International McDonald's Items Come to USA. Curly Fries!

0:01 Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories Now. I dropped this story in the first position in the first recording of the New Batch as soon as I saw it, because I don't want you to miss out. If you're in Illinois. Chicago, specifically, curly fries have made their way to McDonald's. Yes. I even sent this to a friend in Chicago and asked her to go check this out. A McDonald spokesperson said the special fries are currently available at the international McDonald's at ten thirty five West Randolph. This particular McDonald's is regularly rotating in international menu items. The twister fries are being borrowed from the Malaysian McDonald's. Some other things on the menu the Mcrelette from Switzerland. I don't know what that is and I'm going to look it up. The Mcrolette is a limited time burger offered by McDonald's Switzerland. It features a beef patty, Swiss cheese, onions, pickles, and a sauce, all served on a chabbata roll. Also available the biscoff and white chocolate mcpops that's from Spain out of Canada. The bacon, hot honey mccrispy. That sounds really good? Why don't we have that?

1:13 American McDonald's from India the mcalou tiki. I gotta look that up. The McDonald's block says. The combination of a potato and peas patty with special Indian spices, coated with bread crumbs, served with sweet tomato, mao, fresh onions and tomatoes in a regular bun is still a hit, not just among Indians, but even foreigners who have tried it during their visit to India. Also available the chips Ahoy mcflurry out of Guatemala, Why don't we have that? And the berry mcpops from Switzerland also low key McDonald's has really good donut game in Italy. How do you know that? Johnny mac? Why are you at a McDonald's in Italy? I will tell you why two reasons. One, McDonald's is your friend. Have you ever tried to find a public restroom in say Rome, McDonald's is your friend too. Have you ever tried to find a large drink with ice when you're in Europe? A you can't find a large drink?

2:04 B you can't find ice. McDonald's is your friend. And see. Sometimes you're traveling with your mother in law who's a little picky about a breakfast, so you just give in and you go to McDonald's and get her something she's familiar with, and then you get a donut while you're there. They're pretty good. Two bears escaped from an enclosure in a British wildlife park. They made their way to the food storage area and they had a week's worth of honey. Ha Miss and Lucy are five year old bears. They escaped from their enclosure due to an operational error what is this Jurassic Park that allowed the bears to access a behind the scenes area use for food storage. The park was closed as part of standard procedure. Police were contacted. The zoo keepers were able to encourage both bears back into their enclosure without the need for any intervention. The park wants you to know the bears at no point post any threat to the public. Meanwhile, in Mexico, authorities responded to an office break in Oh no, who has broken into the office? Of course, the answer a spider monkey. Officials arrived to find the spider monkey running through the break room.

3:08 The monkey showed signs of malnutrition, but it is now doing well and veterinary care on Staten Island, New York. A butdega owner is giving kids free food for good grades. While the owner was interacting with a young student and said, last time was ninety eight, that was ninety nine. What is it this time? The students said one hundred. Wally says, you know what happens, right and hands are a one hundred dollars and allowed her to pick snacks from the store. She opted for Smorti's and M and M's. Now the guy's not a zillionaire. His brother started to gofund me and his name. It raised nearly fifty thousand dollars. Wally says, I can't do it by myself. My fans comment and they celebrate these kids with me, and they acknowledged them with me. Let's say I'm giving them one hundred dollars or I'm giving them snacks for free or T shirt for me. That doesn't matter. The most important thing is you celebrate them and you show them that you really care about their hard work. Shout out to Wendy. Wendy dropped us a friendly email. Let me know that I got a story wrong. Wendy appreciate you listening, appreciate you taking the time to write, and I appreciate you doing it in a nice Why not being like this show's terrible?

4:05 What is wrong with you? All right? What did Johnny Mack get wrong? Wendy? Let me know. Remember the oldest tavern story from about a week ago, the one in Newport, Rhode Island. The correct name is the White Horse, not the White House Tavern, which I'm surprised I got wrong because locally there's a pretty old establishment called the White Horse, which now I want to go to. Wendy, thank you for listening so much, and good news. If you were a red fox, No, not the late comedian, an actual fox that is red, You guys are not extinct. We know this because a California photographer recently caught three minutes of high quality camera footage of the red fox. It is believed there may be fewer than one hundred red foxes. The red fox lives high in the mountains, six thousand feet above sea level.

4:55 It's pretty reclusive, so the people haven't seen too many of them. Photographer Randy rob is the one who saw the fox and told Fox Weather no pun although kind of funny. We're a couple generations away from these foxes dying out to inbreeding and that kind of thing because their populations are so small. So I think telling their story and getting the word out is important just to sort of motivate people, because people care, people want them to be saved. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like to program without commercial interruption, link of the show notes so or go to calier go dot com slash plus. You have an awesome day, our sister, I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great, thank you. That's so generous of you. Car that's great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh my god.

5:52 So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened, and then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial statements and I had more money there than I was really using. It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me. I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now, why should I wait until I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that's what finally started this, and I said, well I'll do it. Now.

6:36 Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment? Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest. So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get while they were still young enough to enjoy it. And I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward to and give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so that you use this money, so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan. But it's one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn't have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue?

7:40 You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time. And so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so, you know, so that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did, so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.

8:43 They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude and I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, you know, so they said Okay, we'll do it because I say we're going to wait until you die, why not do it now?

9:25 And they did it. And it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be. You can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people. And now you cannot believe what these people. They're traveling all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

10:15 Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you're in those depths, it's really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn't a way out of it. And you know, sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn't ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happy happiness? Do you you deserve to be happy?

11:02 And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made the decision that I want to be happier, and I'm like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard, but it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

11:42 I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold, And it's now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the house Pennis Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It's been fun