# The Good Things Guy

An episode of [The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1074292047), 16 Oct 2026, 4:02.

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Mandy Wiener speaks to The Good Things Guy Founder, Brent Lindeque about the good stories that have happened locally and globally. The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener is 702 and CapeTalk’s flagship news show, your hour of essential news radio. The show is podcasted every weekday, allowing you to catch up with a 60-minute weekday wrap of the day's main news. It's packed with fast-paced interviews with the day’s newsmakers, as well as those who can make sense of the news and explain what's happening in your world. All the interviews are podcasted for you to catch up and listen to. Thank you for listening to this podcast of The Midday Report Listen live on weekdays between 12:00 and 13:00 (SA Time) to The Midday Report broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from The Midday Report go to https://buff.ly/BTGmL9H and find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/LcbDdFI Subscribe to the 702 and CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Good Things. Good Things.
[0:02] Speaker 2: With Brent Lindeke. And wrapping up for us, as always,
[0:06] Speaker 2: Brent Lindeke, the Good Things guy. Happy Friday, Brent.
[0:10] Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Nan, and happy Friday to all of the
[0:12] Speaker 1: 702 and Cape Talk listeners.
[0:15] Speaker 2: So you've got some fabulous stories for us this week,
[0:18] Speaker 2: as always. Firstly, tell us about the Durban security officer
[0:21] Speaker 2: who used his last hundred bucks in his pocket to
[0:24] Speaker 2: help a stranded family.
[0:25] Speaker 1: Sure. What a story. So his name is Goodson. which
[0:29] Speaker 1: is just so apt. And he was walking home from
[0:32] Speaker 1: work and he saw a mom and her two daughters
[0:36] Speaker 1: were stranded. They'd run out of fuel and he felt
[0:38] Speaker 1: that it was at a dangerous bend in the road
[0:41] Speaker 1: and he wasn't too happy about it. He only had
[0:44] Speaker 1: a hundred rand on him and it was his last
[0:46] Speaker 1: hundred rand that he had. And he gave it to
[0:49] Speaker 1: that family so that they could put petrol in. The
[0:52] Speaker 1: mom offered to give the petrol back or to give
[0:54] Speaker 1: the money back, and he refused. He just said that
[0:57] Speaker 1: he wanted them to be safe and he wanted to
[1:00] Speaker 1: do a kind thing. His story has since gone viral
[1:03] Speaker 1: and his company, Accelerate Security, today had a massive celebration
[1:08] Speaker 1: at their offices where they just You know, applauded him
[1:12] Speaker 1: and thanked him and celebrated him for being such a
[1:15] Speaker 1: kind South African. His story has inspired so many South
[1:18] Speaker 1: Africans that have read it. Sometimes the smallest things we
[1:22] Speaker 1: do are actually just the biggest things, really.
[1:25] Speaker 2: Now, this guy, Jason Van Porpel, we first heard about
[1:30] Speaker 2: him with his skateboarding adventures. Now he's coming back to
[1:32] Speaker 2: South Africa again.
[1:34] Speaker 1: Yeah, this is such a great story as well. So
[1:37] Speaker 1: for the listeners that might not remember or maybe haven't heard,
[1:40] Speaker 1: he in May was traveling from Uganda to Cape Town,
[1:44] Speaker 1: trying to raise money to build a skate park in Uganda.
[1:48] Speaker 1: And his story sort of went unnoticed while he was
[1:51] Speaker 1: on his way to South Africa. But when he arrived
[1:53] Speaker 1: in South Africa, cities, towns, They all came out in
[1:59] Speaker 1: thousands to sort of celebrate him and wish him well
[2:02] Speaker 1: on his way. Everybody was following him on social media.
[2:04] Speaker 1: Kids were let out of school early in order to
[2:07] Speaker 1: go to the side of the road just to cheer
[2:10] Speaker 1: him on. It really did unify South Africa. The stories
[2:14] Speaker 1: that were written about him just showed the beautiful side
[2:17] Speaker 1: of our country. And he's decided to come back now
[2:21] Speaker 1: in mid-November. He's partnered with the Winnie Mbasa Foundation, and
[2:25] Speaker 1: they're going to be raising funds to give gifts to
[2:28] Speaker 1: underprivileged kids around the country. But he's going to travel
[2:31] Speaker 1: to all of those towns and cities that he previously visited.
[2:34] Speaker 1: And actually now, because he's not skateboarding through, he's going
[2:37] Speaker 1: to spend time with all the South Africans that were
[2:39] Speaker 1: there for him on his original trip. So just another
[2:42] Speaker 1: really lack of story.
[2:43] Speaker 2: Oh, that's brilliant. And then tell us about the forgotten
[2:46] Speaker 2: set of keys, the handwritten notes and some very lack
[2:49] Speaker 2: of Metro police officers.
[2:51] Speaker 1: Dr. Michael Moll. He went viral last weekend. So he
[2:54] Speaker 1: went to a Stormers versus Sharks game at Greenpoint Stadium
[2:59] Speaker 1: and he was running a little bit late. He was
[3:01] Speaker 1: on his Vespa, he parked it, he ran into the
[3:04] Speaker 1: stadium and he started watching the match. And about at
[3:06] Speaker 1: the 70th minute, he put his hand in his pocket
[3:10] Speaker 1: and he realized he didn't have his keys. And I
[3:12] Speaker 1: could only imagine you think the worst. You kind of
[3:14] Speaker 1: like left your keys in your vest, but it's going
[3:16] Speaker 1: to be gone. He ran back to his bike. And
[3:19] Speaker 1: when he got there, there was a note from the
[3:22] Speaker 1: Metro police cops who had found his keys in the bike.
[3:25] Speaker 1: And they said, please call us. We have your keys.
[3:28] Speaker 1: And when he did call, they arrived to his bike.
[3:30] Speaker 1: They scolded him, but with a nice way, a bit
[3:34] Speaker 1: of a smile, telling him not to do it again.
[3:35] Speaker 1: And then they actually asked him to post that photo
[3:38] Speaker 1: onto social media because it was a really, really kind
[3:41] Speaker 1: moment and he enjoyed it. And South Africans have been
[3:44] Speaker 1: loving that story as well.
[3:45] Speaker 2: Well, Brent, as always, thank you so much for bringing
[3:47] Speaker 2: us such good news stories and making us smile on
[3:50] Speaker 2: a Friday.
[3:51] Speaker 1: We absolutely need it. And as I say every Friday
[3:54] Speaker 1: to all of the listeners, wishing you only good things.
[3:57] Speaker 2: Only good things, Brent Lindekuh, the good things guy, wrapping
[4:00] Speaker 2: up the week for us.

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