The host opens by feeling under the weather but shares uplifting news. He celebrates Rosie O'Donnell engaging with his content, calling it a personal highlight. A comedic segment mocks Kelly Loeffler with an alien sketch. He praises Angie Nixon, Florida's Democratic Senate nominee, for her resilience and focus on healthcare, corruption, and working-class issues despite media attempts to trip her up. The World's Ugliest Dog Contest sparks debate, with the host arguing the pug winner is cute. Mayor Mamdani's initiatives—free babysitting and bike helmets—are praised for showing genuine listening. The emotional centerpiece features 150 rescued beagles touching grass for the first time after leaving a research facility, highlighting their transformation from fear to joy. Finally, a woman donates $1 million to underpaid teachers, giving each a substantial check, which the host finds inspiring yet notes that systemic change is needed to properly value educators. He emphasizes the moral importance of budgets and encourages donations to progressive candidates via his website before signing off to rest. Overall, the episode balances humor, heartwarming moments, and calls for societal improvement.
(upbeat music) Happy Friday everyone. It is Good News Friday. How are you doing? I am, I'm just telling you, I'm feeling a little under the weather. I don't know if I got COVID. I don't know what I got, but I feel a little fatigued and there's like a tingle in my throat. And yet, I've got to bring you the good news. And then when I take a nap, might be an extended nap. Might just be going to bed. But we've got some really good news coming up. We have some clips from Mayor Mamdani, who is again, showing what politicians look like when they do good things. And they listen. We have some animal videos of, I think they're beagles who have never seen the grass before. They're a rescued. And you get to see them touch grass for the first time. Would be nice if some humans would touch grass. Are we known then? And we got this. This is maybe good news for me. I don't know if you're gonna care, but I made a video about Rosie O'Donnell's coming back and how much I appreciated it. And wouldn't you know it, why the second? Who the hell is that? Rosie O'Donnell, not only saw it, she liked it, reposted it. And she said my name. She typed my name. Thank you, Keith. (laughing) Honestly, honestly, this did feel good. It felt good. It was cool. I'm just gonna a fan girl for a second. I was so excited to see this. Like I watched her show every afternoon coming home from school and yeah, it's very cool. That's cool. I'm just gonna put that right there in my pocket. I enjoyed that. I also enjoyed this. I enjoyed this. Now you saw the video of Kelly Leffler last week. Many people said, is she human? Is she a robot? Turns out she actually might be an alien. Let's watch this. Kelly, are you a cabinet member? Yes. I am cabinet member as president told me myself. I am a member of said cabinet. And that is good for small businesses of American. Are you okay? I am fine. I am good. Must ingest bone marrow and consume human soul. May I have yours? What? Need your soul, thank you. (screaming) The small business administration of America. Souls ingest consume, please give. Thank you, we take for America. Okay, that actually did startle me. I'm sorry if it startled you. But, okay, I did not, was not expecting that. You can go to Keith's cheat sheet.com. You're seeing it right now. It is a place where not only we have the five most flippable house races, we've now added three. Count them, three Senate races that you can donate to. We are actually almost at $100,000 raised for all these candidates. Isn't that crazy? That's crazy. I think we could hit 200K by November. Let's try. All right, now we are moving on to some actual good news. Angie Nixon, now if you were alive with us, you would know Angie Nixon, one out of, like no one was expecting this. She won her primary in Florida. She is now the Democratic nominee for Senate out of Florida. And she is giving me a lot of hope because she is a member of the DSA, but she's not letting the insanity of the National DSA platform weigh her down. All these reporters are trying to trip her up. This woman is on Beast Mode, Beast Mode. Watch Angie Nixon, show 'em how it's done. I'm so in to this candidate. I'm just, I don't listen. Listen, I don't want to stand politicians, but I really like Angie Nixon. Here's why. - I don't care, right? I don't understand what is wrong with me not wanting people to go bankrupt. If they go to the doctor, there are literally people who are dying because health insurance companies want to deny their claims. They want to deny them life-saving health care. Like, that is wrong. Do we not see anything wrong with these companies? But, boy, they're only doing this because they want to make a profit. - Why join the DSA if you disagree with various parts of their platform? Does it not just become a distraction from your own campaign and your own agenda? - You all are the only ones that are distracted. I'm actually going out talking to voters about the things that matter to them. And so we should make sure that we're pivoting to the right conversations. The fact remains that there are people who are dying because they don't have access to quality health care. Meanwhile, Ashley Moody voted to end the ACA subsidies. As I stated, nearly 300,000 people fell off the Affordable Care Act roles. There are people who are dying because they don't have access to health care. Also, the fact that Ashley Moody is corrupt, right? She's corrupt. She allowed $10 million that was supposed to go towards the most medically needy kids to be diverted because they wanted to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives. The status quo is broken. People are losing their minds right now and taking their lives and even taking their children's lives. And the people at the top want to stoke division and want to push this hateful rhetoric. At the end of the day, I have always been about the people of Florida, which is why my campaign is Angie for Florida. I want people to no longer just survive. They deserve to thrive and flourish. I love this. I love it. Now, listen, I'm a member of the DSA. And I disagree with many parts of the platform. And there's such a big difference between what happens in local chapters and what the national organization has decided is the things that they're working towards. But really, the local chapters are about getting people into office who are pro-worker, pro-union, who are anti-corporation, who want to get money on a politics, who want to make health care accessible to everyone. I don't understand why they don't understand that just because you're a member of an organization doesn't mean to agree with everything. I've been a member of the DSA. I've been a member of Democratic clubs. And I didn't agree everything happened in the Democratic clubs either. Do you think I agree with every person that Democratic club I was a member of endorsed? Of course not. But you're a member because you're trying to work towards something together with people who are like-minded. And I personally find the DSA is aligned with more things than I'm aligned with than a local Democratic club that I used to be a member of. And they actually do real activism and real community work that I think is important. So I just don't understand why reporters can't understand that. You can do both. You can disagree with something. But still feel like there's a lot of good that the local chapters do. There was the, all right, this is cute. There was the 50th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest in Sonoma County Fair, California. And it went to a pug who apparently is the ugliest dog there in $15,000. We are at the World's Ugliest Dog Contest and Otto won third place. I don't know if you'll help us. Oh, he's exhausted. So he doesn't care at this point. We've had Otto since he was just a teeny tiny puppy. He came in to rescue at 10 days old. [INAUDIBLE] He's going to pay for the trip. If we inspire anyone here-- I'm sorry, that pug is not ugly. I want to redo. No, uh, that is just a dog. Sorry, wait, because it's tongue sticking out. My dog-- I'm going to be my dog. Come on. Come on. Actually, no, I'm on the computer. No, you're just cute. Sorry, sorry for bothering you. But you are strange looking. But you're cute. OK, but this-- come on. This is the Ugly-- this is the World's Ugliest Dog. Just a dog. I don't-- no, uh-uh. That other one that came in third is rigged. That's uglier. Well, that pissed me off. All right, now Zora Momdani had a parents night out and offered a one-night free baby sitting program. Let's learn a little bit more about that. Relaxed. She's going to take some walks. And she's going to have some fun in relax. Hi, I'm Erica. I cover parenting for the cut. And tonight we're here at Parents Night Out. The mayor is new initiative to give parents four hours of free babysitting. But I'm going home. And I might have a little something to eat and probably watch TV. OK, girl, let's get-- let's get you to do-- OK. I know you're not used to have some time off, but come on. Really? Let's go out. It's going to be lovely. I am a single mom, so there's not a-- Hey, let's get you a date. Come on. Go home and watch TV. I mean, I get it. We're all tired. But listen, I don't ever want to go to the gym, right? I never want to go to the gym. I always feel better when I do. A lot of time that I'm just home by myself. So yeah, I'm just excited to be home by myself. And then I have to come back early because my son said I had to be back by seven. But I'll take what I can get. So tonight, I'm really excited because I get four hours to be able to get some laundry done, get some work done at home. Do I talk about how you're excited to play with your cousins? Listen, I don't have kids. I don't know. Maybe that's good. But I would-- if I got four hours, no kids, no responsibility, four hours, what am I doing? I'd go see a movie. I'm trying to go out, go do something, right? But I can be wrong. Don't hate me. Don't hate me in the comments. So I'm, I'm Donnie. Actually, I don't-- can you believe it? A politician was like, I'm listening. I'm learning. And someone wrote here, first in my bloodline to hear a politician say, you're right. I've got to do better. And what's he got to do better? Let's look. You're right. Safety first, New York, see you out there.
Good for him. Do you wear a helmet? Do you I only do city bike and so I'm not you know, I don't wear a helmet But don't again, don't get mad at me. Don't get mad at me. It's such a nuisance carrying a helmet around It is I ride my bike very slowly very slowly But it's good that he's doing you know, I'm not a leader. I'm not politician. I'm just a guy So I you know, but it's good that he's doing that and he's giving away free helmets so he's not only wearing him. He's giving away someone wrote here. Oh my god We got to stop this comment is shit. Mom Donnie is now giving out free bike helmets. This madness has to and All right, all right, all right. This is cute as shit. It is 150 rescued beagles who had never touched grass before or fresh air in their lives and here they are doing just that You'd expect a Lot of working a lot of crying a lot of jumping up and down and instead it is a bus full of dogs who are paralyzed This bus here is heading in to Get the last remaining 150 or so beagles. He's hands on inside that reading facility And arms the Beagles came from Ridgeland Farms a controversial biomedical research and breeding facility in Wisconsin You might have seen videos earlier this year of protesters trying to break into the facilities to save the beagles Close to 2,000 or so dogs have already been rescued These are the last 150 remaining and they're being taken to big dog ranch rescue in Florida about 1,500 miles away But first a quick stop just outside the facility where they were held where they're going to be checked out by a vet and that's where this bus is headed now comes next is Freedom for the very first time Underneath their boss They don't know what a breeze of wind feels like or what fresh air tastes like Furious It's hard not to be moved by overseeing here so many people have turned up to receive these animals I love the experience fear for the very time of lives Touching and feeling grass for the very first time These guys Um puppies being puppies And then others We're huddles. Oh my god, I want one. I think fear We have no idea what they endure inside reading facilities inside labs But their reactions It's all the story. Oh my god. This is what I love news Friday people doing Good things good things are still happening and I'm yeah, that's a handsome man too, by the way All right, and then one more we have a woman who donated a million dollars to local teachers to fix things Cron Forza and Kerman reports It began as a mystery Thursday afternoon the Ross Valley school districts 100 teachers were told to gather at district headquarters But they didn't know why then the superintendent had each principal give every teacher an envelope But teachers were told not to open them until they heard from this woman The injustice of this tiny little enclave within Morin County that is not being treated equally that injustice Morin County resident Maya Kristen is talking about is the fact that last year funding for this school district was in the bottom 4% state wide and Teachers were the lowest paid in Morin County citizens we can write direct checks teachers were then told to open their envelopes No, each found a check from Kristen in the amount of 9,161 dollars and 70 cents Miles were wide open before teachers broke out in a cheer I mean, it's life-changing. I couldn't be more grateful. This feels great to have people right here in the community wanting to support Public education and public educators I don't think I've ever experienced such a Beautiful gifts from someone I don't even know or haven't taught their kid I have three kids and there's lots of activities that they want to do that We can't always afford to pay for because of my salary and it's with this kind of money Like there's a few things I can actually say yes to that. They want to do so. It's it's just really exciting and Huge for our family district officials say while this is an affluent area the district still receives little funding The property values are really high in our in our districts But the property the assessed values really low because people move here and they stay here So prop 13 is kept our tax base quite low compared to other Marin districts teachers lined up to thank Kristen for her $1 million dollar personal donation She hopes other long-time Marin County residents will do the same My hope was in folks like you would be here and Word would get out and Marin residents who you know value public education with step forward and one way or another whether it's a direct gift or Political act or a foundation pull or something at the Ross Valley school district and Kerman Kron. That's amazing Wow, maybe a little cheer. I'd incredible Incredible. Why isn't that happen all I does that happen all the time? We just don't know about it We're hearing about it now. I'm so glad we had we're doing this because that absolutely needs to be seen by as many people as possible I'm just gonna say this. I'm glad she's doing it and I'm glad she's stepping up But we shouldn't have to do that like we pay enough money in taxes I trust me. We pay so much money in taxes. We should pay teachers more That's just the basic of it We do not value education in this country the way that we should education is so important It's critical if not for public education. I would not be here and the fact that we pay teachers so little We pay so much for other like flat cameras and like in bombs, right? Budgets are a moral document and obviously the morals of our country in the wrong place But it's so nice like that that has instilled a little seat of hope in me I hope it's planted in you as well and god damn it. That was good Good news. All right. I'm gonna go take a nap. I'm not feeling good I'm feeling spiritually very well physically. I got a little tingle in my throat. All right again Keith cheat sheet dot com It's linked below donate anything you can $5 $10 $50 whatever it is You can also split their donations. Please do give something we gotta we gotta change this country We need more people like that Infused into the country and the way we do it is by electing progressive leaders who are gonna help make it happen. All right. Thanks. Bye
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The host feels unwell but presents "Good News Friday" with uplifting stories.
Rosie O'Donnell liked and reposted the host's video, giving him personal recognition.
A satirical clip jokes about Kelly Loeffler as an alien, mocking her robotic behavior.
Angie Nixon wins the Florida Democratic Senate primary, impressing with her pro-worker, anti-corporate stance despite DSA membership.
The World's Ugliest Dog Contest names a pug winner, though the host disagrees with the choice.
Mayor Mamdani launches free babysitting and bike helmet initiatives, showing responsiveness to community feedback.
150 rescued beagles, never exposed to grass, experience freedom for the first time.
A Marin County resident donates $1 million to local teachers, giving each $9,161.70, sparking gratitude and hope.
Summary:
The host opens by feeling under the weather but shares uplifting news. He celebrates Rosie O'Donnell engaging with his content, calling it a personal highlight. A comedic segment mocks Kelly Loeffler with an alien sketch.
He praises Angie Nixon, Florida's Democratic Senate nominee, for her resilience and focus on healthcare, corruption, and working-class issues despite media attempts to trip her up. The World's Ugliest Dog Contest sparks debate, with the host arguing the pug winner is cute. Mayor Mamdani's initiatives—free babysitting and bike helmets—are praised for showing genuine listening.
The emotional centerpiece features 150 rescued beagles touching grass for the first time after leaving a research facility, highlighting their transformation from fear to joy. Finally, a woman donates $1 million to underpaid teachers, giving each a substantial check, which the host finds inspiring yet notes that systemic change is needed to properly value educators. He emphasizes the moral importance of budgets and encourages donations to progressive candidates via his website before signing off to rest.
Overall, the episode balances humor, heartwarming moments, and calls for societal improvement.
FAQs
Good News Friday is a segment where the host shares uplifting stories and positive news, such as political wins, rescued animals, and community generosity.
Angie Nixon is a Democratic nominee for Senate in Florida who won her primary. She is a DSA member but focuses on voter issues like healthcare access and fighting corruption.
The 50th annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest took place in Sonoma County, California, and a pug named Otto won third place, earning $15,000.
Mayor Mamdani launched a Parents Night Out program offering four hours of free babysitting to give parents a break. He also started giving away free bike helmets and wearing one himself.
The last 150 beagles from Ridgeland Farms, a biomedical research facility, were rescued and taken to Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Florida. They experienced grass and fresh air for the first time.
Maya Kristen donated $1 million to the Ross Valley school district, giving each teacher a check for $9,161.70 to help with personal expenses and activities.
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