✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Pop culture, feel-good stories, and conversation starters to help you start your day positive.

✅ Where Are the Most Generous People in America?

✅ A Powerful Christmas Message About Compassion and Peace

✅ Why a Nintendo Switch Might Be the Best Christmas Gift

✅ National Thank You Day

✅  Whistle While You Win 

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In This Special Episode:

 It’s our Christmas Eve edition, and we’re doing something a little different. Instead of our usual format, Len and Sara each sit down with their families for some fun, heartfelt, and laugh-out-loud conversations.

We ask everyone:

What’s one Christmas tradition they never want to change?

What’s the most memorable gift they’ve ever received?

And… who is the hardest person in the family to shop for (and why)? 

From meaningful moments to unexpected answers, this episode is a reminder of what Christmas is really about — connection, memories, and the people we love most.

Cozy up, grab a cup of something warm, and join us for a Christmas Eve conversation that feels like home.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 

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✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Pop culture, feel-good, and interesting updates

✅ Christmas Lyrics We Think We Know

✅ The Facebook Photo Glam Trend Everyone is Tryin

✅ Confident Gift Giving

Our communications expert, Tommie Jo Brode, reminds us that good gifts come from our hearts, not our wallets

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✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Pop culture, feel-good, and interesting updates

✅ The Man Behind So Many Christmas Songs

✅ This Food  Is Having a Moment

✅ Cleveland Named One of the Best Christmas Towns in America - we share all the details! 

✅ A Christmas Moment from Space

✅ Good News That Sticks

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✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Pop culture, feel-good, and interesting updates to start your day positive

✅ A historic space mission paused for safety

✅ SpongeBob takes over Burger King (just a little longer)

✅ A Christmas music upset no one saw coming

✅ Today is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day — And we are here for it! Sara has some thoughts on why they're so popular... 

✅ What song does Len whistle today?

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✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear

✅ Social Media Reality Check - New study points to good news... 

✅ Food News Worth Celebrating - Taco Bell is bringing back a cult-favorite nationwide this Friday — just in time for the holidays.

Giveaway Time

💬 Real Talk: Setting Holiday Boundaries

This Day in History

Coming Soon

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In This Episode:

✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Holiday faith, feel-good headlines, and a little Christmas hope

✅ Holiday Movie Fun — Yes, a Pickleball Christmas movie is on this weekend!  🎄🏓

✅ Viral Recipe Sara Tried — Loaded Dill Pickle Charcuterie Nachos! So so good… and dangerously good for holiday gatherings.

✅ Faith & Christmas News - Hobby Lobby is giving away 500,000 free copies of The Case for Christmas. 

✅ Holiday Shopping Insight - WalletHub reveals the Top 10 Most Popular Gift Cards this holiday season!

In This Episode:

✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Pop culture, feel-good, and fun updates to start your day positive

✅ Behind-the-Scenes Christmas Movie Moment — Sara shares what it was like being an extra filming a Christmas movie at Punderson State Park 🎄🎬

✅ Today in History — A quick look at what happened on this day

✅ Movie Fun Facts You’ll Love — Behind-the-scenes trivia from Elf that makes this Christmas favorite even better

✅ Google’s U.S. Hum-to-Search List — Wait until you hear what made the list!

✅ The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe — Sara shares a food scientist recipe for the  perfect chocolate chip cookie

✅ Stuck on a Christmas Gift for a Guy? — Thanks to a viral TikTok, this type of sweater is having a moment...

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✅ News You’ll Actually Want to Hear — Pop culture, feel-good, and fun updates to start your day positive

✅ Home Alone: More Than a Christmas Movie — Why the movie is going viral again and the deeper lessons fans are rediscovering

✅ A look at This Day in History

✅ Christmas movie fans are traveling to real-life Hallmark & Lifetime movie towns... and why it’s becoming a holiday tradition

✅ New research challenges the idea that eating sweets makes you crave more sugar

✅ Would you rather live in the past, present, or future? The results of a new survey might surprise you

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In This Episode:

✅  A look at This Day in History

✅ Sara shares her "Favorite Things Party"

✅  Why smiling makes a difference...

✅ How airports could look different in the future... 

✅ What song does Len whistle on today's podcast? Guess correctly and enter on our website. You could win a $50 gift card to a favorite restaurant. THANK YOU TO THE WHISTLING PLUMBER WYATT WORKS

✅ Win a totally candy-stuffed Christmas stocking and a $50 gift card to Sweeties Candy

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