Oct. 18, 2024

Jason Kelce his New Heights on a Christmas Album with Stevie Nicks (5 Good News Christmas Stories)

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting Christmas-themed stories, including Gerald Dickens' one-man tour of 'A Christmas Carol,' a Christmas movie titled 'Layover' filmed at Birmingham Airport, Disney's early holiday celebrations, Jason Kelsey's Christmas album featuring Stevie Nicks, and a new Harry Potter Christmas picture book. Tune in for these joyful tales as part of the show's special Saturday Christmas episodes.

00:23 Gerald Dickens' One-Man Show
01:17 Christmas Movie Filming in Birmingham
01:58 Disney's Early Christmas Celebrations
02:50 Jason Kelce's Christmas Album with Stevie Nicks
03:26 Christmas at Hogwarts Picture Book

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

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Good News Christmas Stories. Yep, doing a little Christmas bonus

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episodes on Saturdays for the time being. As we get

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a little closer to the Holidays, I'll roll this out

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even more. Gerald Dickens has been performing a one man

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version of a Christmas Carol since nineteen ninety three, touring

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it since nineteen ninety five. He says, I'd been an

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actor before then, but not really making a living from it.

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So that's when my career really began. Once I tried

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performing my great great grandfather's works, which lend themselves a

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very well to theater interpretations, I was hooked. Yeah. If

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Gerald Dickens's name sounds familiar, his great great grandfather is Charles.

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Charles himself traveled to the US in eighteen forty two

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and again in eighteen sixty seven and sixty eight to

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perform for Americans who worshiped him like the international celebrity

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that he was. Gerald Dickens has inherited several of his

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ancestors traits, including his raven hair, thick eyebrows, and bushy beard.

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If you'd like to see Gerald Dickens he's touring the

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Christmas Carol in twelve states October twenty first, they'll be

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in Burlington City, New Jersey. I won't read all the dates,

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so that might be a cool one for you to

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look up. Meanwhile, in Birmingham, the local airport has announced

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that a production company has wrapped up filming a movie there.

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The movie is set in the eighties, but if you

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flew in and out of Birmingham Airport between September fifth

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and eighteenth, you may have seen a movie set decked

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out with Christmas trees, reets and lights. The movie has

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the working title Layover. They filmed over at the baggage claim,

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the terminal gate, the parking deck, and even inside the

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airport at a couple places the public doesn't normally get

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to see. To minimize the impact of flyers, the production

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company filmed in the evening and the overnight. The airport

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managers remind us, our team worked really hard to make

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the process easy for cast and crew, but customers come first.

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You think I started early with the Christmas stuff at Disneyland.

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Christmas started July twenty ninth. They started with the Nightmare

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before Christmas Celebration, The Haunted Mansion normally shuts down for

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part of August to transition from the original Haunted Mansion

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to one that blends in a nightmare version of Halloween

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and Christmas, but this year they redid the ride, so

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they just started a little earlier. Disneyland also jumped in

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on August twenty third with the first Oogie Boogie Bash

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at Disney World. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween started August ninth.

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Todd Reagan runs a website mice Chat, and he says

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Halloween is starting earlier and earlier because it's big business,

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and as long as guests keeps snapping up extra cost

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parties in Halloween merch in the heat of summer, the

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trend will continue. Christmas long ago swallowed up Thanksgiving, making

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August through early January a dual mega holiday season. Like

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it or not, it makes financial sense for the parks,

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and guest spending has fueled the trend. Stevie Nix will

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join Jason Kelsey's Christmas album. Jason has hinted on Instagram

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that he is teaming up with Stevie. He posted a

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photo of himself with seventy six year old Stevie Nicks

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and the caption the crossover we didn't know we needed

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coming soon to a Christmas album near you. This will

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be the third year in a row that Jason Kelsey

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will release a holiday album. It's called a Philly Special

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Christmas Party. Last year's album featured Patti LaBelle. Philadelphia Magazine

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is reporting that the album, which raises money for charity,

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will also feature Boys Two Men and Charlie Hall from

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the War on Drugs. The album will be out November

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twenty ninth. And for you Harry Potter fans, Christmas at

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Hogwarts is a brand new picture book. Every page is

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a cozy slice of nostalgia, made even more charming by

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enchanting illustrations. It's a chance to relive the magic of

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Harry's first Holiday at Hogwarts in a way that's both

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visually stunning and heartwarming. This one's out now fourteen bucks

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wherever you get your books. And those are your five

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good News Christmas stories for today Again. If you're new

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to the show, I do good News stories Monday, Wednesday, Friday,

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and we're doing Christmas on Saturdays. You have an awesome

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day