Finding Mr. Christmas

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news Christmas stories. Angel Madison writes for Countryliving dot Com and says, I'm a Lego collector and I've never seen anything like the twenty twenty five Christmas sets. All right, let's take a look, Angel says, and I love that her name is Angel. I'm particularly obsessed with the giant Family Christmas Tree, which doubles as the core that can be displayed year after year. It comes with directions on how to properly stored for the off season. It's packed with elements you could see as you open the branches, including multiple hidden North Pole scenes of Santa Hard at work and Missus Claws bacon cookies. There's also a gingerbread at at for Star Wars fans, you know, the Imperial Walkers. Yeah, what's more Christmas than that? This combines fandom with the holidays.

0:52 There's a Lego City Advent calendar. Advent calendar seem to be the rage. Here's a picture of that Christmas Tree, which is honestly lots of smaller than I thought it was in my mind. The Lego Festive Gingerbread house that'll run you forty bucks that looks pretty much what you think it would look like. A Lego upscaled Santa minifigure fifty five dollars, a Lego Holiday Express Train for one hundred and thirty bucks, and a pretty small loop. It's a four car train that looks like it's about forty five percent of the loop. I think Johnny Max a little less impressed with this Lego stuff. Lego Snowman ornaments those are only thirteen bucks. Those are cute. A Lego gingerbread at at sixty bucks kind of cool looking, honestly, the Lego Alpine Lodge is one hundred bucks. A Lego point seta oh my mom would have loved this. This is actually really nice looking. Forty bucks at Amazon. Lego Santa's post office hundred bucks, pretty cool looking, and for some reason, Santa has a balloon. Not sure why, maybe I'm not up to in on my Santa lore switching gears.

1:52 Let me tell you about Christmas Angels. Back in two thousand and one, Christy lost her aunt or Lean to cancer. Instead of Flower, her family use the funeral funds to adopt five families for Christmas. Christmas Angels is now an effort that helps dozens of families weather seasons marked out by joy but by illness, a tragedy, or hardship. Christie explains that she and Shannon Barton decided to create Christmas Angels five years ago in memory of our love. Last year, Christmas Angels raised fifteen thousand dollars. That was enough to support more than thirty five families. It's not just about toys, she explains. It's family is asking for food, they're asking for warm coats, they're asking for help with their electric bills, car maintenance, and then they get their kids to doctor's appointments.

2:33 She's got a five year goal. I'd like to adopt more than fifteen families and have more than fifteen thousand dollars. It's probably just more getting the word out, learning about us. It's not only supporting us, but supporting those in need. All right, this is called Christmas Angels. Now, I do have some bad news. In today's five Good News Christmas Stories, here's some bad news. There might be a shortage of artificial Christmas trees. You might want to run out and get yours. Yeah. One of the largest artificial Christmas tree importers is saying there's going to be limit inventory because of those tariffs. Chris Butler is the CEO of the National Tree Company. He tells CNBC we brought in about twenty five percent less product. We're definitely going to see a short supply this year. So if you're consumer and you're in the market for Christmas goods, I'd act now, get ahead of the curve. He says. The peak for Christmas sales is Black Friday weekend. That's when sales are the absolute highest. But I wouldn't wait for that weekend.

3:21 I'd get ahead of it by now. By early is what I would say. They had to raise prices by ten percent because of the tariffs. Well, if you're looking for my wife, she's upstairs watching the Hallmark Channel. She'll be there until Christmas. That's all she'll do. The haal Mark Channel will have a new season of Finding Mister Christmas, and they're trying to get some crossover crowd. They're trying to get us football fans. I'll be downstairs watching football. I'm not falling for any of this. But if this is your thing, you're gonna like it. And if you're a Green Bay Packers fan, you're gonna recognize former Green Bay Packers punter Jake Shum. He's among the ten contestants who would be putting their holiday hunkiness to the test for shot at landing a storing role in one of the Countdown to Christmas Movies. That's right, Finding Mister Christmas.

4:05 Puts the men through challenges like wrapping gifts, untangling lights, navigating holiday themed obstacle courses, kissing on camera, and acting on ice to learn how to become a Hallmark Holiday leading man. I love that the Hallmark channel is so into this. He thinks having played in the NFL might help him, he told us Weekly. Just bringing that energy and being upbeat, just kind of like leading the way with that. It's how I've lived my life. Season one winner Ezra Morland got to star in Happy Howla Days, which I assume involved a dog and not a werewolf. All right, some more. This is story number five. In case you're like, hey, he only did four. No, that was the end of four. This is five. I just put the Hallmark stories back to back. Story number five is more fun Hallmark Holiday movies. This is not a commercial.

4:51 This is just entertaining me. And that's what this show is. But I love all these plots. They're basically the same plot over and over with minor details. For example, Christmas at the ca Nip Cafe, when a marketing executive learns she's short on the down payment for her dream condo. She's informed that her great aunt left her half of a cat cafe in upstate New York. She's hoping to sell a profile Holidays. But we all know what's gonna happen here. She meets doctor ben Kine. He's the veterinarian who owns the other half, and he has no intention of closing. What do you think is gonna happen there? I don't know. Probably she sues him and closes down the cat cafe and then all the cats are homeless. Is that what's gonna happen on a Harmark Christmas movie?

5:32 I don't think so. I'm pretty confident will turn out okay. And those are your five good news Christmas stories are four And anyway, go buy an artificial tree before they're all gone. You have an awesome day.