Taylor Swift Inspired Christmas House

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news Christmas stories. Good news, the Taylor Swift inspired Christmas House is back and we're told it's better than last year. Amy and Brian have been working for weeks on their Swift miss house in Illinois. In October, the couple went on a date to a nearby restaurant jotted down notes to incorporate three of Swift's eras, Reputation, Folklore, and the Tortured Poet's Department into their lights display. Among their ideas, a folklore cottage and oversized Tortured Poets typewriter, and a Look What You Made Me Do? Set up with a tuxedo clad Travis Kelcey. Amy says, we started with writing a mission statement together spread love and joy through the holiday season. We took notes as we ate dinner, and our brains were overflowing with ideas. In the folklore section, a moss adorned cottage replicates the set piece on the tour.

1:05 The wood came from a neighbor's bed frame left on the side of the road. A chandelier donated by another neighbor hangs inside to light up A stool and cart again. At the foot of the cottage are mushrooms and disco balls. In the Tortured Poet section, you see a six foot cardboard cutout of Taylor Swift in her signature white dress. Along the bottom of the couple put glitter a typewriter similar to the one in the Fortnight video, as keys made of pickle jar lids. Last year they did the Red Speak. Now nineteen eighty nine and evermore Eras Brian said, we didn't know the whole world was gonna see it. People would come and stay for hours and sing songs. So there's a lot of camaraderie and the passing of friendship bracelets. It's really what we want. I had news for you, guys. You're gonna have to up yourselves next year.

1:47 I don't envy you at all. In Kansas City, they opened up the Christmas Experience. It's near Hallmark headquarters. Darren his Hallmark's chief brand officer. He says it ten D's can walk through these square lined with vendors offering five golden rings. Blitzen's Barbecue Christmas to Molly's. Visitors can ice skate to Christmas tunes. There are Hallmark movie marathons, workshops for creating your own Holiday, to cores and panels with Network stars spelling behind the scenes secrets about their projects. Laura, Margie and Ruth are friends and fans. Ruth calls herself a Hallmark junkie and saw the advertisement for the festival back in June and said, we're going girls strip. Laura said, you'd never suspect we watched Hallmark twenty four hours a day, but we do. I love it. Ah. Those grnches at the Indiana State Police are warning people to stop putting Christmas lights on your cars. In a social media post, the cops said they're seeing more and more cars decorated and bright and colorful Christmas lights and remind us courding an Indiana Code nine to twenty one seven DASH ten, using colored lights anywhere outside the front and back of a non emergency vehicle is illegal. We didn't write the law, but it is on the books. Meanwhile, in Ireland, a holiday goer is gathered at Trinity College, Dublin. We're there for the Christmas tree lighting, and Jasmine said there was a huge crowd and carol singers were waiting for the lights to start singing. There was gonna be a five second countdown. Everybody was holding their phone and waiting for the magic to happen, and nothing Onlookers laughed. Everybody looked

3:21 around in confusion, wondering why nothing happened. After a fifteen minute delay, officials determine the tree lighting ain't gonna happen due to an electrical issue. Okay, parents, if you're listening with the kids, I appreciate you. Santa has sent me a note he wants there's a surprise for the kids on Christmas. Okay, Santa doesn't want the kids to hear this one. So if you're listening with the kids, hit stop. I'll take the commercial breaks, and then the next story is for parents only. Okay, you hearing me? Hit stop? All right, I'll be right back. All right, just parents now right, kids aren't listening. If the kids are still there, hit stop. I tried to warn you here. Okay. You know, parents, around this time of year, the elf on the shelf's getting a little old, right like right after Thanksgiving. It's fun, and then you know, every day you wake up and you're like, oh shoot, I forgot to move the elf, and then you find yourself trying to move it before the kids get out of bed. You've been there. I've been there when I would remember, I enjoyed putting it in ridiculous places, But you know, you forget and then it's like ah, elf on the shelf goes back to two thousand and five to twenty years now. Yeah, it's like establishment. I remember when that was new. Folks on social media have some ideas for your elf if you're running out of ideas. Some of them include hiding the elf in a toaster, attaching it to a rupper duck, and putting it in the toilets on the back part, not the part where you go, but like the back tank.

4:36 I mean, let's not be gross. Some suggested putting the elves on the ceiling. Done that, been there, or having the elf lift weights made out of marshmallows. One suggested having the elf defy gravity by securing the ELF's head to the ceiling using double sided tape, dangle its feet, and attach its legs to Christmas lights. It'll appear that the elf is walking a tightrope. That one's a little too involved for me. Okay, those are your five good news Christmas stories. If you enjoy this program at all, tell friends about it. Hopefully they'll enjoy it too. So until Christmas. Normal episodes Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and five Good News Christmas Stories the other days, you have an awesome day.