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Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media Ho Ho home Johnnie Mack with five

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the Good News Christmas Stories. You were getting closer, now

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check your calendar. It's not that far away. Have you

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ever dreamed of waking up to a winter wonderland while

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gliding through the Alps. Well, this December you can get

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hooked up because Italy has announced a brand new overnight

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Christmas train from Rome to Munich. By the way, having

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been to Italy, they've got their train system together. I

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went from Rome to Florence and it was cheaper and

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quicker than if I went the thirty miles from where

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I lived to New York City. I mean, just impressive.

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It is the Espresso Monaco, a limited edition train. It'll

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make two round trips, departing from Rome on December fifth

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or twelfth, returning from Munich December seventh or fourteenth. Travelers

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can expect twinkling decorations, festive music, a cozy bar and

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a restaurant car, and even a small holiday gift to

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start the trip off right. You leave Rome's Germany station

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at seven fifty seven pm. Been there, there's McDonald's across

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the street, by the way. You know, sometimes when you're

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in Europe. You want to you want either a big

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drink or a cold drink. McDonald's will sell you both.

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That's like, you know, I know people frown on McDonald's,

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but when I'm in Europe love McDonald's just for the

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large dye coke. Anyway, I digress. You'll travel overnight through Verona, Trento, Bolzano,

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Bressinone and Brenero before crossing the Austrian border and arriving

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in Munich around one pm the next day. Right so

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eight pm to one pm. It's a little long, but

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near sleep for a lot of it. Plus, as the

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train winds its way north, you can enjoy the changing

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scenery from Italy's rolling countryside to snow dusted alpine peaks.

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In the morning, you'll be in Munich's famous Christmas markets.

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Christina Aguilera's holiday concert film, Christina Aguilera Christmas in Paris,

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we had a limited theatrical release in December. It celebrates

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the twenty fifth anniversary of her two thousand holiday album

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My Kind of Christmas. It'll premiere in the US on

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December fourteenth and twenty first. Christmas in Paris was recorded

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in Paris before an intimate audience of two hundred and

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fifty guests against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. We're

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excited for the Suffolk Tractor Light Parade. One hundred and

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fifty people have already signed up. Every year, people lining

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the streets and villages of Suffolk in the UK to

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see tractors decorated in an array of lights. The parade

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goes through Wickham Market, Woodbridge, Rentles sam and Tunstall. This

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year's parade supports the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, the Rural

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Coffee Caravan and the Nest, with a fundraising goal of

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more than thirteen thousand pounds. Four thirty Sunday, December fourteenth,

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This one is interesting depending on which side you fall

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on it or not. But I'll remind you you're listening

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to five good news Christmas stories. The Sumner County School

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Board had to make a decision. What are we calling

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the thing where kids don't have any class in late December.

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Is a Christmas break or winter break? There was a

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heated debate for three decades. It was known as winter break.

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Last year the board said we're switching it Christmas Break.

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One of the school board members said we voted on

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it with no public input, no chance to hear from

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our constituents. We did a bad job as a board

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because we didn't represent everyone by getting their feedback. One

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board member said, this needs to be called Christmas Break

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because that's what it is, and everyone knows that's what

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it is. It's the reason there's a break in the

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first place, because of Christmas, not some other holiday. Christmas

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was the reason everyone was disappearing. Where is everybody, Oh,

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they left for a week and a half to go

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to their family for Christmas. Others said, you know, that's

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not inclusive of other fates. One of the board members said,

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when we made this decision, we excluded kids. That's what

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I've taken away from the feedback I got. Some people said,

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why don't we just call it Christmas slash Winter Break. Well,

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they voted. It was unanimous, and on the calendar for

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twenty twenty six it will be called Christmas Break all right.

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Netflix has announced their holiday movies. I mentioned to my

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wife the other day, Hey, here's the Hallmark thing, and

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she's like, eh, I don't know even. She was like,

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it's kind of the same thing every time, which I've

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been telling her for twenty years. You know, There's a woman,

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she owns a bakery. This divorced guy comes by. They

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kind of connect, but not really, and then stuff happens.

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And then the end there by the town Christmas Tree

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and it's snowing. You know, that's pretty much every movie. Now.

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Netflix has their own Christmas Universe, the NCU, not to

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be confused with that thing Marvel does. The NCU is

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an interconnected series of Hallmark movies that started in twenty

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seventeen with A Christmas Prince. Now, just last night they

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put up a very vintage Christmas from twenty nineteen that

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follows antique shop owner dood Y who finds an unusual

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box of sentimental trinkets in her shop and embarks on

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a journey to find the rightful owner, who, of course

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is a good looking dude. There's Dear Santa, a documentary

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about the massive effort that goes into Operation Santa, run

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by the Postal Service. There's Happy Christmas starring Anna Kendrick

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that follows Jenny as she moves into her brother's house

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following a breakup. While living there, she and her friend

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Carson convince her brother's wife that her life needs to

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change for the better. There's a Christmas. Kelly Roland plays Jackie,

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a hugely successful entrepreneur of a tech company with a

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messy family. What's more, she falls in love with her neighbor.

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That's right, And of course Tyler Perry's a Medea Christmas.

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Those all popped up last night. Now looking ahead on

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the seventh, a holiday Engagement starring Shelley Long. A woman

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and hires an actor to posit her fiance for Thanksgiving,

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and guess what, they fall in love. There's also Christmas

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in the Heartlands starring Sierra McCormick and Bo Derek. That

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one from twenty seventeen follows two teenage girls from different

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worlds who meet on a plane and decide to swap

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places for Christmas. Then there's My Dad's Christmas Dates starring

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Jeremy Piven of all people. That follows a teenage girl

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who secretly sets up her widowed father, presumably Jeremy Piven,

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on online dates during Christmas. And then there's more starting

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in the eleventh But I think I'll save those for

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next week because those are your good news Christmas stories

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for today. Have a great day,