Nov. 23, 2024

Jingle Bells is NOT a Christmas Song (5 Good News Christmas Stores)

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Johnny Mac shares five intriguing Christmas stories. He discusses Bridlington's early Christmas celebration in August, heartwarming decorations by a husband for his ill wife, fascinating Christmas facts debunking common myths, a controversial anti-Christmas wish list, and a humorous upcoming movie 'Dear Santa' starring Jack Black. Tune in for a mix of heartwarming tales, surprising revelations, and holiday humor.

00:00 Bridmas Day Celebration
01:06 Fun Facts About Christmas
01:56 Heartwarming Christmas Gift for a Wife
02:43 Controversial Anti-Christmas Wish List
03:57 Upcoming Christmas Movie: Dear Santa

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

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good news Christmas stories. If you think I started with

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Christmas early this year, how about Bridlington. They started on

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August seventh with Bridmass Day. They included a screening of

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Will Ferrell's Elf. They also had Jack and the Beanstalk

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appearing around town. They had a holiday train. They tressed

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up the town for Christmas. Counselor Nick Coletisch told the

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BBC certainly unusual bringing Christmas to the seaside in the

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height of summer, but we really hope people will join

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in the festive fun. Counselor Barbara Jefferson said brid Miss

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Day is all about promoting the many fantastic events and

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activities we offer over the holidays. It's going to be

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a cracker of a day. One recent visitor gave Bridlington

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a one star rating, saying I could see why it's

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called the old town. Now no one's bothered about going.

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A three star review described it as a little sad moments. However,

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a recent five star review has called it absolutely stunning.

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Christmas is where it's at. Hey, here are some fun

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facts about Christmas. Jingle bells is not a Christmas song,

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it's about Thanksgiving. The song was written in eighteen fifty

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seven by James Pierpont, and nowhere in the lyrics as

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Christmas mentioned. Wow, did you know that Xmas is not

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a modern thing? People think we just got lazy over

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the years. Oh no, no, no. People have been using

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the letter X to represent Christ for hundreds of years

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and that's where the Xmas comes from. And now about

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the myth that the reason Santa Claus wears red is

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because of Coca cola. Coke has portrayed Santa wearing red

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in their advertisement since nineteen thirty. However, depictions of Santa

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show him and read back to the nineteenth century. The

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contemporary image of Father Christmas that we all know in

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love was created by American cartoonist Thomas Nast in the

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eighteen seventies, so by the time Coke started with it,

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he was already wearing red and had a beard. A

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man has decorated an entire street early as a Christmas

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game for his wife. She has degenerative Breen disease. John

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has been assembling Christmas to corner garage sin September. He

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recently put the final lawn ornament onto his neighbor's grass,

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completing the display spanning more than twenty lawns. If you're

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driving down East Franklin Avenue, you'll see this. John says.

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If one person drives by and feels happiness in their heart,

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you know I've done my job just hearing the kids

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walk down the street and yell at their mom or dad.

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Look at this. Look at this. Let's go look at this.

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You see the kids go from walking to slow jog,

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so then get from one house to the next. He's

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glad it brings joy to the kids. But the person

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he hopes to please is his wife. She now has

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Alzheimer's disease. John says she'll remember this. She wanted Christmas,

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so I gave her Christmas lights turn on after sunset

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and stay on it't till eleven pm through the end

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of the year. Let's follow up that heartwarming story with

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an anti Christmas wish list. This did not go over

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well on social media. Some people are calling it rude.

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A thirty three year old was on Reddit and said,

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I admit I'm difficult to buy gifts for. She elaborated, saying,

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I really don't want more things than I have. I

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have so much and nowhere to put it. Plus, I'm

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financially stable enough and I have cheap enough hobbies that

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I can usually just buy myself something when I want it.

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Her mom asked her for a Christmas list, and she said,

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I decided to include a list of things not to

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buy me, figuring that might be helpful. One thing I

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put on the list. I don't want fun socks, no

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Funko pops, nothing I have to symble aka, Merry Christmas.

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I gave you a chory you have to do now,

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as I turn into Bill Burr here, Merry Christmas. I

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gave you a chore you have to do now. Throw blankets,

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throw pillows, decorations, et cetera. She says, my mom called me,

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asking why I did that and complaining that I never

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liked the gifts she gives me. I told her in

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the past I don't want stuff, and she'll remember for

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a year and then she'll buy me a pair of

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slipper socks, which then joined the four other pairs that

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I don't wear one ready. User said, you know, you

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could have just said you have enough stuff and don't

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need any more, rather than making your mom feel bad

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for buying them. Previously and maybe look a little more grateful.

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Who put the show together today? I did? I thought

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this was five good news Christmas stories. Joan, why are

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you telling us about Satan? Well, there's a new movie

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out November twenty fifth called Dear Santa. Okay, what's the problem?

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That sounds pretty good stars Jack Black. Okay, he doesn't

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like Jack Black movies. This Christmas movie untangles what happens

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when a boy writing a letter to Santa makes a

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typo oh oh and accidentally addresses the letter to Satan.

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Jack Black as Satan appears and hilarity ensues. That actually

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sounds like a pretty funny plot. The Farly Brothers said

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when they cast Jack Black in the role, they wanted

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somebody who could play diabolical but in a fun way,

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adding that Jack Black was the first and only choice.

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Bobby Farreley said, there's a little bit of mischievous to

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him at all times, but he's eminently likable, and that's

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just Jack. We never wanted to make it a horror

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movie or something like that. We wanted it to be

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comical and Jack was the perfect guy. Dear Santa, which

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is different than Dear Satan. Dear Santa on Paramount Plus

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November twenty fifth, And those are your five good news

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Christmas stories, or at least three. I guess three of

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them were good news. Actually two of them were good news,

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one was fun facts, and two were kind of negative.

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Who put this together today? I did. If you enjoy

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the show, tell a friend to they might like get too.

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You have a great DAC Monday,