Dec. 7, 2024

Diane Keaton's Christmas Song and a Grey's Anatomy star's food poising (5 Good News Christmas Stories)

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Chewy launches "Chewy Claus" - a holiday campaign where pets can write letters and help donate food to shelter animals. Plus, Diane Keaton makes her Christmas music debut (at 78!), hear how a town solved their too-small Christmas tree problem in the most creative way, the latest controversy around Band Aid's 40th anniversary release of "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and a Grey's Anatomy star reveals why she had to give up real Christmas trees after turning tree shopping into a "military operation."

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news Christmas stories and this one's perfect for pet lovers.

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Who says Santa's just for humans? Well, Chewy certainly doesn't

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think so. They've brought back Chewy Claws for another year

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of making pets holiday wishes come true. Now here's how

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it works. If you've got a pet, whether they have paws, claws, fins,

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or wings, you can help them. Write to Chewy Claws

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through December twentieth. Just head to Chewy's website and you

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can pick from their gift options or write out any

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special wishes your furry or feathered friend might have. But

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here's the really good part. For every letter sent to

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Chewy Claws, they're donating one pound of food to their

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nonprofit partners up to six hundred pounds. And get this,

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your pet can even choose to skip their gift and

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send an extra pound of food to Pets and Neat instead.

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How cool is that? Since this started last year, more

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than and five hundred thousand pets have written in asking

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for treats and toys. But you know what keeps showing

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up on thousands of wishless a wish for all shelter

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pets to find homes that really got to them. Here's

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what Chewy's Chief brand Officer, or Lena Jung said. When

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we received thousands of letters from pets asking for homes,

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we knew we had to help. There's no better way

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to celebrate the season than by uniting pets with loving families.

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Julie Cassele from Best Friends Animal Society said, as we

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head into the winter holidays, shelters and rescue organizations across

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the country are filled with adoptable dogs and cats that

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deserve loving homes. We can't think of a better time

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of year than the holiday season to make a pets

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wish for a loving home come true. This next one

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made me laugh. We've got another celebrity Christmas song, folks,

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but this one's a little different. Diane Keaton has just

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released her first holiday single. It's called First Christmas. Well,

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let's just say it's not exactly jingle bells and it's

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about not spending Christmas with your loved one. Keaton told

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Metro Canada back in twenty fourteen that she'd always had

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this dream of being a nightclub singer. She said, I

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had a fantasy of being a nightclub singer that I

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carried through even into my early twenties. She even took

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voice lessons for years. She admits she has a very

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small voice, and she's aware of the limitations. But you

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know what, she doesn't care. She told them, I love music.

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I love singing ballads and sad songs. It's just so

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much fun. You know how sometimes you try to do

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the right thing and it doesn't quite work out. Well,

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that's what happened with their Market Square Christmas tree this year. See,

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they decided to go local this year. Well let's just

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say the locals weren't exactly thrilled. Some folks told the

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BBC it was small and disappointing. Ouch Sonia Taylor, who's

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in charge of managing the market buildings, tried to stay

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positive about it. She said, it's slightly disappointing. It's not

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as tall as the tree we had last year. However,

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we should accept that this tree was grown locally. But

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here's where it gets funny. Instead of just living with

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their shorter tree, they came up with a solution that's

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kind of brilliant in a why didn't we think of

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this before? Way? They're putting it on a platform love

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what some of the locals had to say about it.

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This guy, Roberto told the BBC it's lovely to just

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see decoration, but it's important for next year to improve.

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I'll be curious to see how the town officialsal overreact

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next Christmas. This new version of Do They Know It's

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Christmas is actually creating controversy. When Bob Geldoff first put

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this together back in nineteen eighty four, it raised fifteen

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million dollars for Ethiopian famine relief in just one year.

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Since then, they've redone it three more times with different

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artists in eighty nine, two thousand and four, and twenty fourteen.

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But this new anniversary version, it's stirring up quite a conversation.

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Ed Sheeran, who sang on the twenty fourteen version, isn't

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too happy. He posted on Instagram that nobody asked if

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they could use his voice this time around. He said,

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had I had the choice, I would have respectfully declined

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the use of my vocals. The song sparked some interesting responses.

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Rapper fuse Odg has even released his own charity song

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called We Know It's Christmas, with all profits going to

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community projects across AffA. Bob Geldoff standing by the original, though,

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he told the Times of London, this little pop song

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has kept millions of people alive. He points out there

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are still six hundred million hungry people in the world

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and says they're going to keep trying to help however

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they can. You know how some people get really particular

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about their Christmas trees, Well, Camilla Luddington from Grey's Anatomy

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takes it to a whole new level on her podcast

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with Jessica Capshaw. She admitted I'm ferocious about getting a tree.

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I like a very specific shape, a very specific needle,

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and get this, she says. She goes around, smelling, touching,

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and whispering to it like an insane person. She even

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calls it a military operation. Her poor husband, fellow actor

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Matthew Allen, has to stand there rotating trees while she

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inspects them from every possible angle. I got so stressful

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that she finally threw in the towel and bought a

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fake tree. As she puts it, that bad boy sits

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in our very cozy garage. She says, before making the switch,

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I would literally be on the floor like I had

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a nervous breakdown. And if you think that's something, wait

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till you hear about her Thanksgiving disaster. Being from the UK,

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she didn't grow up with Thanksgiving traditions, which led to

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a pretty memorable mishap. She tried cooking a turkey for

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her friends, but she says, I gave food poisoning that

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year to everyone that had turkey. I'm not kidding. I've

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never given food poisoning to anybody before, but people were

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throwing up that night. What's the good news there, John, Well,

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she didn't have you over for dinner. And those are

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your five good news Christmas stories for today. Have a

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great day.