Dec. 15, 2025

Santa's favorite and LEAST favorite Christmas songs

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West Virginia has been ranked as the most excited state for Christmas 2025, based on Google search data. Carter, a college sophomore, and his family are collecting handwritten cards for hospital and nursing home patients in honor of his late grandmother. Kim Kardashian showed off her extravagant holiday decorations on Instagram. Olive Jean, a pit bull, captured hearts with her reaction to seeing Christmas lights for the first time. Lastly, a story fpr parents only.

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

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good news Christmas stories. Now, if you're like, hey, those

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people in West Virginia, they seem like they're really ready

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for Christmas this year. Is there any data to back

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that up? Well, good news there is. A casino has

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ranked West Virginia as the most excited state in America

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for Christmas twenty twenty five. Analysts reviewed Google search activity

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from November one through the twenty eighth, tracking how often

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residents looked up thirty Christmas related terms. Those range from

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Christmas trees, Christmas lights, Elf on the Shelf, Santa Tracker,

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Christmas movies, Rudolph Snowman, and Secret Santa. Are you sure

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they just weren't doing prep for their podcast? West Virginia

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scored eighty two point three out of one hundred, a

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full forty two percent higher than the national average. No

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other state came close. Number two was Kentucky, than Ohio, Indiana,

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and Tennessee. Last Hawaii. They're the least excited thirty seven

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point twenty six percent. West Virginians are searching at high

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rates across nearly every category. Again, I think they're just

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recording a podcast. And have to do some research to

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find five stories. Every day they're looking up decorations, music recipes,

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Christmas markets, Santa updates and more. A to Sales University

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sophomore in his family are gathering thousands of handwritten greetings

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for people who will be in hospitals and nursing homes

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this Christmas. They're welcoming extra help. Carter is a parishioner

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at Saint Anne's and he started Grammys Greeters three years

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ago to honor his late grandmother, Betty. He explains, she

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always taught me to be a good person and to

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give back when we can, so my family and I

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are honoring her legacy by learning that listen and doing

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this project. Last year, Carter and his family delivered nearly

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six thousand cards to sixteen hospitals and nursing homes. This year,

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they hope to do more. If you'd like to help out,

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go to the Grammys Greeters facebook page. Kim Kardashian has

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gone all out with her Chris Some decorations for twenty

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twenty five. She revealed her holiday set up on Instagram,

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as Kim Kardashian would do. She explains, we just finished

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decorating for the holidays. She filmed a long hallway lined

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with snow covered trees strung with fairy lights. She said,

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I can't even begin explaining to you what this smells

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like and feels like. It's pretty insane. She pointed out

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a hidden elf on the shelf tucked into one of

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the branches. In twenty twenty three, she and her daughter

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North transformed her bedroom into the North Poles I see

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what you did there, with theme trees, handbags as ornaments,

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and a North Pole sign above the bed. Olive Jean

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as a pitpoll adopted earlier this year, and Olive Jean's

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reaction to seeing a Christmas tree lit for the first

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time is warming hearts across the internet. Jennifer recorded Olive's

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reaction when the Christmas tree lights turned on. The dog

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stared up at the branches, and the reflections dancing on

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the ceiling completely mesmerized. The video, posted to Olive's TikTok account,

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which is Olive dot Jean dot Marie. When viral was

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racked up about half a million views and over a

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hundred six thousand likes. The caption read, I can't with

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how sweet she is. We don't deserve dogs. Now, parents,

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if you're listening with children, I've got a message from

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Santa for the parents out there, and he doesn't want

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the children to hear this one. So if you're listening

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with kids, why don't you dive out of the show

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before the commercial break here and then I'll come back

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for a message for just the parents. All right, parents,

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you did stop the podcast. There's no kids in the

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room with you, right, don't get mad at me. I

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did warn you. Professional Santa's across the country or sharing

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which Christmas songs they love and which ones that can't stand.

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They also talk about the mishaps and fun moments that

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come with helping Santa out at the mall. Nigel says

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he said everything from a guinea pig diving into his

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beard to moving encounters with children and hospitals. His favorite

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songs include Earth Are Kids, Santa Baby, and Rootolph the

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Red Nose Reindeer. He avoids sad songs like The Little

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Boy that Santa Claus Forgot, Arnold loves Do they Know

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It's Christmas but cannot stand Spike Jones All I want

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for Christmas is my two front teeth, calling it cheesy

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and irritating Cleave, who performs as Rasta Claus, prefers winter

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classics such as Baby It's Cold Outside and says he'd

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rather hear that than Mariah Carey for the one thousand time,

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and Simon is a classical music fan. He says Perkoffeev's

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Sleigh Ride is his top pick, although he admits hearing

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Donny Osman's Christmas songs too often can test anyone's patience.

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And those are your five good News Christmas stories for today.

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Have a great day.