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A cinematic sleigh ride deep into the strange but true world of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas, the most exc | dG1fVjdmTk52WTJ2QWM
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00:00Oh, I find it is too right.
00:03There's always kids that, you know, they want to prove that you're not real.
00:08Well, pull the beard and see.
00:18I'm Santa Ron Robertson.
00:20I am the president of Forbes, the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas.
00:24Welcome, and thank you for joining us for the 18th Annual Santa Reunion.
00:30Our reunion, I think, is really important because they've just gotten through with their
00:36busy season, with all their responsibilities, so it's a chance to get together, let off a
00:41little steam, relax, and have some fun.
00:45Does this swimsuit make me look fat?
00:50There we go.
00:50One, two, three.
00:51What I do is a passion.
00:54My actual dream is to become the first African-American Santa on the Coca-Cola commercials, billboards,
01:01the Coca-Cola Santa, just to say that we are up there as well.
01:05The money that I've spent in building the sleigh, I've told her several times that I probably
01:17have a whole $40,000, $45,000 in it, when actually it's probably twice that.
01:22There has to be at least $100,000 in the sleigh.
01:25I've started eating proper and exercising a lot, and I've dropped a total now at about
01:35135, 140 pounds.
01:37The idea that we should be 350-pound obese monsters, it just isn't good for our health.
01:44I have people come up to me all the time, and they'll say, that's not, oh my God, that
01:50is real.
01:51We bury several of those Santas every year.
01:55Here you go, what can you see in this school?
01:57It is like the harbor of Santa schools.
02:07Now Santas are more demanding, they want to look different, they want to look better.
02:11It's like a competition between the Santas, who's going to look the best.
02:26I really do believe in Santa Claus.
02:28The true believers, it doesn't matter how old they are, they still believe.
02:32Of course I believe in Santa Claus.
02:34I am Santa Claus.
02:36Do I believe in Santa Claus?
02:37Every day.
02:38Every day I look in the mirror.
02:39I believe in Santa Claus.
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