Daily Got a Minute Message with John Ed
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2017 episodes
Service Dog Sadie
At Texas Tech University commencement this past June, a service dog named Sadie was invited to walk on stage and receive her own diploma, alongside her owner, graduating senior Makaela Muse. Muse adopted Sadie and trained her as a service anima...
Following the Rules
The Libertarian National Committee had a proposal at their convention that they would have a “business casual” dress code. The committee deadlocked 5-5 in voting. The party chairman even said that if the measure had passed, “one thing about lib...
Unity Instead of Diversity
Affordability is a big issue today. I read recently where there is an issue that both democrats and republicans were agreeing on—it deals with rotisserie chicken. Currently, SNAP benefits cannot be used on hot prepared food, but the “Hot Rotiss...
Course Grades
A recent study at Harvard showed that A’s now make up 60% of all course grades, which is up 24% from 2005. A new proposal would cap the number of A grades at 20% per course. Maybe 60% of A’s indicate that a lot of students are working harder to...
Common Sense
Every person has to decide how to let your light shine, be the salt of the earth, and share the Good News. How do you do it? Rev. Phillip Thornton of the Dauphin County’s Legacy Faith Church in Pennsylvania used a unique but questionable way. D...
Choose Your Battles
Be sure you pick your battles. Neil the Seal is a 2,200-pound elephant seal who goes on a rampage in southern Tasmania crushing fences, obstructing roads, tearing down bollards, and crashing into parked cars. He seems to do this every year at a...
Consequences
Recently, an English dog trainer, Christina Bluhme, was mountain climbing with her black Labrador. The dog must have found a cannabis gummy on the trail and ate it. The five-year-old dog named Tokyo began swaying and got really weak in her hind...
Saving A Life
Sometimes a positive action can become contagious for other people to follow. Kaedi Cecala was diagnosed with a deadly bone marrow disease. She waited for two months on a stem cell transplant registry. She was finally matched with a lady named ...
Good Relationships
Relationships are often the best medicine to help with healing—even in animals. Barley is a golden retriever who is recovering from epilepsy on Long Island. She started treatment in 2024 and slowly lost her playfulness. Then the family brought ...
Daily Coffee
I remember several times in my life experts saying that it is healthy to drink coffee. Then they said that it is unhealthy to drink coffee. Then a few years later, that changes. Just recently, the American Heart Association (AHA) has advised th...
Christmas in July
The headlines read that Christmas has come in July this year because 36 Santas and Mrs. Clauses and elves met in Denmark for the 69th World Santa Claus Congress. It’s a time when employees of the yuletide season begin to talk about making Santa...
God's Pardon
A rapper paid $600,000 to Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman to get them to secure a pardon for the rapper from President Trump. They actually told him that they had secured the pardon but now have discovered that they haven’t given it to him, and the...
Consequences
When you become the recipient of a mistake which was either deliberate or not deliberate, how do you handle that mistake? Nancy Stritto is 76 years old and lives in a Pompano Beach retirement community. She ordered a new car tag, and the licens...
2026 Goals
When Marcus Wright reached the summit of a Swiss mountain in the spring of 2026, he pulled out a cold beer and snapped a photo of himself. This 31-year-old has a goal to drink 1 million beers with 1,000 strangers. They have to take a photo of e...
Trash Into Treasure
Some people have a knack for turning trash into treasure. Dustin Crum owns a pizzeria in Florida. He has begun accepting dead snakes killed during the python hunting contest and using it as payment for a pizza. He doesn’t sell them; he just rec...
Stepping Stones
It’s so important in life to know what is valuable and to know that some people can turn things of no value into things of value. Justin Gignac salvaged trash after the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey wedding at Madison Square Garden. There was ...
Your Reaction, Your Choice
When we make a mistake, we should not look for somebody to cover up our mistake for us or fail to acknowledge that we were wrong. This happened in golf recently in the British Open. Bryson DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty because he impr...
For the Future
It has just been revealed by Peruvian authorities that 91 newborn babies were named “Erling Haaland” during the FIFA World Cup. Another 486 babies were named Haaland. All of this was a tribute to Norway’s star striker, Erling Haaland. That infl...
Run Your Race
Josh Kerr set a goal this year to break the record for the men’s mile. Roger Bannister was the first to break the 4-minute mile in 1954. The last time the world record for the mile was broken was in 1999. In July 2026, Josh broke the world reco...
Quit Making Excuses
Victoria Nodiff-Netanel wanted to teach miniature horses to play a portable piano. It sounds impossible. Instead of finding an excuse, she started teaching them to run their muzzles across a keyboard creating tunes that might not be totally cor...
America's Greatest Invention
What is America’s greatest unsung innovation. I saw that title and it intrigued me. It was not the internet or the light bulb or airplanes or refrigerators, but it was one guy named John Dorr who proposed as a lifesaver a white line on the righ...
False Front
What do you do to make yourself appear that you are really tough? There’s a new craze in Russia where a person who wants to be extremely masculine looking can pay to get “cauliflower ears” which is usually seen on boxers and MMA fighters. It co...
Consequences
Some things seem to never go away, even if we try to forget about them. You can ask a Chinese man named Deng who is 67 years old and was recently hospitalized with excruciating abdominal pain. Thirty years earlier, he had swallowed a cigarette ...