WEBVTT - My Santa!!! - TJ Jones 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.600 If you could do me one favor, I'd really love 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.160 to have a conversation with Sanna. Is that possible. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.200 I'm pretty sure I can make that happen. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:24.360 Daniel Kasha Cosha show show you scumbag, ye maggot, you 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:29.280 cheap lousy, Welcome to dash Show. Merry Christmas. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.000 You know that song, Eddie, I've only heard it when 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:33.920 you pointed it out. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.320 To you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap blousy. Now, in fairness, 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.360 there is a new version where they say you're a 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.720 cheap ben I've had it. That's how they That's how 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.160 they get away from the problematic original version that had 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:54.240 hate speech. Yep, just right there for all to sing 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.560 in harmony together. What's the song called Somebody in New York? 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.600 Fairy Tale of New York, fairy Tale of New York, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:08.200 emphasis on fairy different time, different times when that was 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.440 re recorded in twenty eighteen. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.240 Yes, okay, not so long ago. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:21.040 Actually, hey, for our Christmas episode, my son I saved 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.919 one of his bedtime stories from when he was three 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.800 that we used to air at the end of every episode. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.840 I saved one of them that was Christmas themed. Gonna 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.520 play it at the end of this episode. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:35.200 Thanks gift. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.240 What a gift for all anyway, so excited about Christmas, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.200 so many traditions. Eddie is a part of my Christmas. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.240 Every year we do the white Elephant, big Christmas Eve party. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.800 We get some bad barbecue and we all meet at 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.200 my house and we do the white Elephant. But this 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:57.600 year Eddie's not shown. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.680 Up going to see my family in Texas. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:05.840 Why Christmas isn't in Texas. We've had some pretty good 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:09.639 white elephants. Now one year. I'm just gonna go through 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.560 some of the stuff that your family has gone home 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:16.239 with a authentic digerido. Your daughter got that, your son 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.560 once got for me, a key West lighter with some 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.079 titties on it that light up, and uh, fifty dollars 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:24.919 in cash. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:26.600 That was a good one. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.440 I always go for gifts that people are gonna want 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.480 to steal right away and get angry about. And getting 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.200 your two kids to fight at against each other is 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:37.800 always fun. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.000 Yeah, Mia definitely wanted a fifty. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.480 Well, sure there's fifty dollars in cash, all in ones 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.640 fresh wad. They're like, look at this good. Well, the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.400 thing is, we don't really put a limit on the gifts, 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.960 so it's funny. Like my brother shows up his family. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.320 They just stop at a gas station on the way 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.360 up and hahaha, look at this garbage. Nobody wants it. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:00.240 Me. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.239 I put some time into the White Elephant gift and 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.120 one year I had a cool retro jacket and my 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.760 brother in law, when he was a child in his underwear. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.160 I had it put on the back of this jacket. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.960 It was real sexy. He just got like a fifteen 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.160 year old boy in his underwear on the back of 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:24.720 your jacket. Well, for some reason, Eddie's daughter went crazy 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:25.239 over it. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.480 Mea got it? Really, who you cannot wear this school? 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:29.600 You can't wear this at Well. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.160 The funny thing was she was just so excited by 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.640 this little boy and his underwear. And then we're like, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.280 you know that little boy is this man that's sitting 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:39.680 right across from us right now? 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.320 What's funny? 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.400 She had no she had no idea. She was humiliated. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.839 She's like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't Actually I didn't 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.360 know you were a real person. What other traditions do 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:49.680 we have? 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.080 We still got that good puzzle? 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.040 Oh that was right. We did a puzzle one year. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.720 We took a photo of my wife's cousin from when 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.600 she was trying to be sexy like a homecoming dance, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.160 and we had that blown up and put into a puzzle. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.400 That's a good gift if you take somebody's ridiculous childhood 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.320 photos and turn them into a puzzle. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.200 Yeah, no, one's still in the cabin. We rent it 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.720 to people. They probably do that puzzle. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.240 Yeah, you leave that puzzle out. Let people enjoy it. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:22.080 Keep thinking about that song. My favorite, my favorite Christmas song, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.240 like modern Christmas song. I like that that Liam Payne 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.240 song alright, p rip. I also like that cold Play 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:38.880 song Christmas Lights. Those Christmas lights light up the hey, ugh, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.520 you know what song I like what the Little Drummer 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:48.280 Boy for King and Country. You ever listen to their version? No? 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.640 Is that what it's called for Kings and Country? For 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.880 King and Country whatever. It's real intense, it's big, got 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.760 a big swell ooh. I love a little drummer boy. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.159 I've always kind of seen myself as a little drummer boy. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.159 All this Christmas talk has got me into the holiday spirit. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:11.520 And you won't believe who we got as a guest. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:20.480 Enjoy Pasha, my guest today sees you when you're sleeping 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.680 and knows when you're awake. Like Schindler, he keeps the 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.440 list of people's names that are nice and naughty. Please welcome, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.200 my fellow cookie enthusiast. It is jolly old Saint Nick 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:32.480 aka TJ. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.480 How you doing, Daniel well? 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.400 Other than Christmas, past, present and future? Do you believe 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.840 in ghosts? Yes, you really do, TJ. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.839 I really do. My family saw one when I was. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.360 A kid, when you were a kid, did you see it? 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:46.960 All four of us? 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.479 Did you you saw it as well? 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.279 Yes, we were driving on a road in Texas called 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.480 Highway sixty seven and we saw a cowboy walking a 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.839 horse on the side of the road and as we 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.080 close to it, he dissolved in the mist. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:03.560 I mean, has a great story. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:04.320 That's a good one. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.960 I mean it's not believable at all, but I love it. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.000 It was one of those things, all four of us, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:09.640 What did you see? 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:09.760 Well? 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.280 What did you see? What did you see? What did 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.360 you see? Everybody's like, well, this is what I saw. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.480 So you on your way to Midland. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.880 Mid Lothian, little small town south of Dallas Fort. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.880 Worth, All right, talk about your hometown. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.119 Uh, mid Lothian, Texas. When I left there in nineteen eighty. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.039 It population was thirty five hundred. It's now population is 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.800 thirty five thousand. It's exploded. It used to be known 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.640 as the cement capital of the world. Oh, that was 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.360 it's claim to fame because it was on a limestone 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.200 ridge that produced top quality concrete. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.039 I guess how was your childhood there? 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.840 It was great. I mean I lived on about two 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.800 and a half acres. We could go out and essentially 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.960 walk across the street and go hunting rabbits or go 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.280 fishing in the numerous ponds out there. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.640 And do you have siblings? 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.640 Yeah, I have one brother that I grew up with, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.679 and then he's technically a half brother, but he's my brother. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.719 And then I have another brother and sister that I 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.320 didn't meet until I was twenty eight. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:11.200 How was that meeting? 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.840 That was cool? It was just like, oh, okay, so 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:14.480 here we are. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.480 You were in the Navy for eleven years, Thank you 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.160 for your service. For part of that you were stationed 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.840 at the South Pole. Yep, that's a little ironic, don't 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:25.360 you think. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.800 It's often funny how life throws little curveballs at us. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.760 And that was one of the biggest curveballs of all. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.920 I lived at the South Pole and work at the 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:35.440 North Pole. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:36.880 How was the South Pole? 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:41.800 It's a stark, desolate beauty like you wouldn't believe. I mean, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:48.040 it's mine numbingly cold obviously, but everything is blue white 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.120 or a shade thereof and you just look around and 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.760 as the sun setting, which you know it only does once, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.200 it kind of does this wave in the sky as 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.960 it's going by until it finally sets completely. I loved it. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.200 It was it really Yeah. How long were you there? 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.640 I did three summers and then one full year. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.960 The seat when you go from the tip of South 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.480 America too, I mean it's it's uh, that's some really 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.040 rough seas through there, isn't it. Mm hmm. I mean yeah, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.040 that's that's That's a I've actually wanted to go. Well, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.000 I don't ever want to go any place, but I've 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.400 always thought that I'd like to go to the South Pole. Eh, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.240 how'd you first decide to be a Santa? 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.920 My daughter, who was an Irish dancer, she's just a 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.720 general dancer, if you will now. Her dance teacher, Maggie 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.360 Cleary from Cleary Irish Dance told me, tej you are 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.560 going to be a Santa this year. And when Maggie 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.880 tells you to do something, we call it being voluntold hu. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.040 And so I was like, you know, okay, Maggie and 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.840 I went and bought a suit, grew my beard for 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.480 about two and a half months, and everybody there thought 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.520 I was the greatest Santa ever. I mean I bought 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:04.840 an amaz SUITO. It was nothing special, but everyone just 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.360 and people were like, oh my god, that Santa was amazing. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.960 And I was like, you know, it was me right, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.840 and I fell in love with it. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:13.680 Uh huh. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.439 I went and I watched every video. I went on 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.600 YouTube and watched everything. I watched every Christmas movie. I 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.400 found out who all the players were. I went to 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.360 two Santa schools that year. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.400 Santa School. Yeah, man, all right, talk to me about that. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:34.040 You attended Charles W. Howard Santa School in Michigan in 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:35.960 case you didn't get in. Did you have a backup 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:36.640 Santa School? 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.480 There are at least five Santa schools that I know 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.559 of in America. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.320 How long is the program? 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.920 It's two to four days, okay, And but I mean 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:56.120 you go over, they teach you some sign language, and 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.200 they teach you how to do a proper ho ho ho. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.000 They teach you how to do your hair, your beard. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.200 Was it enjoyable? 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.440 Yeah? It really was. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:11.040 Any black Santa's there, yes, okay, how about women, Yes, okay, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.760 we're allowed. We're having female Santas now. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.280 There are at least three that I know here in 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.040 southern California. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.439 I like it. I like it. They're probably going to 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.440 be asked to stop this Christmas. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.440 They're very good. The thing is, you wouldn't know that 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.280 they're when they're in there full on Santa persona. You 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.240 would not know that they are of the fairer sex. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:37.360 Gotcha. You studied under Timothy Conahan m okay, who was 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.800 inducted into the Santa Hall of Fame. Yeah, what mall 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:41.400 is that in. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.920 The Santa Hall of Fame is in Santa Claus, Indiana. Actually, uh. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.240 And Tim is brilliant at this. He's I kind of 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.760 aspire to have the career he's had. He does the 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.640 tree lightings at Rockefeller Center, he's been on stage with 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.480 Mariah Carey, He's gone to the White House and been Santa. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.120 You wouldn't be too inaccurate in saying he's the top 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:03.920 of the heap right now. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.680 Okay, what does it cost to attend a Santa school. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:12.920 Depends on the school, anywhere from three hundred to six. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.040 Hundred they put you up. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.320 No. Tim Conahan has had his school here twice and 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.880 I've gone both times. But the place he had it 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.760 was literally nine miles from my house. So is wake up, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:26.560 go to school? 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.080 What are the guidelines a person must follow to be 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.559 Santa Is? Is there a code of conduct? 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.200 Well? Yeah, I mean we all do background checks and 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.319 get full insurance and all that stuff. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.520 Well the insurance, what's that to cover? 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.960 It covers if you get hurt, if somebody else gets 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.520 hurt on the set while you're there. There is, you know, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.319 unfortunately required these days, an anti molestation writer on it. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.400 That's great. Yeah, I mean I was hoping that that 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.280 was on there now. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.199 Yeah. Absolutely. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.960 What do you look for when you're judging if another 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.200 there's Sanna is a good Santa or not? 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.880 Generally you can't really tell without a conversation, but you 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.520 can sort of get that Santa heart vibe from them 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.440 if they have it or if they don't. And I 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:16.520 mean there's some Santas that are absolutely phenomenal, But I mean, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.080 if you've taken the time to get a good suit 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.920 and put the red suit on. Odds, are your heart's 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.120 in the right place, because it's it's not an inexpensive endeavor. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.160 What you read on Eddie as a Santa. I've had 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.680 him dress up for my kids before. Completely they had 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.760 no idea, they lost their mind. My nephew's nieces, they 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:35.320 all loved it. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.160 Brief meeting with Eddie and from the conversations I've had, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.040 I think he'd be pretty good at. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.360 It, all right. There is the Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.840 That is, of course, if you're are you allowed to 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:49.559 discuss this? 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:50.040 Sure? 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.800 Okay? Well, I don't know. I don't know if there's rule. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:53.640 It's a real thing. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.400 Yes, there's there's two groups, the International Brotherhood of Real 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.160 Bearded Santa's and the Eternal Order of Real beard at Santas, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:03.720 and I'm a member of both. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.560 I know the Fraternal Order of Police. I remember doing 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.040 telemarketing for them when I was a kid. How long 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.640 if you shaved down clean would it take you to 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:14.160 get back? 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.120 About eighteen months to get to this level. But I 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.720 could get a Santa passable beard in about six. 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.920 Mm hm, six months? Do you when's the last time 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:24.400 you went. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:29.280 Clean October twenty third, two thousand and two. That was 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.520 my high school reunion. That's why I remember I shaved 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:31.760 for that. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.760 I couldn't grow beard. This is as good as I 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.760 tried to grow this out for you. It's it's sad. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.400 I've never I've never been able to really grow proper 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.880 facial hair. What do you think of these Santas that 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.400 don't have the real beard? 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.840 The ability to grow facial hair does not make you 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.760 a Santa. It's it's nice and I mean, I love 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.560 the fact that I can put this on, and so 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.640 when a kid comes up and gives me the Natalie 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.839 wood Ed Gwynn tug, I can Yeah, it's really glued 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.600 on there. You don't look down on them, huh, not 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.559 at all. I have a one of my better Santa friends, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.560 James Dinwoodie, is a designer bearded Santa we call him, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.040 and he when he puts his beard on, he looks 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:10.760 top notch. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.160 Yeah, once you put the suit on, is you're like, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.680 are you? How different does your persona become? 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.920 I'm a little jollier. I think I like to think 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.520 I'm a reasonably nice person, but I think i'm even nicer. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:29.120 I'm you know, very attuned to other people. I'm more attuned, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.520 possibly to other people's feelings. I think in the suit 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.240 I can just I read body language better. I feel like, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.200 as silly as that sounds, it's just you pay attention 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.320 and you just notice when people are really you know, comfortable. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.920 If there's anything that they're not comfortable with, you know, 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.560 you notice it and figure out how to work around 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:48.760 it and make them more comfortable. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.920 Are kids afraid of you or you are? Because some 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.880 people don't have that ability to I don't know, so 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.720 you know, some people we are just better at making 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:57.800 kids feel comfortable. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.880 My wife calls me the baby whisper. They all seem 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.600 to like me. And even the ones you get two 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.920 to three is the age where they're like, nah, I 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.080 ain't going to seeing the big red guy with the beard. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.760 Even them, I'm usually able to get a great photo 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.480 for their parents. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.480 Have you seen people lines get a little you know, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.640 people getting out of control. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.520 I wouldn't say out of control. I've seen people get 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.760 you know, a little testy, but it's you know, as 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.640 soon as they get back up to me, they realize 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.280 I don't want to be on the naughty list. It's funny. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.240 Even adults behave better around me when I'm in the suit. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.520 Have you heard heartbreaking stories from kids on your lap? 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:38.960 Yes? 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.240 Yeah, I don't know why it's not. Don't read my 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.560 smile the wrong way, but I just I can't imagine 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:46.360 what that's like. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:51.600 It's my grandmother passed away a week ago, ken, and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.400 I said, I know she did. She loves you, my 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.040 reindeer and I fly very high, and I will give 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.640 her any message you want. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.880 What about getting the parents back together? 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.520 Is that still a wish that sometimes happens? And when 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.520 it comes to that, I tell them Santa's magic is 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.920 mostly toys. Here's the thing to remember. Your mom still 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.080 loves you, your dad still loves you, and Santa loves you. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.000 You should just keep going, just full, just interrogate him 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:25.480 and pick sides like I think your dad's what age? 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.280 Do you notice some kids stop believing? 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.240 They tend to the ten year old eight nine to 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.200 ten year old range. Usually some last a little longer, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.960 some a little earlier. But if you're a good Santa, 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.160 and I like to think that I'm a pretty good one, 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.080 I can usually bring them back. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.960 What did you tell your kids? Eddie. Did you tell him? 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.000 I think oll of it, kind of like found out 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:51.280 on his own little bit. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.120 But what age are we talking about? 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.360 I would say like around eight to nine. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.720 Yeah, eight to nine. That's too young. You gotta keep that, 0:16:58.720 --> 0:16:59.920 you gotta keep it going longer. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.240 Yeah, keep the magic as long as you can. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.119 Did you do like children? Yes? Very much. Have you 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:05.880 always liked him? 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.320 I didn't realize how much I did until I had 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:08.720 my own. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.280 How many kids you have two? You have a six 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:13.040 year old son? 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:13.639 Yes? 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:15.440 Does he know you are Santa? 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:15.960 He does? 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.160 Does he think you're the real Sanna? 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.320 I think he knows that I'm a Santa's helper, but 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.840 that that me and all of my friends we help 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.080 Santas because he comes to some like he's come to 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.520 a Santa meeting, which you know, there'll be twenty Santa 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.680 is sitting around, and he'll walk up and he'll decide, no, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.240 this one's my favorite Santa this time, and he'll go 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.320 and just hang out with him. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.399 That's pretty cool growing up having dad as a Santa. Now, wait, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.280 let's talk about this. You're not you have a six 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.840 year old son. Some people that are watching this might 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.720 be like, wait a second, missus Claws. How young is she? 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.000 Missus Claws is considerably younger Thane. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.199 Way to go, Sanna, that sounds funny when you live 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.760 in California. Like, I'll tell you a story about myself. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.720 I have a five year old son, and among some 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.479 of his friends, I'm the old dad, you know, and 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.320 had him in my forties and my son. You can 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.800 never call me the old dad in front of my son. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.200 He will start to cry because he's processed that when 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.119 you're old, eventually you're gone. And so he doesn't like 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.040 people to call me the old dad because he thinks 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.280 that means I'll be gone sooner. That's really emotional. But 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:31.199 I I for some reason, am fascinated by it. But 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.960 I was saying here, like in Malibu, I go to 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.040 pick up and they'll be like a seventy year old 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.840 dad picking up his kindergartener and I'm like oh, and 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.840 he's just like, yeah, it was my third time doing this. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.359 You know your weight? You look like you're in pretty 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.439 decent shape. What's your playing weight Christmas Eve? What are 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.720 you tipping the scales at Christmas Eve? 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.320 When I start off, I'm about two thirty five. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.800 Oh yeah, you're not a small party. You don't look 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.359 you don't look two thirty five to me. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.119 Well, I'm to eat down too, and some change. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.800 I get you. So, what's the biggest you've ever been 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:05.560 in your life? 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:06.680 About two thirty five? 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.159 So you're not going to put on any weight for this? No, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.360 do you wear? Did you wear any extra stuffing? 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:12.800 No? 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:14.640 Is that frowned upon? 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.679 No? They are sentas that do it. My view of 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.880 it is I diet for an entire year and then 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.399 Christmas Eve I eat eight billion cookies. That's why all 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.600 the photos you see of me when I'm so gigantic. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.639 You work out? Yeah, what's your workout? 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.720 We have a peloton at home. I have dumbbells and kettlebells. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.280 I used to run a lot, but I've discovered that 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.480 that actually strips too much weight off of me. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.920 So you don't want to be you don't want to 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:43.359 be lean. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.920 I don't want to be a ripped Santa. There are 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.080