Dec. 21, 2024

Jimmy Fallon's 1200 calorie holiday brownie

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, Johnny Mac shares five heartwarming Christmas stories. Highlights include a review of Crumble's high-calorie holiday brownie, a 52-foot tall Christmas tree that has become a local landmark,

Then some Santa related stuff just for teh adults.

00:00 Introduction and Christmas Countdown
00:27 The 1200-Calorie Holiday Brownie
02:16 The Giant Christmas Tree on Pepper Street

03:21 Santa's Secret Messages for Adults

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

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good news Christmas Stories. I'm getting said that we're getting

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near the end of the Christmas Stories, right, We've got today,

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Tomorrow's a normal episode, and then Christmas even Christmas Day

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will be Christmas Stories and then back to our normal Monday,

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Wednesday Friday format. Hey, good news if you'll like calories,

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Crumbles holiday cookie has twelve hundred calories. Oh my goodness. Yes,

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it's a holiday peppermint brownie, the candy cane brownie, to

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be exact. It's a chocolate treat smothered in peppermint buttercream

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and topped with candy cane bits. It's just over twelve

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hundred calories. Foodies say it's Crumbles highest calorie item yet

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according to the nutritional information, each serving, as if somebody's

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not gonna eat the whole thing, each serving is only

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one hundred and eighty calories. Okay, so like twelve hundred

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divided by one to eighty. We think six people are

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splitting this thing. No, this is a partnership with Jimmy Fallon.

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That's who we have to blame. Jimmy Fallon declared it

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the best brownie he's ever had. Some TikTokers are not

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convinced that the dessert is worth the inches on the waistline.

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One TikToker said, tell me, who in their right mind,

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and especially an American, is going to be eating this

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in six sittings. That is not realistic at all. The

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entire brownie contains one hundred and twenty grams of sugar

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one hundred grams of added sugar, which is two hundred

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and two percent of the average daily intake that is recommended.

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There are forty grams of saturated fat, which is also

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two hundred and two percent of the daily recommended intake.

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That's curious to me that they're both two undred two.

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That makes me think somebody picked that number on purpose

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for reasons that aren't clear to me. The Center for

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Disease Control and Prevention says daily sugar consumption should be

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less than ten percent of daily colleries consumed two thousand

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calorie diet. That would be approximately twelve teaspoons of added sugar.

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The crumble brownie alone could be your entire daily caloric intake.

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Northeastern professor doctor Darren Dittweiler told The Daily Mail if

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these cookies were firearms, they would be illegal on Pepper Street.

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A Christmas tree has grown so tall that people can

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see its lights from miles around. Christopher bought a tree

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for six bucks in nineteen seventy eight and after Christmas,

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planted in his yard to mark the family's first holiday together.

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While forty five years have gone by, the tree is

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now fifty two feet high. The couples now in their

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eighties and they still decorated with lights. For the last

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twenty years. The couples needed the help of a cherry

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picker to decorate the tree with thousands of lights. It

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towers over their house. Christopher said, we had no idea

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would grow so tall, but we're delighted it has. Every

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year people say the tree switch on marks the start

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of Christmas. The tree has even been named as a

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local landmark on Google Maps and has attracted only five

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star reviews. To help ay the electricity, they contacted the

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local energy supplier, who threw in one hundred bucks or so.

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She thinks. Oh no, the tree did have it as

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easy year ago, and they had to have the lower

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branches pruned and wooden post installed to support it. But

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it's never looked better. The missus said, we even get

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holiday cords addressed to the tree, which is quite sweet.

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Not as sweet as that brownie. All right, I know

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I've only done two stories, but here Santa Claus sent

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me some stuff that he wants me to share with

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the adults, and he wants to keep it as a

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surprise for the children. So I'm gonna take the break

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early and then I'm gonna talk about some stuff Santa

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sent me. And we don't want the children to hear

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these things, Okay, parents, So if you're listening with the kids,

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appreciate you kids. Santa's got a surprise for you adults.

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Hit stop, takes commercials to come back, and I'll tell

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you what Santa shared with me. Okay, the kids are gone, right,

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you heard me. This is a safe space now because

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I gotta share some stuff with the adults. So if

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you're still listening with the kid, hit stop. Don't get

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me at me when I tell you these stories. Okay,

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everybody's gone, Just us adults now, all right. Santa is

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selling his house on Zillo. Yeah, I guess this is

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some sort of Zillo stunt built in eighteen twenty two.

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Apparently Santa lives in a two bedroom, two bathroom house

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on a twenty five acre lot. There's a detached all

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weather garage that's designed to accommodate a sleigh, and there's

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a stable for reindeer. The property has two fireplaces built

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in stocking hangars, and there's an oversized chimney that is

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fully elf accessible. The Zilla listing reads the kitchen is

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perfect for whipping up batches of gingerbread cookies and pots

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of steaming hot coco for visiting elves. Upstairs, you'll find

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Santa's mailroom and office, a secluded space for letter reading, planning,

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and researching Who's naughty and nice? I love this, This

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is fun. Real estate experts value the home one point

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two million. Meanwhile, people are mad at Bloomingdale's. There's Santa

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is wearing green. They've done a holiday partnership with Wicked,

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so the Santa Land at Bloomingdale's fifteen nine Street flagship

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has been ossified. There are pink Christmas trees, one lollypops

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instead of candy cane, Wicked team bracelets, and Santa is

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wearing green not red. I think that's fun, but some

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people on social media disagree with Johnny Mack. One said

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just a heads up. If your kids expecting Sanna in

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this traditional red and white suit, Bloomingdale's is only offering

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green Santa. We left disappointed without a photo. Someone else posted,

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there's no reason to have a green Sanna except to

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promote a movie in an already commercialized holiday. Green sand

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is stupid. Hard pass. One elf that was working there

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apparently said, babies take one look at Sana and start crying.

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The elf talt the New York Post. I think it's

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because he's green. Oh boy, all right. It gets even

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worse for Santa from Newsweek. Santa Claus has been branded

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a foreign agent in Russia. A pro Kremlin activist has

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pushed for Santa Claus to be branded as a foreign

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agent's According to a Russian news outlet, the leader of

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the Federal Project Security and Combating Corruption send a letter

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to Russia's Prosecutor General imploring that Santa Claus be designated

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a foreign agent due to his popularity and unfriendly countries.

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You see in Russia, Father Frost and the snow Maiden

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welcome Russians to the Christmas Train. One of the deputies

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at a regional parliament has called for Santa Claus items

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to be removed from store shelves and be replaced with

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Father Frost and the snow Maiden. Now I was unfamiliar

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with Father Frost. A quick google here basically picture Santa

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Claus but in blue. Yeah, they're gonna lose their mind

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when they find out out about what Bloomingdale's is doing.

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That parliament deputy said it's time to bring Father Frost

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back to our homes and hearts. This is the only

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way we can preserve and pass on our children the

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true values and traditions that make our people unique and strong.

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I don't think that's crazy. I think every country should

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maintain their traditions. I support you Father Frost movement. I mean,

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I don't think we need to ban Santa. Why can't

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we have everybody? Hopefully I didn't just stumble into a

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geopolitical thing. I don't know. Everyone just having Merry Christmas,

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and I hope some gifts show up under the tree, red, blue, green, crompus,

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whatever you're into. It's all good. Oh boy, I'm gonna

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get letters, Aren't I not the kind Santa Ga. It's fine.

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Those are your five good news Christmas stories. I think

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I hope Merry Christmas. You tomorrow,