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Candy Corn Pizza????
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 sho
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Oct. 8, 2026
Candy Corn Pizza????
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 sho
Oct. 6, 2026
There's a new kind of cat!
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 fa
Oct. 3, 2026
Tim McGraw Songwriter Helps Rescue Nashville Foxes
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...
Oct. 2, 2026
Costco’s Smashable Chocolate Frankenstein, Starbucks Black Cat Frappuccino, and Candy Corn Beer
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 He
Oct. 1, 2026
70,000 Pints of Guiness gone missing!
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
Sept. 29, 2026
Florida Steakhouse Offers Nude Dining
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 elec