Dec. 10, 2024

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's Christmas Tree Shenanigans (5 Good News Christmas Stories)

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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton lighten the mood with a funny Christmas tree mishap. San Jose hosts the largest Christmas light maze in the U.S. Daniel and Kim's inspiring story of taking in family members highlights the importance of sticking together. Despite some vandalism of a film prop in Shrewsbury, there's a humorous take on a potential ghostly revenge. Finally, the Australian Firefighters calendar for 2025 features two American firefighters and supports various charities. Enjoy these heartwarming stories and some laughs!

00:00 Gwen and Blake
01:04 Enchant Christmas Light Maze in San Jose
01:37 Heartwarming Family Story in Wichita Falls
02:12 Vandalized Christmas Carol Tombstone
03:09 Australian Firefighters Calendar Release

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

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good news stories. Hey. You know sometimes you're putting up

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the Christmas tree and it turns into a fight with

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the whole family. Well, good news that happens with celebrities

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as well. Gwen Stefani shared a video with her husband

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Blake Shelton. Gwen showed off their Christmas tree, which looked

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great except for one to tell the bow at the top.

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So she asked Blake, hey, can you straighten that out?

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Oh you ever been there where your wife's like, can

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you fix the star on top of the tree. I

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might know somebody who's gone through that. Blake was like, sure,

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no problem, jumps on a ladder. Gwen is like, can

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you push the bow back a little bit? And he

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tries to adjust the ribbon, and he asked, Gwen Stefani,

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see what I mean, why is it off? Flipped around

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this part right here? Gwent laughs and says, I don't know,

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try to fix it. Blake goes piece of junk boy.

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This sounds very famili Gwen captioned the video. Blake Shelton

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musician husband bo expert In San Jose, they're hosting the

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largest Christmas light maze in the country. Organizers of Enchant

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Christmas say it's the largest maze in the country, eighty

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thousand square feet of light sculptures. Easy the Skater was

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there and as he said, it's a great time. There's

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great music, great lights, and a lot of families here.

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Some nights at in Chant have themes like date Night,

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Ugly Christmas Sweater Night, and family Photo Night out. There's

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also an interactive dance floor, a shopping village, food, and

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of course a chance to get a photo with Sanna.

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Now he's gonna get pretty busy soon, so you want

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to get out there. That's in San Jose, open through

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December twenty ninth, in Whichita falls. Daniel and Kim have

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been together for twenty seven years. They have three kids.

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Two years ago, Daniel's cousin passed away, so Daniel and

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Kim took in his five kids, and Daniel's aunt Daisy,

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nominated the couple for an award and said, you know

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it's take in someone else's kids and raise them and

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love them as your own. That's a big treat. Daniel says,

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things happen, but doesn't mean you have to quit. Takes

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a lot but only takes a little bit of love

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to show people that you do care. Daniel says, the

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important thing is for them to all be together. Everybody's

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got to spend time together, got to keep everybody together.

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All you have is you're a little bit of family

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and nobody's gonna be there for you, you know, So

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we make sure that we stick together. We hang in

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there and we take care of each other. Now, this

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next one, it's not really good news. So John, why

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you're doing it? I don't know, you know, five good

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news stories. It's kind of like the idea here is

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like I'm trying to talk about, you know, either quirky

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things or happy things and not the terrible things we

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hear in the news all day. So I don't think

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this is good news at all, but it's interesting. Some

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jerks have smashed the tombstone used in the Christmas Carol film.

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Police in Shrewsbury, England, are investigating how a film prop

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used in the nineteen eighty four adaptation of the Charles

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Dickens story was destroyed. The town is trying to figure

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out should they fix the stone, replace the stone. They

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say it's hugely popular with visitors. Town clerk Helen Ball said,

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there's not much to see other than the broken bits

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of the gravestone. You can't even see that it says

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e Benezer Scrooge at the moment, because it's so damaged.

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It's hugely disrespectful. Now, can you spend this this and

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a good news? John, I think I can. Bell said,

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if the ghost of past president future would like to

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visit the vandals in the middle of the night, and

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I think that'd be a perfect punishment. Hey, good news.

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If you like calendars and sexy firefighters, the Australian Firefighters

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Calendar is out. It's the twenty twenty five edition, which

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makes sense right. You don't want a calendar from the

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past unless you just like the pictures. Since nineteen ninety three,

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the Australian Firefighters Calendar, it's a great way to figure

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out what day of the week it is. I had

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a great way to support diverse charities, from wildlife conservation

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efforts to rehab to supporting funds for kids with cancer

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and this year they're supporting citizens and animals affected by

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Hurricane Helene and Milton. The Australian Firefighters Calendar has become

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very popular in the US, with fans of figuring out

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what is today's date. Therefore, there were two American firefighters

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on this year's calendar, Elijah and Jacob. Elijah Johnson says

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it's been a dream of mine to be in a

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firefighter calendar. It first started when many people would ask

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if I was one of the firefighters from calendars. After

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I told them I was a firefighter, I'd usually respond

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by laughing it off and say now, but now I'm

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truly grateful and blessed to be in the world's biggest calendar.

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Jacob he's thirty and works for the Willard Fire and

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Rescue in Ohio. In case you're curious, he says, I

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was raised and still live in Ohio. One of my

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goals was before the issue of thirty, I wanted to

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be in the Australian Firefighters Calendar. When I was younger

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in my fire and medic career. It began as a

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joke because I felt like I could never be physically

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capable or fit enough to be one of those men

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you see in the calendar. After ten years of hard

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work and dedication, I reached out to the Australian Firefighters

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Calendar and to my surprise, they were impressed by my

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journey and wanted me to partake in the calendar. This

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is a dream come true, in one of the greatest

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honors of my life to be an American featured in

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the Australian Firefighters calendar for a good cause. Also featured

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in the calendar, Jake the Cat and those are your

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five Good News Christmas Stories for today. If you enjoy

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