Santa Claus

Maybe this is more like Google in the first internet build-out.

So when is this going out? What do we know? What don't we know? We know the ticker dollar sign and obviously reference to Santa Claus.

Yes.

But we don't know how much they're raising.

Or you're going to have to step out in faith and do something with it.

And that's the path that we chose.

And so now we're 21 years in and we have a whole Santaverse and a whole world of storytelling all built on this opportunity to work for Santa Claus.

And what is the shape of the business? How much is consumer products versus books versus other revenue streams? Take us through the...

If Dad would only lighten up, the family would be more tolerant and thrive more.

If Dad weren't around to play Scrooge, Mom could indulge everyone in her Santa Claus ways.

Now, if we step back and assess the situation at this point, I think we'd have to say this family has serious problems.

Truth be told, some of these can be traced to dad's feckless leadership.

Dad had every opportunity over the past two years to attend to the financial issues, to deal with them, or at least deal with them sufficiently to demonstrate that he's a better caretaker of the family finances than mom.

To convey the point, the kids must clearly see that dad's management is superior to mom's.

But when dad himself seems distracted, and there's no evident improvement in the previous situation when mom was running the show, the kids get the idea that mom's Santa Claus approach, whatever its illusions and shortcomings, might actually be preferable to dad's.

At least in mom's world, they get some tangible benefits that dad won't let them have.

In 1988, the company earned a record 90% of its full-year profits in December, $29 million out of $32.5 million before tax.

It's enough to make you believe in Santa Claus.

December's deluge of business produces a modest seasonal bulge in Berkshire's corporate earnings.

Another small bulge occurs in the first quarter, when most World Book annuals are sold.

Sure.

So Mallory's only hope of securing custody of her son from her gaslighting trash bag ex is to find Santa Claus, played by, of course, Peter Dinklage, and convince him to testify in her divorce hearing.

Peter

Dinklage returning to the holiday genre that made him a star.

Upgraded from elf to Santa Claus.

To Santa, as he should be.

He wasn't an elf in the...

You know what it was like as a child, Christmas Eve? You couldn't sleep.

You know, you're waiting for Santa Claus, and I'm a few years older now, and I get excited Christmas Eve.

You know, and I still wait for Santa Claus.

I

do, too.

Right.

So we do, we actually do a secret Santa exchange where it's only, we have a $25 limit and you can make it or you can buy it, but then it's one person doing one thing for one other person.

Yeah, we kind of did that for a while where you drew names and that's the particular person you buy from.

But we just don't do it as much.

And That I had to overcome.

But even when I was five years old, Santa Claus bought me coal for Christmas.

Where everybody else was getting presents, I got coal.

My father did buy a model airplane with a gasoline engine, and he obviously bought it for himself.

Litchfield lived in Fillmore, Utah with his wife, just celebrated his 39th anniversary like the day before.

Loved and adored, loved playing Santa Claus for the kids, which makes me wonder.

But listen, anyways, imagine, Mind that it's business.

And this girl's trying to flick her bean when she's banging a U-turn.