Nov. 20, 2025

Air Force Base told to take down Christmas decorations

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac shares five feel-good news stories starting with a roundup of Thanksgiving meal deals from national chains like Cracker Barrel, Boston Market, and Popeye's. Next, a gym teacher in Maine sets a new record by sinking 1,516 three-pointers in an hour. In Spain, a zoo celebrates the birth of a healthy white rhinoceros calf, which is significant for conservation efforts. Princess Catherine (Kate Middleton) is set to host her annual Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey with notable guests. Lastly, residents at Tindale Air Force Base in Florida are reminded to follow housing guidelines for holiday decorations. Have a good one!

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Caloroka Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Jimac with five good

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news stories. If you don't want to cook on Thanksgiving.

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A bunch of national chains or offering heat and serve,

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We're ready to eat holiday meal. Some aer under twenty

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bucks a person. Many include turkey, classic sides, dessert options

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for both in restaurant dining and takeout. All right, let's

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go down the list here. Cracker Barrel. I like Cracker Barrel.

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It's pretty tasty. Except the last time I went, I

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got almost all the way home. My wife's like I

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left my phone, so I had to do a basically

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a ninety minute round trip to get her phone. So

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other than that, the food's great. Cracker Barrel offering family

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style meals for four to six or eight to ten people.

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Each meal includes two oven roasted turkey breasts, cornbread dressing,

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turkey gravy, cranberry relish, sweet potato casseroll with peacans, green beans,

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and massed potatoes, sweet yeast rolls. A long enough list

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that I ran out of breath and I had to

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take one there, pumpkin pie and pecan pie. Cracker Barrel

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says the meal can go from oven to table. In

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about two two hours. A twenty four hour pre order

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is recorded and you got to pick it up between

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November twenty second and the thirtieth, So get moving. Boston

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Market they have holiday meals starting at twenty bucks a

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person ten person minimum though no substitutions all right. This

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thing comes with a retisserie chicken meal. You can also

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get turkey or hand meals. Those are twenty one bucks.

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Meals include a selection of sides such as mac and cheese, potatoes,

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corn creamed spinach, streamed broccoli, and stuffing waters. Can be

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placed on the Boston Market website. Pop Eyes has brought

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back Cajun style whole turkey ninety nine bucks. It comes

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pre season then to requires thawing, eating and serving at home.

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Got to hit their website for that. Bob Evans they

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have a package fifteen to fifty per person. It includes

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the Holiday Hot Family Meal for six at one hundred

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and ten bucks, the pot Roast Farmhouse Feasts for eight

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to ten people at one seventy five, and some others.

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Each package includes an entree, sides, fresh bread, and dessert.

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Go to the bob Evans website. Golden Corral they're doing

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this as well. And choose roasted turkey, glais dam or

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bone in pork roast. You gotta order seventy two hours

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in advance. He want something a little different about Romano's

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Macaroni grill thirty six dollars. Menu in house and to go.

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Thanksgiving meals includes a choice of salad, soup, roasted turkey,

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breast with mashed, roasted garlic, sausage and apple stuff in,

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cranberry relish, Brussels sprouts, broccolini. Or maybe he'd grab to

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go to Denny's Thanksgiving bundles for four is starting to

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get fifty five bucks. Turkey breast stuffing, skin mashed. Gotta

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order twenty four hours in advance. All right, All that

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was just story number one. In Maine. For story number two,

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a gym teacher sank fifteen hundred and sixteen three pointers

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in one hour. Nice job by mister Martin. He teaches

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vized at Saco Middle School. He went to the court,

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he shot fifteen sixteen for sixteen eighty three. He was

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trying to break the record, which was thirteen seventy two.

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He exceeded it by one hundred and forty five. He said,

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about twenty eight minutes in I had a real bad

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cramp in my side. Then mister Wilson had the crowd

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going crazy. It was like a message from God. Perfect timing,

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and they were just loud in the perfect time, and

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I fought through it. Mister Martin is a former college

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star once named Mister Maine Basketball. I think that's the

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first time I ever took the break after the second story.

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But I went a little long there on the food. Okay,

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let's head on over to Spain, where in a zoo.

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Congratulations to the zoo and the white rhinoceros which was born.

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The unnamed calf is a male, healthy and bonding well

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with mom Kwanza. The zoo said. The mother's recovering perfectly,

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and the lively calf scampers about with the typical clumsy

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movement of a baby, offering heartwarming glimpses. The calf has

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also met his dad, Martin, along with two other female rhinos.

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The birth is extra important for the European conservation program.

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Southern white rhinos are listed as a vulnerable species on

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the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List. Princess

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Catherine aka Kate Middleton's see this is a whole thing,

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I write the pod cast palace intrigue where we talk

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about the royals, and we do it for American audiences,

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so we always refer to this nice woman as Kate Middleton,

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and then the Brits will get mad at us to

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be like, she's Princess Catherine and I'm like, I'm from

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New York anyway. Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, will

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once again host her annual together at Christmas Carol Service

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at Westminster. December fifth had a wedding m you know

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her from Ted Lasso and Kate Winslet are both scheduled

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to take part. Sixteen hundred people expected to attend. This

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is a big deal in royal circles if you'd like

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to keep up to breast on everything royal. And it's

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a lot of fun the whole like Megan Markle, Prince

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Harry versus Prince William, Kate Middleton thing. It's a soap opera.

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It's a really fun show. Palace intrigue wherever you get

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your shows. And I've got a Grinch story for you.

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Out of the Tyndale Air Force Base in Florida, residents

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were told, hey, remove those Christmas decorations. It's not Thanksgiving yet. Yeah,

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there was a message posted. It said, well, driving through

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the neighborhoods yesterday, it was noticed that Christmas decorations have

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already begun to appear within the community. All holiday decorations

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should be reflective in their respective months and not any

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sooner than thirty days before the given holiday. If you

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currently have uleside to Core President on the outside of

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your home, please remove it and reinstall it in accordance

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with your community guidelines listed below. I'm sure that went overwell.

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The Public Affairs Chief Captain Justin at the base told

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Task and Purpose that the reels are people with just

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enforcing the community standards outlined in the legally binding lease

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agreement all residents voluntarily sign. He said the term specify

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Christmas decorations may be put up starting the week after Thanksgiving,

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but he did note that the rules are set by

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individual privatized housing communities and that rules vary from base

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to base. I don't think you guys want to have

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this fight. Just let people hang their stuff and those

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your five good news stories for today, have a good one.