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Caloroga Shark Media. I'm Jennie Mack
with five good news stories. Today's edition

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is all Santa Claus Themed. Was
supposed to be a routine appointment for six

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year old Hope. She was at
the Hangar Clinic meeting with her prosthetist.

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They were looking at silicone inserts for
a future prosthetic. Suddenly, the sound

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of jingle bells echoed from down the
hallway. People heard a loud ho,

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ho ho. Who was it?
You guessed? Santa Claus showed up with

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a sack full of toys specifically for
Hope. Santa sat down next to her

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and gave her each toy one by
one. Her favorite a stuffed teddy bear

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whose mouth and feet doubled his pockets. Oh that's clever, points out the

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Albuquerque Journal. Hope smile was ear
to ear as Santa told her stories about

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the number of elves and warehouse required
at the North Pole to build in store

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all the toys. Hope was born
without a right leg. Mom Laura said,

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we live in a world that's built
for able bodied people. Despite the

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concerns, Hope hasn't let her condition
define her. She loves doing ballet classes,

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playing with her friends at school.
As you know, Sanna's pretty busy

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this time of year, and like
so many of us, he's using AI

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to help him out. There's an
online portal available through December seventeenth. It's

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Santa's Magical mail Room. It'll ask
you some questions like name a favorite thing

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from the holiday season, who are
we writing a letter for today? And

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what was a highlight from the year. Then an AI powered machine helps Sanna

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generate a letter. It gets printed
and mailed out, signed of course by

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Santa, and delivered in time for
Christmas. Good use of technology by Santa.

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There more than a thousand people donned
Santa sus and cruise through the streets

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of Milwaukee. It was the Santa
Cycle Rampage, an annual ride for holiday

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merrymaking and cycling advocacy. Mark was
there and he kicked things off with a

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shot ski. What's that? It's
a line of shot glasses glued to a

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ski, allowing for several people to
down a shot in unison. Mark says,

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I think once you get soaked up
into an ocean of Santa's something that's

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to behold. The Santa Cycle Rampage
started twenty years ago as a pub crawl

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among friends. People saw much fun
the group was having and now it's the

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world's largest holiday themed costume bike ride
for charity. Last year, between this

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ride and a sister ride Madison,
the group raised fifty thousand dollars. And

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they want to be clear, it's
not a race, It's a slow roll

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along the way. Groups split off
to visit bars and restaurants to welcome cyclist,

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to break for milk or cookies or
beer and cheese curds. Mac Barnett

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has been studying a Santa's magical ways. Has that whole chimney thing works?

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He said, I lived in an
apartment he didn't have a chimney, So

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I talked a lot with my mom
about al Santa was gonna get no more

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apartment and give us gifts. Does
he sinch up his belt? Does he

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shrink himself down the size of a
mouse? Does he stretch out like taffy

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and step in one leg at a
time? He started writing a book called

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How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? Mack says this felt like a chance

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to set up the problem and propose
a bunch of solutions and basically put Santa

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through the ringer in pictures. We
know a lot about what Santa is up

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to. We know where he lives, we know how he gets to the

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house with the flying reindeer, we
know where he works on the presence,

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But as for how he gets in
her house, he says, it's strange,

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there's no definitive answer to this,
considering this is the guy who does

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this every year, but points out, I don't think we want to know

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how he does it. The mystery, the wonder of the impossibility, that's

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the point. It's beautiful to kind
of face the impossible that way. Airbnb

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is inviting one lucky family to spend
three nights at Santa's cabin. This is

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in Finland. You not only get
to stay there, you can volunteer to

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work in Santa's post office, which
is only a short distance from the cabin.

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Santa gets thirty thousand letters every day. Katcha is the post office's chief

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Elf and also an Airbnb host.
Conscia says, we want this to be

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a magical and immersive experience for a
family in search of the ultimate US High

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experience. Not only will guests get
to sleep in Santa Claus's cabin, they'll

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also get a sneak peak behind the
scenes of the world's official Santa Claus post

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office during our liveliest time of the
year. If you win, you'll stay

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in a cabin bedecked in traditional Lapland
decorations. You'll dine on finished meals,

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You'll wear elf clothing and go on
quote many awe inspiring adventures. To stay

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in Santa's cabin is free and mites
maybe perhaps possibly include complimentary flights, depending

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where you're coming from by like how
they couched it that way, So if

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you're in like I don't know,
Perth, Australia, they might not be

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hooking you up as much as if
you're coming from London. The experience will

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be available to one family up to
two adults and two children. Oh that's

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rough, So like if I had
one years ago, Like, which of

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my kids isn't coming? That's not
cool. From December eighteen to the twenty

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first booking for the stay on Airbnb
starts on December eleventh at noon Eastern European

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time. That's five am Eastern,
So you might want to jump on the

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website and see if you win.
And that is your five good News Santa

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stories for today. I'll be back
on Monday with a normal episode. Tuesday

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and Thursday Asters doing Christmas stories.
I guess this was a Christmas episode as

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well. Right, have a great
weekend