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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It is Saturday,
Speaker 1: the seventh of December, and welcome to another good News episode. Zara,
Speaker 1: so nice to do this every week.
Speaker 3: I know, shout out to my brother, it's his birthday today.
Speaker 1: That's a big shout out.
Speaker 4: Good place to start for a good news podcast, and
Speaker 4: we have got a bunch of feel good stories today. Sam,
Speaker 4: why don't I throw to you first because you're actually
Speaker 4: the one that found this story and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, talk about a good place to start. A good
Speaker 1: place for these guys to start was the East coast
Speaker 1: and they needed to get to the West coast. So
Speaker 1: let me wind it back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take us back.
Speaker 1: I want to shout out three young men from New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Their names are Tane Talton, Ben Reeve and Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: And this week they finished a challenge to walk across
Speaker 1: the length of New Zealand, so crossways, not down in
Speaker 1: a straight line. Now let's just sit on that point
Speaker 1: in a straight line to raise ten thousand dollars for November.
Speaker 3: Did you know that this was a trend walking in
Speaker 3: a straight line across the country.
Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of YouTube kind of diaries of
Speaker 1: people you were blogging their ways walking across the straight line,
Speaker 1: And of course the hardest thing with walking in the
Speaker 1: straight line across the country is that there might be
Speaker 1: different terrain there.
Speaker 4: I must say, I don't know that I fully appreciated
Speaker 4: this story until I read more into it, because at
Speaker 4: a quick glance they were walking around sixty kilometers.
Speaker 3: I was like, that sounds fairly straightforward's fairly easy.
Speaker 4: What I didn't think about is if you are walking
Speaker 4: in a straight line across the country, if there's a
Speaker 4: mountain in front of you, if there's a sea in
Speaker 4: front of you, if there's a river in front of you,
Speaker 4: you have to find a way to cross it. And
Speaker 4: I watched these videos of these three young men walking
Speaker 4: like older deep in the most rank water you've ever seen.
Speaker 4: It's really cool, and they had to still go straight.
Speaker 4: So you are allowed a deviation from this direct straight
Speaker 4: line of up to one hundred meters either way, So
Speaker 4: fifty meters either way. That doesn't give you much leeway.
Speaker 4: I mean, if there's a mountain, there's a mountain. But
Speaker 4: they did it. They did it, and the three men finished,
Speaker 4: and they whatever it was in their way, rivers or roads,
Speaker 4: they crossed it, they crossed.
Speaker 3: It, and all in the name of a good cause.
Speaker 1: It's a great cause. So November is a charity that
Speaker 1: raises awareness of men's health issues, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer,
Speaker 1: and suicide. And it was a personal cause for one
Speaker 1: of the men, Alex Smith, who lost his mother to
Speaker 1: suicide as a child and his father to prostate cancer
Speaker 1: earlier this year. I'm going to link you their Facebook
Speaker 1: page in the show notes because, as the boys say,
Speaker 1: you can actually watch the highs, lows and wipeouts on
Speaker 1: their page. So now I'm going to start planning my
Speaker 1: trip to.
Speaker 3: Walk across the line straight line.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: Look, I will just add, because I had this question,
Speaker 4: November usually tied to November. We're in December, but they
Speaker 4: got delayed due to terrain challenges. So that's why we're
Speaker 4: talking about it in December, and that's why they finished
Speaker 4: in December. But a mighty effort by those three young guys,
Speaker 4: and as you said, for such a good cause.
Speaker 1: And am we're going to stick with young people for
Speaker 1: this next story, Zara, tell me what a museum in
Speaker 1: the US is doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So for this story, we are going to the
Speaker 4: US city of Milwaukee in Wisconsin, where an anonymous donor
Speaker 4: has given three point five million US dollars to a
Speaker 4: museum to allow for the free admission of children to
Speaker 4: the museum forever.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So this person, who didn't want to be identified, did
Speaker 4: it out of the goodness of their heart, said that
Speaker 4: they had really fond memories of visiting this art museum
Speaker 4: with their family throughout their life, and they wanted to
Speaker 4: be able to foster similar experiences for future generations of families,
Speaker 4: and so they donated this incredibly generous three point five
Speaker 4: million dollars so that anyone twelve an under can forever
Speaker 4: now visit this museum, create great memories, learn a lot,
Speaker 4: you know, have all of those kind of sensory experiences
Speaker 4: that we know are so fundamental to you know, developmental growth,
Speaker 4: all for free, and so it's accessible to all families.
Speaker 3: No matter who you are, where you are.
Speaker 4: You can go to this Milwaukee Art Museum for free
Speaker 4: thanks to the generosity of one anonymous person.
Speaker 1: Accessibility to arts always comes up in conversations amongst art
Speaker 1: and culture departments of various governments around the world. There's
Speaker 1: lots of NGOs and charities that work in their space
Speaker 1: as well, and it's you know, the principle of giving
Speaker 1: people who otherwise might not have had access to the arts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: giving them access at an early age can make a
Speaker 1: lifetime of difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. I think this is a fabulous story all round.
Speaker 1: Two more stories to Gozara. And now we're moving to
Speaker 1: another US state. We were in Wisconsin. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: go to Hawaii. As the crow flies.
Speaker 4: Perhaps, I don't know why I do this with someone
Speaker 4: that makes dad jokes so often, but this week, five
Speaker 4: Hawaiian crows were released on Maui, the island of Maui,
Speaker 4: for the first time as part of an effort to
Speaker 4: return the species to its home. So, if you're not
Speaker 4: familiar with the Hawaiian crow or the alala, it became
Speaker 4: extinct in the wild in two thousand and two, so
Speaker 4: decades ago, and that was mostly due to this combination
Speaker 4: of habitat loss and disease that was introduced by mosquitos.
Speaker 4: If we needed another reason to hate mosquitos, there you go.
Speaker 4: But making this a good news story. Now, San Diego
Speaker 4: Zoo has collaborated on this conservation project, and they said
Speaker 4: that this represents hope for the future of Hawaii, for
Speaker 4: its wildlife, for its people, and for their shared ecosystems. Now,
Speaker 4: I was doing a little bit of reading as to
Speaker 4: how you introduce a bird that is otherwise extinct, because
Speaker 4: that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Speaker 4: And what I read was that the experts raised the
Speaker 4: two females and three male birds in a social group,
Speaker 4: and that was to strengthen their relationship building skills.
Speaker 3: So they were in this.
Speaker 4: Kind of really concentrated pilot program thing where they were
Speaker 4: being observed and all of the kind of natural tendencies
Speaker 4: were playing out socially.
Speaker 1: Watching a few ted talks on the theories of.
Speaker 4: Leadership exactly, and that allowed the researchers to figure out
Speaker 4: how these birds depend on each other, and they were
Speaker 4: able to then deduce how these birds might succeed in
Speaker 4: native habitats.
Speaker 1: Can I just quickly call out San Diego Zoo.
Speaker 3: The second time?
Speaker 4: The second time, I was like do people think that
Speaker 4: this is sponsored by San Diego Zoo.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: It's not sponsored by San Diego.
Speaker 1: However, we are open to being sponsored by such an
Speaker 1: illustrious ecological institution. For those who didn't catch last week,
Speaker 1: last week we celebrated the fortieth birthday of a penguin
Speaker 1: at San Diego Zoo whose name is best Friend. And
Speaker 1: this week San Diego Zoo legends are back releasing crows
Speaker 1: into the wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just wanted to end this story on
Speaker 4: a note about the birds themselves, because apparently their cries
Speaker 4: are interpreted as warning signs by local communities. So there's
Speaker 4: this really important role that the Hawaiian crow plays in
Speaker 4: local communities. Sometimes though cries are actually included in Sacred Chance.
Speaker 4: So San Diego Zoo is basically saying that to Hawaiians,
Speaker 4: these birds are family and they're so so important.
Speaker 1: We'll bring you another installment of what's happening at San
Speaker 1: Diego Zoo next week. But good news story, or one
Speaker 1: more good news story. We're changing continents again and this
Speaker 1: time we're heading to Europe.
Speaker 4: Yes, so this story many of our listeners will remember,
Speaker 4: but not Tre Dame. It is, of course the massive
Speaker 4: cathedral in Paris. It is today reopening five years after
Speaker 4: a fire tore through it.
Speaker 3: So that was on the fifteenth of April twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: It's wild. It feels like yesterday.
Speaker 4: I remember seeing the vision of those huge flames engulfing
Speaker 4: the spiral and every part of that cathedral. It destroyed
Speaker 4: most of the wood, the metal roof, and as I said,
Speaker 4: the spire. We never really found out what caused the fire,
Speaker 4: and I think investigators believed it to be accidental. There's
Speaker 4: kind of never been a concrete resolution there. But then
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, French President Emmanuel Macron, who we've spoken
Speaker 4: about on the pub this week, he's not having a
Speaker 4: great week, but back then he said the church would
Speaker 4: be restored more beautiful than ever within five years, and
Speaker 4: he has stuck to that and today it reopens that
Speaker 4: eight hundred and fifty year old cathedral. He's saying that
Speaker 4: it's going to give the world shock of hope.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting turn of phrase. Maybe there's some French
Speaker 1: translation issues there.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I think he was saying when I was trying to
Speaker 4: understand this more, he was saying that the vision of
Speaker 4: the flames shocked the world to its course and now
Speaker 4: he wants to shock them with hope. Yeah, okay, anyway,
Speaker 4: we'll leave that to Macron. Entry to the cathedral will
Speaker 4: remain free, but they are expecting a lot of people
Speaker 4: to rock up over the coming weeks and months, so
Speaker 4: attendees are encouraged to book ahead if you find yourself
Speaker 4: fancying a French winter holiday over the new year.
Speaker 1: There were lots of references to the cathedral during the
Speaker 1: opening ceremony of the Paris Games, I remember, and they
Speaker 1: were talking about it as kind of rebuilding the soul
Speaker 1: of the city and all of that. So it's amazing
Speaker 1: to hear that it is reopen to the public. Zara,
Speaker 1: can I give you a recommendation for the week?
Speaker 3: Are you going to ask me mine in return?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I will.
Speaker 3: The first time I've actually had like, well.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go first?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, you go first, Okay, I will. So the
Speaker 1: ones the Sydney Swans, and I will admit a conflict
Speaker 1: on air. I am a diehard Sydney Swans fan. The
Speaker 1: Sydney Swans have partnered with TikTok to make I think
Speaker 1: it's the first in the world, the first vertical sports
Speaker 1: documentary series and attracts eight young members of the Swan's
Speaker 1: development squads. So they're all about sixteen years of age,
Speaker 1: four boys and four girls, and their journey to thinking
Speaker 1: about whether they want to become a professional AFL player
Speaker 1: full time but or not. It's a mixture of professional footage,
Speaker 1: like proper documentary drive to survive style stuff, and the
Speaker 1: players actually just kind of logging their way through their
Speaker 1: day and their week and going from school to training
Speaker 1: and all of that kind of stuff. It is heartwarming
Speaker 1: and beautiful. The episodes are short, which I think is
Speaker 1: an interesting format for any new generation of documentary viewers,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't recommend it more. I'll put a link
Speaker 1: in the buy it, love.
Speaker 4: It, and I'm going to stick to the sport to segue.
Speaker 4: I'll call it exercise theme. My recommendation is that I
Speaker 4: have never ever been able to stick to a form
Speaker 4: of exercise in my whole life, as long as I
Speaker 4: have lived on this earth.
Speaker 3: Exercise has just not been a thing for me.
Speaker 4: But I have just finished my sixth month of pilates
Speaker 4: at a local pilates studio.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at that, I know you know what.
Speaker 4: They sent me a message saying congratulations, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I do deserve congratulations. That is just like good for
Speaker 4: the body, good for the mind, good for the soul.
Speaker 4: And I've actually just never found an exercise thing that
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed.
Speaker 3: So shout out to Peaches pilates.
Speaker 4: You are getting me through what is otherwise a hectic
Speaker 4: job and a hectic news cycle.
Speaker 1: Anything that makes you feel like you're a brave Warriorszara.
Speaker 1: That is very brave of you to discover pilates for
Speaker 1: the first time. Nu, and thank you so much much
Speaker 1: for joining us everybody on today's episode of the Saturday
Speaker 1: Good News. It's always a pleasure to bring you the
Speaker 1: stories from the good News cycle. We're going to be
Speaker 1: back on Monday morning for you. Until then, have a
Speaker 1: wonderful weekend.
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