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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Striking gold

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Our new weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, how an amateur digger in Australia hit the jackpot, the boy who spent three years camping out for charity, and could the secret to happiness lie in our sweat? Presented by Andrew Peach. Music produced by Iona Hampson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Andrew Peach with the happy part talking to the people at the heart of the world's

0:03.7

positive news stories. Roy in the Philippines is enjoying his when there's so much stressful

0:08.6

news says Roy it provides him with an oasis of good vibes each week and Bonnie got in touch

0:13.8

from Dubai. I tend to do a lot of doom scrolling, unfortunately on things like Twitter and

0:20.6

it's a very, very bad habit and to break myself out of it I listen to podcasts that are a little

0:25.6

more uplifting and yours has been such a huge help in the past few weeks. I hate to use catchy

0:33.6

words but a really good vibe you know. Thanks to Bonnie to Roy and to everyone who's been in touch.

0:43.2

This week we'll hear from Melbourne Shanghai Stockholm and Wellington as news of secret messages

0:49.6

in your body odor. We know that if a person is in a state of fear their sweat can be perceived

0:57.5

by another person through the chemo signals in the sweat. A taxi for dogs in China. I've been

1:04.6

looking at comments on Sina Weibo which is China's equivalent of a platform like Facebook or Twitter

1:09.6

and people have been saying they think it's a fantastic idea and they're hoping to see

1:13.2

similar services in their cities. And a world record breaker in a tent. I've had a brilliant

1:18.1

three years. We're in a better years of my life. I thought coming now whilst we finished

1:22.8

going to high and we can focus on adventures for the future. All on the way in the happy pod.

1:32.6

You're out with your metal detector in the gold fields of Victoria in Australia wondering what

1:37.4

you can find. The metal detector goes off and you think you found a gold nugget but how much will

1:42.8

it be worth? You take it to the only prospecting shop in G Long, south-west of Melbourne where you're

1:48.2

about to give Darren a big surprise. A chap bought in a backpack and he said I've got something to show you

1:55.6

and look normally prospectors come into the shop and they'll show me a rock that looks like gold

2:02.4

or a rock with a bit of furls gold in it which tricks a lot of people and he said I've got

2:08.4

something to show you and out of his backpack he pulled this rock about probably three quarters

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