Trisha Lord St George, entertainer and former hospice/palliative care music therapy volunteer at a major healthcare organization. Bio - I am still ‘Living the Dream With My Best Life!’ Trisha Lord St. George is an entertainer who has used her talents to assist people in hospice care as they prepare to pass away. Trisha volunteered at a major healthcare organization for 20 years, playing and singing music to and with dying patients to ease their minds and anxieties. After those 20 years of dedicated service, the organization hired Trisha officially into their music therapy program, where she worked dutifully to support her patients for 6 years. Trisha was released in June, 2024 from her position due to a restructuring of the music program. However, when life handed Trisha lemons, she made plenty of fresh lemon-aid; along with lemon cookies, lemon pies and lemon cakes. This meant it was time for her to follow her heart to pursue those dreams of acting and entertaining with all fears aside. Along with sharing the gift of song and gratitude, nothing was going to stop Trisha's sparkle- her joy! Despite the changes, Trisha says, "Life is great as I again make even better lemonade than before!" The Good, The Bad, and the Downright Weird. Will Kohlschreiber is a big part of our KFI News Team and formerly flew for our "KFI in the Sky" airborne traffic reporting. But Will has a lot more than that in his resume, including- Live broadcast network aerial camera operator for Super Bowl 57 on FOX, Super Bowl 50 Week on CBS, 2017 & 2018 World Series, NBA All-Star Game on TNT, PGA Golf on NBC and other major NFL, MLB, Nascar, NBA & NCAA events on CBS, NBC, ABC, ESPN & TNT Sports. -- Aerial reporter/photographer for NBC4 (KNBC Los Angeles), in NewsChopper 4 for Today in L.A. Work seen on the Today Show and NBC Nightly News. -- FOX-11's Good Day L.A. -- An experienced aerial photographer, with thousands of hours at the controls of the Cineflex Media HD v14, GSS/Sony P50 & FLIR camera systems. -- Owner/UAV pilot/aerial photographer - DroneDazzle.com. -- Accomplished voice over artist, with an in-demand, youthful-sounding, "crunchy" delivery style. Parting Fun Fact: 1. How does a helicopter pilot stay humble? They're always grounded when they're not in the air.
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to quite a few listeners, many who were there, of
course to support Bruno Serrato Caterina's Club KFI and our
efforts towards feeding kids who live in hotels and motels
around the Southland. While there, I got to speak to
one specific woman, one woman in particular. Her name is
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Tricia Lord Saint George, and Tricia had an incredible backstory.
She held me captive, she held my attention, and she
told me not only was she there to support postathon,
but that giving and selflessness was a core tenant is
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a core tenant to who she is and what she
does and what she has done over the course of
her life and the previous twenty plus years. Tricia has
done something that many of us likely would not be
able to handle, things that would be uncomfortable for most,
and that is to work with people in hospice and
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in palliative care. Let me tell you a bit about
Tricia Lord Saint George. She says, I am still living
the dream with my best life. Tricia Lord Saint George
is an entertainer who has used her talents to assist
people in hospice care as they prepare to pass away.
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Tricia volunteered at a major healthcare organization for twenty years,
playing and singing music to and with dying patients to
ease their minds and anxieties. After those twenty years of
dedicated service, the organization hired Tricia officially into their music
therapy program, where she worked dutifully to support her patients
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for six years.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Tricia was a part.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Of this beautiful music program until the program dealt with
some restructuring, and when that restructuring occurred, Tricia no longer
had her position in the music department. However, when life
handed Tricia lemons, she made fresh lemonade along with lemon cookies,
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lemon pies, and lemon cakes. Tricia loves her limon everything right.
This meant it was time for her to follow her
heart to pursue those dreams of acting and entertaining with
all fears aside. Along with sharing the gift of song
and gratitude, nothing was going to stop Tricia's sparkle her joy.
(04:18):
Despite the changes, Tricia says life is great as I
again make.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Even better lemonade than be four.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Tricia is a ball of energy, a positive light. She
is one of those two million led lights for sure
out there at the magic of light. She's probably the
brightest of all and I am so glad to have
her here on the show for her very first KFI
AM six forty appearance. Tricia Lord Saint George. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh, Tiffany, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Wow, you are so very welcome. You are amazing, Tricia
Lord Saint George. And the reason that you are with us,
amongst many reasons, is again because of your selflessness. When
you could be doing literally anything else with your talent,
you were bedside people who are in hospice and palliative care.
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And that is something that many people just simply could
not do, would not be comfortable doing.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's a difficult It can be a difficult position. But
you know, the way I always looked at it is
I kind of put myself in that person's shoes, and
I realized, you know what, if I was dying, I
would like to pet a cat or a dog, or
have a favorite song sung to me, or just telling
someone there would make the day better, would make me
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feel better, and that kind of when I realized, as
people are dying, and many times I never had a
repeat visit, and somehow, like weeks later, I would get
a card from the family and they would say, you
made a difference in my mom's life, where you made
a big difference in my dad's passing, and it was
just they were just very appreciative of how the comfort
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of hospice made their loved ones feel. And that's I
follow my heart, I follow my dreams, I follow my heart,
and some found my heart. My dreams are all in
the same.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Package, you know, and fortunate for us that they are,
and for the people you've worked with over your career
as a volunteer and then an employee at that organization
to be able again to give of yourself in that
way at a time when people are dealing with likely
one of the saddest periods of their lives.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It can be sad if you look at it as sad.
It can be a joyous time as you look at
it as a joyous time. And I actually started out
being that volunteer. I had a therapy cat, and this
was an amazing cat that roped me into hospice. I
didn't choose hospice. The cat chose she needed a job,
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and I got her this job as a hospice volunteer.
I just happened to be her driver, her handler. This cat,
her name was Isabella, and she actually she was just
this amazing cat. People could not believe this cat like
she knew it was time to go to work. She
actually would help people do their physical therapy because she
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had like this wacky tail and they would try to
grab it. But she was just this wonderful cat. And
then after she moved on over the Rainbow Bridge, I
still wanted to continue in hospice. And at that time
I was going through a transition with another job because
I worked in animal welfare for fourteen years and I
was going through a transition. And that's when I realized,
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I really want to stick to my acting and abilities
and my singing, and I really want to do this
because it brings joy to people. And since I was
still that volunteer, I started doing programs at different facilities.
I did One Woman shows, I did cabaret shows. I
was doing songs of Dean Martin and being Crosby, and
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I can relate to these I can relate to my
audience because I personally I love old time radio. So
my I mean, my friends don't understand who being crosby
are is a door state. They don't get it. But
my audience got me. They understood. I could talk about
Jack Binny, I could talk about all of these old shows,
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and they was like, oh my gosh, how old are you?
You know? But anyway, I had like this great rapport
with everybody. So I got into this. I started doing
my one woman's shows and then I presented this to
my manager at the time, my volunteer manager, and he was, oh,
my god, this is brilliant. So I had all of
these things where I could go into these facilities, I
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could visit with my patients, I could do all this,
and then they came to me, and they came the
hospice company came to me and says, we want you
to work for us.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Write us, tell us what you want, and we will
we want you here. So six years ago, that's exactly
what I did. They hired me as a music therapist.
Here's the problem, Tiffany.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Before you tell us the problem, Tricia, because this is
a perfect tease for you to come back and tell
us what the challenges were at that time and also
what your career entailed as an entertainer in hospice care.
And I have some questions for you that speak to potential.
I would say other worldly experiences that I would like
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you to maybe share if you've experienced any of those
during this holiday season.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Can you hang on with us for one more segment?
You bet wonderful.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We're talking to Tricia Lord Saint George, an entertainer who
formerly worked in hospice care as an entertainer. And when
we come back, Tricia will tell us more about her career,
what got her to this point, and share some information
that I think will all benefit from during this holiday
season and otherwise. I am six forty Live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you until seven Saturdays with Tiffany,
And what a show we've had so far, A giveaway
of tickets to Magic of Lights out there in the
Coachella Valley, the Empire Polo Club, and now we are
talking to someone I met at the KFI fourteenth Annual Pastathon.
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This woman is undoubtedly incredible, not just for what she's done,
but for what she continues to do. Her selfless spirit,
her generosity, her just contributions in many ways, and we're
learning about those contributions in conversation right now with Tricia
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Lord Saint George, who is an entertainer, and the reason
that I wanted to talk to her at first was
because she spoke about being a singer and songwriter and
musician who played for patients in hospice care, and that
itself just really jumped out at me, because that's a
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difficult situation to find yourself in, potentially for many, I imagine,
because it is uncomfortable. And Tricia Lord Saint George seems
to embrace that sort of discomfort and she has turned
it into not just lemonade, but into a thing of beauty.
And as I got to know more about Tricia through research,
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I just see that she has so many things to
give to our wonderful KFI audience. So Tricia, again, thank
you so much for being with us.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Thank you Tiffany for having me as your guest. You
really I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You're most welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Thank you for being on with us, and you were
telling us before we went to the break that there
were some challenges getting into this industry. After you tell
us about those challenges, I'm going to go a little
George Nori on us. Okay, I want to know if
you've had any sort of memorable experience. Maybe you could
tell us your most memorable experience while while performing in
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hospice care.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Oh. Sure, I've been with patients just as they were
getting ready to go to the other side, so to speak.
And I've held hands and we're chatting, and the next
thing they're gone, and you can feel this there's nothing,
there's like this emptiness, like you can feel like their
body is just it's just a body, like their soul
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is gone.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But I've also, you know, I've experienced other things where
right before someone is ready to go, they start talking about, oh,
my mother's here, or or they start seeing things in
the ceiling, like they go, what's the hole doing in
the ceiling? And the other thing that I feel is
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I can feel the room being very full, like I
feel like there's people behind me. It just gets you
just you have peace, like there's this peaceful entity where
you're just there, and there's just you and the patient,
and you're just you're there, but you can steal. There
is definite presence.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Absolutely, I've experienced things, and so I am a believer
in the otherworldly component. I feel like there's something else
to this. There has to be. And the Christmas season,
the holiday season seems to be, along with maybe the
Halloween season, a time in which our society in American
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around the world, so to speak, actually embraces that kind
of other worldly feeling, those those other things that we
talk about as being unknown, the unknowns and the beauty
of the unknown and spirituality.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You said there was go ahead. I'm sorry, Tricia, No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Go ahead. I'm just agreeing. I was like, yes, there's
it's just a beautiful season. And it's my own mother.
She passed away on December twenty fourth and twenty twenty
oh my goodness. And yeah, so for me, Christmas time's
a little bit different. But we've had a lot of patient,
a lot of patients, so a lot of people they
seem to go between Thanksgiving and New Year's so I
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know this time of year is also a very sad
time of year. But if you learn that, you know
to embrace it, to know that that person is feeling
good or on a better side. It's just you have
to just learn that you know what you have this
time with this beautiful soul on this earth, and no
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one gets out of this earth alive.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
There you go, Tricia.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Can you tell us a bit about where people can
maybe see some of what you do as we conclude
this interview, this discussion with you, where can people find
more about you, maybe hear what you're doing or see
what you're doing next, because you're all over the place
in entertainment.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You have a lot of gifts.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, thank you. I've put some things on YouTube. I
decided at the age of fifty. I'm sixty four right now,
but I've decided at the age of fifty that I
really wanted to be a singer. And I decided not
only just be a singer, I wanted to be a
national anthem singer. So I've actually been able to sing
our national anthem for our San Diego padres in Peoria,
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spring training for the Lake Elson, our storm, various venues
all over San Diego, the enforcers, and I put things
on YouTube. I just put it there, but you know,
I really need to get more serious on putting myself
out there. I guess even more. I'm not really a
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lot tech savvy, but I guess I could put more
things on my Facebook or YouTube. I don't know, maybe
I could get some help from tech people. This is
where I go back to old school. I'm a performer.
I like to be on the stage. I like to entertain.
I love to bring joy. I love to motivate people.
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As a motivational music entertainer, I love to see people
just interacting and just having a good time, just forgetting
their troubles for whatever it is, and just just being happy.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, and you know, Interstia, you definitely have motivated me.
And I'm sure there are listeners who are in your
same shoes who that resonates with what you just said,
especially the part about not necess necessarily being connected to
technology and simply living in what you do, living in
your dream, living your dream, living in your talents and
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your gifts, and not necessarily focusing as much on sharing
them in multimedia, but in sharing them in the real
world sphere. So the fact that you're doing that has
just been a huge blessing to so many and especially
me during this holiday season. I will take your words
very carefully and take them to heart and carry them
with me.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Well, you know what the biggest thing is I really
want to share is never take no for an answer.
If someone tells you you can't do something, the words
that you should say back to them is watch me.
I was told I could not do the I did
the AIDS life cycle ride in twenty fourteen on a
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beach cruiser from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and I
was told you can't do that on a beach cruiser.
I said, watch me, Well I did.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It perfect, Tricia.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Those are wonderful words to end on watch me, Watch Tricia.
Lord Saint George, enjoy this holiday season. Thank you so
much for sharing a bit about your story with us. Tricia,
It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Thank you, and I appreciate all of you at KFI.
Thank you and God bless and have a wonderful Christmas
season and New Year's.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Same to you.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
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Will Cole Schreiber. Let me tell you a bit about
Will Cole Schreiber, because you might think, you know, you
might think you've heard him and that you know that
voice and you know that humor, but you do not
know what this man has done. Ladies and gentlemen. Let
me tell you a little bit. He's mysterious. Let me
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tell you a little bit about you.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Will has a.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Lot more than just KFI and his resume including live
broadcast network aero camera operation for the Super Bowl, Super
Bowl fifty Week on CBS, the twenty seventeen in twenty
eighteen World Series, the NBA All Star Game on TNT,
PGA Golf on NBC, and other major NFL, MLB, NASCAR,
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NBA and NCAA events on CBS, NBC, ABC, ESBN and
TNT Sports.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Take a breath, he is aw, Oh my god, you
found down your LinkedIn les Let me listen.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Also, Will was is an aerial reporter and photographer, and
he was doing that for beyond KFI, including NBC four
which is KNBCLA in News chapter four for Today in La.
I knew I had seen him before because I saw
Will and I said he looks familiar. Well, yes, Today
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in La. There you go right. He's also been on
The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Fox eleven's Good Day La.
He again is an ex experienced aerial photographer with thousands
of hours at the controls of different media systems. He
is the owner uav Pilot aerial photographer for Drone Dazzle
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dot Com. He's an actor, and he is will Cole Schreiber,
an accomplished voice over artist with an extensive resume. Oh
my gosh, you are, Oh my god, you are so
many things, will Cole Schreiber, and you are also our
guests tonight on KFI.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
You see it.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Made me sound way way way like I have a
completely different life.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I love it. Wow, my head just exploded.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
When you look at yourself from the outside, Will that list,
Oh my gosh, I hope you are as impressed as
we are all hearing it.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
It doesn't list all the dumb mistakes I've made, it
doesn't list the shortcomings that Yeah no, but thank you,
thank you. It's good to be here, and I am
such a fan of yours. And I'm sorry I didn't
get to see you at pastafest. I had something else
come up. But that is so cool that you were
a part of that and that it did so well.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Thank you so much. And yeah, absolutely, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I met you last year at Pastathon and it was
of joy just to see you there.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
It's pasifest Posathon.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It is all of the things, because it is just
so many things to so many people, and you are infectious.
Your spirit comes across on.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
The doctor might agree with you.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Your spirit is just so big and bright, will coach striverer.
So I wanted to have you on because again, people,
you know, problem people think they know they hear personalities
and they hear reporters and they built connections. I know
as a listener I have also done that. And then
when you learn more about the people behind the platform,
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it just opens up an entire new dimension to that
relationship that we're forming with you. So Will I wanted
to take this opportunity to thank you for your reporting.
Thank you for being our eye in the sky when
you were up there in the air. Thank you for
all you know, thank you for all the extensive information
that you share with the airwaves, because without you, we
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would not know a lot of what's going on in
the Southland.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Well, thank you, thank you. I'm just a big old geek.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
I mean, I told I've told the story many times,
but I grew up in Apple Valley, up in the
hind Desert here.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Local boy and local boy, and all.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
These streets that I heard about, you know, on TV
or on the radio. It was so fun to finally
move to la eventually and see all these places that
I kept hearing in broadcast because up there in Apple
Valley at that at that time, KFI was.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The one am station that made the trip over the hill.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
And back then it was top forty Loaman at Barkley
in the morning and Swayne was KFI and the sky
it was this whole different thing. But we me and
all my friends when we were you know, sixteen seventeen,
that we listened to that station because you know, you
would hear the best music on it, and it's it's
like I trip out every time I think that I'm
I realize that I'm working on the same station, and
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just it trips me out.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
So I do the same pleasure.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I do the same trick. I'm a listener. I'm a
fan of kfive of twenty plus years. So you know,
while my experience isn't necessarily as long as yours, I
know what it was twenty plus years ago, and that
the voices there, and to see and to become now
a part of it is just a dream lived. And
and will you again have been involved in so many things?
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What made you pull that bumper music? That that bumper
for the old KFI? Where did you even get that from?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Because I'm an ancient radio geek. I literally I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
A few months ago I was I was just, you know,
as we all do, have some spare time, and we
go on the internet and start searching for things that
we probably shouldn't and I put in KFI jingle and
all these stacks of things came up. So there's there's
some there. There's a lot of old you know. I
love the old jingles. Oh I wish radio stations would
get back to those, but I guess they're not that
they're not in vogue right now.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
But yeah, I love that old stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So yeah, yeah, you know, maybe that's something we should
work on bringing back.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I think that we can't.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
We could, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know, well, I have quite a few questions for you,
and you know our time. You know how we have
to go to news and we have to break.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
For traffic to get to where they're going.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
You know how it is, Will Coach Schreiber.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So when we come back from the break after traffic
and news, I'm gonna throw some questions at you, kind
of wrap it fire, and then I want you to
just kind of open up and let us peek behind
that that curtain of Will Coach Schreiber and tell us
what we can look forward to for you the man next. Okay, perfect,
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that cool, awesome, Stay with us. We're talking to kfi's
only or one and only will Cole Schreiber, the man,
the myth, the legend, and we will come back with
him right after this. Kf I Am six forty Live
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K if I Am six forty Live everywhere on the
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's Saturdays with Tiffany for one more segment, and we
are talking to kfi's own.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Beloved reporter, Will Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
What Up?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
What up? Will Cole Streiber? Now a guest on the radio.
Look at you? Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You're just have to think. Well, I just have to
answer questions.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
And here we go. I have some questions for you.
Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
These are some questions that I think others might have,
I know I do, so hopefully they are reflective of
what people may be thinking. First, what made you transition
from news behind a conventional desk because you have so
much experience there. I was watching old clips of you
on your sizzle reel of you behigh the desk. What
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made you transition from that to going into helicopter reporting?
Speaker 5 (27:06):
What a change?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
I had been doing traffic reporting since the I'm afraid
to say how long, but it's like the late nineteen eighties,
early nineties on radio stations here. And I had the
opportunity to try out for a filling gig at Fox
eleven on Good to La, and I got it, and
I did it and.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
It was really fun. But you know, there's something about TV.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
It's all about I'm not necessarily ugly, but I'm not
a fashion parle.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But look, well, you know what.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
I like rolling out of bed, putting my ball cap on,
and just like being a lazy bum, which you can't
always do on TV. So radio, and they always said
I had a facial radio anyway, I think that was
a compliment. I don't know, but anyway, So yeah, I
ended up doing more of that. And I love flying.
I love the flying gigs. So yeah, it's it's it's
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it's been. It's been fun on both sides for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So what unique challenges do you face with flying enjoying news,
news reporting, because that's that's that's different. That's its own
ball game right there, right.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Weather, weather and weather is like the number one. The
number one.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Is like you got, you know, you got to talk
to the pilot and see what's up with the weather.
Because in southern California, especially in the mornings, it is
not all you know, bright skies and blue you know horizons.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's it's fog, right that you.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Get that fog, you get the marine land.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
There have been times where we did where We did
entire mornings doing circles over the West sand Fernando Valley
because we couldn't get anywhere else that happens. That happens
a lot, and and so yeah, the weather's the number
one thing, it really is. As far as obstacles, we
have a lot of complicated airspace too, like we you
can't flight too close to La extra obvious reasons, and
other places like that.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Disneyland has a flight restriction over it.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But shoot you down over Disneyland real quick, Niky'll come
get me. Yeah, all right, I have a question for
another question. So do you get as excited for car
chases as we do as viewers and listeners?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Do you get as excited?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
I have a love hate relationship because as a reporter,
they seem like the dumbest things to talk about.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
It's like, it's like, how is this affecting the world?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
You know, we you know an election will be coming up,
and what what does this have to do with anything
that matters? Yet, if I see one on TV, Doug
gone it, I can't turn away.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Just like us ladies and gentlemen, he's one of us.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
But you know, but you know, it's like they're really
hard to cover for everybody involved.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
They're dangerous for.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
The helicopter, the guy, the TV guys, and the helicopters
because you don't know where they're going.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
You don't know, you know, you've got to There was.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
A terrible accident a few years back in Phoenix where
a couple of helicopters banged into each other and crashed,
and their fatalities over a police pursuit. So it's just
it's just it's it is a really dangerous thing, but
it has huge payoffs for the stations involved. Obviously not
as much for radio because I can't see it, so uh,
but yeah, for TV it's a it's a you know,
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they pour a lot of money into those helicopters specifically
to kind of cash in when those pursuits come up.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And see, when you talk about safety, that also comes
to mind.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It is a dangerous job.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
We hear constantly about these crashes, constantly about mishaps with
air footage and and and air coverage and whatnot. Yeah, so,
can you tell us of a time when there was
a particularly dangerous moment while you were in the air, you.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Know, the the most the time when I was most
scared for my own life was during one of these
major brush fire storms back. I can't even remember when
it was, what year it was. It was in the
early two thousands, I was. I was working at the
time with Fox eleven and Good Day LA and there
were fires burning in Ventura County, LA County, Orange County,
San Diego County. It was like a wall. It was
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just like one wall of brush fire from the Mexican
border all the way up into Ventura and you just
couldn't see it.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
You know. They were driving us to get in there.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
And get pictures, get pictures, but the wind was just
out of control and the helicopter would basically fly sideways
and it was hard to land. And it was those
Those were about three days in a row where I
really thought that, you know, it might not.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Be so bad to flip some burgers.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You know, I.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Just had that fought, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, I could not do what you do
our last guest, I couldn't do what she does working
with people in hospice care.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I would not want to be. Oh yeah, I could
not be not want.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
To be cool lady, Cool lady, you're.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Cool, lady. Your shoes, her shoes.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It takes a really special and brave person to do
both of the jobs that you guys are doing. So
my next question is, of all the stations you've worked for,
why is KFI the best?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Okay if I? Well, first of all, wait a minute,
I feel like I should.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Wow, you're leading in a certain direction, your honor the
attorney is leading me, you know now you know what?
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Well, KFI is the best first of all.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Like I said, I prefer radio over television and and
and KFI. It's just awesome because it's it kind of
breaks the mold. There's news stations that only do news, uh,
and then there are music stations that only do music,
and talk stations that only do talk. K if I
kind of does it all. And it's so rare these days.
It's it's such a rare thing, uh, k if I
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is And for it to be a tough you know,
a top ten station doing all that weird stuff is
just amazing. So it's it's it's a pleasure to be
a part of. And you did mention my side hustle
on the weekends. I'm not doing it this weekend, but
on the weekends I often get to go out of
town and fly and shoot those live aerial shots for
the NFL games and the and the college football games
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next weekend.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
I'm going to go to Kansas City after they're so
so that's good. So that so I still get to fly.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
We don't have KFI in the sky anymore, but we have,
but I'm still getting to fly on the weekend.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
So that's that's that's a nice treat.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
We have quite a few talkbacks of people who mentioned
KFI and the sky of course, and they're they're knowing
you from there, and they are just so taken with you.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
What can they what can they do.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
To keep up with what will Cole Schreiber is doing,
not just on KFI but everywhere where?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Can they find you? On social media? You're acting?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Give us a quick, maybe one minute, little purview into
what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Well, just a quick Well as far as acting, I'm
you know, I don't fancy myself as an actor necessarily
primarily because okay.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Well you know, Papa's got to pay the bills.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Though, Papa, what I'm hearing, I'm hearing voice out their.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Bill out, you need to pay go for it, keep going.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Apparently no, but I don't know, but yeah, no, I
I I love doing like little commun theater, musical theater stuff.
I got to do Guys and Dolls. Mark Thompson yent
a voice to that production. On Instagram it was it
was our Mark Thompson from the Tim Conway Junior Show,
so he was involved in that. And then yeah, if
something comes up maybe in the spring or summer, I'll
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try to do more of that because I really really
enjoy it. I mean sure, I'd love to be the
next you know, Tom Cruise, but uh, you know offer
only sorry, you.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Know Tom, Tom is shaking that. Okay, Yeah, there's only
one way. Okay, let them find.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah, socials.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
I'm on will at kf I or will on kfi
at on the on the Twitter, the X page there,
and I'm findable, definitely findable.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
And can you spell your last name for people who
might be wondering how to find you?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
K O H L S C h R e I
B e R.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That is a J that is and it is undeniable.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
It was a little kid, you know, they give us
those little things. You got to fill in the letters
inside the boxes the government forums. Yeah, there were never
enough boxes. Never enough boxes.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Well, there are never enough boxes for you, because you
seem to be conquering them all.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
So are you. You're awesome. I love your show. You're
you're just kicking it.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Thank you, Thank you, will Cole Streiver with your thirteen
letter last name.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Thank you, Tiffany'll problem and.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I thank you so much for coming on and hopefully
our listeners got to learn a bit more about you.
I am so happy to have you and I just
wish you well and continued success in all the boxes
you continue to check.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Okay, you got it? Well, hang soon.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Absolutely absolutely, It's been fun everybody. Thanks for joining me.
I'll see you next week. Happy holidays. Get out there
to those that magic of lights in the Coachella Valley
at the Empire Polo Club, tell them I sent you.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's been a blast. Have a great week ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appum
Speaker 1 (35:54):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
It's Saturday with Tiffany. We just talked to Mark Gerton.
He is the general manager of the Empire Polo Club.
Out there in the Coachella Valley, they're home to the
Coachella Music Festival, the Stagecoach Music Festival, and for the
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third year now in the in a row, they are
home to Magic of Lights, a spectacular holiday led lighting event.
More than just that, more than just the one point
seven mile drive through course, there are events and places
to stop and things to see and pictures to take,
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things to eat, themed nights, an amazing event. Indeed, make
sure you get out there. They are there from now
through December twenty ninth. Again, say that I sent you.
Say that Tiffany Hobbes and KFI sent you out there.
Magic of Lights in the Coachella Valley. Wonderful event. The
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first four callers one tickets. Congratulations to you. I hope
you enjoy yourself, Take pictures, Tag us at KFI and
let us know on social media how that event was.
And let us see you with your holiday spirit and
your festive selves. We are fresh off of a very
successful fourteenth annual pastathon and at the pastathon I spoke
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to quite a few listeners, many who were there, of
course to support Bruno Serrato Caterina's Club KFI and our
efforts towards feeding kids who live in hotels and motels
around the Southland. While there, I got to speak to
one specific woman, one woman in particular. Her name is
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Tricia Lord Saint George, and Tricia had an incredible backstory.
She held me captive, she held my attention, and she
told me not only was she there to support postathon,
but that giving and selflessness was a core tenant is
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a core tenant to who she is and what she
does and what she has done over the course of
her life and the previous twenty plus years. Tricia has
done something that many of us likely would not be
able to handle, things that would be uncomfortable for most,
and that is to work with people in hospice and
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in palliative care. Let me tell you a bit about
Tricia Lord Saint George. She says, I am still living
the dream with my best life. Tricia Lord Saint George
is an entertainer who has used her talents to assist
people in hospice care as they prepare to pass away.
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Tricia volunteered at a major healthcare organization for twenty years,
playing and singing music to and with dying patients to
ease their minds and anxieties. After those twenty years of
dedicated service, the organization hired Tricia officially into their music
therapy program, where she worked dutifully to support her patients
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for six years.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Tricia was a part.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Of this beautiful music program until the program dealt with
some restructuring, and when that restructuring occurred, Tricia no longer
had her position in the music department. However, when life
handed Tricia lemons, she made fresh lemonade along with lemon cookies,
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lemon pies, and lemon cakes. Tricia loves her limon everything right.
This meant it was time for her to follow her
heart to pursue those dreams of acting and entertaining with
all fears aside. Along with sharing the gift of song
and gratitude, nothing was going to stop Tricia's sparkle her joy.
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Despite the changes, Tricia says life is great as I
again make.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Even better lemonade than be four.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Tricia is a ball of energy, a positive light. She
is one of those two million led lights for sure
out there at the magic of light. She's probably the
brightest of all and I am so glad to have
her here on the show for her very first KFI
AM six forty appearance. Tricia Lord Saint George. Welcome to KFI.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh, Tiffany, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Wow, you are so very welcome. You are amazing, Tricia
Lord Saint George. And the reason that you are with us,
amongst many reasons, is again because of your selflessness. When
you could be doing literally anything else with your talent,
you were bedside people who are in hospice and palliative care.
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And that is something that many people just simply could
not do, would not be comfortable doing.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's a difficult It can be a difficult position. But
you know, the way I always looked at it is
I kind of put myself in that person's shoes, and
I realized, you know what, if I was dying, I
would like to pet a cat or a dog, or
have a favorite song sung to me, or just telling
someone there would make the day better, would make me
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feel better, and that kind of when I realized, as
people are dying, and many times I never had a
repeat visit, and somehow, like weeks later, I would get
a card from the family and they would say, you
made a difference in my mom's life, where you made
a big difference in my dad's passing, and it was
just they were just very appreciative of how the comfort
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of hospice made their loved ones feel. And that's I
follow my heart, I follow my dreams, I follow my heart,
and some found my heart. My dreams are all in
the same.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Package, you know, and fortunate for us that they are,
and for the people you've worked with over your career
as a volunteer and then an employee at that organization
to be able again to give of yourself in that
way at a time when people are dealing with likely
one of the saddest periods of their lives.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It can be sad if you look at it as sad.
It can be a joyous time as you look at
it as a joyous time. And I actually started out
being that volunteer. I had a therapy cat, and this
was an amazing cat that roped me into hospice. I
didn't choose hospice. The cat chose she needed a job,
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and I got her this job as a hospice volunteer.
I just happened to be her driver, her handler. This cat,
her name was Isabella, and she actually she was just
this amazing cat. People could not believe this cat like
she knew it was time to go to work. She
actually would help people do their physical therapy because she
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had like this wacky tail and they would try to
grab it. But she was just this wonderful cat. And
then after she moved on over the Rainbow Bridge, I
still wanted to continue in hospice. And at that time
I was going through a transition with another job because
I worked in animal welfare for fourteen years and I
was going through a transition. And that's when I realized,
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I really want to stick to my acting and abilities
and my singing, and I really want to do this
because it brings joy to people. And since I was
still that volunteer, I started doing programs at different facilities.
I did One Woman shows, I did cabaret shows. I
was doing songs of Dean Martin and being Crosby, and
(08:11):
I can relate to these I can relate to my
audience because I personally I love old time radio. So
my I mean, my friends don't understand who being crosby
are is a door state. They don't get it. But
my audience got me. They understood. I could talk about
Jack Binny, I could talk about all of these old shows,
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and they was like, oh my gosh, how old are you?
You know? But anyway, I had like this great rapport
with everybody. So I got into this. I started doing
my one woman's shows and then I presented this to
my manager at the time, my volunteer manager, and he was, oh,
my god, this is brilliant. So I had all of
these things where I could go into these facilities, I
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could visit with my patients, I could do all this,
and then they came to me, and they came the
hospice company came to me and says, we want you
to work for us.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Write us, tell us what you want, and we will
we want you here. So six years ago, that's exactly
what I did. They hired me as a music therapist.
Here's the problem, Tiffany.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Before you tell us the problem, Tricia, because this is
a perfect tease for you to come back and tell
us what the challenges were at that time and also
what your career entailed as an entertainer in hospice care.
And I have some questions for you that speak to potential.
I would say other worldly experiences that I would like
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you to maybe share if you've experienced any of those
during this holiday season.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Can you hang on with us for one more segment?
You bet wonderful.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We're talking to Tricia Lord Saint George, an entertainer who
formerly worked in hospice care as an entertainer. And when
we come back, Tricia will tell us more about her career,
what got her to this point, and share some information
that I think will all benefit from during this holiday
season and otherwise. I am six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you until seven Saturdays with Tiffany,
And what a show we've had so far, A giveaway
of tickets to Magic of Lights out there in the
Coachella Valley, the Empire Polo Club, and now we are
talking to someone I met at the KFI fourteenth Annual Pastathon.
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This woman is undoubtedly incredible, not just for what she's done,
but for what she continues to do. Her selfless spirit,
her generosity, her just contributions in many ways, and we're
learning about those contributions in conversation right now with Tricia
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Lord Saint George, who is an entertainer, and the reason
that I wanted to talk to her at first was
because she spoke about being a singer and songwriter and
musician who played for patients in hospice care, and that
itself just really jumped out at me, because that's a
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difficult situation to find yourself in, potentially for many, I imagine,
because it is uncomfortable. And Tricia Lord Saint George seems
to embrace that sort of discomfort and she has turned
it into not just lemonade, but into a thing of beauty.
And as I got to know more about Tricia through research,
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I just see that she has so many things to
give to our wonderful KFI audience. So Tricia, again, thank
you so much for being with us.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Thank you Tiffany for having me as your guest. You
really I love it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You're most welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Thank you for being on with us, and you were
telling us before we went to the break that there
were some challenges getting into this industry. After you tell
us about those challenges, I'm going to go a little
George Nori on us. Okay, I want to know if
you've had any sort of memorable experience. Maybe you could
tell us your most memorable experience while while performing in
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hospice care.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Oh. Sure, I've been with patients just as they were
getting ready to go to the other side, so to speak.
And I've held hands and we're chatting, and the next
thing they're gone, and you can feel this there's nothing,
there's like this emptiness, like you can feel like their
body is just it's just a body, like their soul
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is gone.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But I've also, you know, I've experienced other things where
right before someone is ready to go, they start talking about, oh,
my mother's here, or or they start seeing things in
the ceiling, like they go, what's the hole doing in
the ceiling? And the other thing that I feel is
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I can feel the room being very full, like I
feel like there's people behind me. It just gets you
just you have peace, like there's this peaceful entity where
you're just there, and there's just you and the patient,
and you're just you're there, but you can steal. There
is definite presence.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Absolutely, I've experienced things, and so I am a believer
in the otherworldly component. I feel like there's something else
to this. There has to be. And the Christmas season,
the holiday season seems to be, along with maybe the
Halloween season, a time in which our society in American
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around the world, so to speak, actually embraces that kind
of other worldly feeling, those those other things that we
talk about as being unknown, the unknowns and the beauty
of the unknown and spirituality.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You said there was go ahead. I'm sorry, Tricia, No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Go ahead. I'm just agreeing. I was like, yes, there's
it's just a beautiful season. And it's my own mother.
She passed away on December twenty fourth and twenty twenty
oh my goodness. And yeah, so for me, Christmas time's
a little bit different. But we've had a lot of patient,
a lot of patients, so a lot of people they
seem to go between Thanksgiving and New Year's so I
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know this time of year is also a very sad
time of year. But if you learn that, you know
to embrace it, to know that that person is feeling
good or on a better side. It's just you have
to just learn that you know what you have this
time with this beautiful soul on this earth, and no
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one gets out of this earth alive.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
There you go, Tricia.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Can you tell us a bit about where people can
maybe see some of what you do as we conclude
this interview, this discussion with you, where can people find
more about you, maybe hear what you're doing or see
what you're doing next, because you're all over the place
in entertainment.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You have a lot of gifts.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Well, thank you. I've put some things on YouTube. I
decided at the age of fifty. I'm sixty four right now,
but I've decided at the age of fifty that I
really wanted to be a singer. And I decided not
only just be a singer, I wanted to be a
national anthem singer. So I've actually been able to sing
our national anthem for our San Diego padres in Peoria,
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spring training for the Lake Elson, our storm, various venues
all over San Diego, the enforcers, and I put things
on YouTube. I just put it there, but you know,
I really need to get more serious on putting myself
out there. I guess even more. I'm not really a
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lot tech savvy, but I guess I could put more
things on my Facebook or YouTube. I don't know, maybe
I could get some help from tech people. This is
where I go back to old school. I'm a performer.
I like to be on the stage. I like to entertain.
I love to bring joy. I love to motivate people.
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As a motivational music entertainer, I love to see people
just interacting and just having a good time, just forgetting
their troubles for whatever it is, and just just being happy.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, and you know, Interstia, you definitely have motivated me.
And I'm sure there are listeners who are in your
same shoes who that resonates with what you just said,
especially the part about not necess necessarily being connected to
technology and simply living in what you do, living in
your dream, living your dream, living in your talents and
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your gifts, and not necessarily focusing as much on sharing
them in multimedia, but in sharing them in the real
world sphere. So the fact that you're doing that has
just been a huge blessing to so many and especially
me during this holiday season. I will take your words
very carefully and take them to heart and carry them
with me.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Well, you know what the biggest thing is I really
want to share is never take no for an answer.
If someone tells you you can't do something, the words
that you should say back to them is watch me.
I was told I could not do the I did
the AIDS life cycle ride in twenty fourteen on a
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beach cruiser from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and I
was told you can't do that on a beach cruiser.
I said, watch me, Well I did.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It perfect, Tricia.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Those are wonderful words to end on watch me, Watch Tricia.
Lord Saint George, enjoy this holiday season. Thank you so
much for sharing a bit about your story with us. Tricia,
It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Thank you, and I appreciate all of you at KFI.
Thank you and God bless and have a wonderful Christmas
season and New Year's.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Same to you.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
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k Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Apptifney
Hobbs here with you. And that was a jingle, a
vintage KFI I in the Sky jingle that was given
to us by our next guest. And that next guest
is our very own, huge part of the KFI News team,
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Will Cole Schreiber. Let me tell you a bit about
Will Cole Schreiber, because you might think, you know, you
might think you've heard him and that you know that
voice and you know that humor, but you do not
know what this man has done. Ladies and gentlemen. Let
me tell you a little bit. He's mysterious. Let me
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tell you a little bit about you.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Will has a.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Lot more than just KFI and his resume including live
broadcast network aero camera operation for the Super Bowl, Super
Bowl fifty Week on CBS, the twenty seventeen in twenty
eighteen World Series, the NBA All Star Game on TNT,
PGA Golf on NBC, and other major NFL, MLB, NASCAR,
(20:14):
NBA and NCAA events on CBS, NBC, ABC, ESBN and
TNT Sports.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Take a breath, he is aw, Oh my god, you
found down your LinkedIn les Let me listen.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Also, Will was is an aerial reporter and photographer, and
he was doing that for beyond KFI, including NBC four
which is KNBCLA in News chapter four for Today in La.
I knew I had seen him before because I saw
Will and I said he looks familiar. Well, yes, Today
(20:50):
in La. There you go right. He's also been on
The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Fox eleven's Good Day La.
He again is an ex experienced aerial photographer with thousands
of hours at the controls of different media systems. He
is the owner uav Pilot aerial photographer for Drone Dazzle
(21:12):
dot Com. He's an actor, and he is will Cole Schreiber,
an accomplished voice over artist with an extensive resume. Oh
my gosh, you are, Oh my god, you are so
many things, will Cole Schreiber, and you are also our
guests tonight on KFI.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Thank you for being with us.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
You see it.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Made me sound way way way like I have a
completely different life.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I love it. Wow, my head just exploded.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
When you look at yourself from the outside, Will that list,
Oh my gosh, I hope you are as impressed as
we are all hearing it.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
It doesn't list all the dumb mistakes I've made, it
doesn't list the shortcomings that Yeah no, but thank you,
thank you. It's good to be here, and I am
such a fan of yours. And I'm sorry I didn't
get to see you at pastafest. I had something else
come up. But that is so cool that you were
a part of that and that it did so well.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Thank you so much. And yeah, absolutely, I know.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I met you last year at Pastathon and it was
of joy just to see you there.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
It's pasifest Posathon.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It is all of the things, because it is just
so many things to so many people, and you are infectious.
Your spirit comes across on.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
The doctor might agree with you.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Your spirit is just so big and bright, will coach striverer.
So I wanted to have you on because again, people,
you know, problem people think they know they hear personalities
and they hear reporters and they built connections. I know
as a listener I have also done that. And then
when you learn more about the people behind the platform,
(22:51):
it just opens up an entire new dimension to that
relationship that we're forming with you. So Will I wanted
to take this opportunity to thank you for your reporting.
Thank you for being our eye in the sky when
you were up there in the air. Thank you for
all you know, thank you for all the extensive information
that you share with the airwaves, because without you, we
(23:13):
would not know a lot of what's going on in
the Southland.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Well, thank you, thank you. I'm just a big old geek.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
I mean, I told I've told the story many times,
but I grew up in Apple Valley, up in the
hind Desert here.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Local boy and local boy, and all.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
These streets that I heard about, you know, on TV
or on the radio. It was so fun to finally
move to la eventually and see all these places that
I kept hearing in broadcast because up there in Apple
Valley at that at that time, KFI was.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The one am station that made the trip over the hill.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
And back then it was top forty Loaman at Barkley
in the morning and Swayne was KFI and the sky
it was this whole different thing. But we me and
all my friends when we were you know, sixteen seventeen,
that we listened to that station because you know, you
would hear the best music on it, and it's it's
like I trip out every time I think that I'm
I realize that I'm working on the same station, and
(24:06):
just it trips me out.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
So I do the same pleasure.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I do the same trick. I'm a listener. I'm a
fan of kfive of twenty plus years. So you know,
while my experience isn't necessarily as long as yours, I
know what it was twenty plus years ago, and that
the voices there, and to see and to become now
a part of it is just a dream lived. And
and will you again have been involved in so many things?
(24:33):
What made you pull that bumper music? That that bumper
for the old KFI? Where did you even get that from?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Because I'm an ancient radio geek. I literally I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
A few months ago I was I was just, you know,
as we all do, have some spare time, and we
go on the internet and start searching for things that
we probably shouldn't and I put in KFI jingle and
all these stacks of things came up. So there's there's
some there. There's a lot of old you know. I
love the old jingles. Oh I wish radio stations would
get back to those, but I guess they're not that
they're not in vogue right now.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
But yeah, I love that old stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So yeah, yeah, you know, maybe that's something we should
work on bringing back.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I think that we can't.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
We could, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You know, well, I have quite a few questions for you,
and you know our time. You know how we have
to go to news and we have to break.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
For traffic to get to where they're going.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
You know how it is, Will Coach Schreiber.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So when we come back from the break after traffic
and news, I'm gonna throw some questions at you, kind
of wrap it fire, and then I want you to
just kind of open up and let us peek behind
that that curtain of Will Coach Schreiber and tell us
what we can look forward to for you the man next. Okay, perfect,
(25:50):
that cool, awesome, Stay with us. We're talking to kfi's
only or one and only will Cole Schreiber, the man,
the myth, the legend, and we will come back with
him right after this. Kf I Am six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
K if I Am six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's Saturdays with Tiffany for one more segment, and we
are talking to kfi's own.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Beloved reporter, Will Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
What Up?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
What up? Will Cole Streiber? Now a guest on the radio.
Look at you? Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You're just have to think. Well, I just have to
answer questions.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
And here we go. I have some questions for you.
Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
These are some questions that I think others might have,
I know I do, so hopefully they are reflective of
what people may be thinking. First, what made you transition
from news behind a conventional desk because you have so
much experience there. I was watching old clips of you
on your sizzle reel of you behigh the desk. What
(27:01):
made you transition from that to going into helicopter reporting?
Speaker 5 (27:06):
What a change?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
I had been doing traffic reporting since the I'm afraid
to say how long, but it's like the late nineteen eighties,
early nineties on radio stations here. And I had the
opportunity to try out for a filling gig at Fox
eleven on Good to La, and I got it, and
I did it and.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
It was really fun. But you know, there's something about TV.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
It's all about I'm not necessarily ugly, but I'm not
a fashion parle.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
But look, well, you know what.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
I like rolling out of bed, putting my ball cap on,
and just like being a lazy bum, which you can't
always do on TV. So radio, and they always said
I had a facial radio anyway, I think that was
a compliment. I don't know, but anyway, So yeah, I
ended up doing more of that. And I love flying.
I love the flying gigs. So yeah, it's it's it's
(27:59):
it's been. It's been fun on both sides for sure.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So what unique challenges do you face with flying enjoying news,
news reporting, because that's that's that's different. That's its own
ball game right there, right.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Weather, weather and weather is like the number one. The
number one.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Is like you got, you know, you got to talk
to the pilot and see what's up with the weather.
Because in southern California, especially in the mornings, it is
not all you know, bright skies and blue you know horizons.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's it's fog, right that you.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Get that fog, you get the marine land.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
There have been times where we did where We did
entire mornings doing circles over the West sand Fernando Valley
because we couldn't get anywhere else that happens. That happens
a lot, and and so yeah, the weather's the number
one thing, it really is. As far as obstacles, we
have a lot of complicated airspace too, like we you
can't flight too close to La extra obvious reasons, and
other places like that.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Disneyland has a flight restriction over it.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But shoot you down over Disneyland real quick, Niky'll come
get me. Yeah, all right, I have a question for
another question. So do you get as excited for car
chases as we do as viewers and listeners?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Do you get as excited?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
I have a love hate relationship because as a reporter,
they seem like the dumbest things to talk about.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
It's like, it's like, how is this affecting the world?
Speaker 7 (29:24):
You know, we you know an election will be coming up,
and what what does this have to do with anything
that matters? Yet, if I see one on TV, Doug
gone it, I can't turn away.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Just like us ladies and gentlemen, he's one of us.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
But you know, but you know, it's like they're really
hard to cover for everybody involved.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
They're dangerous for.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
The helicopter, the guy, the TV guys, and the helicopters
because you don't know where they're going.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
You don't know, you know, you've got to There was.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
A terrible accident a few years back in Phoenix where
a couple of helicopters banged into each other and crashed,
and their fatalities over a police pursuit. So it's just
it's just it's it is a really dangerous thing, but
it has huge payoffs for the stations involved. Obviously not
as much for radio because I can't see it, so uh,
but yeah, for TV it's a it's a you know,
(30:12):
they pour a lot of money into those helicopters specifically
to kind of cash in when those pursuits come up.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And see, when you talk about safety, that also comes
to mind.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It is a dangerous job.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
We hear constantly about these crashes, constantly about mishaps with
air footage and and and air coverage and whatnot. Yeah, so,
can you tell us of a time when there was
a particularly dangerous moment while you were in the air, you.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Know, the the most the time when I was most
scared for my own life was during one of these
major brush fire storms back. I can't even remember when
it was, what year it was. It was in the
early two thousands, I was. I was working at the
time with Fox eleven and Good Day LA and there
were fires burning in Ventura County, LA County, Orange County,
San Diego County. It was like a wall. It was
(31:01):
just like one wall of brush fire from the Mexican
border all the way up into Ventura and you just
couldn't see it.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
You know. They were driving us to get in there.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
And get pictures, get pictures, but the wind was just
out of control and the helicopter would basically fly sideways
and it was hard to land. And it was those
Those were about three days in a row where I
really thought that, you know, it might not.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Be so bad to flip some burgers.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You know, I.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Just had that fought, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah, I could not do what you do
our last guest, I couldn't do what she does working
with people in hospice care.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I would not want to be. Oh yeah, I could
not be not want.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
To be cool lady, Cool lady, you're.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Cool, lady. Your shoes, her shoes.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It takes a really special and brave person to do
both of the jobs that you guys are doing. So
my next question is, of all the stations you've worked for,
why is KFI the best?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Okay if I? Well, first of all, wait a minute,
I feel like I should.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Wow, you're leading in a certain direction, your honor the
attorney is leading me, you know now you know what?
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Well, KFI is the best first of all.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Like I said, I prefer radio over television and and
and KFI. It's just awesome because it's it kind of
breaks the mold. There's news stations that only do news, uh,
and then there are music stations that only do music,
and talk stations that only do talk. K if I
kind of does it all. And it's so rare these days.
It's it's such a rare thing, uh, k if I
(32:37):
is And for it to be a tough you know,
a top ten station doing all that weird stuff is
just amazing. So it's it's it's a pleasure to be
a part of. And you did mention my side hustle
on the weekends. I'm not doing it this weekend, but
on the weekends I often get to go out of
town and fly and shoot those live aerial shots for
the NFL games and the and the college football games
(32:58):
next weekend.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
I'm going to go to Kansas City after they're so
so that's good. So that so I still get to fly.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
We don't have KFI in the sky anymore, but we have,
but I'm still getting to fly on the weekend.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
So that's that's that's a nice treat.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
We have quite a few talkbacks of people who mentioned
KFI and the sky of course, and they're they're knowing
you from there, and they are just so taken with you.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
What can they what can they do.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
To keep up with what will Cole Schreiber is doing,
not just on KFI but everywhere where?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Can they find you? On social media? You're acting?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Give us a quick, maybe one minute, little purview into
what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Well, just a quick Well as far as acting, I'm
you know, I don't fancy myself as an actor necessarily
primarily because okay.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Well you know, Papa's got to pay the bills.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Though, Papa, what I'm hearing, I'm hearing voice out their.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Bill out, you need to pay go for it, keep going.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Apparently no, but I don't know, but yeah, no, I
I I love doing like little commun theater, musical theater stuff.
I got to do Guys and Dolls. Mark Thompson yent
a voice to that production. On Instagram it was it
was our Mark Thompson from the Tim Conway Junior Show,
so he was involved in that. And then yeah, if
something comes up maybe in the spring or summer, I'll
(34:15):
try to do more of that because I really really
enjoy it. I mean sure, I'd love to be the
next you know, Tom Cruise, but uh, you know offer
only sorry, you.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Know Tom, Tom is shaking that. Okay, Yeah, there's only
one way. Okay, let them find.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Yeah, socials.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
I'm on will at kf I or will on kfi
at on the on the Twitter, the X page there,
and I'm findable, definitely findable.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
And can you spell your last name for people who
might be wondering how to find you?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
K O H L S C h R e I
B e R.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That is a J that is and it is undeniable.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
It was a little kid, you know, they give us
those little things. You got to fill in the letters
inside the boxes the government forums. Yeah, there were never
enough boxes. Never enough boxes.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Well, there are never enough boxes for you, because you
seem to be conquering them all.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
So are you. You're awesome. I love your show. You're
you're just kicking it.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Thank you, Thank you, will Cole Streiver with your thirteen
letter last name.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Thank you, Tiffany'll problem and.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I thank you so much for coming on and hopefully
our listeners got to learn a bit more about you.
I am so happy to have you and I just
wish you well and continued success in all the boxes
you continue to check.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Okay, you got it? Well, hang soon.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Absolutely absolutely, It's been fun everybody. Thanks for joining me.
I'll see you next week. Happy holidays. Get out there
to those that magic of lights in the Coachella Valley
at the Empire Polo Club, tell them I sent you.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's been a blast. Have a great week ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appum
Speaker 1 (35:54):
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