5 Good Things: Some Good News That’s Totally Nuts
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome. If you pressed play looking for a mood boost, I've got you. I'm Krista Bo Polanco, |
| 0:05.5 | and this is Five Good Things. Here how a high school girls volleyball team in Texas surprised |
| 0:11.2 | one of their biggest fans with an epic gift. And you'll meet the retiree from Florida that calls |
| 0:16.6 | himself the tech fairy. I know that there were a lot of good people out there working hard that didn't have the |
| 0:22.4 | advantages that I had. And if there's a way to help those people, that would be great. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus, the surprising reason peanut allergies are on the decline. And in a rough neighborhood |
| 0:31.7 | in Chicago, hope is taking root, thanks to this CNN hero. This is about creating real and tangible opportunity in a place that desperately needs it. |
| 0:40.6 | You'll want to stick around for that one. |
| 0:42.4 | And when we come back, a butterfly gets a major makeover. |
| 0:51.7 | Since September, millions of monarch butterflies have been taking the trip they do every year, |
| 0:56.4 | flying south across North America to central Mexico to hibernate for the winter. |
| 1:01.2 | A few weeks ago, though, a female butterfly broke her wing along the way, |
| 1:04.9 | and some caring citizens stepped in to help. |
| 1:08.4 | The fact that somebody called and asked if we could rehabilitate a butterfly is very |
| 1:14.7 | uncommon. |
| 1:15.9 | I get a call from the receptionist and she said, Janine, you know, somebody called about a |
| 1:20.8 | butterfly that's injured. |
| 1:21.9 | Should I just tell them no? |
| 1:23.2 | And I go, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:24.5 | I said, have them bring it in. |
| 1:26.8 | Janine Ben Dixon is the Director of Wildlife Re of wildlife rehabilitation at Sweetbrier Nature Center and Wildlife Hospital in Smithtown, New York. |
| 1:34.0 | They rehabilitate around 3,000 animals every year. |
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