December 17, 2025 • 30 mins
It’s been a violent week, with the antisemitic massacre on Bondi Beach in Australia, the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele in Brentwood, and the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island. Now, the police on the East Coast want our help in tracking down that killer, who fatally shot two people and wounded several others. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave a candid series of interviews to Vanity Fair, offering blunt assessments of President Trump’s “alcoholic personality.” Do employees need to get hazard pay before the annual holiday-season office party? Apparently, HR departments are quietly bracing for problems that show up every year. Merrill thought he might build a pool next year, thanks to his workplace bonus! Well, his wet dreams were dashed when he found out the bonus was just $50. New surveys show one in five Americans are ditching traditional holiday wish lists in favor of something far more basic, like cold, hard cash to help pay rent, bills and utilities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It has been a wild few days of high profile violence,
whether it was the horrific shooting in Australia, which we're
keeping an eye on here because Nicky has ties that area,
and Nikki, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine the stress
that you're under with what's going on there right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Thank you. They're also well. My family is safe, but
I wasn't sure for a few hours on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
That's horrifying, and so I so glad to hear that
they're safe.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That is my dad actually called me when I was
here in the station on Sunday because I couldn't get
a hold of him.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh is that he just he wanted to make sure
you knew he was.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, because the time difference as well, so I didn't
know if they were alive, dead, injured, in hospital hiding.
But he called me and he said we're okay.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh, I'm so glad he did that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And then we of course what the Rob Reiner stuff
here that we found out about on Sunday. And then
Brown University there's a shooting two people, two people killed,
nine injured, including one that's still in critical condition.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Five more that are still in critical but stable condition.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And that is an absolute horrific situation going on at
an ivy League school in a decent neighborhood. I think
I've never been to Providence. I assume it's in a
decent neighborhood. So what is the update on that. Well,
the FBI is asking for your health.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
These pieces of video, hang.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
On, This is from ABC now.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Important pieces of the puzzle in the investigation into the
deadly shooting at Brown University. The FBI using surveillance video
to put together this detailed timeline of the movements of
the person of interest starting two hours before the shooting.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, they say surveillance video, which makes it sound like
police were surveilling the area. What they mean is like
doorbell cams, all right, So like individual surveillance cameras, all right,
So security cameras.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And continuing to the minutes right after, you can see
him here crossing the street as emergency vehicles rush to respond.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Now they try to do some of that fancy enhancement
like you see on CSI, and they are actually getting
better at that sort of thing, and they're using AI
to to try to fill in the blanks, but it's
still it's not like all of a sudden you're gonna
get zoomed right in and you're gonna see a crystal
clear picture.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The guy appears to be wearing very normal the jacket,
black or dark blue jeans, he's got a black beanie on,
wearing a black like a nty five mask, and he's
carrying a what do you call that? The crossbody bag?
(02:40):
What do you my wife? My wife wants one of
these things? What they what do they call this?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What I'm talking about? All the ones that basically the
gen Z made fanny packs.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's kind of
a satchel thing, but it's it's kind of like a
crossbody bag.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, well they call him crossbody. Now, it's a crossbody.
That's what it's called. Crossbody. Okay. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And then I'm gonna guess, and this is purely a
guess because the video is just not that clear. Looks
like it's a white dude. I'm gonna say, uh, fifties Mark.
Have you seen the picture?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I haven't really, I mean it's been everywhere. No, no,
not that, but just the fifties.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
What do you think? I just can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, would a man in his fifties wear a crossbody bag.
It's kind of more of a gen Z thing, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
My wife is in her fifties and I told her
that's what she wants to wear. She like, She doesn't.
She's in her fifties.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
She's stylish.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, maybe this dude is too, although I'm looking at
another photo and you can't really see the bag as clearly.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
How many stylish killers are there in history?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
I don't know Ted Bundy, No, he was pretty stylin.
I mean the bar is low uh Nikki? Is everybody
pronouncing the name of the beach correctly? How do you
say it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's Bondai? Okay, it's an I'll give you a little education.
It's a It's an Indigenous word and the original word
is bundi, which means sound of crushing waves. Thank you,
but we pronounce it bundai.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Gotcha perfect. Anyway, back to the story I was talking
about runner Um. So this dude is walking around campus
and the FBI is saying, we'd like your help trying
to identify this guy. I think he looks like he's
in his fifties, but I guess based on the crossbody,
we're supposed to assume he's not.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oh, he's also wearing gloves.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What they're not telling us is why he is a
person of interest, other than.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
He was walking on the street shortly after the shooting.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The FBI describes the person of interest as a man
with a five foot eight, stocky build. Police say the
university was specifically targeted.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They're gonna be looking at anyone who has any beef
at all, any disagreement with Brown University.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
A line of flowers placed outside the building where two
students were killed during a study session Saturday. Students still
very shaken up, like walk to those streets where he's
been shown, and it feels like such a violation. The
university's president sending a letter to the community remembering sophomore
Ella Cook and freshman mcad Umerza Cough. She says Ella
(05:12):
came to Brown from Alabama as a passionate and intellectually
curious student who was interested in French and Francophone studies.
She was an accomplished pianist and the vice president of
the College Republicans of America group at Brown, who posted
this photo of her. Macammad, a dual citizen of the
US and Huzbekistan, graduated from a Virginia high school before
(05:32):
coming to Brown just a few months ago in the
fall in hopes of becoming a doctor. He's described as smart, funny,
and driven.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Was but he the other guy was the vice president
of the college Republicans, right, But this guy there doesn't
seem to be. So is that just this coincidental? I'm
only asking because we're trying to figure out as their motive.
So was it politically motivated and it was going after
some leader in the Republican party?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Or is this just coincidental? That was her after school activity.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
He was a compassionate person.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
He oh, this is the other victim they're talking about it.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
He had huge dreams to become a neurosurgeon.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Two of the students injured have been released from the hospital.
Seven people are still there recovering Rina Roy ABC News Providence.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I appreciate that the photo, I'm still gonna say, I
think you looks like he's in his fifties. But again,
it's so grainy and it's just some random guy. This
has been playing NonStop on all the news channels.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I mean all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I've got monitors up in my office at work, and
I've got it on. I got News Nation, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No. I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, I have a local I have a local one
up there too in CNBC on another TV on occasion,
they're all just running this this photo like in a loop,
just constantly, constantly, constantly.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Yeah, you can't possibly tell how old he is, but
I just assume that he's older, just because he seems
a bit overweight.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, it's like a portly right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, they called him stocky. That's not stock God, I
did not want to be known as the stock I
was gonna just about to say. I was like, yeah,
he probably didn't like that part. No, he didn't like
it at all.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah. Anyway, the FBI is asking for tips.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I watched the video and the guy is walking around
and then he's he's I don't know, he's in the
neighborhood at the same time, and then he's watching the
police activity. Well, I gotta tell you. If I'm taking
a walk on a you know, in the afternoon, Saturday afternoon,
I'm out for a walk in a nice cool day,
and I see a bunch of police activity. I'm gonna
(07:37):
take note of what's going on over there. I'm gonna go, oh,
I wonder what's happening, And I would watch it. He
didn't look like he was urgent to get out of
the area. But at the same time, maybe he was
trying not to look like he was urgent trying to
get out of the air, you know what I mean.
I don't have any idea, So we'll find out more
if they if they find him. If that were you,
what's I mean? Are you running to the FBI and
(07:57):
be like, hey, that was me.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I'm not. I'm running straight to a lawyer. I am
not going to the FBI first.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm going right to a lawyer and I'm saying, hey,
uh yeah, that's me on that video.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
But I did not.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do the shooting, and I don't want to get wrapped
up in anything here, so I need somebody to represent me.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That's exactly what I would do. First thing. I do
cover my butt, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
The White House is supposed to keep its secrets tucked away,
but now we've got a senior aide that's pulled back
the curtain in a way that has the President, the
Vice president, even some tech billionaires feel like a bit
squirmish what she said and what it might mean for.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
The rest of the term.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Next Foosh running the show and Nikki producing tonight and
a complete pro in that newsroom. When you hear this
man's voice, you just think, Wow, that guy knows what
he's doing. All right, thank you for that. It too,
that's all right. I feel bad for the people that
(09:01):
have to listen to me.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Oh my god, Chris Merl's show is absolutely huh rrific.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I had people calling, by the way, and they were
hitting us up on the on the talk back to
say how huh terrific?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And then it kept getting longer and they go terrific.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh, you know, they're really offended when they split it
into two whole words.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's a very beavis and butthead thing to do, isn't
it huh oh wonderful? I could just do this, well,
this is not a bad idea. Let me see, I
haven't thought of this, by the way, so this is
this could this could work out splendidly or be a
complete disaster. Let me see, we'll just get uh go
over're here, so far.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So good. Yeah, this is the dumbest thing.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
The Merl's show is absolutely huh huh huh rrific.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
There you go. Do you want a few more hus
in there?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It's like it's like a slowed down version of butt head. Yeah. Oh,
I could probably speed up just that part too. I
just like it because it's more pronounced. All right, where's
the how do I make this go faster? Delay and
echo delay? No, I wanted to speed up. Let me
(10:19):
speed this up like delay time, go this way? Does
this work? This is not gonna work. I don't know
what I'm doing.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Absolutely horrific.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You suck.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
So bad to someone who's under the influence is probably
losing their mind hearing that.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That's so bad. I'm just worried.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Here's what I'm afraid of is that at some point
somebody from the industry trades is gonna come to you
guys be like, what's it like working with Is he
really an idiot? Is he really the moron that he
portrays himself to be on the air because he really
sells it? Well, that's my worry, and I would hope
that you guys would go, yeah, you know what I'm
(11:07):
not doing an interview, And yet when it comes to
the White House, they spend so much time talking about
how terrible the mainstream media is. But as soon as
somebody from mainstream media comes along goes, we'd like to
follow you around for a few days, they're like, come
on in.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
So that's exactly what happened with the chief of staff and.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
President Trump's chief of staff is speaking out about the
administration and a series of interviews with Vanity Fair.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's from ABC News.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Susie Wilde says Trump has a quote alcoholic personality, and
we'll go for it whenever he sees an opportunity for retribution.
She also calls Vice President Van's a conspiracy theorist for
a decade and says Attorney General Pam BONDI whiffed on
the Epstein files controversy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Now, ah, she's not wrong about that for sure.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Now, Wiles is calling the article a disingenuously framed hit piece.
White House correspondent Karen Travers's here from more on that,
Arin Hi Karen, so, Whiles is taking issue with this article,
but she's not denying the specific quote said, and some
of them are pretty eye opening. So how is she
explaining some of these statements.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Yeah, and this was a series of interviews that she
did with Vanity Fairs Chris Whipple over many months, eleven
interviews he said that he put together in these two pieces.
In her statement posted on social media, Susie Wilde says,
this is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me, the President,
the White House staff, in the cabinet.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But why did you do it?
Speaker 10 (12:35):
But she also says that this was done to paint
an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and
our team. But Diane, this piece has Washington talking because
there are some incredible headlines in here. She's also about
the president's retribution campaign, saying that when there's an opportunity,
he will go for it, but that there was a
(12:56):
loose agreement that the score settling would end before the
first ninety days of his term were over.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They were selling Trump twenty twenty four revenge tour flags
on the campaign trail, so it wasn't gonna stop with
the ninety days. I mean, it was like the base
was demanding it. They wanted to see retribution against all
the Democrats, Adam Schiff, Harris Biden, everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
They weren't going to let that go.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
She talked about Elon Musk, who came in and was
put in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency. She
said that he was an odd, odd duck who's.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Act well, okay, actions.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Were not always rational and sometimes left her aghast. She
talked about JD. Vance, who at one point was very
anti Trump and then of course is now part of
the MAGA fold, and she said that that conversion was
sort of political. She talked about the tariffs that the
president put in place and said that there was a
huge disagreement about this major policy decision of the presidents,
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saying that this was a conversation and disagreement about whether
they were a good idea.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
All of these things, though, are exactly what you would
expect if you walked into the boardroom of a Trump
run operation. It's kind of his trademark, it's kind of
what he does. He wants things to be a bit chaotic.
If you ever watched his show that wasn't the reality
show The Apprentice, when he when he wanted those boardrooms
(14:23):
to be chaotic like that, and he wanted people to
go at each other. That that wasn't just because the
producers told him be more chaotic. That's his style. That's
why he was the right guy to host that show.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Like, that's his thing.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
He likes people to mix it up. Who was it
was it Musk and Rubio that were at each other
there one time?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah, he's reportedly notorious for pitting people against each other
and his staff, And none of this stuff in the
interview is a surprise so much as it's a surprise
that one of his inner circle is off script like this.
Well even still, they're backing her on this, and Ja
d Vance was asked about this. He gave his response
about being referred to as the conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, first of all, if if if Susie as I like,
I'll trust, I'll trust what you said.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I haven't looked at the article. I of course have.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Heard about it, but conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
But I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah me too, Yeah yeah yeah. I They're
only true. I know because I did my own research.
I saw a YouTube video on it, so I believe it.
So it's true. It's not a conspiracy theory. That's not really,
(15:46):
that's not I don't think that's how we define conspiracy theories.
What do I Hey, you think you got the company
holiday party right? And you know, oh, this is great,
it's gonna be fun, it's a little harmless. It'll be
black until Monday morning. And then you get a phone
call that you never thought you'd get.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
One employee ought.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
To be getting hazard pay every time there's a company
get together, find out who needs the extra bonus.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Still to Colm what people really want for Christmas this year,
and it is.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It is not toys and gadgets and whatnot. Nope, it
is not.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And then the latest that we know from the Rob
Reiner Michelle Singer Reiner murder as their son is charged,
and few details that emerged today that I think we
ought to discuss. That's coming up here right after marks
nine o'clock news.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
How you get this?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I would be curious if you, if you're listening on
the iHeartRadio app, hit that talkback button and let me
know if you have ever done anything really dumb at
a Christmas party So we're getting into the holiday party
season and then I start seeing all these stories about
HR and what HR has to look out for. So
I was thumbing through HR brew, which I'm sure most
(17:13):
of you have probably already read wildly popular. Yeah, it
really is. It's it's it's a you don't want to
go without anyway. So hr brew ran an article about
how you can prepare for the company holiday party and
according to a talent culture consultant, is that a thing
(17:37):
that's made up, that's not real? No, Danny Herrera is
her name. She said, ambulances had to be called. It
was a whole thing talking about somebody who had a
little bit too much to drink at the holiday party.
That person fell down the stairs and I think broke
a leg or something like that. Not great friend, she said,
she's seen it all, and you should, you know, be
(18:03):
smart about when you get ready to do your holiday
parties if you work in HR. Right, So alcohol is
a problem. You should try to limit the amount of
alcohol that people can access. So what do they do
like things like drink tickets. Problem with drink tickets is
you always have tea totals around. They're always handing their
tickets off to somebody else like Mark and I because
we can hold our liquor. We just know to get
somebody else to drive us home. So they talk about, all, right,
(18:27):
where are we going to do this? Are we responsible?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You are if it's a company party, even if it's
off site, you're still responsible that kind of thing. So
if you've done something dumb at an HR excuse me,
at a Christmas party, I would love to hear your story.
I'll keep you anonymous. So what I realized is it's
not that I drink too much. I haven't had one
of those situations where I'm at a Christmas party and
(18:51):
I drink too much and I try to make out
with somebody right that that that's not my bag. But
what I end up doing is talking too much and
I say dumb things, and then, for whatever reason, I
don't even realize at the time that it was dumb.
I don't realize even later that what I said was dumb.
(19:11):
So I'm at this Christmas party and you ever do
a dead pool you know what I'm talking about? Right
where you basically.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You you you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Put bets on what celebrity is gonna die in the
coming year.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Always tasteful. Oh yeah, very tasteful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So I wasn't doing necessarily a dead pool, but in
that vein, I'm at a Christmas party with my with
the radio station I was.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
At, and I was sitting around.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I was talking to the head engineer and uh, I
think a program director or something. And so I go, Hey,
who do you think isn't gonna be at the company
at the Christmas party next year?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
They go, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I go, well, who do you think is gonna isn't
gonna be with us anymore? And they were look good, no, no, no,
like you know, who's gonna move on or get fired
or whatever else?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It is right? And I go, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So we started looking around and we started going, oh,
this person, that person, and we go, oh, I wonder
if they're going to be here, why would they leave?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh why wouldn't they do it? You know.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
So we were just having this conversation just among the
three of us. Me being a genius. This is a
Saturday night. I'm so smart. I go to work. I'm
doing a morning show at the time. It was a
music morning show and I had a co host, and
so I'm sitting there talking to her about this off air,
so I go, I go, oh, we were trying to
figure out who's not going to be at the comp
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at the Christmas party next year, and then we just
started kind of having fun rolling with oh, I bet
so and so is. There was like, there's a guy there,
sweet old man, but he had he had diabetes and
he had already lost like a foot. And I go, oh,
I don't think he's going to be around because I
think that, you know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I don't think medically he's going to be here next year.
So we put his name on a list, and the
first guy in the list was actually a guy that
had been with the company for small town. He'd been
doing radio like fifty years or something like that. And
I said, uh, oh, this guy is gonna be gone.
And then I started adding reasons, so I go, oh,
this is gonna be this dude. You know, Charlie Company
(21:11):
finally realizes he's dead weight. Next person, This dude, diabetes
is the reason. Next person, like we had a we
had a reception. She she smoked like four packs a day,
and I was like, Carol's not going to be there.
Lung cancer, which I mean fast forward to Carol actually
did die about two years ago of lung cancer. So
(21:31):
we just and it was like the whole list and
it was so dumb. And then I'm such a genius.
Let me just let me just express to you how
incredibly brilliant I am. I decided I should print it.
So I made this list up, printed it, then went
(21:54):
on to do my my next break.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Hey this matchbox, aren't they crazy?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Right? Great band love mass Box twenty. He got some
train coming up for you? And then who doesn't want
to hear the beautiful snaggletooth jewel. That's all ahead, Thanks
a lot for listening. And then I totally forgot left
it on the printer, and who comes by with that
first dude on the list, Charlie, where I said, oh,
they're gonna finally realize he's dead weight. So Charlie freaks
(22:21):
out and thinks, oh my god, I'm getting fired. He
thinks it's a list. It's been He doesn't even he
doesn't even look at the rest of it. He just
sees this. He goes, this is the this is the
list of people are gonna fire. And he runs upstairs
and he goes to the market manager and he says.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Are you firing me? That was an uncomfortable conversation that afternoon.
That did not go over very well. It is a
miracle I still had a job at the end of that,
and I had to do the whole mea culpa, go
have a personal conversation where I'm like.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You're not dead weight. I thought it was funny, It
wasn't really all that funny. I'm so dumb.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
It sounds like you've learned from your mistakes.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I like to think I've learned from my mistakes, but
then I get going, like then I do other dumb things.
Now I'm thinking about this now, and now that it's
I think it's been twenty years since I did that,
I want to say that was like if it wasn't
twenty years, it was close.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
We've all had that happen though.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I mean in high school, somebody was doing a speech
and I was making notes, just roasting this person with
every with every cruel thing I could write down, and
I passed it to my friend next to me to
read because I thought he'd think it was funny.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
He gave it to her.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
No things down there, like what what Mark said about you,
Oh yeah, and cruel stuff too, like you know, just
oh my god, I was working blue say yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
I get I know what you're saying. Yeah, And so
the joke was on me. So I'm saying you're not alone.
This has happened to other people.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, in this case it was all because of the
Christmas party, all Christmas party related. But Mark, at some point,
is it just are we just the creative cynical deep down?
We're lovable a holes?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And we just can't help ourselves to do stupid things
like that.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I think we've been totally taken over by our IDs
and we have no control.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
God, I think you're right. So right anyway, if you've
done something domb at a Christmas party? God, whatuld I
love to hear that hit that talk back on the
iHeartRadio app. Hey, your holiday wish? No toys, no clothes,
no gadgets. What you really want is way less fun,
way more stressful.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Money.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Anxiety is now a stocking stuffer. What you can do
about it is next.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Have you read or are you aware of the novel
about the Worst Holiday party of all Time. No, it's
called Appointment in Samara by a right named John O'Hara,
and it's about a guy who gets drunk at a
holiday party and throws a drink in his boss's face,
and then his whole life unravels. And it's pretty it's
pretty downbeat, but kind of required reading.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
One of the one of the classics. Okay, that's fun.
I'll hold your drinks. Don't do that. Have you ever
thrown a drink on anybody?
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I've thrown plenty of drinks I would not waste. I
feel bad for wasting my drink after the fact, but
not for throwing the drink on the person who deserved it.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
What did they do to deserve it?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Oh? Well, the one that springs to mind first is
when I was in Williamsburg, New York, in a bar
and there was a very drunk girl here who detected
my accent. And she said to me, how did she
detect that she heard me talking?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
She actually she actually tried.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
To push in the queue, the line for the bathroom,
and I said, there's a line here, and she went
wherey from? I said, I'm Australian whine because you people
aren't trustworthy, so she ended up.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
It was a penal colony.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well, I mean, I wasn't a convict, she I do.
I did win the bar fight, though she ended up
wearing my beer and on the floor. It was fun, all.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Right, Mark Rich You're glad you asked. Sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I've also have been thrown out of venues for fightings.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
There of course. Yeah, they always do. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've never been in a fight where I thought I
was wrong. Never did you win, though, I always win?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Just ask my wife. Hey, kidding, never win.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I don't get in fist fights. I've never won a
fist fight. Oh my god, a glass jaw. I go
down fast, I go can't we talk about this? That's
what happens for Christmas this year though, when you go
when you go to your holiday party, the boss is
what do you want for your bonus? By the way,
(26:55):
I got word that my company is giving a bonus
this year, and I got really excited about that, and
I started thinking, Oh, I'm going to build a pool,
and I was so excited.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I started dreaming about a pool.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I started dreaming about where I would put the pool
in the backyard, and I was so excited about that
bonus and then they said the bonus is like fifty dollars,
and I thought, don't just don't tell me that I'm
getting a bonus.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You got fifty dollars kidding me.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I thought it was Clark w Griswold. I thought I
was building the pool back there. I was getting all
excited about it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You've seen the rate of inflation that goes nowhere, which
is why an awful lot of Americans have decided that
this year the number one request for the holiday is cash.
One in five say they want help paying their bills.
That would be the ideal present. And they average spending
(27:57):
this year is over eleven hundred dollars on gifts, but
they don't expect to get eleven hundred dollars. And why
is that? Because we give gifts to our family, That's why.
And families are terrible. One children never get you get
your gifts.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
My wife, I said, we got three kids. They're all adults.
And I said, uh, all right, what are we getting
the kids? I said, I got I got our oldest
and his girlfriend taking care of I said, what should
we get the other one? She goes, I'm not getting
them anything, and I said, they're the kids you gotta
get um. She goes, they never get us anything, screw them,
and I went, I don't know who you are, but
I'm so turned on right now.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I'm gonna say that must right now. Well, do your
kids buy you gifts with your credit card?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well that's what that's what they try to do. But
we're you know, no, they're not supposed to. They're adults
with jobs. Well two of the three, two out of
three ain't bad as far as jobs go. No, it's
they gotta, no, they gotta shouldn't they reciprocate at some point.
And this year I sent stuff to my uh my
nieces and nephews. I've sent them gift cards. And I
(29:04):
didn't said anything to my brother and his wife because
I did last year and they didn't send me anything
and I didn't know. I didn't know we were getting gifts. Okay,
well then you're not getting anything, so tell you nothing.
I do tend to always go overboard on my parents too.
I always want to. I feel like, you know, I
don't know, I'm like more Christmases I have with them.
I want to make sure they know that I'm willing
to buy their love. Yeah, shoot the works. Yeah, that's
(29:26):
what I do. But most people that don't even want gifts,
They just go, I just need some help paying bills, man,
that'd be great. Power bills through the roof, still paying.
I got that level pay you know where you pay.
They take your bill for the whole year and divide
it by twelve. So my air conditioning bill is stupid high.
So right now things start to cool off a little bit.
(29:48):
I turned the air off. I'm still paying a ton
every month. Love to have that bill helped out with kind.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Of say it's a little Dickensian to have people requesting
gifts just to help them survive.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, you say that, but I feel like that's America. Oh,
like George W.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Bush said when the woman told him that she had
three jobs, and he said she was uniquely American.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Uniquely that's exactly right. Yeah, totally it uniquely American. Your
struggle is patriotic, That's what I'm saying. And the more
I struggle, the more patriotical I feel. So maybe even
the most patrioticarist of all. Hey, by now you know
that Nick Reiner, the son of Robin Michelle Singer Reiner,
(30:33):
is charged with their murders. So something that Dia said
that I found especially odd considering their politics, which are
pretty well known, kind of made me scratch my head.
So what Hawkman is doing that seems very Unrhiner is
Next Chris merrill I AM six forty were live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1 (30:53):
KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It has been a wild few days of high profile violence,
whether it was the horrific shooting in Australia, which we're
keeping an eye on here because Nicky has ties that area,
and Nikki, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine the stress
that you're under with what's going on there right now.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Thank you. They're also well. My family is safe, but
I wasn't sure for a few hours on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
That's horrifying, and so I so glad to hear that
they're safe.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That is my dad actually called me when I was
here in the station on Sunday because I couldn't get
a hold of him.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh is that he just he wanted to make sure
you knew he was.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, because the time difference as well, so I didn't
know if they were alive, dead, injured, in hospital hiding.
But he called me and he said we're okay.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Oh, I'm so glad he did that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And then we of course what the Rob Reiner stuff
here that we found out about on Sunday. And then
Brown University there's a shooting two people, two people killed,
nine injured, including one that's still in critical condition.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Five more that are still in critical but stable condition.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And that is an absolute horrific situation going on at
an ivy League school in a decent neighborhood. I think
I've never been to Providence. I assume it's in a
decent neighborhood. So what is the update on that. Well,
the FBI is asking for your health.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
These pieces of video, hang.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
On, This is from ABC now.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Important pieces of the puzzle in the investigation into the
deadly shooting at Brown University. The FBI using surveillance video
to put together this detailed timeline of the movements of
the person of interest starting two hours before the shooting.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Okay, they say surveillance video, which makes it sound like
police were surveilling the area. What they mean is like
doorbell cams, all right, So like individual surveillance cameras, all right,
So security cameras.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And continuing to the minutes right after, you can see
him here crossing the street as emergency vehicles rush to respond.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Now they try to do some of that fancy enhancement
like you see on CSI, and they are actually getting
better at that sort of thing, and they're using AI
to to try to fill in the blanks, but it's
still it's not like all of a sudden you're gonna
get zoomed right in and you're gonna see a crystal
clear picture.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's just not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The guy appears to be wearing very normal the jacket,
black or dark blue jeans, he's got a black beanie on,
wearing a black like a nty five mask, and he's
carrying a what do you call that? The crossbody bag?
(02:40):
What do you my wife? My wife wants one of
these things? What they what do they call this?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What I'm talking about? All the ones that basically the
gen Z made fanny packs.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's kind of
a satchel thing, but it's it's kind of like a
crossbody bag.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, well they call him crossbody. Now, it's a crossbody.
That's what it's called. Crossbody. Okay. Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And then I'm gonna guess, and this is purely a
guess because the video is just not that clear. Looks
like it's a white dude. I'm gonna say, uh, fifties Mark.
Have you seen the picture?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I haven't really, I mean it's been everywhere. No, no,
not that, but just the fifties.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
What do you think? I just can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Well, would a man in his fifties wear a crossbody bag.
It's kind of more of a gen Z thing, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
My wife is in her fifties and I told her
that's what she wants to wear. She like, She doesn't.
She's in her fifties.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
She's stylish.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, maybe this dude is too, although I'm looking at
another photo and you can't really see the bag as clearly.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
How many stylish killers are there in history?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
I don't know Ted Bundy, No, he was pretty stylin.
I mean the bar is low uh Nikki? Is everybody
pronouncing the name of the beach correctly? How do you
say it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's Bondai? Okay, it's an I'll give you a little education.
It's a It's an Indigenous word and the original word
is bundi, which means sound of crushing waves. Thank you,
but we pronounce it bundai.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Gotcha perfect. Anyway, back to the story I was talking
about runner Um. So this dude is walking around campus
and the FBI is saying, we'd like your help trying
to identify this guy. I think he looks like he's
in his fifties, but I guess based on the crossbody,
we're supposed to assume he's not.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Oh, he's also wearing gloves.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What they're not telling us is why he is a
person of interest, other than.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
He was walking on the street shortly after the shooting.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
The FBI describes the person of interest as a man
with a five foot eight, stocky build. Police say the
university was specifically targeted.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
They're gonna be looking at anyone who has any beef
at all, any disagreement with Brown University.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
A line of flowers placed outside the building where two
students were killed during a study session Saturday. Students still
very shaken up, like walk to those streets where he's
been shown, and it feels like such a violation. The
university's president sending a letter to the community remembering sophomore
Ella Cook and freshman mcad Umerza Cough. She says Ella
(05:12):
came to Brown from Alabama as a passionate and intellectually
curious student who was interested in French and Francophone studies.
She was an accomplished pianist and the vice president of
the College Republicans of America group at Brown, who posted
this photo of her. Macammad, a dual citizen of the
US and Huzbekistan, graduated from a Virginia high school before
(05:32):
coming to Brown just a few months ago in the
fall in hopes of becoming a doctor. He's described as smart, funny,
and driven.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Was but he the other guy was the vice president
of the college Republicans, right, But this guy there doesn't
seem to be. So is that just this coincidental? I'm
only asking because we're trying to figure out as their motive.
So was it politically motivated and it was going after
some leader in the Republican party?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Or is this just coincidental? That was her after school activity.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
He was a compassionate person.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
He oh, this is the other victim they're talking about it.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
He had huge dreams to become a neurosurgeon.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Two of the students injured have been released from the hospital.
Seven people are still there recovering Rina Roy ABC News Providence.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I appreciate that the photo, I'm still gonna say, I
think you looks like he's in his fifties. But again,
it's so grainy and it's just some random guy. This
has been playing NonStop on all the news channels.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I mean all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I've got monitors up in my office at work, and
I've got it on. I got News Nation, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No. I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, I have a local I have a local one
up there too in CNBC on another TV on occasion,
they're all just running this this photo like in a loop,
just constantly, constantly, constantly.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Yeah, you can't possibly tell how old he is, but
I just assume that he's older, just because he seems
a bit overweight.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, it's like a portly right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, they called him stocky. That's not stock God, I
did not want to be known as the stock I
was gonna just about to say. I was like, yeah,
he probably didn't like that part. No, he didn't like
it at all.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah. Anyway, the FBI is asking for tips.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I watched the video and the guy is walking around
and then he's he's I don't know, he's in the
neighborhood at the same time, and then he's watching the
police activity. Well, I gotta tell you. If I'm taking
a walk on a you know, in the afternoon, Saturday afternoon,
I'm out for a walk in a nice cool day,
and I see a bunch of police activity. I'm gonna
(07:37):
take note of what's going on over there. I'm gonna go, oh,
I wonder what's happening, And I would watch it. He
didn't look like he was urgent to get out of
the area. But at the same time, maybe he was
trying not to look like he was urgent trying to
get out of the air, you know what I mean.
I don't have any idea, So we'll find out more
if they if they find him. If that were you,
what's I mean? Are you running to the FBI and
(07:57):
be like, hey, that was me.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I'm not. I'm running straight to a lawyer. I am
not going to the FBI first.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm going right to a lawyer and I'm saying, hey,
uh yeah, that's me on that video.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
But I did not.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Do the shooting, and I don't want to get wrapped
up in anything here, so I need somebody to represent me.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
That's exactly what I would do. First thing. I do
cover my butt, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
The White House is supposed to keep its secrets tucked away,
but now we've got a senior aide that's pulled back
the curtain in a way that has the President, the
Vice president, even some tech billionaires feel like a bit
squirmish what she said and what it might mean for.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
The rest of the term.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Next Foosh running the show and Nikki producing tonight and
a complete pro in that newsroom. When you hear this
man's voice, you just think, Wow, that guy knows what
he's doing. All right, thank you for that. It too,
that's all right. I feel bad for the people that
(09:01):
have to listen to me.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Oh my god, Chris Merl's show is absolutely huh rrific.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I had people calling, by the way, and they were
hitting us up on the on the talk back to
say how huh terrific?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And then it kept getting longer and they go terrific.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh, you know, they're really offended when they split it
into two whole words.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's a very beavis and butthead thing to do, isn't
it huh oh wonderful? I could just do this, well,
this is not a bad idea. Let me see, I
haven't thought of this, by the way, so this is
this could this could work out splendidly or be a
complete disaster. Let me see, we'll just get uh go
over're here, so far.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
So good. Yeah, this is the dumbest thing.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
The Merl's show is absolutely huh huh huh rrific.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
There you go. Do you want a few more hus
in there?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
It's like it's like a slowed down version of butt head. Yeah. Oh,
I could probably speed up just that part too. I
just like it because it's more pronounced. All right, where's
the how do I make this go faster? Delay and
echo delay? No, I wanted to speed up. Let me
(10:19):
speed this up like delay time, go this way? Does
this work? This is not gonna work. I don't know
what I'm doing.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
Absolutely horrific.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
You suck.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
So bad to someone who's under the influence is probably
losing their mind hearing that.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That's so bad. I'm just worried.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Here's what I'm afraid of is that at some point
somebody from the industry trades is gonna come to you
guys be like, what's it like working with Is he
really an idiot? Is he really the moron that he
portrays himself to be on the air because he really
sells it? Well, that's my worry, and I would hope
that you guys would go, yeah, you know what I'm
(11:07):
not doing an interview, And yet when it comes to
the White House, they spend so much time talking about
how terrible the mainstream media is. But as soon as
somebody from mainstream media comes along goes, we'd like to
follow you around for a few days, they're like, come
on in.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
So that's exactly what happened with the chief of staff and.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
President Trump's chief of staff is speaking out about the
administration and a series of interviews with Vanity Fair.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It's from ABC News.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Susie Wilde says Trump has a quote alcoholic personality, and
we'll go for it whenever he sees an opportunity for retribution.
She also calls Vice President Van's a conspiracy theorist for
a decade and says Attorney General Pam BONDI whiffed on
the Epstein files controversy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Now, ah, she's not wrong about that for sure.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
Now, Wiles is calling the article a disingenuously framed hit piece.
White House correspondent Karen Travers's here from more on that,
Arin Hi Karen, so, Whiles is taking issue with this article,
but she's not denying the specific quote said, and some
of them are pretty eye opening. So how is she
explaining some of these statements.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Yeah, and this was a series of interviews that she
did with Vanity Fairs Chris Whipple over many months, eleven
interviews he said that he put together in these two pieces.
In her statement posted on social media, Susie Wilde says,
this is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me, the President,
the White House staff, in the cabinet.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But why did you do it?
Speaker 10 (12:35):
But she also says that this was done to paint
an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and
our team. But Diane, this piece has Washington talking because
there are some incredible headlines in here. She's also about
the president's retribution campaign, saying that when there's an opportunity,
he will go for it, but that there was a
(12:56):
loose agreement that the score settling would end before the
first ninety days of his term were over.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They were selling Trump twenty twenty four revenge tour flags
on the campaign trail, so it wasn't gonna stop with
the ninety days. I mean, it was like the base
was demanding it. They wanted to see retribution against all
the Democrats, Adam Schiff, Harris Biden, everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
They weren't going to let that go.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
She talked about Elon Musk, who came in and was
put in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency. She
said that he was an odd, odd duck who's.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Act well, okay, actions.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Were not always rational and sometimes left her aghast. She
talked about JD. Vance, who at one point was very
anti Trump and then of course is now part of
the MAGA fold, and she said that that conversion was
sort of political. She talked about the tariffs that the
president put in place and said that there was a
huge disagreement about this major policy decision of the presidents,
(13:55):
saying that this was a conversation and disagreement about whether
they were a good idea.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
All of these things, though, are exactly what you would
expect if you walked into the boardroom of a Trump
run operation. It's kind of his trademark, it's kind of
what he does. He wants things to be a bit chaotic.
If you ever watched his show that wasn't the reality
show The Apprentice, when he when he wanted those boardrooms
(14:23):
to be chaotic like that, and he wanted people to
go at each other. That that wasn't just because the
producers told him be more chaotic. That's his style. That's
why he was the right guy to host that show.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Like, that's his thing.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
He likes people to mix it up. Who was it
was it Musk and Rubio that were at each other
there one time?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah, he's reportedly notorious for pitting people against each other
and his staff, And none of this stuff in the
interview is a surprise so much as it's a surprise
that one of his inner circle is off script like this.
Well even still, they're backing her on this, and Ja
d Vance was asked about this. He gave his response
about being referred to as the conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Well, first of all, if if if Susie as I like,
I'll trust, I'll trust what you said.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I haven't looked at the article. I of course have.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Heard about it, but conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
But I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah me too, Yeah yeah yeah. I They're
only true. I know because I did my own research.
I saw a YouTube video on it, so I believe it.
So it's true. It's not a conspiracy theory. That's not really,
(15:46):
that's not I don't think that's how we define conspiracy theories.
What do I Hey, you think you got the company
holiday party right? And you know, oh, this is great,
it's gonna be fun, it's a little harmless. It'll be
black until Monday morning. And then you get a phone
call that you never thought you'd get.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
One employee ought.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
To be getting hazard pay every time there's a company
get together, find out who needs the extra bonus.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Still to Colm what people really want for Christmas this year,
and it is.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
It is not toys and gadgets and whatnot. Nope, it
is not.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And then the latest that we know from the Rob
Reiner Michelle Singer Reiner murder as their son is charged,
and few details that emerged today that I think we
ought to discuss. That's coming up here right after marks
nine o'clock news.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
How you get this?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I would be curious if you, if you're listening on
the iHeartRadio app, hit that talkback button and let me
know if you have ever done anything really dumb at
a Christmas party So we're getting into the holiday party
season and then I start seeing all these stories about
HR and what HR has to look out for. So
I was thumbing through HR brew, which I'm sure most
(17:13):
of you have probably already read wildly popular. Yeah, it
really is. It's it's it's a you don't want to
go without anyway. So hr brew ran an article about
how you can prepare for the company holiday party and
according to a talent culture consultant, is that a thing
(17:37):
that's made up, that's not real? No, Danny Herrera is
her name. She said, ambulances had to be called. It
was a whole thing talking about somebody who had a
little bit too much to drink at the holiday party.
That person fell down the stairs and I think broke
a leg or something like that. Not great friend, she said,
she's seen it all, and you should, you know, be
(18:03):
smart about when you get ready to do your holiday
parties if you work in HR. Right, So alcohol is
a problem. You should try to limit the amount of
alcohol that people can access. So what do they do
like things like drink tickets. Problem with drink tickets is
you always have tea totals around. They're always handing their
tickets off to somebody else like Mark and I because
we can hold our liquor. We just know to get
somebody else to drive us home. So they talk about, all, right,
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where are we going to do this? Are we responsible?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
You are if it's a company party, even if it's
off site, you're still responsible that kind of thing. So
if you've done something dumb at an HR excuse me,
at a Christmas party, I would love to hear your story.
I'll keep you anonymous. So what I realized is it's
not that I drink too much. I haven't had one
of those situations where I'm at a Christmas party and
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I drink too much and I try to make out
with somebody right that that that's not my bag. But
what I end up doing is talking too much and
I say dumb things, and then, for whatever reason, I
don't even realize at the time that it was dumb.
I don't realize even later that what I said was dumb.
(19:11):
So I'm at this Christmas party and you ever do
a dead pool you know what I'm talking about? Right
where you basically.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
You you you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Put bets on what celebrity is gonna die in the
coming year.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Always tasteful. Oh yeah, very tasteful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
So I wasn't doing necessarily a dead pool, but in
that vein, I'm at a Christmas party with my with
the radio station I was.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
At, and I was sitting around.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I was talking to the head engineer and uh, I
think a program director or something. And so I go, Hey,
who do you think isn't gonna be at the company
at the Christmas party next year?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
They go, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I go, well, who do you think is gonna isn't
gonna be with us anymore? And they were look good, no, no, no,
like you know, who's gonna move on or get fired
or whatever else?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It is right? And I go, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So we started looking around and we started going, oh,
this person, that person, and we go, oh, I wonder
if they're going to be here, why would they leave?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh why wouldn't they do it? You know.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
So we were just having this conversation just among the
three of us. Me being a genius. This is a
Saturday night. I'm so smart. I go to work. I'm
doing a morning show at the time. It was a
music morning show and I had a co host, and
so I'm sitting there talking to her about this off air,
so I go, I go, oh, we were trying to
figure out who's not going to be at the comp
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at the Christmas party next year, and then we just
started kind of having fun rolling with oh, I bet
so and so is. There was like, there's a guy there,
sweet old man, but he had he had diabetes and
he had already lost like a foot. And I go, oh,
I don't think he's going to be around because I
think that, you know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I don't think medically he's going to be here next year.
So we put his name on a list, and the
first guy in the list was actually a guy that
had been with the company for small town. He'd been
doing radio like fifty years or something like that. And
I said, uh, oh, this guy is gonna be gone.
And then I started adding reasons, so I go, oh,
this is gonna be this dude. You know, Charlie Company
(21:11):
finally realizes he's dead weight. Next person, This dude, diabetes
is the reason. Next person, like we had a we
had a reception. She she smoked like four packs a day,
and I was like, Carol's not going to be there.
Lung cancer, which I mean fast forward to Carol actually
did die about two years ago of lung cancer. So
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we just and it was like the whole list and
it was so dumb. And then I'm such a genius.
Let me just let me just express to you how
incredibly brilliant I am. I decided I should print it.
So I made this list up, printed it, then went
(21:54):
on to do my my next break.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Hey this matchbox, aren't they crazy?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Right? Great band love mass Box twenty. He got some
train coming up for you? And then who doesn't want
to hear the beautiful snaggletooth jewel. That's all ahead, Thanks
a lot for listening. And then I totally forgot left
it on the printer, and who comes by with that
first dude on the list, Charlie, where I said, oh,
they're gonna finally realize he's dead weight. So Charlie freaks
(22:21):
out and thinks, oh my god, I'm getting fired. He
thinks it's a list. It's been He doesn't even he
doesn't even look at the rest of it. He just
sees this. He goes, this is the this is the
list of people are gonna fire. And he runs upstairs
and he goes to the market manager and he says.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Are you firing me? That was an uncomfortable conversation that afternoon.
That did not go over very well. It is a
miracle I still had a job at the end of that,
and I had to do the whole mea culpa, go
have a personal conversation where I'm like.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You're not dead weight. I thought it was funny, It
wasn't really all that funny. I'm so dumb.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
It sounds like you've learned from your mistakes.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I like to think I've learned from my mistakes, but
then I get going, like then I do other dumb things.
Now I'm thinking about this now, and now that it's
I think it's been twenty years since I did that,
I want to say that was like if it wasn't
twenty years, it was close.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
We've all had that happen though.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
I mean in high school, somebody was doing a speech
and I was making notes, just roasting this person with
every with every cruel thing I could write down, and
I passed it to my friend next to me to
read because I thought he'd think it was funny.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
He gave it to her.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
No things down there, like what what Mark said about you,
Oh yeah, and cruel stuff too, like you know, just
oh my god, I was working blue say yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
I get I know what you're saying. Yeah, And so
the joke was on me. So I'm saying you're not alone.
This has happened to other people.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, in this case it was all because of the
Christmas party, all Christmas party related. But Mark, at some point,
is it just are we just the creative cynical deep down?
We're lovable a holes?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And we just can't help ourselves to do stupid things
like that.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I think we've been totally taken over by our IDs
and we have no control.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
God, I think you're right. So right anyway, if you've
done something domb at a Christmas party? God, whatuld I
love to hear that hit that talk back on the
iHeartRadio app. Hey, your holiday wish? No toys, no clothes,
no gadgets. What you really want is way less fun,
way more stressful.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Money.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Anxiety is now a stocking stuffer. What you can do
about it is next.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Have you read or are you aware of the novel
about the Worst Holiday party of all Time. No, it's
called Appointment in Samara by a right named John O'Hara,
and it's about a guy who gets drunk at a
holiday party and throws a drink in his boss's face,
and then his whole life unravels. And it's pretty it's
pretty downbeat, but kind of required reading.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
One of the one of the classics. Okay, that's fun.
I'll hold your drinks. Don't do that. Have you ever
thrown a drink on anybody?
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I've thrown plenty of drinks I would not waste. I
feel bad for wasting my drink after the fact, but
not for throwing the drink on the person who deserved it.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
What did they do to deserve it?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Oh? Well, the one that springs to mind first is
when I was in Williamsburg, New York, in a bar
and there was a very drunk girl here who detected
my accent. And she said to me, how did she
detect that she heard me talking?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
She actually she actually tried.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
To push in the queue, the line for the bathroom,
and I said, there's a line here, and she went
wherey from? I said, I'm Australian whine because you people
aren't trustworthy, so she ended up.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
It was a penal colony.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well, I mean, I wasn't a convict, she I do.
I did win the bar fight, though she ended up
wearing my beer and on the floor. It was fun, all.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Right, Mark Rich You're glad you asked. Sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I've also have been thrown out of venues for fightings.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
There of course. Yeah, they always do. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've never been in a fight where I thought I
was wrong. Never did you win, though, I always win?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Just ask my wife. Hey, kidding, never win.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I don't get in fist fights. I've never won a
fist fight. Oh my god, a glass jaw. I go
down fast, I go can't we talk about this? That's
what happens for Christmas this year though, when you go
when you go to your holiday party, the boss is
what do you want for your bonus? By the way,
(26:55):
I got word that my company is giving a bonus
this year, and I got really excited about that, and
I started thinking, Oh, I'm going to build a pool,
and I was so excited.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I started dreaming about a pool.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I started dreaming about where I would put the pool
in the backyard, and I was so excited about that
bonus and then they said the bonus is like fifty dollars,
and I thought, don't just don't tell me that I'm
getting a bonus.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You got fifty dollars kidding me.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I thought it was Clark w Griswold. I thought I
was building the pool back there. I was getting all
excited about it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You've seen the rate of inflation that goes nowhere, which
is why an awful lot of Americans have decided that
this year the number one request for the holiday is cash.
One in five say they want help paying their bills.
That would be the ideal present. And they average spending
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this year is over eleven hundred dollars on gifts, but
they don't expect to get eleven hundred dollars. And why
is that? Because we give gifts to our family, That's why.
And families are terrible. One children never get you get
your gifts.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Ever.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
My wife, I said, we got three kids. They're all adults.
And I said, uh, all right, what are we getting
the kids? I said, I got I got our oldest
and his girlfriend taking care of I said, what should
we get the other one? She goes, I'm not getting
them anything, and I said, they're the kids you gotta
get um. She goes, they never get us anything, screw them,
and I went, I don't know who you are, but
I'm so turned on right now.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
I'm gonna say that must right now. Well, do your
kids buy you gifts with your credit card?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well that's what that's what they try to do. But
we're you know, no, they're not supposed to. They're adults
with jobs. Well two of the three, two out of
three ain't bad as far as jobs go. No, it's
they gotta, no, they gotta shouldn't they reciprocate at some point.
And this year I sent stuff to my uh my
nieces and nephews. I've sent them gift cards. And I
(29:04):
didn't said anything to my brother and his wife because
I did last year and they didn't send me anything
and I didn't know. I didn't know we were getting gifts. Okay,
well then you're not getting anything, so tell you nothing.
I do tend to always go overboard on my parents too.
I always want to. I feel like, you know, I
don't know, I'm like more Christmases I have with them.
I want to make sure they know that I'm willing
to buy their love. Yeah, shoot the works. Yeah, that's
(29:26):
what I do. But most people that don't even want gifts,
They just go, I just need some help paying bills, man,
that'd be great. Power bills through the roof, still paying.
I got that level pay you know where you pay.
They take your bill for the whole year and divide
it by twelve. So my air conditioning bill is stupid high.
So right now things start to cool off a little bit.
(29:48):
I turned the air off. I'm still paying a ton
every month. Love to have that bill helped out with kind.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Of say it's a little Dickensian to have people requesting
gifts just to help them survive.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, you say that, but I feel like that's America. Oh,
like George W.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Bush said when the woman told him that she had
three jobs, and he said she was uniquely American.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Uniquely that's exactly right. Yeah, totally it uniquely American. Your
struggle is patriotic, That's what I'm saying. And the more
I struggle, the more patriotical I feel. So maybe even
the most patrioticarist of all. Hey, by now you know
that Nick Reiner, the son of Robin Michelle Singer Reiner,
(30:33):
is charged with their murders. So something that Dia said
that I found especially odd considering their politics, which are
pretty well known, kind of made me scratch my head.
So what Hawkman is doing that seems very Unrhiner is
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