PLAY PODCASTS
The Good News Podcast

The Good News Podcast

1,320 episodes — Page 20 of 27

Ep 372Recycled Olympic Medals

Colleen and Neil share news about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals.

Aug 5, 20197 min

Ep 371Four Day School Week Near Denver (Repeat)

Colleen and Neil share an episode from the archive. As an update, this program has been successful in helping the school district attract and keep high quality teaching staff! Nice!!!

Aug 2, 20195 min

Ep 370Hospital Sounds

The sounds in a hospital, good, bad? Yep, they are pretty bad. Hear what folks are doing to change that.

Jul 31, 20196 min

Ep 369Best Idea For Those Golden Years

Have you ever thought about what your life might look like in your 60's, 70s, '80s and beyond? This episode explores how some people are tackling that very question.

Jul 29, 20196 min

Ep 368Meoooow Big Cat Love

Cheetahs were lacking confidence in the lovemaking department so Zoos are giving them a dog-friend so they can start to relax and maybe make some wee little baby cheetahs.

Jul 26, 20194 min

Ep 367Mailbox of Remembrance

Colleen and Neil share a factoid about a mailbox in Japan where you can write letters to deceased loved ones.

Jul 24, 20194 min

Ep 366Hummus: Tasty and Nutritious (For Dirt Too!)

Colleen and Neil share some good news about our favorite bean dip.

Jul 22, 20194 min

Ep 365Urban Bees Part 2

Part two or our conversation with Mary Nisi, Chicago been keeper. There is also a direct and unflinching mention of a bee penis.

Jul 19, 201911 min

Ep 364City Bees Part 1

An interview with Mary Nisi an urban beekeeper. You've got to hear this!!

Jul 17, 201911 min

Ep 363Bee Week 2019

Colleen and Neil are excited to celebrate the first day of The Good News Podcast Inaugural Bee Week 2019!

Jul 15, 20194 min

Ep 362Hawaiian Library Return

Colleen and Neil share a tale about a library and a very considerate patron.

Jul 12, 20194 min

Ep 361Joy and Happiness

Colleen and Neil talk about Joy and Happiness. What brings you joy?

Jul 10, 20199 min

Ep 360YES!

R&D at Nestle has created a new candy wrapper that will biodegrade in the ocean in six months. Why, YES! I will have that YES! candy bar.

Jul 8, 20194 min

Ep 359Moroccan Fog Catcher

Colleen and Neil brush off an episode from the archives, and discuss a project from Morocco that involves grabbing fog to add to the water supply.

Jul 5, 20196 min

Ep 358London's Evolving Phone Booths

From the archive, Colleen and Neil talk about exciting and intriguing ways that London is reusing their iconic booths.

Jul 3, 20196 min

Ep 357Philippine Teens on Team Tree

Colleen and Neil completely agree on a new graduation requirement for the youth of the Philippines.

Jul 1, 20194 min

Ep 356Full Moon Jam part 2

Colleen and Neil are back for part two of the Full Moon Jam discussion. Did you miss part 1?? Go back and take a listen.

Jun 28, 201911 min

Ep 355Full Moon Jam Part 1

Check out the Full Moon Jam and visit an event, you might see Colleen and Neil. Coooooool ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jun 26, 201911 min

Ep 354A Dropping Rate of Divorce

Colleen and Neil talk about a dip in the US divorce rate, thanks in part to Millennials. At The Good News Podcast, we identify as Willenials.

Jun 24, 20195 min

Ep 353Get up and Go Go Fuel

Neil explains a really complicated science around jet fuel and it sounds like good news. We are pretty sure it's good news.

Jun 21, 20199 min

Ep 352Yard Work PE

Colleen and Neil share about an alternative PE option in Iowa.

Jun 19, 20196 min

Ep 351Blood talk + Neil is a Pepsi boy

Jun 17, 20198 min

Ep 350Get your vegetables

Veggies are edgy.

Jun 14, 20197 min

Ep 349Three Word Addresses

Colleen and Neil dust off an archive episode: three word maps!

Jun 12, 20199 min

Ep 348Recycling in Response

Colleen and Neil share some news about the changing recycling landscape and how people are responding to it.

Jun 10, 20195 min

Ep 347Pool Time

Neil and Colleen talk about pools and blue skies day-dreamin' And bonus at the very end of the episode, Neil sounds just like Matthew McConaughey.

Jun 7, 20197 min

Ep 346Get yer pronouns straight

Neil shares some good news from the World Health Organization. Happy Pride Month!

Jun 5, 20196 min

Ep 345A Very Green Year for the UK

Colleen and Neil share three mini stories with good green news from across the pond.

Jun 3, 20194 min

Ep 344Passport to Palau

Colleen and Neil dust off an episode from the archive- some poetry from the passport to the island of Palau.

May 31, 20194 min

Ep 343LEGO Braille Bricks

The Lego Foundation is releasing LEGO Braille Bricks in 2020. The project hopes to help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a fun way!

May 29, 20195 min

Ep 342Heimlich Helper!

Colleen and Neil share a story about the Heimlich maneuver and home alone safety.

May 27, 20193 min

Ep 341Kids Share Facts and it's F**king Adorable

A Chicago JK classroom gives us the cutest audio we've heard in a long time.

May 24, 20193 min

Ep 340Water Globs

The London 2019 marathon has a great idea! Water bottles are getting replaced by seaweed water globs. Genius!

May 22, 20197 min

Ep 339Airport Dogs

TSA dogs are super cute and that's ok.

May 20, 20197 min

Ep 338Wacka Wacka

Colleen brings listeners to a vintage video game arcade (meep meep). You're Welcome.

May 17, 20194 min

Ep 337Keanu's Kindness

Colleen and Neil rerun an episode about Keanu Reeves and some of the many good things he's done. He has a new movie coming out because Keanu never stops working.

May 15, 20198 min

Ep 336Pod Wet

Colleen shares some great news about Germany helping refugees find work, this conversation then de-evolves to Colleen mentioning "pod wet".

May 13, 20196 min

Ep 335Beautiful Botanical Book Bounces Back

Colleen and Neil share good news about a lost book that has been found.

May 10, 20194 min

Ep 334G O A T

Innovation on the California firefighting front.

May 8, 20194 min

Ep 333New Yawk City's Roofs Are Getting Greener

Colleen and Neil share news about a new New York initiative.

May 6, 20195 min

Ep 332I do?

21st-century marriage talk

May 3, 20196 min

Ep 331Notre Dame Restoration

Colleen and Neil chat about some of the good things coming out after the fire at Notre Dame.

May 1, 20196 min

Ep 330Hey Four Eyes

Rwanda becomes the first low-income country to provide vision care to ALLL of its citizens free of cost.

Apr 29, 20194 min

Ep 329Jason Momoa, Plastic Protester

Colleen and Neil discuss GoT, beards, and aluminium.

Apr 26, 20195 min

Ep 328Good News about Animals 🐘🐯

Tigers are making a come back and China makes a good choice; banning ivory

Apr 24, 20192 min

Ep 327Drones: Hawaiian Hibiscus Helpers

Colleen and Neil discuss a drone that is finding plants thought to be lost.

Apr 22, 20193 min

Ep 326Haitian Dance

A rerun from January, a story about family and Haitian dance culture from KFAI Minnesota community radio.

Apr 19, 20196 min

Ep 325FunkHead

Neil shares some funky sounds and the pair discover they listen to music very differently.

Apr 17, 201910 min

Ep 324Termites

A throwback to an episode we aired in January, all about termites!

Apr 15, 20195 min

Ep 323Sit Stay Read

Dogs and kids learning to read in a cuddle puddle. A cuddle puddle.

Apr 12, 20196 min