July 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Live and Local News Man dead, woman critically injured after fireworks explosion sets homes on fire in Pacoima Councilmember Traci Park Moves to Crack Down on Tour Buses in Pacific Palisades. Tow truck bandits’ are rushing to crash scenes: L.A. drivers warned. Video captures ICE agents allegedly urinating on Pico Rivera school grounds in broad daylight. Interview with Actress/Author Mariel Hemingway!
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The week's been hot time Today is my mind sign
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Speaker 4 (00:20):
Yay Saturday.
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Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It is Saturdays with Tiffany and I'm Tiffany Hobbs sitting
in with you today from five to seven. Happy day
after Fourth of July. I hope you had a wonderful time.
I know I did. If I sound a little gravelly
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in the voice, it's because I had a very good
time yesterday and I am tired.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I will be honest with you. I am tired.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
I enjoyed quite a few Fourth of July cocktails, if
you will. But I'm here and I'm happy to be
here with you on this beautiful Saturday, live right here
in the studio. I do hope you have all of
your fingers because of social media? Is any indication and
the posts that I've been subjected to, I would say
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against my will because I didn't want to see the
things I've been seeing on social media. If that's any indication,
then there are quite a few of you out there
who might be nursing some lost fingers today.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And every year with this, every year.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
With people not doing the responsible thing and instead doing
what they consider to be the exciting thing and finding
out the very hard way that they are not experts
in pyrotechnics and explosives and all of those things. So, unfortunately,
we'll have some stories to share with you about things
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that have come out of the Fourth of July, because again,
while we're celebrating the country's independence and we're gathering and
the spirit of togetherness, the Fourth of July seems to
also unfortunately represent Darwinism, I would say, and those of
us who are not the smartest amongst us, and that
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seems to be part and parcel with the holiday.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
But I hope you had a good time. Whatever you did.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Hit the talk back, let us know on that iHeartRadio
app and let us know what you did. What did
you do for a Fourth of July? Did you enjoy
a barbecue? Did you stay home? Did you find yourself
at a droned show? Those were popular this year and
we're going to talk about that after six o'clock. Did
you find yourself out a fireworks show, What did you do?
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I would love to hear and play on air how
you brought in your fourth of July. But saying, as
though it is the fifth of July, we must move
forward and talk about the biggest stories around the Southland
and around the world. And we're following some pretty big
story right now, including this awful, awful, awful news out
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of Texas in which the Guadalupe River flooded and caused
at least forty three deaths, including fifteen children in these
floods in Texas, up and down this area in Texas
and Kerr County specifically. And of those fifteen or excuse me,
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of those forty three who have been found unfortunately now deceased,
fifteen children are amongst that number, many of whom were
attending a yearly summer camp, a Christian camp. I believe
it was mainly for girls. And I've seen quite a
few stories, so I'll give you updates on this story
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because it is breaking. It is continuing to unfold right
in front of our eyes. I'm looking here at CNN
and they're just showing the devastation on the screen and
trying to reconcile with how this could have happened, and
saying that there are still there's still a massive search
underway for survivors, hopefully survivors, but I'll keep you abreast
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of what's going on there. In Texas, another big story
that we're following is that there's apparently been an officer
involved shooting in Exposition Park and details are still unfolding there.
So I'll make sure I bring that to you as
soon as we get them, but again, make sure you
hit that iHeart app and let us know what's going on,
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what's going on. How did you enjoy your Fourth of July?
Because I'd certainly love to play it on air now.
Talking about the Fourth of July and these fireworks that
are everywhere, there was one community in Paquoima that decided
they wanted to start the Fourth of July off on
the third. They wanted to do an early celebration, if
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you will, and that celebration didn't turn out the way
they expected it. Two now, unfortunately, we hear a lot
about these stories of homes being kind of the hoarding
space for fireworks and all of these sorts of explosives,
and this community in Pacoima found out the hard way
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that you don't want to do that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Baking news, explosions, flames and fireworks gone wrong, an illegal
fireworks explosion, rocks of Pocoima neighborhood sending a large blaze
in the sky, and all new at.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Six Worth getting our first look at the damage from
Air seven. You can see that home suffered extensive damage.
Looks like neighboring buildings severely damaged as well. This was
quite a blast. We've learned also that a man died
in this explosion this morning. A woman remains in the
hospital with critical burns. Four other people suffered smoke inhalation
but declined to go to the er. The explosion destroyed
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four homes it damaged to others overnight. Firefighters at the
scene say they have seen an alarming number of people
selling dangerous and powerful illegal fireworks out of their garages.
This year seems to happen every year. Firefighters are encouraging
people to go see professional fireworks shows this fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
They are encouraging people to see professional firework shows or
the alternative which is now very popular, the drone show,
or anything else that might be more controlled and put
on by professionals. People professionals who know how to handle
this sort of thing. Like I was telling you on
social media, I definitely saw a story after story of
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stupid person, because that's what I have to call them,
even with their injuries. Stupid person holding a device in
their hands, an explosive in their hands, an eighty or
some sort of major explosive device, and then not being
able to launch this thing or set it up quickly
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enough they're in causing their hand their limb to literally
be one with the fire work. And you know what
that then produced, just the pastrami. It just looks like pastrami.
And sorry, I know it's gross, but let that be
a cautionary tale because this happens every year. And now
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with social media, you would think, because we're we have
these images at the ready and they're so available to
see what can happen, people would think twice three times,
if not more before they involve themselves in something like this.
But Darwinism, that's what Darwinism does. And a lot of
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injuries into the Darwinism Awards this year. So sadly, right
there in Paquoima, a man lost his life and a
woman is still fighting for hers right there on Corkoran Street.
This was nine pm the night before July fourth, July third,
and that structure fire that ignited because of the fireworks
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being stored in that garage didn't just contain itself in
their home. No fire likes to consume, and it did
do that, went ahead and took other houses in the
neighborhood as well, three in fact, and a detached garage.
So it's property and people's lives. Sadly, the man who
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is confirmed as deceased is a man in his mid thirties.
No names have yet been released, but this explosion in
Paquoima happened just hours after another explosion in the Semi Valley,
a very similar explosion. And the thing about these fireworks
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being stored in people's homes is that think about it
like this. They are likely people who last night didn't
use all of their firework arsenal. So they're going to
put it away, and they're going to put it in
a garage or put it in a shed, and they're
gonna let it sit there until July third or second,
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or maybe if they're.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Sensible, wait until the fourth.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
People, and they're going to put these things away for
the better part of a year.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
The problem with that sort of storage is that fireworks
the components can crystallize, and when they crystallize over time,
they can start to burn on their own, they can
start to self ignite, and then kaboom.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You have all these.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Explosions that get completely out of control and then consume
and not just property, but can absolutely kill people and.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Do every year.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Every year we report on these homes combusting because someone
has stored fireworks and now everything goes up in flames,
and it's just it's California has a really bad problem
with this. And at six o'clock for our deeper dive segment,
we're actually going to take a closer look into the
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firework problem in California, because we do have one. We
have to be honest about it. We have a firework
and a illegal fireworks problem in the state of California,
and there are some reasons behind that, and that problem
is actually encouraging a lot more venues and a lot
more organizers to move to these popular drone shows. So
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that will be what we take a closer look at
at six o'clock. But yeah, California is not a great
place for fireworks, especially with our vegetation, and after everything
that happened in January, you would think that people wouldn't
go forward with having this sort of display, especially the
amateur ones. When we come back, I have a really
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sad story about a young girl in Orange County who
is also the victim of these illegal fireworks. This isn't
a cautionary tale. I don't know what is, but we'll
talk about that. And council Member Tracy Parks out there
in the Pacific Palisades, she was also urging people not
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to not to detonate fireworks, but she is. She also
has a campaign right now where she is moving toward
trying to crack down on tour buses coming through the
Palisades neighborhood. So she's on a mission, and we'll talk
about that on the other side of the break as well.
And we're still following the story of the officers shot
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in Exposition Park and I'll see if I can get
some more information about that right here on Saturdays with
Tiffany Now until seven pm on KFI AM six forty
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you until seven. It's Saturdays with Tiffany.
Thank you so much for listening, and please continue to
hit that talkback feature. Let us know what did you
do over the fourth of July? How did you spend it?
Do you have all your fingers? Did you happen to
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lose any? Check in with us, let us know what
you got going. We do have one ready for it, Raoul,
not yet, it's coming. It's a good one too. It's
a really funny cute. This person does have all of
their fingers. I'm assuming. I don't know for a fact,
but it's a good one.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Are you ready? Is it going?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
It's Gomy love love you and your show. It's my
wife's firthday July fourth, and our dad always told her
that he arranged the fireworks for her, so she believed
it's all about thirty eight thirty nine, I guess, But anyway,
we spent the night out on the front deck watching
the fireworks over the city.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh that's hilarious, but also thirty seven thirty eight thirty nine,
that's a long time to not know. Oh that Google exists,
but you know, hey, happy birthday to your wife. I
hope you guys had a good time sitting on the
deck watching the fireworks or watching the sky or whatever
it is you did. That sounds lovely, so I'm glad
you had a good time. Like I was telling you before,
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we are watching some breaking news out of Exposition Park.
There's an LAPD officer who was hospitalized after a shooting
that occurred just a couple of hours ago, actually three
forty five pm. Officers recall to the Martin Luther King
Junior Park, which is just there off of Western and King,
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a little bit north of King Boulevard around three forty
five and the circumstances that lead up or leading up
to this shooting aren't yet clear, but the department says.
LAPD says that one officer was shot and was taken
to a nearby hospital. Don't know that officer's condition at
the scene, but we do know that the suspect in
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the shooting was ated at the scene. So this is developing.
We'll continue to check on this and as well the
flooding out here and out there in Texas. A terrible, terrible,
terrible situation going on in Texas. The Guadalupe River has
now claimed at least forty three people, including fifteen children,
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many of which came from a camp, a summer camp.
How just awful is that. And they're still looking for
a lot of people who are missing currently within this
region in Kerr County. So this story is developing, it
will be for the foreseeable future, I imagine, because this
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is a rescue and recovery mission out there in Kerr County, Texas.
So make sure you stay tuned for that Alsomelet you know.
At five thirty we have actress Oscar nominated actress to
be specific, and author maryel Hemingway on. She's going to
be talking about mental health, physical health, a retreat that
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she has, and it's going to be a lovely conversation.
Now back to something that's not so lovely, this situation
with this young girl in Orange County. Sadly, last night,
while many of you were out enjoying your fireworks, there
were people who again were engaging in those illegal street fireworks.
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Setting up fireworks out there in front of your home
or your on your block, or whatever it may be,
and running away before it detonates has proven time and
time again to be extremely risky and in this case, deadly,
because police confirm that this Orange County girl, eight years old,
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died after she was struck by an illegal fireworks display
that miss fired. Can you imagine? This was around nine
forty five last night. Officers were already in the area,
they say, in the areas the eight thousand block of
Cornflower Circle because of calls into the department about fireworks.
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I'm sure this was happening all over southern California, and
they saw officers while they were patrolling the area, family
members frantically carrying a child into a nearby home. The
officers responded and noticed that there was a large quantity
of fireworks detonating in the area when they rushed to
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help the girl. They ran inside, of course, and began
administering life saving efforts before this young lady. This young
girl was transported to UC Irvine, where she was declared
dead at the hospital. This is due to a misfiring,
and that misfiring caused other illegal fireworks to ignite, which
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were near other children and near other people. And other
people were in fact struck, but the injuries that they
report or that were observed were not significant and definitely
not in any comparison to what happened to this young lady.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Another cautionary tale.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Maybe leave the firework displays that had that you guys
are purchasing, that we all have partaken in, and I
know it's a part of the past.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Time I get it. I did it.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I've had sparklers, I've enjoyed that. But things are different now.
It's not the same fireworks. I don't know what they
put in these ones, but it's not the same as
twenty or thirty years ago, when you didn't really have
to worry about this level of tragedy. Of course you
had things go completely haywire, but to this extent and
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this often, I don't think so all right, shifting gears
really quickly. Council Member Tracy Park is looking out for
her area there in Pacific Palisades, and she, in addition
to other council members, are calling for a decrease in fireworks.
For sure, they would like a move to something that's
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a bit more environmentally friendly because of the conditions around
southern California being extremely primed for fire. But in addition
to that, Tracy Park, council Member Tracy Park out there
in the Pacific Palisades is also looking to quell disaster tours.
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Disaster tours, Yes, there are tours you can take that
show the effects of a disaster. They happened in New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, of which the twentieth anniversary is
quickly approaching. They've happened after other disaster sites, tornado sites
up there in Alta Dina as well. I've seen buses
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and in the Pacific Palisades they are experiencing the same thing.
And council Member Tracy Park has introduced emotion to halt
these tour bus operations in the Palisades following reports that
these commercial operators have been conducting disaster tours in the
aftermath of the Palisades fire. The area had been closed
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up until June fourteenth, and it just reopened, and now
these tour buses. The arrival of these buses in the
fire zone is being described as despicable by council Member
Tracy Park and an exploitation of tragedy for profit. She
went on to say, quote turning a site of devastatingly
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devastating tragedy and loss into a spectacle is despicable and
should not be tolerated. In the City of Los Angeles.
I think we're going to see more districts, more leadership
out of these districts really hunker down to do what's
best to kind of insulate. I would say there areas
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from kind of the craziness that's going on at large
in the region. In the Pacific Palisades is a microcosm
of that. Council Member Tracy Park is doing her best
to hopefully mitigate this sort of disaster tourism and exploitation
and fireworks. At five point thirty, just coming up after
the break, we'll be talking to OSCAR nominated actress and
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author Marielle Hemingway. I can't wait to have this conversation
and you are going to enjoy it as well. Make
sure you hit that talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Let us know what you did for fourth of July.
Let us know if you have any questions or comments
for Mario Hemingway and anything else you want to share
with us, and we'll make sure we get it on air.
All right, it's time to go to a break.
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
It's Saturdays with Tiffany, and we're still watching the breaking
news out of Exposition Park where there was an officer
involved shooting just before four pm this afternoon. The officer
is now in hospital, but we do not know his
current condition, but we do know that the suspect in
the shooting has in fact been arrested, so I'll make
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sure that I keep you up to date on all
of the developments there as well. We're looking at what's
happening in Texas with this terrible flooding at the Guada
I think it's the Guadalupe River there in Kerr County
that has claimed at least forty six people at this point,
including fifteen children, many of whom were attendees at a
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summer camp. Which is just awful. There's no other way
to describe it. But this information is continuing to come
out out of Texas, and I'll make sure that I
keep you up to date on that. Next we are
going to have a very spirited and necessary conversation with
the Oscar nominated actress, author and now creator of an
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online embodiment program and a retreat and her name is
none other than Maryelle Hemingway. And I want to make
sure that we just name this embodiment program because it
is absolutely indicative of who you are, Maryelle, because it
is called Return of the Queen, and Miss Mariel Hemingway,
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you are absolutely the Queen of the screen, the Queen
of mental health, and I'm so so happy that you
have time to join us in your very busy schedule.
Welcome Marielle Hemingway to KFI.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Oh, thank you so much for having me. Well, I
feel very honored to be here and very excited to
talk to you again since we had the opportunity of
doing something on Visionary Women together, which was so much fun,
so I was like, oh my gosh, yes, of course
I'm going to make time for this.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It really was.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
It was a lot of fun. It was great to
meet you then, and it's great to be able to
continue the conversation with you because I enjoy you. I
enjoy what you do and what you stand for, and
I think that you should always have a platform to
share what you're working on, and you certainly have one here,
Mary Elle. So let's get thank you you're welcome. Let's
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get into it. Tell us a bit about Return of
the Queen, your new online embodiment program. What was the
inspiration behind starting Return of the Queen.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
You know, I just feel like, you know, I'm sixty
three years old. I don't feel like I am.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
You don't look like it either, girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Me, Well, I appreciate that very much, but you know,
but life happens and you don't feel like that. And
I think there's a lot of women. We get to
a certain place and you don't have to be in
your sixties. I mean this is for women of any
age actually, but it's that feeling of your life is
happening and you it's almost as though you've you've forgotten
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who you were meant to be, or the person that
you thought you were going to be.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Or.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
You know, life happens, and we sometimes lose our dreams,
and that.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Happens because of trauma, and you know, businesses and.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Raising families and doing whatever we need to do. But
sometimes we forget.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
You know, the person that we believed in when we
were young, who we would envision becoming somebody, right, and
then you get to a certain time in your life
and you think wait, why do I want to be
that person? But I don't know how to be her
and I've forgotten her. So this is about remembering. It's
not like I'm not a self help guru. I just
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want to guide people to what to the person that
they already are. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I do, I do.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
And I think that your intent to guide people gently
while holding their hand, of course, is again a testament
to you empathizing and understanding where people come from because
of your own story. With this, yeah, with this embodiment program,
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with the retreat. Speaking about participation, who's your ideal participant?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
You know, I do a thing once a week and
it's called the Tea Circle, and that is that is
online that I promoted online. I only started it about
six weeks or about two months ago, and it's a
get together of women meet on zoom and I start
with a meditation and all of these women are coming.
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They really are women of you know, forty to seventy
and they're really just wanting to feel a little bit
more connected. And I think this group feels like a
safe place to be able to share. And I always say, like,
share your story, because once you've shared your story, then
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it becomes a story, and then we get to move
on and make other choices.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Absolutely, you know, Mary ol, people may know you from
your movies, from your appearances. You've been in quite a
many movies that have wonderful name recognition, like Manhattan or
Personal Best or Lipstick. Everyone knows Lipstick, right, But what's
your story? Tell us a little bit about what has
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informed this crusade that you've now taken on so sa
healthlessly to help guide people through their mental health challenges,
through trauma into a more balanced lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Well, I think that everybody finds their kind of purpose
in life, you know, quote unquote purpose in life by
because of the experiences that they've had in their own lives.
So I've come from seven suicides. My grandfather committed suicide,
his father committed suicide. My you're not supposed to say
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that take take your life. Some people don't like it, well,
committed suicide. But anyway, and that you know, there's many people.
My own sister took her life, and so many people
in my family. So it was a there was a
genetic predisposition for mental illness, suicidal suicide, ideation and many
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other you know, uh.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Addictions and other things, And that was a fear of
mine since childhood. I didn't want.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
I thought, oh my gosh, one day I'm going to
end up like depressed and want to kill myself, or
I'm going to be an addict or something. I was
so afraid of what I'd come from. But that being said,
I also, because of that fear, pride so many different things.
I've been to India and you know, I followed Grus
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and you know I've done all kinds of things. I've
eaten every way, and I've played many different kinds of
exercise routines and sciants and this and that, all all
to try to find control, Like how can I control
what I don't know if it is or it's not
going to happen to me.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
And so in that, you.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Know, trying to figure out what my life was going
to be like, I discovered a lot of really great things.
I learned how to meditate, I became a very I
already accomplished yogi. I did a lot of things that
stayed with me. But what I had realized is I
was followed. I was trying to find somebody, a person adopted,
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a holistic doctor or a guru or a you know,
or a mentor of some kind that was going to
guide me on me and so I realized in my
mid forties, and I told this story at the Visionary
Women and it's too long to tell here, but.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
You know what, Mary Out, I'm a Mary Out Mario.
I'm gonna pause you because this is a great cliffhanger.
I want you when we come back, to tell us
who you met and what you found in that meeting,
because this story really really changed me when I heard
it the first time, and I want to make sure
that others hear it now. I want you to have
plenty of time to tell it. Okay, So we're going
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to come right back with that story. We're talking to
Marielle Hemingway, OSCAR nominated actress. You know her from Lipstick,
Personal Best, The Superman of nineteen eighty seven. She is acclaimed,
she is an author. She's the creator of a new
retreat and an online embodiment program called Return of the Queen.
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And will continue this conversation with Maryelle Hemingway on the
other side of the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm
Tiffany Hobbs. Here until seven KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you, and we're talking to the Oscar
nominated and I want to make sure that I lead
with that, because we cannot minimize this woman's accomplishments. The
Oscar nominated, critically acclaimed actress and author Maryelle Hemingway. And
she's been telling us a bit about a retreat, an
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online embodiment program that she created that really addresses my
inntal health needs and wellness and helping guide people through
their challenges to have hopefully a more balanced life, especially
with what's happening all around us. We have chaos seemingly
everywhere you turn. And Marielle, you were telling us a
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story just before we went to break about you seeking
something and it leading you somewhere and meeting someone that
impacted your life. Can you please pick up where you
left off with this story because it's good.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
I will absolutely thank you so much. Yes. So, I
really spent a great deal of my kind of young
adulthood really searching, searching, searching, searching for a person, a guru,
a teacher, or somebody, a holistic doctor, somebody who is
going to, you know, fix me, because I thought, oh, dear,
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I come from this broken family, an amazing family, but
it's a broken family. They suffer from so many different things,
mental illnesses and addictions and such. And finally, in my
mid forties, I went and saw His Holiness, the Dalai
Lama in India and it was really it was exciting
and I thought, oh, this is fantastic. And there was
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a I got a private audience, not me personally. I
was with a lot of really fancy and very erudite
people who are heads of magazines and television things and
movie studios and what have you. But I was there
and it was very exciting. And he came down the
stairs and he sat, he sat down in this kind
(32:37):
of overstuffed chair and he had and he looked at me,
and he had me sit right next to him in
a chair right next to him, and there were actually
pillows in front of him, which I thought that I
should was probably going to end up sitting on. So
I sat down there. So I was so excited. My
heart was beating really fast.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Oh my God.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
Holiness was looking at me and he would smile and
he would giggle periodically, but he would always kind of
take a look at me and he would smile, and I,
being nervous, I would smile and giggle back.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Anyway, an hour and a half went by. He'd listened
to every person and made them so feel so special,
like every person that had something to say to him,
it was as though he and that person were the
only ones in the room. So after about an hour
and a half, and I just was happy to be there.
I had nothing to ask him. I was just in
(33:28):
awe that I was in the presence of somebody whose
energy was just so joyous, really only joyous without being
It was very humble joyous, but not flamboyant. It was
just amazing to watch him. And we were about to leave,
and you could see the monks were kind of gathering
(33:50):
and it was and I started to get up from
the chair and he put his hand on my hand
and he looked me in the eye and he said,
you're okay. Wow, wow, And it was such a profound
I mean I cry every time I tell this story
because it was the moment I realized, oh my gosh,
(34:14):
I am okay. I realized, Oh.
Speaker 10 (34:18):
My gosh, I am you know, I don't need a guru.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
I don't need a doctor. I don't need a Now
do we need help? Yes? But I realized and it
wasn't like, you know, the heavens opened up and I
all of a sudden had an enlightened moment. But it
took that moment forward. I realized that I was my guide,
I was my teacher. I and so I started the
(34:44):
Return of the Queen because I believe that every woman
that joins the Tea Circle and then they do this
thing called Rise to Remember, which is a one day
kind of transformation, and then they joined the Return of
the Queen, which is an eight week kind of program.
I want to call it a journey because I feel
like I'm just there to witness and kind of guide,
(35:06):
but not you know, I'm not trying to be anybody's
guru or doctor or anything. But I want all of
these women that I've been speaking to for the last
few months to realize that they're all okay, we're all
in perfect bodies with that we actually are really great,
(35:27):
but we've forgotten because we've latched onto a story about ourselves.
That isn't happening now. So the past is in the past.
And I think that what's so hard for us, especially
in the world we live in today, is that we
are so attached to the trauma that we've been through.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
And that's not diminishing anybody's pain or problems, because so
many people have gone through horrific things and I never
diminish that. But once you have been through.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
It, it's not happening now. So how can we move
forward into the present moment being who we really would
like to be, which is an embodied and whole person.
And that's unique to every one of these women, to me,
to you, to everyone who's listening, every and every man,
(36:20):
all everybody is very unique and our wholeness is very
unique to us. But sometimes we've forgotten who we really
are and we've become who society thought we were, or
a teacher or a parent, or a you know, or
a trauma that happened to us that was very legitimate,
(36:41):
but we held on to the survival technique and didn't
move on to how to be present. So that's what
the Return of the Queen is about.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Well, you know, Mary Elle, let's get some people signed
up for Return of the Queen. We want people to
benefit from this information, from everything you just shared with us,
because it certainly sounds transformational, and it certainly sounds timely,
especially given what everyone is It's unavoidable what we're all
dealing with in today's society, whether it's political or environmental
(37:12):
or physical, we all are experiencing the weight of everything
that's going on. So let's get some people signed up.
How do they contact you? How do they get themselves
involved in Return of the Queen?
Speaker 8 (37:25):
If you go to Instagram and look, I'm I'm not
the most technically proficient person, So I do Instagram and Facebook,
and I'm maryel Hemingway M A R I E L
Hemingway h T M I N G W A Y.
And if you follow me there and you look at
any one of my posts, if you if you say
(37:47):
rise or you say tea circle, we can. It gets
you into the information. Also, in the bio, it says
you know the Return of the Queen and gives you
the site, which is the Queen returns dot com.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Got it?
Speaker 8 (38:00):
That's how you Yeah, that's pretty easy, that's pretty easy.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
I'm going to restate that I'm going to restate that
Maryelle Hemingway is Maryelle Hemingway on all social media platforms Facebook,
maryel Hemingway and Instagram at Maryelle Hemingway. And if you
don't not to spell that, you can certainly google it
because she's everywhere. And if you just comment Rise or
Return of the Queen on a post and Mary Elle
(38:26):
or will respond and help you get signed up, and
the website is right there as well in her bio
on Facebook and on Instagram, it is Return of the
Queen dot com.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Is that what you said? Yes, Return of.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
The No No, no, yes, no, the Queen Return.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
The Queen returns dot com. The Queen is here.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
You can get the Queen returns dot com.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
The Queen Returns dot com. Maryelle Hemingway on Facebook at
maryell Hemingway on Instagram, comment Rise or Queen or some
derivative of this conversation on her Instagram. Let her know
you heard you heard her right here on KFI Saturdays
with Tiffany, and she'll get that information to you so
(39:12):
that you can become a participant in this life changing
embodiment program Return of the Queen and stay up to
date on all things Marielle Hemingway, because she is the
queen and she has given us her time. Thank you
so much, Marielle. You are welcome back here anytime.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
I'm so grateful to you. Thank you so much giving
me this is a maid. Then what an amazing Saturday treat.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
You are most welcome and it is certainly a treat
for us. Thank you so much, Mariel. We'll talk to
you soon.
Speaker 8 (39:44):
Absolutely, Bye bye, take care.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
It's Saturdays with Tiffany. When we come back, We're going
to talk about why fireworks are out of control in
the city of Los Angeles, and I'll give you things
that experts say they wish you knew, and what LA
and Southern California are moving towards in LUA fireworks because
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there's a campaign to make fireworks in any capacity just
not the go to celebration for Fourth of July or
New Year's or any big celebration. And we'll talk about
that in our deeper dive segment right after the break.
Tiffany hobbs here till seven o'clock on KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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Yay Saturday.
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It is Saturdays with Tiffany and I'm Tiffany Hobbs sitting
in with you today from five to seven. Happy day
after Fourth of July. I hope you had a wonderful time.
I know I did. If I sound a little gravelly
(00:45):
in the voice, it's because I had a very good
time yesterday and I am tired.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I will be honest with you. I am tired.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
I enjoyed quite a few Fourth of July cocktails, if
you will. But I'm here and I'm happy to be
here with you on this beautiful Saturday, live right here
in the studio. I do hope you have all of
your fingers because of social media? Is any indication and
the posts that I've been subjected to, I would say
(01:14):
against my will because I didn't want to see the
things I've been seeing on social media. If that's any indication,
then there are quite a few of you out there
who might be nursing some lost fingers today.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And every year with this, every year.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
With people not doing the responsible thing and instead doing
what they consider to be the exciting thing and finding
out the very hard way that they are not experts
in pyrotechnics and explosives and all of those things. So, unfortunately,
we'll have some stories to share with you about things
(01:52):
that have come out of the Fourth of July, because again,
while we're celebrating the country's independence and we're gathering and
the spirit of togetherness, the Fourth of July seems to
also unfortunately represent Darwinism, I would say, and those of
us who are not the smartest amongst us, and that
(02:16):
seems to be part and parcel with the holiday.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
But I hope you had a good time. Whatever you did.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Hit the talk back, let us know on that iHeartRadio
app and let us know what you did. What did
you do for a Fourth of July? Did you enjoy
a barbecue? Did you stay home? Did you find yourself
at a droned show? Those were popular this year and
we're going to talk about that after six o'clock. Did
you find yourself out a fireworks show, What did you do?
(02:41):
I would love to hear and play on air how
you brought in your fourth of July. But saying, as
though it is the fifth of July, we must move
forward and talk about the biggest stories around the Southland
and around the world. And we're following some pretty big
story right now, including this awful, awful, awful news out
(03:05):
of Texas in which the Guadalupe River flooded and caused
at least forty three deaths, including fifteen children in these
floods in Texas, up and down this area in Texas
and Kerr County specifically. And of those fifteen or excuse me,
(03:26):
of those forty three who have been found unfortunately now deceased,
fifteen children are amongst that number, many of whom were
attending a yearly summer camp, a Christian camp. I believe
it was mainly for girls. And I've seen quite a
few stories, so I'll give you updates on this story
(03:46):
because it is breaking. It is continuing to unfold right
in front of our eyes. I'm looking here at CNN
and they're just showing the devastation on the screen and
trying to reconcile with how this could have happened, and
saying that there are still there's still a massive search
underway for survivors, hopefully survivors, but I'll keep you abreast
(04:10):
of what's going on there. In Texas, another big story
that we're following is that there's apparently been an officer
involved shooting in Exposition Park and details are still unfolding there.
So I'll make sure I bring that to you as
soon as we get them, but again, make sure you
hit that iHeart app and let us know what's going on,
(04:31):
what's going on. How did you enjoy your Fourth of July?
Because I'd certainly love to play it on air now.
Talking about the Fourth of July and these fireworks that
are everywhere, there was one community in Paquoima that decided
they wanted to start the Fourth of July off on
the third. They wanted to do an early celebration, if
(04:54):
you will, and that celebration didn't turn out the way
they expected it. Two now, unfortunately, we hear a lot
about these stories of homes being kind of the hoarding
space for fireworks and all of these sorts of explosives,
and this community in Pacoima found out the hard way
(05:15):
that you don't want to do that sort of thing.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Baking news, explosions, flames and fireworks gone wrong, an illegal
fireworks explosion, rocks of Pocoima neighborhood sending a large blaze
in the sky, and all new at.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Six Worth getting our first look at the damage from
Air seven. You can see that home suffered extensive damage.
Looks like neighboring buildings severely damaged as well. This was
quite a blast. We've learned also that a man died
in this explosion this morning. A woman remains in the
hospital with critical burns. Four other people suffered smoke inhalation
but declined to go to the er. The explosion destroyed
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four homes it damaged to others overnight. Firefighters at the
scene say they have seen an alarming number of people
selling dangerous and powerful illegal fireworks out of their garages.
This year seems to happen every year. Firefighters are encouraging
people to go see professional fireworks shows this fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
They are encouraging people to see professional firework shows or
the alternative which is now very popular, the drone show,
or anything else that might be more controlled and put
on by professionals. People professionals who know how to handle
this sort of thing. Like I was telling you on
social media, I definitely saw a story after story of
(06:32):
stupid person, because that's what I have to call them,
even with their injuries. Stupid person holding a device in
their hands, an explosive in their hands, an eighty or
some sort of major explosive device, and then not being
able to launch this thing or set it up quickly
(06:54):
enough they're in causing their hand their limb to literally
be one with the fire work. And you know what
that then produced, just the pastrami. It just looks like pastrami.
And sorry, I know it's gross, but let that be
a cautionary tale because this happens every year. And now
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with social media, you would think, because we're we have
these images at the ready and they're so available to
see what can happen, people would think twice three times,
if not more before they involve themselves in something like this.
But Darwinism, that's what Darwinism does. And a lot of
(07:39):
injuries into the Darwinism Awards this year. So sadly, right
there in Paquoima, a man lost his life and a
woman is still fighting for hers right there on Corkoran Street.
This was nine pm the night before July fourth, July third,
and that structure fire that ignited because of the fireworks
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being stored in that garage didn't just contain itself in
their home. No fire likes to consume, and it did
do that, went ahead and took other houses in the
neighborhood as well, three in fact, and a detached garage.
So it's property and people's lives. Sadly, the man who
(08:24):
is confirmed as deceased is a man in his mid thirties.
No names have yet been released, but this explosion in
Paquoima happened just hours after another explosion in the Semi Valley,
a very similar explosion. And the thing about these fireworks
(08:44):
being stored in people's homes is that think about it
like this. They are likely people who last night didn't
use all of their firework arsenal. So they're going to
put it away, and they're going to put it in
a garage or put it in a shed, and they're
gonna let it sit there until July third or second,
(09:05):
or maybe if they're.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Sensible, wait until the fourth.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
People, and they're going to put these things away for
the better part of a year.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
The problem with that sort of storage is that fireworks
the components can crystallize, and when they crystallize over time,
they can start to burn on their own, they can
start to self ignite, and then kaboom.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You have all these.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Explosions that get completely out of control and then consume
and not just property, but can absolutely kill people and.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Do every year.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Every year we report on these homes combusting because someone
has stored fireworks and now everything goes up in flames,
and it's just it's California has a really bad problem
with this. And at six o'clock for our deeper dive segment,
we're actually going to take a closer look into the
(10:07):
firework problem in California, because we do have one. We
have to be honest about it. We have a firework
and a illegal fireworks problem in the state of California,
and there are some reasons behind that, and that problem
is actually encouraging a lot more venues and a lot
more organizers to move to these popular drone shows. So
(10:30):
that will be what we take a closer look at
at six o'clock. But yeah, California is not a great
place for fireworks, especially with our vegetation, and after everything
that happened in January, you would think that people wouldn't
go forward with having this sort of display, especially the
amateur ones. When we come back, I have a really
(10:52):
sad story about a young girl in Orange County who
is also the victim of these illegal fireworks. This isn't
a cautionary tale. I don't know what is, but we'll
talk about that. And council Member Tracy Parks out there
in the Pacific Palisades, she was also urging people not
(11:13):
to not to detonate fireworks, but she is. She also
has a campaign right now where she is moving toward
trying to crack down on tour buses coming through the
Palisades neighborhood. So she's on a mission, and we'll talk
about that on the other side of the break as well.
And we're still following the story of the officers shot
(11:33):
in Exposition Park and I'll see if I can get
some more information about that right here on Saturdays with
Tiffany Now until seven pm on KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you until seven. It's Saturdays with Tiffany.
Thank you so much for listening, and please continue to
hit that talkback feature. Let us know what did you
do over the fourth of July? How did you spend it?
Do you have all your fingers? Did you happen to
(12:10):
lose any? Check in with us, let us know what
you got going. We do have one ready for it, Raoul,
not yet, it's coming. It's a good one too. It's
a really funny cute. This person does have all of
their fingers. I'm assuming. I don't know for a fact,
but it's a good one.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Are you ready? Is it going?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
It's Gomy love love you and your show. It's my
wife's firthday July fourth, and our dad always told her
that he arranged the fireworks for her, so she believed
it's all about thirty eight thirty nine, I guess, But anyway,
we spent the night out on the front deck watching
the fireworks over the city.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh that's hilarious, but also thirty seven thirty eight thirty nine,
that's a long time to not know. Oh that Google exists,
but you know, hey, happy birthday to your wife. I
hope you guys had a good time sitting on the
deck watching the fireworks or watching the sky or whatever
it is you did. That sounds lovely, so I'm glad
you had a good time. Like I was telling you before,
(13:14):
we are watching some breaking news out of Exposition Park.
There's an LAPD officer who was hospitalized after a shooting
that occurred just a couple of hours ago, actually three
forty five pm. Officers recall to the Martin Luther King
Junior Park, which is just there off of Western and King,
(13:35):
a little bit north of King Boulevard around three forty
five and the circumstances that lead up or leading up
to this shooting aren't yet clear, but the department says.
LAPD says that one officer was shot and was taken
to a nearby hospital. Don't know that officer's condition at
the scene, but we do know that the suspect in
(13:58):
the shooting was ated at the scene. So this is developing.
We'll continue to check on this and as well the
flooding out here and out there in Texas. A terrible, terrible,
terrible situation going on in Texas. The Guadalupe River has
now claimed at least forty three people, including fifteen children,
(14:23):
many of which came from a camp, a summer camp.
How just awful is that. And they're still looking for
a lot of people who are missing currently within this
region in Kerr County. So this story is developing, it
will be for the foreseeable future, I imagine, because this
(14:44):
is a rescue and recovery mission out there in Kerr County, Texas.
So make sure you stay tuned for that Alsomelet you know.
At five thirty we have actress Oscar nominated actress to
be specific, and author maryel Hemingway on. She's going to
be talking about mental health, physical health, a retreat that
(15:05):
she has, and it's going to be a lovely conversation.
Now back to something that's not so lovely, this situation
with this young girl in Orange County. Sadly, last night,
while many of you were out enjoying your fireworks, there
were people who again were engaging in those illegal street fireworks.
(15:27):
Setting up fireworks out there in front of your home
or your on your block, or whatever it may be,
and running away before it detonates has proven time and
time again to be extremely risky and in this case, deadly,
because police confirm that this Orange County girl, eight years old,
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died after she was struck by an illegal fireworks display
that miss fired. Can you imagine? This was around nine
forty five last night. Officers were already in the area,
they say, in the areas the eight thousand block of
Cornflower Circle because of calls into the department about fireworks.
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I'm sure this was happening all over southern California, and
they saw officers while they were patrolling the area, family
members frantically carrying a child into a nearby home. The
officers responded and noticed that there was a large quantity
of fireworks detonating in the area when they rushed to
(16:36):
help the girl. They ran inside, of course, and began
administering life saving efforts before this young lady. This young
girl was transported to UC Irvine, where she was declared
dead at the hospital. This is due to a misfiring,
and that misfiring caused other illegal fireworks to ignite, which
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were near other children and near other people. And other
people were in fact struck, but the injuries that they
report or that were observed were not significant and definitely
not in any comparison to what happened to this young lady.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Another cautionary tale.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Maybe leave the firework displays that had that you guys
are purchasing, that we all have partaken in, and I
know it's a part of the past.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Time I get it. I did it.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I've had sparklers, I've enjoyed that. But things are different now.
It's not the same fireworks. I don't know what they
put in these ones, but it's not the same as
twenty or thirty years ago, when you didn't really have
to worry about this level of tragedy. Of course you
had things go completely haywire, but to this extent and
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this often, I don't think so all right, shifting gears
really quickly. Council Member Tracy Park is looking out for
her area there in Pacific Palisades, and she, in addition
to other council members, are calling for a decrease in fireworks.
For sure, they would like a move to something that's
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a bit more environmentally friendly because of the conditions around
southern California being extremely primed for fire. But in addition
to that, Tracy Park, council Member Tracy Park out there
in the Pacific Palisades is also looking to quell disaster tours.
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Disaster tours, Yes, there are tours you can take that
show the effects of a disaster. They happened in New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, of which the twentieth anniversary is
quickly approaching. They've happened after other disaster sites, tornado sites
up there in Alta Dina as well. I've seen buses
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and in the Pacific Palisades they are experiencing the same thing.
And council Member Tracy Park has introduced emotion to halt
these tour bus operations in the Palisades following reports that
these commercial operators have been conducting disaster tours in the
aftermath of the Palisades fire. The area had been closed
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up until June fourteenth, and it just reopened, and now
these tour buses. The arrival of these buses in the
fire zone is being described as despicable by council Member
Tracy Park and an exploitation of tragedy for profit. She
went on to say, quote turning a site of devastatingly
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devastating tragedy and loss into a spectacle is despicable and
should not be tolerated. In the City of Los Angeles.
I think we're going to see more districts, more leadership
out of these districts really hunker down to do what's
best to kind of insulate. I would say there areas
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from kind of the craziness that's going on at large
in the region. In the Pacific Palisades is a microcosm
of that. Council Member Tracy Park is doing her best
to hopefully mitigate this sort of disaster tourism and exploitation
and fireworks. At five point thirty, just coming up after
the break, we'll be talking to OSCAR nominated actress and
(20:32):
author Marielle Hemingway. I can't wait to have this conversation
and you are going to enjoy it as well. Make
sure you hit that talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Let us know what you did for fourth of July.
Let us know if you have any questions or comments
for Mario Hemingway and anything else you want to share
with us, and we'll make sure we get it on air.
All right, it's time to go to a break.
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
It's Saturdays with Tiffany, and we're still watching the breaking
news out of Exposition Park where there was an officer
involved shooting just before four pm this afternoon. The officer
is now in hospital, but we do not know his
current condition, but we do know that the suspect in
the shooting has in fact been arrested, so I'll make
(21:28):
sure that I keep you up to date on all
of the developments there as well. We're looking at what's
happening in Texas with this terrible flooding at the Guada
I think it's the Guadalupe River there in Kerr County
that has claimed at least forty six people at this point,
including fifteen children, many of whom were attendees at a
(21:52):
summer camp. Which is just awful. There's no other way
to describe it. But this information is continuing to come
out out of Texas, and I'll make sure that I
keep you up to date on that. Next we are
going to have a very spirited and necessary conversation with
the Oscar nominated actress, author and now creator of an
(22:16):
online embodiment program and a retreat and her name is
none other than Maryelle Hemingway. And I want to make
sure that we just name this embodiment program because it
is absolutely indicative of who you are, Maryelle, because it
is called Return of the Queen, and Miss Mariel Hemingway,
(22:41):
you are absolutely the Queen of the screen, the Queen
of mental health, and I'm so so happy that you
have time to join us in your very busy schedule.
Welcome Marielle Hemingway to KFI.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Oh, thank you so much for having me. Well, I
feel very honored to be here and very excited to
talk to you again since we had the opportunity of
doing something on Visionary Women together, which was so much fun,
so I was like, oh my gosh, yes, of course
I'm going to make time for this.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
It really was.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
It was a lot of fun. It was great to
meet you then, and it's great to be able to
continue the conversation with you because I enjoy you. I
enjoy what you do and what you stand for, and
I think that you should always have a platform to
share what you're working on, and you certainly have one here,
Mary Elle. So let's get thank you you're welcome. Let's
(23:34):
get into it. Tell us a bit about Return of
the Queen, your new online embodiment program. What was the
inspiration behind starting Return of the Queen.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
You know, I just feel like, you know, I'm sixty
three years old. I don't feel like I am.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
You don't look like it either, girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Me, Well, I appreciate that very much, but you know,
but life happens and you don't feel like that. And
I think there's a lot of women. We get to
a certain place and you don't have to be in
your sixties. I mean this is for women of any
age actually, but it's that feeling of your life is
happening and you it's almost as though you've you've forgotten
(24:21):
who you were meant to be, or the person that
you thought you were going to be.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Or.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
You know, life happens, and we sometimes lose our dreams,
and that.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Happens because of trauma, and you know, businesses and.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
Raising families and doing whatever we need to do. But
sometimes we forget.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
You know, the person that we believed in when we
were young, who we would envision becoming somebody, right, and
then you get to a certain time in your life
and you think wait, why do I want to be
that person? But I don't know how to be her
and I've forgotten her. So this is about remembering. It's
not like I'm not a self help guru. I just
(25:09):
want to guide people to what to the person that
they already are. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I do, I do.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
And I think that your intent to guide people gently
while holding their hand, of course, is again a testament
to you empathizing and understanding where people come from because
of your own story. With this, yeah, with this embodiment program,
(25:36):
with the retreat. Speaking about participation, who's your ideal participant?
Speaker 8 (25:44):
You know, I do a thing once a week and
it's called the Tea Circle, and that is that is
online that I promoted online. I only started it about
six weeks or about two months ago, and it's a
get together of women meet on zoom and I start
with a meditation and all of these women are coming.
(26:08):
They really are women of you know, forty to seventy
and they're really just wanting to feel a little bit
more connected. And I think this group feels like a
safe place to be able to share. And I always say, like,
share your story, because once you've shared your story, then
(26:29):
it becomes a story, and then we get to move
on and make other choices.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Absolutely, you know, Mary ol, people may know you from
your movies, from your appearances. You've been in quite a
many movies that have wonderful name recognition, like Manhattan or
Personal Best or Lipstick. Everyone knows Lipstick, right, But what's
your story? Tell us a little bit about what has
(26:56):
informed this crusade that you've now taken on so sa
healthlessly to help guide people through their mental health challenges,
through trauma into a more balanced lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Well, I think that everybody finds their kind of purpose
in life, you know, quote unquote purpose in life by
because of the experiences that they've had in their own lives.
So I've come from seven suicides. My grandfather committed suicide,
his father committed suicide. My you're not supposed to say
(27:30):
that take take your life. Some people don't like it, well,
committed suicide. But anyway, and that you know, there's many people.
My own sister took her life, and so many people
in my family. So it was a there was a
genetic predisposition for mental illness, suicidal suicide, ideation and many
(27:52):
other you know, uh.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Addictions and other things, And that was a fear of
mine since childhood. I didn't want.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
I thought, oh my gosh, one day I'm going to
end up like depressed and want to kill myself, or
I'm going to be an addict or something. I was
so afraid of what I'd come from. But that being said,
I also, because of that fear, pride so many different things.
I've been to India and you know, I followed Grus
(28:25):
and you know I've done all kinds of things. I've
eaten every way, and I've played many different kinds of
exercise routines and sciants and this and that, all all
to try to find control, Like how can I control
what I don't know if it is or it's not
going to happen to me.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
And so in that, you.
Speaker 8 (28:49):
Know, trying to figure out what my life was going
to be like, I discovered a lot of really great things.
I learned how to meditate, I became a very I
already accomplished yogi. I did a lot of things that
stayed with me. But what I had realized is I
was followed. I was trying to find somebody, a person adopted,
(29:12):
a holistic doctor or a guru or a you know,
or a mentor of some kind that was going to
guide me on me and so I realized in my
mid forties, and I told this story at the Visionary
Women and it's too long to tell here, but.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
You know what, Mary Out, I'm a Mary Out Mario.
I'm gonna pause you because this is a great cliffhanger.
I want you when we come back, to tell us
who you met and what you found in that meeting,
because this story really really changed me when I heard
it the first time, and I want to make sure
that others hear it now. I want you to have
plenty of time to tell it. Okay, So we're going
(29:53):
to come right back with that story. We're talking to
Marielle Hemingway, OSCAR nominated actress. You know her from Lipstick,
Personal Best, The Superman of nineteen eighty seven. She is acclaimed,
she is an author. She's the creator of a new
retreat and an online embodiment program called Return of the Queen.
(30:14):
And will continue this conversation with Maryelle Hemingway on the
other side of the break. It's Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm
Tiffany Hobbs. Here until seven KFI AM six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you, and we're talking to the Oscar
nominated and I want to make sure that I lead
with that, because we cannot minimize this woman's accomplishments. The
Oscar nominated, critically acclaimed actress and author Maryelle Hemingway. And
she's been telling us a bit about a retreat, an
(30:54):
online embodiment program that she created that really addresses my
inntal health needs and wellness and helping guide people through
their challenges to have hopefully a more balanced life, especially
with what's happening all around us. We have chaos seemingly
everywhere you turn. And Marielle, you were telling us a
(31:16):
story just before we went to break about you seeking
something and it leading you somewhere and meeting someone that
impacted your life. Can you please pick up where you
left off with this story because it's good.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
I will absolutely thank you so much. Yes. So, I
really spent a great deal of my kind of young
adulthood really searching, searching, searching, searching for a person, a guru,
a teacher, or somebody, a holistic doctor, somebody who is
going to, you know, fix me, because I thought, oh, dear,
(31:53):
I come from this broken family, an amazing family, but
it's a broken family. They suffer from so many different things,
mental illnesses and addictions and such. And finally, in my
mid forties, I went and saw His Holiness, the Dalai
Lama in India and it was really it was exciting
and I thought, oh, this is fantastic. And there was
(32:16):
a I got a private audience, not me personally. I
was with a lot of really fancy and very erudite
people who are heads of magazines and television things and
movie studios and what have you. But I was there
and it was very exciting. And he came down the
stairs and he sat, he sat down in this kind
(32:37):
of overstuffed chair and he had and he looked at me,
and he had me sit right next to him in
a chair right next to him, and there were actually
pillows in front of him, which I thought that I
should was probably going to end up sitting on. So
I sat down there. So I was so excited. My
heart was beating really fast.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Oh my God.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
Holiness was looking at me and he would smile and
he would giggle periodically, but he would always kind of
take a look at me and he would smile, and I,
being nervous, I would smile and giggle back.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Anyway, an hour and a half went by. He'd listened
to every person and made them so feel so special,
like every person that had something to say to him,
it was as though he and that person were the
only ones in the room. So after about an hour
and a half, and I just was happy to be there.
I had nothing to ask him. I was just in
(33:28):
awe that I was in the presence of somebody whose
energy was just so joyous, really only joyous without being
It was very humble joyous, but not flamboyant. It was
just amazing to watch him. And we were about to leave,
and you could see the monks were kind of gathering
(33:50):
and it was and I started to get up from
the chair and he put his hand on my hand
and he looked me in the eye and he said,
you're okay. Wow, wow, And it was such a profound
I mean I cry every time I tell this story
because it was the moment I realized, oh my gosh,
(34:14):
I am okay. I realized, Oh.
Speaker 10 (34:18):
My gosh, I am you know, I don't need a guru.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
I don't need a doctor. I don't need a Now
do we need help? Yes? But I realized and it
wasn't like, you know, the heavens opened up and I
all of a sudden had an enlightened moment. But it
took that moment forward. I realized that I was my guide,
I was my teacher. I and so I started the
(34:44):
Return of the Queen because I believe that every woman
that joins the Tea Circle and then they do this
thing called Rise to Remember, which is a one day
kind of transformation, and then they joined the Return of
the Queen, which is an eight week kind of program.
I want to call it a journey because I feel
like I'm just there to witness and kind of guide,
(35:06):
but not you know, I'm not trying to be anybody's
guru or doctor or anything. But I want all of
these women that I've been speaking to for the last
few months to realize that they're all okay, we're all
in perfect bodies with that we actually are really great,
(35:27):
but we've forgotten because we've latched onto a story about ourselves.
That isn't happening now. So the past is in the past.
And I think that what's so hard for us, especially
in the world we live in today, is that we
are so attached to the trauma that we've been through.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
And that's not diminishing anybody's pain or problems, because so
many people have gone through horrific things and I never
diminish that. But once you have been through.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
It, it's not happening now. So how can we move
forward into the present moment being who we really would
like to be, which is an embodied and whole person.
And that's unique to every one of these women, to me,
to you, to everyone who's listening, every and every man,
(36:20):
all everybody is very unique and our wholeness is very
unique to us. But sometimes we've forgotten who we really
are and we've become who society thought we were, or
a teacher or a parent, or a you know, or
a trauma that happened to us that was very legitimate,
(36:41):
but we held on to the survival technique and didn't
move on to how to be present. So that's what
the Return of the Queen is about.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Well, you know, Mary Elle, let's get some people signed
up for Return of the Queen. We want people to
benefit from this information, from everything you just shared with us,
because it certainly sounds transformational, and it certainly sounds timely,
especially given what everyone is It's unavoidable what we're all
dealing with in today's society, whether it's political or environmental
(37:12):
or physical, we all are experiencing the weight of everything
that's going on. So let's get some people signed up.
How do they contact you? How do they get themselves
involved in Return of the Queen?
Speaker 8 (37:25):
If you go to Instagram and look, I'm I'm not
the most technically proficient person, So I do Instagram and Facebook,
and I'm maryel Hemingway M A R I E L
Hemingway h T M I N G W A Y.
And if you follow me there and you look at
any one of my posts, if you if you say
(37:47):
rise or you say tea circle, we can. It gets
you into the information. Also, in the bio, it says
you know the Return of the Queen and gives you
the site, which is the Queen returns dot com.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Got it?
Speaker 8 (38:00):
That's how you Yeah, that's pretty easy, that's pretty easy.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
I'm going to restate that I'm going to restate that
Maryelle Hemingway is Maryelle Hemingway on all social media platforms Facebook,
maryel Hemingway and Instagram at Maryelle Hemingway. And if you
don't not to spell that, you can certainly google it
because she's everywhere. And if you just comment Rise or
Return of the Queen on a post and Mary Elle
(38:26):
or will respond and help you get signed up, and
the website is right there as well in her bio
on Facebook and on Instagram, it is Return of the
Queen dot com.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Is that what you said? Yes, Return of.
Speaker 8 (38:40):
The No No, no, yes, no, the Queen Return.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
The Queen returns dot com. The Queen is here.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
You can get the Queen returns dot com.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
The Queen Returns dot com. Maryelle Hemingway on Facebook at
maryell Hemingway on Instagram, comment Rise or Queen or some
derivative of this conversation on her Instagram. Let her know
you heard you heard her right here on KFI Saturdays
with Tiffany, and she'll get that information to you so
(39:12):
that you can become a participant in this life changing
embodiment program Return of the Queen and stay up to
date on all things Marielle Hemingway, because she is the
queen and she has given us her time. Thank you
so much, Marielle. You are welcome back here anytime.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
I'm so grateful to you. Thank you so much giving
me this is a maid. Then what an amazing Saturday treat.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
You are most welcome and it is certainly a treat
for us. Thank you so much, Mariel. We'll talk to
you soon.
Speaker 8 (39:44):
Absolutely, Bye bye, take care.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
It's Saturdays with Tiffany. When we come back, We're going
to talk about why fireworks are out of control in
the city of Los Angeles, and I'll give you things
that experts say they wish you knew, and what LA
and Southern California are moving towards in LUA fireworks because
(40:08):
there's a campaign to make fireworks in any capacity just
not the go to celebration for Fourth of July or
New Year's or any big celebration. And we'll talk about
that in our deeper dive segment right after the break.
Tiffany hobbs here till seven o'clock on KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (40:28):
App KFI AM six forty on demand,
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