5 Good News Stories

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But Her Finger

Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories: Tropical Smoothie Cafe launches its first Halloween drink, the bright orange Fanta Phantom smoothie topped with

Oct 20
3 min

Captain America Chris Evans Helps Bonded Shelter Dogs Get Adopted

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a whale watch boat off Massachusetts spotted an 18-foot whale entangled in fishing gear and towing a buoy, prompting a response

Oct 18
4 min

The Best Halloween Candy This Year

Johnny Mac shares five Halloween-themed good news stories, starting with candy reviews: Hi-Chew Mystery Mix is praised for flavors like green apple, cotton candy, and ora

Oct 17
5 min

The Worst Halloween Candy of all time

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,”

Oct 15
5 min

Adam Vinatieri Kicks Highest Altitude Field Goal

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 Re

Oct 13
4 min

The Inconvenience Store

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

Oct 11
4 min

The most popular Halloween Costume the year you were born

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,

Oct 10
6 min

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 piz

Oct 8
5 min

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 o

Oct 6
6 min

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

Oct 4
5 min

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

Oct 3
5 min

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 a

Oct 1
4 min

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

Sep 29
4 min

Bride rides a cow into church wedding

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories, including a farmer bride, Victoria, who rode a Swiss cow named White Chocolate Button into Holy Cross Church after arriving mos

Sep 27
4 min

Taylor Swift Halloween Costume Idea Tops 2026 Picks

The episode delivers five upbeat Halloween items: Variety’s 2026 costume ideas, including Nikki from “Obsession,” Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl bushes, Athena or Odysseus from “

Sep 26
5 min

How to win at Wordle 99% of the time

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Binghamton University researchers used Shannon entropy to create a Wordle strategy that solved 99% of puzzles in simulations by

Sep 24
4 min

1,000 pairs of underwear buried across 25+ countries

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: the Ig Nobel Awards in Zurich honored unusual research including a project burying 1,000 pairs of underwear across 25+ countries

Sep 22
4 min

48-Year-Old Freshman Football Player

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a supposed new island in British Columbia’s Williston Reservoir that vanished and reappeared 18 miles away, which BC Hydro says

Sep 20
4 min

Horse Plays Guitar

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: in Los Angeles, singer-songwriter Mikaela collaborates with Youppi the Horse, who plays guitar with his nose and also experiment

Sep 19
4 min

The Cat With 29 Toes

Johnny Mac presents five good news stories: a Wisconsin Maine Coon named Erebus Anomaly sets a Guinness World Record with 29 toes due to polydactyly, surpassing previous

Sep 17
5 min

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#56 ▼ 4 Entertainment News US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

I look forward to the host’s cheerful demeanor, the brief stories and, most of all, reminding us of the positive and worthy things happening in this world. It’s like a few minutes of newsy-zen every day. Thank you for a wonderful podcast ☺️

Key Lime Slushie · Feb 2024

I love this show, I love the concept...so much negativity comes at us constantly, this is a great 'thoughts and energy reset!' Yes, there are ads. That's not the fault of hosts, really...we all deserve to earn a living. Honestly, we all have 'commercial breaks' in our '9 to 5.' I don't mind them. I've considered (many times, actually!) supporting the show / network yet never have due to the invasive 'you may like *random show*' drop into my feed. No. I won't. If I wanted another show, I would find it just as I've found my other 103 subscribed pods. It's called CONSENT and I'm saying NO! STOP FORCING OTHERS AND THEIR PODCASTS INTO MY FEED!

ZenInSEVA · Apr 2025

I don’t write reviews but I must make an exception for this show. I absolutely love the good news delivered with a great energy. I highly recommend this show to everyone. Keep up the Great Work !🤗

Nikko Weo · Mar 2023

After several years listening to this podcast they recently started automatically downloading additional content that you ‘might like’. I have an automatic playlist and I most definitely do not like unwanted content getting automatically added to the list. I have unfollowed the show because of this.

seekingnews · Mar 2025

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