Dec. 13, 2025

Christmas Stories - Santa to visit Green Bay's Lambeau Field

Show Notes
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Highlights include: Compton's 70th annual Christmas parade featuring Grand Marshall The Game; Santa's photo opportunity at Green Bay's Lambeau Field; recommended holiday books like 'Winter Street' by Ellen Hilderbrand and 'The Christmas Orphans Club' by Becker Freeman; United Way's Ugly Sweater Day fundraising event; and quirky holiday gift suggestions such as a tomato vine candle and snowball votive candle holder.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news Christmas stories. Today in Compton, it's the seventieth annual

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Compton Christmas Parade. Seventy years that's pretty impressive. The parade

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starts today at eleven, starting at Bullets Road. It'll complete

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at Alameda. We're gonna just say Compton City Council, Compton

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Unified School District, bands, Compton Cowboys and car clubs will

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be involved. Santa is gonna make an appearance, and the

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celebration continues afterward at Wilson Park. Your Grand Marshall today

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two time Grammy nominated multi platinum rapper, producer, entrepreneur, and

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Compton native Jason the Game Tailor. The mayor said, the

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Compton Christmas Parade is a celebration of our city's unity,

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culture and pride. As we mark this seventy year milestone.

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We're honored to welcome The Game, one of Compton's own,

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to lead this year's parade and help us celebrate the

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spirit and strength that made our city so special. The

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Game said, coming, It's just where I'm from. It's made

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me who I am, shape my music and drives everything

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I do. It's the fire behind every bar and why

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I keep grinding and giving back. Meanwhile in Green Bay,

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Santa He's busy, but he's got that magic sled. He

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can get places pretty quickly. Between one and three, Santa

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Claus will be at lambeau Field. Families are invited to

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have their photo taken with Santa Claus. Photos will be

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captured from the North End zone platform of the lambeau

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Field Bowl. Packer's staff will assist fans with photos. No

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professional photographer, They'll use your own phone. That's actually better, right,

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Like they're not gonna like hook you up for like, hey,

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you gotta pay twenty five dollars for this photo. Nope,

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use your own device. That's pretty cool. To learn more

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of VI is it packers Hof and tours dot com.

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So in the middle there that's Packers hof a n

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D tours dot Com. Some more Christmas books if you're

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looking to have something to read or perhaps by present

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for your wife. I'm just saying. Some of the top

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picks include Winter Street by Ellen Hildebrand, a classic Nantucket

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set family saga full of holiday dysfunction and charm. How

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about Good Spirits by BK. Borson, a paranormal twist on

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a Christmas carol featuring a ghost who falls in love.

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By the way, I'll promote on the Christmas pop up channel,

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We're rerunning from two years ago our ghost podcast Ghost

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Scary Stories. We did the twelve Ghosts of Christmas and

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we're rerunning those on the Christmas pop Up Channel, So

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check out that podcast feed. Christina Lauran wrote in A

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Holiday's Daze, a witty time loop romance about second chances.

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Becker Freeman's The Christmas Orphans Club is a heartfeld New

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York story of found family and friendship. Lori Gilmour is

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the Christmas Tree Firm, tells us of a small town

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love story trapped in a snowstorm. Hey, do you have

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one of those old ugly sweaters and you want to

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wear it to work? Well, the United Way has come

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up with Ugly Sweater Day. It's Friday, December nineteenth. Here's

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what you do. You pay your boss five bucks to

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where your ugly Christmas sweater to work. Employeers are asked

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to notify the United Way that they're participating by Friday,

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the twelfth. United Way director jan Ita says, in twenty

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twenty three, we brought back ugly Sweater Day. I was

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excited to think, you know, maybe make five hundred, six

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hundred bucks. I was blown away three hundred and seventy

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participants and eighteen hundred dollars for our campaign. In twenty

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twenty four more people three hundred and seventy five and

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it raised twenty one hundred and seventy three dollars. Wanita says,

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this is a definitely fun, beneficial event for the United Way,

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and we love getting the pictures of the various individuals

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and groups. Ugly sweaters was a trend in the nineteen fifties.

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It went away for a while, and it came back

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in the eighties, then it went away again, then it

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came back in two thousand and one when for some reason,

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ugly sweaters came back around. When eighty says, life is

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actic around the holidays, everyone's asking for help as well.

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This event is simple fun for participants to share with

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coworkers' families and even churches. It's a chance to be

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silly with low investment, only five bucks per participant. Here's

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some more gift ideas for you. This list is for

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people who want their house to smell expensive all right.

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Number one the tomato vine candle for people who wish

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they lived in a greenhouse. That's right, it's Cobos tomato

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vine soy candle, which told it smells like you just

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brushed past tomato plants in July. Green, leafy and a

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little earthy. You'll find that one at Barnes and Nobles.

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That'll run you around thirty three bucks. How about a

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literal snowball that you set on fire. It's Costa Bodhis

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Snowball Votive Campbell holder. It's a classic Scandinavian glass that

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looks like a snowball. You can find that on online

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retailers including a Bloomingdale's an Amazon. That'll run you around

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forty five bucks. How about a hand cream that smells

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like tomato leaves and geraniums. It's Norfolk Natural Livings geranium

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and tomato leaf hand cream. Good for gardner's cooks or

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anyone whose hands are wrecked but hates floral Grandma sens

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eighteen to twenty two bucks. You'll find that at Norfolk

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Naturalliving dot com. Perhaps I can interest you in some

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bath salts that look and smell like a Gothic Italian holiday.

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That's right, it's the Ambra nera bath salts, rich amber

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spice in a very dramatic packaging. You'd put some in

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the tub. Suddenly you're in a moody Sicilian palazzo having feelings.

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That'll run you eighteen to twenty five bucks for smaller

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packs if you want to make back forty five. You'll

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find that at Ortigia Cecilia's US website and retailers like Beauty,

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Habit and one more The Please let Me Sleep until

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January bath. It's Neil Yord's Beauty Sleep foaming bath. We're

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told it's lavender e herbal and design to knock you

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gently towards actual rest. Well, you don't want to fall

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asleep in the bathtub. I'm not sure what we're doing here,

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John ag to twenty five bucks. You'll find it at

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Neil Jord's US website. We're told it will give you

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you survive this year. Go lie in hot water energy.

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But again, do not fall asleep in the bathtub. That

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would be terrible. Knows your five Good News Christmas stories

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for today. Have an awesome day.