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Great News episode 33

Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News
Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News

The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
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Lower Crime and More Energy
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

Today we are diving into some truly groundbreaking developments in public safety, medicine, and clean energy.

What if I told you that despite what you see on social media, we are living in one of the safest times in history? That’s our lead story today.

Plus, we have a major update on the fight against cancer, a way to destroy ”forever chemicals” using nothing but sunlight, and a partnership that’s bringing advanced nuclear power to the grid.

America’s Crime Drop Is Real — And That’s Worth Celebrating


Canada’s Improved Cancer Survival Rate

Could Sunlight Be the Answer to “Forever Chemicals”The Next Generation of Nuclear Power Is Getting Closer to Reality

And don't forget to stick around for the speed round, where we'll dive into even more great news.70 People, 3,000 Cars: What Waymo Just Revealed About the Future of Self-Driving

The Battery Breakthrough Hidden in Plain Sight, Water

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The Macrophages that could help fight Type 2 Diabetes

Making Hydrogen with Sun and Water?

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the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day
the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.

the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…

Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

Francis Cheung – “It’s like a metaphor for life. Every man stands alone.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. And you should listen because good news needs to be heard.

Today's episode is a first for this podcast. Every quote I've featured has come from history, from books, from interviews. From someone I've read or studied but never met. Or at least don't know personally.

Today's comes from someone I know. A good friend. Someone I was sitting next to when he said it.

His name is Francis Cheung. Frank holds a PhD in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering and he is a man whose mind operates at the intersection of science and human complexity.

And several years ago, Frank and I were camping on Quadra Island, British Columbia. We were up early, the two of us, watching the sun rise over Rebecca Spit – a long, quiet stretch of beach with the ocean on both sides and nobody else in sight. Nobody, except for one man. Standing alone out on the sand, facing the waves, completely still.

And Frank looked at the scene, paused, and said:

”It's like a metaphor for life. Every man stands alone.”

The people in the tents next to us laughed. I don't think they were laughing at Frank. I think they were just surprised that Frank was such a philosopher. I wasn't surprised at all but I still found the moment funny. There's something about a solitary figure on a beach at dawn that goes beyond the intellect and speaks directly to something deeper. The ocean doesn't care how many people are watching. The waves arrive regardless. And no matter how many people you have in your life there are moments where you face the ocean alone. Where the enormity of things meets you as an individual.

That's what Frank saw in that man on the sand. Not loneliness. Solitude. And there's a world of difference between the two.Loneliness is the unwanted absence of connection. Solitude is the honest recognition that some things can only be faced from within. Your interior life… the questions that keep you up at night, the values you're trying to live by, the meaning you're building from your particular experience of being alive. Nobody else can navigate that for you. You stand at that shoreline alone.

Every man.

Every woman.

Every person, regardless of how loved, how surrounded, how connected.

The great philosophers understood this. Montaigne, who we featured in this podcast, retreated to his tower to think. Thoreau went to Walden Pond. Jung descended into his own unconscious. Frank probably focuses on the force.

Not to escape the world, but to face something in it that could only be faced alone.

I've thought about that morning on Rebecca Spit many times since. The stillness of it. The sun coming up over the water.

One man out there on the sand doing something that looked like nothing which was actually, as Frank immediately understood, everything.

What Frank captured in that single sentence was something a PhD in philosophy might have taken a whole chapter to say.

This podcast, in its own small way, is my version of standing at that shoreline. Showing up every day, by myself… facing something, trying to make sense of it. Alone in the doing of it and even though your listening right now, I won't know about it. Okay, enough of the cheesy metaphors… I'm not as good as Frank at this, clearly.So here's the question: When did you last allow yourself to stand at the metaphorical shoreline? To be with the vast, quiet, unanswerable things, without filling the silence, without reaching for your phone, without making the solitude into something more comfortable than it needs to be?

Because Frank is right. Every man stands alone. Not as a tragedy. As a truth. And a truth, honestly faced, is always the beginning of something good.

That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

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Steve Martin – “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
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For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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    Francis Cheung – “It’s like a metaphor for life. Every man stands alone.”

    byAndrew McGivernJune 2, 2026

    Margaret Mead – “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

    byAndrew McGivernJune 1, 2026

    William James – “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 31, 2026

    Epictetus – “The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 30, 2026
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    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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