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Our American Stories

The Night a Child Met the “Real Santa”

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Our American Stories listener Roger Latham grew up believing Santa was just a story—until one Christmas when someone unexpected changed everything. Roger shares the memory that helped him understand why kindness sometimes shows up in the plainest clothes and why he never forgot the man he came to call the real Santa.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:14.3

And we continue with our American stories.

0:17.9

And it's Christmas season, and we're delivering you Christmas stories.

0:22.0

Next, we have Roger Latham from Fort Worth, Texas, telling us a Christmas story.

0:27.6

He's titled The Real Santa.

0:29.7

Let's take a listen.

0:32.6

It was a Monday evening wind while driving home from the office on a cold December day, I turned

0:38.9

on the local radio station, eager to listen to some Christmas music. I heard Bing sing white

0:45.9

Christmas, Nat off her old Holy Night, and Elvis pink the color of blue on Bing's fluffy snow.

0:53.4

It was great.

0:55.5

Then came a break in the melodic melodies of the season,

0:58.6

and an announcer came on the air.

1:03.3

Hope you all are ready for a wonderful Christmas,

1:06.1

and that our music is helping create the magic of the season.

1:10.2

One family in our city is, however, in need of some help.

1:14.9

He called in today and told us his eight-year-old son asked Santa for a bicycle,

1:20.6

and then he had no money to buy one.

1:23.2

Can anyone help?

1:24.9

If there is a Santa in our audience, please call.

1:28.0

He gave the number.

1:29.9

His words were a bowl pulled across my Christmas Stradivarius, and I called.

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