5 Good News Stories

Host Johnny Mac shares five good news stories centered on Halloween season trends. He recaps a cleveland.com look at the unloved orange-and-black “Peanut Butter Kisses,” originally Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses, tracing their makers’ decline and noting Milster Candies as the sole current producer selling them online. He highlights Halloween-themed Nike and Jordan Brand sneaker releases, including models tied to Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant with various spooky colorways and glow details. He previews New York City’s free family-friendly fall festivals and Halloween events, including “Trick or Streets” with 160 car-free sites. He spotlights South Florida Fairgrounds’ Fright Nights with new haunted houses, scare zones, and themed food/drinks. He closes with Pepsi-promoted limited-time Halloween snacks and drinks, including a zero-sugar Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino chilled coffee drink and seasonal Cheetos varieties. 

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories, led by Adam Vinatieri kicking a 33-yard field goal at Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps (11,317 feet) to earn the Guinness World Record for highest altitude American football field goal, organized by the Patriots to promote their game vs. the Lions in Munich. In Ecuador, the 1997 discovery of the Jocotoco antpitta led Robert Ridgely to protect its habitat, creating the Jocotoco Foundation’s network of 19 private reserves safeguarding 123,000 acres and documenting 1,350 bird species. In Virginia, a woman and her mother win $500,000 from a Food Lion scratch-off ticket. In Wisconsin, inmates at Red Granite Correctional Institute raise, tag, and release monarch butterflies through a lepidopterarium program started in 2025. In Vermont, sheep wander onto the new Burlington High School and Technical Center campus.
 

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David Rush Sets New Cup-Flipping Record as Scotland Cycling Surges
Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Bicycles outnumbered cars on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk during a morning count for Cycling Scotland’s 48-hour survey, with 67,000 bike journeys statewide (up 25% year over year) and strong impact from Edinburgh’s e-bike rental program, which has logged 1.5 million trips since last fall. In Northern California, two years after four dams were removed from the Klamath River, more than 20,000 Chinook salmon migrated upstream, with salmon repopulating about 90% of their pre-dam range within the first year. Guinness record-setter David Rush flipped 10 cups in 6.63 seconds, beating 7.59 after five months of practice. Seattle artists opened an “Inconvenience Store” art exhibition in a former 7-Eleven. In Norton, Kansas, nearly 30 inmates donated $4,267 to reduce local school lunch debt.
 


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Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories: Spirit Halloween’s annual costume trend report, noting fandom-driven picks like Toy Story, K-pop demon hunters, Spider-Man, The Backrooms, and Fortnite alongside staples, and that 70% of shoppers buy Halloween items before September with Home Depot’s 12-foot skeleton often sold out before Labor Day. Chewy pet lifestyle expert Whitney says funny pet costumes are popular, with wigs rising and a new baked potato costume, plus simpler options like glow-in-the-dark collars and harness-style wings, capes, and headpieces, advising pets should move freely. He then lists the most common Halloween costumes by year from 1950 to 2005. In Chicago, First Lady’s Creepy Cruise offers a 90-minute nighttime river tour with true stories of serial killers, gangsters, ghosts, and landmarks like the Reid Murdoch Building. Finally, Krispy Kreme announces a Looney Tunes Halloween donut collection themed around characters including Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Taz, Sylvester, and Lola Bunny.
 
00:16 Costume Trend Forecasts
00:51 Shop Early Warning
01:13 Pet Costume Trends
01:55 Pet Costume Comfort Tips
02:21 Costumes By Birth Year
04:26 Chicago Creepy Cruise
05:21 Looney Tunes Donuts
06:24 Wrap Up And Goodbye

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Johnny Mac shares five good news Halloween stories: Tombstone Pizza is selling a limited-edition Candy Corn Pizza kit via online drops, offering a cheese or pepperoni pizza plus candy corn for $1.31 shipped; in New York City, Heidi Klum’s limited Butterfinger dessert pizza is available all month at Crazy Pizza in SoHo with samples planned for the Village Halloween Parade on Oct. 31. Fifteen Tommy’s Express locations in Michigan are running a “Tunnel of Terror” haunted car wash. DoorDash data shows top treats by state (Reese’s leads 17 states) and reports dinner deliveries usually drop on Halloween except pizza. In Shrewsbury, Sean’s Halloween labyrinth has moved to a larger venue, uses 20 volunteers, expects 6,000+ visitors, and donates all profits to Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services. San Bernardino County is hosting Halloween marriage services at Calico Ghost Town on Halloween from noon to 5.
 
00:12 Candy Corn Pizza Drop
01:10 Butterfinger Pizza NYC
01:30 Tunnel of Terror Car Wash
02:09 Top Halloween Treats Data
03:14 Sean's Charity Maze
04:30 Halloween Weddings Ghost Town
 


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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: researchers in Bolivia confirmed a newly documented wild cat species, locally called “Chilkayo,” genetically distinct from the oncilla and split from its nearest relative about 1.4 million years ago. At Chimp Haven in Louisiana, 54-year-old chimp Pierre, blinded by cataracts, was trained with positive reinforcement to cooperate with care and then underwent successful cataract surgery, quickly reconnecting with caregivers and his companion Jill. Emma’s family achieved a Guinness-certified record when her son Arthur became the fifth consecutive generation born on September 14th, with alternating genders across generations. Concord Public Library in New Hampshire ended overdue fines and received back an 1894 magazine 48,220 days late, avoiding a calculated $12,055 fee. In Omaha, Conagra’s Blaze Crew set a Guinness record with a 429-foot Slim Jim that was later eaten. 

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Tim McGraw Songwriter Helps Rescue Nashville Foxes as Bison Return to Mexico Reserve
Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: 48 bison were reintroduced after 200 years to the El Santuario Wildlife Reserve within Mexico’s Cuatro Ciénegas Biosphere Reserve, where their hooves, coats, and dung help break compacted soil, spread seeds, and fertilize the desert oasis ecosystem. In Nashville, 78-year-old songwriter Jerry, who has had songs recorded by Tim McGraw, has spent seven years trapping foxes suffering from a worsening mange epidemic and bringing them to Walden’s Puddle Animal Rescue; by September the rescue rehabilitated over 60 foxes, surpassing last year’s 44. Three Harvard students created Rumble Rims, an infrared eye-tracking headset that provides a 2–3 minute concussion assessment with real-time results on a coach’s app. In London, 934 of 1,188 people set a Vulcan salute record for Star Trek Day with actor Martin Quinn attending. Linda regained the Guinness record for largest matching salt-and-pepper packet collection with 754 pairs.
 
00:10 Bison Return Restores Desert
01:09 Songwriter Saves Sick Foxes
02:39 Headset Detects Concussions Fast
03:30 Vulcan Salute World Record
04:23 Salt Pepper Packet Champion
05:15 Wrap Up And Farewell


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Johnny Mac shares five good news Halloween stories: Costco is selling a 5.5-pound Belgian chocolate Frankenstein head that comes with a wooden mallet and contains a pound of body-part-shaped gummy candies for $55, though it’s sold out and being resold for up to $100. Lego released a 323-piece Halloween Pumpkin Lantern set that lights up when the stem is pressed and includes a spider and glow-in-the-dark ghost for about $30. In Philadelphia, Newsroom Philly becomes the Pumpkin Press, a Poe and Headless Horseman-inspired pop-up with themed decor and cocktails like the Headless Horseman, Moon Over Sleepy Hollow, and a Raven’s Cauldron for groups. Starbucks adds a caffeine-free Black Cat Frappuccino on Oct. 22, a Black Knight Cookie, and Halloween merch. Shock Top and Spirit Halloween created Candy Corn Wheat, a limited-edition 5% wheat ale with mixed reactions.



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Johnny Mac shares five upbeat stories: a 15-year-old, Derek, survives two days on an overturned fishing boat in Alaska’s Bering Sea and is rescued by a Coast Guard crew and a nearby vessel; the Metropolitan Opera hires a boa constrictor named Princess (with understudy Nala) for a Mozart production reset at a 1950s Coney Island carnival after singer Zoe auditions the snakes; in Hungary, 19 teams compete in a grave-digging contest to highlight the skill and effort, won by Robert and Laszlo in 1:21; Callum, 23, born without arms, races using his feet and trains with Team Brit toward a Le Mans goal; and police in England seek 70,000 stolen pints of Guinness, with a related Pabst theft noted.  
 

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Host Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a Hollywood, Florida steakhouse called Class Soiree Steakhouse will host a nude dining experience the first Monday of every month, with clothed staff, rules including no touching, robes and seat covers provided, and pricing of $250 for men, $150 for women, and $300 for couples for adults 18+. An engineering prodigy in Florida, Nathan Thomas, became the youngest college professor at 18 years and 346 days at Miami Dade after earning a master’s in electrical engineering, and he now teaches online while pursuing a University of Miami law degree with a 2028 graduation target. A British man set a Guinness record by eating 15 fish fingers in one minute. Train services were briefly stopped to rescue a tortoise from tracks and reunite it with its owner. An Australian beagle ate 2.4 pounds of gummy worms, prompting a vet visit and induced vomiting. 


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5 Good News Stories is a daily podcast with five positive, uplifting news stories to brighten your day. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network

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