Oct. 8, 2025

Good News - This is the most popular Halloween candy in the USA

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In this Halloween-themed segment, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting Halloween stories. He starts by revealing that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are the most popular Halloween candy in the U.S. according to Instacart data for 2024. He highlights a costume swap event at the Richmond Free Library in Vermont, and discusses the Naples Zoo's 'Boo at the Zoo' event, which will feature costume characters and trick-or-treating for kids. The segment also includes a mention of a LEGO Halloween wreath kit and a humorous rundown of knockoff Halloween costumes such as 'pubescent frog of Silent War.' Mack teases upcoming good news Christmas stories and humorously navigates through the storytelling with a light-hearted tone.

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Caloroka Shock Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Man with five good

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news Halloween stories. This is just fun to do. Mix

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it up a little bit. Instact Arts looked at your

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shopping data from twenty twenty four and they have determined

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the most popular Halloween candy in the United States of America.

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Do you have a guest? Do you want me to

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tell you whether they or not? Peanut M and M's

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that was second, regular, Eminem's finished third. Now I personally

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love pean at M and Ms. Every time I walk

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through the kitchen, I grab a handful, which is why

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I have a giant belly. But I digress. The number

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one candy is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and if you

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hand me those, they're gone in one second. So I

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agree with instacart. Here, a trends analyst at instacart said,

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we're seeing households start to shop weeks ahead, not just

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to be prepared, but because Halloween has become an experience

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people stretch out and savor. I mean some people are

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even doing ridiculous podcasts weeks in advance. They tell us

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whether it's nostalgia classics like Raeses, or polarizing favorites like

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candy corn. These streets are part of the traditions that

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make Halloween feel special. Halloween spending is expected to reach

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a record thirteen point one billion dollars this year, and

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one Vermont library is helping families keep the holiday fun

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without breaking the bank. The Richmond Free Library hosted their

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second annual costume Swap. Here's what you do. You bring

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a costume you're done with and you pick a new

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one that's brilliant. Because I hang out at this brewery

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and they have a costume contest every year, and I

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wind up spending money on this thing I wear for

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ninety minutes while drinking two beers. Why do I do it?

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I don't know. The library director in Richmond said the

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costume swap is a great way to get in the

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Halloween spirit, save some money, and make good use of

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our resources as a community. Halloween costumes are something you

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only wear once and by next year might not even

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fit your kid, It might not fit you as an adult. Yes,

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they were grabbing a handful of peanut m and ms

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every time you walk through the kitchen. I could see

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where that would happen. The Naples Zoo at Caribbean Guardians

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is bringing back Boo at the Zoo for another year. No,

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just the name Boo at the Zoo. I'm in This

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sounds amazing. The zoo is magically transformed to a living

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movie scene, complete with costume characters and trick or treating

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for kids twelve and under. What about people fifty five plus?

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Can we do it? No? Oh? Okay, laugh in the

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face of dangers. You meet a dinosaur sail away with

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pirates on the Pirate Expedition cruise and meet mini unicorns. Hmmm,

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I wonder what those look like. That sounds fun. It's

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this weekend. You better go October tenth through the twelfth,

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then again October seventeenth through the nineteenth, nine am to

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one pm. The zoo asks if you come in costume,

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make sure your costume is family friendly and definitely not inflatable.

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Inflatable ones could scare the animals. I'm assuming that's if

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an inflatable one were to pop. We don't want to

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startle the gorillas. I don't know if they have gorillas.

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Can I interest you in a lego Halloween wreath? It's

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only six hundred and seventeen pieces. You'll put it together.

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In ten minutes. The Lego box comes with five different

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packages of pieces, along with an instruction booklet. Well that's good.

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Once it's all built, you insert the string, you hang

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wherever you hang your Halloween wreath. Not on a minute

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of the story. Is Halloween wreath even a thing? I

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guess it is, And it's made out of lego? And

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this was so much fun last time I thought a

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double dip on the knockoff Halloween costumes. Let's see what

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I have for you today. Here's one. Some people might

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describe it as a turtle, maybe even a turtle that

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has been part of say, radiation, and turned into a

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mutant of sorts. Well, this is not that. This is

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pubescent frog of Silent War. Yes it's not some sort

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of mutant, but could be a teenage This is a

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pubescant frog, totally different. Do you like video games? Do

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you sometimes play the one with it actually has turtles,

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It's got a couple plumbers in it. Two brothers. One's red,

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one's kind of green. Well this is not that at all.

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This is the green Italian plumber costume. And I'm wondering

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if he has a brother with a mustache that's red.

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Italian plumber costume. And you remember that famous movie with

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Gene he was selling chocolate. There were some people that

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worked for Gene Wilder in the movie. They even sang

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a song This is not that at all. This is

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factory worker girl. You gave yourself some orange skin a

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kind of I don't know, is it a shag haircut,

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and you sing your song with your fellow factory worker girl.

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Why did you start laughing, John? Because I accidentally scrolled

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down and I'm not going to get to it today,

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but the next one is creepy husband. That's what made

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me laugh. Okay, so back to the bit. Okay, So

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you're there at a Geen Wilder and there's like a

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river made out of chocolate, and there's some people singing

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song that this is not that at all. This is

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factory worker girl. And those are your five good news

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Halloween stories. Don't forget in the normal feed there's five

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good news stories, and in its own feed, and in

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the normal feed five good news Christmas stories. I've already

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started with the Christmas there's a ton of Christmas stories

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that's super easy to do. And you have an awesome

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day