Santa Land Podcast
A grown-up fairytale for the soul. What if healing didn’t come with instructions—but with a story? Santa Land is a place for the dreamers, the seekers, and the beautifully misunderstood. Created and hosted by Tony Felice, this podcast offers weekly ten-minute story episodes followed by gentle reflections—part personal journey, part universal truth. Guided by a wise little cricket, you’ll explore identity, existence, grief, trauma, transformation… and the quiet, unwavering power of love. Told like a bedtime story for grown-ups, Santa Land unfolds slowly and meaningfully, becoming both a peek behind the curtain of a writer’s process—and a mirror for your own soul’s unfolding. This is for the ones who talk about math at weddings, philosophy at funerals, and carry a kind of magic that doesn’t always fit. But here? You do. We're here to love you. Follow the cricket. Find the Santa Land inside you. New episodes every week. Subscribe and listen wherever you find podcasts.
Episodes
Chapters Twelve and Thirteen - Faith Under Soft Morning Light / A Chirp in Time
In Chapter Twelve, Tom writes a poem inspired by a walk on the beach—an exploration of faith’s dual nature: its flexibility and its rigidity. He reflects on what it means to know who you are in the face of loss, cruelty, and the hypocrisy of those who “prey and pray” on the light.
Chapter Fourteen: Like Teenagers Run Amok
Chapter 14 takes us on a poetic journey of the existential nature of time. Written as a journal entry by Tom for David, it illuminates more about Tom's creative process as well as the depth of their relationship.
Chapter Fifteen - E Equals Em See Squirreled.
At Memorial Day, Tom ponders the idea of two palms touching. One hand representing the known, the other the unknown.
By delving into the space between those two states, Tom get's closer to the book's central idea.
Meredith enters the scene by proxy, when Tom p...
Chapter Sixteen - David Out of Sorts
The second part of our story introduces David and his own brand of magic. We learn more about his devotion through his thoughts and actions culminating in a magical moment where a wolf eats the moon.
Double Slit Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kfGRO6msQw
Chapter 17: Just Another Chicken Dance.
Tom reflects on the weight of expectations, the haunting pull of unfinished work, and a family legend involving a stubborn chicken, a roadside fair, and the search for deeper meaning. As Meredith calls from across the ocean, David watches, worried that Tom is about to lose himself in yet another obsessive quest.
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Chapter 18: David's Point Exactly
Tom feels the mounting weight of expectation as a moment with David becomes unexpectedly charged with memory, tension, and legacy. A simple glance at the bookshelf—once a source of pride—now ticks like a clock, reminding Tom of the pressure to deliver something greater than before.
But as the memory of a chance meeti...
Chapter Nineteen: Angels and Monsters
The ticking of the bookshelf grows louder, and with it, Tom’s sense that something is coming undone. A glance at the titles he’s written becomes more than pride—it becomes a reckoning. In this pivotal chapter, Tom remembers how Meredith entered his life, orchestrated by Maria, his first editor and quiet guardian. The encounter is electric, fateful—and ...
Chapter Twenty: Pieced Together from Sentences
As the story of Tom unfolds, we learn more about David's role and we discover the beauty of truly listening.
David recount's his own story of Tom's love of letters, more specifically the metaphor and the poetry of things that exist in that space between letters that become words. Words become alchemy for Tom, and sentences restore his faith in th...
Life's a beach and then you try.
David takes a visit to the beach with the dog, where he ponders the nature of belief and his purpose in the story of Tom.
On his walk he meets a neighbor who's toddler reminds him of the simple joys of living.
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