MJTV: Will There Be a Santa Shortage?
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00:00Santa's taking questions. You, little girl over there with a bow, what would you like?
00:07There looks like there could be a mall Santa shortage this year.
00:11Oh no.
00:12Yeah.
00:15Best for all for your services.
00:17Yeah.
00:17Can I tell you, I am over the mall Santa.
00:20I mean, one thing I don't miss after this post-COVID world or even during COVID world we're living in, I don't miss mall Santas.
00:28Well, this is kind of a dumb question, but are there supposed to be mall Santas?
00:32What do you do now?
00:32You don't sit on the lap?
00:33You go and you don't get to sit on Santa's lap?
00:36Yeah, you separate.
00:36You just say hi to him?
00:37Last year we had somebody send us a picture of their kid like talking to Santa from afar.
00:43Like they were at a press conference and they were in the audience.
00:46Like Santa's taking questions.
00:48You, little girl over there with a bow, what would you like?
00:52Yeah, I mean, I want my daughters to have that.
00:55My baby hasn't even had that experience yet.
00:58Eh, she doesn't need it.
00:59I'll come over.
01:00Well, here's the deal.
01:02You know what?
01:02I sense a classic crotchety coming, guys.
01:04I do.
01:05Mall Santa.
01:07I think a classic crotchety could be coming, but the story is last year Santas throughout the country were losing gigs
01:14because it was the first Christmas of COVID-19 and Santa visits were mostly online or at a big giant distance.
01:24And with vaccines now available, obviously, kids are getting vaccinated.
01:30COVID-19 rates are lower than last holiday season, obviously.
01:34And people are trying to get back to normal.
01:36Although there is concern that we could see an uptick after Thanksgiving and all the get-togethers.
01:42Apparently, what's not getting back to normal, Santas are a lot harder to come by.
01:46Is there a statement in there from Forbes?
01:49Everyone is wanting to go back to tradition, says Mitch Allen, founder of HireSanta.com,
01:54which has a nationwide database of thousands of Santa clauses that can be booked for events.
01:59And he says our demand is up over 120% from pre-pandemic levels.
02:05There's a pent-up Santa demand, and there might be a shortage.
02:09No, no.
02:09I don't trust that organization.
02:10Also, listen to this.
02:13He said that in the past year, around 700 of his Santas passed away because of COVID.
02:23Yeah.
02:23I mean, Santas have a couple of, I don't know, things that work against them.
02:29Kind of maybe being old and overweight and hanging out with reindeers.
02:34Thousands of years old.
02:35It's got to be.
02:35So are Santas at the mall, or just Santas in general, are they going to be tougher to
02:42find this year, you know, for the ones that, you know, do the holiday cheer, you know, for
02:47mostly malls, I guess, right?
02:49Unless the Forbes group, which I've mentioned earlier, the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded
02:54Santas has addressed this matter, MJ.
02:56I don't believe it.
02:57Yeah.
02:57I don't believe it.
02:58So, of course, it's not me.
03:06Yeah.
03:07Oh, okay.
03:08So, I won't believe it.
03:09Great.
03:10Wow.
03:10It's not me.
03:13It's not me.
03:14Okay.
03:15I won't believe it.
03:15All right.
03:16So, that's what I got on.
03:17It's not me.
03:17I'm going to see you.
03:18I'm going to see you.
03:20Right.
03:21I'm going to see you.
03:22So, that's the thing I got on.
03:22Yeah.
03:23So, that's it.
03:24I got it.
03:25So, that's it.