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’.

Guy Fieri raises more than $20 million for restaurant workers; A Philadelphia cafe owner finds a window to business survival; Teen volunteers in Los Angeles organize service for those who are vulnerable.

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

Blasphemy to be decriminalized in Scottish hate crime bill; A Los Angeles artist gives her neighbors a walk-by gallery; Mosques across the U.S. open their doors to blood donors during Ramadan. Special Guest: Garth Kravits

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

Art group sends 100 dolls to comfort refugee children; 10 kinds of apples that were thought to be extinct have been rediscovered; Turkey Issues an Order to Feed Stray Animals So They Don’t Starve in the Pandemic. Special Guest: Michael Stewart Allen

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.

Gourmet food prepared for frontline workers; Large “House” Party in the UK allowed to continue; A 21-year-old trans advocate who helped craft School Policies; Yayoi Kusama writes a poem about coronavirus.

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.

Subscribe to get the latest episodes. 18,000 pounds of food prepared for the 2020 Olympics was donated to a Colorado food bank;  A New Yorker who makes sure that the homeless population is not forgotten;  Dogs being trained to sniff out Covid 19;  John Krasinski makes Hospital Staff’s baseball dreams come true.

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.