Christmas as an Everyday State of Mind

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortes. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortes. Welcome back to

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the Working in a Purpose Show.
Thank you tuning in again this week.

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I'm your host, Elise Cortes.
Join you live from Dallas, which is

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I'm glad we're connected. Thanks for
listening, and now onto this week's program,

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which is very very special, believe
it or not. With us right

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here in my home office studio are
none other than Santa Roni and Missus Clause.

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Oh Hello, Ry, very Christmas. Truly special guests help us bring

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in the holidays whatever you celebrate.
We also have a few excited guests around

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us in the studio and we're broadcasting
on Facebook live stream and near to the

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live show, we'll be talking about
the magic of the season, living in

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the spirit throughout the whole year can
make us happier and healthier people, and

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of course taking questions from their respective
audiences. Santa Rroni and Missus Clause welcome

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to working on purpose. Thank you
much. I guess we're so excited then,

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especially Missus Claus right first appearance here. Well, I have to tell

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our listeners how of course it is
that I have a connection to Santa Claus

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and missus Claus really quick story.
So in December of twenty sixteen, I

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took my daughter to a Christmas opera
because I'm part of the opera here,

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and of course here was Santa Claus
sitting there. It's a kid's event.

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And I immediately had two great ideas, and so I made a beeline to

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Santa Claus, sat right down in
his lap, put my arm around his

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neck, and I said, Santa, I got two things for you,

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and you said, shoot. I
said, yes too, And what's the

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first thing? And I said,
I said, I've met a very good

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girl this year, and I want
you to bring me a man. You

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said, well, let's talk about
that. Are you sure you're ready?

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So we got into this fantastic philosophical
conversation. We talked about love and everything

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else, and then you said,
well, wait, wait a minute.

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What was the second thing you wanted
to ask me? And I said,

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oh, I want you to be
on my radio show. And you're like,

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oh, yeah, down, that's
easy. Well about that time,

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I feel this dark shab jab on
my shoulder and I look up and it's

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the woman from the opera and she's
got her hands on her hips and she

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says Ohlice. There are children waiting
to talk to Santa Claus. Well,

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please get up. So that is
how my relationship started. I immediately had

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him on the show a few weeks
later, and that is how the magic

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started for me. Missus Klaus was
in the studio as well, fielding her

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question. So, welcome back to
work. Do you remember the bang of

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the opera I becoming Santa Claus.
I was in the place at the rat

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you absolutely were, and so this
audience here is thrilled, thrilled to have

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you. I'm going to start by
just asking a couple of questions and then

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you all can please weigh in with
whatever burning questions that you've got. Sure,

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okay, so the first thing,
you know, I have to ask

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you and this is doom for everybody. So from I like you, from

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each of you, Missus Klaus and
Santa Claus. What does the Christmas?

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What does Christmas mean to you?
Well? Ladies? First in, well,

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Christmas means to me that joy and
love and family and just being the

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together and just experiencing people just kind
of become different during the holiday season and

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the love that they share with each
other and the gentle relationships that are formed,

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and just I like Christmas because I
get to go off with Santa Claus

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all the time. I get to
leave the North Pole and I leave the

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elves and we just go and have
a good time during the holidays. We

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always have a lot of fun together
and she gets to come and experience the

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things that I do during Christmas.
And you know, for Santa I have

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a different perspective than most people because
I get to look into the eyes of

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the little children, and for me
that it makes my heart new round of

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flip flops when I see children who
like their eyes are their they look like

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they're hurting or something. But if
I can bring some joy and some peace

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there, their eyes just lit up
like magic. And that is what that

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That's the gift that I get out
of Christmas too. Just a few words

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can encourage a child so much,
and really, in reality that that's why

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we're here, is to be encouragers
of one another and not discourage, you

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know so much. We're like breaking
balls sometimes and I see that in these

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children. So Christmas is about giving
them that hope that anything's possible. And

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I just don't want to ever tarnish
that look of Christmas, right that's where

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anything's possible, where you have that
hope and that we're kids have those dreams

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of what their future looks like.
So that that to me is Christmas and

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just thread and joy. And the
more I give, the more I get

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back and return. So it's it's
just reciprocal. That's the way it works.

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So you don't have fils to give
it. Give a present makes you

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feel good, isn't it. I
like giving presents better than I get it

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like getting them, I think yes, really, But speaking of that,

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if you would, Santa Claus and
Missus Claus, one of the things that

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I loved what you do during the
course of years you go into hospitals and

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schools and you talk with six children, and you talk with children, talk

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about some of those experiences and share
what that's like. There's one of the

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first times I went into a hospital. It was a Ronald McDonald's house and

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there was a little boy there,
maybe in his teens, and what do

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you think, Missus Klaus, maybe
weighed seventy pounds or so. And you

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know, there's some things that Santa
just doesn't build in the workshop. Okay,

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But like I say, I like
to get on my knees in the

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morning and live in thanksgiving and thank
God for a new day and thanking for

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the evening. The encounters I had
during the day, and the people but

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I encountered, so I just prayed
for them and thank God that he put

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them in my life. Look here
like a leaf put her in my life.

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And Missus Claus, and there's other
people sitting at the table, never

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met him before, But I'm excited
to talk to them face to face and

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not over one of these things right
here just telephone, face to face,

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you know, looking right in the
nice So it's a good conversation there.

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What about you, Missus Klaus.
What I really liked about going to the

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schools except they're getting here. I
got to go with Santa to a school

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just last week, and the children
was so excited to see him. And

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sometimes some kids would come along that
just they just didn't think Santa was cool

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enough for them. But once they
looked him in the eyes, that little

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sparkle came back again, and the
hope came back because they didn't seem to

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have a whole lot when they first
walked up sitting with Santa Claus and talking

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with him, looking him in the
eyes, that little hope, that little

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glisten, that little Christmas spirit just
it just came back. It was beautiful

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that and Santa did the dad too. Oh he did do the dad like

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that, and they're like, oh, he's kind of cool. We could

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do the dad. I didn't know
what it was, just somebody told me.

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I learned it every day to Santa
Claus. You have this great praise

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that you shared on the air last
time that I want you to talk about

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again. But you're known for saying
that you that you're that great heart.

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Medicine is really what you're what you're
up to, So see more about this

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heart medicine. It's uh, you
know, laughter heels like medicine, okay,

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And so Santa laughs all the time, and it's just like medicine.

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It makes you feel good. If
you don't believe me, just try it

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right now. Just a good don't
smile, that cheesy smile like cheese,

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right, that laugh that comes from
your belly, dampty, and a good

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belly laugh is good. As a
matter of fact, the doctors they've just

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now figured that out, but I've
Sata has known it all alone. It

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makes me feel young again, and
it makes It just makes me feel like

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a kid where I could go out
and play with some of those toys that

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I bring every week. And Missus
Klaus loves to laugh too. So that's

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why I'm oldest dirt. You know
I'm old now because I've laughed for my

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whole life. And that joy,
like I say it does, it makes

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you feel good. It makes you
live longer. And the doctors they know

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it now, that's absolutely true.
It's good to have that kind of joy.

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Well, in our studio here,
we've got a few people crowded around,

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mister and Missus Well, Santa Claus
and Missus Class. Don't think anybody

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calls you mister Claus, Santa Claus
and Missus Class. And one young lady

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here in the studio with us.
Reese would like to ask a question.

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Who would you like to pose it
to? And what's the question? Man?

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Anything, nothing's off this, okay? What do you do when you're

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not around Santa? Well, I'm
busy at the North Pole all the time,

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and I like to do things that
people think Missus Claus does that.

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I do like to make cookies and
I do like to take care of Santa.

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But there's just as soon as the
holidays are over, we start thinking

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about what's next. You know,
I work with the elves and we have

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a group that specializes in cooking and
we come up with new recipes, and

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we have the group that specializes in
toys, and we just we brainstorm.

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We just have a big brainstorm and
it's just all it's just fun experimenting with

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all these new things, and each
elf kind of takes off with it and

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runs and that's how we develop it. We care, yes, we let

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them, We help them along the
way, help them get organized, but

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they do the bulk of the work. It's true. So thank you reach

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for that question, and listeners on
Facebook please type in your questions if you've

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got to be for Santa Claus.
We had a great couple of questions three

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years ago about how even got started
and such if you want us to repeat

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that. But Gianna, did you
want to ask a question? What is

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it? You're Gianna who's six?
So how do you range your fly?

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How do they fly? Yeah?
You know what? That is still a

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mystery to me. All I know
is on Christmas night, I get in

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that sleigh and I grab the rains
and I just start shouting at the reindeer.

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I'm daughter, listen and they we
just think, oh, and they

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know where to go. And once
I land there, it's just like even

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my bells. Can you hear my
bells on Christmas night? They don't even

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rain, and I still wear them
and I don't. I don't. I'm

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amazed too when I go out and
to do what I get, to bring

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presents and to live in that kind
of magic. Yeah, you have to

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be like a really quiet. Nobody's
caught me. I've had a couple of

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parents walk in, but they're already
grown up. Okay, but children,

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No, you've never been busted.
That's pretty No. Children. We've got

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another great question from Molly Waye.
Let me say who she is. Molly

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Wayne was in my classroom at the
University of Phoenix many years ago. She

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and I still stay in touch.
She's finishing a master's degree. She's a

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rock star. Congratulations, and she
wants to know to either of you,

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when did you know this was what
you were supposed to do? What led

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you to this point? Why don't
you go first? Santa? I have

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a granddaughter. Oh yeah, you
got to tell the story. And she's

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adopted, okay, and I love
her she's my own, she's my family.

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I love all my children as if
they were my own, so everyone

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I bring presidents too. But she
caught me a big c for Big Claus,

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and she told me, Big c
you can never cut your beard,

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and so I thought, well,
I better put it to work then,

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And so that's how I became Santa
Claus. Is I told you about the

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little boy in the Ronald McDonald's house, and it was actually in a church

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setting. Lady asked me, would
I be Santa Claus? And I said,

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of course. And she has a
Credit Union group and they go into

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these schools in the Metroplex and they
throw big parties for these underprivileged schools.

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There's sixteen hundred Hispanic children in the
two schools that they sponsor, and they

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bring gifts, and they have games
in the gym for them, face painting,

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and I come and we take pictures
with each one. And I've watched

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these children grow up from kindergarten to
sixth grade, and now the sixth graders,

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the ones that wouldn't come sit with
me, now they come up to

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me and give me a big hug
because it's the last time we get a

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picture together at that school, So
it's relationships they're being built there. And

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plus I go in there and we
get a room that those people that want

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to help pray for those kids,
we go pray for them. And I

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can't think any other way that I
could change what's going on in their schools,

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but to do that so well,
Before you turn it over to missus

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Blaus, I just want to echo
something that you said three years ago and

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there when somebody asked you that same
question, and it was the most beautiful

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thing that melted my heart. And
I think it was definitely a part of

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your journey when when your granddaughter asked
you, said don't ever cut your beard?

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You said, whatever you say,
darling, that's right, And it

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was just just telling that moment that
she had brought you into that sphere.

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She'd invite you into that space,
and you accepted the invitation. If there's

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any of you out there that have
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they say goes. I still have
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wisdom, okay, And we need
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and so but I like to say
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and I like to catch them doing
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go and high five you know then
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that, and don't do that,
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with them when they do something right, because we need to encourage one another.

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Like I said, the world's a
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Life is not fair. I've heard
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right, it just stands to test
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to counteract that every day that could
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ministry of that Christmas alive, don't
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And I'm married to Santa Claus.
What more can I say? For good

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luck? I get to be a
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Santa Claus is like this all the
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joyful, exciting thing. What you
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it's you know, I bet it's
hard being different. You know two

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face That must be exhausting, you
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too. So anyway, on to
bigger things. Well, and with that,

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Molly thank you so much for asking
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please win with yours. Thank you
and without Let's get our first break.

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Now back to working on purpose.
Thanks for saying with us, and

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welcome back to working on purpose if
you're just joining us. My guests are

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Santa Rani and Missus Claus, who
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life. The Christmas season three years
ago is when they started with me,

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and I had to have them back
on air to usher in the holiday spirit

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this year. I'm your host,
Elise Cortes. So a couple more questions

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from one question, I want to
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hear that story that you were talking
about, Santa Cruz. So, in

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our last conversation on air three years
ago, you said that you really love

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to approach people out in public that
appear hardened or gruff, to soften their

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hearts and open them up. Tell
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those are some of my favorites.
Really. Whenever I think about the

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people who are hard like that,
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and I think about how maybe I
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make eye contact with somebody, It
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have, you know, these phones. I always say, the more connected

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we get, the more disconnected we
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a just a good conversation. And
I always say, hurt people, hurt

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people. And so whenever I see
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I try to go out of my
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have ever been encouraged, not growing
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that maybe they're just down a bad
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that one little seed of encouragement and
just an authentic smile, not that cheese,

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cheese, how you do it?
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joy. You know that gets worked
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you get that, the more you
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reciprocal and if we'd all do that, man, what a world this place

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would be. You know, if
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coin. You're awesome. Oh,
you're awesome. You're awesome. I love

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your smile too. That's a great
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see, and it makes you feel
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we have to do it on purpose, right, Oh my goodness. That

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was almost in stereo. And Molly
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and this is perfect for the show
what we do here, as she

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says, So you didn't choose the
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much. You know, it's good
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I believe that everybody here has a
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not to go out and see how
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it's not about ourselves. It's about
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more we pour into others, the
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sounds it's a paradox, and that's
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many people get lost along the way, I believe is because it is upside

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down and it is a paradox.
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have anything to give right now,
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do. You know, to start
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your purpose, then God he'll keep
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So you just keep giving right for
Christmas spirit forever build a north pole that

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way. Yes, So we've got
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Donel go ahead, Jonah. So
how do you how do your elf snake

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toys? Well, we have a
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as a matter of fact, I
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that's right right, and we go
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brainstorming and then we'll let the elves
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you know, because if I try
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and do all this. So I
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them do that. And they're really
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They're fantastic at it, you know. So we just let them do what

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they do and then they get to
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sometimes they yeah, sometimes you need
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them right, and they have a
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the workshop. So I just walked
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How did the elves make my barbie
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barbie house? Yeah? Well in
the in the workshop, you know.

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Yeah, those they just how they
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They have their own secret way of
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handle all that and as long as
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I don't bother them. You're good
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let them do what. Yeah,
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toys. My purpose is to deliver
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them. Right, it's all good. When they loaded in the sleigh,

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it passed inspection. Okay, awesome, you hada donell What do you have

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for Santa or Missus Klaus? So
what do you do on December twenty sixth?

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Oh that's great? These big boots, I take them off. And

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you know, children love to write
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of my favorite things to do is
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chair after Christmas with a cup of
hot chocolate in front of the fireplace and

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read those letters. And I will
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so we both can enjoy and think
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a lot of the kids they're just
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them just tell me how much they
left me and oh man, that just

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you know, mel Santa is hard. We'll get you ready for next year,

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yes, oh yes, some of
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they're just black little magnets, right, They're just kind of running up to

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me and they just want to hug
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I love all my little children,
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and I just want them to,
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anything to tarnish that anything's possible on
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as adults we have grown up conversations
around them too early, and it kind

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of tilts them the wrong direction.
And if I can help bring them,

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you know, when I put on
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lot of weight. So if I
can encourage somebody a child, and he

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says, well, Sam believes that
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seed will start growing and maybe it'll
give them hope. So words out power,

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don't they. I've seen a word
directed at a child take the life

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out of them. And I don't
ever want to do that ever. And

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that's my prayers that I don't want
to be an encourager. The world has

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enough wrecking boss, so I like
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or missus claws, how big is
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Well, I'm glad you asked that
we have. We're different. We don't

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celebrate Christmas, we don't celebrate birthdays, we don't celebrate anniversaries. Really,

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you know why because the stores they
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what Christmas should be and about what
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take all that away, because sometimes, like missus class, you may be

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thinking, oh, it's my birthday, I'm going to get a downon dring

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this year, and I haven't,
you know now, But if I come

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in on the in between days,
in between all those other special days and

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just surprise or something, it could
be something small, it could be something

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big. But if I do that, then it's a surprise. Other times

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it's just what everybody else says I
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a little different That's just how we
do thinks. So that was a good

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question. Rees, very good,
very good questions. Give me just a

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second. Did you want to respond
to anything that she said or that he

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said? Her question? Just everything
that he said. I mean, he

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usually has, he usually has most
of the words to say. He's spot

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on about all of that, and
he does. Actually, that's just what

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we live by. We just live
each day as a gift. Each day

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is special because we don't know how
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and we just try to celebrate each
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year long. This is the Greek
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day. So that's what we try
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a gift. And Molly said,
preach Santa should we should tell your listeners

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that Santa Roni is known as the
praying Santa. Yes he is. I

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am okay, g I just got
a question. Then I want you to

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go back and tell the story you
said, the heartwarming story you told about

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it. Do you do your favorite
Christmas cookie? Oh? Oh, that's

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a great question. Choices, so
many choices. This is going to be.

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This is a hard I love chocolate
chip. You know, I'm a

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traditional guy, so chocolate chief's graage. I love oatmeal raising And I know

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the reindeers they love carrots. You
know, if you leave a carried out.

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Oh my goodness, tell them about
the snowmen. Oh yes, go

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ahead, you tell them, tell
them about those snow you need to bring

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lots of carrots at Christmas time and
leave them for the reindeer, because sometimes

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they also go out and build snowmen, and they put carrots for their noses.

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But the right dear go eat all
the carrots off the nose with no

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nose, just have a hole in
their face. Because the reindeer love carrots

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so much, so they still have
a big smile, so that's good.

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So carrots and carrots don't grow at
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take some back with us. So
I think we got some marching orders here.

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Crisps, we like chocolate chip cookies, no reason, carrots for for

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the olfs and casual. But if
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it out for me, chances are
I'll at least try it, and more

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chances are i'll eat it. Yes, the business laws had to put me

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on a diet. Yeah, she's
making too much apple screwd. Very good.

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Absolutely, I make some of the
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Okay, I don't mean to start
tell the story you're going to share.

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Oh, oh, yes, you
know you always ask me about what's

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the most heartwarm me. And there's
a company who I've known for years,

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and they adopt a needy family every
year, and last year they adopted a

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mother that had two nonverbal autistic teenagers. And we were in the room with

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them, and you know, I
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I just walk up right in front
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eyes and asking them, you know, about Christmas and both, and they've

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reached out and grabbed my hand.
Mother just started weeping, and because they

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hadn't done that in a long time. So I got to pray for with

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her that one day that she could
hear mother from from both for children.

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So I don't know if that's happened, but that's my prayer, is that

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happens. But for them to reach
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still special. Have a hard time, ho ho, we're gonna make Santa

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cry. It's good when you can
move Santa to tears. This is good,

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Hey b a cry? Okay,
absolutely absolutely so. Actually, what

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I always tell when I was telling
them when I'm not speaking is you know,

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one of the look, the sexiest
thing a man can do is to

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cry, totally the sexiest thing.
Well that and she said cleaning up her

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kitchen, Well, Okay, really
quick, let's grab our last break,

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and we've got a few more questions
from the studio audience as well, so

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we'll be right back. I'm Alice
Cortez, your host. We're on the

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air with Santa Roni and Missus Claus. They're here with me live in my

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Dallas studio office, where we're also
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interact listeners and viewers. There After
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stories. I'm saying to Missus Claus, stay with us. We'll be right

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to working on purpose. Thankteresting with
us, and welcome back to working on

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purpose. If you're just tuning in, I guess are Santa Roni and Missus

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Claus, who I was blessed to
bring into my life during the Christmas season

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three years ago. I had him
on the air in twenty sixteen, had

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to have him back again to usher
in the season. And we're here with

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the studio audience on Facebook as well
as here in the studio. We've got

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a few more questions here, Santa
and Missus you ready start with Gianna?

427
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What do you got now? So? Where were you born? Where was

428
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I born? It was just like
a little bit south of the North Pole,

429
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:52.880
just a little pretty chilly up there. Yes, yes, it's very

430
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:58.759
cold. I was born in the
same place. We've known each other a

431
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very long time. Uh, we're
so old. We're forget how old we

432
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are? We do? I have
to ask him all the time how old

433
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I am? Yes, and I
hope you answer. By the way he

434
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said, it doesn't matter. You're
beautiful. Oh so good. That's a

435
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:22.679
good husband and a Santa Claus.
By the way, I want, I

436
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want I want to say, but
while we're on break, Santa reached over

437
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.559
and whispered in my hand. Santa's
getting the hug right now from Gianna.

438
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.719
But he reached over and he said, I got moved, And how beautiful

439
00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:39.079
When Santa Claus gets moved gets moved. Molly Waite is saying, what motivates

440
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:44.280
you? I'm going to guess that's
part of it. It does. It's

441
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:49.519
uh, you know, God gave
us all these emotions to use properly,

442
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.239
and if we stuff them, they'll
come out when you least expect it.

443
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So I just like to you know, if I have a tear coming to

444
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:01.480
my mouth and somebody got with that, then they got a problem with Santa

445
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:07.400
Claus. Okay, so I just
let it. You know, I'm just

446
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a human being. I have emotions, and whenever we do things that are

447
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:20.760
emotional, and whenever I recall them's
it touches my heart, and my heart's

448
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.800
all squishy. So that's the way
it is down and I can't go back

449
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:31.360
to a hard heart. When we
keep giving, it just makes softens it

450
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:37.199
that much more. You know,
I've had children ask for like their mom

451
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.679
or dad to get out of prison
for Christmas servant. They don't want to

452
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:45.280
sleep in a car anymore. I'm
like, how do you answer those questions?

453
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:50.440
Those things? I can't build in
the workshop, but I do.

454
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:53.639
I remember those faces, and I
do remember them in my prayers. So

455
00:35:54.519 --> 00:36:00.440
I just want them to have hope
that all those things and that broken miss

456
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.960
in their life would be healed again, so that they could have a life

457
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.599
that they were meant to have,
and if they could find their purpose too.

458
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:14.840
So that's what I get to do. I don't I don't have to,

459
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.199
but I get to. I think
I need to be an apprentice.

460
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:23.920
I think I used to tell people, you know, because we have a

461
00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:27.280
lot of people, will else work, and they're like, oh no,

462
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.800
coming in on Monday's life. I
got to go to work, and I

463
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:35.159
got to I'm like, just change
one ladder, say I get to instead,

464
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.960
I've got to go changes everything.
It changes. Words have so much

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00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:45.199
power. And actually I tell some
guys that we meet with, you know,

466
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:52.599
future apprentice clauses, and I tell
them, I just point to them,

467
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:54.360
I said, you're going to eat
those words. I tell them,

468
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:58.159
you're going to eat those words.
Trying to already up to it anyway,

469
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:00.760
and it said, our words go
out and they come back in to our

470
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.800
in most part. So yeah,
you're gonna eat those words. So I

471
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:08.559
like eating good words instead of bad
words. Now, just bring more life

472
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:14.000
and more joy to the room and
the party. And people don't know how

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00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:19.320
to celebrate anymore. I don't think
I really how to enjoyed life. Well,

474
00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:21.280
that's part of what I'm up to, Santa Claus. It's some of

475
00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:23.000
the people being able to find meaning
in the movement and being able to find

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00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:28.840
joy, passion, inspiration and purpose. That's that's my purpose. That's it.

477
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And then afterwards, I'm gonna be
apprentice for you. Okay, we'll

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sign. I've got two work questions
from the studio, Reese. What do

479
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you got? What presidence do you
get? Asked? Like foremost, Barbie,

480
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:49.840
Barbie's house, the big one,
big house. Legos legos, Yes,

481
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.039
and I know your parents step on
them in the middle of the neck

482
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:58.920
right hurts. You believe that's why
Santa Words's boots around the workshop stepping on

483
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.559
legos. Get at art supplies,
art supplies due. Yeah, that's a

484
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:07.880
that's a big request. I met
one girl asked me a spoke girl for

485
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:15.000
a Lamborghini and I'm like, when
did you get your driver's license? You

486
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.480
said you mean a toy toy?
Yeah, we have toy ones up there,

487
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.320
no a real one. And I'm
like, oh, my goodness to

488
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.320
you. How are you going to
pay for that insurance? Yeah? I

489
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:32.360
phone? Yeah three years ago?
People iPhone and stuff, and I'm like,

490
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.480
how are they going to pay for
that monthly bill and stuff? I

491
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:44.280
guess these kids have jobs. What's
the working age? Oh? Free?

492
00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:49.239
Okay, it starts at three apparently. Yeah. Mark has got a question

493
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:52.079
from the from the studio. What
do you have? Mark? We can

494
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:58.079
all hear you play so Santa like
yourself and missus Claus, we're so grateful

495
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:00.960
for every day and we're just so
happy. But I will say this,

496
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:05.159
we like the weekends. Do you
like the weekends? And do you do

497
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.719
anything differently on the weekends than you
do every other day of the week.

498
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.960
I don't really discern one day from
the next, because I treat him all

499
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the same. And I guess since
I'm older now, I believe that's a

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little bit more wisdom. Is that
I just when I get up in the

501
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:34.679
morning and my feet at the floor, I just thank God because since he

502
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.400
let me get out. That means
He's got something for me to do,

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and that's purpose, you know.
And if we have an attitude like that

504
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.559
every morning, and really, as
I talk about a baseline, you know,

505
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:55.639
and my baseline is that gratitude is
having a grateful heart, because it's

506
00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:04.199
hard to for somebody to damage that
if we practice thanksgiving all the time and

507
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.199
we have the proper baseline. But
I don't think. See, I get

508
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:13.320
to go around the world and my
baseline is not my neighbors here across the

509
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:17.039
street, but my baseline is little
children in countries where I can't go,

510
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:23.360
and the little children that have never
been able to see sand Claus or who

511
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:29.760
are just you know, don't have
clean water to drink, and I have

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00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:36.000
it running everywhere here. And so
I believe if we have the right baseline,

513
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then it helps increase our gratitude,
our gratefulness, our thanksgiving and that

514
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:49.519
right there nobody can take from you. That's a gift that keeps on increasing

515
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:53.800
in value, not decreasing in value. So every morning we get up and

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00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:59.119
we thank God for the blessings he
gives us, and for the blessings that

517
00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:02.760
he gives us, for the the
strength to do the work he so generously

518
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.480
has us to and we're very thankful
for that work. And you know,

519
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:14.000
we just we feel useful. We
ask him to make us useful in every

520
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.920
moment that we have, and sometimes
we get caught up in life and just

521
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.440
like everybody else, but like Santa
says, we can't let a moment escape

522
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:25.519
and we have to be aware all
the time with those around us and for

523
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:30.199
him to give us the words to
speak to those who need encouraging. And

524
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:32.400
we're gonna buch to that, and
I'm going to ask you to share something.

525
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.000
But before we get there, we
have an urgent question someone here in

526
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:47.119
the studio, Jhanna. So this
like amazing question just came up in my

527
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:53.519
head. Oh what is it?
How did you meet missus Claus? Well,

528
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:58.400
like I said earlier, we grew
up in the same area. Yeah,

529
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:01.480
and missus Claus she kind of had
had her eyes set on me,

530
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:07.000
you know, because I'd come back
with my friends and we'd be out black

531
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:10.880
running around all day, and I'd
come back to my house and I had

532
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.519
a little sleigh out there, and
my slave would be wrapped in toilet paper.

533
00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.360
Who is graphing my sleigh? And
toilet paper. I didn't know,

534
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.599
even though we grew up in the
same area, I didn't know. But

535
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:34.320
my best friend, his sisters and
her were best friends, okay, and

536
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.519
so I met her through my best
friend and my best friend and her best

537
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:42.599
friend. They were brother and sister, and so that's how we met,

538
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:47.320
even though we didn't know one another, just like passing by one another every

539
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.559
day. And then because we had
friends that do both of us, and

540
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.079
we just knew. I just knew
it the first time I met her,

541
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:00.800
and I'm like, that's missus Claus
out there. And then on the time

542
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:06.960
I got the eld is the one
that taught me to be mischievous. That's

543
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.079
fantastic. Well, so what I
heard in that ladies out there in the

544
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:15.119
audience and you their car, cars
and toilet, well there's I did hear

545
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:19.960
that. I certainly heard that.
But I also heard ask for what you

546
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.480
want. If you want this gentleman, go and get him and ask him

547
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:24.480
there, you ask him out.
That's what I heard from that, Okay,

548
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.480
So look out, guys. It
took a while to land me.

549
00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:32.000
It did take a little while.
It did take a man, but you

550
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:36.280
know, I just know the first
time we went out. I was persistent,

551
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:44.159
second lesson persistent, per Okay,
so Reese, you've got another question.

552
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:53.639
Yes, what is it? Where
did are you posts? Actually it

553
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:58.039
was outside of a socle hall.
You know what that is. It's a

554
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:01.480
place where people meet to dance and
stuff. And I think, is it

555
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:08.199
a Catholic place? I believe.
And we were there and we were inside

556
00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:13.760
dancing together and having a great time, and I'm like, oh, and

557
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:21.000
I didn't have a ring either,
So I took some bubble gum, some

558
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:24.159
chewing gum wrapper, and I shaped
it into a ring and put her out

559
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:28.000
and gave it to her. And
well, you stuck an ear ring in

560
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:32.000
it? Yeah, And I stuck
an ear ring in there to you know.

561
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:40.119
And I proposed her out in the
parking lot there while we were doing

562
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:44.159
a crazy thing. Is she apparently
said yes, I did say yes to

563
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.360
that. Yes. Like I said, we're a little unusual. Uh,

564
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:53.480
we don't celebrate, you know,
the traditional things. And there's just one

565
00:44:53.519 --> 00:45:00.239
thing that we know that we were
meant for one another. And and so

566
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:02.840
that's and matter of fact, there
was a lot of people that said,

567
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:07.320
oh, this will never work,
right, missus calls a lot of people

568
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:13.400
maybe we just did it out of
spite, but I'm not spiteful. So

569
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:19.280
it's because I love her and I
know she loves me, and we might

570
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:22.199
want another bag. As matter of
fact, I give her permission to kick

571
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:27.239
me in the shin when I keep
talking, because he talks a lot sometimes.

572
00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.760
I've only kicked him twice since we've
been on the air. All right,

573
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:32.760
So we're almost out of time,
and I want to I want you

574
00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:37.039
to share one more thing before we
go, for sure, And that is

575
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:39.360
the great question that you had to
serve up last time, missus claused three

576
00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:44.360
years ago on air. You wanted
him to share what it's like during the

577
00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:46.760
year when it's not actually Christmas time
and he's out and about doing his business

578
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.159
and the kids spot him. Would
you share a little bit about what and

579
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:55.559
how they approach him, what they
say, so you know, whenever it's

580
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:01.840
not Christmas, I go a little
incognitia. I put on some sunshades,

581
00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:07.119
and I will put on a bunk
at and some jeans, and we'll go

582
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:12.719
to the store. And these children
they'll come running across the parking lot or

583
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:17.119
saying, dragging their mom or dad, chasing me down, going Santa,

584
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:20.719
I said, and I'll start.
You know, I got a wave to

585
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:25.800
them. It's just Santa on the
inside, and I'll get that on my

586
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.480
knee and I'm like, how did
you know it was me? I'm wearing

587
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:34.840
my sunglasses and I always pointed in
my beard. It's a dead giveaway,

588
00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:38.960
you know. But yeah, we
get to talk to we love. We

589
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:43.920
call them dry bykes and like sometimes
on the way home, She'll just go,

590
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:49.840
why don't we just pull in here
and surprise these people? And oh,

591
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:53.239
it's so much fun. We pulled
into a restaurant in Illinois last week,

592
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:58.079
Quincy, Illinois. Hey, did
you know there's a Quincy, Missouri

593
00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:02.679
too? There? First, Yeah, wrong place. I'm not very good

594
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:07.360
with directions. Thank goodness that Sligh
knows where to go. So but when

595
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:12.480
we travel like regular people, I
get lost too. But we went to

596
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:16.360
Quincy, Illinois, and we had
breakfast in the morning, and missus Klaus

597
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:20.880
said, why don't we just come
back in there and bless those people.

598
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:23.039
The waitresses were real friendly, and
so we went back in and the place

599
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:30.360
was packed, and so we just
walked around taking pictures with everybody and blessing

600
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:34.800
everybody there. So it was really
a fun time to walk in like that.

601
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:38.679
That's my favorite thing to do in
Walmart and Exchange down on the north

602
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:44.000
side. We just get dressed up
and just go out, mister and missus

603
00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:46.599
Claus. So that's why I needed
an onion the other day and we pulled

604
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:52.320
into Walmart and staying is like,
Missus Klaws needs an onion. So it

605
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:57.119
was really funny because people don't think
that we need cook like that. So

606
00:47:57.159 --> 00:47:59.679
we went in to the I think
I got this big belly here, I

607
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:04.400
got it eat. You know,
everybody thought that was so funny that Missus

608
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.360
Claws would need an onion. That's
right. And you know during the year,

609
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:13.599
I know you talk about this too, is how do we keep Christmas

610
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:15.679
going on? You? Yeah,
I would luck you to finish with that.

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We only have like about a minute
left, so if you each want

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to save thirty seconds, how can
we keep Christmas in life all year or

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at least the spirit of it?
Look, there's an order to life,

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okay, And I always say it
starts with love, you know, but

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we try to control ourselves and that's
the end of the land. Because without

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love, you'll never have joy,
and without joy, you'll never have peace,

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and without peace, you can't be
patient with anybody. And if you

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can't be patient, you can't be
kind or good, or faithful or gentle.

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Okay, But it all starts with
love. It's set verse that everybody

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uses in their wedding, right,
these three things remain faith, hope,

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and love, and so you start
with love and love is like it's seeking

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others outside of ourselves. Beautiful Missus
Claus, just walking in thankfulness everything that

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he said, and walking in thankfulness
and just putting yourself out there like he

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talked about for opening the doors for
people and smiling at them. Is I

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have a heart for the elderly,
and so they're almost surprised when somebody does

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something nice for them. What a
gift it has been to have Santa Roni

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and Missus Clause on the show.
I thank you so much for being part

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of it, and listeners, if
you want to learn more about Santa Ronni

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and Missus Claus, well, the
best place, of course to find them

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is the North Pole, but if
you can't get there, go find them

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on Facebook. Ronnie Watson, that's
r O n n Y Watson and then

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Missus Claus Annette Cuban Watson. So
it's a N N E T T E

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ku b A N Watson. Those
two you can find them there. Last

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week, if you missed the Line
show, you can always catch it behave

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recorded podcast. We were on the
air with Chris Dunn, who was a

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partner and chief human resource officer at
Kinetics, which is a national RPO recruiting

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firm headquartered in Atlanta. We talked
about some of the chief reasons driving employees'

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interest in looking for a different job, how leaders can hire that transformative talent

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they need, and his own passion
to train frontline managers. Next week will

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be on the air with Justin mccorcole, talking about the power of a single

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conversation to change a life. See
you there, and remember that work is

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at least one third of our life, So let's work on purpose. We

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hope you've enjoyed this week's program.
Be sure to tune in to Working on

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Purpose featuring your host Alis Cortes,
each week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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This week, find your life's purpose
at work