Nov. 9, 2024

Christmas Selfie Land (5 Good News Christmas Stories)

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting Christmas stories: Carmen's remarkable Christmas Selfie Land warehouse in the UK, Solvang's traditional Jewelfest celebrations, John Lewis's eco-friendly anti-glitter Christmas decorations, Jack Whitehall's holiday special on Amazon Prime Video, and the premiere of 'The Christmas Letter' movie featuring actors from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. These stories highlight creativity, community spirit, and festive cheer from around the world.

00:00 Introduction and Christmas Stories Overview
00:15 Carmen's Christmas Selfie Land
01:13 Solvang: The Second Best Christmas Town
01:40 John Lewis' Anti-Glitter Christmas Shop
02:25 Jack Whitehall's Christmas Special
03:13 The Christmas Letter Movie Premiere

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Caalaroka Shark Media. Happy Holidays, Johnny Mack with five good

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news Christmas stories. Carmen is a self proclaimed Christmas obsessed

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mother in the UK. Well, she's gone to the next level.

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She has transformed a warehouse into a twenty five thousand

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dollars plus Christmas selfie land. Last year, she went viral

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with a gingerbread house display at her own house. Okay,

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that seems pretty normal. Why not rent out a warehouse?

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Carman's Christmas Selfie Land warehouse is packed with holiday photo ops.

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The setup includes twenty selfie stations across two floors. Highlights

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include a Narnia style enchanted forest, a towering Christmas tree

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crafted out of toys, the North Pole Post office, and

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candy corner. Carman said people used my house to take

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photos so much last year. At one point there was

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six cars queued up outside with their windows down on

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phones out, and so many people came to visit it.

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Last year I was inspired to build a Christmas selfie

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land at my warehouse down the road. It's a Carmen

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and a team of forty people fourteen weeks to put

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this thing together. If you're out on the West Coast,

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you might want to visit the second best Christmas town.

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According to Newsweek's twenty twenty four Readers Choice Awards, Solvang,

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the Danish capital of America, came in second to Grapevine, Texas.

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The annual Solvang Jewelfest begins November twenty ninth. O'll run

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through January fifth. Some of the highlights of Solvang's Christmas

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traditions include gnome hunting, candlelight city tours, and the Christmas Tree.

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Burn City manager Randy said, do you like Christmas but

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you can't stand glitter, Well, you're gonna like the John

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Lewis Christmas Shop. The department store is on the anti

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glitter trend. Burley Murray works for the store and said

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this year on boxes, we're moving towards using glitter that's

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encapsulated inside of the babble to prevent shedding. We've also

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introduced bubbles that have Hallick finished to provide the Christmas

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sparkle without glitter. The store says. While ornaments encased in

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red and green glitter one screened Christmas. These days, consumers

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are showing more interest in less traditional looks. What's this

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really about? The EU has banned loose glitter as part

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of a microplastics crackdown. Johann von Mark, the chief executive

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of Goodwill, M and G. Till the Guardian. We found

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out there was very little alternative or biodegradable options. Meanwhile,

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Jack Whitehall will bring his festive cheer two Amazon Prime Video.

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He's got a Christmas special. It's called Jack in Time

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for Christmas. Will be joined by special guests Michael Bubley,

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Dave Blautista, Rebel Wilson, Jimmy Fallon, Daisy May Cooper and

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Tom Davies. The show is part scripted comedy, part unscripted travelog.

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Jack finds himself stranded in the US with just four

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days to make it back to the UK for Christmas.

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Oh no, how could you possibly get from the US

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to the UK in four days? With time taking away?

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He embarks on a journey involving planes, trains, huskies, and

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Bob Slays. What happened? Was there some sort of travel apocalypse?

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The description tells us a stocking full of conveniently located

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famous faces help and hinder along the way as Jack

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navigates the chaos of Christmas and tries to make it

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home in time. I'm guessing he makes It all Right.

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A new movie featuring a reunion of sorts from National

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Lampoon's Christmas Vacation makes its premiere today in central New York.

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It's called The Christmas Letter, was shot in the Mohawk

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Valley area last winter. There's a screening at the Stanley

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Theater in Utica at six pm. Tickets are five bucks.

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The Christmas Letter centers on an everyday man who decides

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to top his wealthy friend's annual Christmas Letter by cashing

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out his four oh one K and takes his family

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on a year long series of crazy adventures to create

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the Christmas Letter to rival all Christmas Letters. What's the

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Sign of Christmas Vacation? Three actors from nineteen eighty nine

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Christmas Vacation, including Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, and Brian Doyle Murray.

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New York native Michael Cunningham wrote the thing and said,

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I don't think it really hit me that this was

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all happening until I heard Brian Doyle Murray deliver all

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my lines for the first time was magical. And having

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the likes of Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid had their

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legendary comedic talents, just made the whole experience more surreal.

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And those are your five good News Christmas stories for today.

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Back on Monday with a regular episode and of a

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great weekend