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Belief As A Marketing Engine For Community Joy

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What happens when the spirit of Christmas meets the grit and growth of Charleston? We sit with Santa Smiley to explore how a city of parades, tree lightings, and school snow machines turns tradition into connection. From Hotel Bennett teas to James Island’s lights, we map the rituals that make the Lowcountry feel like home, then dig into the deeper current beneath the glitter: storytelling as the engine of community.

Santa opens up about service with local police and fire departments, delivering toys to families in need and supporting firefighters through tough seasons. He talks candidly about the city’s rapid growth, how a shorter window between Thanksgiving and Christmas changes planning, and why belief isn’t childish—it’s a daily choice to expect good and create it. We trade cookie recipes, laugh about the laboo boo toy craze, and make room for real life: the surprise tow-truck saga, the search for the perfect Santa chair, and post-season reset plans that include beaches, theme parks, and scuba diving he learned right in Mount Pleasant.

We also share what’s next: the North Charleston Pops Sounds of the Season on December 20, where families gather for carols, cookies, and that elusive perfect Santa throne. Throughout, the focus stays on what works—clear stories, warm partnerships, and small acts that compound into big community. If you’ve been craving a reason to light the porch early, bake the cookies anyway, or invite a neighbor you barely know, this conversation is your sign. Press play, believe boldly, and help us keep the magic alive across Charleston.

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Cohosts: Stephanie Barrow, Mike Compton, Rachel Backal, Tom Keppeler

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to the Charleston Marketing Podcast, brought to you by the Charleston AMA and broadcasting from our friends at Charleston Media Solutions Studios. Thanks to our awesome sponsors at CMS, we get to chat with the cool folks making waves in Charleston. From business and art to hospitality and tech. These movers and shakers choose to call the low country home. They live here, work here, and make a difference here. So what's their story? Let's find out together.

SPEAKER_03:

Hey guys, welcome to the Charleston Marketing Podcast, powered by the Charleston American Marketing Association. We're recording today in the Charleston Media Solutions Studios, a big supporter of CAMA. We need to send a big thank you to our podcast sponsor, SCRA. Now let's not forget the talented Jerry feels good with the beats at the front and the end of the show. Thank you to all of our supporters. Hi friends, Stephanie here, Stephanie Barrow, founder of Stephanie Barrow Consulting, a digital marketing strategy agency located here in Charleston, and your Cam Past president. I am joined by my good friend and fellow board member, Margaret Stipa. Margaret, say what's up.

SPEAKER_02:

What's up? I'm happy to be here. My name is Margaret Stipa, and I am the immediate past president for the Charleston American Marketing Association, founder of Carolina Creative Marketing, and one of my very good friends sitting next to me is Gene Gilchrist, also known as Stentical What's going on, everybody.

SPEAKER_03:

Santa, I know this is the busiest time of your year, so thank you very much for taking the time to come to our podcast.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. My pleasure to be here.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. I uh met Santa. Well, I've known Santa for you know as a little girl. So this is very nice to have him live and in person. But I met you up recently where we had like uh we gave my PTO then at school.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Actually, this is our this was our second year.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, this is our second year. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

And um uh at uh Charles Charles Pinckney Elementary School. Yep, yep, and an awesome time and and uh I love the snow when you when you walk into the building.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, I've if you can't tell from my sweater, I'm a big Christmas enthusiast. So if you go to my front yard, it is like tacky national lampoons out front, but then it looks classy on the inside. So that's kind of how I am.

SPEAKER_01:

Nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_03:

You're that way in life though, Stephanie.

SPEAKER_02:

Like Halloween, Christmas, I love anything, any reason to be festive, wear a costume or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03:

I love all the things. So I'm so excited to have you here. I know the elves have been really busy in the North Pole. My daughter's list is very, very long. So what is like some other than the laboo boos? You know, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, I know what the luboo boos are.

SPEAKER_03:

How are your elves working on all the things? Tell me about that one.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know what they're doing. You don't know what a laboo-boo is? Oh my goodness, Margaret.

SPEAKER_03:

It is the tween teen uh thing of the moment. It's kind of like an ugly cabbage patch kid. Okay, but they're even more hard to find.

SPEAKER_01:

Very hard to find.

SPEAKER_03:

So you have to have it on your daughter Amelie has been asking for one. I'm like, well, I can't get you one. Pop Mart is sold out, so you're gonna have to put on your Santa lisp so Santa can bring it to you.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, I I I spent my I spent some of my summer in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this year.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh.

SPEAKER_01:

And I went to this event. It was it was uh it was a motorcycle event called Gettysburg Bike Week.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

And uh there was a lady there, she was actually selling laboo boos. And I'm La Fufu's? And I'm thinking, well, it might be la foo foo's. But um I was I was like, what is this? I'm like, um, I had to talk to my Elvis about it because I needed to find out what Laboo Boo.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, I'm sure it's the top iPad Laboo Boo. It's probably the top of all the little Twin Girls.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. Bicycles, yeah. Bicycles. Um, there's a there's a there's a big thing coming up here soon in Charleston. I think it's called Going Places.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

That uh that lovely lady she puts together. We love Katie. She she puts together bicycles, and I I'll actually be there with her.

SPEAKER_03:

That's wonderful news. Yeah. So we're gonna see you at a lot of upcoming Charleston episodes.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely, absolutely. I love Charleston.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. So, what is one of your favorite Christmas traditions here in Charleston?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my goodness. I love the I love the tree lighting ceremonies. Yes. Uh the Charleston Christmas Parade is awesome. Uh Somerville has a great Christmas parade. There's I actually I actually saw a list for the first time in several years that there is a list now of all the parades, all the tree lightings, all the big celebrations going on around the greater Charleston area, the low country. Yes. And uh absolutely amazing. How many fun events are going on?

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, yeah. My family is going to the Mount Pleasant Christmas Parade. We have Christmas tea booked at Hotel Bennett.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh.

SPEAKER_03:

Aren't we fancy? Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

We're definitely I actually had the pleasure. I had the pleasure the first year of Hotel Bennett to be there, Santa, with that's so wonderful.

SPEAKER_03:

That's awesome. So so Santa, so Mrs. Claus will be there as well?

SPEAKER_01:

She she makes her appearances. She's she's busy keeping all the elves in line.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, I can see that. I can see that. So we're good we have a lot of festive things happening. The celebration of lights, you know, in James Island.

SPEAKER_01:

One of the largest Christmas light displays in the country.

SPEAKER_03:

I know. It is crazy. So it is wonderful to have you here. I I love that uh our friend here brought you all of the snacks.

SPEAKER_01:

Brought me some cookies.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

And some milk.

SPEAKER_03:

And it's eggnog, I think, right? Oh, it's milk. Nope. It's milk. That would make sense. That would make sense. We don't need to be spiking the eggnog this early in the day, Santa. We're not saying that.

SPEAKER_01:

We'll say that to the four o'clock hour.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, we don't need to be calling Rudolph right now to come pick you up. That would be that would be a lot. That would be a lot. So you've visited Charleston for centuries now. Have you seen it change over the years for Christmas traditions?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my goodness, sugar cookies. The changes to Charleston in the last just in the last five to ten years. Yes. Has has uh has grown exponentially. It just uh doubled, if not tripled, or quadrupled even in the amount of people here in the Charleston area. And uh it's quite amazing. Um I actually have to spend a little more time on on that on Christmas Eve. Going through your list, making making sure that twice. Check it twice, check it three times or four times even. Yeah. You know, um, finding out who's naughty and nice.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh yeah, in our neighborhood, so October 31st, November 1, Halloween is over. But we already have a lot of people that have Christmas lights and up in their yards, and it is November 20th, so that's exciting.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right. You know, Christmas lights. I I think it I think it's a little bit odd this year because Thanksgiving is on the 27th.

SPEAKER_03:

Correct.

SPEAKER_01:

So it's a couple days later than normal, I think. Right. And then uh Christmas being the you know, always on the 25th. So I think I think our time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a little bit shorter this year.

SPEAKER_03:

It is. It doesn't give you much chill time to get your stuff together.

SPEAKER_01:

So the fact that people are already putting their Christmas lights out and decorating their yards and getting their trees up, it's all right, you know? Yeah, I love it. North Pole, North Pole, we keep a Christmas tree up year-round. Um short. You know, so I mean it it is it is Santa's Santa's workshop, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

The more Christmas cheer, the better.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right, that's right. How many Christmas trees do you have?

SPEAKER_02:

At the moment?

SPEAKER_01:

At the moment, you do you have any trees up right now? Zero. Zero. That'll be a weekend project for you. You spend some time at the holidays up in New Jersey up north, don't you? Your family's from up north.

SPEAKER_02:

They are so uh, but I will still decorate my house in Charles Christmas.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. Yeah, Margaret's got a beautiful little house.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, I've I've I've been there a few times over over the Christmas holidays, and I think last year we even we even baked cookies.

SPEAKER_02:

We did. Santa came over. I had some friends over. We're baking. Santa stopped by and that's so wonderful.

SPEAKER_03:

Had a little glass of wine, hung out. Had a good time. I know. I'll show you that again this year.

SPEAKER_01:

We have to.

SPEAKER_03:

So what does Santa do after the busy the hustle and bustle the season? What do you do to relax?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my goodness, sugar cookies. We we we uh me and Mrs. Claus, we we like to go to Disney.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, yes. Who does it?

SPEAKER_01:

Or or Universal Studios.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, we like to go to the beach. Santa Santa's big on scuba diving too. Really? I never knew that. Santa loves the scuba diving. I love scuba diving. Love to scuba dive. Uh I actually I actually came right here to Charleston to get my certification in scuba diving. Did you? Yeah, here in Mount Pleasant. Right here. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02:

That's so fun.

SPEAKER_01:

I got my certification right here in Mount Pleasant.

SPEAKER_02:

Where's where's your favorite place you've been?

SPEAKER_01:

Um Hawaii, so far. Really? Hawaii, Hawaii is a fantastic place to to scuba dive. Santa really wants to go to Honduras. That's on my top of my list. There's a place down there called Roatan.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

And Roatan has has the second largest barrier reef. Oh, wow. And they and they say it's it's better diving at Roatan than it is in in Australia.

SPEAKER_03:

Wow, that's amazing. So I have not been there. I want to go. I want to go.

SPEAKER_02:

Me too.

SPEAKER_03:

So a lot of our listeners, of course, because this is called the Charleston Marketing Podcast, um, talk, you know, we s we reverse in marketing all day long. How do you feel like the story of Christmas has evolved over the years? Because you're such a great storyteller.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, Charl Charleston you know, is ste is steep in the history.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

And uh from from from the very beginnings of America, uh with the Revolutionary War, mm-hmm all the way up through the Civil War uh to modern times, and and how many times has Charleston, you know, it's it's been uh earthquakes and fires and hurricanes and just you know, everything everything that's tore this city apart, but is but it's always stayed strong. Yes. And it's always one of my favorite places to come and visit. And the people here are just fantastic and and loving and friendly.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Um a lot of friendly people here in the Charleston area. And uh it's just it's just quite quite awesome. It's just a beautiful place. Uh as far as storytelling, you know, there with that being said, the stories that are here in Charleston, um store storytelling is is very important to us.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh we we have to tell the story at Christmas and uh what it's what it's mainly about.

SPEAKER_03:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

And um it's not so much about the presents and uh the the big fat man sitting here in the middle.

SPEAKER_02:

But you look good for all the cookies you eat year round. And you do such an amazing job with giving back around the holidays. I definitely want to talk about that, what you get involved with. You see it on your calendar. I'd love to hear more about that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. Um I do I do a lot of different things uh as far as far as uh supporting supporting our local firefighters.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh law enforcement. Uh I have uh they they'll call me up and they'll say, Hey, uh Santa, can can can you help us take uh uh these toys to to kids in need? Uh I did that last year with the Goose Creek Fire or Goose Creek Police Department. Uh I also have a a fire department uh out in Monk's Corner. Oh that's uh they they they have you know every year they find a firefighter in need and and uh I tend to go help with with delivering uh some some love to local firefighters.

SPEAKER_03:

So really neat. That's that's wonderful. You have such a heart for the city and for children, which is which is great to see. So I'm so so glad to have you and and and our in our place.

SPEAKER_01:

I have a question for you. What is your favorite cookie?

SPEAKER_03:

My favorite cookie are the peanut butter ones with the Hershey kisses inside. Oh those are delicious. Yes, they are we put our tree up. So we have three trees, and we put our 14-foot one up, which took I saw a picture of that. It's not as impressive. It's a big tree. It took all day. So we made peppermint cookies and peanut butter ones, and then I made like just um chocolate chips, and I put like the MMs that are red and green in there because my daughter is Christmas obsessed. Um I wonder where she gets that from. I know, I know wouldn't know. I know she wore a different Christmas sweatshirt every single day this week, and she's in fifth grade. And it's November, and I'm like, you're gonna get you're gonna get bullied, but I know everyone like embraces that about her.

SPEAKER_01:

It's I seriously doubt she gets bullied.

SPEAKER_03:

No, they love it. So she's you know, today she wore a green skirt with a red um sweater, and she had the jewelry and the earrings that are all Christmas, and so it's it's very it's very it's a very special season.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, we're gonna have to get her something special this year.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. On her list, Santa is she wants a vanity. So that's what she would like, and she would like little.

SPEAKER_01:

She told me that. She wants that was she wants a vanity.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_01:

She wants a vanity. Yeah, that was the biggest thing she wants.

SPEAKER_03:

Which is weird because she doesn't wear makeup, so I don't know what she's gonna do with the vanity.

SPEAKER_01:

She's coming to that age where she wants to.

SPEAKER_03:

That's I'm sure you've seen it's you know, they go from the age where they want the little mini mouth stuffed animals to now they want vanities.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh-huh. That's right. They do. They do. They want a little bit of everything.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes. Now, do you have a book of this is always a question I've always wanted to ask, Santa. Is like there a book of true believers? Because I feel like I would be in that book.

SPEAKER_01:

I think there is there is definitely a book of true believers. Um Benjamin is my my head elf. Okay. Back at the North Pole. Margaret, Margaret's my elf here in Charleston. She's a great lover. She she is fantastic. Um, but Benjamin, Benjamin has the book, he he manages the book of who's naughty and nice and who's who's who the true believers are. Yes.

SPEAKER_03:

And I think the true believers' job is to tell like be Santa's eyes and ears when he's not around.

SPEAKER_01:

There was there was there was a little boy, there was a little boy that walked by me uh a couple days ago, and um he said, he said, he said, Dad, you're not the real Santa. You're fake. I said, excuse me. I said, how do you know? I said, I just know. So he went walking by and he came back a little bit later. I said, Hey, come here. He says, Yeah. I said, Stop believing, stop receiving. There you go. Always gotta believe. Believe in Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_03:

You absolutely have to. You know? It's yeah, I I this is my favorite time of the year. I get a little depressed in January when it's just taking all the holiday cheer down. But in our family, we start playing Christmas, like we have the vinyl record, so we play the vinyl out like July 1st. So half the year we're really we're really into the Christmas mode.

SPEAKER_01:

I've I've met I've met uh, you know, from from uh from two and three year olds all the way up to in their nineties, and there are many people in this great world that believe. Yes. And uh I think that the belief in Santa Claus is is is the belief that that good will always overcome and that no matter no matter how bad how bad your day is just believe that there is some good in this world. And uh ever I think every day every day we find we find a little bit of good that uh that happens.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

And uh the more we believe in it, I think the better we all the better off we are.

SPEAKER_03:

Great. Margaret, do you have any Christmas traditions that you do with your family?

SPEAKER_02:

Um I I I think I've spent almost every Christmas since I moved to New Jersey when I was young. I think we spent every Christmas in New Jersey. Okay. I love that. Everyone in my family skis. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, either we go Christmas Day or the day after, but then we just kind of spend the rest of the week skiing. That's so special. And that's what's that's what, like you said, that's what it's all about, being with loved ones.

SPEAKER_01:

Spending time with family, spending time with friends. Um I I think that there's there's you know, when we talk about traditions, I think uh old family traditions and new family traditions. Um there's there are families here locally that uh this will be my fourth and fifth year of of visiting them at their home parties. Yes. So um some some families here locally that that I get out and visit with that that uh we've built our own traditions and and it's kind of neat. So I love that. It's uh it's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02:

I will say every every year, you know, your list of visits gets longer and longer, but I understand why you're such a you know, just talking with your personality and I know you truly love what you do. It's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03:

I can't tell you how many text messages I received the next morning after our school event, and they're like, How do you know Santa? How can I get in touch with Santa? And I was like, I will I have his number, I will forward it on to you. Um I'm really excited because this year, uh Santa, you're gonna be at the North Charleston Pop Sounds of the Season.

SPEAKER_01:

I am I am absolutely excited, overjoyed to to be a part of uh the Charleston Pops this year and uh to be there, Santa, and uh it's gonna be a wonderful evening at the North Charleston Performing Arts.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, it is December 20th. December 20th. It's right coming up, it's right before Christmas, and it's it's such a good annual tradition, and it's fun because you see people, you know, families young and old come and they get all so excited, and it's just we sing carols and there's cookies and the whole thing. It's amazing. So it's gonna be very special. We're we're looking for the perfect chair for you, so we've been on the hunt. So if anyone has the perfect Santa throne, you can send Stephanie an email because we have on the hunt for a perfect uh Santa chair for you for the Performing Arts Center.

SPEAKER_01:

I might be able, I might be able to help you out with that. Oh, perfect. I might be able to help you out with that. I think uh I I have a big a big high back chair and and some nice green satiny material that we we cover it.

SPEAKER_03:

I love it. Well, if you've never seen the North Austin Parps Orchestra Live, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_01:

So you're gonna I am I am super excited to be. And you're gonna bring Mrs.

SPEAKER_03:

Claws.

SPEAKER_01:

So Miss Yep, yep, yep. And uh actually actually bring bring in my mother with me.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, that's so nice!

SPEAKER_01:

I'm planning to bring my mother with me. Okay, so it's the three of you? It'll be three of us. Perfect. That is good to know.

SPEAKER_03:

I'll make sure that you have excellent seats. Nice. Yes, that is so fun. So uh any other things that you want to talk about today to how you can just keep the Christmas spirit alive all year round?

SPEAKER_01:

Love your neighbors.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Get out of politics. Oh yeah. Stop, stop worrying about what's what what what what they're talking about in the in DC and and uh spend time with your neighbors, get to know your neighbors. Yes. Um family, friends, neighbors, co-workers.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Um get to know them. You know? Um our our world our world is is is as big as it is, is is quite small. And uh we need to know more people in it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep. I couldn't agree more. It's we still it's such a blessing to live here in Charleston. I feel like every day that I'm here I just meet more people who care about this city, and then you know, you come across Santa Claus who's willing to take time out of his busy schedule to come be on the Charleston Marketing Podcast. I mean, this is like next level. Next thing I need is Alphabet or Glenda walking in here, and then the whole universe has been made. So this is just great news. My daughter Aubelly will be super jealous when I tell her who I spent the day with. So it's it's it's good. Thank you very much for all of your hard work.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. I don't know if you save all of the letters that children write, but I I actually have I actually have a special box that uh when when children give me letters, uh I'll I'll make sure to ask their parents if they want the letter back or or if I can keep it. But if uh nine times out of ten, I get I get told I can keep it. Sure. And uh I I'll actually hang it hang it up in my kitchen at home. Um because you know I get up in the morning, got to go get my milk and cookies in the morning, and and I always want to look at the at the at the at the cards and the letters the kids have given me and and uh uh you'd be surprised. I I actually have I have some letters and and cards actually hanging in my kitchen right now.

SPEAKER_03:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh from kids from the last couple years that that just kind of remind me how special it is.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, the every all the children of the world really appreciate all you do to make this season so bright for them. So thank you for being here. My pleasure. My pleasure. Now, if any other Charleston businesses want to get in touch with you so they can, you know, if they can have stand at their events or their house, like what's the best way to do all that?

SPEAKER_01:

Well, they can contact my favorite elf, Margaret.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep, there you go.

SPEAKER_01:

Margaret, Margaret makes sure that that I'm where I'm supposed to be, when I'm supposed to be there. Um she's she's got her hands into so many different things, but she takes the time to help me out here in here in Charleston. Uh but you can also you can find me on Instagram at Santa Smiley.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep, because you're a smiley stand up.

SPEAKER_01:

Instagram or or Facebook uh can find me at Santa Smiley. Okay. Um or just reach out to Margaret and um she can she can set you up.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, awesome. And he does it all. This morning he was shaking cocktails over at Lillian's downtown and then eating cookies at Teintoe Cafe. Oh that was a good cookie. Yeah it was big. He does it all restaurants, bars, cookie making, hotel visits, fire firehouse visits.

SPEAKER_03:

He does all of it. That is amazing. Well we have loved having you here on the Charleston Marketing Podcast. He did a really good job of making it festive. So and uh we're uh very we're okay uh we have some of our elves uh as in like the Charleston AMA marketing people that are coming here that are very very excited to meet you so we're gonna just keep keep talking about how you're making the low country so incredibly special with it was it was kind of nice when I when I got here got here just a little bit ago that uh uh the folks out in in uh in the marketing department here at the radio station yes all wanted pictures so of course we took a bunch of pictures and and uh uh I found out you know some some some some there might be one or two one one or two people one or two people here on the naughty list but you know so sometimes you can also sit back and say you know sometimes being a little naughty is also being a little nice. So you know I I would be surprised you probably are on a ton of people's Christmas cards and you don't even know it that gets sent out to the world. Don't you think so Margaret? Definitely yeah because he's he's really good at being social and meet you know meeting all the children and uh we are walk with so the the school event that he comes to it's just like we have you know chorus singing and everyone's walking around and there's vendors and there's snow and everyone's dressed up in ugly sweaters and it's just so much fun and everyone is like wide eyed when Sandy Margaret Margaret and I we've actually talked about uh taking a couple nights taking a couple nights that where where I don't really have anything planned and doing something special.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't know if we want to do we want to do we want to do we want to talk about it maybe I think we need to finalize it first we need to finalize it and he made it Santa's here how you doing Santa Santa's one oh you've been a good boy this year oh yeah did you get my list nope not yet two sweet little boys talk to Benjamin's got his own list I want a calloway driver I heard you got towed at Switchyards this morning yes I didn't know you didn't know they released my compton small to have entered the building folks sorry about the interruption we didn't know that this was going to happen here what a great surprise I know I was walking out of Switchyards and I see them driving away with my car and I run after him and I was like please please you know I'm I'm leaving right now and turns out I a friend of mine who happens to work for CBR towing turns the corner and he was like release her car no I made it just in time Christmas miracle very very lucky very lucky yeah Santa you stick those people in that naughty list yeah I will CBR towing look here I I I know the folks at CBR they're actually a bunch of great people they all have a job to do they do they do well we were just wrapping up with Santa so he could get back to the North Pole.

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Got work to do yeah yep to do busy a lot more toys to to make a lot more toys all right well thank you Santa for being here with us today absolutely my pleasure you guys wrapping up oh okay all right and thank you to our sponsors uh the Charleston Media Solutions for having us here today we got a whole slew of people in the house we are feeling the festive cheer and uh all right Santa what kind of all right I'm gonna go home and write a list of what kind of cookies are your favorite so omely and I can make chocolate chip sugar cookies okay lots of sprinkles got a lot of sprinkles Teinto cafe that you had this morning oh that was that was that had that had epidemic in it if you guys have ever did you ever go to Brownscourt when it was over so the baker from Brownscourt cooks all the cookies oh young that is the place to go that big if we think of and do you really want milk with it or do you like sometimes need some soda because you're going all night long like that's a lot of time. Look I don't I don't want to I don't want to give a shout out but Santa does like those those caffeine free sugar free white monsters okay all right note to self that's like that's like the Barrow family will make sure that you have the monsters and the chocolate chip cookies and Amelie's letter will be this long and all she will talk about is all your hard work and how much she loves you and she wants a vanity and she wants a vanity and a la boo boo so just keep her in your thoughts and uh yes yes we're very very excited well thank you Santa Merry Christmas happy holidays everyone from the Charleston AMA this has been so much fun and uh tell Rudolph I said hey I will I will I will awesome him and all the other reindeers they're getting ready I bet they are getting all shined up ready to I'm out of here bye go have a Merry Christmas we'll see you see you Santa

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