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5 Good News Stories - happiness and fun

5 Good News Stories - happiness and fun

By: Caloroga Shark Media / Happiness Good News Lab
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Every day the news feels heavy. 5 Good News Stories is your daily antidote — five short, uplifting stories about human kindness, scientific breakthroughs, unexpected heroes, and moments that remind you the world isn't as broken as the headlines suggest. Hosted by John McDermott, each episode is under 10 minutes and designed to start your morning right or reset your afternoon. If you're looking for a positive news podcast, a feel-good daily listen, or just five minutes of happiness — this is your show. New episode every day. Follow wherever you listen to podcasts.Caloroga Shark Media Hygiene & Healthy Living Politics & Government Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Bear Buffet, Hot Dog Fox, and Five Good News Stories

    Bear Buffet, Hot Dog Fox, and Five Good News Stories
    Jun 30 2026
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a black bear in Red River, New Mexico was filmed calmly eating birdseed from a porch, prompting the Red River Marshal’s Office to remind residents to remove wildlife attractants. In Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, police investigated a barbecue-goods “theft” and found the culprit was a red fox with stolen hot dogs. In Portugal, the charity Pangeia has developed Europe’s first large-scale elephant sanctuary on a 1,000-acre former cattle ranch, welcoming Julie, Portugal’s last circus elephant, and Kariba from a Belgian zoo, amid broader concerns about solitary elephants and reduced zoo lifespans. A California study across 1,700 zip codes found that every 200 additional EVs correlated with a 1.1% drop in nitrogen dioxide. In Utah, firefighters misted a broken-down trailer carrying 480 beehives to keep roughly 25 million bees cool, with no stings reported.

    00:10 Bear Loves Birdseed
    00:53 Fox Steals Hot Dogs
    01:35 Europe Elephant Sanctuary
    02:52 EVs Cut Air Pollution
    03:25 Firefighters Save Bees


    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!

    Get more info from Caloroga Shark 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 mins
  • America’s Most Misspelled Words, a Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant, and More Good News

    America’s Most Misspelled Words, a Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant, and More Good News
    Jun 28 2026
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories, starting with Unscrambler.com’s analysis of Google searches for spelling help, led by “bougie,” followed by “favorite” and “through,” plus state-by-state examples like Florida searching “school” and Georgia “chihuahua.” He highlights The Long Table, a restaurant with one or two dishes nightly where everyone sits together and pays what they can; it served 38,305 meals last year, about half below cost and 10% free, and its founder Tom hopes others adopt the model. Next is a new Przewalski’s horse foal at the Bronx Zoo and the species’ recovery from extinction in the wild, including 2024 transfers from Prague Zoo to Kazakhstan. He notes a Guinness record as Holly “the Lawn Queen” mows a football-field area in 14:51, and ends with a New Jersey doorbell camera capturing two black bears, including one ringing the bell.


    00:11 Most Misspelled Words
    01:04 State by State Spelling
    01:34 Pay What You Can Restaurant
    02:53 Bronx Zoo Wild Foal
    04:10 Lawn Queen Record
    04:46 Bear Rings Doorbell


    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!

    Get more info from Caloroga Shark 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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    6 mins
  • Elephants get cool audio system

    Elephants get cool audio system
    Jun 27 2026
    Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: RMIT researchers in Australia are adding about 1% cigarette butt material to clay to make bricks that need less kiln energy, are lighter, and insulate better, helping address the over six trillion plastic, toxin-leaching cigarette butts discarded yearly. At Zoo Atlanta, a Georgia Tech PhD student designed an audio enrichment system for elephants—computer vision detects trunks entering a wall’s holes and triggers low-frequency tones that the elephants find stimulating even without food. A 98-year-old WWII veteran became the world’s oldest wing walker, standing atop a biplane for over nine minutes at 1,000+ feet after 11 months of training, fundraising for the Lenox Children’s Cancer Fund. Sunil, 57, set a record with 858 paper cups from 31 countries and is pursuing wedding invitation collecting. In Florida, a backyard rhesus monkey sighting is linked to a wild population living near Silver Springs since 1938.

    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!

    Get more info from Caloroga Shark 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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    5 mins
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