Uplifting News [UNSAD] Podcast

An endangered pygmy hippo was born at the San Diego Zoo;

Philippine village delivered nearly 300 critically endangered turtle hatchlings to sea;

High school band staff went “on tour” to play the school’s fight song to graduating band seniors.

Special Guest: Kay Trinidad

Broadway costume designers and staff are making protective gear;

New York hospital staff is surprised with free vacations;

A postal worker left gift cards for 2020 graduates on his route.

Special Guest: Charise Greene

Twitter CEO says employees can work from home forever;

A Boston police officer used a mating call from his phone to lure an escaped peacock;

Mara the ex-circus elephant is set for a new life in Brazil;

Istanbul residents raise over $1.4 million to help residents with bills.

Canada is giving their essential workers a pay raise they ‘deserve’;

Girl in Cork sends adorable handmade cards to elderly and vulnerable in lockdown;

A stray cat receives recognition from a town in Virginia, and has a book written about him.

Special Guest: Clare O'Malley

Princeton names its first black valedictorian in the university’s history;

Farmers in Washington will give away 200,000 lbs of potatoes;

John Oliver launches branded stamps to support the U.S. Postal Service.

Iowa man receives a lost postcard from 1987;

Sikh doctor chooses to shave ‘in this time of need’;

Chance the Rapper surprises Montgomery County educator with ‘Grammy for teachers’.

A teen who found $135,000 by an ATM and called the police instead of taking the money;

A teacher who created a safe way to hug her students;

Donations for Native Americans flood in from Irish people;

Bansky’s newest artwork pays tribute to health workers.

Special Guest: Tatiana Grey

Israeli billionaire hopes to bring water to parched Gaza;

11-year-old girl cheers up isolated nursing home residents by bringing her pony to their windows;

Barack Obama to celebrate graduating seniors.

Teen rescues a toddler from a canal;

Morgan Stanley will no longer finance oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic;

Michigan governor announces tuition-free educational program for essential workers.

Special Guest: Jonathan Demar

A CEO gave $1.6 million to his employees;

Farmers are donating milk and produce to local food banks;

An anonymous donor gave $1 million to hospital workers in Santa Cruz.

Special Guest: Jacob Keith Watson

HIV HERO donates hundreds of masks;

Greta Thunberg donates $100,000 to combat coronavirus;

Pakistan workers hired to plant trees.

Special Guest: Morgan Marcell

Hot meals with handwritten notes of love are delivered to Asian seniors in NYC;

Missing dog reunites with its family 54 days after a tornado destroyed their home;

Family cleans strangers gravestones daily in local cemetery.

Welcome to Season 2! May 1st, 2020. This is our first weekend episode. 

Exonerated man freed from prison, is now having a “beautiful” time quarantining in hotel;

A local grocer fed a man who was stealing from their store;

Jewish brothers collect yarmulkes to make face masks for those who are homeless.

Special Guest: Emily Afton

The prime minister of Finland held a press conference for children;

A woman is doing one random act of kindness per week for 45 weeks;

California will pay restaurants to feed seniors in need.

Belgian government pledges free masks for everyone;

6-year-old runs joke stand in British Columbia;

A 56 year old man learns to write his name during the lockdown.

Special Guest: Amy Hutchins

Publix Grocery Store buys excess milk and produce from farmers and donates it to food banks;

NYC will serve 500,000 free halal meals during Ramadan;

Steakhouse regulars picked up a to-go order and left their entire $1,200 stimulus check as a tip;

Koalas treated at the world's only all-koala hospital are finally being released back into the wild after the Australian Bushfires.

Special Guest: Kimberly Marable

Tokyo’s Pride Parade is going online to support those in isolation;

A dog stolen in San Francisco has been found 4 months later in Los Angeles;

Tom Hanks sends a letter and typewriter to a bullied Australian boy named Corona.

Special Guest: Todd Cerveris

A boy in Yorkshire built a mini mosque to celebrate Ramadan at home;

91 year olds get married in Florida amid the pandemic;

A scuba diving group makes face masks out of plastic from the ocean;

Ally Bank wiped out customers’ negative account balances.

Special Guest: Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Rare giant turtles are returning to deserted beaches to nest;

Shelters across the U.S. are emptying as animals find adoptive and foster homes;

Little Free Libraries are being turned into sharing boxes.

Special Guest: Jordan Bell

School bus drivers read to students stuck at home;

Polish priest puts up giant solar cross in climate fight;

A taxi driver in Spain who took a stranded student over 900 miles free of charge to Italy.

Mountain Gorilla numbers are growing; 

College student makes mask for the deaf and hard of hearing community; 

DC Medical Marijuana dispensaries can offer delivery; 

Shake Shack returns $10 million government loan for small businesses.

Special Guest: Paige Davis

A comic book created to help people with autism understand changes brought by coronavirus;

Alberta First Nations remain COVID-19-free more than one month into pandemic;

A New Jersey landlord who canceled rent for 3 months.

Special Guest: Jewelle Blackman

The American flag is projected onto the Swiss Alps;

How Live Event companies became Pandemic Responders;

Google gives its workers eight extra weeks of paid leave;

A Czech app that helps workers respond to domestic violence.

Special Guest: Kimberly Marable.

Wuhan Couples resume wedding preparations with gusto;

Therapy dog FaceTimes healthcare workers and delivers “Hero Healing Kits”;

SNL actor pays rent for everyone in the building where his grandmother lived;

And a 90 year old woman who’s climbing the equivalent of a mountain to raise money for the NHS.

Special Guest: Eva Noblezada.

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Broadway star recovering from coronavirus, sings from NYC apartment window to salute health care workers;

A 1,000 year old Cherry Tree blooms in Japan;

Lego is producing 13,000 face visors a day for healthcare workers.

A Food delivery driver paying back doctors who saved him;

93-year-old woman’s plea for more beer gets answered by Coors;

Male Taiwan officials wear pink face masks to show that pink is not just for girls;

How FaceTime is a silver lining for seniors.

A Utah nursery gives away thousands of flowers due to lack of sales from COVID-19; 

Virginia is the first Southern state to provide sweeping anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people; 

Canadian high school students set up a positive hotline for seniors.

An anonymous donor gave $150 in local business gift cards to every household in an Iowa town; 

Restaurant-owners in Bangalore, India are feeding 10,000+ people every day; 

A wildlife trust in Kenya is surprised by a highly unusual ‘Zonkey’ birth.

A teenage pilot-in-training who is using his flying lessons to bring much needed medical supplies to rural hospitals in Virginia; 

Children of essential workers are offered free camps at the San Francisco YMCA; 

1,800 mothers of LGBTQ kids send a ‘thank you’ letter to the ‘Schitt’s Creek’ cast.

The Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy are deemed essential workers by New Zealand’s Prime Minister; 

A Georgia Bar owner removes stapled cash from the walls of her bar to give to unemployed staff; 

How the Jewish community is celebrating Passover with Virtual Seders on zoom, also known as Zeders; 

How hitchhiking birds are helping endangered rhinos.

Acts of kindness setting off chain reaction of good deeds;

$35 million dollars raised for WHO in 7 days thanks to Lady Gaga; 

A photographer who has found a way to create art in times of social distance.

Miss England returns to work in a hospital; 

Allstate & American Family Insurance gives back $800 million in premiums to drivers; 

A trio of women from Great Britain dubbed “The Golden Girls”; 

How Millburn / Shorthills is brightening their community in New Jersey.

The Spanish government is aiming to provide basic universal income; 

A Queens DJ hosts a nightly party for his neighbors; 

Seattle’s Chinese American community is helping to fight Covid 19.

A free phone line created by a Tennessee Congressman to help those experiencing anxiety and depression; 

Researchers using LED Lights to save Dolphins and Turtles from nets; 

Airlines offering free flights to frontline health care workers.

An 89 year old dance teacher who now gives dance lessons via zoom; 

Foster pets are getting homes in the US; 

A 104 World War II veteran survived Coronavirus.