October 9, 2025 • 9 mins
It's Feel Good Friday so Russell with a little help from Grace in our newsroom opened the phones and text line to hear about your good news stories from this week and we had some crackers!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Needs feel good Friday. Now, Lisa is not with us
this feel good Friday. Hopefully we'll be back on Monday.
So Grace from the newsroom is with us now. Grace
unfortunately has the job of bringing us the bad news
some good news too, but you know, given the way
of the world, plenty of bad stuff too, so Grace,
(00:24):
like the rest of us, needs a break from the
bad news until the next update at eight. Grace, here's
your chance to bring us a good news story, bring
us some light in this world this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Morning, sure things. So a good news story I came
across this week was from the mid North Coast in
New South Wales and it's a lovely little nature school.
And what they've done is they've three D printed a
prosthetic hand for their classmate using an open source design
from a charity, which I think is just so fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The things you can do now, I know, so your
classmates can make you a hand.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Absolutely, and they've actually done three versions of the hand
and they're constantly refining it and making it more comfortable
for their classmate, so I think that's very very cure.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So they're helping out their classmate and learning technology at
the same time, because three D printers are like everywhere.
I was in an electronics store yesterday and they had
about three of the things going.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's insane and you can just you can actually see
them building stuff in real time. I just it boggles
my mind what we can do these days.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, okay, well that's a bit of good news. I've
got a good news story as well. Once hunted to
almost extinction, a group of humpback whales currently migrating down
Australia's East coast has bounced back and then some. In
a preliminary report, marine scientists estimate there were more than
fifty thousand of the Eastern Australian humpback whales in twenty
(01:49):
twenty four. Now that is twenty thousand more than the
estimated pre whaling population in the early nineteen hundred, so
that's like over one hundred years. And the report co
wi that Wally Franklin has called their comeback remarkable, which
it is given that numbers had fallen to as few
as one hundred and fifty. So now there are fifty thousand,
(02:12):
so you know, and I remember as a kid growing
up and that was still wailing happening down in Albany
back in the days. I don't think they finished that
till the late seventies, so the numbers have gone right down.
So it's like anything. It's like the ozone layer. If
you leave it alone, it can things come back, things
can repair themselves. So there's a couple of good news stories,
(02:33):
including one from Grace, who doesn't often get to share
them with us. The news of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I do my bad.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, I know, I know, but hey, an important story
is an important story, so we want to hear your
good news stories. Can you add to that? Maybe a
big Powerball win? Are you the one who won twenty
five thousand, twenty five twenty five million which has made
oh boy, twenty five million in the power ball last night?
If it's you and you know about it, why don't
(02:59):
you call?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I would not be reading the next plaus And if
I won that much.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Not many people having a more field good Friday than
that person if they know that they are a winner.
Yet maybe you're starting long service leave. We usually receive
good news messages from people on that subject. Look, it
can be anything. And Lara in Armadale on the text
line it's Lara's birthday. Happy birthday, Lara. Now, I had
a text here from Robin of Thornleigh. Hi guys, Hi
(03:27):
Grace high Russell. My good news for Friday is that
I just book flights to go and meet my long
lost cousin who's like a sister to me, a long
lost sister. So happy I can do this. We're happy
you can do that too, Robin. Good morning, Paul. What's
your good news?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, we're just down set us and we're down at
the Bustle and Jenny as usual, and there's a little landing. Anyway,
all the kids go down there and my son he
runs down there and catches a few herring and comes back.
Can we chuck them out for squid and bigger stuff? Anyway,
About half an hour later, as this flokes walked up
(04:05):
to me and goes, is that your son?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And I went yeah, and he goes, do you know what,
He's a great kid. And I said, why is that mate?
And he goes, oh, he gave they were fishing with
bait and only catching trumpeters, because as soon as you
throw bait out there, they just come a big cloud.
And he goes, he gave them a microjig each and
showed him how to catch herring and yellowtail and skippy
(04:27):
with it. So I thought, geez, it just made me
feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, well, and the reason why your son is so good, Paul,
is because you're teaching him good lessons.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Obviously somewhish.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Good people.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. But he learned that himself though, really,
because I mean, I know, whenever I fished, you didn't
like people next to you and that, but he seems
to fit in and enjoy it. So yeah, he might
be teaching me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, Paul, I think that's that's good. Your son is
making other people feel good in the game, in the
game of fishing, which is not always good, which is
not always easy. It's like golf, it's not always good
easy to feel good when you're doing fishing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There's a lot of disa especially in winter.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, Paul, well done to you, and well done to
your son for making other people doing the frustrating sport
of fishing sometimes frustrating, making them feel good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I might go out and buy him an expensive fishing
rod or something.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Maybe that was a part of his plan in the
first place. He might have put that bloke up to it.
He well done, Paul, and thanks for sharing your good
news story on a feel good Friday. No thank you
on the text lines, Denise has sent a text through.
Denise has got to remind I think every day is
Denise's favorite day for the next nineteen days, fifteen hours,
(05:48):
fifty four minutes and twenty seven seconds until Denise doesn't
have to work anymore. So I love the countdown. Every
day is a feel good Friday, Monday, Tuesday Day, Wednesday, Thursday,
and so on. Annette from Westmin's good morning.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Good morning, Russell, Good morning crew. Well I'm on the
other end of the spectrum. I am the lucky candidate
out of one thousand, four hundred and ninety two applicants,
I got a job after six years of looking and
applying years.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well done. That's a lot of applicants that you had
to beat out. So you obviously have a special skill
some what is it? What's the special skill?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
If you can think just communication skills and customer.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Service, we are you're doing well so far with us.
You go, thank you, thank you. Six years. That's a
long time to be searching for a job, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's been it's been exhausting and frustrating, frustrating and you
feel defeated so often, so to actually get the job
on the spot was just really really a good feeling.
And yes, so hopefully my life will be able to
turn around and not have to live. I'm grateful for
the sentiment benefits the time, but it's not enough. Eleven
(07:10):
hundred dollars a fortnight rent.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You only want it while you actually need it. So
now you can build your own life again. And that
is such great news. That is a really good feel
good Friday story. And we wish you all the best
in your new employment.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Good luck.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That is fantastic. Paul from two Rocks, You've got a
good news story to share on this feel good Friday
as well.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yes I do you guys A long time listener, love the.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Show first time.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yes, belated good feel Friday four to do all this year.
My daughter was hit by car and burswood. Ten weeks
later with multiple injuries, she walked out of hospital. Oh
my god, broken pels, broke, now bow fact, your neck
torn order, The list goes on and on and on.
(08:05):
What an absolute, absolute miracle.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, what a what a feel good story, but also
an inspirational.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Absolutely. If anyone's seen the footage, they understand how how
she's even alive, never mind walking out ten weeks later.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So your daughter obviously feeling incredibly good, obviously still probably
got a long way to go. But the feeling you
must have this Friday, just seeing her walk out after
such a serious accident must be better than elated.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yes, absolutely elated. She's one strong cookie, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as
they say, Paul.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
No, I think she's a bit stronger than maybe maybe
from her mum.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Paul, that is an incredibly good news story to share
on this feel good Friday.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
We wish you all the best, and we wish your
daughter all the best in her continued recovery after such
a after such a massive event.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yes, terrific, Thanks God, all.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Right, thank you mate. We love I love hearing your
good news stories on a feel good Friday. Paul, thank
you very much for sending it through.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Gee.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That puts it all in perspective, doesn't grace, I know,
and so many road deaths this year, you know, just
puts everything in perspective
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's right, So you know, from a bad story, such
a good story has come about
Needs feel good Friday. Now, Lisa is not with us
this feel good Friday. Hopefully we'll be back on Monday.
So Grace from the newsroom is with us now. Grace
unfortunately has the job of bringing us the bad news
some good news too, but you know, given the way
of the world, plenty of bad stuff too, so Grace,
(00:24):
like the rest of us, needs a break from the
bad news until the next update at eight. Grace, here's
your chance to bring us a good news story, bring
us some light in this world this.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Morning, sure things. So a good news story I came
across this week was from the mid North Coast in
New South Wales and it's a lovely little nature school.
And what they've done is they've three D printed a
prosthetic hand for their classmate using an open source design
from a charity, which I think is just so fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The things you can do now, I know, so your
classmates can make you a hand.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Absolutely, and they've actually done three versions of the hand
and they're constantly refining it and making it more comfortable
for their classmate, so I think that's very very cure.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
So they're helping out their classmate and learning technology at
the same time, because three D printers are like everywhere.
I was in an electronics store yesterday and they had
about three of the things going.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's insane and you can just you can actually see
them building stuff in real time. I just it boggles
my mind what we can do these days.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, okay, well that's a bit of good news. I've
got a good news story as well. Once hunted to
almost extinction, a group of humpback whales currently migrating down
Australia's East coast has bounced back and then some. In
a preliminary report, marine scientists estimate there were more than
fifty thousand of the Eastern Australian humpback whales in twenty
(01:49):
twenty four. Now that is twenty thousand more than the
estimated pre whaling population in the early nineteen hundred, so
that's like over one hundred years. And the report co
wi that Wally Franklin has called their comeback remarkable, which
it is given that numbers had fallen to as few
as one hundred and fifty. So now there are fifty thousand,
(02:12):
so you know, and I remember as a kid growing
up and that was still wailing happening down in Albany
back in the days. I don't think they finished that
till the late seventies, so the numbers have gone right down.
So it's like anything. It's like the ozone layer. If
you leave it alone, it can things come back, things
can repair themselves. So there's a couple of good news stories,
(02:33):
including one from Grace, who doesn't often get to share
them with us. The news of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I do my bad.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, I know, I know, but hey, an important story
is an important story, so we want to hear your
good news stories. Can you add to that? Maybe a
big Powerball win? Are you the one who won twenty
five thousand, twenty five twenty five million which has made
oh boy, twenty five million in the power ball last night?
If it's you and you know about it, why don't
(02:59):
you call?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I would not be reading the next plaus And if
I won that much.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Not many people having a more field good Friday than
that person if they know that they are a winner.
Yet maybe you're starting long service leave. We usually receive
good news messages from people on that subject. Look, it
can be anything. And Lara in Armadale on the text
line it's Lara's birthday. Happy birthday, Lara. Now, I had
a text here from Robin of Thornleigh. Hi guys, Hi
(03:27):
Grace high Russell. My good news for Friday is that
I just book flights to go and meet my long
lost cousin who's like a sister to me, a long
lost sister. So happy I can do this. We're happy
you can do that too, Robin. Good morning, Paul. What's
your good news?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, we're just down set us and we're down at
the Bustle and Jenny as usual, and there's a little landing. Anyway,
all the kids go down there and my son he
runs down there and catches a few herring and comes back.
Can we chuck them out for squid and bigger stuff? Anyway,
About half an hour later, as this flokes walked up
(04:05):
to me and goes, is that your son?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And I went yeah, and he goes, do you know what,
He's a great kid. And I said, why is that mate?
And he goes, oh, he gave they were fishing with
bait and only catching trumpeters, because as soon as you
throw bait out there, they just come a big cloud.
And he goes, he gave them a microjig each and
showed him how to catch herring and yellowtail and skippy
(04:27):
with it. So I thought, geez, it just made me
feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, well, and the reason why your son is so good, Paul,
is because you're teaching him good lessons.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Obviously somewhish.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Good people.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. But he learned that himself though, really,
because I mean, I know, whenever I fished, you didn't
like people next to you and that, but he seems
to fit in and enjoy it. So yeah, he might
be teaching me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, Paul, I think that's that's good. Your son is
making other people feel good in the game, in the
game of fishing, which is not always good, which is
not always easy. It's like golf, it's not always good
easy to feel good when you're doing fishing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
There's a lot of disa especially in winter.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, Paul, well done to you, and well done to
your son for making other people doing the frustrating sport
of fishing sometimes frustrating, making them feel good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I might go out and buy him an expensive fishing
rod or something.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Maybe that was a part of his plan in the
first place. He might have put that bloke up to it.
He well done, Paul, and thanks for sharing your good
news story on a feel good Friday. No thank you
on the text lines, Denise has sent a text through.
Denise has got to remind I think every day is
Denise's favorite day for the next nineteen days, fifteen hours,
(05:48):
fifty four minutes and twenty seven seconds until Denise doesn't
have to work anymore. So I love the countdown. Every
day is a feel good Friday, Monday, Tuesday Day, Wednesday, Thursday,
and so on. Annette from Westmin's good morning.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Good morning, Russell, Good morning crew. Well I'm on the
other end of the spectrum. I am the lucky candidate
out of one thousand, four hundred and ninety two applicants,
I got a job after six years of looking and
applying years.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well done. That's a lot of applicants that you had
to beat out. So you obviously have a special skill
some what is it? What's the special skill?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
If you can think just communication skills and customer.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Service, we are you're doing well so far with us.
You go, thank you, thank you. Six years. That's a
long time to be searching for a job, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It's been it's been exhausting and frustrating, frustrating and you
feel defeated so often, so to actually get the job
on the spot was just really really a good feeling.
And yes, so hopefully my life will be able to
turn around and not have to live. I'm grateful for
the sentiment benefits the time, but it's not enough. Eleven
(07:10):
hundred dollars a fortnight rent.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
You only want it while you actually need it. So
now you can build your own life again. And that
is such great news. That is a really good feel
good Friday story. And we wish you all the best
in your new employment.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Good luck.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That is fantastic. Paul from two Rocks, You've got a
good news story to share on this feel good Friday
as well.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yes I do you guys A long time listener, love the.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Show first time.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yes, belated good feel Friday four to do all this year.
My daughter was hit by car and burswood. Ten weeks
later with multiple injuries, she walked out of hospital. Oh
my god, broken pels, broke, now bow fact, your neck
torn order, The list goes on and on and on.
(08:05):
What an absolute, absolute miracle.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yes, what a what a feel good story, but also
an inspirational.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Absolutely. If anyone's seen the footage, they understand how how
she's even alive, never mind walking out ten weeks later.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So your daughter obviously feeling incredibly good, obviously still probably
got a long way to go. But the feeling you
must have this Friday, just seeing her walk out after
such a serious accident must be better than elated.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yes, absolutely elated. She's one strong cookie, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as
they say, Paul.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
No, I think she's a bit stronger than maybe maybe
from her mum.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Paul, that is an incredibly good news story to share
on this feel good Friday.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
We wish you all the best, and we wish your
daughter all the best in her continued recovery after such
a after such a massive event.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yes, terrific, Thanks God, all.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Right, thank you mate. We love I love hearing your
good news stories on a feel good Friday. Paul, thank
you very much for sending it through.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Gee.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That puts it all in perspective, doesn't grace, I know,
and so many road deaths this year, you know, just
puts everything in perspective
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's right, So you know, from a bad story, such
a good story has come about
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