The Dear Santa Podcast

What’s it like to produce a Christmas concert? We find out by chatting with Shelly Burley of Once Upon a Christmas Productions!

Back for 2026! Merry Christmas in July!

We're trekking across the globe as part of our Destination Christmas series. The sleigh is making a stop in North Pole, Alaska to learn all about Santa Claus House!

What are your Top 5 Stocking Stuffers?

We're trekking across the globe as part of our Destination Christmas series. The sleigh is making a stop in Macon, Georgia to learn all about the Macon Christmas Light Extravaganza!

We’re serving up a slice of delight with Nathan Kress and Grey DeLisle to discuss their new holiday special, A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas.

What are your Top 5 Christmas Movie Villains?!

Canines and Christmas? That’s exactly what we’re serving up as we sit down with The Dig Sitter Detective’s Christmas Tail author, Antony Johnston!

What are your Top 5 Modern Christmas Songs?

She's a country crooner with a voice built for classic holiday records, and now Elle Townley is looking to make your season perfect . . . with a little help from her new song, Perfect Christmas.

Drew and Ellie Holcomb are no strangers to holiday music. They have a new collection of Christmas songs for fans, and Drew stops by to tell us why the season is so important to his family.

Cindy Busby is Christmas movie royalty. Now she's stopping by to tell us all about her latest, There's No Place Like Christmas.

What are your Top 5 Christmas Movies?!

With two new holiday movies releasing on back-to-back weekends, actress Brianna Cohen is filling people with more yuletide tidings than Santa himself.

Sheléa's big voice is full of big holiday vibes on her festive single Want This Christmas With You, which she stops by to tell us all about.

It's a two-for-one special. Lost & Found in Cleveland stars Mark L. Walberg and Benjamin Steinhauser drop by to help us find our way this holiday season.

What are your Top 5 Classic Christmas Songs?!

Unless you're Santa Claus, you probably shouldn't adopt a reindeer, but you may also want to reconsider adopting any pet at Christmastime-and we sit down with Sunny Paws Rescue founder Toni Eaton to learn why.

Actress Dot-Marie Jones helps us find our way as we chat about her new holiday movie, Lost & Found in Cleveland.

We're trekking across the globe as part of our Destination Christmas series. The sleigh is making a stop in Solvang, California this time around to learn all about the month-long Danish-inspired celebration, Julefest.

From saving lives on Grey's Anatomy to investigating mysterious deaths from a Christmas shop, we're joined by actress Sarah Drew for a chat about the Hallmark holiday mash-up Mistletoe Murders as it begins its second season.

Santa Claus returns to tell us all about what Halloween is like at the North Pole.

It's the age old question-is Die Hard a Christmas movie? We explore this and many other are they/are they not options with writer/director Jason Bourque, whose latest holiday film is Merry Christmas Ted Cooper.

We're trekking across the globe as part of our Destination Christmas series. The sleigh is making a stop at Christmas Prelude in Kennebunkport, Maine this time around for a chat with its director, Tina Gordon.

A Christmas Prayer premiered this Saturday on Great American Family and its star Shae Robins stopped by to tell us all about it.