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Episode #3948 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive Hour November 2001 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Phil Henry.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Radio Archive Hour from November of 2001.
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Speaker 2: And it's kind of interesting because what happened in September
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Speaker 2: of 2001, well, we all know, and yet we, and
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Speaker 2: there was a period there where I didn't think we
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Speaker 2: were going to be able to do comedy anymore. I'm
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Speaker 2: just being very honest with you. The country was so depressed.
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Speaker 2: Everybody was just so, you know, down. I was wondering
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Speaker 2: whether we'd have a show for the next several months,
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Speaker 2: but we did. We just kept on Plowing away, and
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Speaker 2: here's one from November, Austin Amarca, and we are even
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Speaker 2: making fun of Santa Claus in this one, where Austin
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Speaker 2: Amarca is a mall Santa, and he says he has
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Speaker 2: no regrets about promising the kids everything they want, whatever
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Speaker 2: they want.
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Speaker 1: He says, yes, you'll get it.
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Speaker 2: And as you know, we inaugurated a feature last week
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Speaker 2: on our show, Santa of the Week. This is the
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Speaker 2: time of year where, you know, people will be working
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Speaker 2: with Santa Clauses in malls all over the.
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Speaker 1: Country, and we want to isolate.
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Speaker 2: We want to find a Santa, a man or a
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Speaker 2: woman who plays Santa, and enjoys the work, and is
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Speaker 2: more than just a department store or a mall employee,
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Speaker 2: but someone who is very, very much involved in their
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Speaker 2: work and is almost as manic about it. I don't
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Speaker 2: want to say manic, but is almost as interesting and
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Speaker 2: as committed as that Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street.
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Speaker 2: And we found our Santa at the Mountain Gate Mall
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Speaker 2: in Rockland, California.
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Speaker 1: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Austin Amarka is going to join us. He's also at
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Speaker 2: his second job over.
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Speaker 1: There at the uh.
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Speaker 2: cutler restaurant in rockland and uh... mister mark i want
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Speaker 2: to thank you for joining us and thank you for uh...
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Speaker 2: being on our show and also congratulations on being the uh.
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Speaker 1: said of the.
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Speaker 3: Week well i'm i'm very very much uh... grateful for
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Speaker 3: the order thank.
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Speaker 2: You you're a you're a great santa claus we heard
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Speaker 2: this from kids we heard this from from parents maybe
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Speaker 2: not so much the parents but the kids tell us
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Speaker 2: about uh... how it is that you're a that you're
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Speaker 2: a santa claus and you're so good.
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Speaker 3: At your job well i i love kids I love Christmas.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned Miracle on 34th Street. I love that movie.
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Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite movies.
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Speaker 2: Well, you were brought to my attention as being Santa
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Speaker 2: of the Week on the Phil Henry Show as part
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Speaker 2: of our Christmas tradition.
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Speaker 1: And what makes you popular with the kids?
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Speaker 3: I like kids. I take kids very seriously, and I
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Speaker 3: listen to them. And you're getting into an area now
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Speaker 3: that is of particular interest to me. Children, I listen
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Speaker 3: to them. They tell me what they want. I also
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Speaker 3: have a great memory for things they say and for
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Speaker 3: their faces and so on. So I sit them on
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Speaker 3: my knee, and I hear what they've got to say.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's the first most important. I think
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Speaker 3: there's two things you've got to do. You've got to
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Speaker 3: listen to a kid, and then you've got to follow through.
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Speaker 3: Because a kid will always remember when you let them down.
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Speaker 3: And so all I ask them as a Santa Claus
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Speaker 3: is they'll sit in my lap, and I'll say to them,
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Speaker 3: Were you good during this year? And before you answer
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Speaker 3: that question, I want you to think about it. So
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Speaker 3: I'll look them square in the eye and I'll say,
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Speaker 3: were you good this year or were you not? And
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Speaker 3: nine times out of ten, the kid will say, yes,
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Speaker 3: they were.
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Speaker 1: Well, every kid's going to say that, aren't they?
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you something, Sunshine. A child is the
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Speaker 3: most honest thing there is. I have a sort of
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Speaker 3: kinetic energy with a child. And a kid will not lie.
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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, most will say they're good sometimes, but
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Speaker 3: I look them right in the eye and I say,
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Speaker 3: were you a good little kid? And they'll say, yes,
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Speaker 3: I was. I'll tell you what, that's good enough for me.
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Speaker 3: And I tell them, you wait for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: So you say to the children, yes.
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Speaker 3: Look, sunshine, what I say to them is, I say,
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Speaker 3: what do you want for Christmas? They tell me all
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Speaker 3: kinds of stuff they want. Then I say, and I'm
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Speaker 3: going to ask you a question. And I want you
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Speaker 3: to think long and hard before you answer this question
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Speaker 3: because a lot rides on it. And all I ask
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Speaker 3: is you tell me the truth because you and I
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Speaker 3: aren't going to have any problem at all if you
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Speaker 3: tell me the truth. Now, you listen to me and
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Speaker 3: you listen good. And sometimes the kids are nervous and
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Speaker 3: they're squirming around in your lap and you'll grab them
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Speaker 3: by the shoulders and you'll say, do you listen to me?
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Speaker 3: And I'll say, were you a good little kid or
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Speaker 3: were you not? They'll say, yes, I was.
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Speaker 2: All right, so you have a situation where the kids
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Speaker 2: will tell you the truth.
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Speaker 3: Yes, they'll tell me the truth, but I ran into
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Speaker 3: a problem. One year this boy came to me. I
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Speaker 3: was in the food court having some fries and a Coca-Cola,
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Speaker 3: and I recognized him. And he was calling me every
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Speaker 3: bad name that there is. He called me an MF.
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Speaker 3: He called me an F. He called me a F-head.
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Speaker 3: He called me a dirty F-head. I'll never forget this.
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Speaker 3: And I said, what is wrong with you? And let
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Speaker 3: me tell you something, sunshine. Let me tell you something, sunshine.
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Speaker 3: That language did not sit good with me.
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Speaker 1: This child is cursing at you.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. I said, what went wrong? He said, you
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Speaker 3: promised me some stuff, and I didn't get it. And
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Speaker 3: this crushed me. I said, okay, the parents didn't come through.
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Speaker 3: Why am I the victim? Why did I get bent
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Speaker 3: over and tooled up? Why did I get bent over
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Speaker 3: and tooled up to shoot him? by an eight-year-old. His
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Speaker 3: parents didn't come through, and that's when I decided every
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Speaker 3: child that comes to me is going to get what
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Speaker 3: he wants for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: So that is your secret?
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Speaker 2: That is your secret, that every kid that comes to
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Speaker 2: you gets what he wants?
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Speaker 3: You got it right, sunshine. And I will tell you.
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Speaker 1: How is that possible? And can I say to you
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Speaker 1: at this time... All right, never mind. How is that possible?
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Speaker 3: Well, why is what possible?
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Speaker 1: How is it that every kid gets what he wants?
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Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you what I did. I went
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Speaker 3: home that night after that child called me an F
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Speaker 3: and an F-head and all that stuff. And I remember
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Speaker 3: I was shaking so, so much that I took a
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Speaker 3: drink to steady my nerves. And I said a prayer.
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Speaker 3: I got on my knees. And I said a prayer,
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Speaker 3: and I held my hand up, and I said, God,
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Speaker 3: show me what I can do. I spent a restless night,
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Speaker 3: but God gave me the word. And I went back
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Speaker 3: to the mall the next day. And when the kids
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Speaker 3: were done asking me for their toys, I asked to
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Speaker 3: meet with the parents afterwards. And I told them basically
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Speaker 3: what God had told me to say. And I looked
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Speaker 3: at all these parents and I said, the children see
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Speaker 3: me as Santa Claus. So I'm going to say this
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Speaker 3: one time to all of you.
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Speaker 1: You got all the parents together?
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Speaker 3: Of the kids who had been in line.
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Speaker 1: Of the kids who had been in line, okay.
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Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to say this one time. All
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Speaker 3: the kids who came to me have said they was
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Speaker 3: good little kids. That's good enough for me. I got
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Speaker 3: their lists. They've been good. I told them that they
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Speaker 3: would get what they wanted. So there's the store. Closes
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Speaker 3: at 10. Take your four trail pants and your wallets
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Speaker 3: and get in there. Now, if you want to breed,
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Speaker 3: you've got to eat. That's what I said. And let
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Speaker 3: me tell you what.
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Speaker 1: All right. You threatened the parents.
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Speaker 3: I told them to get to get. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 3: know what you mean by that.
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Speaker 1: Can you tell me about the knife you held to
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Speaker 1: a man's throat?
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Speaker 3: What about it? Where'd you get the information?
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Speaker 2: My staff found a John Melendez of Santa Clarita. He
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Speaker 2: filed a criminal assault complaint.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that guy. Yeah, I remember that asshole. His kid wanted.
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Speaker 2: And if we're going to talk about Santa Claus and
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk about these things, I'd ask you
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Speaker 2: to watch your language.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. His kid wanted a PlayStation 2. He didn't
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Speaker 3: get him the thing he wanted, and I refuse to
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Speaker 3: take the heat for the parents' inadequacy anymore, so yes,
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Speaker 3: I got angry.
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Speaker 1: And you accosted this man and put a knife to
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Speaker 1: his throat.
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Speaker 3: I asked him, why didn't you get the kid this stuff?
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Speaker 1: I told him, maybe these parents can't afford this.
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Speaker 3: Then don't bring your kid to me. If you got
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Speaker 3: a problem affording toys for Christmas, don't make me take
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Speaker 3: the heat. Kid sits in my lap and says, Santa Claus,
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Speaker 3: I want this, I want that. I go, you got it.
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Speaker 3: You got it. And let me tell you what, sunshine,
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Speaker 3: I say to them parents, now you get in there
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Speaker 3: and you get that stuff. If you don't get it,
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Speaker 3: you and I got a problem. And I have been
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Speaker 3: very successful with that kind of approach.
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Speaker 2: Well, it is extremely aggressive, and it's in the case
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Speaker 2: of one man holding a knife to his throat.
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Speaker 3: Mr. Henry, it's very simple. You know, you go get
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Speaker 3: the kids their stuff. If you can't get the stuff,
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Speaker 3: don't bring them to see me. I can't sit down
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Speaker 3: for three days after I ask you what I get
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Speaker 3: from some kids that they don't give their crap. Because
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Speaker 3: their parents are a lying dog.
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Speaker 1: A lying dog.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you're going to be a successful Santa Claus,
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Speaker 2: I suppose you've got to make the kids happy. But
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Speaker 2: I'm not aware that threatening parents into getting toys for
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Speaker 2: their kids.
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Speaker 3: I'm Santa Claus. Kid sees me, asks me for a toy,
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Speaker 3: I tell him, yes, you're the parent, you better get
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Speaker 3: out and get it.
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Speaker 2: So if I brought my daughter, for instance, to sit
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Speaker 2: on your lap, and she said stuff that she wanted.
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Speaker 3: Then you would best hop to it. As a matter
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Speaker 3: of fact, the best thing to do is to drop
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Speaker 3: your kid off with me and go ahead and shag
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Speaker 3: ass into the store... Get the stuff. Meet your kid
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Speaker 3: as she's getting off my lap. Because that makes me
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Speaker 3: look even better. You're standing there with a bag of
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Speaker 3: the crap already.
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Speaker 1: So I don't take it. You obviously have a method
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Speaker 1: that is very controversial.
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Speaker 3: I don't take any mess. And I believe in the children.
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Speaker 3: A parent who can't get the stuff better keep their
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Speaker 3: fruit of the looms on and forget about it.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Austin Amarca is... I wouldn't take my kid to you, okay?
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Speaker 3: You don't have to. You don't have to take your
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Speaker 3: kid to me. But if you bring your kid to me,
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Speaker 3: you better get them their toys for Christmas. And I
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Speaker 3: thought you made me the Santa of the week.
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Speaker 2: My staff made you the Santa of the week after
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Speaker 2: reading about your story, but I don't know that threatening
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Speaker 2: people is the way to get toys for kids at Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Let me get my phone number out. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Austin Amarca from Rockland, California. He's been a Santa Claus
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Speaker 2: at the Mountain Gate Mall there for the last three years.
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Speaker 2: For the last year, He has taken to promising the
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Speaker 2: children they'll get their toys come hell or high water,
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Speaker 2: and he threatens parents that don't get the toys for
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Speaker 2: the kids. In one instance, this resulted in one man
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Speaker 2: having a knife held to his throat, and I don't
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Speaker 2: know why he wasn't arrested for that. We're talking to
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Speaker 2: Santa Claus on The Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 1: The Phil Henry Show is back.
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Speaker 2: Back here with Austin Amarca. He's Santa of the Week.
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Speaker 2: He works at the Mountain Gate Mall in Rockland, California,
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Speaker 2: and it is his opinion... that if you can't afford
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Speaker 2: to buy the toys that the kid wants, then don't
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Speaker 2: have kids.
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Speaker 1: Now, you're a Santa Claus. You promised the kids everything.
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Speaker 3: Oh, look, when a child comes to me and sits
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Speaker 3: on my lap, he says, Santa, I'd like this, I'd
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Speaker 3: like that. I ask the kid the question, have you
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Speaker 3: been a good kid? The kid says yes, then, brother,
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Speaker 3: all bets are off, sunshine. You had better get that
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Speaker 3: kid those toys. Now, that's all there is to it
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Speaker 3: because I always believe in coming through for a kid.
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Speaker 1: Well, what if they can't afford it?
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Speaker 2: If the parents can't afford it?
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Speaker 3: Look, like I said before, sunshine, if you can't eat,
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Speaker 3: then don't breed. If you can't get your kid the
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Speaker 3: toys that they want, then don't have no kids. When
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Speaker 3: I was growing up, Every Christmas, my father would say
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Speaker 3: to me, well, I'll try to get that bike this year,
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Speaker 3: that year. And I'd say to him, what about Santa Claus?
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Speaker 3: You've been telling me all about him. Well, you know,
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Speaker 3: Santa's busy. Busy doing what? I said, make that bicycle.
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Speaker 3: I want it now. And I never got the bike.
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Speaker 3: And I've told myself, if I was ever in a
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Speaker 3: position to be a Santa Claus, the kids would get
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Speaker 3: what they want. You can't breed. You can't eat, don't breed, sunshine.
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Speaker 3: You can't breathe if you don't eat. So just get
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Speaker 3: your kids the toys, shut the hole under your nose,
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Speaker 3: and have a Merry Christmas.
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Speaker 1: And you're real popular with the kids.
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Speaker 3: I'm damn popular with the kids.
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Speaker 1: But I bet you the parents hate your guts.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the parents can't help but bring their kids
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Speaker 3: back because the kids love me so much.
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Speaker 1: Austin Amarca. What do you do for a living, Austin?
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Speaker 3: I work at a restaurant.
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Speaker 1: You're a cook, right?
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Speaker 3: I'm a cook, yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Let me go over to Norma. Norma, you're on the
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Speaker 1: Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Hello.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Norma, go ahead.
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Speaker 4: What kind of person are you? You should be lucky
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Speaker 4: that one of these times a man is going to
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Speaker 4: come and pull a gun on you and shoot you.
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Speaker 3: He's not going to shoot me. He'd make his kid unhappy.
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Speaker 3: No parent ever gets up into my face because the
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Speaker 3: children love me. Because I get them everything that they want.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know those parents, the people that hear about you,
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Speaker 4: the parents should be smart enough to go make another
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Speaker 4: Santa Claus and be nicer so they can get you.
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Speaker 3: You go to another Santa Claus, that cheap son of
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Speaker 3: a bitch isn't going to get the kids the stuff
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Speaker 3: they want. Now, now, now. I get the kids the stuff.
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Speaker 4: What do you have to cuss when you talk to me?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why are you cussing?
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Speaker 3: I don't mean to cuss. I apologize, ma'am. But I
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Speaker 3: don't really.
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Speaker 4: You should go to management classes. I think you'll be better.
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Speaker 4: Are you happy? Are you happy with your life?
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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it when I make kids happy,
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Speaker 3: even if it pisses the parents off. I love making
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Speaker 3: children happy. And when children are... Do you got kids?
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Speaker 4: No, sir, I don't have kids. I don't have kids.
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Speaker 3: Well, see, you don't want to get them... Then you
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Speaker 3: made the right choice. You don't heed, so don't read.
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Speaker 4: No, I do. I give my kids. You know who
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Speaker 4: my kids are? My kids are my nephews, my nieces,
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Speaker 4: and my best friends, little kids.
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Speaker 3: You ever take them over to see a Santa Claus
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Speaker 3: on the mall or something like that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I do.
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Speaker 3: I sure do. Well, bring them on to me.
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Speaker 4: Where are you located?
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Speaker 3: I'm at the Mountain Gate Mall in Rockland, California. And
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Speaker 3: I'm a Santa Claus. I sit just between the food
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Speaker 3: court and the organ place where they sell the pianos.
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Speaker 3: And they got me. And the kid comes up, and
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Speaker 3: he says to me, Santa Claus, I want to play state.
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Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to ask you this one time
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Speaker 3: and one time only, and don't you lie to me.
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Speaker 3: Don't you ever lie to Santa. Have you been a
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Speaker 3: good kid? Yes, Santa, I have. Then you head off.
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Speaker 3: I'll talk to your parents, and I guarantee, come Christmas time,
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Speaker 3: you're going to have more toys underneath your tree than
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Speaker 3: you can shake a stick at. And that's the truth, sunshine.
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you something else. These kids love my ass.
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Speaker 3: Because I get them everything they want.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know what I want to be doing for
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Speaker 4: you this year? I want to be praying to God.
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Speaker 4: I swear to God, you need prayers, sir.
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Speaker 3: I need prayers.
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Speaker 4: And have a happy.
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Speaker 3: Holiday, okay? A man who makes children happy.
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Speaker 4: Why are you so bad? Why are you so rude
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Speaker 4: to people? You know, sometimes people can't afford it. Have
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Speaker 4: you ever thought about that? And they have these little, small,
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Speaker 4: little kids.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what right now.
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Speaker 4: And lying and everything. You know, come on.
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Speaker 3: If you can't afford it, don't bring your raggedy-ass kids
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Speaker 3: over to see me. I think it's if you.
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Speaker 5: Don't pay the piper, you don't dance.
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Speaker 3: But, you know, you want to be a smartass about it.
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Speaker 2: And you really do have quite a mouth on you,
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Speaker 2: all right? I mean, I'm asking you on a radio
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Speaker 2: broadcast to clean it up a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry about that. See, but that's typical of a
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Speaker 3: lot of parents. Hey, you know what? How dare you?
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Speaker 3: How dare you? How dare you? Yeah, your kid loves me. Now,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you this, and I'm going to
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Speaker 3: tell you this one time, Sunshine. My name is Santa Claus.
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Speaker 3: I get kids stuff they want. If you can't handle
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Speaker 3: a fright as a parent, well, then maybe you shouldn't
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Speaker 3: have been pumping them out in the first place. Maybe
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Speaker 3: when the time come, and it's a cool Saturday night
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Speaker 3: with a breeze going through the palm tree, you should
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Speaker 3: have taken to sewing your pants shut. But now that
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Speaker 3: you've got them kids, make sure you've got the rake
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Speaker 3: before you procreate. That's what I'm saying. Your kid loves
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Speaker 3: me more than they love you.
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Speaker 1: The lady said you need anger management.
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Speaker 3: Oh, bull crap, anger management. Why, because I make children happy?
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Speaker 1: No, but if you're going to threaten parents, you held
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Speaker 1: a knife to a man's throat.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you something right now. He brought
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Speaker 3: his kid to me. Kid want a PlayStation 2?
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Speaker 2: PlayStation 2, $ 650 to $ 700 for a PlayStation 2.
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Speaker 3: Then don't bring your kid to me.
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Speaker 2: And that's all I'm trying to say.
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Speaker 1: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: This is Austin Amarca. He is a Santa at the
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Speaker 2: Mountain Gate Mall in Rockland, California. Considered to be one
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Speaker 2: of the most successful Santa Clauses in history because the
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Speaker 2: children that come to see him just about get everything.
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Speaker 1: That they asked for on christmas well i don't know
17:22
Speaker 1: that you can verify.
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Speaker 6: That okay i don't know that you can verify that
17:26
Speaker 6: capital that the kids get a lot of what they
17:30
Speaker 6: asked for when they come to see him and as
17:32
Speaker 6: a result he's extremely popular with the kids but the
17:34
Speaker 6: parents hate his guts let's move over here to uh.
17:37
Speaker 1: brian on the phil henry show brian go ahead.
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Speaker 4: Yeah often yeah what kind of lesson are you uh...
17:44
Speaker 4: teaching the youth of america today.
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Speaker 3: What kind of lesson am I teaching the youth of
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Speaker 3: America today?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, are you just teaching them that they can get
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Speaker 4: anything that they want?
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Speaker 3: If they're good.
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Speaker 4: Anything that they want at any time, they get it, right?
17:58
Speaker 3: Ain't that what you tell them, kids, when you send
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Speaker 3: them up to Santa Claus? If you've been good, you
18:01
Speaker 3: get your toys? I ain't teaching them that. The parents
18:04
Speaker 3: of America taught them that. And I'm coming through for them.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's bull crap. Are you saying that just because.
18:10
Speaker 3: Hey, look, I'll tell you what. When you get kids,
18:12
Speaker 3: why don't you call me back? You don't sound you're
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Speaker 3: old enough to squeeze out one decent turd, let alone
18:17
Speaker 3: having a kid.
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 1: Okay, look it, man.
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Speaker 3: I've got an 18-month. You've got a what?
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Speaker 4: I've got an 18-month little boy.
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Speaker 3: Not a motorcycle. Yeah. I'll tell you what. When you
18:30
Speaker 3: get yourself a kid and that kid gets old enough,
18:33
Speaker 3: don't bring him to me unless you're ready to get
18:36
Speaker 3: that kid every damn toy he wants.
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Speaker 1: Every single toy. And what if the kid were to
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Speaker 1: ask for, like, a car, a Chevrolet?
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Speaker 3: That ain't a toy, is it?
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Speaker 1: Oh, so you limit it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I limit it to toys. Santa Claus makes toys.
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Speaker 3: You don't bring no damn car. That's all I'm trying
18:55
Speaker 3: to tell you. And that's why, as I say, you know,
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Speaker 3: that's why, as I say, what I'm doing more than
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Speaker 3: anything else is making these kids happy. And I love
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Speaker 3: to make children happy. And I don't mind making the
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Speaker 3: parents upset.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know what, ultimately a kid is going to
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Speaker 2: have to do what the parent says to do.
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Speaker 1: And if the parent doesn't want to bring the kid back, then.
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Speaker 3: If the parent doesn't want to bring the kid back,
19:19
Speaker 3: let me tell you what happens to a child who
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Speaker 3: is deprived. And it doesn't get the things that he's
19:24
Speaker 3: asked for. That child grows up denied. The next thing
19:28
Speaker 3: you know, he's 14, 15 years old, he finds a
19:31
Speaker 3: book of matches. Next thing you know, you're barbecued in
19:35
Speaker 3: your own bed. Now, you take a look at the
19:38
Speaker 3: Malibu fire and the Angeles National Forest fire. Who do
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Speaker 3: you think started that? Some kid whose parents were too
19:44
Speaker 3: cheap to get him PlayStation 2.
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Speaker 1: Is back. We're with my guest, Austin Amarca. He's our
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus of the week.
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Speaker 2: He works as a Santa Claus at the Mountain Gate
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Speaker 2: Mall in Rockland, California. And your attitude is you get
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Speaker 2: the kids everything that they want. You watching TV there?
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Speaker 3: I just had something on. I'm sorry. What were you saying?
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Speaker 2: I was saying, sir, that you get the kids everything
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Speaker 2: that they want. You tell the parents, get in there
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Speaker 2: and get those toys.
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Speaker 3: That's right. I tell them what to do. I tell
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Speaker 3: those parents, you get in there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to ask you, how did this philosophy
20:22
Speaker 1: come about?
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you how it came about. Number one,
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Speaker 3: that kid that called me an MF-er when he didn't
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Speaker 3: get his PlayStation 2. Number two, my son asked me
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Speaker 3: for a G.I. Joe when he was a little boy.
20:37
Speaker 3: He wanted a G.I. Joe doll. Right. And I didn't
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Speaker 3: get it for him. And I'll never forget not getting
20:46
Speaker 3: him that G.I. Joe doll because that so deprived him.
20:48
Speaker 3: He set fire to three warehouses just outside of Santa Clarita, California.
20:56
Speaker 3: He is now interned at San Quentin Prison, Marin County, California.
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Speaker 3: And I blame myself.
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Speaker 2: You're blaming yourself because your son set fire to three warehouses?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I... Oh, you're telling me that there's no connection?
21:12
Speaker 3: So you're telling me that.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't think there's necessarily a connection.
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Speaker 1: He wanted a G.I. Joe.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's obviously a connection. He wanted the G.I.
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Speaker 1: Joe.
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Speaker 3: He didn't get the G.I. Joe. He set fire to
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Speaker 3: three warehouses. You don't see it.
21:24
Speaker 1: No, I don't see it.
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you what, Sunshine. You need to get
21:29
Speaker 3: into the whole psychology of the kid.
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Speaker 1: G.I.
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Speaker 3: Joe, burning warehouses. Do you understand?
21:38
Speaker 1: No, I don't understand.
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Speaker 3: Sunshine, you really need to get into the whole mindset
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Speaker 3: of where kids are at. Because I'll tell you, I
21:48
Speaker 3: get them all the stuff.
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Speaker 7: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm taking it being called Sunshine
21:55
Speaker 2: every other word.
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Speaker 1: Dawn, hi, you're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 3: Hey, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Fine.
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Speaker 1: Are you there, Dawn?
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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm here.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 5: I just want to say that that's ridiculous that they
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Speaker 5: have someone like him teaching the children that they get
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Speaker 5: whatever they want.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's just ridiculous. Well, wait a second. I'm
22:16
Speaker 3: not the guy that came up with that. You parents
22:19
Speaker 3: came up with, if you're a good little boy, you
22:21
Speaker 3: get good presents under your tree.
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Speaker 5: You'll get with it. The parents can afford to cry
22:26
Speaker 5: and laugh.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's not what you tell them. You
22:28
Speaker 3: tell them that Santa Claus will bring you home.
22:30
Speaker 5: Not everybody tells them that, you know?
22:32
Speaker 3: The people that bring them to see Santa Claus, Dawn, hello,
22:35
Speaker 3: I'm Santa Claus.
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Speaker 5: Okay, that's why we have children out here.
22:39
Speaker 3: So you don't believe in Santa Claus? Like your son.
22:42
Speaker 5: Burning up buildings because you're teaching them the wrong things.
22:45
Speaker 5: You're teaching them that you should get whatever you want
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Speaker 5: in life, and if you don't get it, then you
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Speaker 5: should be deprived.
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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. What about love? I taught him there was
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Speaker 3: a Santa Claus, and that Santa Claus would bring him
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Speaker 3: his toys if he's good. He was good one year.
22:57
Speaker 3: He asked Santa for a GI Joe. I couldn't afford it.
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Speaker 3: Next thing you know, the whole skyline of Cloverdale, California
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Speaker 3: is in flames.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I followed him because you didn't give enough love.
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Speaker 7: Because you didn't teach him about giving, not getting.
23:11
Speaker 3: You're talking about giving, but you've got to leave. I
23:12
Speaker 3: taught him about Santa Claus. Hey, Don, I'm Santa Claus. Ho, ho, ho, sunshine.
23:18
Speaker 3: Christmas is about giving.
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Speaker 5: Not about getting. And if we teach our children.
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Speaker 3: That, then maybe they won't.
23:23
Speaker 5: Grow up to burn buildings.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to jump in here. Don, do you
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Speaker 1: teach your kids about Santa Claus?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Well, what do you tell them?
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Speaker 5: What do you tell them?
23:31
Speaker 1: What do you tell them about Santa Claus? Do you
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Speaker 1: tell them that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, sunshine, do you tell your kids Santa Claus
23:36
Speaker 3: brings toys?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they bring toys, but not whatever they want.
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Speaker 3: Well, what does he bring them then? The stuff that
23:42
Speaker 3: mom and dad can afford?
23:43
Speaker 5: If Santa Claus can afford it, then they'll bring it.
23:46
Speaker 3: That's what you.
23:46
Speaker 5: Tell your children.
23:47
Speaker 3: Get a load of that. If Santa Claus can afford it.
23:49
Speaker 3: He lives at the G.D. North Pole.
23:52
Speaker 5: Well, after they turn about, let's see, the realistic age of, what,
23:55
Speaker 5: six nowadays, five, and they don't bring Santa Claus anymore?
23:59
Speaker 3: Santa Claus gives, kids get, parents go and get.
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Speaker 5: What if you don't have the money, then what?
24:06
Speaker 3: Then don't bring your kid to see Santa Claus, because
24:09
Speaker 3: that's who I am. And by God, my hand to
24:13
Speaker 3: God and my hand on a Bible. When a child
24:16
Speaker 3: comes to me and says, I want something, and he's
24:18
Speaker 3: been a good little boy or girl, oh, man.
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Speaker 5: Well, if you have your hand on the Bible, then
24:25
Speaker 5: you should believe in God, and God doesn't believe in
24:27
Speaker 5: just giving, giving, giving. It doesn't even materialistic stuff.
24:31
Speaker 3: Get a load of you. Get a load of you.
24:33
Speaker 3: You're telling your kids Santa Claus can't afford stuff. Every
24:36
Speaker 3: kid knows Santa Claus can afford anything. Santa Claus can
24:39
Speaker 3: afford to buy China if he wanted to. He can
24:41
Speaker 3: buy countries. Santa Claus can afford anything.
24:45
Speaker 5: What happens when they find out that Santa Claus is
24:47
Speaker 5: you after five, and then what?
24:49
Speaker 7: Santa Claus isn't anything, is it?
24:51
Speaker 3: They're going to love my ass because I got them
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Speaker 3: everything they wanted.
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Speaker 5: No, they're not. They're going to know that you're a liar.
24:56
Speaker 3: No, I'm a liar. I get them all the stuff
24:58
Speaker 3: they needed.
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Speaker 5: They're going to know that you were a wacko, man.
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Speaker 3: You know this love stuff? Save that for the Easter Bunny, okay?
25:05
Speaker 3: I'm Santa Claus. Santa Claus can afford anything. His rent
25:08
Speaker 3: at the North Pole is probably 45 cents a month,
25:12
Speaker 3: or I don't know who he's playing. Well, all these
25:13
Speaker 3: parents are pissed off. Come on.
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Speaker 5: All these parents are pissed off, and you know what?
25:17
Speaker 5: I believe what goes around comes around, so probably you've
25:21
Speaker 5: got to come.
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Speaker 3: Hey, if you breathe, you heed, baby. You know what? Hey, sunshine,
25:24
Speaker 3: if you breathe, you heed. Whatever.
25:28
Speaker 5: All right, I got to go.
25:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:30
Speaker 5: What goes around comes around, buddy.
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Speaker 3: See you later. If you breathe, you heed, sunshine. Bye-bye. Yeah, later.
25:37
Speaker 1: Well, that was really sweet, man. You got that woman in.
25:39
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
25:40
Speaker 3: I just want to see if the news is on.
25:42
Speaker 1: Will you turn the TV off?
25:45
Speaker 3: Jeez.
25:47
Speaker 1: Hey, Sunshine, turn the TV off, okay?
25:49
Speaker 3: You know, you crack me up. Hell, you could even
25:52
Speaker 3: come home and make love to my sister. I like you.
25:54
Speaker 1: What?
25:55
Speaker 3: Never mind. Take a call, Sunshine.
25:59
Speaker 1: Doug, you're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 3: Hello. Hey, what's happening, Sunshine? Hello, Sunshine.
26:06
Speaker 1: Here is Mike on the Phil Henry Show. Mike, go ahead.
26:09
Speaker 3: How you doing?
26:10
Speaker 1: Fine, Mike, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Um.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Mike, I'm Santa Claus.
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Speaker 4: How you doing, Santa Claus?
26:18
Speaker 3: I'm good.
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Speaker 4: Hey, I got a brother who's got a kid, and
26:21
Speaker 4: they're poor.
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Speaker 3: They're both on welfare. So what do you.
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Speaker 7: Tell them when they can't afford nothing like that?
26:26
Speaker 1: They go to Santa Claus.
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Speaker 3: You don't shag ass to Santa Claus if you can't
26:30
Speaker 3: afford the toys. Well, yeah, but still, I mean, he
26:33
Speaker 3: goes for smiles and laughs.
26:35
Speaker 4: He wants to come see Santa Claus.
26:36
Speaker 3: Everybody loves Santa Claus. Well, what's he going to do,
26:38
Speaker 3: sit on Santa Claus' lap and go, I want, you know,
26:41
Speaker 3: all that stuff, G.I. Joe's, PlayStation 2, all that, and
26:44
Speaker 3: then comes Christmas time, his old man says, geez, I
26:47
Speaker 3: can't afford to get you this stuff because there ain't
26:49
Speaker 3: no Santa Claus. That kid's going to burn down warehouses.
26:52
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think he's going to burn
26:54
Speaker 3: down any warehouses, man. I mean, you know what I'm saying?
26:56
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to come down to that. No, no,
26:57
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're saying.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, what's Phil Henry think about this?
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, Mike, but we ain't taking any
27:04
Speaker 1: more calls from Flint, Michigan. I'll tell you that much.
27:06
Speaker 1: Here's Ted on the Phil Henry Show. Hello.
27:08
Speaker 7: Hello.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Ted.
27:10
Speaker 7: This is Ted.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a question.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Ted, how you doing?
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Speaker 3: I'm Santa Claus.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, I don't understand the Santa Claus issue
27:18
Speaker 7: and everything.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
27:19
Speaker 7: And Santa Claus is all about giving and receiving. But,
27:23
Speaker 7: you know, it's kind of hard to make ends meet
27:25
Speaker 7: the way the economy is right now. And I'm just
27:27
Speaker 7: wondering if you can afford a $ 200- something PlayStation for your
27:31
Speaker 7: kids on a cook's shelf salary. Can you do it
27:34
Speaker 7: if your kids want it?
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Speaker 3: If my kids wanted a PlayStation 2 and Santa Claus,
27:39
Speaker 3: they said, see, I'm Santa Claus. Okay? So my kids
27:44
Speaker 3: come to me when they want to ask for their toys.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:47
Speaker 3: And then I ask them, have you been good or bad? Well,
27:49
Speaker 3: they know they've been crap all year because I'm their dad, too.
27:53
Speaker 3: So they can't lie to me.
27:55
Speaker 7: But, I mean, like I said, I mean, I'll do
27:57
Speaker 7: anything I can for my kids, too.
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Speaker 3: Ted, Ted, you know what I'm saying? You may have
28:01
Speaker 3: got to put a wrapper on your slapper if you
28:02
Speaker 3: can't come up with the toys.
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Speaker 7: That's not what Christmas is all about. You've got people
28:08
Speaker 7: like you trying to tell us how we need to
28:09
Speaker 7: raise our kids, and you probably ain't got kids.
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Speaker 3: I had a son, but he's at San Quentin right now.
28:15
Speaker 7: Well, like I said, I mean.
28:16
Speaker 3: He set fire to about three, four warehouses, and.
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Speaker 7: Well, that's probably because having a father like you.
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Speaker 3: Made him do that. No, because I didn't give him
28:23
Speaker 3: that G.I. Joe like I said I would.
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Speaker 7: No, because you didn't show him no love. You sat
28:26
Speaker 7: around and cursed all the time, and you didn't show
28:28
Speaker 7: him no love.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Sunshine, I say to my son, look... If you're
28:32
Speaker 3: a good little boy, Santa Claus, which was me, will
28:36
Speaker 3: bring you the stuff. Then I'd get into my Santa
28:38
Speaker 3: Claus suit and I'd say, come on, I'm Santa Claus.
28:41
Speaker 3: Holy Jesus, look at this Santa Claus. He'd sit in
28:42
Speaker 3: my lap.
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Speaker 1: Would you watch with the language?
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'd say, have you been a good little boy?
28:47
Speaker 3: He'd say, yes. I'd say, no, you haven't. You're lying
28:50
Speaker 3: because Santa Claus knows you didn't take out the trash.
28:53
Speaker 3: Your bedroom looks like somebody tossed a freaking Claymore mine
28:57
Speaker 3: inside of it. That's all I'm talking about. See what
29:00
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Ted? So then I said to him, Sunshine,
29:03
Speaker 3: you ain't getting squat for Christmas.
29:05
Speaker 7: Well, no, you're going to get what Dad can afford.
29:08
Speaker 7: If you've got a roof over your head and you're
29:09
Speaker 7: not starving to death, you're a blessed person. And everybody's
29:13
Speaker 7: trying to take this Christmas thing, and they take it
29:15
Speaker 7: too far. It's not about buying this and buying that.
29:19
Speaker 7: You should be showing kids love, not showing them what
29:21
Speaker 7: their mom and daddy can give them.
29:22
Speaker 3: But that is love.
29:23
Speaker 7: What you're doing, you're driving a wedge between them and
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Speaker 7: their parents.
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Speaker 3: No, sir, that is love. Give kids everything they ask for.
29:29
Speaker 3: That's love.
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Speaker 7: No, you're driving a wedge is what you're doing.
29:32
Speaker 3: How am I driving them away when a kid says, yeah.
29:34
Speaker 7: What you're doing, you're taking and making the kids turn
29:36
Speaker 7: against their parents because their parents cannot physically and To
29:51
Speaker 7: see you for nothing. I mean, because all you're doing
29:53
Speaker 7: is polluting their mind.
29:54
Speaker 3: Are you putting me on? Kids love me.
29:56
Speaker 7: You ain't showing them no respect, no nothing.
29:57
Speaker 3: Kids love me, man. Don't put me on like that.
30:00
Speaker 3: Come on, you'll be yanking my chain, right?
30:02
Speaker 7: No, I ain't yanking you. I wouldn't drag my kids
30:03
Speaker 7: to you for nothing. I sure wouldn't.
30:06
Speaker 3: You want to know how much you love your kids?
30:07
Speaker 7: You couldn't pay me to drag my kids.
30:08
Speaker 3: To you right now. Oh, come on. Quit clowning.
30:11
Speaker 7: I ain't clowning. I'm telling the truth.
30:14
Speaker 3: You know, I like you, because you're just joking with me.
30:16
Speaker 1: No, I'm not joking.
30:17
Speaker 7: I am telling the truth.
30:18
Speaker 3: You really think you're kidding me?
30:19
Speaker 7: Like you said, I put my hand on the Bible.
30:21
Speaker 7: I'm telling you right now, I will not drag my
30:22
Speaker 7: kids if they paid me to.
30:24
Speaker 3: Come on, seriously. Seriously. No. Seriously. Come on.
30:27
Speaker 7: Seriously, they would not pay me enough.
30:30
Speaker 3: It's just you and me right now. Seriously. You like me,
30:33
Speaker 3: don't you?
30:34
Speaker 7: No, I don't. You're obnoxious, and you're just.
30:38
Speaker 7: You got a problem.
30:39
Speaker 3: You are right, man.
30:40
Speaker 7: You're the one.
30:41
Speaker 3: That's got a problem.
30:42
Speaker 7: Will you get serious? I'll be burning down warehouses, too.
30:45
Speaker 7: That's all I got to say.
30:46
Speaker 3: Do you love this guy or what?
30:47
Speaker 1: The guy is serious. Why won't you believe that.
30:50
Speaker 3: He's... Come on, quit clowning around, Ted.
30:51
Speaker 1: He's not clowning around.
30:53
Speaker 7: No, I ain't clowning around.
30:54
Speaker 3: That's all I got to say.
30:55
Speaker 7: What comes around goes around. And that's all I got to.
30:59
Speaker 3: Say about that. No, no, no. One more thing, Ted.
31:00
Speaker 3: Do you really think a cowboy wrapped in tinfoil is
31:04
Speaker 3: something you want to give your kid for Christmas?
31:07
Speaker 7: No, I mean.
31:08
Speaker 3: Well, that's what you said. You said you wouldn't... He
31:10
Speaker 3: did not.
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Speaker 1: Cow pie wrapped in tinfoil.
31:15
Speaker 3: With a bow on it.
31:16
Speaker 7: No, I mean, I said you're wrong.
31:19
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you, Ted, and to your family. Okay,
31:21
Speaker 1: we're going to give you a break here.
31:23
Speaker 3: Is that all the phone calls for me? I like
31:25
Speaker 3: being on the talk radio show.
31:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks a lot, Santa.
31:27
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, sunshine.
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