ruling that denying him Vegemite was an unjustified infringement on his cultural rights, overturning a prison ban based on potential fermentation into alcohol. In Finland, the national broadcaster’s silent livestream “Pennalive,” featuring Hikka the Lagotto Romagnolo and six puppies, drew over six million viewers and is linked by researchers to oxytocin release. In Colorado, a 209-foot-wide wildlife overpass and five underpasses on I-25 cut collisions from about one per day to two in 10 months, with cameras capturing species from elk to toads. Tourists watched Abu Simbel’s biannual sunrise illumination on October 22. The SS United States, an unbroken transatlantic speed-record holder, will be sunk off Destin, Florida, to form the largest artificial reef after hazardous-material removal.


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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

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    5 分
  • Who ate all the beans?

    Who ate all the beans?
    2026/11/01
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: North Canton Police and an Ohio Department of Natural Resources officer rescue a white-tailed deer tangled in a backyard hammock, freeing it uninjured; a man buys a $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting at a Milwaukee-area estate sale that is authenticated as “Alderman Merriam’s Shells” (1951) and opens at $75,000 at auction; NBC and Telemundo’s 12-year “Clear the Shelters” campaign, spanning 1,200+ shelters in 47 states, matched 135,000 animals this summer—about 1.5 million adoptions total; northeastern Turkey sets a Guinness record with a 1,807-gallon pot of baked Kelkit sugar beans; and Cornell researchers restore EV batteries via “direct electrode to electrode regeneration” (DEER), boosting depleted cells from 70–80% back to 95% capacity.

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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

    Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! For Apple users, hit the banner which says Uninterrupted Listening on your Apple podcasts app.

    Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

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  • The Dolly Parton Hair Corn Maze

    The Dolly Parton Hair Corn Maze
    2026/10/31
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Victoria, Australia added three national parks—Mount Buungar, the Pyrenees, and Wombat-Lerddergh—protecting over 250 square miles of forest and mountain habitat, including old-growth trees needed by endangered greater gliders, after advocacy dating to 2010. A small marble study by Trevi Fountain sculptor Pietro Bracci, made around 1736 for Pope Clement XII and long missing, resurfaced after decades in an English garden and was identified at auction. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has distributed 300+ million books since 1995, and 20 farms in the US and Canada created Dolly-themed corn mazes to raise money, featuring a pre-recorded message from Parton. In England, a Waterfowl Sanctuary worker freed a young swan from a fishing hook in minutes, a clip viewed 12.7 million times. Researchers formally described a Sri Lankan spiny mouse, Mus dambara, after learning burnt coconut bait works where peanut butter failed; only two specimens are known.

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    5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Media network

    John also hosts Daily Comedy News

    Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Media! For Apple users, hit the banner which says Uninterrupted Listening on your Apple podcasts app.

    Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories’ with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!

    Get more info from Caloroga Media and if you have any comments, suggestions, or just want to get in touch our email is info@caloroga.com
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    4 分