A Professional Santa Claus

12/20/23 • 30 min

Refurbishing old sleighs, reviewing advance dossiers on kids, and going to “Santa School" with Larry Jefferson, a professional Santa Claus based in Dallas. How does he handle situations when kids ask for something Santa could never grant? And what would a kid have to do to get coal?
Music credit:
"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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12/20/23 • 30 min

What It's Like To Be... - A Professional Santa Claus

Transcript

Dan Heath:
Hey, folks. So this is a special Christmas edition of What It's Like to Be. I wanted to give a quick warning to parents in case there are any kids in the backseat listening. In this episode, we discuss the existence of Santa Claus, wink, wink. Larry Jefferson is a professional Santa Claus. And just like the real Santa Claus, he flies all over the place in December, including to the Mall of America in Minnesota, that's the biggest mall in the country. An old Gap store there has be

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