Dec. 15, 2024

Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater's low-key Christmas tree-shopping in NYC (5 Good News Christmas Stories)

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Johnny Mac shares five heartwarming Christmas stories. Highlights include Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater's low-key Christmas tree-shopping in NYC, the debate over whether the James Bond film 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' qualifies as a Christmas movie, and an amusing tale about a TikToker discovering termites in her holiday ornament. Also featured are Princess Charlene and Prince Albert of Monaco's family Christmas card and a Long Island couple's massive inflatable Santa display. Johnny wraps up with a reminder to complete holiday shopping early.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:18 Celebrity Christmas Tree Shopping
00:56 Is 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' a Christmas Movie?
02:03 TikTok Ornaments Gone Wrong
02:36 Royal Family Christmas Cards
03:48 Giant Inflatable Santa on Long Island
04:38 Wrapping Up and Holiday Shopping Tips

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, thank you for listening. These Christmas

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episodes are doing really well, and I'm Johnny Mack with

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another five good news Christmas stories. I appreciate you well.

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Wicked co stars Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater were spotted

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picking out a Christmas tree in New York City, as

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tends to happen when you have a hit movie in

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the theaters and your publicist leaks things to the New

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York Post. Anyway, a source told Page six arion A

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Grande and her boyfriend Ethan we're buying a Christmas tree

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from a Christmas tree stand on sixty second in Broadway.

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Fortunately photographers were there. Apparently they bought a three hundred

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dollars a tree. A source familiar with the couple said

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they are celebrating the successive Wicked and keeping things low

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key as they enjoy the holiday season together with the

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Christmas tree purchase, having photos and making the newspaper very

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low key. I know how publicity works. Guys, all right,

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what constitutes a Christmas movie? You're a listener to this show,

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so you're obviously smart. You understand that Diehard is obviously

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a Christmas movie. There's no doubt in that. Well, some

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folks are making a case for the James Bond film

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service. You know that's the one

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with George Lazenbee. Here's the argument. The movie takes place

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over the Christmas holiday. Once Bond arrives at Blowfeld's lair,

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the scenery switches to snowy mountains, ski resorts and Christmas markets.

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The film features many chase sequences, two of them occur

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on Christmas Eve. In one scene, Bond gets trapped at

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a holiday party where Christmas music is heard, fireworks are fired,

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and holiday decorations adorn the set. At one point spoilers

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and you had fifty years to watch the film, Blowfeld

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knocks Bond out. The first thing he sees after regaining

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consciousness is Blofeld decorating a Christmas tree. What does Blofeld say?

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Merry Christmas? Double seven a surprise? He says that not

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Merry Christmas, mister Bond, right, That's normally how we portray

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such dialogue. There's even an original Christmas song titled do

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you Know how Christmas Trees Are Grown? So is On

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Her Majesty's Secret Service Christmas movie? Obviously do you follow

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MP's on TikTok, Well, she might have ruined your holiday.

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She was decorating her home and then she heard a

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weird rattle sound from one of her ornaments. She said

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she had to know what was inside. She says she

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did the sensible thing by whacking the ornament open with

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a stick and was shocked to see an entire army

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of bugs inside the ornament. She thought it was an

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ant colony, but people on TikTok said, nope, those are termites.

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Johnny Mack, what's good news about that? I thought this

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show was good news. Hey, the good news is this

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didn't happen to your tree. Did you get your Christmas

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card yet? From Princess Charlene and Prince Albert of Monaco.

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The card features the royal couple and their twins, Prince

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Jacques and Princess Gabriella. My family every year we have

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a fight over the Christmas card and who's in it

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and who's not. In some years, the parents make in

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some years it's just the kids. And we've had a

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generational change of dogs. So we're gonna shock a lot

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of people when some members of the family. Art of

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the photo and a new member of the family is

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big fight and plus over Thanksgiving. We forgot to take

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a photo and the kids are scattered throughout the country now,

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so I have no idea what we're going to do.

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But back to the Mona Cohens. Is that how you

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say it? We see their family gathered around an elegantly

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decorated Christmas tree. However, royal watchers notice normally they wear

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formal wear. This year they're laid back. They're wearing cozy

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sweaters and trousers and coordinating neutral tones of white, tan, brown,

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and cream. Charlene is wearing a turtleneck, Albert's wearing a

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plaid button down shirt with a white sweater, and the

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twins echo their parents in an all cream ensemble accented

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by gold flats for Gabriella and dark pants and boots

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for Jacques. You gotta see the photos of this thing.

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A couple on Long Island have a forty two foot

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three thousand dollars inflatable lawn Santa. Now you know we're Americans, Like,

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how big is forty two feet? Again? You got to

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see the picture of this thing. It is bigger than

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the house by a lot. It is gigantic. Jacqueline's husband, George,

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found the one hundred and thirty five pound Chris Kringle

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online at a website being described as sketchy. And this

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thing cost three thousand dollars. You spent three thousand dollars

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on a website you thought was sketchy to get an

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inflatable Santa. Okay, well, anyway, this thing's bigger than the house.

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It takes ten to fifteen minutes to inflate it, but

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it needs continuous air to stay inflated. Apparently hundreds of

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people are coming by every night, especially at night. They're

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being courteous to their neighbors. They're making set visiting hours

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and have an Instagram page for updates. I don't know

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how you enforce that if it's just a street. I

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guess they take it down. Anyway. I took a picture

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of it and sent it to my family and said,

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we gotta step up our game. And those your five

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good news Christmas stories for today. It's getting close. Now,

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did you do your shopping yet? Don't sleep on that,

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because you know next weekend the malls they're gonna be packed.

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Are the malls gonna be packed? Or do we all

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just hit click online? Like Johnny Mack does. All right,

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see tomorrow with a normal episode