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      <title>Real And Artificial Christmas Tree Shortage Expected This Year</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:27:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[That's right, it's not even Halloween yet and we are already talking about Christmas, but it's for good reason. <a href="https://wgrd.com/real-and-artificial-christmas-shortage-expected-this-year/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[That&apos;s right, it&apos;s not even Halloween yet and we are already talking about Christmas, but it&apos;s for good reason. <a href="https://wgrd.com/real-and-artificial-christmas-shortage-expected-this-year/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Massive Tree Branch Falls On Top Of Band During Their Performance</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:09:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A terrifying moment was caught on video  <a href="https://wgrd.com/massive-tree-branch-falls-on-top-of-band-during-their-performance/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A terrifying moment was caught on video  <a href="https://wgrd.com/massive-tree-branch-falls-on-top-of-band-during-their-performance/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>What Would You Do If You Found A Raccoon Hiding In Your Christmas Tree?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:08:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This woman tried to get it out of her house herself, but says that you should probably just call Animal Control.
Source: WPTV
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This woman tried to get it out of her house herself, but says that you should probably just call Animal Control.
Source: WPTV
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      <title>This Guy’s Reaction to a Tree Falling On a House is Absolutely Priceless</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The house belongs to Matt Bieniek’s family, and he said that the tree did about $60,000 worth of damage to their home.
 
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The house belongs to Matt Bieniek’s family, and he said that the tree did about $60,000 worth of damage to their home.
 
 <a href="https://wgrd.com/this-guys-reaction-to-a-tree-falling-on-a-house-is-absolutely-priceless/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelly Cheese]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Tree Falls on Car Driving Down 28th Street [VIDEO]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:50:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Storms swept through West Michigan Saturday causing damage and power outages: One man even experienced a tree falling on his car as he was driving down 28th Street Saturday afternoon. <a href="https://wgrd.com/tree-falls-on-car-driving-down-28th-street-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Storms swept through West Michigan Saturday causing damage and power outages: One man even experienced a tree falling on his car as he was driving down 28th Street Saturday afternoon. <a href="https://wgrd.com/tree-falls-on-car-driving-down-28th-street-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janna]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>New Program Trains Michigan Prisoners for Career as Tree Trimmer</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:04:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[DTE announced the new program which was formed through a partnership between the Michigan Department of Corrections and DTE. <a href="https://wgrd.com/new-program-trains-michigan-prisoners-for-career-as-tree-trimmer/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[DTE announced the new program which was formed through a partnership between the Michigan Department of Corrections and DTE. <a href="https://wgrd.com/new-program-trains-michigan-prisoners-for-career-as-tree-trimmer/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Milhouse]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Allegan County Faces Tree Disease That Creates ‘Circles of Death’</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:15:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[See where the disease has been found in Michigan and how far the advisory zone reaches. <a href="https://wgrd.com/allegan-county-faces-tree-disease-that-creates-circles-of-death/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[See where the disease has been found in Michigan and how far the advisory zone reaches. <a href="https://wgrd.com/allegan-county-faces-tree-disease-that-creates-circles-of-death/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Milhouse]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>The Easiest Way to Protect Your Oak Trees in Michigan</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:22:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One simple step goes a long way. <a href="https://wgrd.com/the-easiest-way-to-protect-your-oak-trees-in-michigan/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One simple step goes a long way. <a href="https://wgrd.com/the-easiest-way-to-protect-your-oak-trees-in-michigan/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Milhouse]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Christmas Tree Recycling Now Available in Grand Rapids</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:59:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There are two ways to recycle your Christmas tree in Grand Rapids. <a href="https://wgrd.com/christmas-tree-recycling-now-available-in-grand-rapids/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There are two ways to recycle your Christmas tree in Grand Rapids. <a href="https://wgrd.com/christmas-tree-recycling-now-available-in-grand-rapids/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Milhouse]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>College Student Full Of Regret When Retweets Force Her To Wear A Christmas Tree Costume For Finals Week</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[As we learned from Free Beer this week, sometimes betting is a bad idea. This young lady is also feeling the pain of a stupid decision.  <a href="https://wgrd.com/college-student-full-of-regret-when-retweets-force-her-to-wear-a-christmas-tree-costume-for-finals-week/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As we learned from Free Beer this week, sometimes betting is a bad idea. This young lady is also feeling the pain of a stupid decision.  <a href="https://wgrd.com/college-student-full-of-regret-when-retweets-force-her-to-wear-a-christmas-tree-costume-for-finals-week/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Producer Justin]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Hot Wings Picks His Favorite Tree and Smokestack Demolition – FBHW Segment 16</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:03:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today on Segment 16, the guys talk trees, and Hot Wings is forced to choose his favorite tree. What? Yep! Also, they check out a news story about the demolition of a smokestack. <a href="https://wgrd.com/hot-wings-pick-his-favorite-tree-and-smokestack-demolition-fbhw-segment-16/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Today on Segment 16, the guys talk trees, and Hot Wings is forced to choose his favorite tree. What? Yep! Also, they check out a news story about the demolition of a smokestack. <a href="https://wgrd.com/hot-wings-pick-his-favorite-tree-and-smokestack-demolition-fbhw-segment-16/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnnie Walker]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Tree Falls On A Man And Breaks His Leg During A Gender Reveal Party</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A gender reveal takes a wild turn for the worse. Everything was going well until a tree fell and landed on the dad to be.  <a href="https://wgrd.com/tree-falls-on-a-man-and-breaks-his-leg-during-a-gender-reveal-party/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A gender reveal takes a wild turn for the worse. Everything was going well until a tree fell and landed on the dad to be.  <a href="https://wgrd.com/tree-falls-on-a-man-and-breaks-his-leg-during-a-gender-reveal-party/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Producer Justin]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Man Tries Unsuccessfully To Knock Down A Tree With A Tractor, Injures Himself</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:20:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Tractor VS Tree! Who do you think wins? Apparently this man did not think through this very well. <a href="https://wgrd.com/man-tries-unsuccessfully-to-knock-down-a-tree-with-a-tractor-injures-himself/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Tractor VS Tree! Who do you think wins? Apparently this man did not think through this very well. <a href="https://wgrd.com/man-tries-unsuccessfully-to-knock-down-a-tree-with-a-tractor-injures-himself/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Christmas Tree Disposal in Grand Rapids, Drop-Off for Free or Pay for Pickup</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:45:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The City of Grand Rapids is offering residents two options for disposing of their live Christmas trees; free drop-off and a fee-based curbside pickup. <a href="https://wgrd.com/christmas-tree-disposal-in-grand-rapids-drop-off-for-free-or-pay-for-pickup/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The City of Grand Rapids&nbsp;is offering residents two options for disposing of their live&nbsp;Christmas trees; free drop-off and a fee-based curbside pickup. <a href="https://wgrd.com/christmas-tree-disposal-in-grand-rapids-drop-off-for-free-or-pay-for-pickup/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Milhouse]]></dc:creator>
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      <title>Weird Sciencey Thing Wednesday – 11,000-Year-Old Statue Is Oldest Carved Thing Ever</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 20:42:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A while back (1894 - okay, quite a while back), archeologists found this cool wooden column in a peat bog in the Ural mountains, and they saw immediately that it was old. I mean, really old. They eventually stopped standing around saying, "That looks really old", and did some science on it to determine it was 9,500 years old.
New sciencey stuff actually shows that it's much older. It's r <a href="https://wgrd.com/weird-sciencey-thing-wednesday-11000-year-old-statue-is-oldest-carved-thing-ever/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A while back (1894 - okay, quite a while back), archeologists found this cool wooden column in a peat bog in the Ural mountains, and they saw immediately that it was old. I mean, really old. They eventually stopped standing around saying, &quot;That looks really old&quot;, and did some science on it to determine it was 9,500 years old.
New sciencey stuff actually shows that it's much older. It's r <a href="https://wgrd.com/weird-sciencey-thing-wednesday-11000-year-old-statue-is-oldest-carved-thing-ever/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <media:description xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">This is totally not the real 11,000-year-old carving, it's the one I just made, but mine looks way happier than the old one does, so take that, ancient carving dude!</media:description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Saturday, Jackyl rolled into town for their show at The Intersection, and we had some fun things planned with Jesse James Dupree before the show!
First, we picked him up and went out to see the nice people out at Vormittag Christmas Tree farm, so Jesse could use his famous chainsaw to cut down a couple Christmas trees for some GRD winners!  Thanks to Grand Rapids E-Liquid for helping us get some p <a href="https://wgrd.com/jackyl-hit-grand-rapids-cut-down-trees-and-rocked-the-intersection-with-grd/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Saturday, Jackyl rolled into town for their show at The Intersection, and we had some fun things planned with Jesse James Dupree before the show!
First, we picked him up and went out to see the nice people out at Vormittag Christmas Tree farm, so Jesse could use his famous chainsaw to cut down a couple Christmas trees for some GRD winners!  Thanks to Grand Rapids E-Liquid for helping us get some p <a href="https://wgrd.com/jackyl-hit-grand-rapids-cut-down-trees-and-rocked-the-intersection-with-grd/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 11:15:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Cops already have a hard enough job, especially when it comes to traffic stops.  
Think about it: They're walking into an unknown situation and are constantly at risk. <a href="https://wgrd.com/free-beer-hot-wings-cop-hit-by-falling-tree-during-traffic-stop-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Cops already have a hard enough job, especially when it comes to traffic stops.  
Think about it: They&apos;re walking into an unknown situation and are constantly at risk. <a href="https://wgrd.com/free-beer-hot-wings-cop-hit-by-falling-tree-during-traffic-stop-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 15:19:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If a tree is playing a piano in the forest, and there's someone there to record it, would it sell better than Justin Bieber?
I think the video of a tree playing a piano would kick Bieber's ass, yes.  
But what some dude actually did is a little different. It's music created from the rings of a tree. <a href="https://wgrd.com/this-is-the-new-hit-song-from-an-ash-tree-still-better-than-miley-or-bieber/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If a tree is playing a piano in the forest, and there&apos;s someone there to record it, would it sell better than Justin Bieber?
I think the video of a tree playing a piano would kick Bieber&apos;s ass, yes. &nbsp;
But what some dude actually did is a little different. It&apos;s music created from the rings of a tree. <a href="https://wgrd.com/this-is-the-new-hit-song-from-an-ash-tree-still-better-than-miley-or-bieber/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <media:description xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">Meet your new pop star...currently writing it's first #1 single. Photo Johnnie Walker</media:description>
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      <title>Free Beer &amp; Hot Wings: Man Cuts Tree Down Directly into Truck Bed [Video]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:00:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is one of those videos that as soon as you start watching it, you know exactly what the outcome will be.  
This guy is cutting down what's left of a pretty massive tree. He wants to haul away the remainder of the tree trunk, but doesn't want to deal with the hassle of cutting it up into many pieces and picking them up individually. <a href="https://wgrd.com/free-beer-hot-wings-man-cuts-tree-down-directly-into-truck-bed-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This is one of those videos that as soon as you start watching it, you know exactly what the outcome will be.  
This guy is cutting down what&apos;s left of a pretty massive tree. He wants to haul away the remainder of the tree trunk, but doesn&apos;t want to deal with the hassle of cutting it up into many pieces and picking them up individually. <a href="https://wgrd.com/free-beer-hot-wings-man-cuts-tree-down-directly-into-truck-bed-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:33:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[We have all been patiently awaiting the kick-ass new album from the Foo and if the new retro video for “White Limo” (featuring Lemmy!!!) is any indication…they were NOT  bluffing about the new stuff being their “heaviest to date”. <a href="https://wgrd.com/foo-fighters-white-limo-new-song-music-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[We have all been patiently awaiting the kick-ass new album from the Foo and if the new retro video for &ldquo;White Limo&CloseCurlyDoubleQuote; (featuring Lemmy!!!) is any indication&hellip;they were NOT  bluffing about the new stuff being their &ldquo;heaviest to date&CloseCurlyDoubleQuote;. <a href="https://wgrd.com/foo-fighters-white-limo-new-song-music-video/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[gary.chenoweth]]></dc:creator>
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