December 21, 2024 • 43 mins
Its Christmas time and we are celebrating with Santa's head elf Martin from the CT society of Santas! Check out https://www.ctsocietyofsantas.org/ for all your Santa needs! Plus we end a the show with a mesage from the big man himself!!
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And the rest. Oh yeah, ladies, Jack, I'm a happy Saturday.
It is December twenty first, we're getting closer and closer
to Christmas. You're checking out Plum Love Food's right here
on WICC. I'm your man, Chef Plump, hanging out here
as always with the legendary good brother Chef Jeffy. Jeffy,
I've been so excited for this show, man. This is
one of those shows I feel like we've worked on
for a year to finally make happen, and it's finally happening.
(01:19):
And I'll tell you what, especially now this time of year,
we are literally a couple of days away from Christmas,
and this is gonna be I mean, this is Christmas show.
I don't even know how how you, as a producer, Jeffy,
made this happen. It's pretty incredible, Jeffy, to be honest
with you, like, how on earth do you get in
touch with the people to make this happen? Ladies and gentlemen,
(01:43):
Tonight today on this program, we're gonna be joined by
very very special guest. Jeffrey. Can you just die you've
been talking to this first.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, how's everyone doing? Happy Saturday.
We're here with a very special guest, uh, straight from
the North Pole, uh via Connecticut. Actually, Uh, he's here
in Connecticut doing uh Christmas work, if you will, and
helping organize things. I found him and I found uh.
(02:16):
Actually we almost had. Santa was very close, but as
you can imagine, Santa's schedule is insane.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
This time this time year has got to be hard.
I mean, you got me, you got my, you got my.
I was so excited for Santa, but that I was like,
how is that actually gonna happen? And that's and and
and we'll talk to Martin uh in a little bit
about it. He'll he'll be able to explain everything. Uh,
you found a group called the Connecticut Society of Santas
who are like like Santa Society, sant Society.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Excuse me, you like help Cide of Santas. They helped, Yes, no,
they help. They help everyone connect with Santa characters. So
it's like, if you needed to find anything to do
with Christmas, you can connect with them and they can
help you find.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What you're believing for unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
They know a character in the entire realm or or
where they're at at every time, and it's amazing. They
have direct lines to Santa, hanging out with Santa, working
with Santa, directly making things happen. So anyway, I found
them on the internet. I was just googling how do
I get a hold of Santa in my state? I
(03:22):
put in Connecticut. It came up CTSS. I was like,
whoa lo and behold senior Elf. Martin calls me. Immediately,
we start talking, we become friends.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Now before listen, you're you're telling all the mumbo jumbo.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I know, I know, I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm sorry. How do you feel when you get a
call from Santa's senior help I mean it's I mean, listen,
I get it. You're a seventy five year old man.
It's going to be not new as exciting for you
as this for other people.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, first of all, I'm forty eight, and I have
children that still love Santa Claus very much, and I
have a special soft spot.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
In my heart.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
When I see Santa. It makes me very excited. I
get giddy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean, you know, I mean, did you say you're
forty eight. That can't be true.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right. Well, so we've got Martin, the senior l
for Santa's gonna be joining us here in a couple
of minutes, and we are going to get down to
the bottoms and things. So I'll tell you what, Listen,
you might say to yourself, what business do a couple
of chefs have talking to Santa's senior elf. Well, I'm
glad you asked, And much like some of the stuff
we do on Halloween and some of the other stuff
you know as chefs when we're working in a kitchen,
(04:28):
the conversations that happen in a kitchen on the line
are all over the board, and you would be remiss
if you thought there was a topic that we didn't
talk about, Like chefs talk about everything. I can't tell
you how many times I've talked about being Santa or
wanting to know how things go up there, and you
get the whole kitchen talking about it. So you know,
part of the front of this show is to kind
of give that glimpse on the inside, and this is
(04:48):
something that we do. We would have this conversation. I mean,
Jeff and I've been talking about it for about a year.
Like it's real.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Listen, this is a world premiere well in Plumblow Foods,
where having a real elf on the show from the
North Pole telling us the behind the scenes facts about
how it goes down, right, So tune in.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's gonna be amazing. I'm excited to talk to the guy.
But listen, first and foremost, I want to wish everybody
a merry Christmas. It's gonna be It's my favorite holiday,
it's my favorite time of year. It gets very festive. Yeah,
it's a four days that's only four days away, right,
four days unbelievable, So Merry Christmas everybody, and we look
forward to seeing you guys in the future. If you
haven't done so, yet don't forget what he can sell
(05:33):
food and wine festivals into January. It's selling out fast.
If you want to come be a part of it,
come see us. A lot of great chefs are going
to be there. We're gonna be there. You got to
come hang out to be a part of it. It's
a fantastic event. Plus, if you haven't done so yet,
check my Instagram. We are giving away an amazing Ergo
Chef knife on Sunday, Sunday or Monday, we'll see it.
But we're gonna go a great knife. Uh so you
(05:53):
got to check out and see what we got there.
Shout out with our friends over at Ergo Chef big fans.
They do a great job. And yeah, I think all
the housekeeping, I got another housekeeping we.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Got No, that's it, that's it. Just excited about that,
Excited about Christmas and New Year's both coming up on us,
and U super excited about our guest tonight. I mean,
let's not let's not keep them waiting. He's been, he's here,
he's here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I couldn't agree more our way and uh, let's get it.
I couldn't agree more. And hopefully the long distance charges
that's still a thing on the North Pole. Do they
have sell service out there? I don't know how that works.
Ladies and gentlemen joining us from directly from the North Pole.
He is Santa's senior elf. His name is Martin. He
is also president of the Connecticut Society of Santas. He
is the man with the direct line to the Big
(06:35):
Man himself, and he's taking some time and have a busy,
busy schedule. This time you hare to hang out with
us here on plumbofoo le John, please, Senor Martin to
the program. Here is I don't want there we go?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, thank you exciting to me here.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You know, I didn't expect to such a resounding welcome.
And you know, I know I love the intro music too,
very nice.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I think, not bad right.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Saturday night, it's all right for fighting.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So this is it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Those Christmas crowds to get out there and shop away.
You've only got a couple of days left.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, Martin, listen, We can't thank you for taking the
time to join us and be here. And you guys
can't see, but his vest is phenomenal. He's so festive
looking right now. Just a question. I mean, it's funny
because Jeff said you were gonna be on, Like, do
they have cell service in the North Pole? Is that
a thing? Like? How does this work?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well, it's intermittent, so I had to come down a
little bit further south to get good service.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Okay, that makes sense, much like you.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Guys have those roaming zones. So I'm down south a
little bit lower. Okay, same temperature as the North Pole,
but it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it's definitely cold, no doubt about it. So how
does one This is gonna sound crazy, and you can
tell me, like like if I don't want to give
away any magic or anything here, But how does one
become an elf? Much less the senior elf?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Like you're in charge of everybody, right, years of hard work.
You're just kind of born into the job though, you know,
you kind of move up that ladder, so to speak,
by doing more and more jobs around the workshop. And
there's eleven hundred and thirty six Elves in particular, you know,
there's much like you guys. There's certain departments that are
up there in the North Pole. We've got some some bakers.
(08:10):
You know, I think you might know Ernie. You know,
the Keebler Elf. He does a Bob, you know, and
it's kind of interesting to see. You've got the bakers,
We've got Hermie. Of course that's one of Missus Claws's
favorite because the elves we do have a sweet tooth.
So yeah, with the Hermion Stepp as a dentist, we've
got a good dental plan and I'm kind of pays
(08:30):
off so so. But it's good. There's a lot of
hard work. You've got the reindeer wranglers. You've got a
little bit of everything going on up there.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I didn't think about that, I guess. So the elves
tend of the reindeers as well.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Right, someone's got to feed them, make sure that they're
all taken care of.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It's great, it's amazing. I was I was worried that
you were going to come on here and say, listen,
there's been five Donnars and six Blitzen's. It's not the
same one. I don't know. I feel like that they're
just are they are they? Is it a group or
is it like the same reindeer? I guess that's my question.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
They're the same reindeer. They're very hardy, very hardy. We
do have a large herd of reindeer. But you remember
those reindeer games. So the reindeer games are happening to
see who's going to be on the lead team, on
the team that samy years. So you know those winners
have they been consistent. They're the gold medal winners every year,
so they've been pulling the sleigh. Santa's very happy with them.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Of course, the weather is looking kind of kind of hazy, crazy,
so it's really bad, then we'll have to use Roodolph.
But you know, he's he's getting a little older, he's
he's kind of getting slack in his older age, but
he's he's ready to work. It's good.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I mean, this is a real question. It's gonna sounds
silly and Jef's will laugh at me, but I'm a
big sports fan, so I get that sometimes, like you know,
the third string guy had a great tryout and is amazing.
So it is it ever like on Donner on Blitzen,
on comment on Cuba, on Murray and Larry because they
made the team this year, like has that ever happened?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
They're trying hard, but boy, these guys that that that
the solid team, they want to fight to the end.
You know how that goes. There's certain football players like
that too. They just don't know when to let go.
But they've got one more game in them and that's
going to show through. You know, for those Jets fans,
you keep.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Seeing your elf Martin, it must be a Jet fan.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes, definitely, that's like, come on, Aaron Rodgers got at
least another game in them and you know just that.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So talk about what the diet goes. Sports talk about
the diet. So like, I'm guessing this time of the year,
you guys are working non stop, like it's around the
clock working. I'm guessing you're working in shifts of some sort,
maybe even reminists of Jeff. We hung out with our
friends at the at the Navy base, at the sub base,
like they're kind of just constantly moving, moving, moving, but
(10:40):
they're taking little breaks. What do you guys eat for
breakfast and for lunch and for dinner? What are those
meals consist of? And how long do you have to eat?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Thank goodness, missus close is on top of us a
lot of times as far as diet goes, because it
was left up to us, it'd be the hot coco
sometimes with marshmallows in it sometimes not a little bit
of a rye, candy canes, cookies, the whole shebang, so
to speak. But she's trying to get us eat healthier,
you know, rounded meals, but for us a lot of
(11:08):
times rounded meals are you know, round cookies.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
But that doesn't go over with her, nicely done.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Getting us on the nice solid square meals, you know, meat, potatoes,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, good, so ELL's do eat potatoes and meat. Okay,
that's good to know. Currently, that's nice to know.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Gravy is really good. Actually, wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Okay, chocolate gravy.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
You had to sweet it up because you.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Know, I mean, I don't know if you saw recently,
our our friend Giada Dala rent has recently lost her
mind on Instagram and made a chocolate apasta with like
hails nut and chocolate. It was disgusting and the internet
went crazy. But hold of the story for itself. When
we got a Christmas so, Jeff, that sounds right up,
Martin Delly.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I was going to say, although in that case you
might throw some garlic on there. That might work.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Garlic and chocolate for Robbie. Never let the elf cook
for me. Thank you. That sounds terrible.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Definitely different palets, but no.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Doubt about it. Talking about the work schedule this time
of year, like how long are these shifts? How long
do you guys work? How does that work? Well?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Pretty much all all day, twenty four to seven, you know,
working very diligently. It depends on where the work is
really needed. Sometimes we're concentrating in the toy development process
right now. It's pretty much putting the toys together, final packaging,
trying to make sure we got the list going good
to bad. And sometimes the bad kids they help out
(12:25):
because that's less room we have to worry about putting
things in, and we can put something in for somebody else.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
But that's a terrible thing to say. That's such a
line cook thing to say, Well, they didn't like it,
I guess we want to make it for it. Oh
my gosh.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Those are always the kids that you know, they seem
to shape up because that shelf and help is very helpful.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, is there actual shelf?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I keep calling them a shelf on the hell?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What the heck? Well, you haven't slept probably in days.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
That's about right, Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, absolutely, Jeffrey, Sorry, I've been I'm just so excited.
I'm running my mouth cost so you can chime in
if you want, buddy, no go go.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
He was thinking about hisself on the show.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Must think that's well, what do you guys think of those?
Because I have two here at my house and I
woke up this morning and they were actually we had
a cookie making party recently at my house with our family,
and the elves were actually in the refrigerator, hands or
whatever you call those things in the cookie though, And
I was like, that's creepy, right.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
That's the big problem that I've been having. We're trying
to do training for the elves, and I have to
take complete blame for that because I'm not really tech
savvy as far as you guys are in your world.
I had to, you know, you send me the email
and how to get onto this whole aanangling, then get
on this podcast whatever this is. We don't have this
up north. So we're all excited. So I was learning
(13:40):
as we go along. But the problem comes down to
when I was trying to do this for the elves
to say, all right, boys and girls, I know you guys,
shelf on the elf elf on the shelf, You're gonna
come back and report on what's going on. Now, there's
certain things I do not want you to do. Do
not toilet paper the tree, do not make a mess.
And for some reason the not part didn't show up
(14:03):
on the screen. No, so they've taken it to heart
and they are just running them up all over. They
are making a mess. They are.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I have a friend who's elf. Actually they had
a polaroid camera and they took pictures of the kids
they were sleeping and then like when they got the morning,
they were sitting in all the polaroids. It was creepy
as you could possibly think.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I guess you have to bring that up in the
next training session.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I don't know, tell him it's a bad idea, don't
do that.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I will. I will make sure I bring that up too. Yeah,
but again, my.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Texts aren't weird places.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, just like sometimes they end up in the weirdest places,
Like mine was in the dishwasher this morning with the
clean dishes that had been like bathing and what.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, so it was like, but you know who was that.
I'll check on that.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
You can't just disturb him or her name it's actually her. Yeah,
I'm not allowed to touch her and so anyway, she's
on the clean dishes.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So you know, I was like, you know, rewashed dishes now, right.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Why I couldn't get around her? I had, So there's
like I did, most of the dishes went away in
the dishwasher, and there's still like a little pile of
clean dishes, right, and then I have the pile of
dirty dishes and the sink that our rinseduff would go
in there when she moves in the morning.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All, well, this actually brings up a really great question
that maybe I've always wondered and and and maybe Martin
can answer this question for us. So if sometimes these
elves are doing things that are in the way of
daily activities, now, no, we can't touch them, right, we
can't touch them. Can I use a pair of tongs
to move them?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You know, that's a very good question, because I think
I'm not touching them. No, no, No, That's the big
thing that we want to impress upon the younger folks
in that adults have a little more abilities to properly
move the the elves leeway, right, So the kids are
the ones that were really concerned about. And we've had
some circumstances where they've actually come to see us at
(15:57):
certain events, and they're pretty ingenious. And one family actually
stayed up all night waiting to catch that elf and
they used to clamshell, which you guys are familiar with in.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The restaurant business restaurants, and they.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Actually captured the elf to bring him to come see us.
So they brought him through the line and they're all excited.
They said, oh, here's Sparkles. You've got to, you know,
talk to him directly. And I said, what's he doing
in that container? And he said, well, you know, we
don't know if he's really paying attention to us, and
wanted to see if you could talk to him here.
So I said, well, you're not supposed to touch him.
(16:32):
And they said, well, we've got him in this container.
And I said, well, where's his food and they said no, no, no,
you know, he had some candy cane in there. There
was some candy can because they need food in there.
I said, what about air holes and they were like, oh, oh,
no air holes. But luckily Sparkles did survive that that trip,
but it was kind of scary. It was a lot
of reason for Sparkles was in therapy for a little while.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But you know it was.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
It was all good.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And did Sparkles get fired like you never get caught?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, that was the one thing. So you know, she's
on a good workout program. Now she's working on her
speed okay, and her ability to climb trees. So should
be hidden in that Christmas tree next time they come
looking for all.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Right, I mean that's a great story and terrible story
at the same time. I guess, I don't know. I mean,
you had a few conversations with Sparkles, I.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Hope when we did, Yes, all about serpentine. Serpentine, Sparkles,
keep moving.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I love it. That's fantastic. So talk about you know,
so that the night, the big night's coming and I
gotta I gotta imagine like hours leading up for this.
It's just mayhem or is it so? Like like it's
almost like robotic how you guys can do it now,
Like it's got to be because you've been doing it
for so long, Like it has to be a little
bit of a you know, it's just in a kitchen.
(17:48):
If one cog doesn't work, it all falls apart. It
just that's the way it works, right, I gotta imagine
with what you guys do it's kind of similar, like
it has to work like a well oiled machine or
it just doesn't work at all correct.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
And that's the one thing that we're really very proud
of our teamwork. Everybody works together. It's sort of like
an assembly line, as you said, just like in the kitchen.
You know, you've got people plating, you've got people serving.
Everything's all set for us. So everybody does their job
because we all build up for this one long night
to make Christmas Day beautiful for everyone. So everybody's got
a job and they do it really, really well.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So you get paid as an elf, do you get
paid like au it's a job or do you just
like have no expenses.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, we get to live there and we get all
cookies and candy and coke all we want. So yeah,
it's a pretty good life.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah. Well, what if you want to go on like
a cruise, like go on vacation like in April, Well
we get to go.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
To the island and misfit toys. That's always a nice
little trip.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know, seriously, that's not bad.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Right, right, you know we go down there, but then
we do get to come down here sometimes too. If
you behave really well and you've done a great job. Santa.
Lets us come down and visit different spots around the world.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Right, okay, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It is cool because we can see different cultures Christmases.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
How building up this this is more of an odd
question too, But like Jeff, you want to go first
up and talking.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, I have, I have. Just how big is technology
play a role in what you guys do? Like do
you guys are you is it all wooden tools or
are we like like you know, three D Yeah, we
have three D exactly three D.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Printers you're contracting with with like Apple to help out.
I'm using computers logistics.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Right, exactly correct, And luckily yes, Jeff, he's right on target,
right there.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Don't build them up.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Because we need those folks with the text skills, because
I clearly don't have it for the educational programs sureselves,
but for building the toys and everything. We've got cutting
edge equipment for that. But a lot of times the
kids like the old standbys, you know, legos, you know
those are very relatively simple, and kids love them. The
hardest part is much like with an elf, you know,
(19:56):
the clean up part is a problem, But we're not
able to work on that too much. So I hope
the parents are forgiving. You know, we'll bring the legos,
but we're not going to be cleaning them up.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Even if someone wants an Xbox or something. I gotta
imagine like that's I mean, you must have you must
be working with. I mean, listen, it's twenty twenty four
about to be twenty five. As business deals happening, it's
just got to be a whole.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Thing, correct, correct, And we can sublet some of those
sublease some of those.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Things out to Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Corporations to all right, these guys are going to do it.
You know, Sony's fighting with you know whoever. Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Those contracts look like it's got the best.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well they're probably as tall as I am, but you
know they're well, they're pretty thick and comprehensive. They cover everything.
But they let us do it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Oh, the North PLoP play is a pretty big part
in our purchasing power.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Here they do right, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's just crazy World Premiere plumbing Foods.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, amazing. We've got a couple of minutes here if
we have to run the break. But Martin so once
the big days. Well, we'll get to the big day afterwards.
But like, so the big day is about to happen,
do you get to have a meal before, Like I
know it's like the fourteen hour John's like you start
come back and like reload or how does that work?
Like does he come back reload and go back out
or come back? Like based on the time zones and
this whole getting rid of uh of data saving times,
(21:10):
I gonna mess everything up?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
No, because I think that the thing even getting rid
of that, it's still going to be dark so people
can sleep it sometimes, so it's going to be able
to still make that that trip. And he does prep.
He gets all those energy foods in him. He's got
a couple of trail mixed bags in the in the
sleigh with him, and got some food to the reindeer
to keep them flying and halready moving along. So you
know it's just you don't want to fed them too
(21:33):
much because you know, here Sana do's gonna behind that mess.
But you know, we really make sure he eats well.
Missus Claus makes a big, huge meal, just fills him
up on you know, the turkeys and the potatoes, anything
give him energy and gets to carry him through.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So it's got to have his broth. Well, listen, we're
gonna have more with Martin the Senior l for Santa
here just a few minutes. We come back from break.
We got some big questions from Martin and plus our
house Bad of course, has written a song for our
new good friend Martin. You're checking out Plumba Foods right
on WICC. Stay right there, We'll be right back everybody.
It's Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Farm and Forge Market on thirty six Hampton Road in Southampton.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
New York.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Farming Forge is a fantastic market if you're an avid
home coke or professional chef like myself. Johnny Bernard over there,
aka Street Leafs. Johnny, he's got some great stuff. I'm
talking great olive oils. I'm talking great vinegars. He's got
some amazing caviaar. Johnny's really got everything over there, Jeffy, that's.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Right Farm and Forge Market on thirty six Hampton Road
in Southampton, New York.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, I mean you were talking. He's got great fish
that you can get. He's got some produce stuff. He's
got mushrooms that are locally grown, which is incredible. And
he's got some amazing beef selections too, even some a
five wag you. I saw the stuff. It looks like
it's just completely white. It's amazing. I can't wait to
try it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
That's right it Farm and Forge Mark on thirty six
Hampton Road in Southampton, New York.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You're just saying the same thing, you say anthing different.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Well, there's also Farmanforge Market dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, theyre we go, great website. Check out Farmer forge
market dot com. You gotta check them out. Amazing things
over there. Jeff, listen, I'm telling you I cannot wait
to go back and see what else Johnny has.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's right at Farm and Forge Market on thirty six
Hampton Road, Southampton.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
New York. You just said, do you know what else
Johnny has. Johnny's got amazing lion meet. I can't wait
to get some lion meet from Johnny.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, it doesn't have that, but he does have a
website at Farmanforge Market dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh my god, this is getting crazy now. He's got
a great Ostrich legs can barbecue ostrige legs. Is you
have those?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
No Ostrich legs. But he does have seven x wagu
at thirty six Hampton Road, in Southampton, New York.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I mean it's just it's like a broken record with you.
I cannot I don't understand it. Anything else you got
for me? Farman Forge Market, I got it. Thirty Sixthampton
Road in Southampton. We got it, Jeffy.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Old Martin steps in a twinkle. Zo Brian says, bomb
your golden like a star in the night.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
But Jeff's naughty list can't get it right. SATs is
watching better stop the fight. He grabs a seat at
the table talk shop with.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
The crew plumbing. Jeffy, this one's for you. Kitchen tales
of glory, food dreams come true, rests of peas in laughter,
fill the airlight glue. He's seen here.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Elf Martin with a grin on his face, spill him
the secrets of a magical place. Plum, You're a hero
in the food world race, Jeffy, straighten up to join
the good case.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Fire up the grill with buffs. Something sweet. Martin's got
stories make you jump on your feet. From Pepperman twist
to a gingerbread tree. Santa's Elves know how to cook
up the heat.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Plums on the list the shines bright gold.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Jeffy, take no let the truth be told.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Listen to Martin.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Here, the tails, eas in, the kitchen, magic.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
All.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Plumb love foods right here on wy CC Mary Christmas, everybody,
were a couple of days of way. As we hang
out here on a Saturday, right before Christmas, we're joined
by Senior Elf Martin. Yes, friends, that's the Senior Elf
for Santa himself, for the big Man. A lot of
work Witnes making this happen. Martin, that's a that's our song,
our house band of Flames wrote for you. I don't
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know how it's cute.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That's pretty awesome. I have never had intro music get alone.
I wonder if I should play that when I go
back up to North Pole.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Maybe you should. I don't know. We'll send you. They're
still it's still going place. It's they're still going.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
They put in a solid two or three.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's right, that's right, that's right. We're hanging out with
Senior Elf Martin. He's the president of the Connecticut Society
of Santas. This gentleman here helps make all these fun
things happen for these Santas. Now, Martin, I think, but
I want to clear arify just really quick, because we
talked a little bit off air about this Connecticut Society
of Santa's. Obviously, it's a bunch of for the most part, helpers,
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like people who help Santa out, who have direct lines
at least to you, who can get right to stand.
I gotta imagine that every state has something similar, but
they don't all have direct lines of Santa, because then
it's pager or cell phone and pager, how old am
I his cell phone to be blowing up the entire time.
That's why they have people like you who are kind
of like the go to person for this. Is that
am I right here or wrong? I'm just trying to
figure out how the brigade works.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Well.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
We certainly try to help out Santa as much as
we can, and oftentimes I think one of your questions
was about all the different Santas that folks see out
and about every day activities. If you're at the mall,
sometimes you might go to a different store and see
another Santa. So Santa tries to get out of the
North Pole as much as possible, just to check out
the different areas, to see how the kids are behaving,
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how everybody's doing, making sure the Christmas spirit is alive
and well. So sometimes some of our helpers go out
and they look like Santa, and the real Santa, be aware,
is out there and it's up to you to figure
out the little Santa.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So wait, you're saying, like, if I go to if
I go to Danbury Mall and I sit down and
Santa's lap, which would be weird to begin with, but
we're gonna ignore that part of the story. Sure there's
a potential chance that that's actually Santo.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
That's correct, That is correct.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Why undercover boss situation seriously right.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Because he's got to keep track of the elves too,
because sometimes, as you spoke about those elves on a shelf, Yeah, yeah, problems,
you know, Santo, go out and check on those photographers too,
just as well, make sure they're doing their work.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wow, And you can get more infants. You can get
tons of information at ct Soociety Offsanta's dot org promoting
Christmas cheer. These guys are fantastic And I just love
that in twenty twenty five, like we can get in
touch with you. Like that's crazy, but it makes sense
because listen, you know, back in the eighties and nineties
and seventies, when I was growing up like that wasn't
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the thing. You're not gonna be to do that. But
now the way it's not true, Jeffy. Now, the way
the world works with the Internet and with just so
much technology out there, it just makes sense. It would
be silly not to. So I love how much you
guys have embraced that with coming up with risks here
in Connecticut. The society of Santa's where it's like, Okay,
yes we're here, Yes, you can talk to us. Uh,
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it's it's we're not hiding, we're right here.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
And I love that we're out in your communities right exactly. Yes,
we want to make sure again it's all about the
holiday Christmas spirit, and when you see some people, you
just know that they have that Christmas joy. Yeah, it
doesn't matter, you know what might be going on. If
they see Santa or a reindeer, whatever it might be,
people get pretty darn excited. And there's places in Connecticut
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when people go tree shopping. I mean there's John John
Zen's got the reindeer farm up at the Zen Tree Farm.
So there's real life reindeer up there. If you want
to go catch a reindeer.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I mean, you can.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Okay, that was a little wax.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Confident my last those skills, jeff Martin, come on, is
this what we do?
Speaker 5 (29:05):
No, you can't necessarily catch them. I'm using it in
the Parlament that you could see them.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Or got it, got it days yes with close.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yeah, if you catch them, that might kind of inhibit
Christmas from coming.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I shouldn't make a bad jokes with Christmas.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
That was That was pretty monny though. That's perfect because
you know, I don't think the reindeer would like me
doing that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I'm just saying, Martin, between you and I and Jeffrey,
I feel confident in my last those skills. I think
I could probably catch one. I do I do. I
feel I probably make a habit. I could probably ride
the reindeer.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Is what it might be a summer Olympic thing for
the youth.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, right, I think the raindeer might ride you, Jeffy.
But I think that's amazing. You gave a nugget there
and we we kind of we joked about it, but
like the real Santa is actually out there, so like
obviously these other Santas are helpers. Like we said, it's
kind of a brigade. They talked to the head of
the society and that gets back to all that stuff.
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But the real one is out there. Have you ever
worked in an event that he all of a sudden
showed up at that you had no idea he was
going to be there. And if he's there, do you know?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I would know, correct, But I can't tell you that
he's there, because of course I would kind of wreck
the magic.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But yeah, but you can't lie to us either. So
if I ask you, do you just plead the fifth?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
I could bleed the fifth exactly? Are you just distracted
with a cup of cocoa?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Oh? Okay, it's right around. It is a master of
I never know, okay, really doing it?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
It'd be a candy cane and hot cocoa with the
marshmallow on top.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Then you really, oh the marshmallow. But can we can
I just talk from a chef point of view really quick?
Can we just be honest with everybody? And and Martin,
you may disagree with me, because I know as as
als you guys live off this. Candy canes are not good.
Mint is not a good flavor for desserts. I've talked
about this before, like, mint does not It's not good.
It's not a good flavor. It's gross, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
On the naughty list, Marty, what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
I just don't want me. I guess that's changing, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Therefore, I know, right, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
If I want a nice sweet sugar dessert, I don't
want to taste my toothpaste. It's just not my thing.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
But the interesting thing is that there are a lot
of varieties now on.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Flavor sure, which makes me fine and happy.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
But the funny part is, say this weekend, for example,
a young lady came over and said that she wanted
to have a candy cane, and she wanted a candy
cane no matter what. So I gave her candy cane.
She took a taste of it and she said, hmmm,
it's peppermint. I hate peppermint. I said, well, it's candy.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Cake, and candy can give me a better one, And
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Know what a better one was. So but evidently in
some research there are pickle flavored candy canes. But I
don't think I should give those out to kids.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That might kind of I think you should give somebody
a pickle flavored candy cane and be like, what do
you think that means? Kid? Right, surprise him? What do
you think that means? Martin also just sent me a
communicated Jeffy you. I don't know if you've got it too,
but I have my happen to have my messages open here.
He said that unfortunately he is Santa is upset that
he couldn't be here tonight, but he's gonna send us
(31:56):
a message that we can play for every by the
end of the show. So that's kind of expecting that
at all. I mean, that's really nice, and clearly I'm
on the good list, which is great. Nicely, Well, you might.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Be actually pulling you off now that you're throwing so
much shade on peppermint.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Do you think so?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, that's a lot of hate. I mean, that's one
of Santa's favorite flavors.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I have to imagine peppermint really Martin, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
It is, Well think about it. It comes in many
different shapes and sizes.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Is Santa the reason I had to drink rumplements when
I was a line cook coming up in the world.
Because that's all right, Sorry, that's neither here nor there,
ig nor that question. Don't answer it.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
That's a chef qualification, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's probably right, Oh jeez, come to it. Yeah, right right, yeah,
don't I think.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Your culinary school, your knife skills might not improve.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But you know, well, it depends. It's funny, I have
a not Yeah, it depends on how you look at it. Anyway,
So listen, mart let me ask you this. So I
know at night the big Knights coming up. Here were
a few days three four days away from it, and
we all got to leave cookies for Santa. And you know,
I know here my house we only do not only
do we leave cookies for Santa, but we also leave
carrots and some fruit for the reindeers as well. Is
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that something everyone should do? And if you had to
give us a recommendation for cookies for Santa, what should
it be.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
That's a very good question. I think that what's interesting journalists,
well they have very nicely done. So when Santa's traveling
the world, it's interesting because different cultures have different cookies. Okay,
so Santa likes to try the different cookies and sometimes
he gets a unique cookie, whether it would be from Hungary, Germany,
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like the fefanoose, things like that. Those are very tasty
ginger cookies in different places. So it's kind of nice
to see the different things that are put out. And
sometimes if the kids make them and they really enjoyed
making them, they think Santa's gonna like it. You might
leave out the little recipe for Santa, so you could
take that recipe with them to share with missus Claws
up at the North Pole.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
So I gotta think she gets offended by that. She's like, look,
I don't need you giving me a recipe how to
make cookies eight year old Johnny from from Denmark? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
But there's so many things to learn every day. She
might not. Plus, if it's written by the child.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Is muchdgeon. Well, your Jeffrey curmudget Remember, jeff how would
Jeffrey Curmudgeons sound if you got a recipe.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
That's five o'clock wake up?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Right? That's it? So is there a particular cookie that
he doesn't like? Is you're like, oh, this house left
me ginger snaps? You know, I don't like ginger snaps.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Cookie doesn't like. I mean the fact that you ever
think about it, clearly I think that well, I think
the one thing that's very very difficult is the crumbly cookies.
Don't leave crumbly cookies because it gets all over his suit.
So it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Tough beard's beard.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
It's always hard to can be a problem. That could
definitely be a problem. Yeah, so we don't need crumbling
things because I know, how was he going to get
that out?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Sure? Sure? What about feeding the reindeers? I think we
should all be doing or no, Yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Reindeer, they're they're very particular. They usually live on the
herbs and the fauna up north with us. But you
can give them, you know, evidently some oats, prepared oats
or raisins. They like raisins. People leave on carrots a lot,
but they don't really eat big carrots because they don't
have the teeth to really chomp down on the big carrots,
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so smaller little bites of apple or carrots raisins.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
A rengeers like cow And you may not know the
answer here, And that's okay because you don't actually tend
to the deers. I'm sure you've been a part of
it briefly. But do deer, much like cows, only have
teeth on one side of their mouth?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Right, that's correct, Right? Wow to the whole right, they
don't have them. I think it's whatever one of those yeah, yes,
so they're not like a cow that way, like I said,
they just I just want to point.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Occasionally I say things that are really smart to Jeffy,
Like one time got a chance to interview NASA and
Jeffy was blown away. But my knowledge of NASA was
that one of those things. I just knew that was
kind of cool to Jeffy.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Or now, yeah, you listen, I'm surprised by you every day.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
That's my boy. There it is, there it is. We're
joined here by Senior Elf Martin. He's the president of
the Connecticut Society of Santa's give us some insight to
get ourselves ready for the big night here coming up
in just a few days. Martin. So let's talk about
have there been any instances where Santa was almost caught
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that he comes back and you got he's done for
the night. He pulls all the elves together, you guys
are all hanging out cheers in whatever your cot Co co,
whatever you drink. We'll talk about that too, where he's like,
let me tell you boys, what happened, or you're just
like the old Jimmy came out and he came down
the stairs. His dad was like, there's some crazy story,
and you're like, oh, that's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Santa, Right, Well, there are a couple of times that
it's been very, very close. That's why we try to
encourage the kids to stay in bed as long as possible.
They might hear Santa. Yeah, you don't want to go
down and see him, because then sometimes what might happen
is when he's trying to run out quickly, the toys
kind of get reattached to that bag and leave with Santa.
So it's not a good idea to do that. So
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Santa's really so far he hasn't been caught, but he
said a couple of close.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
So Santa's the ultimate cat burglar.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
He is.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Jeffrey was pretty close one time catching Santa. That was
a kudos to him.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
He was like a cat on his So that happened,
jeff Wait wait a minute, Jeffy was like a cat.
That's never happened.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Really, it was like the night before Christmas, he sprang
out of bed, he ran downstairs and.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Why reflect is there? Actually, I'm I'm quite spry, like
especially when I'm startled.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, okay, I love that. Uh Martin. We appreciate your
time coming in here and joining us, so I can't
wait to play this message from Santa here soon. But
before we get you out of here, I got to
ask you if you can answer a couple of Christmas
related questions for me that hopefully you can help with.
I've never had a sugar plumb.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Well, it's really a sugar plum. The plumb itself is
dunked in or I guess soaked.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
In, like macerated. Okay, oh, it's.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Soaked in a liquor with lots of sugar.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Now it's not an elf delicacy or how does that work?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Very flavorful, right right? Okay, that would be an end
of the night thing, because you don't want to do
that before you're gonna go out doing anything. That's like
a nightcap, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
It kind of sounds amazing.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I'm not gonna lie. It's good.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's good, very Christmas Eve for my family. They come over,
the in loss come over. We do a Christmas Eve
thing here on Christmas that night, before you know, Santa coms,
I make a delicious ham. It's it's amazing, with Santa
like some ham if I fet out.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
For him, Well, ham is good, yes, ham. It's not
a heavy meal to sit in your in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
It's a good meal, right, Jeff, This is all the
questions I've always wanted to ask. I know, it's like,
what's wrong with you? Plumb out see your eyes, but
like listen.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
No, I like where you're going with it because I
also I said the other night that I think that
Santa would really love a piece of cold fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
He did say that nice, crunchy, delicious piece of cold
fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Maybe a little I would put out handy.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Wipes, nice touch, right, you know, there's a nice You know,
he knows that we love him, but we wanted to
be feeling good. We wanted to have and if you give,
we want him to have that comfort, that comfort food.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, chicken, it's got a nice handle.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
You can just would Santa eat cold for chicken, Martin?
Speaker 5 (39:04):
I think he would. I don't think it'd be a
proper because he can have the rains in one hand
in the chicken leg and the other one.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Oh my gosh, can you imagine if that picture came
out with Santasy a chicken leg and dropping a sleigh.
Get out of here.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
I'm sure someone out there can make that happen.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
That would be the most amazing picture I've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
What, Jeff, when you're getting up early times to peek
out the window.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
There we go, Martin? What the Heck's a turtle dove?
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Turtle dove? Well, that's one thing that's you know, we've
been really trying to research exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Okay, good, you know it's a.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Song and they're birds, and you know that's one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Just wasn't sure.
Speaker 7 (39:39):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Bird that wound up in a Christmas Carol song.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
So how else does one get the five ladies dancing?
Do you have to? I mean, okay, well ignore that question, Jeff,
you have figured got what some Martin? Ignore? That's fine,
he's dancy.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
I think that's the evidently I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Was the what do you get?
Speaker 4 (39:59):
It's it's a five go there?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So what's what's the ladies dancing?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Seven maids of marrying? I don't remember, milk that eight
ladies dancing? Is that what it is? Let's move on
because it's getting.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Weird now and you don't want me to be singing,
that's for sure?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Or do we right down there, Jeffy. Any any Christmas
questions from Martin before we get him out of here?
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, you know, I just want to We've we've asked
so many food related questions. What's what's your favorite dish
that missus Claws makes for you? Like when she makes like,
what's the what's the what's the hitter that's not hot cocoa?
Let's yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Oh, one of my favorites is because I do like
hot hot stuff like chicken, scarpy, yellow pepper, hot sausage.
That's really very nice.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
There we go. Martin's an elf after my own heart. Here,
get you moving, tingling right?
Speaker 5 (41:00):
If you HiT's not tingling, it wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Oh I like that. I like that, Martin. I know
you're a busy man and we excuse me, a busy elf.
I appreciate your time to be able to come hang
out with us, and please, if you haven't done so,
check out the CT Society of Santa's dot org. Go there,
get all of your questions answered, all of your Santa
questions that answered all your ELF questions answered. You can
even reach out to the Big Man through this website
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through Martin. We appreciate your time, man, seriously, You've been
such a big part of all of our lives growing
up and look forward to the future, even my kids
like I don't know, it's just it's emotional to have
you here and I can't thank you enough to take
the time.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Well, thank you. It's been my pleasure and I look
forward to hanging out with you guys again soon. And
I guess I'll see at one of these places the
Farm and Forge Market or Ergo Chef Knives and Dan Bray. Oh,
I can't wait, Fairfield. You never know, let's go, let's
go showing up and eating. I don't know. It could
be a great day.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So that's it. Sounds it sounds amazing. Martin. Listen, I
know you had a busy couple of days. Have a great,
great Christmas this year. Merry Christmas to you. Please tell
the Big Man we said Merry Christmas, and to all
the other l's and thank you for your time very much, Yes, sir,
big shout out to our friend Senior Elf Martin for
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Santa Claus Jeffy. What an amazing find there. I can't wait,
and we gotta make it really quick here because we
got a great message from Santa. We gotta play for
everybody he sent us. I can't wait. But great job
finding that. Yeah, Society of Santas. Yeah, Connecticut Societyasantas dot org.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
Check them out, you know if you can donate, if
you want, you can do anything you want to help them.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
They're awesome. That said. Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry chrismas you.
Jeffy and I look forward to seeing you guys after
the holidays. So Mary Christmas must were at Plumbla Foods WICC.
Here's our friend Santa. Can't believe we got this. Merry
Christmas everyone. I'm sorry I could not be on the
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show today. As you can imagine, it's a very busy
time of year around here. I'm sure that Martin did
a wonderful job though. Oh and Chef Plum and Jeffy
let me see here, fuck here it is. You both
are on the nice list this year. Nice job, Keep
(43:10):
up the good work, and Merry Christmas to all my
friends in Connecticut. I look forward to all the cookies,
but don't be afraid to leave Santa's Little Pizza. I
can't to come to Connecticut and not have pizza. Merry
Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Coming umber stalling a world of sound.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Chef Pull on the mic, making hearts pown Sef Jeff
Brown shot down myself, Chef Dead in the background making
new be found. So Gar's a peace understand any night
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
Jeff Ready got the suping off very compensation. So the
fast say Sun on the knee, shee fhm and the West.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And the rest. Oh yeah, ladies, Jack, I'm a happy Saturday.
It is December twenty first, we're getting closer and closer
to Christmas. You're checking out Plum Love Food's right here
on WICC. I'm your man, Chef Plump, hanging out here
as always with the legendary good brother Chef Jeffy. Jeffy,
I've been so excited for this show, man. This is
one of those shows I feel like we've worked on
for a year to finally make happen, and it's finally happening.
(01:19):
And I'll tell you what, especially now this time of year,
we are literally a couple of days away from Christmas,
and this is gonna be I mean, this is Christmas show.
I don't even know how how you, as a producer, Jeffy,
made this happen. It's pretty incredible, Jeffy, to be honest
with you, like, how on earth do you get in
touch with the people to make this happen? Ladies and gentlemen,
(01:43):
Tonight today on this program, we're gonna be joined by
very very special guest. Jeffrey. Can you just die you've
been talking to this first.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, how's everyone doing? Happy Saturday.
We're here with a very special guest, uh, straight from
the North Pole, uh via Connecticut. Actually, Uh, he's here
in Connecticut doing uh Christmas work, if you will, and
helping organize things. I found him and I found uh.
(02:16):
Actually we almost had. Santa was very close, but as
you can imagine, Santa's schedule is insane.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
This time this time year has got to be hard.
I mean, you got me, you got my, you got my.
I was so excited for Santa, but that I was like,
how is that actually gonna happen? And that's and and
and we'll talk to Martin uh in a little bit
about it. He'll he'll be able to explain everything. Uh,
you found a group called the Connecticut Society of Santas
who are like like Santa Society, sant Society.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Excuse me, you like help Cide of Santas. They helped, Yes, no,
they help. They help everyone connect with Santa characters. So
it's like, if you needed to find anything to do
with Christmas, you can connect with them and they can
help you find.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What you're believing for unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
They know a character in the entire realm or or
where they're at at every time, and it's amazing. They
have direct lines to Santa, hanging out with Santa, working
with Santa, directly making things happen. So anyway, I found
them on the internet. I was just googling how do
I get a hold of Santa in my state? I
(03:22):
put in Connecticut. It came up CTSS. I was like,
whoa lo and behold senior Elf. Martin calls me. Immediately,
we start talking, we become friends.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Now before listen, you're you're telling all the mumbo jumbo.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I know, I know, I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm sorry. How do you feel when you get a
call from Santa's senior help I mean it's I mean, listen,
I get it. You're a seventy five year old man.
It's going to be not new as exciting for you
as this for other people.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, first of all, I'm forty eight, and I have
children that still love Santa Claus very much, and I
have a special soft spot.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
In my heart.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
When I see Santa. It makes me very excited. I
get giddy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I mean, you know, I mean, did you say you're
forty eight. That can't be true.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right. Well, so we've got Martin, the senior l
for Santa's gonna be joining us here in a couple
of minutes, and we are going to get down to
the bottoms and things. So I'll tell you what, Listen,
you might say to yourself, what business do a couple
of chefs have talking to Santa's senior elf. Well, I'm
glad you asked, And much like some of the stuff
we do on Halloween and some of the other stuff
you know as chefs when we're working in a kitchen,
(04:28):
the conversations that happen in a kitchen on the line
are all over the board, and you would be remiss
if you thought there was a topic that we didn't
talk about, Like chefs talk about everything. I can't tell
you how many times I've talked about being Santa or
wanting to know how things go up there, and you
get the whole kitchen talking about it. So you know,
part of the front of this show is to kind
of give that glimpse on the inside, and this is
(04:48):
something that we do. We would have this conversation. I mean,
Jeff and I've been talking about it for about a year.
Like it's real.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Listen, this is a world premiere well in Plumblow Foods,
where having a real elf on the show from the
North Pole telling us the behind the scenes facts about
how it goes down, right, So tune in.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's gonna be amazing. I'm excited to talk to the guy.
But listen, first and foremost, I want to wish everybody
a merry Christmas. It's gonna be It's my favorite holiday,
it's my favorite time of year. It gets very festive. Yeah,
it's a four days that's only four days away, right,
four days unbelievable, So Merry Christmas everybody, and we look
forward to seeing you guys in the future. If you
haven't done so, yet don't forget what he can sell
(05:33):
food and wine festivals into January. It's selling out fast.
If you want to come be a part of it,
come see us. A lot of great chefs are going
to be there. We're gonna be there. You got to
come hang out to be a part of it. It's
a fantastic event. Plus, if you haven't done so yet,
check my Instagram. We are giving away an amazing Ergo
Chef knife on Sunday, Sunday or Monday, we'll see it.
But we're gonna go a great knife. Uh so you
(05:53):
got to check out and see what we got there.
Shout out with our friends over at Ergo Chef big fans.
They do a great job. And yeah, I think all
the housekeeping, I got another housekeeping we.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Got No, that's it, that's it. Just excited about that,
Excited about Christmas and New Year's both coming up on us,
and U super excited about our guest tonight. I mean,
let's not let's not keep them waiting. He's been, he's here,
he's here.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I couldn't agree more our way and uh, let's get it.
I couldn't agree more. And hopefully the long distance charges
that's still a thing on the North Pole. Do they
have sell service out there? I don't know how that works.
Ladies and gentlemen joining us from directly from the North Pole.
He is Santa's senior elf. His name is Martin. He
is also president of the Connecticut Society of Santas. He
is the man with the direct line to the Big
(06:35):
Man himself, and he's taking some time and have a busy,
busy schedule. This time you hare to hang out with
us here on plumbofoo le John, please, Senor Martin to
the program. Here is I don't want there we go?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah, thank you exciting to me here.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You know, I didn't expect to such a resounding welcome.
And you know, I know I love the intro music too,
very nice.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I think, not bad right.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Saturday night, it's all right for fighting.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So this is it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Those Christmas crowds to get out there and shop away.
You've only got a couple of days left.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, Martin, listen, We can't thank you for taking the
time to join us and be here. And you guys
can't see, but his vest is phenomenal. He's so festive
looking right now. Just a question. I mean, it's funny
because Jeff said you were gonna be on, Like, do
they have cell service in the North Pole? Is that
a thing? Like? How does this work?
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well, it's intermittent, so I had to come down a
little bit further south to get good service.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Okay, that makes sense, much like you.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Guys have those roaming zones. So I'm down south a
little bit lower. Okay, same temperature as the North Pole,
but it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it's definitely cold, no doubt about it. So how
does one This is gonna sound crazy, and you can
tell me, like like if I don't want to give
away any magic or anything here, But how does one
become an elf? Much less the senior elf?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Like you're in charge of everybody, right, years of hard work.
You're just kind of born into the job though, you know,
you kind of move up that ladder, so to speak,
by doing more and more jobs around the workshop. And
there's eleven hundred and thirty six Elves in particular, you know,
there's much like you guys. There's certain departments that are
up there in the North Pole. We've got some some bakers.
(08:10):
You know, I think you might know Ernie. You know,
the Keebler Elf. He does a Bob, you know, and
it's kind of interesting to see. You've got the bakers,
We've got Hermie. Of course that's one of Missus Claws's
favorite because the elves we do have a sweet tooth.
So yeah, with the Hermion Stepp as a dentist, we've
got a good dental plan and I'm kind of pays
(08:30):
off so so. But it's good. There's a lot of
hard work. You've got the reindeer wranglers. You've got a
little bit of everything going on up there.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I didn't think about that, I guess. So the elves
tend of the reindeers as well.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Right, someone's got to feed them, make sure that they're
all taken care of.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It's great, it's amazing. I was I was worried that
you were going to come on here and say, listen,
there's been five Donnars and six Blitzen's. It's not the
same one. I don't know. I feel like that they're
just are they are they? Is it a group or
is it like the same reindeer? I guess that's my question.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
They're the same reindeer. They're very hardy, very hardy. We
do have a large herd of reindeer. But you remember
those reindeer games. So the reindeer games are happening to
see who's going to be on the lead team, on
the team that samy years. So you know those winners
have they been consistent. They're the gold medal winners every year,
so they've been pulling the sleigh. Santa's very happy with them.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Of course, the weather is looking kind of kind of hazy, crazy,
so it's really bad, then we'll have to use Roodolph.
But you know, he's he's getting a little older, he's
he's kind of getting slack in his older age, but
he's he's ready to work. It's good.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I mean, this is a real question. It's gonna sounds
silly and Jef's will laugh at me, but I'm a
big sports fan, so I get that sometimes, like you know,
the third string guy had a great tryout and is amazing.
So it is it ever like on Donner on Blitzen,
on comment on Cuba, on Murray and Larry because they
made the team this year, like has that ever happened?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
They're trying hard, but boy, these guys that that that
the solid team, they want to fight to the end.
You know how that goes. There's certain football players like
that too. They just don't know when to let go.
But they've got one more game in them and that's
going to show through. You know, for those Jets fans,
you keep.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Seeing your elf Martin, it must be a Jet fan.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes, definitely, that's like, come on, Aaron Rodgers got at
least another game in them and you know just that.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So talk about what the diet goes. Sports talk about
the diet. So like, I'm guessing this time of the year,
you guys are working non stop, like it's around the
clock working. I'm guessing you're working in shifts of some sort,
maybe even reminists of Jeff. We hung out with our
friends at the at the Navy base, at the sub base,
like they're kind of just constantly moving, moving, moving, but
(10:40):
they're taking little breaks. What do you guys eat for
breakfast and for lunch and for dinner? What are those
meals consist of? And how long do you have to eat?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Thank goodness, missus close is on top of us a
lot of times as far as diet goes, because it
was left up to us, it'd be the hot coco
sometimes with marshmallows in it sometimes not a little bit
of a rye, candy canes, cookies, the whole shebang, so
to speak. But she's trying to get us eat healthier,
you know, rounded meals, but for us a lot of
(11:08):
times rounded meals are you know, round cookies.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
But that doesn't go over with her, nicely done.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Getting us on the nice solid square meals, you know, meat, potatoes,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Okay, good, so ELL's do eat potatoes and meat. Okay,
that's good to know. Currently, that's nice to know.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Gravy is really good. Actually, wow, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Okay, chocolate gravy.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
You had to sweet it up because you.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Know, I mean, I don't know if you saw recently,
our our friend Giada Dala rent has recently lost her
mind on Instagram and made a chocolate apasta with like
hails nut and chocolate. It was disgusting and the internet
went crazy. But hold of the story for itself. When
we got a Christmas so, Jeff, that sounds right up,
Martin Delly.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I was going to say, although in that case you
might throw some garlic on there. That might work.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Garlic and chocolate for Robbie. Never let the elf cook
for me. Thank you. That sounds terrible.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Definitely different palets, but no.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Doubt about it. Talking about the work schedule this time
of year, like how long are these shifts? How long
do you guys work? How does that work? Well?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Pretty much all all day, twenty four to seven, you know,
working very diligently. It depends on where the work is
really needed. Sometimes we're concentrating in the toy development process
right now. It's pretty much putting the toys together, final packaging,
trying to make sure we got the list going good
to bad. And sometimes the bad kids they help out
(12:25):
because that's less room we have to worry about putting
things in, and we can put something in for somebody else.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
But that's a terrible thing to say. That's such a
line cook thing to say, Well, they didn't like it,
I guess we want to make it for it. Oh
my gosh.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Those are always the kids that you know, they seem
to shape up because that shelf and help is very helpful.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I mean, is there actual shelf?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I keep calling them a shelf on the hell?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What the heck? Well, you haven't slept probably in days.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
That's about right, Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, absolutely, Jeffrey, Sorry, I've been I'm just so excited.
I'm running my mouth cost so you can chime in
if you want, buddy, no go go.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
He was thinking about hisself on the show.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Must think that's well, what do you guys think of those?
Because I have two here at my house and I
woke up this morning and they were actually we had
a cookie making party recently at my house with our family,
and the elves were actually in the refrigerator, hands or
whatever you call those things in the cookie though, And
I was like, that's creepy, right.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
That's the big problem that I've been having. We're trying
to do training for the elves, and I have to
take complete blame for that because I'm not really tech
savvy as far as you guys are in your world.
I had to, you know, you send me the email
and how to get onto this whole aanangling, then get
on this podcast whatever this is. We don't have this
up north. So we're all excited. So I was learning
(13:40):
as we go along. But the problem comes down to
when I was trying to do this for the elves
to say, all right, boys and girls, I know you guys,
shelf on the elf elf on the shelf, You're gonna
come back and report on what's going on. Now, there's
certain things I do not want you to do. Do
not toilet paper the tree, do not make a mess.
And for some reason the not part didn't show up
(14:03):
on the screen. No, so they've taken it to heart
and they are just running them up all over. They
are making a mess. They are.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I have a friend who's elf. Actually they had
a polaroid camera and they took pictures of the kids
they were sleeping and then like when they got the morning,
they were sitting in all the polaroids. It was creepy
as you could possibly think.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I guess you have to bring that up in the
next training session.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I don't know, tell him it's a bad idea, don't
do that.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I will. I will make sure I bring that up too. Yeah,
but again, my.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Texts aren't weird places.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, just like sometimes they end up in the weirdest places,
Like mine was in the dishwasher this morning with the
clean dishes that had been like bathing and what.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, so it was like, but you know who was that.
I'll check on that.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
You can't just disturb him or her name it's actually her. Yeah,
I'm not allowed to touch her and so anyway, she's
on the clean dishes.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So you know, I was like, you know, rewashed dishes now, right.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Why I couldn't get around her? I had, So there's
like I did, most of the dishes went away in
the dishwasher, and there's still like a little pile of
clean dishes, right, and then I have the pile of
dirty dishes and the sink that our rinseduff would go
in there when she moves in the morning.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All, well, this actually brings up a really great question
that maybe I've always wondered and and and maybe Martin
can answer this question for us. So if sometimes these
elves are doing things that are in the way of
daily activities, now, no, we can't touch them, right, we
can't touch them. Can I use a pair of tongs
to move them?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You know, that's a very good question, because I think
I'm not touching them. No, no, No, That's the big
thing that we want to impress upon the younger folks
in that adults have a little more abilities to properly
move the the elves leeway, right, So the kids are
the ones that were really concerned about. And we've had
some circumstances where they've actually come to see us at
(15:57):
certain events, and they're pretty ingenious. And one family actually
stayed up all night waiting to catch that elf and
they used to clamshell, which you guys are familiar with in.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The restaurant business restaurants, and they.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Actually captured the elf to bring him to come see us.
So they brought him through the line and they're all excited.
They said, oh, here's Sparkles. You've got to, you know,
talk to him directly. And I said, what's he doing
in that container? And he said, well, you know, we
don't know if he's really paying attention to us, and
wanted to see if you could talk to him here.
So I said, well, you're not supposed to touch him.
(16:32):
And they said, well, we've got him in this container.
And I said, well, where's his food and they said no, no, no,
you know, he had some candy cane in there. There
was some candy can because they need food in there.
I said, what about air holes and they were like, oh, oh,
no air holes. But luckily Sparkles did survive that that trip,
but it was kind of scary. It was a lot
of reason for Sparkles was in therapy for a little while.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But you know it was.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
It was all good.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And did Sparkles get fired like you never get caught?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, that was the one thing. So you know, she's
on a good workout program. Now she's working on her
speed okay, and her ability to climb trees. So should
be hidden in that Christmas tree next time they come
looking for all.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Right, I mean that's a great story and terrible story
at the same time. I guess, I don't know. I mean,
you had a few conversations with Sparkles, I.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Hope when we did, Yes, all about serpentine. Serpentine, Sparkles,
keep moving.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I love it. That's fantastic. So talk about you know,
so that the night, the big night's coming and I
gotta I gotta imagine like hours leading up for this.
It's just mayhem or is it so? Like like it's
almost like robotic how you guys can do it now,
Like it's got to be because you've been doing it
for so long, Like it has to be a little
bit of a you know, it's just in a kitchen.
(17:48):
If one cog doesn't work, it all falls apart. It
just that's the way it works, right, I gotta imagine
with what you guys do it's kind of similar, like
it has to work like a well oiled machine or
it just doesn't work at all correct.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
And that's the one thing that we're really very proud
of our teamwork. Everybody works together. It's sort of like
an assembly line, as you said, just like in the kitchen.
You know, you've got people plating, you've got people serving.
Everything's all set for us. So everybody does their job
because we all build up for this one long night
to make Christmas Day beautiful for everyone. So everybody's got
a job and they do it really, really well.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So you get paid as an elf, do you get
paid like au it's a job or do you just
like have no expenses.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, we get to live there and we get all
cookies and candy and coke all we want. So yeah,
it's a pretty good life.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah. Well, what if you want to go on like
a cruise, like go on vacation like in April, Well
we get to go.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
To the island and misfit toys. That's always a nice
little trip.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know, seriously, that's not bad.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Right, right, you know we go down there, but then
we do get to come down here sometimes too. If
you behave really well and you've done a great job. Santa.
Lets us come down and visit different spots around the world.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Right, okay, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
It is cool because we can see different cultures Christmases.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
How building up this this is more of an odd
question too, But like Jeff, you want to go first
up and talking.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, I have, I have. Just how big is technology
play a role in what you guys do? Like do
you guys are you is it all wooden tools or
are we like like you know, three D Yeah, we
have three D exactly three D.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Printers you're contracting with with like Apple to help out.
I'm using computers logistics.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Right, exactly correct, And luckily yes, Jeff, he's right on target,
right there.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Don't build them up.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Because we need those folks with the text skills, because
I clearly don't have it for the educational programs sureselves,
but for building the toys and everything. We've got cutting
edge equipment for that. But a lot of times the
kids like the old standbys, you know, legos, you know
those are very relatively simple, and kids love them. The
hardest part is much like with an elf, you know,
(19:56):
the clean up part is a problem, But we're not
able to work on that too much. So I hope
the parents are forgiving. You know, we'll bring the legos,
but we're not going to be cleaning them up.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Even if someone wants an Xbox or something. I gotta
imagine like that's I mean, you must have you must
be working with. I mean, listen, it's twenty twenty four
about to be twenty five. As business deals happening, it's
just got to be a whole.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Thing, correct, correct, And we can sublet some of those
sublease some of those.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Things out to Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Corporations to all right, these guys are going to do it.
You know, Sony's fighting with you know whoever. Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Those contracts look like it's got the best.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Well they're probably as tall as I am, but you
know they're well, they're pretty thick and comprehensive. They cover everything.
But they let us do it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Oh, the North PLoP play is a pretty big part
in our purchasing power.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Here they do right, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's just crazy World Premiere plumbing Foods.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, amazing. We've got a couple of minutes here if
we have to run the break. But Martin so once
the big days. Well, we'll get to the big day afterwards.
But like, so the big day is about to happen,
do you get to have a meal before, Like I
know it's like the fourteen hour John's like you start
come back and like reload or how does that work?
Like does he come back reload and go back out
or come back? Like based on the time zones and
this whole getting rid of uh of data saving times,
(21:10):
I gonna mess everything up?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
No, because I think that the thing even getting rid
of that, it's still going to be dark so people
can sleep it sometimes, so it's going to be able
to still make that that trip. And he does prep.
He gets all those energy foods in him. He's got
a couple of trail mixed bags in the in the
sleigh with him, and got some food to the reindeer
to keep them flying and halready moving along. So you
know it's just you don't want to fed them too
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much because you know, here Sana do's gonna behind that mess.
But you know, we really make sure he eats well.
Missus Claus makes a big, huge meal, just fills him
up on you know, the turkeys and the potatoes, anything
give him energy and gets to carry him through.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So it's got to have his broth. Well, listen, we're
gonna have more with Martin the Senior l for Santa
here just a few minutes. We come back from break.
We got some big questions from Martin and plus our
house Bad of course, has written a song for our
new good friend Martin. You're checking out Plumba Foods right
on WICC. Stay right there, We'll be right back everybody.
It's Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Farm and Forge Market on thirty six Hampton Road in Southampton.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
New York.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Farming Forge is a fantastic market if you're an avid
home coke or professional chef like myself. Johnny Bernard over there,
aka Street Leafs. Johnny, he's got some great stuff. I'm
talking great olive oils. I'm talking great vinegars. He's got
some amazing caviaar. Johnny's really got everything over there, Jeffy, that's.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Right Farm and Forge Market on thirty six Hampton Road
in Southampton, New York.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, I mean you were talking. He's got great fish
that you can get. He's got some produce stuff. He's
got mushrooms that are locally grown, which is incredible. And
he's got some amazing beef selections too, even some a
five wag you. I saw the stuff. It looks like
it's just completely white. It's amazing. I can't wait to
try it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
That's right it Farm and Forge Mark on thirty six
Hampton Road in Southampton, New York.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You're just saying the same thing, you say anthing different.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Well, there's also Farmanforge Market dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, theyre we go, great website. Check out Farmer forge
market dot com. You gotta check them out. Amazing things
over there. Jeff, listen, I'm telling you I cannot wait
to go back and see what else Johnny has.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's right at Farm and Forge Market on thirty six
Hampton Road, Southampton.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
New York. You just said, do you know what else
Johnny has. Johnny's got amazing lion meet. I can't wait
to get some lion meet from Johnny.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, it doesn't have that, but he does have a
website at Farmanforge Market dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh my god, this is getting crazy now. He's got
a great Ostrich legs can barbecue ostrige legs. Is you
have those?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
No Ostrich legs. But he does have seven x wagu
at thirty six Hampton Road, in Southampton, New York.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I mean it's just it's like a broken record with you.
I cannot I don't understand it. Anything else you got
for me? Farman Forge Market, I got it. Thirty Sixthampton
Road in Southampton. We got it, Jeffy.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Old Martin steps in a twinkle. Zo Brian says, bomb
your golden like a star in the night.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
But Jeff's naughty list can't get it right. SATs is
watching better stop the fight. He grabs a seat at
the table talk shop with.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
The crew plumbing. Jeffy, this one's for you. Kitchen tales
of glory, food dreams come true, rests of peas in laughter,
fill the airlight glue. He's seen here.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Elf Martin with a grin on his face, spill him
the secrets of a magical place. Plum, You're a hero
in the food world race, Jeffy, straighten up to join
the good case.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Fire up the grill with buffs. Something sweet. Martin's got
stories make you jump on your feet. From Pepperman twist
to a gingerbread tree. Santa's Elves know how to cook
up the heat.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
Plums on the list the shines bright gold.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Jeffy, take no let the truth be told.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Listen to Martin.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
Here, the tails, eas in, the kitchen, magic.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
All.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Plumb love foods right here on wy CC Mary Christmas, everybody,
were a couple of days of way. As we hang
out here on a Saturday, right before Christmas, we're joined
by Senior Elf Martin. Yes, friends, that's the Senior Elf
for Santa himself, for the big Man. A lot of
work Witnes making this happen. Martin, that's a that's our song,
our house band of Flames wrote for you. I don't
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know how it's cute.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That's pretty awesome. I have never had intro music get alone.
I wonder if I should play that when I go
back up to North Pole.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Maybe you should. I don't know. We'll send you. They're
still it's still going place. It's they're still going.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
They put in a solid two or three.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's right, that's right, that's right. We're hanging out with
Senior Elf Martin. He's the president of the Connecticut Society
of Santas. This gentleman here helps make all these fun
things happen for these Santas. Now, Martin, I think, but
I want to clear arify just really quick, because we
talked a little bit off air about this Connecticut Society
of Santa's. Obviously, it's a bunch of for the most part, helpers,
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like people who help Santa out, who have direct lines
at least to you, who can get right to stand.
I gotta imagine that every state has something similar, but
they don't all have direct lines of Santa, because then
it's pager or cell phone and pager, how old am
I his cell phone to be blowing up the entire time.
That's why they have people like you who are kind
of like the go to person for this. Is that
am I right here or wrong? I'm just trying to
figure out how the brigade works.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Well.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
We certainly try to help out Santa as much as
we can, and oftentimes I think one of your questions
was about all the different Santas that folks see out
and about every day activities. If you're at the mall,
sometimes you might go to a different store and see
another Santa. So Santa tries to get out of the
North Pole as much as possible, just to check out
the different areas, to see how the kids are behaving,
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how everybody's doing, making sure the Christmas spirit is alive
and well. So sometimes some of our helpers go out
and they look like Santa, and the real Santa, be aware,
is out there and it's up to you to figure
out the little Santa.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So wait, you're saying, like, if I go to if
I go to Danbury Mall and I sit down and
Santa's lap, which would be weird to begin with, but
we're gonna ignore that part of the story. Sure there's
a potential chance that that's actually Santo.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
That's correct, That is correct.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Why undercover boss situation seriously right.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Because he's got to keep track of the elves too,
because sometimes, as you spoke about those elves on a shelf, Yeah, yeah, problems,
you know, Santo, go out and check on those photographers too,
just as well, make sure they're doing their work.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wow, And you can get more infants. You can get
tons of information at ct Soociety Offsanta's dot org promoting
Christmas cheer. These guys are fantastic And I just love
that in twenty twenty five, like we can get in
touch with you. Like that's crazy, but it makes sense
because listen, you know, back in the eighties and nineties
and seventies, when I was growing up like that wasn't
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the thing. You're not gonna be to do that. But
now the way it's not true, Jeffy. Now, the way
the world works with the Internet and with just so
much technology out there, it just makes sense. It would
be silly not to. So I love how much you
guys have embraced that with coming up with risks here
in Connecticut. The society of Santa's where it's like, Okay,
yes we're here, Yes, you can talk to us. Uh,
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it's it's we're not hiding, we're right here.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
And I love that we're out in your communities right exactly. Yes,
we want to make sure again it's all about the
holiday Christmas spirit, and when you see some people, you
just know that they have that Christmas joy. Yeah, it
doesn't matter, you know what might be going on. If
they see Santa or a reindeer, whatever it might be,
people get pretty darn excited. And there's places in Connecticut
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when people go tree shopping. I mean there's John John
Zen's got the reindeer farm up at the Zen Tree Farm.
So there's real life reindeer up there. If you want
to go catch a reindeer.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I mean, you can.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Okay, that was a little wax.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Confident my last those skills, jeff Martin, come on, is
this what we do?
Speaker 5 (29:05):
No, you can't necessarily catch them. I'm using it in
the Parlament that you could see them.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Or got it, got it days yes with close.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yeah, if you catch them, that might kind of inhibit
Christmas from coming.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I shouldn't make a bad jokes with Christmas.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
That was That was pretty monny though. That's perfect because
you know, I don't think the reindeer would like me
doing that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I'm just saying, Martin, between you and I and Jeffrey,
I feel confident in my last those skills. I think
I could probably catch one. I do I do. I
feel I probably make a habit. I could probably ride
the reindeer.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Is what it might be a summer Olympic thing for
the youth.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, right, I think the raindeer might ride you, Jeffy.
But I think that's amazing. You gave a nugget there
and we we kind of we joked about it, but
like the real Santa is actually out there, so like
obviously these other Santas are helpers. Like we said, it's
kind of a brigade. They talked to the head of
the society and that gets back to all that stuff.
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But the real one is out there. Have you ever
worked in an event that he all of a sudden
showed up at that you had no idea he was
going to be there. And if he's there, do you know?
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I would know, correct, But I can't tell you that
he's there, because of course I would kind of wreck
the magic.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But yeah, but you can't lie to us either. So
if I ask you, do you just plead the fifth?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
I could bleed the fifth exactly? Are you just distracted
with a cup of cocoa?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Oh? Okay, it's right around. It is a master of
I never know, okay, really doing it?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
It'd be a candy cane and hot cocoa with the
marshmallow on top.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Then you really, oh the marshmallow. But can we can
I just talk from a chef point of view really quick?
Can we just be honest with everybody? And and Martin,
you may disagree with me, because I know as as
als you guys live off this. Candy canes are not good.
Mint is not a good flavor for desserts. I've talked
about this before, like, mint does not It's not good.
It's not a good flavor. It's gross, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
On the naughty list, Marty, what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
I just don't want me. I guess that's changing, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Therefore, I know, right, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
If I want a nice sweet sugar dessert, I don't
want to taste my toothpaste. It's just not my thing.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
But the interesting thing is that there are a lot
of varieties now on.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Flavor sure, which makes me fine and happy.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
But the funny part is, say this weekend, for example,
a young lady came over and said that she wanted
to have a candy cane, and she wanted a candy
cane no matter what. So I gave her candy cane.
She took a taste of it and she said, hmmm,
it's peppermint. I hate peppermint. I said, well, it's candy.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Cake, and candy can give me a better one, And
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Know what a better one was. So but evidently in
some research there are pickle flavored candy canes. But I
don't think I should give those out to kids.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That might kind of I think you should give somebody
a pickle flavored candy cane and be like, what do
you think that means? Kid? Right, surprise him? What do
you think that means? Martin also just sent me a
communicated Jeffy you. I don't know if you've got it too,
but I have my happen to have my messages open here.
He said that unfortunately he is Santa is upset that
he couldn't be here tonight, but he's gonna send us
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a message that we can play for every by the
end of the show. So that's kind of expecting that
at all. I mean, that's really nice, and clearly I'm
on the good list, which is great. Nicely, Well, you might.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Be actually pulling you off now that you're throwing so
much shade on peppermint.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Do you think so?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yeah, that's a lot of hate. I mean, that's one
of Santa's favorite flavors.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I have to imagine peppermint really Martin, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
It is, Well think about it. It comes in many
different shapes and sizes.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Is Santa the reason I had to drink rumplements when
I was a line cook coming up in the world.
Because that's all right, Sorry, that's neither here nor there,
ig nor that question. Don't answer it.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
That's a chef qualification, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's probably right, Oh jeez, come to it. Yeah, right right, yeah,
don't I think.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Your culinary school, your knife skills might not improve.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But you know, well, it depends. It's funny, I have
a not Yeah, it depends on how you look at it. Anyway,
So listen, mart let me ask you this. So I
know at night the big Knights coming up. Here were
a few days three four days away from it, and
we all got to leave cookies for Santa. And you know,
I know here my house we only do not only
do we leave cookies for Santa, but we also leave
carrots and some fruit for the reindeers as well. Is
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that something everyone should do? And if you had to
give us a recommendation for cookies for Santa, what should
it be.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
That's a very good question. I think that what's interesting journalists,
well they have very nicely done. So when Santa's traveling
the world, it's interesting because different cultures have different cookies. Okay,
so Santa likes to try the different cookies and sometimes
he gets a unique cookie, whether it would be from Hungary, Germany,
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like the fefanoose, things like that. Those are very tasty
ginger cookies in different places. So it's kind of nice
to see the different things that are put out. And
sometimes if the kids make them and they really enjoyed
making them, they think Santa's gonna like it. You might
leave out the little recipe for Santa, so you could
take that recipe with them to share with missus Claws
up at the North Pole.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
So I gotta think she gets offended by that. She's like, look,
I don't need you giving me a recipe how to
make cookies eight year old Johnny from from Denmark? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
But there's so many things to learn every day. She
might not. Plus, if it's written by the child.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Is muchdgeon. Well, your Jeffrey curmudget Remember, jeff how would
Jeffrey Curmudgeons sound if you got a recipe.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
That's five o'clock wake up?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Right? That's it? So is there a particular cookie that
he doesn't like? Is you're like, oh, this house left
me ginger snaps? You know, I don't like ginger snaps.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Cookie doesn't like. I mean the fact that you ever
think about it, clearly I think that well, I think
the one thing that's very very difficult is the crumbly cookies.
Don't leave crumbly cookies because it gets all over his suit.
So it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Tough beard's beard.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
It's always hard to can be a problem. That could
definitely be a problem. Yeah, so we don't need crumbling
things because I know, how was he going to get
that out?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Sure? Sure? What about feeding the reindeers? I think we
should all be doing or no, Yeah, the.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Reindeer, they're they're very particular. They usually live on the
herbs and the fauna up north with us. But you
can give them, you know, evidently some oats, prepared oats
or raisins. They like raisins. People leave on carrots a lot,
but they don't really eat big carrots because they don't
have the teeth to really chomp down on the big carrots,
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so smaller little bites of apple or carrots raisins.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
A rengeers like cow And you may not know the
answer here, And that's okay because you don't actually tend
to the deers. I'm sure you've been a part of
it briefly. But do deer, much like cows, only have
teeth on one side of their mouth?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Right, that's correct, Right? Wow to the whole right, they
don't have them. I think it's whatever one of those yeah, yes,
so they're not like a cow that way, like I said,
they just I just want to point.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Occasionally I say things that are really smart to Jeffy,
Like one time got a chance to interview NASA and
Jeffy was blown away. But my knowledge of NASA was
that one of those things. I just knew that was
kind of cool to Jeffy.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Or now, yeah, you listen, I'm surprised by you every day.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
That's my boy. There it is, there it is. We're
joined here by Senior Elf Martin. He's the president of
the Connecticut Society of Santa's give us some insight to
get ourselves ready for the big night here coming up
in just a few days. Martin. So let's talk about
have there been any instances where Santa was almost caught
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that he comes back and you got he's done for
the night. He pulls all the elves together, you guys
are all hanging out cheers in whatever your cot Co co,
whatever you drink. We'll talk about that too, where he's like,
let me tell you boys, what happened, or you're just
like the old Jimmy came out and he came down
the stairs. His dad was like, there's some crazy story,
and you're like, oh, that's hilarious.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Santa, Right, Well, there are a couple of times that
it's been very, very close. That's why we try to
encourage the kids to stay in bed as long as possible.
They might hear Santa. Yeah, you don't want to go
down and see him, because then sometimes what might happen
is when he's trying to run out quickly, the toys
kind of get reattached to that bag and leave with Santa.
So it's not a good idea to do that. So
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Santa's really so far he hasn't been caught, but he
said a couple of close.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
So Santa's the ultimate cat burglar.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
He is.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
Jeffrey was pretty close one time catching Santa. That was
a kudos to him.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
He was like a cat on his So that happened,
jeff Wait wait a minute, Jeffy was like a cat.
That's never happened.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Really, it was like the night before Christmas, he sprang
out of bed, he ran downstairs and.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Why reflect is there? Actually, I'm I'm quite spry, like
especially when I'm startled.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, okay, I love that. Uh Martin. We appreciate your
time coming in here and joining us, so I can't
wait to play this message from Santa here soon. But
before we get you out of here, I got to
ask you if you can answer a couple of Christmas
related questions for me that hopefully you can help with.
I've never had a sugar plumb.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Well, it's really a sugar plum. The plumb itself is
dunked in or I guess soaked.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
In, like macerated. Okay, oh, it's.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
Soaked in a liquor with lots of sugar.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Now it's not an elf delicacy or how does that work?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Very flavorful, right right? Okay, that would be an end
of the night thing, because you don't want to do
that before you're gonna go out doing anything. That's like
a nightcap, so to speak.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
It kind of sounds amazing.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I'm not gonna lie. It's good.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's good, very Christmas Eve for my family. They come over,
the in loss come over. We do a Christmas Eve
thing here on Christmas that night, before you know, Santa coms,
I make a delicious ham. It's it's amazing, with Santa
like some ham if I fet out.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
For him, Well, ham is good, yes, ham. It's not
a heavy meal to sit in your in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
It's a good meal, right, Jeff, This is all the
questions I've always wanted to ask. I know, it's like,
what's wrong with you? Plumb out see your eyes, but
like listen.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
No, I like where you're going with it because I
also I said the other night that I think that
Santa would really love a piece of cold fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
He did say that nice, crunchy, delicious piece of cold
fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Maybe a little I would put out handy.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Wipes, nice touch, right, you know, there's a nice You know,
he knows that we love him, but we wanted to
be feeling good. We wanted to have and if you give,
we want him to have that comfort, that comfort food.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, chicken, it's got a nice handle.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
You can just would Santa eat cold for chicken, Martin?
Speaker 5 (39:04):
I think he would. I don't think it'd be a
proper because he can have the rains in one hand
in the chicken leg and the other one.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Oh my gosh, can you imagine if that picture came
out with Santasy a chicken leg and dropping a sleigh.
Get out of here.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
I'm sure someone out there can make that happen.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
That would be the most amazing picture I've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
What, Jeff, when you're getting up early times to peek
out the window.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
There we go, Martin? What the Heck's a turtle dove?
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Turtle dove? Well, that's one thing that's you know, we've
been really trying to research exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Okay, good, you know it's a.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Song and they're birds, and you know that's one of those.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Just wasn't sure.
Speaker 7 (39:39):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Bird that wound up in a Christmas Carol song.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
So how else does one get the five ladies dancing?
Do you have to? I mean, okay, well ignore that question, Jeff,
you have figured got what some Martin? Ignore? That's fine,
he's dancy.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
I think that's the evidently I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Was the what do you get?
Speaker 4 (39:59):
It's it's a five go there?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So what's what's the ladies dancing?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Seven maids of marrying? I don't remember, milk that eight
ladies dancing? Is that what it is? Let's move on
because it's getting.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Weird now and you don't want me to be singing,
that's for sure?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Or do we right down there, Jeffy. Any any Christmas
questions from Martin before we get him out of here?
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, you know, I just want to We've we've asked
so many food related questions. What's what's your favorite dish
that missus Claws makes for you? Like when she makes like,
what's the what's the what's the hitter that's not hot cocoa?
Let's yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Oh, one of my favorites is because I do like
hot hot stuff like chicken, scarpy, yellow pepper, hot sausage.
That's really very nice.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
There we go. Martin's an elf after my own heart. Here,
get you moving, tingling right?
Speaker 5 (41:00):
If you HiT's not tingling, it wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Oh I like that. I like that, Martin. I know
you're a busy man and we excuse me, a busy elf.
I appreciate your time to be able to come hang
out with us, and please, if you haven't done so,
check out the CT Society of Santa's dot org. Go there,
get all of your questions answered, all of your Santa
questions that answered all your ELF questions answered. You can
even reach out to the Big Man through this website
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through Martin. We appreciate your time, man, seriously, You've been
such a big part of all of our lives growing
up and look forward to the future, even my kids
like I don't know, it's just it's emotional to have
you here and I can't thank you enough to take
the time.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Well, thank you. It's been my pleasure and I look
forward to hanging out with you guys again soon. And
I guess I'll see at one of these places the
Farm and Forge Market or Ergo Chef Knives and Dan Bray. Oh,
I can't wait, Fairfield. You never know, let's go, let's
go showing up and eating. I don't know. It could
be a great day.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So that's it. Sounds it sounds amazing. Martin. Listen, I
know you had a busy couple of days. Have a great,
great Christmas this year. Merry Christmas to you. Please tell
the Big Man we said Merry Christmas, and to all
the other l's and thank you for your time very much, Yes, sir,
big shout out to our friend Senior Elf Martin for
(42:12):
Santa Claus Jeffy. What an amazing find there. I can't wait,
and we gotta make it really quick here because we
got a great message from Santa. We gotta play for
everybody he sent us. I can't wait. But great job
finding that. Yeah, Society of Santas. Yeah, Connecticut Societyasantas dot org.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
Check them out, you know if you can donate, if
you want, you can do anything you want to help them.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
They're awesome. That said. Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry chrismas you.
Jeffy and I look forward to seeing you guys after
the holidays. So Mary Christmas must were at Plumbla Foods WICC.
Here's our friend Santa. Can't believe we got this. Merry
Christmas everyone. I'm sorry I could not be on the
(42:49):
show today. As you can imagine, it's a very busy
time of year around here. I'm sure that Martin did
a wonderful job though. Oh and Chef Plum and Jeffy
let me see here, fuck here it is. You both
are on the nice list this year. Nice job, Keep
(43:10):
up the good work, and Merry Christmas to all my
friends in Connecticut. I look forward to all the cookies,
but don't be afraid to leave Santa's Little Pizza. I
can't to come to Connecticut and not have pizza. Merry
Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
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