WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.800 demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Mary Christmas, Thanks for waking up with us 3 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.800 this morning. If you were up early, maybe you're cooking or just making 4 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:21.760 some coffee. I hope your day is getting started off just wonderfully because it's 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:27.320 Christmas. So this Christmas Morning, which is a time filled with hope and 6 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:31.960 love and family and friendship, we wanted to highlight a girl who is filling 7 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:36.320 the world with hope and love and changing lives and she's not even old enough 8 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:41.640 to drink. I love sharing stories like Hannah's. Hannah Karnick is a recent 9 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.920 graduate of Say Joke Charter High School. So Hannah, please tell us about 10 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:49.159 how you're helping kids and why you're doing it. Yeah. So, when 11 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.479 I was in eighth grade or seventh to eighth grade, I started a charity 12 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.960 called Hannah's Helpful Hands. And basically what it does is it works with students 13 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:06.879 to provide them basic necessities like shirts and backpacks and socks and toilet tree bags 14 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:11.439 and hygiene bags. So it's a free closet inside of elementary schools and so 15 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:17.359 students can discreetly get these items so that you know they can have them. 16 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.400 And it started by me having fifteen foster siblings. Oh wait, wait wait 17 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:29.599 wait wait fifteen foster siblings. Yeah, that's so like all at the same 18 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.480 time or over a period of years. How did that all come together? 19 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:37.760 That was over a period of time. Okay, so over over my whole 20 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.920 seventeen years of life. Yeah, I've had fifteen foster siblings. Wow, 21 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:47.159 okay. So I would imagine that there would be some challenges along the way 22 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.799 with that, and so you saw that there was a need for kids and 23 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:56.239 said I'm going to do something about it. Yeah. Yeah, basically I 24 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.519 love that and the program. You've been doing it since seventh or eighth grade 25 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:04.560 you recent like graduated, so what first six years? Yeah? Yeah, 26 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:10.240 for six years and it's been going on super strong so far. I've expanded 27 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:15.960 to twelve different schools. So it started in my former elementary school and now 28 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.479 it's at twelve different school that's so great. And are all the schools in 29 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:24.080 Anaheim or where are they? Most of them are. They're in like Orange 30 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:28.360 County, so they're kind of scattered, but most of them are in Anaheim. 31 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:31.039 Yeah, okay, And all of that wonderful work that you have done 32 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:38.840 got someone's attention, and you recently recently were awarded the eighteen under eighteen Award 33 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.639 by the National Society of High School Scholars So tell us about that and how 34 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:49.280 excited were you to win that. I was so excited to win that. 35 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.719 You know, like, college is very expensive, and so winning new types 36 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:59.560 of scholarships has been like and winning this scholarship has been such a such a 37 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:04.479 blessing for me. And because of that scholarship, like I don't have to 38 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:09.960 work as much in school, so that school is cheaper and now I can 39 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:16.039 focus more on my studies and gaining more skills to learn how to better help 40 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:22.039 these kids and to work more with the schools and with the students. Okay, 41 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:27.000 so you are working and you're going to school. Where are you going 42 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.039 to school? Now? I go to Biola University. Good for you, 43 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:36.919 that's amazing. So you're doing that and then you're also working with your helpful 44 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.319 hands charity and making sure that that continues. Yeah. Yeah, so it's 45 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:46.879 still I went to school. Biola is near Anaheim, so it's not that 46 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.319 far away, so I can still keep my charity going. But the cool 47 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:55.680 thing is is that I have had more people help me recently, so I've 48 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.719 been able to take a few steps back and that's been super awesome. The 49 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:02.639 way that people have also been helping. That's great because at some point you 50 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.719 need to move on, focus on you and take care of you so you 51 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:09.639 can go change the world even more. If people want to donate Hannah, 52 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:13.840 is there a way for them to do that? Yes, you can actually 53 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.160 just go to Hannah's Helpfulhands dot com and it'll take you right right to the 54 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:24.319 donate page. Okay, and what are you studying. I'm studying communications. 55 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.920 Oh good girl. Oh you're gonna come take my job one day? Yes, 56 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:33.240 perfect, you agree. I think you're really good at your job, 57 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:38.480 so you can get it. Hannah Carnick, thank you so much. I'm 58 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.199 so proud of you, and I hope you hear that a lot for the 59 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.879 rest of your life, because, like I said, not all kids are 60 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.439 doing great things, and you, my dear, are doing great things. 61 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:51.439 Oh, thank you so much. All right, you take care, Okay, 62 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.959 bye, all right, thank you so much, Hannah. You're welcome. 63 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.319 All right. That was so fun. Oh good. So we're going 64 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.600 to just so you know, Okay, we're not going to run it tomorrow 65 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:05.319 because I want to have some time to highlight it. So I think we'll 66 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:11.360 probably run it on Monday. So it'll it's Monday from five to six am. 67 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:13.680 And if you're not up, you can you can listen to it on 68 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.560 the iHeartRadio app at anytime, just go and search. Way okay, okay, 69 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.160 perfect, thank you so much. Oh and you know what, Hannah, 70 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:25.079 can you do you have any like photos or something that you can email 71 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.680 to us because we want to put it on our wake up call page too. 72 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.160 Yes, totally. Do I send it to the same email that I've 73 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.319 been emailing, Yeah, just the one. I don't know what that one 74 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.120 was. Okay, so that's yeah, that's and so just hit a reply 75 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:42.319 all and and uh and send that over. And if you actually, if 76 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.560 you have any like logos of Hannah's helping hands, that would be great. 77 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:48.920 Awesome. Yes, it's just send that all over and like I said, 78 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:53.560 we'll put it on the wake up call page on our website too. Okay, 79 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.040 awesome, Yay, that's so exciting. Thank you so much much. 80 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.160 Luck to you. You're so awesome. Okay, thank you, bye bye. 81 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:10.240 Amy's on it. Sami's Amen's on it, Damien's on it? What 82 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:15.000 am I on? I am on a plethora of streaming shows because there's documentaries, 83 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.639 there's series, there's movies. There's so much to see. How do 84 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.519 you know what to see? And so lots of times they take recommendations from 85 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:27.639 my friends, my family. They have good recommendations most of the time. 86 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.240 Right now, we're going to check out Lessons in Chemistry. It's on Apple 87 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:39.040 TV stars bre Larsen. It was being released weekly as Apple does, but 88 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.439 now the full season is out, so if you want to binge it you 89 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:46.639 can so. Bree Larson plays a chemist who, because she's a woman in 90 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.000 the nineteen fifties, really struggles with it because she can only be a lab 91 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.160 tech because women don't they can't be lead scientists in the nineteen fifties. The 92 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.399 chemist she works with kind of treat her more like a secretary. She does 93 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.120 make a mean cup of coffee because she's a chemist after all. It's a 94 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:10.199 good character for Bree Larson. She is stoic, she's unemotional yet scientifically incredibly 95 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:14.800 curious, and it's really great because I think she does she's such a good 96 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:16.399 actress. She does a really good job with this role. So you see 97 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.240 her fall, you see her get up, you see her grow, and 98 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:21.480 you see her evolve. And I always like when they do that with a 99 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:26.279 character arc like the character doesn't stay the same throughout the series, and she 100 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:31.480 definitely does some evolving. It follows her journey from the lab to the kitchen, 101 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.600 where she ends up posting a TV show called suppar At six, which 102 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:39.279 we know from the very first episode because they launch it with her on TV. 103 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.120 So I'm not spoiling anything for you. Probably won't be another season. 104 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.560 The show pretty much comes to a satisfying and it was based on a book, 105 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.120 so it kind of encapsulates the book. I would imagine. I have 106 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:54.439 not read the book. If they wanted to do another season, I think 107 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.519 they probably could, but from what I'm hearing, there aren't any talks right 108 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.480 now to see it. But definitely worth the watch. Thought that was a 109 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.160 really good one. And then, as I tend to do when I start 110 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.759 streaming stuff, then I start searching around and I dived down rabbit holes and 111 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:15.639 I did it yesterday because after I got done watching the last episode of Lessons 112 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.720 in Chemistry, I found Hannah Wattington's home for Christmas, and of course Hannah 113 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.959 Wattington was Rebecca on ted Lasso, and so she does this Christmas special. 114 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.800 It again is on Apple TV. It's only forty five minutes, so it's 115 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.839 a pretty quick watch. And I will tell you that one is a good 116 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.200 one. If you want to feel good about the Christmas season and just you 117 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.840 know, feel happy and joyous, this is the one to watch because her 118 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:46.039 excitement enthusiasm comes through in spades, and she's just beautiful and boy can she 119 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.000 sing. And then it was really fun too, because it was like the 120 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.559 whole cast of ted Lasso was there for the show. It was a live 121 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:54.440 show in London at a theater and it was really good. And then, 122 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.759 as I mentioned, I went down that rabbit hole and then went, you 123 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:01.559 know what, I really loved the Christmas episode of ted Lasso. So I 124 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.480 went and found that and watched that, and it reiterated my belief that ted 125 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.200 Lasso is probably the best show on TV in the last ten years. It's 126 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.519 fabulous. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. If you 127 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.120 have watched it, watch it again because again I watched the Christmas episode last 128 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.120 night and It still just made me smile. And if you need to feel 129 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.399 good and you want to be happy, Ted Lasso is the way to do 130 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:28.639 it again. On Apple TV. That's what I'm on this week. When 131 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.440 we come back, I've got a great idea for how you can spend part 132 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:37.080 of your holiday break relaxing with a good book by CNN's Jake Tapper. Yep, 133 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.679 we get to talk to Jake Tapper. Ho ho ho, it's your 134 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.399 Christmas Morning wake Up Call on KFI Am six forty. You're listening to wake 135 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.360 Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. I know it's really early 136 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.759 to be up on Christmas, and if you're working, God bless you. 137 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.879 If you're headed to the in laws, good luck. But seriously, whatever 138 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.000 you're doing up this early, thank you for making wake Up Call part of 139 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:09.480 your Christmas morning. So maybe you're up early to start cooking Christmas dinner. 140 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:15.279 If you are starting this early, you're definitely an overachiever. So I did 141 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:20.759 a little research and found out that Americans start cooking Christmas dinner at nine thirty 142 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.759 six a m. On average, and Christmas dinner takes over three hours to 143 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.039 prep. And I didn't know this because I know that on Thanksgiving a lot 144 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.559 of people eat early, but I didn't realize a lot of people eat early 145 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.360 on Christmas Day too. But apparently the ideal time to eat is three forty 146 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.960 five, and then it'll take three days to eat up all the leftovers. 147 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.159 Bonap a teat. So in the king household, we usually do prime rib 148 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.639 for Christmas dinner, and bless my mother's heart, she got she used to 149 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:58.039 get it wrong, like every year, like it would be way overcooked or 150 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.000 just really raw. But in the last few year, I think she's really 151 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.360 hit her stride and it comes out perfect every time, so delicious. I 152 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.320 can't wait for Christmas dinner. So, as I was talking about earlier, 153 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.679 the holidays are a good time to curl up with a good book. And 154 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.799 if it was colder here in La, I'd say curl up by the fireplace, 155 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.879 but it's too warm. So Jake Tapper has recently released a book. 156 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:24.279 It's called All the Demons Are Here? Is it sacrilege to say demons on 157 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.399 Christmas? Anyway, we got a chance to catch up with the author, 158 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.000 Jake Tapper himself. Good morning, Jake, good morning. How are you 159 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:35.519 doing doing great now? With everything going on in the world. We could 160 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.080 talk politics all day, and if you're listening, you might expect that, 161 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.159 but we're not going to do that. We're going to take a break from 162 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.399 all that. We'll just call it nastiness and talk about Jake's new book. 163 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:48.240 You have written a book called All the Demons Are Here, and I literally 164 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.080 just finished it last night, So I'm super excited to talk to you today. 165 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.039 Oh, thank you. I'm I'm glad you. I assume if you 166 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.039 finished it then you liked it. I did, and I'm going to tell 167 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.720 you there's several reasons I did like it. But of course has a lot 168 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.639 of politics in it. But it's a thriller, and I will tell people 169 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.559 that it kind of sucks you in from the very beginning. Do you want 170 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.039 to give us a little intro to entice people to what they might expect. 171 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.759 Sure. Well, First, the book takes place in one of the weirdest 172 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:20.000 years in American history, nineteen seventy seven, this year that all this strange 173 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:26.519 stuff legitimately happens. It is the year that Studio fifty four opens, huge 174 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.159 year for disco, Elvis dies, Evil Knievel is prominent. It's the summer 175 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.159 of Sam, The Sun of Sam, serial Killer. Tabloid journalism is huge. 176 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.600 Cults are big in the United States. UFO sightings are happening all over 177 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.320 the country. So it's a weird year. I don't know how many people 178 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.360 have read my two previous books, but those books tell the story of Charlie 179 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.039 and Margaret Martyr. He's a congressman, cheese as zoologist. This book is 180 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.080 their adult kids. They're now in their twenties. Ike and Lucy. Ike 181 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:01.759 is an a wall marine, very disillusioned with the country. He is in 182 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.159 Montana working on the pit crew of Evil can Eevil and Way Way, Way, 183 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:11.399 Way Jay. So you've got you weave Evil Knievel into the story. 184 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:18.559 Yes, he was this crazy stuntman who did these wild jumps. He jumped 185 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.679 over Snake River, or he tried to anyway. It didn't go very well. 186 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:26.360 But he would jump over busses and he was a huge He was a 187 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:31.679 huge celebrity in the nineteen seventies. And there is something very and this is 188 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.759 not meant in a pejorative way in any way, but there's something very Trumpian 189 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:41.080 about him. He was this guy who had this tremendous bravado and salesmanship. 190 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:48.720 He was able to really just get draw a crowd based on his own charisma 191 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.360 and his own celebrity, and I played with that a lot in the book. 192 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:56.440 Now, his sister Lucy, she's a journalist in Washington, and since 193 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.559 this is the era of serial killer and tabloid journalists, I had her on 194 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.879 the trail of the serial killer in Washington, d C. And working for 195 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.240 a ruper. Murdoch asked, character, who is starting a tabloid journal tabloid 196 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.960 newspaper in Washington, D C. So she's kind of doing a Who've done 197 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.320 it? While her brother is working you know, is working for Evil CANEVL 198 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.919 and the stories converge at the end. One of the things I was going 199 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.159 to say too in reading it, it's interesting to see the parallels between how 200 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.080 things were in nineteen seventy seven and how they are today. And I kept 201 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.799 reading going, well that's still happening, Well, that's still happening. I 202 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.559 mean, like the more things change, the more they say stay the same, 203 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.480 I guess. And then one of the main characters, Ike, as 204 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:43.879 you mentioned, he speaks so lovingly about motorcycles, not only when he's riding 205 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:48.240 with Evil, but in other areas, and I'm wondering, does that come 206 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.039 from you? Are you a big motorcycle guy? So that is the biggest 207 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.679 compliment you could give me. I have never written the motorcycle in my life. 208 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.879 I but I'm a writer, so I wrote I. You know I 209 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.840 I did my best to try to convince people that I knew what I was 210 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:09.279 talking about. And I also hired an editor who is an expert on motorcycles, 211 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.039 and I said, please make, you know, help me make the 212 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.720 sound like Ike knows what he's talking about, because I don't know what I'm 213 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.559 talking about, And he and that editor helped me make it sound and so 214 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.720 it's not like you don't have to know anything about motorcycles to read the book. 215 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:26.840 But you know, I wanted to make it seem as though I in 216 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.799 telling his stories that he did, so that is a huge compliment. Thank 217 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.559 you, Thank you very much. I also had a woman editor go through 218 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.320 Lucy's chapters to make those sound as though they were written by a woman, 219 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.399 which I am also not. And I also love the historical references. I 220 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.679 think you know you catch I call them today, I would call them like 221 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.840 little easter eggs, like I think I caught a reference to different Strokes. 222 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.480 The characters were different, but the story was the same. Remember the show 223 00:15:54.519 --> 00:16:00.440 that was on Taphe Yeah, there is there is an illusion to a different 224 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.000 Strokes esque. Yeah, yes, that's exactly. It's not exactly the show, 225 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.559 but yeah, something like that. Yeah, one hundred percent. Ronald 226 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.600 Reagan shows up in it. George Bush shows up at some point. Won't 227 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.200 tell you when or why because you were going to want to read it and 228 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.080 find out. But in this crazy world, like all of this could have 229 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.000 actually happened, which makes it even more fun. The main thing is, 230 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.399 I just wanted to write a book that people thought was fun and wanted to 231 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:27.840 know how it turned out and kept turning the pages because they cared about the 232 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:33.360 characters and they wanted to see how it resolved itself. And I mean the 233 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.519 main the theme in all my books. The first one takes place in the 234 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.840 fifties during the Joe McCarthy era, the second one takes place in the sixties 235 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.200 with the rat Pack, and this one obviously in the seventies, and the 236 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.679 main theme is always just I want you to love the main characters, the 237 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.799 family, the Martyr family, and have fun with the historical fiction and the 238 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:53.759 historical characters, but at the end of the day, I want you just 239 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:57.960 to love the Martyr family and care about what happens to them in these thrillers. 240 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:03.279 And that's really interesting because I haven't read your first two books, I 241 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:04.839 will admit that, but I did read this one cover to cover, and 242 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.799 you don't have to read the first two to get into this one, so 243 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.079 that's kind of cool. But it also makes me want to go back and 244 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.000 read the other ones. And the other thing was that, like we were 245 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.680 talking about how it comes from Ike's perspective and then Lucy's perspective, and the 246 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.240 book's moving along, and last night when I was finishing it, I was 247 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.000 like, oh, man, I've only got like forty pages left. No, 248 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:27.440 I'm not ready for this book to come to an end. So it 249 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:33.240 really is. It's fun and it was entertaining, and so bravo Jake Tapper. 250 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:36.799 Well that's so nice. That's really so nice to hear. But the 251 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.279 good news for you is now you can go back and read about the first 252 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:45.680 the first years of Charlie and Margaret's marriage, when she's pregnant with Lucy, 253 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:51.079 and then when Charlie and Margaret have an adventure in with the rat Pack after 254 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.920 they have had their two kids, but they get pulled out to California. 255 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.319 That's the second book, so there is a little bit more, although although 256 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.440 I can Lucy are not major characters in the first two books. Charlie and 257 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.880 Margaret okay, Jake Tapperck, thank you so much for taking the time to 258 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.279 talk to us today, and much success with all the demons are here. 259 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:08.920 It was really a good read. Thank you so much. It's so kind 260 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:11.119 of you. I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm smiling. 261 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.240 Thank good so much. All right, take care, Thank you so 262 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.759 much, by bye bye. It's a really fun read. I highly recommend 263 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.160 it, and I'm definitely planning on reading his other books as well. When 264 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.599 we come back, we're going to go knocking at the door of the Tournament 265 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:30.559 House in Pasadena to get the inside scoop on this year's Tournament of Roses Parade, 266 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:34.599 which is now just one week away. You're listening to Wake Up Call 267 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:41.759 on demand from KFI AM six forty, so it is one week until the 268 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.039 Tournament of Roses Parade. As we all know, it's an institution and pretty 269 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.759 much loved around the world. And it's right in our own backyard. I 270 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.799 mean, how lucky are we? So we wanted to find out more about 271 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.119 the parade, where it came from, what's in store for this year. 272 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:00.759 So we headed over to the Wrigley Mansion, the tournament house in Pasadena. 273 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.160 Let's see if someone's home. Hi, Amy, Hi, Look at there. 274 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.559 It's Alex Agajanian. Come on in. Just happens to be the president 275 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.599 of the Tournament of Roses. Alex, you get to come and work here 276 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.039 every day. I get to come here quite a bit. That's ext This 277 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.720 is the home of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. It has been our 278 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.960 home since the mid fifties, and this is where all the magic happens and 279 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:27.720 you start planning for this amazing event that's coming up. And so let's talk 280 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:33.960 about the parade. It's if we have to, if we absolutely have to. 281 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:37.680 How long has the parade been going on? It since eighteen ninety so 282 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:44.039 this is the one hundred and thirty fifth, okay, And when when it 283 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.799 started out? Do we know how many floats there were in the parade? 284 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.079 There really weren't floats. Our carriages and buggies and all sorts of things that 285 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:56.079 the families that lived in the area used and they went to their garden and 286 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.400 they took their flowers and their plants and decorated those carriages and all that. 287 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.920 It started as a way to show the East Coasters who were buried in snow. 288 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.480 You come out to California and look what we're doing out here. So 289 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:10.880 it's just a floral parade. They started with buggies and carriages. That's amazing. 290 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:15.279 And then when was it first televised nineteen forty seven, I believe I 291 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.359 believe KTLA was the first station to televise it. It went on the radio 292 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:22.400 about nineteen twenty five when we went coast to coast and that's when the parade 293 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:29.480 started getting it's footing as a statewide parade that people wanted to hear about. 294 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.039 Okay, so now we know that there are big parades. There's the Macy's 295 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:37.599 Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is another big one. But the Tournament of Roses 296 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:44.799 Parade is so spectacular and unique because it's all about live things. Correct, 297 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.880 So our floats have a requirement that they have to be decorated with something that's 298 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.279 alive or should have been alive, or could have been alive. Right, 299 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:53.359 okay, so seeds and all those things are on there, but anything that 300 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.640 was alive. Our horses are also decorated sometimes of flowers and all that, 301 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:03.799 and our marching bands don't really decorate that way, although this year we have 302 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.759 a band in the parade from Westchester, Pennsylvania. Okay, that is marching 303 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.440 down the street with floats around it and all that flowers and their banners all 304 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:14.240 flowers. So it's something we should look for this year in the parade, 305 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:18.519 okay. And how many bands participate twenty one? And how do they get 306 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.000 picked? Did they submit entries or do you just kind of look around and 307 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:23.279 say that one's good, that one's good. How's that done? So the 308 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:26.960 president in the President's family has a final say so on the bands that are 309 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.640 in the parade. Oh wait a second, So you are the last line 310 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.920 there with a lot of help, okay, all right, And we have 311 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.519 a music committee. So the music committee starts about two years before the parade 312 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.839 they're going to march in accepting applications. They screen them and then make a 313 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.839 presentation to the president and the president's family, and at the presentation, the 314 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:49.839 president decides what band or bands are going to be in the Prey, Okay, 315 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.839 and you have a wide variety of bands. I know that we were 316 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.480 talking earlier before we start, Before you and I started talking, we were 317 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:00.880 talking to Candy and she was showing us the care rio cabinet that has chochkes 318 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.200 from the different places that you've gone to, because you go to each of 319 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.400 the places where a band comes from to visit them. Correct, And so 320 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.599 where are some of the bands from this year? So we have three international 321 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:15.559 bands Costa Rica, Japan, in England, Okay, and then we have 322 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.359 the remainder bands from throughout the United States Okay. And there's a very special 323 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.880 band this year from Hawaii. There is, and can you tell us a 324 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:26.200 little bit about that and why it's special that they're here this year. So 325 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:29.759 the Hawaii band is a composite band, and one of the groups that are 326 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.400 in the band is from Maui. And those Mali kids, as you know, 327 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.039 from the fires, suffered a great deal. Absolutely about ten of them 328 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.119 when we visited aren't coming this year. Their homes are destroyed, their instruments 329 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.559 were destroyed, and their poor families just can't afford it. Yeah, I'm 330 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.359 hopeful that they had found a way to come, but it's just that it 331 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:51.680 didn't happen, yea. And so we're going to celebrate those kids. I 332 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:55.200 know Japan is going to do a concert, the Japanese band, It's going 333 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:59.200 to do a concert to support the Hawaiian band and more particularly the kids from 334 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.599 Maui's great and so it's so fun because all of the bands have a story. 335 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.200 And then of course there's the floats that are so fantastic. So give 336 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:10.720 us a little sneak peak of some of the floats that may be caught your 337 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:14.839 eye a little extra special. I know they're all special. So we have 338 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:17.440 two flyovers in the parade. Okay, okay. The first one is the 339 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:21.240 traditional bomber and it's escort this year of two planes in the first one, 340 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.759 and then the second one is coding for veterans. The float they have, 341 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.599 yep, they're going to in addition to their float, they're going to have 342 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.039 a fly over with vintage World War II planes. Oh cool. Okay, 343 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.160 So we haven't had two flyovers in my recent memory. And then we have 344 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.240 a whole number of floats because of the theme, that have musical acts on 345 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:44.079 them. The Calgirl channel has got musical acts all women, a Calgirl group 346 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.359 on the float and twenty five equestrian units riding around it. There is a 347 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:52.319 forty three foot tall bear. It's riding behind me in the parade. Thank 348 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.519 god, it's a unit behind me. Cal Paula Pomona's got an undersea concert 349 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.000 with Manna rays and all that. Really, there's just a lot of really 350 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:03.960 fun things to come see. We have four entertainment units in the parade. 351 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:07.720 Okay, you're going to be surprised on at Honda is the opening show and 352 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:12.240 how their foat is really cool. It's a fusturistic design. It's really really 353 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:15.440 cool. You know. The Mansion group is closing the parade, and they've 354 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:19.960 got some real good talent in all these units. There is one hundred and 355 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:25.119 eighty foot long equestrian unit Smoky Bear. I say smoking the Bear, but 356 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:26.559 I was correct at the other day. Smoky Bear, Well, I like 357 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.279 the bear. I know you got to set the table for the bear. 358 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:33.880 There's a song that says Smoky the Bear. Come on, he's in the 359 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.160 parade this year, okay. With his unit's about one hundred and eighty feet 360 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.880 long. We have a five unit float from Newport beachs in the parade. 361 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.079 That's a little shorter than Smoky's unit. Okay, it's also a long unit. 362 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.200 And that's five separate, five separate units carriage as opposed to the one 363 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:51.880 one. And I think one of the things that is so cool when you're 364 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:56.519 watching the floats is like you were saying that everything has to have something that 365 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.039 was live, it's natural, organic and the move that they get, especially 366 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.799 like when they show the animals. I saw that there's one and there's going 367 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.680 to be a lion on there somewhere, and I can't wait to see the 368 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:12.759 main and the flowers or the plants that they use to get that movement and 369 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:15.759 make it look so realistic. Well, I'll be lying to you if I 370 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:22.400 wasn't telling you it's spectacular. And then we have our Grand Marshal and the 371 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.599 theme for this year is celebrating a world of music. So only appropriate that 372 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.880 our Grand Marshal is correct. The Grand Marster was Auder McDonald. Don't tell 373 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.519 anybody. I think we had that announcement already. We did. Yeah, 374 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.359 when did that happen? I think it was a couple of weeks ago. 375 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.400 Alix I did it. But there is a new announcement of somebody who's going 376 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.640 to be performing for the closing show? Yes, and that is Jordan's Sparks 377 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.519 And what is she going to do? She's going to be singing on the 378 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:51.759 Mansion float the closing act. Oh that's what a great way to end the 379 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.039 parade. Okay. So for people watching, when is the parade? When 380 00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:59.160 does it start? January first? Yes? Of course, eight eight o'clock 381 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:02.039 in the morning. Us for about how long? About two hours? Okay? 382 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:06.599 We finished within an hour and fifty seven minutes. Okay. And then 383 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:08.359 for people who want to come and take a look at the floats because you 384 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:12.079 see them on TV or if you are at the parade and you get to 385 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:15.279 see them going by, but seeing them up close is really a pretty cool 386 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.799 thing, and you can do that after the paray's over. You can we 387 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.440 exhibit the floats at Float Fast after the parade. This year, it's a 388 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.319 day and a half long and you can come in and tour the park and 389 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:27.559 see the floats up close. Awesome. Can't wait. I'm so excited for 390 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.880 this year's parade. Thank you so much for your time, Olex. You're 391 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.680 welcome, appreciate to being with you. I can't wait for the parade. 392 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.960 It's just one week from today, and last week we got to go and 393 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.160 tour some of the parade floats and get to see how they're put together, 394 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:47.079 so so interesting. They're going to be spectacular this year when we come back 395 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:49.799 our very own Steve Gregory is going to take a look at LightScape, which 396 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:56.279 goes on through January tewod at the La Arboretum. It's your Christmas Morning wake 397 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.759 Up Call on KFI AM six forty. Listening to wake Up Call on demand 398 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:07.000 from KFI AM six forty. I'm Amy King. I hope you're having a 399 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.240 great start to your Christmas Day. And I know it's still kind of early, 400 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:15.119 but you might even be starting to open presence right now. We're going 401 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:18.160 to wait till a little later in the day for that. If you're looking 402 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:23.000 for something to do during the week between Christmas and New Year's here's something that 403 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:27.880 will literally light up your night. Steve Gregory headed out to Arcadia for an 404 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:34.039 immersive experience at the La County Arboretum that features more than one million lights. 405 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:40.319 It's called LightScape and features colorful art installations from around the world with one thing 406 00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:49.319 in common. Lights LightScape is an illuminated path through culturally significant gardens. It 407 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.119 started in Europe. In the UK, Greg Curtis is the regional producer for 408 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:57.359 the show and also handles the San Diego production. LightScape is nestled in the 409 00:27:57.400 --> 00:28:02.039 middle of the arboretum and is just so people can take a leisurely walk through 410 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:04.960 the exhibits. We have Zoe Boutreil, who's the artistic director, and she 411 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:10.039 curates the entire trail, So we start in August. We all walk the 412 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:15.000 trail together and she comes up with a map of where she thinks the installation 413 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:21.960 pieces will fit. We had a chance to get a tour of the show, 414 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.839 but in the daylight during setup. So yeah, we're just starting a 415 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:29.000 trail. Everybody will come through the main entrance of the garden and then proceed 416 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:33.119 down here. We'll already have a little bit of light happening in this tree. 417 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.200 You can see it's lit up. It's the pe Light Tree. Typical 418 00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:40.160 kind of scenario. We'll have a little we'll have music that starts right over 419 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:45.039 here. It's about an hour long loop of music, and then right here 420 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.599 we have our concessions area, so you can eat, drink, get some 421 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.079 swag from the event, and then it's of course it's decorated. We have 422 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:59.160 these wonderful moving lights that go over that fountain, the kind of light up 423 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.000 the whole area. You also keep in mind about how long it would take 424 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.680 the average person to get through it. Yeah, we want to keep it 425 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:10.680 to about a little over an hour for a family afford to walk through, 426 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:15.079 right and keep a really consistent pace. I think that's a good amount of 427 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.720 time. And you know, everybody seems to enjoy it. Everybody moves in 428 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.079 a single direction, so we don't encourage people to go backwards on the trail. 429 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.240 We just keep people flowing through the experience. Greg takes his work very 430 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.079 seriously and is passionate about the show. And as we continue on the path, 431 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.240 we come upon one of the more popular stops, the Winter Cathedral in 432 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.640 daylight. It's simply a long and arched framing with thousands of lights. So 433 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:44.680 there's things that happen in there. You know, people asking they're beloved to 434 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:52.559 marry them often inside of this, so we'll stop and they'll do a proposal. 435 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.680 Yeah, yeah, that's the one that it's in all the flyers. 436 00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.839 Yeah, it's their signature piece. We stop for a moment and walk through 437 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.880 the arch. Walk through it to see what it looks like. It's hard 438 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:04.880 to get a sense of the wow factor in the daylight, but if you've 439 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:11.119 ever seen pictures or video, it's pretty spectacular. We hop back on the 440 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:18.480 ATV and continue the tour. We see someone working in the garden. Don't 441 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.599 get up, Sydney's an electrician. Is this one of those things like where 442 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.400 when Christmas light goes out, the whole thing thing goes out. Uh? 443 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:27.480 No, these are a little bit more sophisticated than that. We have a 444 00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:32.279 lot of lights here, so we're able to replace individual what's the biggest challenge 445 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:37.119 is an electrician on this project. It's a lot of cable. It's a 446 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.039 lot of cable and a lot of electricity we're dealing with. We have a 447 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.039 number of generators that we're running to, so it's about mapping out where everything's 448 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.839 going and making sure that we are within the limits. And how many generators 449 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.359 do you think you have here? Seven? I believe yeah? Seven. 450 00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:57.839 From here, we get out of the ATV and go for a walk. 451 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.440 That's where we dan another electrician with the show these types of bulbs now with 452 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.599 these LEDs and that that doesn't pull nearly the water. It's just the old 453 00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:11.000 incandescent or anything. Right, They're like eighty watts even at their max full 454 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.720 power, and since we're usually only running single colors in a lot of the 455 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:18.279 variety of sections that you see, they drive in fractions of that. There 456 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.440 are some real big panels that you'll see around the park that are out on 457 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.799 the ground. Those are up to around eight hundred and fifty watts if you're 458 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.839 running them at full but that's just because they're giant blasters. They're things to 459 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:36.839 give bright washes of color all over the place. We keep walking when we 460 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.480 come upon a really bizarre setup. It's a tall, square frame with hundreds 461 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.599 of cables hanging from the interior, and each of those has dozens of lights 462 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:51.160 embedded into the cable. It's called submersion, and obviously you get a pixel 463 00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:56.400 map in three D space that you can walk through and you can kind of 464 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:01.759 touch and feel, and it's an immersive experience. And it's some music. 465 00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:05.200 It's just a tone or a sound, right, yeah, is this kind 466 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:15.400 of like a soundscape in the light skape? Right? Wow? So at 467 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.839 night you can you really feel like you're travelings and stay. So we'll do 468 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:24.119 this again, and it'll be totally different with the light. With the light 469 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:30.119 you want to go to do a walking back. As we head back to 470 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.200 the start of the tour, Greg tells me he hopes Lightskate becomes an annual 471 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.759 holiday tradition for families, with all the proceeds going to a good cause the 472 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.880 care and maintenance of the Arboretum. For wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory 473 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.119 k if I News. Thanks Steve. So. LightScape is closed for Christmas 474 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.480 today, but it's going to be open every day from tomorrow through Tuesday, 475 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:55.119 January tewod and I got to go see it. I loved it. I've 476 00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:59.920 been twice this year. To get your tickets, you can go to Arboretum 477 00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:02.880 dot org. Highly recommend it. We're going to wrap up our Christmas morning 478 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.799 wake up call with something I hope will bring a smile to you this early 479 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:14.759 Christmas morning. It's a politically correct night before Christmas. Twas the night before 480 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:19.799 Christmas, and Santa's a wreck. How to live in a world that's politically 481 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:24.799 correct? His workers no longer would answer to elves vertically challenged, they were 482 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:30.440 calling themselves, and labor conditions at the North Pole were alleged by the union 483 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:36.960 to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety, released to 484 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:42.440 the wilds by the Humane Society, and Equal Employment had made it quite clear 485 00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:47.400 that Santa had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner, Comet 486 00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:52.079 and Cupid were replaced with four pigs, and you know that looked stupid. 487 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.119 The runners had been removed from his sleigh. The rets were termed dangerous by 488 00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:01.119 the EPA, and people had started to call for the cops when they heard 489 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:07.599 sled noises on their rooftops. Secondhand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite 490 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:13.320 frightened. His fur trimmed red suit was called unenlightened. And to show you 491 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.760 the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows, Rudolph was suing over unauthorized use of 492 00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.440 his nose and had gone on Kelly Clarkson in front of the nation, demanding 493 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:28.920 millions in overdue compensation. So half of the reindeer were gone, and his 494 00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.519 wife, who suddenly said she'd enough of this life, joined a self help 495 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:37.280 group, packed and left in a whiz, demanding from now on her title 496 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:43.440 was miz And as for the gifts, why He'd never had a notion that 497 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:47.360 making a choice could cause so much commotion. Nothing of leather, nothing of 498 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.079 fur, which meant nothing for him and nothing for her. Nothing that might 499 00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:58.039 be construed to pollute, nothing to aim, nothing to shoot, Nothing that 500 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:01.519 clamored or made lots of noise. Nothing for just girls or just for the 501 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:07.360 boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific. Nothing that's warlike or non 502 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:13.559 pacific. No candy or sweets. They were bad for the tooth. Nothing 503 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:17.559 that seemed to embellish a truth. And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden, 504 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.679 were They're kind of like yeezies, better off hidden for they raised the 505 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:29.360 hackles of those psychological who claimed the only good gift was one ecological. No 506 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:35.000 baseball, no football, someone could get hurt. Besides, playing sports exposes 507 00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:38.599 kids to dirt. Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passee, 508 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:44.719 and Xbox would wrat your poor brain away. So Santa just stood there, 509 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.880 disheveled, perplexed. He just could not figure out what to do next. 510 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.960 He tried to be merry, he tried to be gay, but you've got 511 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.519 to be careful with that word. Today his sack was quite empty. Limped 512 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:01.679 to the ground, nothing fully acceptable was to be found. Something special was 513 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:07.360 needed, a gift that he might give to all without angering the left or 514 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.360 the right. A gift that would satisfy with no indecision, each group of 515 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:19.239 people, every religion, every ethnicity, every hue, everyone everywhere, even 516 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:23.039 you. So here is that gift. It's price beyond worth. May you 517 00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:29.840 and your loved ones enjoy peace on earth. And just like that, our 518 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.559 time is done. Wake Up Call always goes by so fast. For me, 519 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.199 this has been your Christmas morning wake up Call. Thank you so much 520 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:42.599 for starting your Christmas day with us. Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, 521 00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:46.840 and whomever you are with on behalf of producer Anne and board engineer Kono, 522 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:53.159 have a very merry Christmas. This is KFI AM six forty and KOST 523 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:59.119 HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. You've been listening to wake Up 524 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:01.760 Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear Wakeup Call five to 525 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:07.960 six am Monday through Friday on kf I AM six forty and anytime on demand 526 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.679 on the iHeartRadio app