Christmas Day

You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Mary Christmas, Thanks for waking up with us this morning. If you were up early, maybe you're cooking or just making some coffee. I hope your day is getting started off just wonderfully because it's

Christmas. So this Christmas Morning, which is a time filled with hope and love and family and friendship, we wanted to highlight a girl who is filling the world with hope and love and changing lives and she's not even old enough to drink. I love sharing stories like Hannah's. Hannah Karnick is a recent graduate of Say Joke Charter High School. So Hannah, please tell us about

how you're helping kids and why you're doing it. Yeah. So, when I was in eighth grade or seventh to eighth grade, I started a charity called Hannah's Helpful Hands. And basically what it does is it works with students to provide them basic necessities like shirts and backpacks and socks and toilet tree bags and hygiene bags. So it's a free closet inside of elementary schools and so students can discreetly get these items so that you know they can have them.

And it started by me having fifteen foster siblings. Oh wait, wait wait wait wait fifteen foster siblings. Yeah, that's so like all at the same time or over a period of years. How did that all come together? That was over a period of time. Okay, so over over my whole seventeen years of life. Yeah, I've had fifteen foster siblings. Wow, okay. So I would imagine that there would be some challenges along the way with that, and so you saw that there was a need for kids and

said I'm going to do something about it. Yeah. Yeah, basically I love that and the program. You've been doing it since seventh or eighth grade you recent like graduated, so what first six years? Yeah? Yeah, for six years and it's been going on super strong so far. I've expanded to twelve different schools. So it started in my former elementary school and now it's at twelve different school that's so great. And are all the schools in

Anaheim or where are they? Most of them are. They're in like Orange County, so they're kind of scattered, but most of them are in Anaheim. Yeah, okay, And all of that wonderful work that you have done got someone's attention, and you recently recently were awarded the eighteen under eighteen Award by the National Society of High School Scholars So tell us about that and how excited were you to win that. I was so excited to win that.

You know, like, college is very expensive, and so winning new types of scholarships has been like and winning this scholarship has been such a such a blessing for me. And because of that scholarship, like I don't have to work as much in school, so that school is cheaper and now I can focus more on my studies and gaining more skills to learn how to better help these kids and to work more with the schools and with the students. Okay,

so you are working and you're going to school. Where are you going to school? Now? I go to Biola University. Good for you, that's amazing. So you're doing that and then you're also working with your helpful hands charity and making sure that that continues. Yeah. Yeah, so it's still I went to school. Biola is near Anaheim, so it's not that far away, so I can still keep my charity going. But the cool thing is is that I have had more people help me recently, so I've

been able to take a few steps back and that's been super awesome. The way that people have also been helping. That's great because at some point you need to move on, focus on you and take care of you so you can go change the world even more. If people want to donate Hannah, is there a way for them to do that? Yes, you can actually just go to Hannah's Helpfulhands dot com and it'll take you right right to the donate page. Okay, and what are you studying. I'm studying communications.

Oh good girl. Oh you're gonna come take my job one day? Yes, perfect, you agree. I think you're really good at your job, so you can get it. Hannah Carnick, thank you so much. I'm so proud of you, and I hope you hear that a lot for the rest of your life, because, like I said, not all kids are doing great things, and you, my dear, are doing great things. Oh, thank you so much. All right, you take care, Okay, bye, all right, thank you so much, Hannah. You're welcome.

All right. That was so fun. Oh good. So we're going to just so you know, Okay, we're not going to run it tomorrow because I want to have some time to highlight it. So I think we'll probably run it on Monday. So it'll it's Monday from five to six am. And if you're not up, you can you can listen to it on the iHeartRadio app at anytime, just go and search. Way okay, okay,

perfect, thank you so much. Oh and you know what, Hannah, can you do you have any like photos or something that you can email to us because we want to put it on our wake up call page too. Yes, totally. Do I send it to the same email that I've been emailing, Yeah, just the one. I don't know what that one was. Okay, so that's yeah, that's and so just hit a reply all and and uh and send that over. And if you actually, if you have any like logos of Hannah's helping hands, that would be great.

Awesome. Yes, it's just send that all over and like I said, we'll put it on the wake up call page on our website too. Okay, awesome, Yay, that's so exciting. Thank you so much much. Luck to you. You're so awesome. Okay, thank you, bye bye. Amy's on it. Sami's Amen's on it, Damien's on it? What am I on? I am on a plethora of streaming shows because there's documentaries, there's series, there's movies. There's so much to see. How do

you know what to see? And so lots of times they take recommendations from my friends, my family. They have good recommendations most of the time. Right now, we're going to check out Lessons in Chemistry. It's on Apple TV stars bre Larsen. It was being released weekly as Apple does, but now the full season is out, so if you want to binge it you can so. Bree Larson plays a chemist who, because she's a woman in the nineteen fifties, really struggles with it because she can only be a lab

tech because women don't they can't be lead scientists in the nineteen fifties. The chemist she works with kind of treat her more like a secretary. She does make a mean cup of coffee because she's a chemist after all. It's a good character for Bree Larson. She is stoic, she's unemotional yet scientifically incredibly curious, and it's really great because I think she does she's such a good

actress. She does a really good job with this role. So you see her fall, you see her get up, you see her grow, and you see her evolve. And I always like when they do that with a character arc like the character doesn't stay the same throughout the series, and she definitely does some evolving. It follows her journey from the lab to the kitchen, where she ends up posting a TV show called suppar At six, which we know from the very first episode because they launch it with her on TV.

So I'm not spoiling anything for you. Probably won't be another season. The show pretty much comes to a satisfying and it was based on a book, so it kind of encapsulates the book. I would imagine. I have not read the book. If they wanted to do another season, I think they probably could, but from what I'm hearing, there aren't any talks right now to see it. But definitely worth the watch. Thought that was a

really good one. And then, as I tend to do when I start streaming stuff, then I start searching around and I dived down rabbit holes and I did it yesterday because after I got done watching the last episode of Lessons in Chemistry, I found Hannah Wattington's home for Christmas, and of course Hannah Wattington was Rebecca on ted Lasso, and so she does this Christmas special. It again is on Apple TV. It's only forty five minutes, so it's

a pretty quick watch. And I will tell you that one is a good one. If you want to feel good about the Christmas season and just you know, feel happy and joyous, this is the one to watch because her excitement enthusiasm comes through in spades, and she's just beautiful and boy can she sing. And then it was really fun too, because it was like the whole cast of ted Lasso was there for the show. It was a live

show in London at a theater and it was really good. And then, as I mentioned, I went down that rabbit hole and then went, you know what, I really loved the Christmas episode of ted Lasso. So I went and found that and watched that, and it reiterated my belief that ted Lasso is probably the best show on TV in the last ten years. It's fabulous. If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it. If you have watched it, watch it again because again I watched the Christmas episode last

night and It still just made me smile. And if you need to feel good and you want to be happy, Ted Lasso is the way to do it again. On Apple TV. That's what I'm on this week. When we come back, I've got a great idea for how you can spend part of your holiday break relaxing with a good book by CNN's Jake Tapper. Yep, we get to talk to Jake Tapper. Ho ho ho, it's your Christmas Morning wake Up Call on KFI Am six forty. You're listening to wake

Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. I know it's really early to be up on Christmas, and if you're working, God bless you. If you're headed to the in laws, good luck. But seriously, whatever you're doing up this early, thank you for making wake Up Call part of your Christmas morning. So maybe you're up early to start cooking Christmas dinner.

If you are starting this early, you're definitely an overachiever. So I did a little research and found out that Americans start cooking Christmas dinner at nine thirty six a m. On average, and Christmas dinner takes over three hours to prep. And I didn't know this because I know that on Thanksgiving a lot of people eat early, but I didn't realize a lot of people eat early

on Christmas Day too. But apparently the ideal time to eat is three forty five, and then it'll take three days to eat up all the leftovers. Bonap a teat. So in the king household, we usually do prime rib for Christmas dinner, and bless my mother's heart, she got she used to get it wrong, like every year, like it would be way overcooked or just really raw. But in the last few year, I think she's really hit her stride and it comes out perfect every time, so delicious. I

can't wait for Christmas dinner. So, as I was talking about earlier, the holidays are a good time to curl up with a good book. And if it was colder here in La, I'd say curl up by the fireplace, but it's too warm. So Jake Tapper has recently released a book. It's called All the Demons Are Here? Is it sacrilege to say demons on Christmas? Anyway, we got a chance to catch up with the author, Jake Tapper himself. Good morning, Jake, good morning. How are you

doing doing great now? With everything going on in the world. We could talk politics all day, and if you're listening, you might expect that, but we're not going to do that. We're going to take a break from all that. We'll just call it nastiness and talk about Jake's new book. You have written a book called All the Demons Are Here, and I literally just finished it last night, So I'm super excited to talk to you today.

Oh, thank you. I'm I'm glad you. I assume if you finished it then you liked it. I did, and I'm going to tell you there's several reasons I did like it. But of course has a lot of politics in it. But it's a thriller, and I will tell people that it kind of sucks you in from the very beginning. Do you want to give us a little intro to entice people to what they might expect.

Sure. Well, First, the book takes place in one of the weirdest years in American history, nineteen seventy seven, this year that all this strange stuff legitimately happens. It is the year that Studio fifty four opens, huge year for disco, Elvis dies, Evil Knievel is prominent. It's the summer of Sam, The Sun of Sam, serial Killer. Tabloid journalism is huge. Cults are big in the United States. UFO sightings are happening all over

the country. So it's a weird year. I don't know how many people have read my two previous books, but those books tell the story of Charlie and Margaret Martyr. He's a congressman, cheese as zoologist. This book is their adult kids. They're now in their twenties. Ike and Lucy. Ike is an a wall marine, very disillusioned with the country. He is in Montana working on the pit crew of Evil can Eevil and Way Way, Way, Way Jay. So you've got you weave Evil Knievel into the story.

Yes, he was this crazy stuntman who did these wild jumps. He jumped over Snake River, or he tried to anyway. It didn't go very well. But he would jump over busses and he was a huge He was a huge celebrity in the nineteen seventies. And there is something very and this is not meant in a pejorative way in any way, but there's something very Trumpian about him. He was this guy who had this tremendous bravado and salesmanship.

He was able to really just get draw a crowd based on his own charisma and his own celebrity, and I played with that a lot in the book. Now, his sister Lucy, she's a journalist in Washington, and since this is the era of serial killer and tabloid journalists, I had her on the trail of the serial killer in Washington, d C. And working for a ruper. Murdoch asked, character, who is starting a tabloid journal tabloid newspaper in Washington, D C. So she's kind of doing a Who've done

it? While her brother is working you know, is working for Evil CANEVL and the stories converge at the end. One of the things I was going to say too in reading it, it's interesting to see the parallels between how things were in nineteen seventy seven and how they are today. And I kept reading going, well that's still happening, Well, that's still happening. I mean, like the more things change, the more they say stay the same,

I guess. And then one of the main characters, Ike, as you mentioned, he speaks so lovingly about motorcycles, not only when he's riding with Evil, but in other areas, and I'm wondering, does that come from you? Are you a big motorcycle guy? So that is the biggest compliment you could give me. I have never written the motorcycle in my life. I but I'm a writer, so I wrote I. You know I I did my best to try to convince people that I knew what I was

talking about. And I also hired an editor who is an expert on motorcycles, and I said, please make, you know, help me make the sound like Ike knows what he's talking about, because I don't know what I'm talking about, And he and that editor helped me make it sound and so it's not like you don't have to know anything about motorcycles to read the book. But you know, I wanted to make it seem as though I in telling his stories that he did, so that is a huge compliment. Thank

you, Thank you very much. I also had a woman editor go through Lucy's chapters to make those sound as though they were written by a woman, which I am also not. And I also love the historical references. I think you know you catch I call them today, I would call them like little easter eggs, like I think I caught a reference to different Strokes. The characters were different, but the story was the same. Remember the show that was on Taphe Yeah, there is there is an illusion to a different

Strokes esque. Yeah, yes, that's exactly. It's not exactly the show, but yeah, something like that. Yeah, one hundred percent. Ronald Reagan shows up in it. George Bush shows up at some point. Won't tell you when or why because you were going to want to read it and find out. But in this crazy world, like all of this could have

actually happened, which makes it even more fun. The main thing is, I just wanted to write a book that people thought was fun and wanted to know how it turned out and kept turning the pages because they cared about the characters and they wanted to see how it resolved itself. And I mean the

main the theme in all my books. The first one takes place in the fifties during the Joe McCarthy era, the second one takes place in the sixties with the rat Pack, and this one obviously in the seventies, and the main theme is always just I want you to love the main characters, the family, the Martyr family, and have fun with the historical fiction and the historical characters, but at the end of the day, I want you just

to love the Martyr family and care about what happens to them in these thrillers. And that's really interesting because I haven't read your first two books, I will admit that, but I did read this one cover to cover, and you don't have to read the first two to get into this one, so that's kind of cool. But it also makes me want to go back and

read the other ones. And the other thing was that, like we were talking about how it comes from Ike's perspective and then Lucy's perspective, and the book's moving along, and last night when I was finishing it, I was like, oh, man, I've only got like forty pages left. No, I'm not ready for this book to come to an end. So it really is. It's fun and it was entertaining, and so bravo Jake Tapper.

Well that's so nice. That's really so nice to hear. But the good news for you is now you can go back and read about the first the first years of Charlie and Margaret's marriage, when she's pregnant with Lucy, and then when Charlie and Margaret have an adventure in with the rat Pack after they have had their two kids, but they get pulled out to California. That's the second book, so there is a little bit more, although although

I can Lucy are not major characters in the first two books. Charlie and Margaret okay, Jake Tapperck, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today, and much success with all the demons are here. It was really a good read. Thank you so much. It's so kind of you. I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm smiling. Thank good so much. All right, take care, Thank you so much, by bye bye. It's a really fun read. I highly recommend

it, and I'm definitely planning on reading his other books as well. When we come back, we're going to go knocking at the door of the Tournament House in Pasadena to get the inside scoop on this year's Tournament of Roses Parade, which is now just one week away. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty, so it is one week until the Tournament of Roses Parade. As we all know, it's an institution and pretty much loved around the world. And it's right in our own backyard. I

mean, how lucky are we? So we wanted to find out more about the parade, where it came from, what's in store for this year. So we headed over to the Wrigley Mansion, the tournament house in Pasadena. Let's see if someone's home. Hi, Amy, Hi, Look at there. It's Alex Agajanian. Come on in. Just happens to be the president of the Tournament of Roses. Alex, you get to come and work here every day. I get to come here quite a bit. That's ext This

is the home of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. It has been our home since the mid fifties, and this is where all the magic happens and you start planning for this amazing event that's coming up. And so let's talk about the parade. It's if we have to, if we absolutely have to. How long has the parade been going on? It since eighteen ninety so this is the one hundred and thirty fifth, okay, And when when it started out? Do we know how many floats there were in the parade?

There really weren't floats. Our carriages and buggies and all sorts of things that the families that lived in the area used and they went to their garden and they took their flowers and their plants and decorated those carriages and all that. It started as a way to show the East Coasters who were buried in snow. You come out to California and look what we're doing out here. So it's just a floral parade. They started with buggies and carriages. That's amazing.

And then when was it first televised nineteen forty seven, I believe I believe KTLA was the first station to televise it. It went on the radio about nineteen twenty five when we went coast to coast and that's when the parade started getting it's footing as a statewide parade that people wanted to hear about. Okay, so now we know that there are big parades. There's the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is another big one. But the Tournament of Roses

Parade is so spectacular and unique because it's all about live things. Correct, So our floats have a requirement that they have to be decorated with something that's alive or should have been alive, or could have been alive. Right, okay, so seeds and all those things are on there, but anything that was alive. Our horses are also decorated sometimes of flowers and all that, and our marching bands don't really decorate that way, although this year we have

a band in the parade from Westchester, Pennsylvania. Okay, that is marching down the street with floats around it and all that flowers and their banners all flowers. So it's something we should look for this year in the parade, okay. And how many bands participate twenty one? And how do they get picked? Did they submit entries or do you just kind of look around and

say that one's good, that one's good. How's that done? So the president in the President's family has a final say so on the bands that are in the parade. Oh wait a second, So you are the last line there with a lot of help, okay, all right, And we have a music committee. So the music committee starts about two years before the parade

they're going to march in accepting applications. They screen them and then make a presentation to the president and the president's family, and at the presentation, the president decides what band or bands are going to be in the Prey, Okay,

and you have a wide variety of bands. I know that we were talking earlier before we start, Before you and I started talking, we were talking to Candy and she was showing us the care rio cabinet that has chochkes from the different places that you've gone to, because you go to each of the places where a band comes from to visit them. Correct, And so where are some of the bands from this year? So we have three international bands Costa Rica, Japan, in England, Okay, and then we have

the remainder bands from throughout the United States Okay. And there's a very special band this year from Hawaii. There is, and can you tell us a little bit about that and why it's special that they're here this year. So the Hawaii band is a composite band, and one of the groups that are in the band is from Maui. And those Mali kids, as you know, from the fires, suffered a great deal. Absolutely about ten of them

when we visited aren't coming this year. Their homes are destroyed, their instruments were destroyed, and their poor families just can't afford it. Yeah, I'm hopeful that they had found a way to come, but it's just that it

didn't happen, yea. And so we're going to celebrate those kids. I know Japan is going to do a concert, the Japanese band, It's going to do a concert to support the Hawaiian band and more particularly the kids from Maui's great and so it's so fun because all of the bands have a story. And then of course there's the floats that are so fantastic. So give us a little sneak peak of some of the floats that may be caught your eye a little extra special. I know they're all special. So we have

two flyovers in the parade. Okay, okay. The first one is the traditional bomber and it's escort this year of two planes in the first one, and then the second one is coding for veterans. The float they have, yep, they're going to in addition to their float, they're going to have a fly over with vintage World War II planes. Oh cool. Okay, So we haven't had two flyovers in my recent memory. And then we have a whole number of floats because of the theme, that have musical acts on

them. The Calgirl channel has got musical acts all women, a Calgirl group on the float and twenty five equestrian units riding around it. There is a forty three foot tall bear. It's riding behind me in the parade. Thank god, it's a unit behind me. Cal Paula Pomona's got an undersea concert with Manna rays and all that. Really, there's just a lot of really fun things to come see. We have four entertainment units in the parade. Okay, you're going to be surprised on at Honda is the opening show and

how their foat is really cool. It's a fusturistic design. It's really really cool. You know. The Mansion group is closing the parade, and they've got some real good talent in all these units. There is one hundred and eighty foot long equestrian unit Smoky Bear. I say smoking the Bear, but I was correct at the other day. Smoky Bear, Well, I like the bear. I know you got to set the table for the bear. There's a song that says Smoky the Bear. Come on, he's in the

parade this year, okay. With his unit's about one hundred and eighty feet long. We have a five unit float from Newport beachs in the parade. That's a little shorter than Smoky's unit. Okay, it's also a long unit. And that's five separate, five separate units carriage as opposed to the one

one. And I think one of the things that is so cool when you're watching the floats is like you were saying that everything has to have something that was live, it's natural, organic and the move that they get, especially like when they show the animals. I saw that there's one and there's going to be a lion on there somewhere, and I can't wait to see the main and the flowers or the plants that they use to get that movement and make it look so realistic. Well, I'll be lying to you if I

wasn't telling you it's spectacular. And then we have our Grand Marshal and the theme for this year is celebrating a world of music. So only appropriate that our Grand Marshal is correct. The Grand Marster was Auder McDonald. Don't tell anybody. I think we had that announcement already. We did. Yeah, when did that happen? I think it was a couple of weeks ago. Alix I did it. But there is a new announcement of somebody who's going

to be performing for the closing show? Yes, and that is Jordan's Sparks And what is she going to do? She's going to be singing on the Mansion float the closing act. Oh that's what a great way to end the parade. Okay. So for people watching, when is the parade? When does it start? January first? Yes? Of course, eight eight o'clock in the morning. Us for about how long? About two hours? Okay?

We finished within an hour and fifty seven minutes. Okay. And then for people who want to come and take a look at the floats because you see them on TV or if you are at the parade and you get to see them going by, but seeing them up close is really a pretty cool thing, and you can do that after the paray's over. You can we exhibit the floats at Float Fast after the parade. This year, it's a day and a half long and you can come in and tour the park and

see the floats up close. Awesome. Can't wait. I'm so excited for this year's parade. Thank you so much for your time, Olex. You're welcome, appreciate to being with you. I can't wait for the parade. It's just one week from today, and last week we got to go and tour some of the parade floats and get to see how they're put together, so so interesting. They're going to be spectacular this year when we come back our very own Steve Gregory is going to take a look at LightScape, which

goes on through January tewod at the La Arboretum. It's your Christmas Morning wake Up Call on KFI AM six forty. Listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. I'm Amy King. I hope you're having a great start to your Christmas Day. And I know it's still kind of early, but you might even be starting to open presence right now. We're going

to wait till a little later in the day for that. If you're looking for something to do during the week between Christmas and New Year's here's something that will literally light up your night. Steve Gregory headed out to Arcadia for an immersive experience at the La County Arboretum that features more than one million lights. It's called LightScape and features colorful art installations from around the world with one thing

in common. Lights LightScape is an illuminated path through culturally significant gardens. It started in Europe. In the UK, Greg Curtis is the regional producer for the show and also handles the San Diego production. LightScape is nestled in the middle of the arboretum and is just so people can take a leisurely walk through the exhibits. We have Zoe Boutreil, who's the artistic director, and she

curates the entire trail, So we start in August. We all walk the trail together and she comes up with a map of where she thinks the installation pieces will fit. We had a chance to get a tour of the show, but in the daylight during setup. So yeah, we're just starting a trail. Everybody will come through the main entrance of the garden and then proceed down here. We'll already have a little bit of light happening in this tree. You can see it's lit up. It's the pe Light Tree. Typical

kind of scenario. We'll have a little we'll have music that starts right over here. It's about an hour long loop of music, and then right here we have our concessions area, so you can eat, drink, get some swag from the event, and then it's of course it's decorated. We have these wonderful moving lights that go over that fountain, the kind of light up the whole area. You also keep in mind about how long it would take

the average person to get through it. Yeah, we want to keep it to about a little over an hour for a family afford to walk through, right and keep a really consistent pace. I think that's a good amount of time. And you know, everybody seems to enjoy it. Everybody moves in a single direction, so we don't encourage people to go backwards on the trail. We just keep people flowing through the experience. Greg takes his work very

seriously and is passionate about the show. And as we continue on the path, we come upon one of the more popular stops, the Winter Cathedral in daylight. It's simply a long and arched framing with thousands of lights. So there's things that happen in there. You know, people asking they're beloved to marry them often inside of this, so we'll stop and they'll do a proposal. Yeah, yeah, that's the one that it's in all the flyers.

Yeah, it's their signature piece. We stop for a moment and walk through the arch. Walk through it to see what it looks like. It's hard to get a sense of the wow factor in the daylight, but if you've ever seen pictures or video, it's pretty spectacular. We hop back on the ATV and continue the tour. We see someone working in the garden. Don't get up, Sydney's an electrician. Is this one of those things like where when Christmas light goes out, the whole thing thing goes out. Uh?

No, these are a little bit more sophisticated than that. We have a lot of lights here, so we're able to replace individual what's the biggest challenge is an electrician on this project. It's a lot of cable. It's a lot of cable and a lot of electricity we're dealing with. We have a number of generators that we're running to, so it's about mapping out where everything's going and making sure that we are within the limits. And how many generators

do you think you have here? Seven? I believe yeah? Seven. From here, we get out of the ATV and go for a walk. That's where we dan another electrician with the show these types of bulbs now with these LEDs and that that doesn't pull nearly the water. It's just the old incandescent or anything. Right, They're like eighty watts even at their max full power, and since we're usually only running single colors in a lot of the

variety of sections that you see, they drive in fractions of that. There are some real big panels that you'll see around the park that are out on the ground. Those are up to around eight hundred and fifty watts if you're running them at full but that's just because they're giant blasters. They're things to give bright washes of color all over the place. We keep walking when we

come upon a really bizarre setup. It's a tall, square frame with hundreds of cables hanging from the interior, and each of those has dozens of lights embedded into the cable. It's called submersion, and obviously you get a pixel map in three D space that you can walk through and you can kind of touch and feel, and it's an immersive experience. And it's some music. It's just a tone or a sound, right, yeah, is this kind of like a soundscape in the light skape? Right? Wow? So at

night you can you really feel like you're travelings and stay. So we'll do this again, and it'll be totally different with the light. With the light you want to go to do a walking back. As we head back to the start of the tour, Greg tells me he hopes Lightskate becomes an annual holiday tradition for families, with all the proceeds going to a good cause the care and maintenance of the Arboretum. For wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory

k if I News. Thanks Steve. So. LightScape is closed for Christmas today, but it's going to be open every day from tomorrow through Tuesday, January tewod and I got to go see it. I loved it. I've been twice this year. To get your tickets, you can go to Arboretum dot org. Highly recommend it. We're going to wrap up our Christmas morning wake up call with something I hope will bring a smile to you this early Christmas morning. It's a politically correct night before Christmas. Twas the night before

Christmas, and Santa's a wreck. How to live in a world that's politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to elves vertically challenged, they were calling themselves, and labor conditions at the North Pole were alleged by the union to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished without much propriety, released to the wilds by the Humane Society, and Equal Employment had made it quite clear

that Santa had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid were replaced with four pigs, and you know that looked stupid. The runners had been removed from his sleigh. The rets were termed dangerous by the EPA, and people had started to call for the cops when they heard sled noises on their rooftops. Secondhand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite

frightened. His fur trimmed red suit was called unenlightened. And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows, Rudolph was suing over unauthorized use of his nose and had gone on Kelly Clarkson in front of the nation, demanding

millions in overdue compensation. So half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife, who suddenly said she'd enough of this life, joined a self help group, packed and left in a whiz, demanding from now on her title was miz And as for the gifts, why He'd never had a notion that making a choice could cause so much commotion. Nothing of leather, nothing of fur, which meant nothing for him and nothing for her. Nothing that might be construed to pollute, nothing to aim, nothing to shoot, Nothing that

clamored or made lots of noise. Nothing for just girls or just for the boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific. Nothing that's warlike or non pacific. No candy or sweets. They were bad for the tooth. Nothing that seemed to embellish a truth. And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden, were They're kind of like yeezies, better off hidden for they raised the hackles of those psychological who claimed the only good gift was one ecological. No

baseball, no football, someone could get hurt. Besides, playing sports exposes kids to dirt. Dolls were said to be sexist and should be passee, and Xbox would wrat your poor brain away. So Santa just stood there, disheveled, perplexed. He just could not figure out what to do next. He tried to be merry, he tried to be gay, but you've got to be careful with that word. Today his sack was quite empty. Limped

to the ground, nothing fully acceptable was to be found. Something special was needed, a gift that he might give to all without angering the left or the right. A gift that would satisfy with no indecision, each group of people, every religion, every ethnicity, every hue, everyone everywhere, even you. So here is that gift. It's price beyond worth. May you and your loved ones enjoy peace on earth. And just like that, our time is done. Wake Up Call always goes by so fast. For me,

this has been your Christmas morning wake up Call. Thank you so much for starting your Christmas day with us. Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, and whomever you are with on behalf of producer Anne and board engineer Kono, have a very merry Christmas. This is KFI AM six forty and KOST

HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. You've been listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear Wakeup Call five to six am Monday through Friday on kf I AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app