Speaker 1: If you could do me one favor, I'd really love
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with Sanna. Is that possible.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I can make that happen.
Speaker 1: Daniel Kasha Cosha show show you scumbag, ye maggot, you
Speaker 1: cheap lousy, Welcome to dash Show. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: You know that song, Eddie, I've only heard it when
Speaker 3: you pointed it out.
Speaker 1: To you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap blousy. Now, in fairness,
Speaker 1: there is a new version where they say you're a
Speaker 1: cheap ben I've had it. That's how they That's how
Speaker 1: they get away from the problematic original version that had
Speaker 1: hate speech. Yep, just right there for all to sing
Speaker 1: in harmony together. What's the song called Somebody in New York?
Speaker 1: Fairy Tale of New York, fairy Tale of New York,
Speaker 1: emphasis on fairy different time, different times when that was
Speaker 1: re recorded in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, not so long ago.
Speaker 1: Actually, hey, for our Christmas episode, my son I saved
Speaker 1: one of his bedtime stories from when he was three
Speaker 1: that we used to air at the end of every episode.
Speaker 1: I saved one of them that was Christmas themed. Gonna
Speaker 1: play it at the end of this episode.
Speaker 2: Thanks gift.
Speaker 1: What a gift for all anyway, so excited about Christmas,
Speaker 1: so many traditions. Eddie is a part of my Christmas.
Speaker 1: Every year we do the white Elephant, big Christmas Eve party.
Speaker 1: We get some bad barbecue and we all meet at
Speaker 1: my house and we do the white Elephant. But this
Speaker 1: year Eddie's not shown.
Speaker 3: Up going to see my family in Texas.
Speaker 1: Why Christmas isn't in Texas. We've had some pretty good
Speaker 1: white elephants. Now one year. I'm just gonna go through
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that your family has gone home
Speaker 1: with a authentic digerido. Your daughter got that, your son
Speaker 1: once got for me, a key West lighter with some
Speaker 1: titties on it that light up, and uh, fifty dollars
Speaker 1: in cash.
Speaker 3: That was a good one.
Speaker 1: I always go for gifts that people are gonna want
Speaker 1: to steal right away and get angry about. And getting
Speaker 1: your two kids to fight at against each other is
Speaker 1: always fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mia definitely wanted a fifty.
Speaker 1: Well, sure there's fifty dollars in cash, all in ones
Speaker 1: fresh wad. They're like, look at this good. Well, the
Speaker 1: thing is, we don't really put a limit on the gifts,
Speaker 1: so it's funny. Like my brother shows up his family.
Speaker 1: They just stop at a gas station on the way
Speaker 1: up and hahaha, look at this garbage. Nobody wants it.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: I put some time into the White Elephant gift and
Speaker 1: one year I had a cool retro jacket and my
Speaker 1: brother in law, when he was a child in his underwear.
Speaker 1: I had it put on the back of this jacket.
Speaker 1: It was real sexy. He just got like a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old boy in his underwear on the back of
Speaker 1: your jacket. Well, for some reason, Eddie's daughter went crazy
Speaker 1: over it.
Speaker 3: Mea got it? Really, who you cannot wear this school?
Speaker 3: You can't wear this at Well.
Speaker 1: The funny thing was she was just so excited by
Speaker 1: this little boy and his underwear. And then we're like,
Speaker 1: you know that little boy is this man that's sitting
Speaker 1: right across from us right now?
Speaker 3: What's funny?
Speaker 1: She had no she had no idea. She was humiliated.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't Actually I didn't
Speaker 1: know you were a real person. What other traditions do
Speaker 1: we have?
Speaker 3: We still got that good puzzle?
Speaker 1: Oh that was right. We did a puzzle one year.
Speaker 1: We took a photo of my wife's cousin from when
Speaker 1: she was trying to be sexy like a homecoming dance,
Speaker 1: and we had that blown up and put into a puzzle.
Speaker 1: That's a good gift if you take somebody's ridiculous childhood
Speaker 1: photos and turn them into a puzzle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, one's still in the cabin. We rent it
Speaker 3: to people. They probably do that puzzle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you leave that puzzle out. Let people enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Keep thinking about that song. My favorite, my favorite Christmas song,
Speaker 1: like modern Christmas song. I like that that Liam Payne
Speaker 1: song alright, p rip. I also like that cold Play
Speaker 1: song Christmas Lights. Those Christmas lights light up the hey, ugh,
Speaker 1: you know what song I like what the Little Drummer
Speaker 1: Boy for King and Country. You ever listen to their version? No?
Speaker 1: Is that what it's called for Kings and Country? For
Speaker 1: King and Country whatever. It's real intense, it's big, got
Speaker 1: a big swell ooh. I love a little drummer boy.
Speaker 1: I've always kind of seen myself as a little drummer boy.
Speaker 1: All this Christmas talk has got me into the holiday spirit.
Speaker 1: And you won't believe who we got as a guest.
Speaker 1: Enjoy Pasha, my guest today sees you when you're sleeping
Speaker 1: and knows when you're awake. Like Schindler, he keeps the
Speaker 1: list of people's names that are nice and naughty. Please welcome,
Speaker 1: my fellow cookie enthusiast. It is jolly old Saint Nick
Speaker 1: aka TJ.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Daniel well?
Speaker 1: Other than Christmas, past, present and future? Do you believe
Speaker 1: in ghosts? Yes, you really do, TJ.
Speaker 2: I really do. My family saw one when I was.
Speaker 1: A kid, when you were a kid, did you see it?
Speaker 2: All four of us?
Speaker 1: Did you you saw it as well?
Speaker 2: Yes, we were driving on a road in Texas called
Speaker 2: Highway sixty seven and we saw a cowboy walking a
Speaker 2: horse on the side of the road and as we
Speaker 2: close to it, he dissolved in the mist.
Speaker 1: I mean, has a great story.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not believable at all, but I love it.
Speaker 2: It was one of those things, all four of us,
Speaker 2: What did you see?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: What did you see? What did you see? What did
Speaker 2: you see? Everybody's like, well, this is what I saw.
Speaker 1: So you on your way to Midland.
Speaker 2: Mid Lothian, little small town south of Dallas Fort.
Speaker 1: Worth, All right, talk about your hometown.
Speaker 2: Uh, mid Lothian, Texas. When I left there in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: It population was thirty five hundred. It's now population is
Speaker 2: thirty five thousand. It's exploded. It used to be known
Speaker 2: as the cement capital of the world. Oh, that was
Speaker 2: it's claim to fame because it was on a limestone
Speaker 2: ridge that produced top quality concrete.
Speaker 1: I guess how was your childhood there?
Speaker 2: It was great. I mean I lived on about two
Speaker 2: and a half acres. We could go out and essentially
Speaker 2: walk across the street and go hunting rabbits or go
Speaker 2: fishing in the numerous ponds out there.
Speaker 1: And do you have siblings?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have one brother that I grew up with,
Speaker 2: and then he's technically a half brother, but he's my brother.
Speaker 2: And then I have another brother and sister that I
Speaker 2: didn't meet until I was twenty eight.
Speaker 1: How was that meeting?
Speaker 2: That was cool? It was just like, oh, okay, so
Speaker 2: here we are.
Speaker 1: You were in the Navy for eleven years, Thank you
Speaker 1: for your service. For part of that you were stationed
Speaker 1: at the South Pole. Yep, that's a little ironic, don't
Speaker 1: you think.
Speaker 2: It's often funny how life throws little curveballs at us.
Speaker 2: And that was one of the biggest curveballs of all.
Speaker 2: I lived at the South Pole and work at the
Speaker 2: North Pole.
Speaker 1: How was the South Pole?
Speaker 2: It's a stark, desolate beauty like you wouldn't believe. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's mine numbingly cold obviously, but everything is blue white
Speaker 2: or a shade thereof and you just look around and
Speaker 2: as the sun setting, which you know it only does once,
Speaker 2: it kind of does this wave in the sky as
Speaker 2: it's going by until it finally sets completely. I loved it.
Speaker 1: It was it really Yeah. How long were you there?
Speaker 2: I did three summers and then one full year.
Speaker 1: The seat when you go from the tip of South
Speaker 1: America too, I mean it's it's uh, that's some really
Speaker 1: rough seas through there, isn't it. Mm hmm. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's That's a I've actually wanted to go. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't ever want to go any place, but I've
Speaker 1: always thought that I'd like to go to the South Pole. Eh,
Speaker 1: how'd you first decide to be a Santa?
Speaker 2: My daughter, who was an Irish dancer, she's just a
Speaker 2: general dancer, if you will now. Her dance teacher, Maggie
Speaker 2: Cleary from Cleary Irish Dance told me, tej you are
Speaker 2: going to be a Santa this year. And when Maggie
Speaker 2: tells you to do something, we call it being voluntold hu.
Speaker 2: And so I was like, you know, okay, Maggie and
Speaker 2: I went and bought a suit, grew my beard for
Speaker 2: about two and a half months, and everybody there thought
Speaker 2: I was the greatest Santa ever. I mean I bought
Speaker 2: an amaz SUITO. It was nothing special, but everyone just
Speaker 2: and people were like, oh my god, that Santa was amazing.
Speaker 2: And I was like, you know, it was me right,
Speaker 2: and I fell in love with it.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I went and I watched every video. I went on
Speaker 2: YouTube and watched everything. I watched every Christmas movie. I
Speaker 2: found out who all the players were. I went to
Speaker 2: two Santa schools that year.
Speaker 1: Santa School. Yeah, man, all right, talk to me about that.
Speaker 1: You attended Charles W. Howard Santa School in Michigan in
Speaker 1: case you didn't get in. Did you have a backup
Speaker 1: Santa School?
Speaker 2: There are at least five Santa schools that I know
Speaker 2: of in America.
Speaker 1: How long is the program?
Speaker 2: It's two to four days, okay, And but I mean
Speaker 2: you go over, they teach you some sign language, and
Speaker 2: they teach you how to do a proper ho ho ho.
Speaker 2: They teach you how to do your hair, your beard.
Speaker 1: Was it enjoyable?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It really was.
Speaker 1: Any black Santa's there, yes, okay, how about women, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: we're allowed. We're having female Santas now.
Speaker 2: There are at least three that I know here in
Speaker 2: southern California.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. They're probably going to
Speaker 1: be asked to stop this Christmas.
Speaker 2: They're very good. The thing is, you wouldn't know that
Speaker 2: they're when they're in there full on Santa persona. You
Speaker 2: would not know that they are of the fairer sex.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. You studied under Timothy Conahan m okay, who was
Speaker 1: inducted into the Santa Hall of Fame. Yeah, what mall
Speaker 1: is that in.
Speaker 2: The Santa Hall of Fame is in Santa Claus, Indiana. Actually, uh.
Speaker 2: And Tim is brilliant at this. He's I kind of
Speaker 2: aspire to have the career he's had. He does the
Speaker 2: tree lightings at Rockefeller Center, he's been on stage with
Speaker 2: Mariah Carey, He's gone to the White House and been Santa.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't be too inaccurate in saying he's the top
Speaker 2: of the heap right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, what does it cost to attend a Santa school.
Speaker 2: Depends on the school, anywhere from three hundred to six.
Speaker 1: Hundred they put you up.
Speaker 2: No. Tim Conahan has had his school here twice and
Speaker 2: I've gone both times. But the place he had it
Speaker 2: was literally nine miles from my house. So is wake up,
Speaker 2: go to school?
Speaker 1: What are the guidelines a person must follow to be
Speaker 1: Santa Is? Is there a code of conduct?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I mean we all do background checks and
Speaker 2: get full insurance and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Well the insurance, what's that to cover?
Speaker 2: It covers if you get hurt, if somebody else gets
Speaker 2: hurt on the set while you're there. There is, you know,
Speaker 2: unfortunately required these days, an anti molestation writer on it.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, I mean I was hoping that that
Speaker 1: was on there now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: What do you look for when you're judging if another
Speaker 1: there's Sanna is a good Santa or not?
Speaker 2: Generally you can't really tell without a conversation, but you
Speaker 2: can sort of get that Santa heart vibe from them
Speaker 2: if they have it or if they don't. And I
Speaker 2: mean there's some Santas that are absolutely phenomenal, But I mean,
Speaker 2: if you've taken the time to get a good suit
Speaker 2: and put the red suit on. Odds, are your heart's
Speaker 2: in the right place, because it's it's not an inexpensive endeavor.
Speaker 1: What you read on Eddie as a Santa. I've had
Speaker 1: him dress up for my kids before. Completely they had
Speaker 1: no idea, they lost their mind. My nephew's nieces, they
Speaker 1: all loved it.
Speaker 2: Brief meeting with Eddie and from the conversations I've had,
Speaker 2: I think he'd be pretty good at.
Speaker 1: It, all right. There is the Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas.
Speaker 1: That is, of course, if you're are you allowed to
Speaker 1: discuss this?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay? Well, I don't know. I don't know if there's rule.
Speaker 1: It's a real thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's there's two groups, the International Brotherhood of Real
Speaker 2: Bearded Santa's and the Eternal Order of Real beard at Santas,
Speaker 2: and I'm a member of both.
Speaker 1: I know the Fraternal Order of Police. I remember doing
Speaker 1: telemarketing for them when I was a kid. How long
Speaker 1: if you shaved down clean would it take you to
Speaker 1: get back?
Speaker 2: About eighteen months to get to this level. But I
Speaker 2: could get a Santa passable beard in about six.
Speaker 1: Mm hm, six months? Do you when's the last time
Speaker 1: you went.
Speaker 2: Clean October twenty third, two thousand and two. That was
Speaker 2: my high school reunion. That's why I remember I shaved
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't grow beard. This is as good as I
Speaker 1: tried to grow this out for you. It's it's sad.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never been able to really grow proper
Speaker 1: facial hair. What do you think of these Santas that
Speaker 1: don't have the real beard?
Speaker 2: The ability to grow facial hair does not make you
Speaker 2: a Santa. It's it's nice and I mean, I love
Speaker 2: the fact that I can put this on, and so
Speaker 2: when a kid comes up and gives me the Natalie
Speaker 2: wood Ed Gwynn tug, I can Yeah, it's really glued
Speaker 2: on there. You don't look down on them, huh, not
Speaker 2: at all. I have a one of my better Santa friends,
Speaker 2: James Dinwoodie, is a designer bearded Santa we call him,
Speaker 2: and he when he puts his beard on, he looks
Speaker 2: top notch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once you put the suit on, is you're like,
Speaker 1: are you? How different does your persona become?
Speaker 2: I'm a little jollier. I think I like to think
Speaker 2: I'm a reasonably nice person, but I think i'm even nicer.
Speaker 2: I'm you know, very attuned to other people. I'm more attuned,
Speaker 2: possibly to other people's feelings. I think in the suit
Speaker 2: I can just I read body language better. I feel like,
Speaker 2: as silly as that sounds, it's just you pay attention
Speaker 2: and you just notice when people are really you know, comfortable.
Speaker 2: If there's anything that they're not comfortable with, you know,
Speaker 2: you notice it and figure out how to work around
Speaker 2: it and make them more comfortable.
Speaker 1: Are kids afraid of you or you are? Because some
Speaker 1: people don't have that ability to I don't know, so
Speaker 1: you know, some people we are just better at making
Speaker 1: kids feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: My wife calls me the baby whisper. They all seem
Speaker 2: to like me. And even the ones you get two
Speaker 2: to three is the age where they're like, nah, I
Speaker 2: ain't going to seeing the big red guy with the beard.
Speaker 2: Even them, I'm usually able to get a great photo
Speaker 2: for their parents.
Speaker 1: Have you seen people lines get a little you know,
Speaker 1: people getting out of control.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say out of control. I've seen people get
Speaker 2: you know, a little testy, but it's you know, as
Speaker 2: soon as they get back up to me, they realize
Speaker 2: I don't want to be on the naughty list. It's funny.
Speaker 2: Even adults behave better around me when I'm in the suit.
Speaker 1: Have you heard heartbreaking stories from kids on your lap?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why it's not. Don't read my
Speaker 1: smile the wrong way, but I just I can't imagine
Speaker 1: what that's like.
Speaker 2: It's my grandmother passed away a week ago, ken, and
Speaker 2: I said, I know she did. She loves you, my
Speaker 2: reindeer and I fly very high, and I will give
Speaker 2: her any message you want.
Speaker 1: What about getting the parents back together?
Speaker 2: Is that still a wish that sometimes happens? And when
Speaker 2: it comes to that, I tell them Santa's magic is
Speaker 2: mostly toys. Here's the thing to remember. Your mom still
Speaker 2: loves you, your dad still loves you, and Santa loves you.
Speaker 1: You should just keep going, just full, just interrogate him
Speaker 1: and pick sides like I think your dad's what age?
Speaker 1: Do you notice some kids stop believing?
Speaker 2: They tend to the ten year old eight nine to
Speaker 2: ten year old range. Usually some last a little longer,
Speaker 2: some a little earlier. But if you're a good Santa,
Speaker 2: and I like to think that I'm a pretty good one,
Speaker 2: I can usually bring them back.
Speaker 1: What did you tell your kids? Eddie. Did you tell him?
Speaker 3: I think oll of it, kind of like found out
Speaker 3: on his own little bit.
Speaker 1: But what age are we talking about?
Speaker 3: I would say like around eight to nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, eight to nine. That's too young. You gotta keep that,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep it going longer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep the magic as long as you can.
Speaker 1: Did you do like children? Yes? Very much. Have you
Speaker 1: always liked him?
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much I did until I had
Speaker 2: my own.
Speaker 1: How many kids you have two? You have a six
Speaker 1: year old son?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Does he know you are Santa?
Speaker 2: He does?
Speaker 1: Does he think you're the real Sanna?
Speaker 2: I think he knows that I'm a Santa's helper, but
Speaker 2: that that me and all of my friends we help
Speaker 2: Santas because he comes to some like he's come to
Speaker 2: a Santa meeting, which you know, there'll be twenty Santa
Speaker 2: is sitting around, and he'll walk up and he'll decide, no,
Speaker 2: this one's my favorite Santa this time, and he'll go
Speaker 2: and just hang out with him.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool growing up having dad as a Santa. Now, wait,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this. You're not you have a six
Speaker 1: year old son. Some people that are watching this might
Speaker 1: be like, wait a second, missus Claws. How young is she?
Speaker 2: Missus Claws is considerably younger Thane.
Speaker 1: Way to go, Sanna, that sounds funny when you live
Speaker 1: in California. Like, I'll tell you a story about myself.
Speaker 1: I have a five year old son, and among some
Speaker 1: of his friends, I'm the old dad, you know, and
Speaker 1: had him in my forties and my son. You can
Speaker 1: never call me the old dad in front of my son.
Speaker 1: He will start to cry because he's processed that when
Speaker 1: you're old, eventually you're gone. And so he doesn't like
Speaker 1: people to call me the old dad because he thinks
Speaker 1: that means I'll be gone sooner. That's really emotional. But
Speaker 1: I I for some reason, am fascinated by it. But
Speaker 1: I was saying here, like in Malibu, I go to
Speaker 1: pick up and they'll be like a seventy year old
Speaker 1: dad picking up his kindergartener and I'm like oh, and
Speaker 1: he's just like, yeah, it was my third time doing this.
Speaker 1: You know your weight? You look like you're in pretty
Speaker 1: decent shape. What's your playing weight Christmas Eve? What are
Speaker 1: you tipping the scales at Christmas Eve?
Speaker 2: When I start off, I'm about two thirty five.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're not a small party. You don't look
Speaker 1: you don't look two thirty five to me.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm to eat down too, and some change.
Speaker 1: I get you. So, what's the biggest you've ever been
Speaker 1: in your life?
Speaker 2: About two thirty five?
Speaker 1: So you're not going to put on any weight for this? No,
Speaker 1: do you wear? Did you wear any extra stuffing?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Is that frowned upon?
Speaker 2: No? They are sentas that do it. My view of
Speaker 2: it is I diet for an entire year and then
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve I eat eight billion cookies. That's why all
Speaker 2: the photos you see of me when I'm so gigantic.
Speaker 1: You work out? Yeah, what's your workout?
Speaker 2: We have a peloton at home. I have dumbbells and kettlebells.
Speaker 2: I used to run a lot, but I've discovered that
Speaker 2: that actually strips too much weight off of me.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to be you don't want to
Speaker 1: be lean.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a ripped Santa. There are
Speaker 2: some there are several Santas that could take the sleeves
Speaker 2: off of their red suits and you'd be like, hey,
Speaker 2: gum Santa.
Speaker 1: You wear a Malsanta just one year? What's the pay
Speaker 1: structure for malsandas? What could a high end mall Santa
Speaker 1: pull in for the season, and how long is the season?
Speaker 2: The season can be anywhere from November first to about
Speaker 2: November fifteenth to January first.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait January first.
Speaker 2: There are people that don't do Christmas. Some of the
Speaker 2: Eastern European areas they do New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought people were like coming to you with
Speaker 1: complaints or returns. Not first year mal Santa. What's he
Speaker 1: pulling in.
Speaker 2: Depends on where he is. But like I had the
Speaker 2: pike down in Long Beach and we don't like to
Speaker 2: talk about money, but I made over seventy five an hour.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm okay, and now privates, that's when the money
Speaker 1: starts to get interesting. You can make a good it's
Speaker 1: a good side hustle. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2: It's very fair to say. There are Santas who are
Speaker 2: definitively making six figures.
Speaker 1: Off just being a Santa Claus being said, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what you want. You want Santa to
Speaker 1: get paid. Is there a pecking order of the gigs
Speaker 1: that you want? Like, you've done some pretty great You've
Speaker 1: had some pretty good gigs, La Rams. Are you there
Speaker 1: at your official Santa Claus.
Speaker 2: I'm not their official one, but I'm going to be
Speaker 2: at their family party on the twenty third, and they
Speaker 2: have a home game, I believe the twenty second, And
Speaker 2: while they tend to be somewhat late in their booking,
Speaker 2: I have left that specific window open for them.
Speaker 1: Do you hate the Chargers?
Speaker 2: Now? The Chargers were to call me up and say
Speaker 2: We've got two home games, and I'd be like, and
Speaker 2: this year I'd have to say, I'm sorry you waited
Speaker 2: too long.
Speaker 1: You work with the same assistant Elves or is that
Speaker 1: just random?
Speaker 2: The Rams I have the same ELF, but private party
Speaker 2: sometimes they'll book Elves differently. Last year I had a
Speaker 2: private party that had five little people as Elves, and
Speaker 2: I didn't know it going in, So I walked in
Speaker 2: and went, Okay, this is the coolest.
Speaker 1: Thing ever you ever seen? This video? It's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite videos. It's Mike Tyson and this little person
Speaker 1: he's twenty seven, comes up to him and Mike doesn't
Speaker 1: know that it's a little person and just starts holding
Speaker 1: them and snuggling them and giving them kisses, and the
Speaker 1: guys like trying to beat them off, like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: twenty seven, and Mike's like, baby, it's just delight. Every
Speaker 1: time I watch that video, I can just laugh for
Speaker 1: the next fifteen minutes. You might have no idea.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to be in up YouTube when I
Speaker 2: leave here.
Speaker 1: You'll like it. You'll like it. Let's say your calendar's
Speaker 1: wide open. How much for you to show up Christmas
Speaker 1: morning and let my kids catch you leaving gifts?
Speaker 2: If you actually wanted to do that, probably five hundred bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of ruined your Christmas morning, but.
Speaker 2: Catching Santa sleeping is one that they really seem to
Speaker 2: light what Christmas morning? Come in and I'm leaning back
Speaker 2: in a chair in your house with my empty cup
Speaker 2: of cocoa or milk and some cookies left, and the
Speaker 2: kids come in, Sayara'szanna, Well.
Speaker 1: I gotta get on the sled and you get out.
Speaker 2: I hand them three four presents and I said, you
Speaker 2: want me? You want? I said, I've done my old deliveries.
Speaker 2: You were the last house. Would you like me to
Speaker 2: pass out your presents for you? Pass out all the presents.
Speaker 2: I'm there for half an hour or so.
Speaker 1: Boom gone, unbelievable. I mean, he's got your own kid
Speaker 1: to get home too. Yeah, that's nice to yea though.
Speaker 1: Are we supposed to tip too?
Speaker 2: That's entirely up to you. Some do, some don't. We've
Speaker 2: booked on a pre arranged amount. I know what that
Speaker 2: amount is. If that's what you feel my services are
Speaker 2: worth excellent?
Speaker 1: Do we go through a union? Are we going just
Speaker 1: directly to you?
Speaker 2: I have a few different people that I work with
Speaker 2: and or four, but you can go straight to my
Speaker 2: website and say I want you Christmas morning at six am,
Speaker 2: and I'll say your thing.
Speaker 1: What about what about the the whip? No, the bell?
Speaker 1: The bell? Yeah? They Salvation Army Santas.
Speaker 2: Those are mostly volunteer positions. M h. I do a
Speaker 2: lot of pro bono work in addition to paid jobs.
Speaker 2: And the guys who do Salvation Army I absolutely tip
Speaker 2: my furry hat to them. I'll never walk by a
Speaker 2: Salvation Army Santa and not put something in their bucket.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, do they look at you and go,
Speaker 1: oh wow, that's the real Santa.
Speaker 2: We generally give each other a wink.
Speaker 1: You're the official Santa of the La Zoo.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: I've recently been told that the La Zoo is one
Speaker 1: that I'm allowed to go to with my children. That
Speaker 1: they they're actually really really good, uh, with animals and
Speaker 1: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Not they they have a wonderful enrichment department. It's a
Speaker 2: great great zoo. It's actually bigger than the San Diego Zoo.
Speaker 2: It's and their enclosures are all much larger, and the
Speaker 2: animals all seem to really be content there.
Speaker 1: If you will, does Santa deal with animals too?
Speaker 2: Or no, I will deal with it depends on the animal.
Speaker 1: And you wrestle a bear, nah.
Speaker 2: No, I've scratched one behind the ears though.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There are people who have exotic pets that come
Speaker 2: to some of these events, and I've had a raccoon
Speaker 2: in my lap. I've had a possum in my lap.
Speaker 2: I've had a python wrapped around my shoulders.
Speaker 1: You ever eat reindeer? No, let's say, well, I I
Speaker 1: what's you a call? Whatever? You're in Alaska? That's like
Speaker 1: like breakfast.
Speaker 3: You order and it's like, oh, they have every reindeer sausage.
Speaker 1: Reindeer sausage is always like an option.
Speaker 2: I'm way too close to reindeer to eat them.
Speaker 1: November through December, I get the Santa stuff, but it
Speaker 1: has become more and more. It's expanding more and more
Speaker 1: of the year that you're doing these things. You do
Speaker 1: some Santa stuff in July.
Speaker 2: Christmas in July is becoming more and more popular. There's
Speaker 2: a few things that come up in January, and photo
Speaker 2: shoots actually start as early as September because people want
Speaker 2: them for the Christmas cards. I have baking Santa, I
Speaker 2: have golfing Santa. And Golfing Santa is great for like
Speaker 2: if someone's having a Fourth of July golf tournament a
Speaker 2: country club and they want somebody to hit the first
Speaker 2: ball off the tee and they don't have somebody, you know,
Speaker 2: Nicholas isn't gonna come over, so they're like, can we
Speaker 2: get Santura coming? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know so, I cause your game you spray it
Speaker 1: off the first tea.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm a hacker. I'm I would have to improve
Speaker 2: dramatically to be terrible.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be great if you if you just
Speaker 1: hit a shot and then just start swearing up a storm.
Speaker 1: I think they'd love it.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 1: No, All right, weirdest Santa gig you've ever taken.
Speaker 2: Weirdest Oh, gosh.
Speaker 1: And are there any gigs that you wouldn't take.
Speaker 2: I tend to stay away from more A don't theme
Speaker 2: stuff because it's there are there are plenty of Santas
Speaker 2: that'll do it, and I just I like being there
Speaker 2: more for the children.
Speaker 1: Right, Like, so if somebody calls you for some Hollywood
Speaker 1: sex party, you're like, all right, this is not appropriate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, I'm sorry, Santa. Is you know that's
Speaker 2: too close to one of my other bookings. I'd love
Speaker 2: to but no, thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just guessing that they've made the call before.
Speaker 1: I just found out that those things exist. I never knew.
Speaker 1: I always thought that.
Speaker 2: You never got invited.
Speaker 1: Never in my life. Favorite Christmas movie.
Speaker 2: Miracle on thirty Fourth Street, Edmund Gwynn. He laid the
Speaker 2: framework that pretty much every Santa, maybe even in the world,
Speaker 2: is following now.
Speaker 1: Favorite comedy Santa movie like Modern.
Speaker 2: Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell's pretty tough to be, is it?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 2: He's funny in it because he makes fun of some
Speaker 2: of the Santa tropes, like being really really fat, and
Speaker 2: but just he brings the Kurt Russell brand of humor.
Speaker 2: Perfectly to that role. He was a great Santa.
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy Bad Santa?
Speaker 2: No? And I only watched a little of it, and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna watch the rest of it. I'm just
Speaker 2: it's like, I know the Santa I want to be,
Speaker 2: I know what I want to portray, and I don't want.
Speaker 1: Any What about Elf? Where he at on Elf?
Speaker 2: I liked Elf?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a great movie.
Speaker 2: Was so he was an ed Asner's in the Santa
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. He's another excellent Santa underrated And my.
Speaker 1: Daughter looked like ed Asner for like the first eight
Speaker 1: months of her life. I found it very disturbing every
Speaker 1: time I looked at him, like, you look a lot
Speaker 1: like ed Asner. What about Tim Allen is Santa Claus?
Speaker 2: He was a very good Santa Claus because he managed
Speaker 2: to combine a great Santa with the persona of Tim
Speaker 2: Allen that we all know and like and you know
Speaker 2: the whole My favorite scene in that movie is when
Speaker 2: the cop is grilling him over what's his name? He said,
Speaker 2: Chris Kringle, what's your name? Centri Claus, what's your name?
Speaker 2: He got so mad at him.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite? Tim Allen persona Eddie.
Speaker 3: I like him in a Galaxy quest.
Speaker 1: No, I like him when Who's in jail?
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Where are you at on a Hallmark Christmas movies?
Speaker 2: Somebody wants me to be a Santa ane one. I'm
Speaker 2: happy to do it.
Speaker 1: They haven't asked you yet.
Speaker 2: Not yet.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's something we need to make happen. I'm
Speaker 1: a huge Hallmark Christmas fan. I just like them that
Speaker 1: they make me feel good. They're simple in the background.
Speaker 2: Simple but basic but lovely stories and the inevitably you know,
Speaker 2: somewhere in Vermont.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and be a kiss at the end. That's
Speaker 1: what I like. Does your wife get into it or
Speaker 1: is she like this is a bit much.
Speaker 2: She loves it. She adores it. When I'm Santa, she's
Speaker 2: her joke. Is I think I have a problem?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's like a real thing. You're like,
Speaker 1: she's she's in bed with Santa every night. It's fun.
Speaker 1: You drive at Tesla, a red Tesla with the license
Speaker 1: plate that says Santa on and a personalized plate. Yep,
Speaker 1: so you're you're you've embraced this completely.
Speaker 2: I love doing it. I absolutely love doing this.
Speaker 1: Daniel. One year, my son went for Halloween. He went
Speaker 1: to Santa and it was the best Halloween costume is
Speaker 1: his life because everyone everywhere he went, people just kept
Speaker 1: screaming Sanna, and he just thought he was like such
Speaker 1: a star all day. So I just imagine all day long,
Speaker 1: you're just dealing with this.
Speaker 2: I get passed on the freeway and I'll see people's
Speaker 2: break lights all of a sudden light up and they'll
Speaker 2: sloop slide up beside me, and I'll hit the autopilot
Speaker 2: roll the window down for him because I know their
Speaker 2: passenger is gonna be there with the phone and I'm
Speaker 2: you know, right there in the window.
Speaker 1: They're probably like, who's that young hot wife next to him?
Speaker 1: Business Claus is gonna be furious. Everybody's on the show, TJ.
Speaker 1: I I give him a gift. Uh, it's just I
Speaker 1: just unl o stuff from my house. It's been it's
Speaker 1: been my joke. So let's see what I have for Santa.
Speaker 1: It's also very fun to give gifts to Santam. Now,
Speaker 1: the first thing I'm given is not for you. I'm
Speaker 1: giving this to your son. Okay, this is a slot
Speaker 1: car racing. His birthday is this weekend. Gosh, so given this. Now,
Speaker 1: let me tell you why I'm giving this to you,
Speaker 1: because this was given to my son by Santa I
Speaker 1: had a slot car race as a child. I loved it,
Speaker 1: so I thought, oh, my kid will like it. And
Speaker 1: he's never once made a full lap or he refuses
Speaker 1: to let off the throttle even though I tell him
Speaker 1: every time the turns, you gotta let off the throttle
Speaker 1: a little bit. No cargoes flying. So I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: just done with it. So I just took it apart.
Speaker 1: He saw it the other day. He goes, what are
Speaker 1: you doing with that? I said, I'm giving it to
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. I'm giving it back. He's like, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta driveway that you're dealing with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, this this is a pick a ball net.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I want you to start playing. But
Speaker 1: you play pick a ball Uh.
Speaker 2: No, I've been here. It's just it seems to be
Speaker 2: like the hottest sport in the country.
Speaker 1: So well, now you got to pick a ball net,
Speaker 1: A horrible pick like that was during the pandemic. I
Speaker 1: set that up in my driveway. Uh and I played
Speaker 1: all the time, and now I don't I don't need
Speaker 1: that anymore. What else do I got for Santa? A
Speaker 1: couple of beanies to keep you warm? I don't wear beanies,
Speaker 1: not those anymore. Not here the kids, they're full of germs,
Speaker 1: and I'm guessing this new administration is never gonna let
Speaker 1: us wear a mask again. So I wanted to get
Speaker 1: rid of my mask. This is silly. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're gonna want this or not, but doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: This This is a beard trimmer with all the attachments.
Speaker 1: I've never used that. I don't have a beard. And
Speaker 1: then this is like a personal I don't know if
Speaker 1: Santa grooms down below, but that's what it's. That's what
Speaker 1: it's meant for. It's meant for all kinds of cleanup.
Speaker 1: You can use it on any it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be the unmentionables. But there's two different grumors. Neither one
Speaker 1: of those. That one might have been used on a
Speaker 1: neck line before, but this one's never been used to anyway.
Speaker 1: You'll love that. Get that off my desk, please. I
Speaker 1: think that's all I got for Santa. Do you know
Speaker 1: a lot about Santa folklore? In Saint Nicholas?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm seventeen hundred and fifty four years old. This
Speaker 2: year turned that on Mark sixteenth. I was born in Ptera,
Speaker 2: which is now part of modern day Turkey. I gradually
Speaker 2: evolved during the Reformation when they banned saints. I was
Speaker 2: technically banned, so the Germans came up with something called
Speaker 2: Christ Kendall, which literal translation is the Christ child who's
Speaker 2: bringing the presence. Christ Kendall eventually evolved through linguistics. To
Speaker 2: Chris Kringle, this is way too deep.
Speaker 1: So you know everything. You know that he was a
Speaker 1: patron saint of children, but also the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers,
Speaker 1: repentant thieves, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students in
Speaker 1: various European cities.
Speaker 2: I knew everything, I think, except the students in various
Speaker 2: europe In cities.
Speaker 1: What is what does that even me? I literally just
Speaker 1: found this out as I was reading it.
Speaker 2: But I didn't know he was the patron's saint of pawnbrokers.
Speaker 2: That's why in the old school pawn shops they used
Speaker 2: to have three balls over the door. And that's because
Speaker 2: Saint Nicholas took three bags of gold and gave it
Speaker 2: to a gentleman who couldn't afford a dowry for his daughters.
Speaker 2: And those three bags of gold became the three balls
Speaker 2: over a pawnshop.
Speaker 1: This isn't your full time gig.
Speaker 2: No, I'm a voice actor and I work at Trident
Speaker 2: Tive Equipment. We sell wholesale scuba gear. Basically, every little
Speaker 2: gadget that you have if you dive, is almost guaranteed
Speaker 2: to be made by us.
Speaker 1: I've never scuba dived.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well you ought to out here.
Speaker 1: I live in the ocean. I surf every day in
Speaker 1: my life. I've never scuba dived.
Speaker 2: See. I surfed a little bit when I was in Hawaii,
Speaker 2: but I discovered that I like diving so much better.
Speaker 2: It's just you're on top of a world that you
Speaker 2: can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I can imagine it, and I get a little claustrophobics
Speaker 1: thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, fair enough. But you know out here
Speaker 2: we have the California spiny lobster Panelerus and Eruptus delicious,
Speaker 2: and you can take seven of them a day.
Speaker 1: Do you spearfish?
Speaker 2: I used to, not so much anymore. Mostly I just
Speaker 2: it's like scallops and lobsters are my seafood of choice.
Speaker 2: If I'm going to be collecting.
Speaker 1: Myself year round, you can collect seven.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, there's a season.
Speaker 1: I got it. That's nice. I always know when that's
Speaker 1: happening because some of my neighbors are generous and they share.
Speaker 1: What about free divers? You ever deal with? You ever
Speaker 1: do any of that nonsense? H I have.
Speaker 2: But it's just like why I can put a tank
Speaker 2: on and stay down for an hour or you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's fabulous physical conditioning. And I mean I can
Speaker 2: hold my breath for three to five minutes.
Speaker 1: Hold on, we're going to stop right here. You can
Speaker 1: hold your breath for three to five minutes. That is
Speaker 1: so impressive to me. I can maybe get to a minute. Ten.
Speaker 2: You could practice it for two hours and you'd be
Speaker 2: up to two minutes.
Speaker 1: I've practiced my whole I've served my whole life. I
Speaker 1: can never I've never been able to hold my breath
Speaker 1: that long. Three to five minutes, that's forever. You can
Speaker 1: fake your death for three to five minutes. That's that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Favorite brand of wet.
Speaker 2: Suit, oh jeez, probably body glove.
Speaker 1: What's the thickest wetsuit you've ever put on.
Speaker 2: Put on a nine mil.
Speaker 1: But oh my goodness, how do you move?
Speaker 2: You kind of don't. I like the seven mil hyper
Speaker 2: stretches are best for me. I mean I find that.
Speaker 2: I get it's they have almost the mobility of a
Speaker 2: three mil, but they do give you the warmth of
Speaker 2: a seven mil.
Speaker 1: Have you ever gone gone underwater? Like under ice? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is that terrifying a little bit?
Speaker 2: A little bit? We did the polar plunge in Antarctica,
Speaker 2: so oh yeah, you cut a hole in the ice,
Speaker 2: you stripped down to absolutely nothing and put a rope
Speaker 2: around you jump in.
Speaker 1: I do it in Ta How every year I jump
Speaker 1: into the winter. Yeah nice. Oh yeah, it'll wake you up.
Speaker 1: They say think before you sink. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: slogan because apparently some people die all the time doing it.
Speaker 1: Like they jump in, they have a heart attack and
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, you're not coming back up.
Speaker 2: It's like, you wonder how penguins can do that jump.
Speaker 2: It's because the water's that gold.
Speaker 1: What's your scuba business do? During this peak Santa season.
Speaker 2: Incredibly works out well because scuba tends to slow down
Speaker 2: in November and December, so they're able to give me
Speaker 2: very generous some time off and I get to go
Speaker 2: do events, work, preschools and different stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's just weird for growing up, you know, landlocked in
Speaker 1: the middle of Texas there in Navy Scuba.
Speaker 2: Santa, I myself am often puzzled by how life works,
Speaker 2: but here we are.
Speaker 1: How long are you gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Until I am? I feel that I'm not convincing in
Speaker 2: the role, So I mean, I like to think that
Speaker 2: I've got another fifteen twenty years in me.
Speaker 1: It's one of the few jobs that you age into,
Speaker 1: not age out of, exactly, TJ. I appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: on the show, but if you could do me one favor,
Speaker 1: I'd really love to have a conversation with Santa. Is
Speaker 1: that possible.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I can make that happen.
Speaker 1: Daniel, Holy cow, All right, Santa, let's get down to
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 2: A low young Daniel.
Speaker 1: It's very nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: It's lovely to see you again. You've met me before.
Speaker 2: It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've been a big fan of yours since I
Speaker 1: can remember. Although I at one point I did find
Speaker 1: an area in my basement in Saint Louis that had
Speaker 1: a lot of gifts with a blanket piled over it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you were just being lazy and
Speaker 1: you weren't traveling with them, but.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, moms and dad's gift presents too, not
Speaker 2: my parents.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a couple questions, if you don't
Speaker 1: mind saying a favorite cookies.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's hard to top a good chuck chip.
Speaker 1: You like sea salt on it?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Yeah, it's one of those things where you want
Speaker 2: a little variety. So sometimes a little sea salt is great.
Speaker 2: Sometimes just a good clean toll house can't be beat.
Speaker 1: Well, exactly you're doing with all that milk?
Speaker 2: Well, fortunately Santa is not lacked OS intolerant, so it
Speaker 2: helps to wash down that many cooks.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I can't imagine having to drink a glass
Speaker 1: of milk just over and over. That's a either. They
Speaker 1: have that milk gallon challenge. If you can drink a
Speaker 1: gallon of milk without throwing up, it's impossible. You lie
Speaker 1: awake at night worrying about type two diabetes.
Speaker 2: No, I get quite a bit of exercise. You gotta remember,
Speaker 2: I'm going up and down chimneys all night long.
Speaker 1: Why chimneys?
Speaker 2: Well, if you don't have a chimney, I do have
Speaker 2: a magic key that'll unlike any house. But the chimney's
Speaker 2: just made for a dramatic entrance.
Speaker 1: I mean, I tell you, it just seems like there's
Speaker 1: easier ways to get into the house. Can you look
Speaker 1: into the camp and tell my son to use more
Speaker 1: than two squares of toilet paper when he's wiping, and
Speaker 1: please let him know that he needs to wipe more
Speaker 1: than one time.
Speaker 2: Hygiene is very important, young man. Be sure you get
Speaker 2: good and clean.
Speaker 3: That's a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 1: That would be a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 2: Daniel, I've been meaning to ask, how's your brother Andrew's kids,
Speaker 2: Ryan and Ada?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, well you forgot James.
Speaker 2: Well, James is on the nice list. Okay, I wasn't
Speaker 2: concerned about him the other two. You know.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair. Are you allowed to tell us
Speaker 1: who's on the list or is that completely confidential?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Well just let me s if I can read you,
Speaker 1: you tell me if the person's on a naughtier nice list.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, he's right on the borderline, okay, Jewish people.
Speaker 2: There's tons of Jewish people on the nice list.
Speaker 1: Good good to hear. I didn't know. I didn't know
Speaker 1: if there was rules. Well, listen, Santa, is there anything
Speaker 1: we can do as a society to make the world
Speaker 1: a better place? What should we be doing?
Speaker 2: Be kind? Be kind to everyone, even if you don't
Speaker 2: feel like being kind. Kindness goes so far and is
Speaker 2: in such short supply. You have one of the kindest
Speaker 2: hearts I've seen. You tried not to hide it under
Speaker 2: your sarcasm, but I know the real heart of.
Speaker 1: Daniel Ah from Santa's lips. Listen, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for making everybody's year a little more enjoyable. We appreciate
Speaker 1: everything you do, and good luck this Christmas.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Oh wait, Sanna can't leave just yet.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh my god, Oh no. I didn't ask
Speaker 1: for anything, Santa.
Speaker 2: I know, but the show did.
Speaker 1: What is it? Look at this? This is nice your son,
Speaker 1: So I don't open it now? Okay, that's really nicey.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this off my desk.
Speaker 2: This one, Daniel opens.
Speaker 1: I opened this. Open it now you can if you like.
Speaker 2: And I have something for John Good.
Speaker 1: This guy knows everybody that works on the show and
Speaker 1: for Pete. It looks like the same thing. Something for
Speaker 1: Dylan No one remembers Dylan Dylana Israel.
Speaker 2: And a little something for Eddie.
Speaker 1: Ed look at this, unbelievable. Well you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna crack mine open real quick. Here. Oh Santa,
Speaker 1: Oh look at this, but this is for your daughter.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Holy moly, this is unbelievable. It's like
Speaker 1: Christmas today. Look at this. I got a knife. I'm cool,
Speaker 1: you know what I Santa? I mean. I don't mean
Speaker 1: to brag, but as a father, I always make sure
Speaker 1: that any gift you leave that I completely set it
Speaker 1: up and batteries in, completely assemble it, unhook it from
Speaker 1: everything so that when they open it, it's not a
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen minute ordeal. Oh look at this, Oh, Santa,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. You got me a mug. It
Speaker 1: takes me so long. North Pole poll hot Chocolate Santa
Speaker 1: Claus approved. Well that's really sweetie.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you, sir. Probably ought to open that much
Speaker 2: to opening.
Speaker 1: Do I need a knife for this one?
Speaker 2: No? That one. You should be able to just tear
Speaker 2: right into.
Speaker 1: This looks like like you're giving me a flag for
Speaker 1: like one of my oh oh, look at this.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna have a mug, you need something to
Speaker 2: drink out of it.
Speaker 1: Hot cocoa bombs and then nice. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and everybody on the show on behalf of them. Thank
Speaker 1: you absolutely can I can I get I ask for
Speaker 1: a big ho ho ho. Merry Christmas, Daniel, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'll see you Christmas Eve, but you'd better not see me.
Speaker 1: Casha, Thank you, TJ, and thank you Santa. That was
Speaker 1: a real treat to have you guys on the show.
Speaker 1: By the way, his gifts. I had one of those bombs,
Speaker 1: those hot chocolate bombs. They were delicious. Now, the problem
Speaker 1: I had, I don't mean to complain to Santa, is
Speaker 1: at they really stayed congealed at the bottom of the mug.
Speaker 1: It didn't fully dissolve it. It almost couldn't, but I mean,
Speaker 1: but it tasted well. I don't even like things that
Speaker 1: have marshmallows built in, but they they pretty much disintegrated,
Speaker 1: so that was fine. We got some plugs to do
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Speaker 1: Saint Dan Santya. And now from the vault, an unreleased
Speaker 1: bedtime story from my son, I saved a couple. You
Speaker 1: didn't know this was coming. I mean you did at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show because I said it. But you're excited.
Speaker 1: Here we go. You thought that chapter of this show
Speaker 1: was over. No, I still got a few. Here's a
Speaker 1: Christmas bedtime story.
Speaker 4: Give me a good time in the saul Sawt Sawt
Speaker 4: sau Away City where two little elsies they sane insane,
Speaker 4: but one of the elk didn't know what is honey.
Speaker 4: They sounded wind Deal and the name was food Gin
Speaker 4: Rain Deal, but David didn't know what her name was.
Speaker 4: So they wandered around and then they was so sob
Speaker 4: that the bad guy Gadyway har it was boat that
Speaker 4: we was seeing and night got the Pope Frederick Tis
Speaker 4: but one sin, we sounded true, we sounded peaks in
Speaker 4: the tune?
Speaker 1: Is that the end of the story. I don't understand
Speaker 1: any of the end