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What It's Like To Be...

A Professional Santa Claus

What It's Like To Be...

Dan Heath

Curiosity, Jobs, Careers, Business, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Human Interest

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

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) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License GOT A COMMENT OR SUGGESTION? Email us at [email protected] WANT TO B...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, so this is a special Christmas edition of what it's like to be. I wanted to give a

0:05.4

quick warning to parents in case there are any kids in the backseat listening. In this episode,

0:10.5

we discuss the existence of Santa Claus, wink, wink. Larry Jefferson is a professional

0:17.9

Santa Claus. And just like the real Santa Claus, he flies all over the place in December, including to the

0:24.6

Mall of America in Minnesota.

0:27.1

That's the biggest mall in the country.

0:29.2

An old Gap Store there has been converted into Santa's workshop.

0:34.4

Larry has his own private dressing room where he transforms into Santa Larry.

0:40.4

I normally yell out, Alexa, play Christmas music. And then my Alexa starts playing Christmas

0:47.6

music. And I'll start listening to that Christmas music and getting a little bit more jolly.

0:54.9

And I start putting on my Santa suit.

0:57.2

And it takes me less than 30 minutes.

1:00.3

I'll a touch of makeup here and there.

1:02.3

And make sure the beard is combed and the hair is combed.

1:05.9

And everything is lined up from the hat to the belt to the boot buckles.

1:13.2

He'll spend hours talking with kids and posing for pictures. You can probably see his smiling white bearded face in thousands of

1:19.5

Instagram and Facebook posts. Now, is that a grind for you or do you enjoy every minute of it?

1:26.0

Oh, no, it's not a grind for me because I have my inserts in my boots.

1:30.6

That helps Santa out.

1:32.7

Tricks of the trade.

1:34.1

Yes.

1:34.8

I tell people have inserts.

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