Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS.
Speaker 1: Oh now it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,
Speaker 2: the twelfth of April. I'm Zara Sidler, I'm Sam Kazlowski.
Speaker 2: We're back for another week of the Good News Round Up.
Speaker 2: Let's do it very exciting. We're actually starting here at
Speaker 2: home today with a good news story right from Brisie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is an amazing story. So Brisbane has made
Speaker 3: history as the first city in the world to host
Speaker 3: an accessible bridge climb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: So individuals with accessibility requirements, including wheelchair users, will be
Speaker 2: able to scale the story bridge a b Yeah, in
Speaker 2: a specifically designed wheelchair.
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 2: So the new accessibility feature is thanks to a grant
Speaker 2: from the Queensland government. So within the government there's this
Speaker 2: Accessible Tourism Elevate Fund and that supports the state's tourism
Speaker 2: industry to basically enhance their accessible tourism experience.
Speaker 3: Should we just acknowledge the irony in being called an
Speaker 3: elevate fund and the funding being used to literally elevate amazing?
Speaker 4: Keep exactly so.
Speaker 2: According to the government, the motorized stair climber is of
Speaker 2: the highest safety standard and it's been customized for the
Speaker 2: Story Bridge using this advanced technology. Interestingly, the wheelchair was
Speaker 2: co designed by Timothy Laughlin, who's a professional wheelchair motocross
Speaker 2: rider who played a key role in quote testing the
Speaker 2: system and refining its performance on the bridge.
Speaker 3: Which is not a small task to have to test
Speaker 3: that kind of thing out for the first time. I
Speaker 3: mean someone probably had to go up there first.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so one of the first people actually once
Speaker 2: it opened to take part in the bridge climb was
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one Queenslander of the Year Dnesh Pallipana, and
Speaker 2: he said, which I loved. When I was laying in
Speaker 2: a hospital bed once not far from the bridge, I
Speaker 2: remember looking out at a wind wondering if I will
Speaker 2: be outside again. To be now seeing the world from
Speaker 2: the top of our city's bridge is like a dream.
Speaker 3: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: Goes to the.
Speaker 2: Heart of why accessibility is so important in all parts
Speaker 2: of our society, and the liberation and the freedom that
Speaker 2: people who are in a wheelchair can be afforded by
Speaker 2: this new technology is not to be underestimated.
Speaker 3: Incredible and I hope we see this sort of technology
Speaker 3: rolled out to other famous bridges. I'm particularly thinking of
Speaker 3: one in our hometown of Sydney. It would be amazing
Speaker 3: to see that sort of thing happening here. Now, let's
Speaker 3: go online and we're going to go to the US.
Speaker 3: And you are a sucker for a viral video. You're
Speaker 3: a sucker.
Speaker 4: Watched me watching this?
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: I watched you watching it. Tell us about it?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure whether to include this because I think
Speaker 2: most people have probably seen it by now, but it
Speaker 2: was just too good to ignore. It had to make
Speaker 2: its way into a good news podcast. So in case
Speaker 2: you haven't seen this viral video, let me introduce you
Speaker 2: to Tanner Smith. Now, Tanner Smith is one of the
Speaker 2: stars of the Netflix seri's Love on the Spectrum, where
Speaker 2: people on the autism spectrum search for love.
Speaker 3: Which by the way, is an Australian production originally, and
Speaker 3: it's now this massive success.
Speaker 4: Juggernaut all over the world. Yeah, it's an amazing show.
Speaker 2: And on a previous season of the show, Tanner who
Speaker 2: is just bursting with energy and personality and charm. In
Speaker 2: a previous season, he mentioned that he was actor Jack
Speaker 2: Black's biggest fan. Now fast forward to earlier this month
Speaker 2: when Tanner appeared for the second time on The Kelly
Speaker 2: Clarkson Show, where he was shown a video with Jack
Speaker 2: Black proclaiming that he couldn't wait to meet Tanner in person.
Speaker 2: And then lo and behold, as all.
Speaker 4: Of these talk shows do, there was a bit of.
Speaker 2: A glitch and then Jack Black walked out, surprising Tanner
Speaker 2: by appearing in real life, marking what Tanner labeled as
Speaker 2: the best day of my life.
Speaker 3: Can we just put a bit of audio in there
Speaker 3: for everyone, have a listen to this.
Speaker 2: I love you on the show and I can't wait
Speaker 2: for the next season and to meet you in person
Speaker 2: is really amazing from me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack is really meeting for me too.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sky, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I do think it's one of those things that you
Speaker 2: can't watch or can't listen to without a smile on
Speaker 2: your face. The infectiousness of Tanner's enthusiasm and excitement, it's
Speaker 2: just so heartwarming. And also to watch the interaction between
Speaker 2: these two stars. Jack Black is clearly loving the situation
Speaker 2: as much as Tanner did, and it was just such
Speaker 2: a feel good moment.
Speaker 3: Can I make one observation about Jack Black?
Speaker 4: I have nicest guy ever.
Speaker 3: Seems like a lovely guy. But I've never seen somebody
Speaker 3: change so little. I feel like like aging wise, aging
Speaker 3: like he sounds the same and he's doing the same
Speaker 3: truth mannerisms. This guy's frozen in like School of Rock
Speaker 3: comes through Panda, kind of that era, and and he's
Speaker 3: just he's still got it.
Speaker 2: He also does feel like one of the good guys
Speaker 2: in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: So I really feel good moment there.
Speaker 3: Let's stay overseas now, Zara, but jump across the Atlantic
Speaker 3: to the U.
Speaker 4: I like this geographical pinning of good news story.
Speaker 3: Good news around the world. Good news is a global phenomenon,
Speaker 3: and this one is, I think one that's very close
Speaker 3: to my heart. Because I've decided that I'm our office
Speaker 3: cleaning extraordin are just brought us a new vacuum. Things
Speaker 3: are feeling really good, and turns out I'm not alone.
Speaker 4: That was a loose segue, but I'll take it.
Speaker 2: So the Great British Spring Clean has just wrapped up
Speaker 2: in the UK. Now, this campaign is a bit bigger
Speaker 2: than Sam buying a vacuum cleanup for the office. It
Speaker 2: runs for a week from the twenty first of March
Speaker 2: to the sixth of April, and during that time, three
Speaker 2: hundred and forty two thousand people from different communities across
Speaker 2: the UK pledged to pick up four hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: two thousand, four hundred and ten bags of.
Speaker 3: Letter a very specific number of bags of litter.
Speaker 4: I mean that was the commitment. That was the pledge.
Speaker 2: It builders the nation's biggest mass action campaign. It's been
Speaker 2: running annually for a decade, but the group that runs
Speaker 2: it has been around for over seventy years now. According
Speaker 2: to the organization, over the course of the campaign, people
Speaker 2: found really unique treasures, as they put it, things like
Speaker 2: a Retromannequin food rubbish that dated back decades. I'm sure
Speaker 2: that we want that one, and even someone's dreadlock.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's terrible.
Speaker 2: So people were encouraged to submit what their you know,
Speaker 2: most unique find was, as it were positioning it as
Speaker 2: a treasure hunt is a great way to get people
Speaker 2: out and about bring it kids along.
Speaker 3: I do feel like that's a I do feel like
Speaker 3: that's a toddless strategy to get into clean up lego
Speaker 3: that they just played with on the weekend, and if
Speaker 3: it works on the British population then sure it does.
Speaker 2: Because fun fact, around ninety six percent of people surveyed
Speaker 2: after last year's campaign agreed that the spring clean reduced
Speaker 2: the impact of letter on wildlife and the environment.
Speaker 3: That's a brilliant story. And now I want to end
Speaker 3: Zara with one that is I think a little more
Speaker 3: serious on the good news spectrum, but it's still It's
Speaker 3: made me feel like there's a lot of innovation and
Speaker 3: a lot of opportunity that can be gained from interesting
Speaker 3: ways to use tech. Bring us this last story.
Speaker 2: Yes, so, researchers in the US have announced that they
Speaker 2: are developing a tiny, flexible robot that could save lives
Speaker 2: in natural disasters. So you're right, this is a bit
Speaker 2: more of the news of the day's stuff. But what's
Speaker 2: so amazing is that a team at Penn State University
Speaker 2: are creating this technology for the very first time that
Speaker 2: will be able to crawl through earthquake rubble to find
Speaker 2: trapped victims. Now, every single week in this job, we
Speaker 2: have to report on a different natural disaster, but very
Speaker 2: rarely do we get to flip it on its head
Speaker 2: and really understand the advances that are being made in
Speaker 2: this space. So just to paint a picture unlike traditional
Speaker 2: rigid robots. Researchers say that they're incorporating this kind of
Speaker 2: soft robotic design and that's made from flexible materials that
Speaker 2: are meant to mimic the movement of living organisms. And
Speaker 2: the idea behind that is that it can be used
Speaker 2: to create ingestible robots or robot pills, and so those
Speaker 2: can carry medicine to natural disaster victims before they can
Speaker 2: be reached by rescue teams.
Speaker 4: So we know that, you know, after a natural.
Speaker 2: Disaster occurs, there's the hours where it's critical that contact
Speaker 2: is made with survivors, but sometimes it can be too
Speaker 2: dangerous you won't know where they are. And so this
Speaker 2: advancement means that, however, many lives could be saved thanks
Speaker 2: to you know, this pioneering technology.
Speaker 3: And the battle with this sort of technology is always
Speaker 3: that in these early stages, cost is always a big barrier,
Speaker 3: and so once they kind of figure out how to
Speaker 3: make it perfect at work, well, then the next challenge
Speaker 3: for these incredible researchers is to try and figure out
Speaker 3: how to make it cheap and that way, you know,
Speaker 3: you can make sure that it's as effective in developing
Speaker 3: countries as it is anywhere in the world, and that's
Speaker 3: really going to be, you know, a test of the
Speaker 3: technology and I think we can do.
Speaker 4: I think we can too.
Speaker 2: And you know what, today's good news stories show you
Speaker 2: the breadth of brightness that exists in the world, from
Speaker 2: robotic technology to cleaning up Bretain to none other than
Speaker 2: Jack Black. You know what, Sam, I think we need
Speaker 2: to take today's podcast out with a bitter school of rock.
Speaker 3: It hasn't changed in twenty five years. I don't see
Speaker 3: why that should change. Now that's all we've got for today.
Speaker 2: We will be back again on Monday morning with a
Speaker 2: deep dive as usual.
Speaker 4: But until then, I have a beautiful weekend.
Speaker 1: See Yahoo.
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