WEBVTT - Look For The Helpers: An iHeart Special Event 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.479 Hello everyone, and welcome to an iHeart special event look 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.200 for the Helpers by Rossident Scentives. And I feel so 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.119 blessed to be with you all today because as a 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.960 resident Overlay, I just want to help with my family. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.760 I want to help my friends and my community. At 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.000 this time. I don't know about the rest of you 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.439 here in the City of Angels, but as I drive around, 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.200 I do not only see the destruction or hear the 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.440 stories of children who have lost their schools, parents who 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.199 have lost their homes and jobs, but I hear and 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.600 see the hope that comes in between. From the neighborhood 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.600 is bringing food to their local place of worship, to 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.680 a laundromat owner opening their doors for people who clean 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.159 the few coals they have. It is driving to the 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.680 grocery store and seeing the car at the red light 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.320 next to me filled with donations on its way to 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.360 get people who have lost everything what they need. We 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.400 have talked a lot about the tragedy, but today I 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.640 want to share with you the people who are helping, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.680 the organizations that are offering resource to Welifire victims, and 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.720 where to find them. If you're home and you're wondering 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.120 how you can help from not only Los Angeles, but 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.800 anywhere you are hearing this. We're going to help you 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.880 the answers. Today, we tell you where to look for 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:19.880 the helpers. My first guest today is First Partner of California, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:25.520 Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Hi, Hi, thank you for doing this. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.440 I wanted to because I know you've been touring all 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.560 these different areas and you've been pretty busy, you know, 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.160 like dealing with meals and just helping people. I want 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.280 to hear about stories you know that you're hearing from 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.960 people firsthand that you go like, oh my god, that's 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.479 really powerful. It touched my heart. Do you remember one 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.880 specifically that just blew you away? 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:51.840 Well, yes, so many stories. A girlfriend of mine actually 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:58.120 lost everything in the Altadena fire, and instead of just 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.840 morning and licking her wounds and only focusing on herself, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:07.120 she launched a whole new website to an initiative linking 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:11.560 people to childcare because we know that, I mean, you 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:16.440 can't even attend to all of the administrative work required 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:22.040 of dealing with you know, FEMA and SBA, loans and 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.760 insurance and driver's life and all the things that you 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.720 know were potentially missing or needing to be addressed with, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:36.200 to get back on your feet and start the process 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.519 the planning process of you know, obviously getting your home 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.440 cleaned up and then the site cleaned up, and then 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.440 beginning to the process of planning and then rebuilding. And 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.160 yet she was focused on making sure that these women 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.240 predominantly had childcare, that their children could play, that their 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.720 children could be distracted from the pain and suffering and 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.480 actually be in community with other kids and being nurtured. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.600 And I have some semblance of normalcy. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.280 That's incredible as a mom. You know your mom, I'm 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.760 a mom. This happened so fast and it was just 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:20.200 so unexpected and out of control. How do you talk 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.840 to your kids and you explain to them. Listen, we 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.200 live in California. We are used to natural disasters, you know, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.160 it is what it is. I come from Puerto Rico. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.720 We deal with hurricanes every single year, and every single 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.720 come August September. Everybody's like, oh my god, what if 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.280 it's about a year for us, you know, because you 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.840 never know, but at least it's interesting with hurricanes, you 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.920 kind of like I have. The weather experts will tell 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.840 you it's coming, it's coming. In this specific case, it 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.480 was just like it's here, Oh my god, it just 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.760 became completely out of control. How do you talk to 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:59.160 your kids about the tragedy and ways to help and 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.680 just help them the mental health, you know, so they 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.760 don't even fear that one mom, what did this happens again? 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:06.640 Yeah? 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.400 I mean, look, I think as a society, we've all 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.720 experienced around the world, not just in California, not just 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:19.360 in this country, trauma to varying degrees, and I think 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.240 it's critical that parents are self aware of their own 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.840 anxiety and their own nervous systems so that they can 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:34.560 really anchor and hold children who are so vulnerable. My children, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.479 you know, we have four young kids, and I ended 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.000 up bringing them down to Los Angeles on MLK Day 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.039 to volunteer because I needed them to be helpers. I 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:51.039 needed them to be of service and to do their 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:56.039 part in helping to anchor the Angelino community. And so 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.520 that is really you know, one way that that I 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.920 communicate with my kids is through action and through service 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:10.400 and through modeling that behavior simultaneously. I recommend that all 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.960 families talk to their kids about their feelings and their 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.960 emotions and understand that they're really complex, Like one of 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:24.360 my kids is very very loud and aggressive when he's anxious, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.640 and another one will not speak but does sort of 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.400 impish things and can't put language to what she's feeling. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.600 And so every kid is different, right, and so which 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.800 is why I love the resources that we actually are 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.400 providing to all Californians, but in particular that are available 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.960 to Angelina's right now, we have different apps that are 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:51.320 all free, evidence based resources, best practices and access to 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:57.800 actual therapists for children zero to twelve which is bright Life, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.320 and teens thirteen and up to Saluna. These are two 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.960 apps again available online. With all these free resources to 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.760 address mental health. In this time period, we've also partnered 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.080 with Childmind Institute. We have a whole initiative in English 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:18.839 and Spanish, Healthy Kids Thriving Minds, which has been extremely 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:26.440 powerful in normalizing sadness, hopelessness, anxiety, depression, all the fear 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.960 that we're experiencing whether we live in Los Angeles or not, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.400 because again, as you mentioned, we've had wildfires across our 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:41.760 state really since just you know, really when I kind. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:42.600 Of woke up to. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:49.520 The modern climate change era was with the Paradise fire 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.800 that happened right before the governor came into office in 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.240 twenty eighteen, so. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.839 There are free resources. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:04.320 There's also a positive parenting guide through Childmind that has 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.360 a video series on coping with family and community stress, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.080 which again this is not just individual stress, this is 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.800 like community stress when you're very much community in Altadena 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.840 or Palisades. So again I just I think then we've 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.000 also just lastly, one of the things I try to 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.120 do is introduce I've introduced my kids to breath work 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:32.160 and to to you know, to basically give them their 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.960 their own tools to settle their nervous systems when they're 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.920 feeling pretty anxious. And the Governor's Advisory Council and Physical 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.120 Fitness and Mental well Being has come out with a 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.600 whole best practice series on breathwork, mindfulness, and daily movement. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.920 So I'm always encouraging people when they can to spend 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:54.200 time and nature to anger themselves with you know, different 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.120 forms of mindfulness and breath work, and we actually give 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:58.280 people the tools for that. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.640 And so we're we've. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.160 Been down in Los Angeles providing support and we'll try 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.280 to do more because there are so many resources out 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.640 there to help hold people while they're recovering from this 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:17.720 horrific trauma. Yeah, it's church losing their jobs, losing their businesses, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:18.800 losing their communities. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.960 Yeah, it's been pretty brutal. I want you to talk 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.400 to us about California Love California is Strong. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:25.400 Yes. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.000 So California Love, California Strong is a campaign that we've 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:36.280 just sawt launch around the fires to remind people that 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.720 we're in this together, to uplift what's already been happening, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.960 which is this incredible love that Angelina's have for Angelina's, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.400 but that all of California has for California and frankly 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.000 the world. I mean again, we saw the president of 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:54.480 Mexico send her firefighters and her guard and we've seen 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.200 the Canadians send their folks in the other states, Oregon, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.600 you name it, have sent folks into help us recover 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.360 and fight off this natural disaster. And so California Love 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.640 California Strong is really about this whole concept that there 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.679 is this love that we have for each other and 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.680 it's being exhibited and that together that this is really 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.960 you know, this really is our strength, right. Our love 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.280 and our care for our communities and for each other 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.560 is really what makes us so strong as a state, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.400 and it's how we're going to get through this, and 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.040 it's how we're going to get to the other side, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.880 you know, like say Phoenix rises from the ashes. In California, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.480 it is, and we'll do this and we'll do it better, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.800 and we'll obviously learn a lot from what happened and 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:47.400 make changes so that we are safer and so that 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:48.680 we can rebuild together. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.679 Well, thank you so much, Jennifer for everything you guys 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.040 are doing. We truly appreciate it. What an unfortunate situation, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.360 you know what, I know it's been. It's so sad. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.760 It's so sad. What great things come out of not 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.040 great things, you know, And everybody's learning and we're going 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.559 to rebuild as a community and as a city and 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.079 come out stronger, I have no doubt. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.800 Thank you so much, no, and I'm just so proud 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.640 of that California spirit. It's really the California way, and 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.200 it's what I think it's one of the reasons California 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.480 really is the first in the nation and leads in 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.040 the nation in so many areas because we are living 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.480 together and thriving together despite all of our differences, and 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:32.160 despite this suffering and you know, I just it gives 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.480 me hope. I have so much hope because of the spirit. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.600 And of course people are allowed to be angry, and 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.640 of course people are allowed to be strong sad, but 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.679 the fact of the matter is, like. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:44.240 There are people. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:49.720 This is a resilient community that has incredible energy and fortitude, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.760 and that gives me hope and it makes me believe 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.200 in California more than I ever have. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.600 Yes, I agree with you, and listen, this is special 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.199 that we're doing. I've been able to interview so many 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.480 people doing incredible things, you know, and it takes moments 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.160 like this for people to unite and just come up 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.120 with incredible ideas to solve problems and to help, you know, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.319 and get inspired. You know, there's a lot of inspiration 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.680 of people that never in a million years thought that 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.000 they were going to respond to something and start helping 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.880 and then get the immense desire to continue to help, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.880 because you know, it's like once you get a fever 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.520 of like it feels good and I'm doing something good, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.920 you know you want to continue doing it. So it's great. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.360 Yeah, no, it's great. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.760 Thank you, And hopefully California Love California Strong campaign will 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.200 launch officially whereby all Californians once a month at least 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.920 on the first Sunday the month will give time, resources, love, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.080 and gratitude in their communities and elsewhere. And that's really 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.560 the spirit of what we're trying to launch. But it's 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.280 there already, it's in Los Angeles, and again that this 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.280 is what gives me hope and makes me believe that 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.160 we can have a future where more people are other oriented, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.720 more people are community oriented, and more committed. More Canelo 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.320 Fignes are committed to being helpers. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.000 Awesome and mentally that well. Thank you so much, Nandie 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:12.920 for have a great day. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.480 You too, Thanks for everything. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.920 Okay, that's us. Betty Chokachi is known for his Rolem Daywatch, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.160 but has really had his books on the ground helping 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.400 out in the policy's community and beyond. As someone who 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.000 lost his home in the twenty eighteen Wolves fire, he 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.120 knows exactly how it feels to lose everything and have 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:30.880 to start over. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:32.080 How are you doing? 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.280 Hi, Thank you so much David for doing this. Truly 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:36.880 appreciate it. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.040 Hi, You're so welcome. I'm so excited. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.679 You guys are doing something, you know, to highlight you 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.719 know what people have been doing around the city to 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.920 help people and help the animals. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:46.600 Yes. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.839 Absolutely, And my understanding is that you lost this happened 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.640 to you in twenty eighteen, and the Wesley fire is correct. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.079 In the Wool fire. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.440 Yeah, we have our rental property out here on point 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.240 two is a beautiful house that this. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.960 He was a script supervisor I met on bay Watch. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.120 He was in his seventies at the time. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:07.880 But it was like an acre and a half all 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.040 fruit trees and berries like, and we were living in 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.640 this beautiful it was like a treehouse. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.240 Kind of thing, and I've renovated the whole bottom and 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.000 we just made it ours. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.599 And my daughter was three at the time, so we 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.439 when that fire happened, it was the same time. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.760 It was so fast. By the time I tried to 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.760 get out here to get. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.160 Anything out of it, they were already at that mindatary 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:34.439 evacuation and so we lost everything, and you know, it's 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:39.599 just it's it's I felt obviously much worse for my 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.360 friend Tom Moore who lost the place because that was 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:43.199 the sanctuary. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.160 That's where he found the East of the World. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.640 But it's it's tough, and you know, at that time, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.079 what happened was all the firefighters were spread so thin, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.319 and again there's a fire station fifty yards from that 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.480 house where that house was, and they were gone obviously, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.200 and there was no water. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:08.400 So since then, I was gonna talk about it later, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.360 but I'll just bring him now. There's a a guy 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:13.320 here named. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.319 Andrew Oh my god, no, keaking Gibbs, who started this 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:22.880 volunteer fire brigade because people have noticed, especially in this 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.440 remote area of Malibu, and it's not that remote, but 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.840 it's a little bit cut off that if you you're 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.480 not resourceful and you're not aware and like capable of 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.200 taking care of yourself, your friends, your family, or your neighbors, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.840 there's a good chance you will you know you're you're 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.480 in serious danger with something like that. This happens because 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.120 it happens so fast. Yeah, I mean, we saw like 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.480 how fast that Palace States fire moved. And so they 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:54.320 started a volunteer fire brigade. That's a legitimate fire brigade. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.640 It's like sixty hours of training. And I actually applied 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.760 in November and I'm just waiting to hear back. But 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.440 since the Franklin fire happened, and this happened like they've 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:04.240 been so busy. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.040 I think they're yeah waiting, so I'm hoping to be 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.040 to become a member of that. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.320 But in the meantime, yeah, I've been busy, like helping 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.120 best Friends as much as possible. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.520 And I'm assuming you I'm not assuming. I know you're 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.840 probably missus helping giving lots of words of encouragement because 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.720 you went through it so you know how it feels. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.640 And as a dad, I am a huge animal advocate 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.800 as myself, and I was so happy when I learned 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.800 that you're helping animals, Yeah, in a very very very 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.960 incredible way. And your daughter, how old is your daughter now? 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.080 Thirteen thirteen? So talk to me about this experience that 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.240 she's doing with you, and what is it that you're 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.840 doing with these animals and find them places for them 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.080 and help them try one location to the next. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.440 So what they've done Best Friends Animal Society and along 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.720 there are some other great groups because I worked on 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.880 a flight yesterday and this is another great group also 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.560 that should be mentioned as a pause for likee K nine, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.200 they do a lot of amazing stuff. So, but best 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.120 Friends has kind of they're really their main goal is 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.520 to achieve like no kill shelters through the entire LA 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.240 by the end of twenty twenty five, which is if 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.480 you see the numbers, they've reduced it by something like 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.760 sixteen millions so far, and they're really taken a hard 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.480 like push at that. I've been an ambassador for them 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.640 since the year two thousand. I helped because I was 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.680 an actor and had some visibility. There's a big pet 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.600 adoption at the labret Tarpits and these they said, hey, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.680 would you come walk these dogs down the runway and 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.000 try and get them adopted because if they don't get 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.080 adopted that day, they'll be euthanized the next set the 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:44.680 next day. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.160 Yeah. Wow, I hate to say this, but I like 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.000 dogs more than humans, so I agree. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.760 It's okay, no offense. Human makes me love you too, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.760 but animals they're very special. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:57.200 Yeah. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.800 So that was my first introduction to them. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.600 And then we walked around that event and my wife 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.600 and I saw this pit lab mixed and that was 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.560 our first rescue and ever since then, I've kind of 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.879 been an ambassador for them. So they were really smart, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.720 like they pre as soon as these fires started, they 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.320 took action. They went into motion right away and started 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.200 They knew they'd be a huge influx of animals coming 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:28.240 from whether it's they're they're just like fleeing and they're 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:33.440 like now they're separated from their families, or a lot 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.359 of families have had to surrender their their dogs because 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.520 of the displaced or a lot of families unfortunately can't 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:45.480 even afford to deal with even like the process of surrendering. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.359 They're in a place of survival mode where they're just 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.040 like letting their dogs go out in the wild. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.320 Oh my goodness. Let me ask you, how can people help? 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:56.440 You help them? 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.040 The best way people can help is to go foster pet, 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.399 like even for a couple of weeks, because when you 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.560 foster a pet, you take it out of the caged environment. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.159 You get to take pictures and videos of it in 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.320 a home environment. That's the real dog, you know, and 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:17.760 then a potential family gets to see that dog like, Okay, 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.760 that's what the dogs I get home instead of when 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.919 they show up at the shelter and it's all afraid 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:27.160 and timid and like what we're kind of setting So fostering, adopting, 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:29.840 donating to the food pantry. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.440 Best Friends right now has a food pantry down in 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:33.200 West la. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.479 You can look it up there where if you need 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.480 pet food, cat food, any kind of supplies there for free, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.080 or if you want to make donations to that pantry, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.879 that's another way to help. They also started a foster 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.360 program on Facebook best friends did. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.640 Those are like the main ways to help? 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.439 Okay, perfect, Thank you so much. I truly real appreciate, 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.760 appreciate everything you're doing. This is amazing. As a dog 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.000 love myself, we need help, so please please it's a 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.840 wonderful thing to foster a pet. It helps them, it 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.680 helps the family. It's much needed. So thank you so much. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.359 Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.920 Now I'm going to welcome Randy Jafee, who, along with 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.040 her sister in law Jenny, they launched the Ali Lost 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.480 Stoppy Project, which aims to help replace beloved items like 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.160 stop animals, toys, and blankets for kids who were displaced 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.640 by devastating Los Angeles area fires. How are you nice 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:39.040 meeting you? 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.600 It's so nice to thank you so much for having 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:41.840 me on. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.119 Of course, thank you for doing this. We truly appreciate 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.160 you on what you're doing. And my understanding is that Okay, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.240 so you and your sister in law correct Jenny, you 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.800 live in New York, so it's three thousand New York. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.480 You're three thousand miles Jersey, three thousand miles away. Pretty much. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.280 The fires are in California. Tell me what motivated you 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.840 to say, you know what, I'm over here, that's over there, 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:05.680 but I want to help. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.080 So I'm a mom and I'm also a childlife specialist, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.040 which nobody really knows who we are what we do, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.840 but we support kids and families through really challenging life experiences. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.199 Most of us work in pediatric hospital settings and help 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.160 kids cope with hospitalization, prep them for surgeries and procedures 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.400 and things like that. My job as a childlife specialist, 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.600 I sometimes take kids back into the operating room when 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.280 parents can't accompany them, and I help them cope while 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.960 they're receiving at a season when they're going to sleep. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.200 And the number one thing that I always say is, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.720 let's bring that cozy inside, Let's bring that stuff animal, 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:41.560 let's bring that lovey, let's bring that blank to. Whatever 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.760 is going to make that child feel safe and comfortable 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:45.919 when they're going into the operating room is what we need. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.399 Once the child falls asleep, I take that comfort in 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.600 and I bring it like it's gold back to the 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.560 waiting rooms. It's for the parents, and I tell them 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.600 how their childs did falling asleep, and I give them 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.119 that precious comfort I'm over. 0:20:58.840 --> 0:20:59.920 And it brings them comfort. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.280 So when the wildfire started, I was devastated. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:05.639 Like I think so many of us were across the country. 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.840 And I found myself wondering what would I got if 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.639 my house was on fire and it was my sons, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.240 my three year old's mama cheetah, that's like this ten 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.879 year old thing that was from like my daughter's school store, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:17.840 and there's no chance that I'd ever be able to 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.080 find it again. And I thought about, like all of 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.240 these devastated children who have experienced probably hopefully the biggest 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.119 tim and they'll ever experience in their life, And not 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.120 only do they not have their home, and they don't 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:33.000 have their familiar routine and school and all of these things, 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.560 but they don't have a comfort item to even help 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:36.879 them to feel any sort of. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:37.800 Normalcy or coping. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.159 Of course, hopefully, thank god they have their parents and 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.919 their family and everybody's safe, but you know, a three 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:45.439 year old, a four year old, of five year old, 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.560 an eighteen year old feel safe when they have their comfort. 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:49.920 You know, I'm going to tell you a quick story. 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:51.840 Yeah this is not about me at all, but this 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.800 is how I can relate. Years maybe nine years ago, 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.680