1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:12,679 Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five 2 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,120 good news Christmas Stories. Yes, I know it's October. You 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,079 can never start too early. Hallmark Channels Countdown to Christmas 4 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:25,879 kicks off Friday, October seventeenth with twenty four to seven programming. 5 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:28,480 Is my wife listening? Get out of pen. You're gonna 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,480 want to write this down. She loves this stuff. This 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,520 year's movies include the continuation of Hallmark's partnership with the NFL. 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,359 That's Right, It's Holiday Touchdown, A Bill's Love Story. They 9 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:41,600 also have a new partnership with the Grand Ole Opry 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,880 for a Grand ol Opry Christmas. Overall, Hallmark will deliver 11 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:50,000 eighty new hours of programming across ten weeks. New movies 12 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:52,920 premiere every Saturday night and every Sunday night. Oh there's 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,399 new TV shows as well on October twenty seventh, as 14 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:58,880 season two of Finding Mister Christmas and the debut of 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,759 Baked with Love. Holiday In November, you'll get season two 16 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:06,680 of The Mistletoe Murders in December, twelve dates till Christmas. 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,159 Some of the movies include A Royal Montana Christmas. That's Right, 18 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:14,120 A Princess Looking to decompress before the holidays, heads to 19 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:17,519 a Montana ranch and meets a charming guide Merry Christmas, 20 00:01:17,519 --> 00:01:19,879 Ted Cooper, a Christmas loving weather man has had a 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,760 tough year, etc. Etc. You know how these go? Christmas 22 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:26,280 above the clouds. A workaholic CEO tries to skip Christmas, 23 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,719 but is haunted by her past, present and future and 24 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:31,680 forced to confront the choices and her ex There's a 25 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:34,599 Keller Christmas Vacation. Now, for a minute, I thought Hallmark 26 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,640 lost their mind and this was a killer at Christmas Vacation. No, no, no, 27 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:41,000 this is the Kellers. Totally different. You see, the Kellers, 28 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,120 including the parents and their three adult children, decide to 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,719 take a European river cruise touring the Christmas markets over 30 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,959 the holidays. And each sibling is going through their own 31 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,200 life challenges. But our favorite ask to be Holiday touchdown. 32 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,480 A Bill's love story. Now you have to wait till 33 00:01:54,519 --> 00:01:57,359 November twenty second. Then you're gonna find out how. Pediatric 34 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:01,319 doctor Morgan Quinn and the Bill's VP be of stadium Development, 35 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:05,040 Gabe de Luca, have been lifelong friends. He's always wanted 36 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,560 it to be more. This holiday and football season, the 37 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,039 pair worked together to find out the mystery person who 38 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,960 helped her family get by after her uncle was drafted 39 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,840 decades before. Thank you Hallmark Channel, appreciate it. These are 40 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,360 always fun. There's a bunch more. Maybe I'll do that 41 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,159 in another episode. Brad Paisley has released Counting Down the Days. 42 00:02:26,039 --> 00:02:29,639 It's an original song and it is the official anthem 43 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:33,759 of the Hallmark Channel's sixteenth annual Countdown to Christmas. Paisley 44 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,639 has also co written two additional songs that will be 45 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,719 part of Hallmark's A Grand Ole Opry Christmas. Meanwhile, Dolly 46 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:42,639 Parton in the news. There was little health scare during 47 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,960 the week. I hope everything's okay with Dolly. She's launching 48 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,400 Holly Dolly Christmas. The Holly Dolly Christmas will be at 49 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,199 Dollar General. It's brimming with Christmas cheer. They're over forty pieces. 50 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,000 Most items priced under ten dollars, nothing over sixteen. Items 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,120 include the wood clamp jar, which you can store cocoa, 52 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,879 candy canes or gingerbread spice, some spice jars, some cookie cutters, 53 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,240 some salt and pepper shakers, the Twelve Days of Candles, 54 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,639 an advent calendar, some mailbox, de core A quilted plays 55 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,400 mat with patch, a snap on towel, which we're told 56 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,879 is practical yet pretty, keeping your kitchen festive and functional, 57 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,800 a potholder, a peppermint pillow, No, don't eat it. It's 58 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,280 a round candy cane pillow that looks good enough to eat, 59 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:28,680 but don't eat it. And a bow pillow, a big, 60 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:31,080 bright red pillow shaped like a gift bow for the 61 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,120 perfect finishing touch. Nice job by Atus. He's now thirty 62 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,479 seven and he never forgot the present he received when 63 00:03:37,479 --> 00:03:39,599 he was eight years old and his family was struggling 64 00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:42,439 financially and getting food to the table. He received the 65 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:45,560 gift of a Christmas shoebox as a child. He's recreating 66 00:03:45,599 --> 00:03:49,319 the gesture for other children affected by poverty. It's Team 67 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:54,039 Hope's annual Christmas Shoebox appeal. The charity celebrates its fifteenth year, 68 00:03:54,599 --> 00:03:58,479 hoping to deliver its three millionth shoebox this Christmas. Eight 69 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:01,080 as explains, we didn't have much food, good food. Medically, 70 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,960 we're all malnurnursed. As children growing up in Lithuania, I 71 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,599 remember sitting at the table as a child for a 72 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:07,199 meal and there was just some bread and carrots and 73 00:04:07,199 --> 00:04:09,439 What struck me most is that someone had put this together. 74 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,280 At times we relied on our neighbors to drop something in, 75 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:14,159 so we were struggling and was tough on my parents 76 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:17,040 from a financial perspective. I remember all of us gathered 77 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,480 in the village and there was a play and at 78 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,480 the end shoe boxes were given to the children. We 79 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:22,120 were very excited. I think there were at pens and 80 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,240 pencils and some stationary in the box. What struck me 81 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,639 most so that someone had put it together. Since twenty ten, 82 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,759 Team Hope has delivered over two point eight million shoebox gifts. 83 00:04:31,319 --> 00:04:33,800 Deborah Lowry is the chief executive of Team Hope and 84 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,439 says that kindness traveling across oceans reminds a child that 85 00:04:36,439 --> 00:04:40,800 they're not forgotten, that someone somewhere cares. And in Camden 86 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,720 toown Missouri, they're working on a reverse Christmas parade. Now 87 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:47,680 you're like, what's reverse about the Christmas parade? So rather 88 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,800 than a typical parade, you know, we might be standing 89 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,279 on the curb and some floats go by. No, no, no, 90 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,079 the floats are going to be on the curbs and 91 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:57,720 you're going to drive through. I think this is just 92 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,519 clever packaging for one of those Christmas lan things that 93 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,040 we all do. But we're sold spectators can stay cozy 94 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:07,399 and out of the never predictable December weather, and they 95 00:05:07,399 --> 00:05:11,800 do admit it has a Christmas lights drive through fuel hmm. Well, 96 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,439 the Reverse Christmas Parade is Friday, December fifth at six 97 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,120 point thirty if you want to get it on your calendar. 98 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,240 The parade is right after the Christmas tree lighting on 99 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:22,680 the Square on North bus route number five. Food trucks 100 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,680 will be participating as well, so maybe grab some food 101 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,480 and drive through the Reverse Christmas Parade. And those are 102 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:31,279 your five good News Christmas stories. You have an awesome day.