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Aug. 22, 2026

The crazy reason Spider-Man was there to direct traffic

The crazy reason Spider-Man was there to direct traffic
The crazy reason Spider-Man was there to direct traffic
5 Good News Stories
The crazy reason Spider-Man was there to direct traffic

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a man dressed as Spider-Man for Superhero Day helped a wheelchair user cross a busy Arkansas intersection and the act went viral after police posted traffic-camera footage; a Nebraska family reunited with their missing dog, Chung, found 642 miles away after five years despite a microchip complication; the Phenom 300 EV business jet will add Garmin’s emergency auto land system, inspired by the 1999 Payne Stewart crash; Oakland Parks, Rec, and Youth Development is lending sports equipment like a library to reduce youth sports costs and expand access; and a Florida family’s security camera alerted them to an eight-foot alligator at their door, which police and a licensed trapper safely removed. Mac also promotes uninterrupted listening via Apple Podcasts and his Daily Comedy News show.

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0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Did you joy the new Spider Man movie? While a real life Spider Man is being hailed as a hero after a traffic camera captured Spider Man helping a man across a busy intersection in Arkansas. The video released by the pd shows a man using a wheelchair trying to make it across the street before the traffic light changes. As the light changes, the driver's door of a nearby car swings open and out jumps Spider Man. Yeah. Christopher was dressed as Spider Man for Superhero Day at his job at the Ultimate Air Trampoline Park, and he happened to be at the light at the right time.

0:43 I love the details here, he told this TV. I was like, all right, I'm in the Spider Man suit. Let's just do this. So I got out and sped them along really fast, and none of us got hit, and everybody was really nice. There was no honking or anything like that. I just got out of my vehicle and drove off. He didn't even know he had been caught on camera until his mother woke up from a nap. I love this, he said, I was taking a nap. Mom woke me up and said, hey, you're on Facebook. I thought it was the PDE that put up the video, and we watched it every hour, and every hour the likes and comments get getting a higher and a higher. I didn't expect it to blow up like this either. I just thought it'd be like a really fun thing to do. But I'm glad people are seeing it, and I hope that people, wherever they're being watched or not, will step up and do the right thing, like Spider Man. A Nebraska family has been reunited with their missing dog after the dog's been gone for five years and the dog was six hundred miles from home. Chong disappeared from his family's home in Lincoln in twenty twenty one. His owner of Machilata never gave up, she told the local TV.

1:37 I still looked for him. We still went to our old neighborhood and drove around and looked see if we could see anyone walking him or if he was running around somewhere. A friend spotted a Facebook post from the local animal shelter a dog matching Chong's description had been found wandering near a truck stop six hundred and forty two miles from where Chong disappeared. Here's a complication though, at some point in the five years in between, Chong had been micro chipped by someone else. Macciolot explained since he was chipped to someone else, they had to followup protocol. They attempted to contact the phone numbers on file. However, they didn't receive a response. After three days no one claimed them. They placed Chang up for adoption. A Maculata drove to Indiana, bringing along Chong's brother, Chiech for the reunion.

2:18 The shelter said the recognition was instant. Cheech recognized Cheng. We're told he recognized not only his owner, but his brother as well. Where Chang was for five years No Idea, a safety feature once inspired by a horrible accident, is now making its way onto larger aircraft. The new Phenom three hundred EV business jet will come equipped with Gorman's Emergency Auto land system. This goes back to the nineteen ninety nine crash that killed professional golfer Payne Stewart and five others. Investigators concluded that a southern loss of cabinet pressure left everyone on board and capacitated no one was there to land the plane. The lear Jet continued flying for nearly four hours before running out of fuel. Unlike a trade autopilot, the tech can make decisions on its own during an emergency, Its selects as suitable airport, communicates with air traffic control, flies the aircraft to its destination, and lands it automatically. That is really cool. During routine flight, the system periodically checks that pilots are still actively responding.

3:17 It can also activate if certain emergency conditions are detected, including changes in cabin pressure. If you are a parent, you may have noticed that the cost of youth sports goes up and up. One neighborhood in Oakland is trying a simple idea lending out sports equipment the way libraries lend out books. The Oakland Parks, Wreck and Youth Development Department says that residents can check out sports equipment to use it nearby parks, return it when you're done. The collection includes footballs, soccer balls, volleyballs, tennis equipment, jump ropes, yoga mets, and even games like uno and dominoes. Marabella Lopez is the supervisor. She told s F Gate, we're aware that sports can lead to social mobility. When kids are familiar with golf, tennis, soccer, and other games or sports that are socially mobile, then they have access to different communities, different friend groups, different neighborhoods, and we want to be a vehicle for that. We want kids to be able to speak each other's language and connect through sports.

4:08 In Florida, family got quite the surprise their home security camera sent an alert. Okay, what is it? As someone at the door? Yeah, an eight foot alligator. Sierra said. The notification from her system prompted to check the cameras. She told local TV, I thought at one point he was going to come through the window. His tail was bouncing against the door and against the house. It was such a deep guttural hiss and growl. He looks so mean. I thought he was going to come through the window. The police responded, along with a licensed trapper. The alligator got agitated, Sierra said, we were scared, terrified. At one point he was getting kind of agitated with the flashlight in his eyes. He actually looked right up at me. He started opening his mouth and growling and hissing. The trapper safely captured and removed the alligator. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, open up the Apple podcast app, or maybe you're on it already. If you are, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. It'll tell you what to do from their short version five bucks a month, thirty day free trial. And don't forget. I host a show called Daily Comedy News seven days a week. We talk about comedy and comedians. It's a nice way to start your morning, A nice light show kind of like this minus the good news plus comedians. You get it.

5:14 Have a great day.