Bulgaria Wants to Interview Santa

Bulgaria wants to interview Santa. On December 24th. On national television. At 7pm local time.

Can you see now why Santa needs elves all over the world?

No matter how much work the Public Relations Department at the North Pole puts into, well, publicizing, how Santa works they still don’t get it.

The media – and this is everywhere, not just Bulgaria – should know better than anyone that Santa is juuuuuuuuuuuuusssssst a little busy on Christmas Eve.

I am sure the News Department hates to turn down a media request in prime time.

But they didn’t even need to think about this one.

Bulgaria is in the center of the delivery schedule for Santa. That means he’s somewhere else just an hour – or 12 hours – before he gets to Bulgaria.

He’s up to his eyeballs in chimneys and reindeer then. There’s no WAY Santa has time to talk to anyone on Christmas Eve.

Elves, we need your help.

Wherever you are, whatever you do, TALK to people over the next week or so. TEACH them about how all this works.

Get them to understand that Santa is delivering to the WHOLE world between the hours of 10pm and 4am local time.

It takes him more of less 30 straight hours to do this – which is a miracle, if you think about it.

30 hours in and out of a sleigh starting in Sector 1 and going until the last porch light goes out in Sector 5.

That means Santa doesn’t have time for phone calls, visits or nationally televised interviews.

Look, you guys – tracker elves, pretty important people in the world of Santa Claus – have to meet with Santa this Saturday (the 16th) because Santa doesn’t have a hole in his schedule closer to Christmas.

If that’s true, and it is because I keep Santa’s calendar, what chance does Channel 4 in Bulgaria have?

Good grief.

About this Elf: Elf Joel at the Pole

Elf Joel is a 4th generation elf and grew up at the North Pole. He is a member of Santa's office staff and serves as the keeper of Santa's calendar. He travels with Santa and knows where he is at all times.