December 15, 2024 • 32 mins
In hour 2, Michael reflects on navigating grief during the holidays with guest author and thanatologist Cole Imperi. They explore how loss, nostalgia, and new traditions shape the season. Plus, the best Christmas songs, an update on bizarre headlines—including Jamie Foxx’s restaurant altercation—and ways to find hope and connection in a season full of complex emotions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
KFI AM sixty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
Michael Monks from KFI News here with you until nine
o'clock tonight. I hope that you're doing well with your
Christmas shopping. I got a lot done today, hit up
the Fashion District, a nice Saturday afternoon walk, caught some
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brunch in the Flower District downtown La. Man, you can
get it all done down there. You gotta walk over
some poop, you know, to get there. There's a little
poop on the sidewalk. But other than that, I didn't
have to get in a car, and that was cool.
We got a Macy's, we got a Target, and we
have you know, all the fashion knockoffs down in santi
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Alli and that's what I hit up today and it
was just great. And the Agua Fresca, you know, a
little Agua fresca on the walk home. Another reason I
love southern California. If I were back home in the
Upper South or the Lower Midwest, however you want to
call northern Kentucky, I'd be having hot chocolate, but not here.
Give me something with ice. Love that, but you got
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a little bit of time, a couple more weeks, week
and a half or so, and then it's here. And
there's also a full moon tonight. Be sure to make
a wish on that moon for a happy holiday season
and in this year right, and begin the next year
even better. I gotta admit I've been struggling with some
feelings in politics today and yesterday, and for many of
the day is leading up to them, because of some
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of the stories that have dominated our narratives, our conversations.
You've heard a lot of it on this radio station.
And it's to me, the way I'm observing it, the
way I'm working through it. It is the relationship to
people's personal politics and the way they will react to
one person's death versus the way they react to another
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person's death. And I don't know, I just kind of
grown uncomfortable with that observation. I will tell you this.
I am a public transportation user frequently, and last year
I was riding the A Line train which runs from
Asusa to Azusa to Long Beach, and I had gone
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down to Long Beach from downtown and I was on
the way home after having this really great day, and
the train car I was in was about half full.
I was sitting alone on one of the chairs that
faces front, so it's got its back up against the
rear of the train, not on the side. All of
a sudden, one of these people who are experiencing mental
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health episodes comes onto the car, shirtless, shoeless and clearly
homeless and clearly not well, but like ripped, you know,
jacked and strong and angry. And of the people on
the train, I'm the one he kind of zero rode
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in on. And that was the first time that I
had ever felt scared on public transportation. I would have
done my best to defend myself, of course, but I've
never been in a fight. I don't know what would
have happened. I don't know who would have helped me
on the train. I like to think that I would
help someone else, but you never know until the moment comes, right.
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But I know what it's like directly. I cover these
things as a reporter, but I know what it's like
directly to feel that fear on our public transportation system
and not know what to do. Fortunately, at the next
stop thing I just got off. But the next day
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I bought a knife to carry with me because I
didn't want to be in the position of feeling defenseless again.
And I had to run through some thoughts like what
would happen if I got attacked but I had the
knife on me, would I use it? Well, I bought
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the knife, so I have to think yes, And would
I use it to protect somebody else? Yeah. So when
I see what happened on the subway in New York
with the homeless man who was harassing and threatening people
on the train and Daniel Penny, who pinned him down
and was there in a struggle with him when the
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homeless man died, I understand, you know what those moments
must have been like. But it's another news story in
America that triggers and feeds into some of our worst
feelings about some people, and we kind of zone out
on honest conversations about what happened. I mean, why not
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just let the legal process play out. At the same time,
we're dealing with a story that's gotten even more attention,
and it's Luigi Manngoni, and of course the allegation that
he shot and killed the CEO of United health Care
Insurance from behind. But because he's really hot, a lot
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of people are rooting for him, or because they don't
like insurance companies, they're rooting for him. Allegedly shot this
man in the dark of the morning in the back,
and that makes me uncomfortable too. So I wanted to
talk a little bit about death and politics and how
we feel about it. So my friend and thanatologists and
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author Cole Impii is here in the studio with us. Cole,
I'm glad you could come back. Glad to be back.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Thanks for having me around to talk about my favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The sanatologists are people for those who don't know they're
experts and dying and grief and talking about that and
loss and those feelings associated with that. So we've had
you on already before to talk about death. There's always
something related to death in the world, unfortunately or fortunately,
depending on your point of view. Has I just established
I wanted to talk to you to work through these feelings.
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I wonder if I'm alone out there, just frustrated with
the way politics are attached to tragedies and how we
can't be adults and have conversations about whether you know
it's the subway situation or the murder of a CEO.
I'm not saying they're the exact same scenarios, but in
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both scenarios people have died, and I just happen to
notice that, depending on your political leanings, you might have
a different reaction to those deaths. What's happening here in
your perspective, the way that people are processing death and
maybe their other interest or political leanings.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, so there's a couple of things that we might
look at with this from a santological perspective. There's your
ten dollars word. The first thing that I would say
is sometimes when we look at a very publicized death,
whether it's of a celebrity or a politician, a musician,
an artist, or a CEO, we will either parse that
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death through that is it a person that died or
a persona? And many times when it's someone that we
don't know in real life but they're visible for whatever reason,
it's the death of a persona that we react to
versus reacting to the death of a person a human being,
a father, a husband, a leader in the community. And
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that is where I think some of the we'll call
it a unique response to the murder of the ceo,
mister Thompson, It is more a reaction to the persona.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He suddenly represents everything people might hate about any bad
experience they've had with insurers or things they've read about insurers.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yes, and in a roundabout way, and just hear me out,
because I want to say, I do not condone murder.
That is not okay.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, And in this day and age, you have to
preface your statements. This is what I mean, because we
don't live in a normal society anymore, we don't.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes, So with his murder, many people might be feeling
an injust like that. They're like, there's an injustice and
it's being validated somehow. They feel validated because they have
been wronged and it feels like a balance or like
a correction has been made to an imbalance.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And then conversely, we have this situation on the subway,
a homeless man clearly being erratic, threatening and making people uncomfortable,
and Daniel Penny intervening, and then the question being did
Daniel Penny kill this man? You find arguments that obviously
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went to court and he's not going to prison for it.
But there it also seemed to be a call celeb
for the other side of the political spectrum, right that
maybe certain people deserve to die. And again, as I established,
I've been on a train where I felt like if
I had to protect myself in the most violent, violent
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of ways, I think it would m hm. And so
that's the struggle that I have with it because of
the personal experience. But I do also see that there's
a lack of compassion for the fact that someone did
die in this situation. And regardless of what that homeless
man was doing on that subway, none of the crimes
are punishable by death. That's right, That's right. So this
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is this the same thing?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yes, And the thing is is Americans. First of all,
America has a distinct culture around death and grief. Death
is our advertise, our entertainment, it's on our news, it's everywhere.
This is a very we are a very death interested culture.
And so when it happens in real life, in our subway,
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cars and at home, we have there's a conflict here
because we have a basic need for safety, and when
that is threatened sometimes people kind of parse things on
a hierarchy. Who is more deserving of safety, who is
less deserving of safety, and it gets parsed against social rules.
And so when you when this stuff gets reported on
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the persona what the person represents tends to be focused
on more than the actual person.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We'll talk more about this with Cole and Peri, and
we'll talk about grief around the holidays in general. Maybe
there's a family member that you miss and this time
of year brings about certain feelings. Join our conversation on
the iHeartRadio app. Click on that talkback button and we'll
play some of your comments throughout the show.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
KFI AM six forty everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. I'm
Michael Monks from KFI News. Let's keep the Christmas spirit
going by talking more about death. I'm joined by phanatologist
and author Colon Pierri here in the studio. Cole, the
holidays are unfortunately also a time that triggered a lot
of people's grief. And you know there's a it's sort
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of like a marker first Christmas without Mom, you know
that kind of thing. Can you can press mic on
and I think we'll be able to there you go,
there you go. I think that was Raoul's fault. Let's
blame robouls for that. In the control room, that's all right,
But this is a time of year that people mark
as significant after having lost someone. Could have been milestone.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, why well, because it's big and it's in your
face and so you can't ignore it, sort of like
your fortieth birthday, you know, there's just no we.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Haven't all had our fortieth birthday. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And the holidays, so it's first of all, it's very
normal for you to have more sads this time of
year and for grief to pop up. And what's important
is to not deny it. Sometimes it's a lot easier
if you just say, hello, accept it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's there.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's very normal. A lot of people are experiencing it.
But the other part to balance that is focusing on
the joy. So where are the little parts within the
holiday season, like the little things that you really like
And it could just be as simple as you get
your peppermint mocha somewhere and that's your Christmas joy. Embrace it.
You've got to focus on letting there be space for
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both of those things.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You are a thanatologist, and that is somebody who specializes
in this sort of thing, grief, dying and loss and
dealing with all of it. What is a way to
deal with it. You just talked about acknowledging the little
joys and that sort of thing, But is there any
type of proactive measure one must do to remove that
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lost person's memories from direct access? Like maybe there's a
blanket that so and so use and it's still sitting
on the chair and every time I see it, you
know I'm in a bad place. What do you do
about those sorts of feelings, especially at the holidays where
it's weighing more heavily.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, or like decorations that people pull out a lot
of times, those objects are more.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
As an ornament Grandma game.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, as you're a manger or whatever. There's a couple
things you can do, but what I always recommend the
starting place is to build on it. So you have
that blanket that's really special and means something, Well, what
can you do this year with it that is different
than you've done before. The idea is that you're not
eliminating it, removing it, or minimizing it or trying to
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hide it. Instead, what you're doing is you're adding something
new to it and within like the trajectory for how
we heal from a loss, that's actually a sign that
we're healing is when we start to create new memories
and build new things on.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Top of what was before. Is there a certain survivor's
guilt around the holidays and the joy that you were
supposed to have right now that ah, man, you know,
who would have loved this uncle so and so who
died back in April.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yes, And that's also really hard because for a lot
of people, the holidays are something that we experience with
others more than just ourselves by ourselves isolated. It's attached
to other people. It's attached to going doing neighborhood things,
it's attached to all these communities. And so if you've
lost somebody in the previous year that was who you
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went with or showed up with, that is going to
affect the way that those activities feel. And it hurts,
And that's actually it's okay. It's part of the process.
Every human being takes their time going through this and
as the years go by, it won't get easier, but
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it will get more familiar, and familiarity is far more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Well, we should note that grief doesn't necessarily mean it's
a death right. I mean, you can grieve lots of things.
You can grieve the loss of a job, or you
can grieve a place you used to know, an age
you used to have. So what about folks this time
of year. We're transplants out here, you know, and so
we've had to adjust to celebrating holidays in a way
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that is not the way we used to do it.
So folks who are maybe on their own or in
a new place, who are feeling a bit sad they're
missing it, that's grief, right, how do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
So, particularly for people that are transplants, or you're having
the holidays for the first time in your new family
because maybe there was a marriage or maybe you joined
a new family this year. Humans want to feel safe
and comfortable, and so we will react by trying to
find that safety, and some of us react by clinging
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to what we do I don't have access to anymore.
We try to control the holidays by being like, well,
this is different and I'm not doing it. This is
what we used to do, and so you end up resisting,
and that is possibly a form of you trying to
control something that feels out of control for you. And
so I would suggest to try to override that be
aware of it and realize that you're in a new
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place with new tools that you can bring into your
holiday toolbox. And it's up to you to test these
tools out and see what fits, and know that you're
not going to have that perfectly made to order, ready
to go toolbox and for a few years. It takes
a while.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It takes time. Give yourself some space and grace. Yes,
Cole and Piri, where can they find you if they
want to know more?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You can find me at colonmpery dot com and I
am very online on all social media.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yep. And it's a co l. E is Coal and
I m p e r I is the way my
brain shut off for a moment. I forgot how to
spell Colipuri dot com, bine Oliver, Socials and TikTok. You're
all giving good updates to author of the new book,
A Guide to Grief, So look up. Cole. Appreciate you
coming in and talking a little bit about that somebody
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apparently attacked actor Jamie Fox in a ritzy restaurant in
Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
by Michael Monks from KFI News. It's not my intention
to make this a full hour about death, but some
of the headlines we're going to share now do involved
that a seventy five year old woman struck and killed
by a vehicle in Long Beach after she fell in
a crosswalk. She was identified as a viral. Quayar lived
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in Compton. Officers were sent about four o'clock yesterday afternoon
to East Greenleaf and Long Beach Boulevards north of the
ninety one. Paramedics and sheriff's deputies were already there, and
Quayar was pronounced dead. The driver remained unseene and is
cooperating with that investigation. How about this story out of
San Diego. A man there has been killed by his
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own dogs. The man was walking his dogs in Mesa
Viking Park and Mira Mesa when they attacked and killed him.
Police officers had to use tasers to stop the dogs.
According to KGTV, during this roundup, one of the dogs
got away briefly and went over to an elementary school,
which resulted in it being put on lockdown. The dog
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never made it to the campus. Though the dogs have
now been taken away. Second person was also injured in
that incident. What do you have to do to your
dogs to have them turn on you like that? More
people are dying from cold in California. Last year, just
over one hundred and sixty people, mostly older and homeless people,
died due to cold exposure. That's more than double the
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amount from a decade ago. That's according to provisional death
certificate data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This marks the highest rate of freezing deaths in twenty
five years. Experts linked the increase to the growing homeless
population in the state, which has the largest such population
in the country. Actor Jamie Fox was attacked at a
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popular Beverly Hills restaurant while celebrating his birthday, prompting a
fight that caused police to be called. That's multiple reports
officers sent at about ten o'clock last night to mister
Chow to a reported possible assault with a deadly weapon.
According to the Beverly Hills Police Department, they say, quote
upon investigation of officers determined that the reported assault with
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a deadly weapon was unfounded. Instead, the incident involved a
physical altercation between parties. The VHPD conducted a preliminary investigation
and completed a report documenting the battery. Nobody was arrested,
but according to TMZ and ABC seven, who both cited
a representative for Jamie Fox, the Oscar winning actor, they
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say Fox was struck by a glass thrown by someone
at another table and he needed stitches. The representative told
TMZ amy Fox was at his birthday dinner when someone
from another table through a glass that hit him in
the mouth. He had to get stitches. He's recovering. The
police were called and the matter is now in law
enforcements hands. Jamie Fox turned fifty seven years old on Friday.
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And then, of course it's California, so rarely do we
have good news to report about what the state is
doing with your money. Hate to tell you, California workers
will see an increase in money taken out of their paycheck.
Merry Christmas. Starting in January, California workers, we'll see a
slight increase in the money that's taken out. The change
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comes from a small tax increase approved by state officials
to help boost the state's disability insurance program. According to
a rep from California's Employment Development Department, the tax rate
for disability insurance will rise from one point one percent
to one point two percent. The change will affect most
workers in California, but there are some exceptions. Workers who
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are employed by certain public agencies have specific agreements that
exempt them from contributing to the disability insurance program won't
be impacted by this increase. They had some DUI checkpoints
set up in Riverside County last night into this morning,
and they got more than a dozen people arrested in
just a few hours for DUI. Two drivers arrested into
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Mecula from a checkpoint that was conducted between Rancho, California
and Margherita Rhades from just seven pm to one am.
Then in Norco, deputies conducted a checkpoint between Hammer Avenue
and Third Street from seven o'clock Friday night to three
am today. Two people busted there. In Prupa Valley, checkpoint
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held on Lamnite Avenue east of Clay Street from ten
pm to two am, and that operation found four drivers.
Four drivers in four hours arrested for DUI. So when
you hear about these checkpoints, take them seriously. Don't drive
drunk anyway, But they don't set these checkpoints up for fun.
A first time DUI charge can cost drivers an average
of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars in fines and penalties
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and a suspended license. To be serious, and here's another
example of LA looking just like grand theft auto. This
is in Tarzana, a motorist and a Lamborghini Suv rushed
to a hospital after a hit and run crash with
a Dodge Durango. The condition of that injured driver was
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not immediately clear, but here's what was going down. Officers
were dispatched to the area of Tampa Avenue in Ventura
Boulevard at about three point forty five this morning, according
to LAPD, and then the CHP officers had already attempted
to pull over this Lamborghini for speeding on the northbound
Hollywood Freeway near barn Boulevard that's right outside our studios
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on the one on one. They terminated the chase at
about three thirty six and were notified by the LAPD
about twenty minutes later that the luxury Lamborghini suv had
been involved in a crash. But listen to this, So
this Lamborghini had been speeding led police on a chase
and then crashed into a Dodge Durango in Tarzana. The
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Durango fled the scene, not even involved in the chase
in this crash, and then they flee. The CHP is
looking for that vehicle as they have taken over the investigation. Mary, Christmas, everybody,
let's talk about the best Christmas songs according to me.
That's coming up next with me and my friends here
in the newsroom and the control room and the studio.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
KFI AM six forty lined everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News wrapping up this edition
of Late Saturday Night from Burbank ro Well. I should
have put this song on the worst list as well.
This did make a lot of the list that I've
seen in national media outlets as one of the worst
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Christmas songs is that the band Aid? Are they? Band Aid?
Who are they? Was it? The who are they? What
is that? John Lennon? How is this? The John Linto
and Yoko song is also regardless. It was on the
list of the worst song. Yeah, terrible, just too intense.
You know, it's the wrong kind of melancholy. But we're
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here to talk now about the best Christmas songs. She
might have heard my last segment at the end of
Last Hour where I said three of the worst Christmas songs.
Now we've got a few of the best ones. I
want to let you know. Like with the worst list,
I made some exceptions and made some songs ineligible, including
Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You, because
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I do love that song, but it's so ubiquitous, and
what I don't like about it is that even she herself, Mimi,
has become a thing before Thanksgiving, that she's thawing out
and you start to hear the little whispers of the song.
No Thanksgiving first, Mimi Thanksgiving first. So I'm penalizing All
I Want for Christmas is You, and that is not
on my list. I do want to give some honorable
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mentions that I could not fit on the list, including
Linus and Lucy, that song from the Snoopies Christmas Special.
It's not an explicitly Christmas song, but because it comes
from that Christmas Special, we hear it a lot at
Christmas time and I love it. It's an instrumental song
and It brings so much joy because you can picture
those Peanuts characters dancing. I also love the song by
Dolly Parton Hard Candy Christmas, but that came from a
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movie called Best Little Whorehouse and Texas, and this is
a family show, so I can't put that on the
top list. I do want to note that there are
some religious based Christmas songs that I absolutely adore that
I do not include in the best of and those
include the song Oh Holy Night, especially the version by
nineties country singer John Berry. Powerful voice and when he
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gets to the part, We're like full on your knees,
I'm on my knees in absolute prayer when that song
is playing and he gets to that part. The other
religious based Christmas song that I I love but did
not put on this list is God Rest Ye Mary, gentleman.
This is a song that does not mess around. God
resty marry gentlemen. Let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ, our Savior,
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was born on Christmas Day to save us all from
Satan's power when we were gone astray. Oh tidings of
comfort and joy, Comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort
and joy. I love going from Satan's power to comfort, enjoy,
good tidings and all of that. That is a song
that doesn't mess around and inspires me so much that
I want to go out and find a witch and
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burn her on behalf of our Lord and Savior. So
I'm Michael Monks here to give you my list of
the best Christmas songs. I'm joined still in studio by
cole I Pierry, the phenatologist, who's talking a bit about
grief at the holidays and how to cope with that.
We've got Raoul Cortes in the control room and Brigitta
Dagastino in the news booth to help commentate on these songs.
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But roll hit it. These are my three best Christmas songs. Classic, Classic,
It's the most one. This is the song I want
to hear first at Christmas, Andy Williams. It's the most
wonderful time of year. Listen to it and everyone telling
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you be a good gee.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's the most I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Because he makes verbs out of jingle belling, missile towing,
and I mean, cole you agree, this is a this
is a vibe.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
This song feels like that scene at the end of
White Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Doors Open in the snow, absolutely regeta you get it.
Come on, ro Well, I see you rocking in there
like it makes you feel like Christmas. I mean it
causes it. That's when men were men and could sing
about Christmas in a masculine way. You know. I love
this song ghost stories. All we heard the reference to that.
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This used to be a thing apparently.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
In Christmass tradition, telling ghost stories.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
All right, so that kind of fades out. We've got
ugh you know, come on, I know I'm a basic
white girl at this point, which I'm picking these songs, right,
I mean, give me the instrumental original version of sleigh Ride.
I mean, there's not another instrumental song. I don't think
that makes me feel what this song makes me feel.
I feel Christmas in this music. Yes, you hear that.
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You can picture the horses and the bells.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
You feel like you're in the sleigh.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah. Now, there are lyrics to this that have been
written afterwards, and there are vocal performances that I love.
I love country singer Laurie Morgan's version of this best.
She's got a really nice voice for it. But I
love the instrumental.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I love the clop you the cloth's a nice clothing
sound on this.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I want to clop at Christmas time? You know what
I mean? All right, what do you guys think in
the newsroom, in the control room. Yes, yeah, it's you know,
it's again. It's like it sets the vibe. So if
it doesn't feel like Christmas when you hear that, then
I don't know what the time I mean. Yeah, I
mean I'm skipping a little bit through the mall when
this is playing. I'm skipping. I can feel the elf shoes. Oh,
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listen to that, listen to that. Come on, yeah, you
give a little whip. I want to whip an animal
at the holidays, kind of like Disneyland or something. Yeah,
there's magic involved. This is a magical Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You know, holiday cheer is present.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh yeah, there's no question about. It's slapping and it's
literally whipping you on the butt. Yes, okay, So to me,
this is a relatively newer song, but this makes me
feel something nostalgic and this is my favorite Christmas song.
Do you recognize this? Call Brigida's got it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
It's I feel like for a millennial, this song is
going to hit. That's what I mean, like a gut
punch because you.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You're you were the age of Kevin McAllister when Home
Alone came out originally in nineteen ninety and you know
it's such an important part of your childhood. Yes, and
the story. I'm almost crying a little bit hearing it
right now. I don't know what this song does. The
song actually has a name. It's called Somewhere in My Memory,
and it is the Christmas theme from the film Home Alone.
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And because I associated obviously with that film, it brings
back the memories of that movie and the conclusion of it,
how it ends so happily after all the chaos.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I have a fantatological fact that applies here.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Let's here because I put this whole whole song in
the and the final role. So we'll let this song
plays out when we finish here. We got ninety seconds
of this beauty.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So nostalgia is what this song is, right, Yeah, okay,
Nostalgia fantologically.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Is a form of mourning, is it?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So that's why when sometimes we hear these like you
feel a little grief the bubbles, Yeah, that's a form
of mourning. That's what nostalgia is.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I can picture old Man Marley from the movie sitting
in the church watching what his granddaughter that's not allowed
to see. Yeh, I know, I can picture that, but
I can also picture the family reuniting at the end.
And I can also remember being a kid. Yes, when
Home Alone came out, my younger brother looked like him.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So that was always a big thing as a kid,
to go Christmas.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I know. So this is the song that I think
is the best at this time of year. It just
fills me with so many sentiments somewhere in my memory,
the Home Alone Christmas theme. We're gonna let this play
out for the final minute of the program rule, so
go ahead and bring it up for our producer, Matthew Toffler,
Kayla Austin, Regina Agostino in the news booth, Rollo Cortes
(31:43):
in the control room. Our guest Colin Pierry and m
Nolan Gray joined us earlier. I'm Michael Monks from KFI
News Mary Christmas. We'll be back here again live next
Saturday to talk more.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Kf I A M six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
KFI AM sixty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
Michael Monks from KFI News here with you until nine
o'clock tonight. I hope that you're doing well with your
Christmas shopping. I got a lot done today, hit up
the Fashion District, a nice Saturday afternoon walk, caught some
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brunch in the Flower District downtown La. Man, you can
get it all done down there. You gotta walk over
some poop, you know, to get there. There's a little
poop on the sidewalk. But other than that, I didn't
have to get in a car, and that was cool.
We got a Macy's, we got a Target, and we
have you know, all the fashion knockoffs down in santi
(00:48):
Alli and that's what I hit up today and it
was just great. And the Agua Fresca, you know, a
little Agua fresca on the walk home. Another reason I
love southern California. If I were back home in the
Upper South or the Lower Midwest, however you want to
call northern Kentucky, I'd be having hot chocolate, but not here.
Give me something with ice. Love that, but you got
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a little bit of time, a couple more weeks, week
and a half or so, and then it's here. And
there's also a full moon tonight. Be sure to make
a wish on that moon for a happy holiday season
and in this year right, and begin the next year
even better. I gotta admit I've been struggling with some
feelings in politics today and yesterday, and for many of
the day is leading up to them, because of some
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of the stories that have dominated our narratives, our conversations.
You've heard a lot of it on this radio station.
And it's to me, the way I'm observing it, the
way I'm working through it. It is the relationship to
people's personal politics and the way they will react to
one person's death versus the way they react to another
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person's death. And I don't know, I just kind of
grown uncomfortable with that observation. I will tell you this.
I am a public transportation user frequently, and last year
I was riding the A Line train which runs from
Asusa to Azusa to Long Beach, and I had gone
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down to Long Beach from downtown and I was on
the way home after having this really great day, and
the train car I was in was about half full.
I was sitting alone on one of the chairs that
faces front, so it's got its back up against the
rear of the train, not on the side. All of
a sudden, one of these people who are experiencing mental
(02:39):
health episodes comes onto the car, shirtless, shoeless and clearly
homeless and clearly not well, but like ripped, you know,
jacked and strong and angry. And of the people on
the train, I'm the one he kind of zero rode
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in on. And that was the first time that I
had ever felt scared on public transportation. I would have
done my best to defend myself, of course, but I've
never been in a fight. I don't know what would
have happened. I don't know who would have helped me
on the train. I like to think that I would
help someone else, but you never know until the moment comes, right.
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But I know what it's like directly. I cover these
things as a reporter, but I know what it's like
directly to feel that fear on our public transportation system
and not know what to do. Fortunately, at the next
stop thing I just got off. But the next day
(03:48):
I bought a knife to carry with me because I
didn't want to be in the position of feeling defenseless again.
And I had to run through some thoughts like what
would happen if I got attacked but I had the
knife on me, would I use it? Well, I bought
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the knife, so I have to think yes, And would
I use it to protect somebody else? Yeah. So when
I see what happened on the subway in New York
with the homeless man who was harassing and threatening people
on the train and Daniel Penny, who pinned him down
and was there in a struggle with him when the
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homeless man died, I understand, you know what those moments
must have been like. But it's another news story in
America that triggers and feeds into some of our worst
feelings about some people, and we kind of zone out
on honest conversations about what happened. I mean, why not
(04:54):
just let the legal process play out. At the same time,
we're dealing with a story that's gotten even more attention,
and it's Luigi Manngoni, and of course the allegation that
he shot and killed the CEO of United health Care
Insurance from behind. But because he's really hot, a lot
(05:16):
of people are rooting for him, or because they don't
like insurance companies, they're rooting for him. Allegedly shot this
man in the dark of the morning in the back,
and that makes me uncomfortable too. So I wanted to
talk a little bit about death and politics and how
we feel about it. So my friend and thanatologists and
(05:38):
author Cole Impii is here in the studio with us. Cole,
I'm glad you could come back. Glad to be back.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Thanks for having me around to talk about my favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The sanatologists are people for those who don't know they're
experts and dying and grief and talking about that and
loss and those feelings associated with that. So we've had
you on already before to talk about death. There's always
something related to death in the world, unfortunately or fortunately,
depending on your point of view. Has I just established
I wanted to talk to you to work through these feelings.
(06:08):
I wonder if I'm alone out there, just frustrated with
the way politics are attached to tragedies and how we
can't be adults and have conversations about whether you know
it's the subway situation or the murder of a CEO.
I'm not saying they're the exact same scenarios, but in
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both scenarios people have died, and I just happen to
notice that, depending on your political leanings, you might have
a different reaction to those deaths. What's happening here in
your perspective, the way that people are processing death and
maybe their other interest or political leanings.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, so there's a couple of things that we might
look at with this from a santological perspective. There's your
ten dollars word. The first thing that I would say
is sometimes when we look at a very publicized death,
whether it's of a celebrity or a politician, a musician,
an artist, or a CEO, we will either parse that
(07:10):
death through that is it a person that died or
a persona? And many times when it's someone that we
don't know in real life but they're visible for whatever reason,
it's the death of a persona that we react to
versus reacting to the death of a person a human being,
a father, a husband, a leader in the community. And
(07:36):
that is where I think some of the we'll call
it a unique response to the murder of the ceo,
mister Thompson, It is more a reaction to the persona.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
He suddenly represents everything people might hate about any bad
experience they've had with insurers or things they've read about insurers.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yes, and in a roundabout way, and just hear me out,
because I want to say, I do not condone murder.
That is not okay.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, And in this day and age, you have to
preface your statements. This is what I mean, because we
don't live in a normal society anymore, we don't.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes, So with his murder, many people might be feeling
an injust like that. They're like, there's an injustice and
it's being validated somehow. They feel validated because they have
been wronged and it feels like a balance or like
a correction has been made to an imbalance.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And then conversely, we have this situation on the subway,
a homeless man clearly being erratic, threatening and making people uncomfortable,
and Daniel Penny intervening, and then the question being did
Daniel Penny kill this man? You find arguments that obviously
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went to court and he's not going to prison for it.
But there it also seemed to be a call celeb
for the other side of the political spectrum, right that
maybe certain people deserve to die. And again, as I established,
I've been on a train where I felt like if
I had to protect myself in the most violent, violent
(09:20):
of ways, I think it would m hm. And so
that's the struggle that I have with it because of
the personal experience. But I do also see that there's
a lack of compassion for the fact that someone did
die in this situation. And regardless of what that homeless
man was doing on that subway, none of the crimes
are punishable by death. That's right, That's right. So this
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is this the same thing?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Yes, And the thing is is Americans. First of all,
America has a distinct culture around death and grief. Death
is our advertise, our entertainment, it's on our news, it's everywhere.
This is a very we are a very death interested culture.
And so when it happens in real life, in our subway,
(10:03):
cars and at home, we have there's a conflict here
because we have a basic need for safety, and when
that is threatened sometimes people kind of parse things on
a hierarchy. Who is more deserving of safety, who is
less deserving of safety, and it gets parsed against social rules.
And so when you when this stuff gets reported on
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the persona what the person represents tends to be focused
on more than the actual person.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
We'll talk more about this with Cole and Peri, and
we'll talk about grief around the holidays in general. Maybe
there's a family member that you miss and this time
of year brings about certain feelings. Join our conversation on
the iHeartRadio app. Click on that talkback button and we'll
play some of your comments throughout the show.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
KFI AM six forty everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. I'm
Michael Monks from KFI News. Let's keep the Christmas spirit
going by talking more about death. I'm joined by phanatologist
and author Colon Pierri here in the studio. Cole, the
holidays are unfortunately also a time that triggered a lot
of people's grief. And you know there's a it's sort
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of like a marker first Christmas without Mom, you know
that kind of thing. Can you can press mic on
and I think we'll be able to there you go,
there you go. I think that was Raoul's fault. Let's
blame robouls for that. In the control room, that's all right,
But this is a time of year that people mark
as significant after having lost someone. Could have been milestone.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, why well, because it's big and it's in your
face and so you can't ignore it, sort of like
your fortieth birthday, you know, there's just no we.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Haven't all had our fortieth birthday. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
And the holidays, so it's first of all, it's very
normal for you to have more sads this time of
year and for grief to pop up. And what's important
is to not deny it. Sometimes it's a lot easier
if you just say, hello, accept it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
It's there.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's very normal. A lot of people are experiencing it.
But the other part to balance that is focusing on
the joy. So where are the little parts within the
holiday season, like the little things that you really like
And it could just be as simple as you get
your peppermint mocha somewhere and that's your Christmas joy. Embrace it.
You've got to focus on letting there be space for
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both of those things.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You are a thanatologist, and that is somebody who specializes
in this sort of thing, grief, dying and loss and
dealing with all of it. What is a way to
deal with it. You just talked about acknowledging the little
joys and that sort of thing, But is there any
type of proactive measure one must do to remove that
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lost person's memories from direct access? Like maybe there's a
blanket that so and so use and it's still sitting
on the chair and every time I see it, you
know I'm in a bad place. What do you do
about those sorts of feelings, especially at the holidays where
it's weighing more heavily.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah, or like decorations that people pull out a lot
of times, those objects are more.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
As an ornament Grandma game.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, as you're a manger or whatever. There's a couple
things you can do, but what I always recommend the
starting place is to build on it. So you have
that blanket that's really special and means something, Well, what
can you do this year with it that is different
than you've done before. The idea is that you're not
eliminating it, removing it, or minimizing it or trying to
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hide it. Instead, what you're doing is you're adding something
new to it and within like the trajectory for how
we heal from a loss, that's actually a sign that
we're healing is when we start to create new memories
and build new things on.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Top of what was before. Is there a certain survivor's
guilt around the holidays and the joy that you were
supposed to have right now that ah, man, you know,
who would have loved this uncle so and so who
died back in April.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yes, And that's also really hard because for a lot
of people, the holidays are something that we experience with
others more than just ourselves by ourselves isolated. It's attached
to other people. It's attached to going doing neighborhood things,
it's attached to all these communities. And so if you've
lost somebody in the previous year that was who you
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went with or showed up with, that is going to
affect the way that those activities feel. And it hurts,
And that's actually it's okay. It's part of the process.
Every human being takes their time going through this and
as the years go by, it won't get easier, but
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it will get more familiar, and familiarity is far more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Well, we should note that grief doesn't necessarily mean it's
a death right. I mean, you can grieve lots of things.
You can grieve the loss of a job, or you
can grieve a place you used to know, an age
you used to have. So what about folks this time
of year. We're transplants out here, you know, and so
we've had to adjust to celebrating holidays in a way
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that is not the way we used to do it.
So folks who are maybe on their own or in
a new place, who are feeling a bit sad they're
missing it, that's grief, right, how do you deal with that?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
So, particularly for people that are transplants, or you're having
the holidays for the first time in your new family
because maybe there was a marriage or maybe you joined
a new family this year. Humans want to feel safe
and comfortable, and so we will react by trying to
find that safety, and some of us react by clinging
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to what we do I don't have access to anymore.
We try to control the holidays by being like, well,
this is different and I'm not doing it. This is
what we used to do, and so you end up resisting,
and that is possibly a form of you trying to
control something that feels out of control for you. And
so I would suggest to try to override that be
aware of it and realize that you're in a new
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place with new tools that you can bring into your
holiday toolbox. And it's up to you to test these
tools out and see what fits, and know that you're
not going to have that perfectly made to order, ready
to go toolbox and for a few years. It takes
a while.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
It takes time. Give yourself some space and grace. Yes,
Cole and Piri, where can they find you if they
want to know more?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You can find me at colonmpery dot com and I
am very online on all social media.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yep. And it's a co l. E is Coal and
I m p e r I is the way my
brain shut off for a moment. I forgot how to
spell Colipuri dot com, bine Oliver, Socials and TikTok. You're
all giving good updates to author of the new book,
A Guide to Grief, So look up. Cole. Appreciate you
coming in and talking a little bit about that somebody
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apparently attacked actor Jamie Fox in a ritzy restaurant in
Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
by Michael Monks from KFI News. It's not my intention
to make this a full hour about death, but some
of the headlines we're going to share now do involved
that a seventy five year old woman struck and killed
by a vehicle in Long Beach after she fell in
a crosswalk. She was identified as a viral. Quayar lived
(17:39):
in Compton. Officers were sent about four o'clock yesterday afternoon
to East Greenleaf and Long Beach Boulevards north of the
ninety one. Paramedics and sheriff's deputies were already there, and
Quayar was pronounced dead. The driver remained unseene and is
cooperating with that investigation. How about this story out of
San Diego. A man there has been killed by his
(18:00):
own dogs. The man was walking his dogs in Mesa
Viking Park and Mira Mesa when they attacked and killed him.
Police officers had to use tasers to stop the dogs.
According to KGTV, during this roundup, one of the dogs
got away briefly and went over to an elementary school,
which resulted in it being put on lockdown. The dog
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never made it to the campus. Though the dogs have
now been taken away. Second person was also injured in
that incident. What do you have to do to your
dogs to have them turn on you like that? More
people are dying from cold in California. Last year, just
over one hundred and sixty people, mostly older and homeless people,
died due to cold exposure. That's more than double the
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amount from a decade ago. That's according to provisional death
certificate data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This marks the highest rate of freezing deaths in twenty
five years. Experts linked the increase to the growing homeless
population in the state, which has the largest such population
in the country. Actor Jamie Fox was attacked at a
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popular Beverly Hills restaurant while celebrating his birthday, prompting a
fight that caused police to be called. That's multiple reports
officers sent at about ten o'clock last night to mister
Chow to a reported possible assault with a deadly weapon.
According to the Beverly Hills Police Department, they say, quote
upon investigation of officers determined that the reported assault with
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a deadly weapon was unfounded. Instead, the incident involved a
physical altercation between parties. The VHPD conducted a preliminary investigation
and completed a report documenting the battery. Nobody was arrested,
but according to TMZ and ABC seven, who both cited
a representative for Jamie Fox, the Oscar winning actor, they
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say Fox was struck by a glass thrown by someone
at another table and he needed stitches. The representative told
TMZ amy Fox was at his birthday dinner when someone
from another table through a glass that hit him in
the mouth. He had to get stitches. He's recovering. The
police were called and the matter is now in law
enforcements hands. Jamie Fox turned fifty seven years old on Friday.
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And then, of course it's California, so rarely do we
have good news to report about what the state is
doing with your money. Hate to tell you, California workers
will see an increase in money taken out of their paycheck.
Merry Christmas. Starting in January, California workers, we'll see a
slight increase in the money that's taken out. The change
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comes from a small tax increase approved by state officials
to help boost the state's disability insurance program. According to
a rep from California's Employment Development Department, the tax rate
for disability insurance will rise from one point one percent
to one point two percent. The change will affect most
workers in California, but there are some exceptions. Workers who
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are employed by certain public agencies have specific agreements that
exempt them from contributing to the disability insurance program won't
be impacted by this increase. They had some DUI checkpoints
set up in Riverside County last night into this morning,
and they got more than a dozen people arrested in
just a few hours for DUI. Two drivers arrested into
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Mecula from a checkpoint that was conducted between Rancho, California
and Margherita Rhades from just seven pm to one am.
Then in Norco, deputies conducted a checkpoint between Hammer Avenue
and Third Street from seven o'clock Friday night to three
am today. Two people busted there. In Prupa Valley, checkpoint
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held on Lamnite Avenue east of Clay Street from ten
pm to two am, and that operation found four drivers.
Four drivers in four hours arrested for DUI. So when
you hear about these checkpoints, take them seriously. Don't drive
drunk anyway, But they don't set these checkpoints up for fun.
A first time DUI charge can cost drivers an average
of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars in fines and penalties
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and a suspended license. To be serious, and here's another
example of LA looking just like grand theft auto. This
is in Tarzana, a motorist and a Lamborghini Suv rushed
to a hospital after a hit and run crash with
a Dodge Durango. The condition of that injured driver was
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not immediately clear, but here's what was going down. Officers
were dispatched to the area of Tampa Avenue in Ventura
Boulevard at about three point forty five this morning, according
to LAPD, and then the CHP officers had already attempted
to pull over this Lamborghini for speeding on the northbound
Hollywood Freeway near barn Boulevard that's right outside our studios
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on the one on one. They terminated the chase at
about three thirty six and were notified by the LAPD
about twenty minutes later that the luxury Lamborghini suv had
been involved in a crash. But listen to this, So
this Lamborghini had been speeding led police on a chase
and then crashed into a Dodge Durango in Tarzana. The
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Durango fled the scene, not even involved in the chase
in this crash, and then they flee. The CHP is
looking for that vehicle as they have taken over the investigation. Mary, Christmas, everybody,
let's talk about the best Christmas songs according to me.
That's coming up next with me and my friends here
in the newsroom and the control room and the studio.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
KFI AM six forty lined everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News wrapping up this edition
of Late Saturday Night from Burbank ro Well. I should
have put this song on the worst list as well.
This did make a lot of the list that I've
seen in national media outlets as one of the worst
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Christmas songs is that the band Aid? Are they? Band Aid?
Who are they? Was it? The who are they? What
is that? John Lennon? How is this? The John Linto
and Yoko song is also regardless. It was on the
list of the worst song. Yeah, terrible, just too intense.
You know, it's the wrong kind of melancholy. But we're
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here to talk now about the best Christmas songs. She
might have heard my last segment at the end of
Last Hour where I said three of the worst Christmas songs.
Now we've got a few of the best ones. I
want to let you know. Like with the worst list,
I made some exceptions and made some songs ineligible, including
Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You, because
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I do love that song, but it's so ubiquitous, and
what I don't like about it is that even she herself, Mimi,
has become a thing before Thanksgiving, that she's thawing out
and you start to hear the little whispers of the song.
No Thanksgiving first, Mimi Thanksgiving first. So I'm penalizing All
I Want for Christmas is You, and that is not
on my list. I do want to give some honorable
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mentions that I could not fit on the list, including
Linus and Lucy, that song from the Snoopies Christmas Special.
It's not an explicitly Christmas song, but because it comes
from that Christmas Special, we hear it a lot at
Christmas time and I love it. It's an instrumental song
and It brings so much joy because you can picture
those Peanuts characters dancing. I also love the song by
Dolly Parton Hard Candy Christmas, but that came from a
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movie called Best Little Whorehouse and Texas, and this is
a family show, so I can't put that on the
top list. I do want to note that there are
some religious based Christmas songs that I absolutely adore that
I do not include in the best of and those
include the song Oh Holy Night, especially the version by
nineties country singer John Berry. Powerful voice and when he
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gets to the part, We're like full on your knees,
I'm on my knees in absolute prayer when that song
is playing and he gets to that part. The other
religious based Christmas song that I I love but did
not put on this list is God Rest Ye Mary, gentleman.
This is a song that does not mess around. God
resty marry gentlemen. Let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ, our Savior,
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was born on Christmas Day to save us all from
Satan's power when we were gone astray. Oh tidings of
comfort and joy, Comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort
and joy. I love going from Satan's power to comfort, enjoy,
good tidings and all of that. That is a song
that doesn't mess around and inspires me so much that
I want to go out and find a witch and
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burn her on behalf of our Lord and Savior. So
I'm Michael Monks here to give you my list of
the best Christmas songs. I'm joined still in studio by
cole I Pierry, the phenatologist, who's talking a bit about
grief at the holidays and how to cope with that.
We've got Raoul Cortes in the control room and Brigitta
Dagastino in the news booth to help commentate on these songs.
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But roll hit it. These are my three best Christmas songs. Classic, Classic,
It's the most one. This is the song I want
to hear first at Christmas, Andy Williams. It's the most
wonderful time of year. Listen to it and everyone telling
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you be a good gee.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's the most I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Because he makes verbs out of jingle belling, missile towing,
and I mean, cole you agree, this is a this
is a vibe.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
This song feels like that scene at the end of
White Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Doors Open in the snow, absolutely regeta you get it.
Come on, ro Well, I see you rocking in there
like it makes you feel like Christmas. I mean it
causes it. That's when men were men and could sing
about Christmas in a masculine way. You know. I love
this song ghost stories. All we heard the reference to that.
(28:00):
This used to be a thing apparently.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
In Christmass tradition, telling ghost stories.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
All right, so that kind of fades out. We've got
ugh you know, come on, I know I'm a basic
white girl at this point, which I'm picking these songs, right,
I mean, give me the instrumental original version of sleigh Ride.
I mean, there's not another instrumental song. I don't think
that makes me feel what this song makes me feel.
I feel Christmas in this music. Yes, you hear that.
(28:27):
You can picture the horses and the bells.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
You feel like you're in the sleigh.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah. Now, there are lyrics to this that have been
written afterwards, and there are vocal performances that I love.
I love country singer Laurie Morgan's version of this best.
She's got a really nice voice for it. But I
love the instrumental.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
I love the clop you the cloth's a nice clothing
sound on this.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I want to clop at Christmas time? You know what
I mean? All right, what do you guys think in
the newsroom, in the control room. Yes, yeah, it's you know,
it's again. It's like it sets the vibe. So if
it doesn't feel like Christmas when you hear that, then
I don't know what the time I mean. Yeah, I
mean I'm skipping a little bit through the mall when
this is playing. I'm skipping. I can feel the elf shoes. Oh,
(29:09):
listen to that, listen to that. Come on, yeah, you
give a little whip. I want to whip an animal
at the holidays, kind of like Disneyland or something. Yeah,
there's magic involved. This is a magical Christmas song.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You know, holiday cheer is present.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh yeah, there's no question about. It's slapping and it's
literally whipping you on the butt. Yes, okay, So to me,
this is a relatively newer song, but this makes me
feel something nostalgic and this is my favorite Christmas song.
Do you recognize this? Call Brigida's got it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
It's I feel like for a millennial, this song is
going to hit. That's what I mean, like a gut
punch because you.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You're you were the age of Kevin McAllister when Home
Alone came out originally in nineteen ninety and you know
it's such an important part of your childhood. Yes, and
the story. I'm almost crying a little bit hearing it
right now. I don't know what this song does. The
song actually has a name. It's called Somewhere in My Memory,
and it is the Christmas theme from the film Home Alone.
(30:22):
And because I associated obviously with that film, it brings
back the memories of that movie and the conclusion of it,
how it ends so happily after all the chaos.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I have a fantatological fact that applies here.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Let's here because I put this whole whole song in
the and the final role. So we'll let this song
plays out when we finish here. We got ninety seconds
of this beauty.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So nostalgia is what this song is, right, Yeah, okay,
Nostalgia fantologically.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Is a form of mourning, is it?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So that's why when sometimes we hear these like you
feel a little grief the bubbles, Yeah, that's a form
of mourning. That's what nostalgia is.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I can picture old Man Marley from the movie sitting
in the church watching what his granddaughter that's not allowed
to see. Yeh, I know, I can picture that, but
I can also picture the family reuniting at the end.
And I can also remember being a kid. Yes, when
Home Alone came out, my younger brother looked like him.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So that was always a big thing as a kid,
to go Christmas.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I know. So this is the song that I think
is the best at this time of year. It just
fills me with so many sentiments somewhere in my memory,
the Home Alone Christmas theme. We're gonna let this play
out for the final minute of the program rule, so
go ahead and bring it up for our producer, Matthew Toffler,
Kayla Austin, Regina Agostino in the news booth, Rollo Cortes
(31:43):
in the control room. Our guest Colin Pierry and m
Nolan Gray joined us earlier. I'm Michael Monks from KFI
News Mary Christmas. We'll be back here again live next
Saturday to talk more.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
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