Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media Ho Ho home Johnnie Mack with five
the Good News Christmas Stories. You were getting closer, now
check your calendar. It's not that far away. Have you
ever dreamed of waking up to a winter wonderland while
gliding through the Alps. Well, this December you can get
hooked up because Italy has announced a brand new overnight
Christmas train from Rome to Munich. By the way, having
been to Italy, they've got their train system together. I
went from Rome to Florence and it was cheaper and
quicker than if I went the thirty miles from where
I lived to New York City. I mean, just impressive.
It is the Espresso Monaco, a limited edition train. It'll
make two round trips, departing from Rome on December fifth
or twelfth, returning from Munich December seventh or fourteenth. Travelers
can expect twinkling decorations, festive music, a cozy bar and
a restaurant car, and even a small holiday gift to
start the trip off right. You leave Rome's Germany station
at seven fifty seven pm. Been there, there's McDonald's across
the street, by the way. You know, sometimes when you're
in Europe. You want to you want either a big
drink or a cold drink. McDonald's will sell you both.
That's like, you know, I know people frown on McDonald's,
but when I'm in Europe love McDonald's just for the
large dye coke. Anyway, I digress. You'll travel overnight through Verona, Trento, Bolzano,
Bressinone and Brenero before crossing the Austrian border and arriving
in Munich around one pm the next day. Right so
eight pm to one pm. It's a little long, but
near sleep for a lot of it. Plus, as the
train winds its way north, you can enjoy the changing
scenery from Italy's rolling countryside to snow dusted alpine peaks.
In the morning, you'll be in Munich's famous Christmas markets.
Christina Aguilera's holiday concert film, Christina Aguilera Christmas in Paris,
we had a limited theatrical release in December. It celebrates
the twenty fifth anniversary of her two thousand holiday album
My Kind of Christmas. It'll premiere in the US on
December fourteenth and twenty first. Christmas in Paris was recorded
in Paris before an intimate audience of two hundred and
fifty guests against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. We're
excited for the Suffolk Tractor Light Parade. One hundred and
fifty people have already signed up. Every year, people lining
the streets and villages of Suffolk in the UK to
see tractors decorated in an array of lights. The parade
goes through Wickham Market, Woodbridge, Rentles sam and Tunstall. This
year's parade supports the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service, the Rural
Coffee Caravan and the Nest, with a fundraising goal of
more than thirteen thousand pounds. Four thirty Sunday, December fourteenth,
This one is interesting depending on which side you fall
on it or not. But I'll remind you you're listening
to five good news Christmas stories. The Sumner County School
Board had to make a decision. What are we calling
the thing where kids don't have any class in late December.
Is a Christmas break or winter break? There was a
heated debate for three decades. It was known as winter break.
Last year the board said we're switching it Christmas Break.
One of the school board members said we voted on
it with no public input, no chance to hear from
our constituents. We did a bad job as a board
because we didn't represent everyone by getting their feedback. One
board member said, this needs to be called Christmas Break
because that's what it is, and everyone knows that's what
it is. It's the reason there's a break in the
first place, because of Christmas, not some other holiday. Christmas
was the reason everyone was disappearing. Where is everybody, Oh,
they left for a week and a half to go
to their family for Christmas. Others said, you know, that's
not inclusive of other fates. One of the board members said,
when we made this decision, we excluded kids. That's what
I've taken away from the feedback I got. Some people said,
why don't we just call it Christmas slash Winter Break. Well,
they voted. It was unanimous, and on the calendar for
twenty twenty six it will be called Christmas Break all right.
Netflix has announced their holiday movies. I mentioned to my
wife the other day, Hey, here's the Hallmark thing, and
she's like, eh, I don't know even. She was like,
it's kind of the same thing every time, which I've
been telling her for twenty years. You know, There's a woman,
she owns a bakery. This divorced guy comes by. They
kind of connect, but not really, and then stuff happens.
And then the end there by the town Christmas Tree
and it's snowing. You know, that's pretty much every movie. Now.
Netflix has their own Christmas Universe, the NCU, not to
be confused with that thing Marvel does. The NCU is
an interconnected series of Hallmark movies that started in twenty
seventeen with A Christmas Prince. Now, just last night they
put up a very vintage Christmas from twenty nineteen that
follows antique shop owner dood Y who finds an unusual
box of sentimental trinkets in her shop and embarks on
a journey to find the rightful owner, who, of course
is a good looking dude. There's Dear Santa, a documentary
about the massive effort that goes into Operation Santa, run
by the Postal Service. There's Happy Christmas starring Anna Kendrick
that follows Jenny as she moves into her brother's house
following a breakup. While living there, she and her friend
Carson convince her brother's wife that her life needs to
change for the better. There's a Christmas. Kelly Roland plays Jackie,
a hugely successful entrepreneur of a tech company with a
messy family. What's more, she falls in love with her neighbor.
That's right, And of course Tyler Perry's a Medea Christmas.
Those all popped up last night. Now looking ahead on
the seventh, a holiday Engagement starring Shelley Long. A woman
and hires an actor to posit her fiance for Thanksgiving,
and guess what, they fall in love. There's also Christmas
in the Heartlands starring Sierra McCormick and Bo Derek. That
one from twenty seventeen follows two teenage girls from different
worlds who meet on a plane and decide to swap
places for Christmas. Then there's My Dad's Christmas Dates starring
Jeremy Piven of all people. That follows a teenage girl
who secretly sets up her widowed father, presumably Jeremy Piven,
on online dates during Christmas. And then there's more starting
in the eleventh But I think I'll save those for
next week because those are your good news Christmas stories
for today. Have a great day,