Uplifting News [UNSAD] Podcast: Recent Episodes
Cherie B. Tay
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Uplifting News Sleep Aid Digest (UNSAD) Podcast was started as a way to bring comfort and joy to those feeling overwhelmed by COVID-19.
Every week, uplifting news stories are read in a soothing voice to remind you that there's still good in the world.
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.