The Year in Good News

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, we put a callout on The Daily, asking people to send in their good news from a particularly bleak year. The response was overwhelming. Audio messages poured into our inboxes from around the world, with multiple emails arriving every minute. There was a man who said that he had met Oprah and realized he was an alcoholic, a woman who shared that she had finally found time to finish a scarf after five years and another man who said he had finished his thesis on representations of horsemanship in American cinema. Eventually, we decided to construct the entire show out of these messages. This episode is the result — a Daily holiday card of good news, from our team to you.

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0:26.0	Hi, hi.
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0:33.0	Hi, daily team.
0:36.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:41.3	This is a daily.
0:42.4	You know, I don't have to be the first one to say that 2020 was rough, but 2020 has been
0:48.7	a really crazy year for everybody.
0:52.6	There's been a lot of really, really hard moments, but there's been a lot of really beautiful
0:56.7	ones too.
0:58.3	You asked if anything good has happened throughout 2020.
1:02.6	Today, some good news from 2020, from daily listeners all over the world.
1:12.0	And I squealed when I heard that you're looking for people to talk about something good
1:17.0	that happened to them during the pandemic.
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