Should all disasters be forgot and never brought to mind?

That would be a wonderful life, but ain't this one.

2021 was a bad year for disasters, drought, oil spills, bomb cyclones, wildfire, Omicron. Yet if you're

listening, you survive. I'm Gustavo Areano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News

from the LA Times. It's Tuesday, December 14th, 2021. As journalists, we spend so much time covering all the bad in the world that we rarely

take time to stop and think.

So as the year ends, that's what we're going to do today.

What worried us, what really worries us for 2022, and what gives us hope for the new year?

Yep, it's our time to gather our monthly panel of peril, our correspondence calamities, our deridaws of doom, to reflect on this year. Yep, it's our time to gather our monthly panel of peril or correspondence calamities,

our deridaz of doom, to reflect on this year and share how they've stayed afloat through it all.

On today, the latest installment of our series, Masters of Disasters.

Musica maestro. Breeling the Wildfire chair as always is LA Times reporter Alex Wigglesworth.

Alex, do lights on Christmas trees totally freak you out?

Only if they're outside the Fox News headquarters.

Uh-oh, zing.

Up next are Shakespeare shakers and father of the bunny named Jewel, Ron Lynn.

Ron, what holiday does Jewel like more?

Christmas or Easter?

Oh, Easter.

The chocolate bunnies are a big thing for her.

Oh, cool.

I didn't know bunnies like chocolate bunnies.

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