Dec. 24, 2024

Grinch Stories: McDonald's Happy Meal and Stolen Decoration

Show Notes
Transcript

In this special Christmas episode, host Johnny Mac shares five uplifting holiday stories. Highlights include Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's family plans, a unique cork Christmas display at Grey Ghost Vineyards, Dr. Who's Christmas special 'Joy to the World,' McDonald's UK Grinch Happy Meals, and a humorous tale of a Florida family's inflatable Grinch stolen by a bear. Tune in for these feel-good stories as Johnny wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and announces a return to the regular format on Friday.

00:25 Taylor Swift's Christmas Plans
01:07 Amazing Cork Display at Grey Ghost Vineyards
02:12 Doctor Who Christmas Special
02:49 Grinch Stories: McDonald's Happy Meal and Stolen Decoration
04:24 Conclusion and Christmas Wishes

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Callaroga Shark Media Merry Christmas, Johnny Mack with five good

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News Christmas Stories. I figured today's Christmas will be kind

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of weird not to do Christmas stories. Starting Friday, I'll

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go back to the normal format of five good News stories.

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Monday Wednesday Friday, Taylor Swift revealed her Christmas plans. She

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and boyfriend Travis Kelcey are planning to spend the day

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together with both of their families. According to a source

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to US Weekly, speculation includes Donna Kelcey and Ed Kelsey

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and other members of his family will attend. Other speculation

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thinks Jason Kelcey, is sister in law Kylie Casey, and

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their three nieces, Wyatt, Elliott, and Bennett will all join

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the Swift family for the holidays, given that they all

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celebrated Thanksgiving together. Jason recently joked that Taylor is tough

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to shop for because she is the money you can

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get anything she wants. Taylor's tour is over now and

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she's looking forward to some relaxation in downtime. If you're

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in Northern Virginia, check out an amazing cork display. Al

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is the owner and winemaker at Grey Ghosts vineyards. He's

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also the artist behind the wineries twenty seven detailed Christmas

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displays made of cork. He said, the first one I

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made was in nineteen eighty six. It was actually a

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small tree that we hung up at the house, and

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in the next three years I built another tree that

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ultimately ended up to be about eleven feet tall, but

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it took three years to build, and believe it or not,

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that was our Christmas tree up at the house that

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kind of got everything rolling. The pieces, which are made

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of corks with the grey Ghost logo, take anywhere from

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six months to three years to build. His favorites include

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the cathedral, which has turned out to be one of

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the most popular ones because of the intricacy of it.

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Other popular cork items are the hot air balloon and

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a biplane with a working propeller. The Great Ghost is

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in Ammasville, been an hour's drive from Dulles. You'll see

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cork snowflakes hanging in the tasting room. Then in the

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main room is where the major displays are. This year

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he added a set of four angels that hang from

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the ceiling. The quirk decorations will be up through New

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Year's Eve, so if you've got some free time here

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for the next week or so, go check that out.

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Good news if you like Doctor Who, The annual Christmas

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special will air today. They're airing at it at the

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same time worldwide, five ten pm in the UK, so

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I'll do some math for you Eastern Time, that should

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be noon. This year's specialists called Joy to the World Spoilers.

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We meet Joy, who checks into a London hotel in

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twenty twenty four, only to discover that her quiet stay

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is anything but ordinary. When Joy opens a secret doorway

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to the Time hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor,

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but a deadly plan is unfolding across the earth just

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in time for Christmas. I'm going to take the break

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here because when we come back, I've got two Grinch

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stories for you. A right good news if you're the

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Grinch and you're in the UK, bad news if you're

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in the States. McDonald's UK is offering the Grinch Happy

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Meal in the UK and Ireland through December thirty first

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or while supplies last, served in a carrying box with

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the face of the Grinch wearing a Santa hat. The

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Grinch Meal comes with trading cards and a plush toy

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of the Grinch or the dog Max from the classic

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holiday cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas and good news,

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we have solved who stole the inflatable Grinch Christmas decoration.

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A Florida family thought they were being pranked after their

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Grinch disappeared, but security camera footage showed that the thief

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was a bear. Shanik said her family decorated their home

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for Christmas in November, and the day after Thanksgiving, they

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noticed the Grinch had been stolen. She told TV we

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were just dim founded. We were like, where did it go.

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A neighbor a few days later texted, hey, we found

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the Grinch two houses down. They didn't look too hard

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if it was only two houses down, not for nothing. Well,

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then she received an alert from her security camera and

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checked it and saw bear attacking the Grinch. She says,

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I never expected it to be bear. I thought it

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was the funniest thing ever. Like literally, I texted my husband,

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I'm like, what's going on. We're texting back and forth,

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rewatching the video, sending it to all our family and friends.

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At five in the morning, the bear dragged the Grinch

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off into the nearby woods. This is not the first

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bear Christmas decorations attack. Last year, a bear attacking a

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reindeer decoration made social media. Those are your five good

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news Christmas stories for this year. I'll start this up

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back in October, but that's it. No more Christmas stories.

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I hope you have a great Christmas. Thank you for

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listening on Christmas or catching up a day or two after.

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I understand. I'm not offend that if you didn't listen

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to this on Christmas Day, I get it all right.

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Friday back to normal format. Merry Christmas.