Caloroga Shark Media. I'm Jennie Mack with five good news stories. Today's edition
is all Santa Claus Themed. Was supposed to be a routine appointment for six
year old Hope. She was at the Hangar Clinic meeting with her prosthetist.
They were looking at silicone inserts for a future prosthetic. Suddenly, the sound
of jingle bells echoed from down the hallway. People heard a loud ho,
ho ho. Who was it? You guessed? Santa Claus showed up with
a sack full of toys specifically for Hope. Santa sat down next to her
and gave her each toy one by one. Her favorite a stuffed teddy bear
whose mouth and feet doubled his pockets. Oh that's clever, points out the
Albuquerque Journal. Hope smile was ear to ear as Santa told her stories about
the number of elves and warehouse required at the North Pole to build in store
all the toys. Hope was born without a right leg. Mom Laura said,
we live in a world that's built for able bodied people. Despite the
concerns, Hope hasn't let her condition define her. She loves doing ballet classes,
playing with her friends at school. As you know, Sanna's pretty busy
this time of year, and like so many of us, he's using AI
to help him out. There's an online portal available through December seventeenth. It's
Santa's Magical mail Room. It'll ask you some questions like name a favorite thing
from the holiday season, who are we writing a letter for today? And
what was a highlight from the year. Then an AI powered machine helps Sanna
generate a letter. It gets printed and mailed out, signed of course by
Santa, and delivered in time for Christmas. Good use of technology by Santa.
There more than a thousand people donned Santa sus and cruise through the streets
of Milwaukee. It was the Santa Cycle Rampage, an annual ride for holiday
merrymaking and cycling advocacy. Mark was there and he kicked things off with a
shot ski. What's that? It's a line of shot glasses glued to a
ski, allowing for several people to down a shot in unison. Mark says,
I think once you get soaked up into an ocean of Santa's something that's
to behold. The Santa Cycle Rampage started twenty years ago as a pub crawl
among friends. People saw much fun the group was having and now it's the
world's largest holiday themed costume bike ride for charity. Last year, between this
ride and a sister ride Madison, the group raised fifty thousand dollars. And
they want to be clear, it's not a race, It's a slow roll
along the way. Groups split off to visit bars and restaurants to welcome cyclist,
to break for milk or cookies or beer and cheese curds. Mac Barnett
has been studying a Santa's magical ways. Has that whole chimney thing works?
He said, I lived in an apartment he didn't have a chimney, So
I talked a lot with my mom about al Santa was gonna get no more
apartment and give us gifts. Does he sinch up his belt? Does he
shrink himself down the size of a mouse? Does he stretch out like taffy
and step in one leg at a time? He started writing a book called
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? Mack says this felt like a chance
to set up the problem and propose a bunch of solutions and basically put Santa
through the ringer in pictures. We know a lot about what Santa is up
to. We know where he lives, we know how he gets to the
house with the flying reindeer, we know where he works on the presence,
But as for how he gets in her house, he says, it's strange,
there's no definitive answer to this, considering this is the guy who does
this every year, but points out, I don't think we want to know
how he does it. The mystery, the wonder of the impossibility, that's
the point. It's beautiful to kind of face the impossible that way. Airbnb
is inviting one lucky family to spend three nights at Santa's cabin. This is
in Finland. You not only get to stay there, you can volunteer to
work in Santa's post office, which is only a short distance from the cabin.
Santa gets thirty thousand letters every day. Katcha is the post office's chief
Elf and also an Airbnb host. Conscia says, we want this to be
a magical and immersive experience for a family in search of the ultimate US High
experience. Not only will guests get to sleep in Santa Claus's cabin, they'll
also get a sneak peak behind the scenes of the world's official Santa Claus post
office during our liveliest time of the year. If you win, you'll stay
in a cabin bedecked in traditional Lapland decorations. You'll dine on finished meals,
You'll wear elf clothing and go on quote many awe inspiring adventures. To stay
in Santa's cabin is free and mites maybe perhaps possibly include complimentary flights, depending
where you're coming from by like how they couched it that way, So if
you're in like I don't know, Perth, Australia, they might not be
hooking you up as much as if you're coming from London. The experience will
be available to one family up to two adults and two children. Oh that's
rough, So like if I had one years ago, Like, which of
my kids isn't coming? That's not cool. From December eighteen to the twenty
first booking for the stay on Airbnb starts on December eleventh at noon Eastern European
time. That's five am Eastern, So you might want to jump on the
website and see if you win. And that is your five good News Santa
stories for today. I'll be back on Monday with a normal episode. Tuesday
and Thursday Asters doing Christmas stories. I guess this was a Christmas episode as
well. Right, have a great weekend