WEBVTT - Miss LA Strong

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<v Speaker 1>Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Hi everyone, so we hear at Misspelling are back and

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<v Speaker 2>we're taping this on January sixteenth, twenty twenty five. And

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<v Speaker 2>this was a really hard episode for me to even

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<v Speaker 2>think and comprehend about recording, just the devastation in California,

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<v Speaker 2>specifically Los Angeles, being an LA native, and just well

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<v Speaker 2>for the last week watching the magical place that I

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<v Speaker 2>was born into and grew up in, and not just

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<v Speaker 2>that so many grew up there and meet families and

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<v Speaker 2>created lives, but people moved to LA for the dream, right,

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<v Speaker 2>LA is the dream place, and it's quite literally, we

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if it'll ever be the same, And just

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<v Speaker 2>seeing the devastation that people have gone through, it's uncomprehensible.

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<v Speaker 2>And I guess you just never think and I know

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not alone here, and sorry if I sound ignorant,

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<v Speaker 2>but sometimes you just don't think that it's ever going

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<v Speaker 2>to happen right in your backyard, right where you are.

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<v Speaker 2>And we watch things all the time on the news,

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<v Speaker 2>and we pray for people, and we try to help

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<v Speaker 2>and get the word out when things and people.

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<v Speaker 1>Are devastated across the world.

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<v Speaker 2>But when it happens right in your hometown, You're like,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Everyone says you know, you should always

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<v Speaker 2>be prepared, but I don't think you're ever quite prepared.

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<v Speaker 2>As much as you could be prepared, you're just not.

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<v Speaker 2>So I apologize because it's my duty as the host

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<v Speaker 2>of this podcast to keep some consistency and to quite frankly,

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<v Speaker 2>do my job and give you weekly tapings. And I

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<v Speaker 2>was just frozen for a week. I didn't feel like

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<v Speaker 2>an expert to talk about it. I didn't feel impacted

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<v Speaker 2>enough to talk about it.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Feel and my audience knows me well I had any

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<v Speaker 2>right to talk about it. But I know sometimes comfort

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<v Speaker 2>for others comes in different ways, and comfort comes in

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<v Speaker 2>knowing and relying on something that is constant and does

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<v Speaker 2>make you happy. So I don't know if this episode

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<v Speaker 2>will make you happy. But I'm here, I'm back, I'm committed,

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<v Speaker 2>and as much as I'm cringing telling my own story

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<v Speaker 2>because I don't feel I have any right to tell

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<v Speaker 2>my story when so many others were impacted in such

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<v Speaker 2>horrific ways, I am going to go through a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit of what we went through because maybe some of

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<v Speaker 2>it will resonate on a human level, a female level,

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<v Speaker 2>a motherhood level, friend level, for a baby level.

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<v Speaker 1>God for babies. Okay, here goes nothing, folks.

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<v Speaker 2>So when the fires started last week, I remember, I

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<v Speaker 2>remember getting the first text I got from one of

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<v Speaker 2>my best guy friends and he said, are you seeing

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<v Speaker 2>what's happening the fires? And I didn't know? And I

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<v Speaker 2>said no, what do you mean? And it was the

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<v Speaker 2>Palisades fire? And I immediately said, what's going on?

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<v Speaker 1>There's a fire.

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<v Speaker 2>It's happening, he told me. I of course. The first

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<v Speaker 2>thing that goes through your mind is are we close?

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<v Speaker 2>And I think that's just normal. You know, it's happening

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<v Speaker 2>in La We live in La La La. Sounds like

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<v Speaker 2>such a condensed version. We live in southern California, No

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<v Speaker 2>La County like it was.

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<v Speaker 1>It was. It was close.

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<v Speaker 2>Enough, and it was like, oh my gosh. My immediate

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<v Speaker 2>reaction was, oh my god, my kids are in school.

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<v Speaker 1>Do I need to.

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<v Speaker 2>Go pick them all up? That was immediate, like what

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<v Speaker 2>just happened? What's going on? It's not stopping. They said,

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<v Speaker 2>it's spreading. He said it's coming over the hill. The

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<v Speaker 2>hill meant it would come towards us. So immediately checked

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<v Speaker 2>in with all the schools there were still open. There

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<v Speaker 2>was the wind warning, which had been crazy. It was

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<v Speaker 2>crazy because you know, we always get alerts and we

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<v Speaker 2>see the weather warnings, and the nay before had said

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<v Speaker 2>like high wind warnings, which if you live in California,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, unfortunately it's been a drought and it's very

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<v Speaker 2>dry and you always think, okay, there could be fires,

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<v Speaker 2>especially high winds.

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<v Speaker 1>Weather.

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<v Speaker 2>It has been very inconsistent, very inconsistent. As someone that

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<v Speaker 2>grew up, born and raised in La Are, California, our

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<v Speaker 2>weather has changed so drastically. It's nothing like it used

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<v Speaker 2>to be, and so there's no expectation. You don't know

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<v Speaker 2>what's going to happen. It changes so frequently. We used

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about earthquake weather. Now it's every advisory weather

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<v Speaker 2>and it could change from day to day. So I

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<v Speaker 2>checked with the schools. The schools did post something. We

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<v Speaker 2>have parent chats. If you don't know, probably do know.

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<v Speaker 2>I have five kids, seventeen, sixteen, thirteen, twelve, and seven.

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<v Speaker 2>They're in four different schools. My son's at one high school,

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<v Speaker 2>my daughter is at one high school. My two poor

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<v Speaker 2>middle children. I always feel for middle children. They are

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<v Speaker 2>at a middle school and then my youngest seven vo

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<v Speaker 2>is at an elementary school. So, you know, as a

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<v Speaker 2>single mom and their father works.

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<v Speaker 1>He helps me with drop offs.

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<v Speaker 2>When he can, but pickups he can't do because of

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<v Speaker 2>his job. I was just like, oh my gosh, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I I got to get to these pickups. I got

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<v Speaker 2>to pick them up. Am I standing by? Am I

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<v Speaker 2>pulling the kids too soon?

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<v Speaker 1>You know?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to be that person. But anyway, the

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<v Speaker 2>kids were fine. They came home. Teens being teens. I

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<v Speaker 2>could hear them all, you know, on the and preteens

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<v Speaker 2>on the phones with their friends, and they were just

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<v Speaker 2>you know, that's all. They weren't talking about the fire.

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<v Speaker 2>The fire is a close, is a closer. You're staying home,

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<v Speaker 2>what are you doing? And it's a very different conversation

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<v Speaker 2>than the conversation as an adult and a parent that

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<v Speaker 2>you're having with your friends.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's just say that.

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<v Speaker 2>And my friend had said you got to get on

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<v Speaker 2>watch duty app. First he said you got to get

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<v Speaker 2>on Citizen, which I swore to go off of.

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<v Speaker 1>That was taking me down, like years ago. I had

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<v Speaker 1>to I had to get off of that.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you know, it would be really random things that

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't even be helpful, and it was consuming my life

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<v Speaker 2>in a panicked way. So I went back on Citizen

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<v Speaker 2>and then he said, Watch Duty.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the one. It's just the wildfires.

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<v Speaker 2>It's you know, covering the palisades, covering the eaten fire,

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<v Speaker 2>covering you know, all the smaller ones that were still arding.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I went on that, and I got to

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<v Speaker 2>be honest.

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<v Speaker 1>I you know how your.

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<v Speaker 2>Phone knows what you do the most. So like my phone,

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<v Speaker 2>for instance, you know it'll pull up my messages, it'll

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<v Speaker 2>pull up Instagram and now pulls up Watch Duty because

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<v Speaker 2>it knows that's basically all I'm focused on. Because our

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<v Speaker 2>phones know us. I have not gone off of it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think I refresh it like every five minutes.

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<v Speaker 2>It's probably not even healthy, but you know, making sure

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<v Speaker 2>like did I miss something.

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<v Speaker 1>It's something not refreshed.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't know about it, but I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>become a way of life now for everybody, at least

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<v Speaker 2>for now until some sort of normalizing happens for LA.

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<v Speaker 2>But that was Tuesday, I believe Wednesday, we had power outages,

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<v Speaker 2>the winds were crazy, the kids didn't go to school

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<v Speaker 2>by Wednesday, my friend who had alerted me of the fires.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, you need to get prepared, you need to go.

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<v Speaker 2>He wanted us to go as a single mom. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>grateful that I have a couple guy friends that feel

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<v Speaker 2>the need to step up. I have girlfriends as well,

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<v Speaker 2>but they have families, you know, But I have guy friends.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't have families, and they have made our families,

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<v Speaker 2>specifically one of my friends, and he's made our family

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<v Speaker 2>really a priority. And he checks in on us about everything, and.

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<v Speaker 1>He was like, you need to go. It's getting close.

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<v Speaker 2>And I kept looking and of course the kids are

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<v Speaker 2>panicked and the kids, sorry, my dogs are barking. We're

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<v Speaker 2>here at an airbnb and we're all here in it together.

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<v Speaker 2>So he said, you need to pack up stuff and

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<v Speaker 2>have everything prepared. And I kept saying, but but it's

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<v Speaker 2>not close enough. We don't need to evacuate. We are okay.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think, of course, my children come first and

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<v Speaker 2>my family comes first. But I was trying to be pragmatic.

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<v Speaker 2>I think, which I'm never I'm a dreamer. I'm you

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<v Speaker 2>know me, I'm like okay, I listen to everyone and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like go.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like Okay, we have all our food here,

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<v Speaker 1>We're financially secure here. You know, I don't. We're a

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<v Speaker 1>big family.

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<v Speaker 2>There's six of us, five kids, me, there's three dogs,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a cat, and there's a ferret. And to put

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<v Speaker 2>the burden of us on another family is insane, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just.

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<v Speaker 2>Although I got to say, I did have a couple

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<v Speaker 2>people reach out and say, if you need to come here,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we can do sleeping bags.

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<v Speaker 1>We can.

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<v Speaker 2>But I also think in my situation, people probably assume like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>she's fine, she has a lot of people that are

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<v Speaker 2>wanting to put her up, or she's I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what people think. But anyway, I was like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>we're here in our home. I'm checking everything, I'm making

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<v Speaker 2>sure it's fine. I'm seeing the proximity of the fire.

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<v Speaker 2>I was more concerned at the time dealing with I

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<v Speaker 2>have a couple good friends that live on Topanga, like

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<v Speaker 2>old Tapanga, and like.

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<v Speaker 1>They had to evacuate.

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<v Speaker 2>I was more concerned telling them before they had the mandatory,

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<v Speaker 2>like they couldn't go back in of getting their stuff out,

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<v Speaker 2>and I said, we're here, there's six of us, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>let me come to you and help you move stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>You guys can all come to stay with us. I

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<v Speaker 2>was more concerned about taking people in than getting us out.

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<v Speaker 2>And my daughter, who is sixteen, she kept saying, my

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<v Speaker 2>friends are evacuating. My friend, we need to go, We

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<v Speaker 2>need to go. And I kept saying, but ours isn't mandatory.

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<v Speaker 2>She's like, Mom, we're in the hills. This isn't a

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<v Speaker 2>dress rehearsal, Like, we got to go. I can't say dressers.

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<v Speaker 2>She doesn't know that that's my word. But anyway, I said,

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<v Speaker 2>you guys keep some things like grab a few things.

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<v Speaker 1>But I didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Want to leave yet. And then Wednesday night power was

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<v Speaker 2>going in and out. Everything was going off. The winds

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<v Speaker 2>were insane. You could smell the fires outside. We couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>go outdoors. And my friend said, my friend, that was

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<v Speaker 2>super helpful.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, do me a favor. At least go gas

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<v Speaker 1>your car up, so if you have to go and

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<v Speaker 1>you have to go far, you have gas in your car.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm glad I took his advice. I did. I

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<v Speaker 1>left the house with my daughter. We went.

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<v Speaker 2>We filled the car up with gas, our SUV and

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<v Speaker 2>that was prepared on Thursday. Then it got to the

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<v Speaker 2>kids didn't go to school again. They were you know,

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<v Speaker 2>schools were shut down, the fires were and it wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>until another fire literally started on the other side of

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<v Speaker 2>us that my friend said, you have fires starting on

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<v Speaker 2>both sides of you.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got to go. You've got to go now.

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<v Speaker 2>And then right as he was like texting me this,

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<v Speaker 2>I was getting the is it Amber alert for five

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what it was, but it was going off.

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<v Speaker 2>I could hear it going off on all my kids'

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<v Speaker 2>phones that our area we needed to go, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, okay, let's go. Of course, I didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>a plan. My friend had told me for two days

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<v Speaker 2>to have a plan. I didn't listen. And I posted

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<v Speaker 2>this on on Instagram. I told my story exactly how

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<v Speaker 2>it went down. I'm always very authentic and truthful. Such

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<v Speaker 2>an outpour of people concerned because we had to evacuate. Sorry,

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<v Speaker 2>if you hear my dogs, they're they're going through it too.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't know they're displaced too, so they're Yeah. I

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<v Speaker 2>put on Instagram that friends had told me, like, have

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<v Speaker 2>a plan back up, and I didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Have a plan.

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<v Speaker 2>And when we evacuated and fled, we just literally we

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<v Speaker 2>we did the best we could. I would say, in

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<v Speaker 2>thirty minutes or less because it was getting dark, and

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<v Speaker 2>my friend said, they're going to close the one on

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<v Speaker 2>one soon.

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<v Speaker 1>There's talk of it, and.

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<v Speaker 2>You you got to get out and get on the one.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you got to get somewhere. So I said, kids,

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<v Speaker 2>we got to get out of here fast. I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>want to panic my kids either, like that. That's not helpful.

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<v Speaker 2>Someone's got to be the voice of reason. Too bad

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<v Speaker 2>they have me, but uh, it's yeah. So thirty minutes

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<v Speaker 2>or less, we packed up six lives and three animals.

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<v Speaker 2>It was it was I don't know how we did it, honestly.

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<v Speaker 2>And my daughter Stella, she she's kind of we always

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<v Speaker 2>I always joke with her as well, like she's I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like she's my co parent. She's like the other mother,

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<v Speaker 2>and she is good in situations. She said, Mom, you

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<v Speaker 2>get your stuff, you get Bo's stuff. I'm going to

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<v Speaker 2>help manage getting everything else in the car. And I

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<v Speaker 2>said okay, And I went to my room and I

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<v Speaker 2>looked around and I froze. I literally froze, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, I don't know what to take. Here's me

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<v Speaker 2>self professed hoarder my whole life, and we were faced

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<v Speaker 2>with the eminent thing of like, okay, so you kept

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<v Speaker 2>all this stuff for years, but it could be gone.

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<v Speaker 1>And in a moment, I was like, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what to take. I'll tell you what

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<v Speaker 1>I took. It wasn't much. This is weird.

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<v Speaker 2>I was wearing a Los Angeles T shirt that my

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<v Speaker 2>daughter had di wide can cut and it was actually hers,

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<v Speaker 2>and she was like, I don't want anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I'll take it in s cool. I was

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<v Speaker 1>wearing a Los Angeles T.

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<v Speaker 2>Shirt will Wave Back Waited, which is so bizarro, and

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't even have it on because what was happening.

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<v Speaker 1>So I went into my closet.

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<v Speaker 2>I looked around and I was like, none of this matters, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>who cares?

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<v Speaker 1>Where am I gonna pack it? We don't have room.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't have room to even put suitcases if we

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to. We're packing a cage. We had to put

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<v Speaker 1>our two big dogs in a cage so they don't

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<v Speaker 1>move around. To put their cage in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Back seat of our suv, it took up the whole

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<v Speaker 2>back seat, to be honest, and then our third big

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<v Speaker 2>dog like it was like.

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<v Speaker 1>Nowhere.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, okay, I'd rather my kids grab things

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<v Speaker 2>they want than me, like who cares about me? And

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<v Speaker 2>so in that moment, in that panic moment, I looked down,

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<v Speaker 2>I grabbed my I went to John Thomas d which

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<v Speaker 2>was JTD in elementary school that if you grew up

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<v Speaker 2>in La you know, and if you live in you know.

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<v Speaker 2>I grabbed my jacket from nineteen eighty five.

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<v Speaker 1>I grabbed that jacket. I don't think it fits me.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why I grabbed that, because I was like, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>this will be my memory, and great, this will be

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<v Speaker 2>my one memory.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I'm not gonna lie.

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<v Speaker 2>I looked down at like my lou batons and my

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<v Speaker 2>Blenciaga shoes and my.

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<v Speaker 1>Ugh and I said, h what does it matter?

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<v Speaker 2>And I did take a seashell because my uncle Danny

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<v Speaker 2>was in the seashell business and he had given me one,

0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.480
<v Speaker 2>and I grabbed that seashell. I grabbed a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>my crystals because I was like, okay, I want to

0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:51.600
<v Speaker 2>bring some good energy. Grabbed my contacts because I got

0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:56.840
<v Speaker 2>to have those, and really that was all I grabbed.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I went downstairs and I was like, okay, photos,

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<v Speaker 2>I got a that and Stella said, Mom, Luckily, we

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<v Speaker 2>still had a box from our last house that we

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<v Speaker 2>never unpacked of our photos and memories and artwork. It

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't it's not a big one. It's not everything, but

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<v Speaker 2>at least I had something. And she said, I've got

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<v Speaker 2>that one. And I have one photo album that growing up,

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<v Speaker 2>my nanny, who was like my second mom, put together.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm really glad.

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<v Speaker 2>I grabbed that photo album because I had no idea

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<v Speaker 2>that our family beach house would be gone, so I

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<v Speaker 2>grabbed it and I had pictures of my dad and

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<v Speaker 2>us at the beach.

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<v Speaker 1>There, so I grabbed that and packed food for the dogs,

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<v Speaker 1>packed water. You're supposed to pack water, right you always

0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:55.000
<v Speaker 1>know an emergency, like always packed water, and we shoved

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<v Speaker 1>everyone in the car. My twelve year old he said, Mom,

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<v Speaker 1>I had a really good idea. And I said what, baby,

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<v Speaker 1>And he said, I put all my stuff into a blanket.

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<v Speaker 1>Mind you, it was a really fuzzy, huge blanket.

0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.120
<v Speaker 2>I put all my stuff in there and I tied it,

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<v Speaker 2>just like Snoopy used to do when he would leave

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<v Speaker 2>home and going back to the cartoon. It's Charlie Brown,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, well, where's the stick? You know,

0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:33.879
<v Speaker 2>I hold it, but uh it was ginormous and I'm like, okay, buddy,

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<v Speaker 2>encouraging him, thinking this is not a good idea. And

0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.879
<v Speaker 2>it was huge, huge, And then I see that Hattie,

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<v Speaker 2>his thirteen year old sister, had followed suit, so she

0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:45.719
<v Speaker 2>had that, and I'm like, we're not getting this all

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<v Speaker 2>in the car. And then and then the argument started

0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.359
<v Speaker 2>to break out. I brought like two T shirts, like

0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.040
<v Speaker 2>why did she look? She brought like five pairs of

0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.320
<v Speaker 2>pants and three belts, and like she doesn't need that.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was like, listen, everyone has a different way

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<v Speaker 2>of handling things and what's important to them. If we

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<v Speaker 2>can get in the car, let's get in the car.

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<v Speaker 2>And then and then we got in the car. We

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<v Speaker 2>got in the car, we packed everyone in. Everyone was saying, I.

0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.639
<v Speaker 1>Can't move, I can't breathe, I can't.

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<v Speaker 2>It was stuffed and my daughter said, well, you're not

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be able to see how the back.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, it's okay. I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know how we got ourselves packed into

0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:35.240
<v Speaker 2>that car. It was like Tetris on a next level,

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<v Speaker 2>and not in a good way, it was just jammed in.

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<v Speaker 2>I looked back and my daughter Hattie was folded up.

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<v Speaker 2>She had one dog across her. She was holding a ferret.

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<v Speaker 2>And I said, oh my god. But you know what,

0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.959
<v Speaker 2>I said, Okay, everything else, it's just stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>It's just stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>And we got out of there, and as we were leaving,

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<v Speaker 2>I saw all the neighbors evacuating and getting in their

0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:09.199
<v Speaker 2>cars and we drove and I and it was in

0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:16.240
<v Speaker 2>that moment I remembered that because my kids said, where

0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:16.760
<v Speaker 2>are we going?

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<v Speaker 1>And I said, I don't know. I don't know where

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<v Speaker 1>to go.

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<v Speaker 2>And my best friend Jess is simultaneously calling and she's

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<v Speaker 2>telling me they had to evacuate, and she's like, all

0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.880
<v Speaker 2>hotels are booked, they're all sold out. There's nowhere to go.

0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:35.439
<v Speaker 2>Where are you guys going? And of course, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I don't know, I said, And then I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, oh my gosh. And sometimes I believe everything

0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:48.320
<v Speaker 2>happens for a reason. And in December at Iheart's jingle Ball,

0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:53.480
<v Speaker 2>I was there with my two girls and a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of people at one point were, you know, coming up

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<v Speaker 2>because it's.

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<v Speaker 1>Our demo the night of twent zero and they were like,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my gosh, we watched your childhood. Can we take

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<v Speaker 1>a picture.

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<v Speaker 2>My friends are here, we work with this business and here,

0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:13.639
<v Speaker 2>and fans were here at the concert, and I said, yeah,

0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:19.560
<v Speaker 2>of course, of course. And we actually ended up missing

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<v Speaker 2>the concert, mostly because I was taking pictures. But my

0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:32.440
<v Speaker 2>girls understood that the kindness that comes with what I do,

0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:37.880
<v Speaker 2>it's I don't know. It was important to me, and

0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.280
<v Speaker 2>it was making all these people so happy. And there

0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:42.560
<v Speaker 2>was the last person in line. Came up with her

0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:48.800
<v Speaker 2>best friend and she said to me, I can't believe

0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:49.359
<v Speaker 2>you're doing this.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>I know you're here with your family. If you ever

0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:56.119
<v Speaker 2>need anything, I'm with Airbnb. And I said, oh my gosh,

0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.400
<v Speaker 2>we love Airbnb. We always you know, you guys are

0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:04.600
<v Speaker 2>so cool to navigate. I have the app and we've

0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:07.720
<v Speaker 2>used you guys so many times. Especially we went through

0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:11.199
<v Speaker 2>Mold and we used them. And she gave me her

0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.200
<v Speaker 2>number and she said if you ever need anything, and

0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:17.280
<v Speaker 2>I didn't think much of it in that moment, and

0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:22.200
<v Speaker 2>I reached out to her and I said, we're evacuating

0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:24.920
<v Speaker 2>and we have nowhere to go, and I'm panicked.

0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:26.560
<v Speaker 1>I just want to drive my kids out of here.

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<v Speaker 1>And through the fires.

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<v Speaker 2>And I said, I know this is a long shot,

0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:36.520
<v Speaker 2>and her name's Jamie, and I didn't expect her to respond,

0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:42.000
<v Speaker 2>and she did respond, and she said, we got you.

0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:44.760
<v Speaker 2>We are going to we're going to help you out,

0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:48.400
<v Speaker 2>and I'm going to put you in touch with one

0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.480
<v Speaker 2>of my colleagues, Taylor, and Taylor stayed on the phone

0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:51.880
<v Speaker 2>and on.

0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:54.720
<v Speaker 1>Text with Stella the whole drive. I was scared.

0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:58.879
<v Speaker 2>I was, And it was really amazing and what Airbnb

0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:05.200
<v Speaker 2>has done for all of La in California and placing

0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:08.240
<v Speaker 2>people that have lost their homes that have been evacuated,

0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:12.000
<v Speaker 2>It's really been remarkable. And this is in no way,

0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.920
<v Speaker 2>shape or form and add for Airbnb. It's just exactly

0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:18.760
<v Speaker 2>how it happened in real life.

0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:23.000
<v Speaker 1>So anyway, they found us the place because I said,

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<v Speaker 1>well here's why, I said. I said, I'm getting on

0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:30.280
<v Speaker 1>the one oh one, and they said, given the circumstances,

0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:32.720
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people a going to Palm Springs, so

0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:35.879
<v Speaker 1>you might want to head that way. And I said,

0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:39.159
<v Speaker 1>the traffic is stand still that way. I said. I

0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:44.680
<v Speaker 1>the kids were literally shoved. It was like painful for them.

0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:47.360
<v Speaker 1>And I said, we don't have like I can't sit

0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:52.040
<v Speaker 1>on the freeway with kids for five, six, maybe eight hours.

0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:55.680
<v Speaker 2>At that point, everyone was evacuating and I said, I'm

0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:57.159
<v Speaker 2>going to head on the one on one north. It

0:26:57.240 --> 0:27:02.679
<v Speaker 2>was just a gut reaction, a cut decision, and I

0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:06.560
<v Speaker 2>just drove and Stella said, Mom, Mom, are you sure

0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:08.760
<v Speaker 2>you're going the right way? And I said, what's the

0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:12.399
<v Speaker 2>right way right now? And she said, but the but

0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:14.120
<v Speaker 2>it stands still going.

0:27:13.840 --> 0:27:15.800
<v Speaker 1>South the other way. We're headed this way.

0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:20.359
<v Speaker 2>Nobody's going and the fire, one of the other the

0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:23.399
<v Speaker 2>smaller fire that had started after is headed up there,

0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:25.960
<v Speaker 2>and Negre like, it's it's there, Like why are we

0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:29.960
<v Speaker 2>headed this way? And I said I don't know, but

0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:32.200
<v Speaker 2>this is where we are and this is what we're doing.

0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:35.320
<v Speaker 1>And she said, we're driving ray into the fire.

0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:38.680
<v Speaker 2>And I looked and we could see the fire and

0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:41.719
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, smoke was coming through the vents,

0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:44.760
<v Speaker 2>and I said to the kids. Everyone grabbed a T

0:27:44.880 --> 0:27:47.680
<v Speaker 2>shirt and I said, put it over your mouth, hold

0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:49.520
<v Speaker 2>your breath, and we're driving right through it.

0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:54.320
<v Speaker 1>And they were panicked, are we going to be okay?

0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:56.439
<v Speaker 1>And I said We're going to be fine. We're going

0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:57.480
<v Speaker 1>to be fine.

0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:01.440
<v Speaker 2>So as we were literally driving on the freeway, my

0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:05.400
<v Speaker 2>kids covering their faces with T shirts and holding their breath.

0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:10.600
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't help but think, like, God, I've seen this movie.

0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:15.879
<v Speaker 2>I've seen this I'm my brain thinks in movies and TV.

0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.200
<v Speaker 2>I was born into it, you know, so that's how

0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:24.080
<v Speaker 2>I think. And as we're driving, specifically, I remember thinking

0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:29.560
<v Speaker 2>like Independence Day and in Vivoca, a fox like on

0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:32.960
<v Speaker 2>the freeway, like getting her kid and the dog out,

0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:35.159
<v Speaker 2>and I just flashed to that and I was like,

0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:38.200
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, she made it through. I mean, it

0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:40.320
<v Speaker 2>was different. It was aliens. It wasn't a fire, but

0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:46.080
<v Speaker 2>it did feel, you know, apocalyptic, like everyone kept saying

0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:50.040
<v Speaker 2>the word like everyone was like, what is happening around us?

0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:53.560
<v Speaker 1>We didn't know if it was going to stop. We didn't,

0:28:55.080 --> 0:29:00.640
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I was like, wow, okay, here's the movie.

0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:01.440
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:04.240
<v Speaker 2>I wish I had worked out a little bit more

0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:06.120
<v Speaker 2>before it took the song, because there's gonna be a

0:29:06.120 --> 0:29:08.120
<v Speaker 2>lot of running involved if it keeps going this way.

0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:14.080
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, we drove through. We drove past it. The

0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:19.000
<v Speaker 2>kids were able to breathe again. We finally hit an

0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:24.480
<v Speaker 2>area way past where the fires were up north where

0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:27.720
<v Speaker 2>we did hit standstill traffic, and I said to Stella, see,

0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:30.840
<v Speaker 2>see there's traffic this way. They just got it out

0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:33.720
<v Speaker 2>a little sooner and made it this far, and they're

0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:35.920
<v Speaker 2>closing the roads near where the fire was.

0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:38.520
<v Speaker 1>So we're okay, had it this way.

0:29:39.160 --> 0:29:44.000
<v Speaker 2>And Taylor from Airbnb was was still texting with us

0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:47.080
<v Speaker 2>and trying to find a place, and it was, you know,

0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:50.200
<v Speaker 2>at this point, it was night and we were just

0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:53.160
<v Speaker 2>driving and I didn't know where we were going. And

0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:57.000
<v Speaker 2>he said, okay, I've tried a few places. They either

0:29:57.440 --> 0:30:01.000
<v Speaker 2>can't accommodate this last minute, or you know, don't take animals,

0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:03.360
<v Speaker 2>and because we do, we have our animals.

0:30:03.480 --> 0:30:05.680
<v Speaker 1>And I said, okay, well I'm just.

0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:09.840
<v Speaker 2>Going to keep going and uh he said, you know,

0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:12.280
<v Speaker 2>you might have to try to a hotel for the night.

0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:13.959
<v Speaker 2>And I said, no, one's going to take us with

0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:17.800
<v Speaker 2>all these animals, and oh my god. So I was like, okay,

0:30:18.640 --> 0:30:21.400
<v Speaker 2>there's going to be a sign. Let's keep going, and

0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:24.960
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, he said, oh my god, something

0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:27.400
<v Speaker 2>just popped up. I don't know why it didn't pop

0:30:27.480 --> 0:30:30.840
<v Speaker 2>up before, it just popped up. It's where we are now.

0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:37.080
<v Speaker 2>Just contacted the owner. They you know, are listing on Airbnb,

0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:39.640
<v Speaker 2>and they can set it up. They can take you

0:30:39.640 --> 0:30:45.560
<v Speaker 2>guys tonight. It's a husband and wife. They have enough rooms,

0:30:45.720 --> 0:30:51.520
<v Speaker 2>they can take your animals. And he was so great.

0:30:51.520 --> 0:30:53.440
<v Speaker 2>He said, do you want to send me to send pictures?

0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:55.560
<v Speaker 2>And I said, I said, to stell it, no, no, no,

0:30:55.560 --> 0:30:57.040
<v Speaker 2>tell him, no.

0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:57.040
<v Speaker 1>We're good.

0:30:57.160 --> 0:31:00.520
<v Speaker 2>We'll take anywhere. We're not picky, We're not. And I said,

0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:04.400
<v Speaker 2>just you know, I'm not like that anyway. I'm easy.

0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:07.280
<v Speaker 2>And I said, as long as we have a place tonight,

0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:10.640
<v Speaker 2>we can always. We think about it tomorrow, and I

0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:14.240
<v Speaker 2>just want my kids to feel comforted and can sleep.

0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:14.719
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.240
<v Speaker 2>We were just all crammed in a car and driving

0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:22.800
<v Speaker 2>aimlessly and anyway, we got here and we checked in

0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:32.280
<v Speaker 2>and it was unbelievably beautiful and gorgeous and a retreat

0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:35.240
<v Speaker 2>of sorts, I would say, or at least to us

0:31:35.360 --> 0:31:38.880
<v Speaker 2>it was. And it was dark so we couldn't see much,

0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:43.920
<v Speaker 2>so the kids were tired. We were able to order

0:31:43.960 --> 0:31:45.360
<v Speaker 2>pizza and get pizza in.

0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:48.480
<v Speaker 1>Everyone found a room.

0:31:48.800 --> 0:31:52.840
<v Speaker 2>We went to bed, and the next morning we woke

0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:57.240
<v Speaker 2>up and I was able to see where we were

0:31:57.320 --> 0:32:00.400
<v Speaker 2>because it was late, and I looked around. I walked

0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:04.800
<v Speaker 2>outside and there was this beautiful cooi pond and I

0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:06.160
<v Speaker 2>was like, oh my god, that's amazing.

0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:08.640
<v Speaker 1>And then I.

0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.200
<v Speaker 2>Find out that the area we're in, but not just

0:32:11.240 --> 0:32:17.480
<v Speaker 2>the area, but the house specifically, is a monarch butterfly sanctuary.

0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.160
<v Speaker 2>If you know me, you know I love butterflies or

0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:23.760
<v Speaker 2>one of my main things always has been, but more

0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:27.760
<v Speaker 2>so than that, butterflies were a big thing. And when

0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:32.920
<v Speaker 2>my dad passed, I just remember everyone saying, look for

0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:35.400
<v Speaker 2>him because he loved the butterflies, look for him. And

0:32:35.440 --> 0:32:39.640
<v Speaker 2>when you see a monarch, that's your dad. And I

0:32:39.720 --> 0:32:47.920
<v Speaker 2>was like, wow, and he loved koyfish. So sorry, I'm

0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:50.160
<v Speaker 2>not going to get emotional here, but I was just like,

0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:56.040
<v Speaker 2>thank you, Dad. What I believe, there's no coincidences in life.

0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:59.840
<v Speaker 2>I believe in synchronicity. I believe in signs.

0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:07.320
<v Speaker 1>I believe Yeah, so I believe we found this place

0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:08.240
<v Speaker 1>because of that.

0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:12.080
<v Speaker 2>And it just made it even more special to be

0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:15.400
<v Speaker 2>able to the next day go through the albums with

0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:20.400
<v Speaker 2>my kids and show them Grandpa Aaron and be like,

0:33:20.440 --> 0:33:25.840
<v Speaker 2>we're safe here, We're going to be okay. And when

0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:29.240
<v Speaker 2>it's okay to go back, we still don't have power.

0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:31.480
<v Speaker 1>At our house. Where we lived.

0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:35.440
<v Speaker 2>Our house is fine for now, but when it's safe

0:33:35.440 --> 0:33:41.120
<v Speaker 2>to go back, we will. And it's it's like when

0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:46.000
<v Speaker 2>things are so horrible, you have to find blessings in.

0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:48.160
<v Speaker 1>Tragedy.

0:33:49.080 --> 0:33:54.200
<v Speaker 2>And for me as a mom, as a single mom,

0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:57.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, my kids have gone through a lot in

0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:58.040
<v Speaker 2>the last couple.

0:33:57.920 --> 0:34:03.360
<v Speaker 1>Of years, say, while it is so tragic.

0:34:03.400 --> 0:34:10.360
<v Speaker 2>Everything that is going on, we're together, we're safe, we're healthy, ish,

0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:14.600
<v Speaker 2>we get psychot and we're able to have this time

0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:16.760
<v Speaker 2>where we're spending time together.

0:34:16.880 --> 0:34:21.759
<v Speaker 1>We're airbnbas, everything, we're cooking. I'm trying to give them

0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:23.839
<v Speaker 1>some sort of normalcy while we're here.

0:34:24.960 --> 0:34:28.440
<v Speaker 2>And you know, our schools did open this week, And

0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:31.560
<v Speaker 2>I got to say, I wrote emails to all of

0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:35.080
<v Speaker 2>our schools and I said, we're way up north. I

0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:37.480
<v Speaker 2>couldn't get my kids to school daily if I tried.

0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:40.360
<v Speaker 2>Right now, we were evacuated. We still don't have power,

0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:44.280
<v Speaker 2>We can't go back. We didn't grab their laptops for school.

0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:51.040
<v Speaker 2>We weren't prepared. And I said, but they accepted the absences.

0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:53.000
<v Speaker 2>You know, we put them online for the week. But

0:34:54.040 --> 0:34:57.840
<v Speaker 2>I got to be honest, you know, I didn't want

0:34:57.880 --> 0:34:59.600
<v Speaker 2>to let my kids go back to school. If I

0:34:59.800 --> 0:35:01.520
<v Speaker 2>were are still right there.

0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:04.480
<v Speaker 1>I want them all in eyesight right now.

0:35:05.560 --> 0:35:09.400
<v Speaker 2>They are what mean the most to me in my life,

0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:14.080
<v Speaker 2>not things, not a home, They are my home, and

0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:16.920
<v Speaker 2>I just wanted my pets around.

0:35:18.080 --> 0:35:18.880
<v Speaker 1>You know, so many.

0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:22.080
<v Speaker 2>People have lost their fur babies, and it's like, I

0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:24.680
<v Speaker 2>just God, I don't want anyone out of my site

0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:25.040
<v Speaker 2>right now.

0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:30.600
<v Speaker 1>Stay close. So yeah, that's our story.

0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:34.880
<v Speaker 2>And my heart goes out to people who have lost

0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:39.719
<v Speaker 2>everything and are so strong throughough and resilient. As an

0:35:39.880 --> 0:35:46.800
<v Speaker 2>LA native, it's unbelievable to see that the LA history

0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:52.800
<v Speaker 2>will never be the same. My kids generation, their kids

0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:55.880
<v Speaker 2>generation will never know the La that I grew up in,

0:35:55.920 --> 0:36:00.680
<v Speaker 2>the magical La that was because it's gone. Palisades gone,

0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:04.400
<v Speaker 2>Pali High's gone. Like all my friends in La, like

0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:08.799
<v Speaker 2>so many of them grew up in Palisades. Like my

0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:11.320
<v Speaker 2>dad would write stories into nine O two one to

0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:13.799
<v Speaker 2>zero about like move to this party in the Palisades,

0:36:13.840 --> 0:36:18.040
<v Speaker 2>because it was what my real life was. And he

0:36:18.160 --> 0:36:21.440
<v Speaker 2>was just telling the writers like here's what my daughter's experiencing.

0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:26.440
<v Speaker 2>You know, people that went to Pali Like, it's just

0:36:27.520 --> 0:36:30.320
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I'll never be the same and Malibu.

0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:35.400
<v Speaker 2>Malibu was a really magical place and to see that

0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:40.200
<v Speaker 2>it was so devastated and just destroyed. It's not my

0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:43.400
<v Speaker 2>story to tell, but I know it's been out in

0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:47.000
<v Speaker 2>the press that my mother's beach house burned down.

0:36:47.040 --> 0:36:47.359
<v Speaker 3>It did.

0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:51.960
<v Speaker 2>The morning I found out, I didn't want to believe it.

0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:57.600
<v Speaker 2>My friend said, Malibu's on fire. All of LaCosta Beach

0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:00.399
<v Speaker 2>is on fire, and that's where our home was. And

0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:06.719
<v Speaker 2>I said, oh, my god, no, And then sure enough, Yeah,

0:37:07.400 --> 0:37:09.719
<v Speaker 2>I've been in touch with my mom. She's processing.

0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:10.480
<v Speaker 1>It's a lot.

0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:15.560
<v Speaker 2>My brother and I are just super grateful for the memories,

0:37:16.480 --> 0:37:20.440
<v Speaker 2>and I think our family as a whole, and my

0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:24.080
<v Speaker 2>mom and brother would attest to this. The greatest tragedy

0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:28.120
<v Speaker 2>about losing that home was you know, they can post

0:37:28.120 --> 0:37:30.480
<v Speaker 2>in the press how much the home was worth, and

0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:32.920
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't mean not to my mom. It doesn't mean

0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:36.319
<v Speaker 2>not to my family. It was losing the memories with

0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:39.200
<v Speaker 2>my dad, but memories are always there.

0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:41.160
<v Speaker 1>But it was just it was my dad's favorite place

0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.520
<v Speaker 1>in the whole world. He was a workaholic.

0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:47.239
<v Speaker 2>He worked really hard, came from nothing, built up like

0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:53.719
<v Speaker 2>such an amazing self made man, and he loved the

0:37:53.840 --> 0:37:56.840
<v Speaker 2>simple things like he loved going to that beach house

0:37:57.560 --> 0:38:05.680
<v Speaker 2>and fishing and just just amazing memories and the families

0:38:05.719 --> 0:38:10.160
<v Speaker 2>that we grew up with on that beach that lost homes.

0:38:10.360 --> 0:38:13.400
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm grateful we have all those memories. But

0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:16.239
<v Speaker 2>Wiley's Bait shop, like that.

0:38:16.360 --> 0:38:18.799
<v Speaker 1>Was a family owned business and I used to go

0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:19.640
<v Speaker 1>on there with my.

0:38:19.680 --> 0:38:22.360
<v Speaker 2>Dad and would buy bait. So my dad taught me

0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:25.319
<v Speaker 2>how to fish when I was little, and would go

0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.319
<v Speaker 2>there since I was five and go to Wiley's and

0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:31.040
<v Speaker 2>be like, look, you know, I'm all grown up, and

0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:34.319
<v Speaker 2>here's here's my children, and I'm teaching them how to

0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:38.440
<v Speaker 2>fish now and share those memories and see such a

0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:43.680
<v Speaker 2>beautiful institution and part of LA like historical gone and

0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:46.680
<v Speaker 2>a family business, a small family business.

0:38:48.440 --> 0:38:51.240
<v Speaker 1>But you know, the good news is.

0:38:53.000 --> 0:38:59.080
<v Speaker 2>Everyone is stepping into help for everybody, and I'm hoping

0:38:59.800 --> 0:39:12.799
<v Speaker 2>LA will rebuild. If anyone doesn't know Pete, we call

0:39:12.840 --> 0:39:14.960
<v Speaker 2>it the Other nine two one oh podcast.

0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:17.839
<v Speaker 3>You are.

0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:20.280
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you're a nine o two and oh expert,

0:39:20.800 --> 0:39:21.480
<v Speaker 1>not just a man.

0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:23.680
<v Speaker 3>I know a lot now.

0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:26.960
<v Speaker 4>I know a lot more than I ever knew. You

0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:29.520
<v Speaker 4>know a lot about you. I know a lot about you.

0:39:31.120 --> 0:39:32.200
<v Speaker 1>Another creepy thing.

0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:34.800
<v Speaker 3>With a lot of creep.

0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:38.200
<v Speaker 4>I don't have my podcast microphone because it's a part

0:39:38.200 --> 0:39:40.520
<v Speaker 4>of the earth now at the house I used to

0:39:40.560 --> 0:39:44.480
<v Speaker 4>live with, I went back to the house, like, I

0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:47.799
<v Speaker 4>have this cool picture of you as Donna Martin. I

0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:51.239
<v Speaker 4>have Claire Arnold's pictures, right, I have all these cool things.

0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:55.080
<v Speaker 4>I have the paintings from the Walsh House that Jill Hankel,

0:39:55.239 --> 0:39:58.000
<v Speaker 4>the set decorator, gave me. I was like, one of

0:39:58.080 --> 0:39:59.720
<v Speaker 4>these things is going to be there.

0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:00.879
<v Speaker 1>To a little bit.

0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:03.359
<v Speaker 3>Nope, total destruction. Nothing was there.

0:40:03.680 --> 0:40:06.360
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, you and I used humor, and you

0:40:06.400 --> 0:40:09.359
<v Speaker 1>guys were very good friends, and so.

0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:12.319
<v Speaker 3>My heart just fluttered a little by the way when

0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:14.120
<v Speaker 3>you said that it's true.

0:40:14.239 --> 0:40:15.000
<v Speaker 1>You know I love you.

0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:17.160
<v Speaker 3>I love you too. Yeah, And I was.

0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:19.319
<v Speaker 2>Going to make some silly joke like, well, it's just

0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:20.680
<v Speaker 2>creepy that you had those paintings.

0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:25.000
<v Speaker 4>Anyway, everyone everyone, and I mentioned the paintings too, are

0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.280
<v Speaker 4>like they were really creepy. Why did you want them?

0:40:28.600 --> 0:40:33.399
<v Speaker 4>But it was, you know, it was a shocking turn

0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:34.160
<v Speaker 4>of events.

0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:35.000
<v Speaker 3>The whole thing.

0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:39.360
<v Speaker 2>The crazy part is, you know, we were all glue

0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:44.440
<v Speaker 2>dour phones, looking at watch duty, looking at Instagram, just

0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:47.120
<v Speaker 2>trying to get some like what's going on. What's going on?

0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:50.520
<v Speaker 2>I felt like you and I were texting things were fine,

0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:53.440
<v Speaker 2>and then all of a sudden I found out because

0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:57.000
<v Speaker 2>I see your Instagram story and I was like what,

0:40:58.040 --> 0:40:59.120
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, oh my god.

0:40:59.760 --> 0:40:59.960
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:03.280
<v Speaker 4>It was a plot twist for me because we left.

0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:07.400
<v Speaker 4>I had no idea what was going on. Like the

0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:10.200
<v Speaker 4>power company told us the day before They're going to

0:41:10.280 --> 0:41:13.160
<v Speaker 4>turn our power off the next day. I don't care,

0:41:13.280 --> 0:41:16.120
<v Speaker 4>like fine, I could live with a little no power.

0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.200
<v Speaker 4>And it went from the power did go off, it

0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:25.600
<v Speaker 4>went from power out to there's a fire in Altadena.

0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:30.160
<v Speaker 4>We have had wind and fire before, but so I

0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:33.160
<v Speaker 4>was kind of like, well, I always saw the fire

0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:34.920
<v Speaker 4>like so far off in the distance. I was like, well,

0:41:34.960 --> 0:41:37.840
<v Speaker 4>it's smoky and whatnot, but we'll be fine. And so

0:41:37.920 --> 0:41:39.719
<v Speaker 4>the whole time I just kept thinking, we're going to

0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:44.920
<v Speaker 4>be fine. And then, like you said the watch app,

0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:48.280
<v Speaker 4>you know, just paying attention to where the fire was spreading,

0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:50.640
<v Speaker 4>it looked like it was going in the opposite direction

0:41:50.760 --> 0:41:53.439
<v Speaker 4>of us. So I was just like, oh.

0:41:53.200 --> 0:41:56.600
<v Speaker 3>We're fine. But then it started.

0:41:57.200 --> 0:42:00.520
<v Speaker 4>Our whole house started to fill up with smoke and

0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:04.920
<v Speaker 4>it was Honestly, one of the I haven't said this

0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:08.960
<v Speaker 4>out loud, but like I was really scared. The house

0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:12.880
<v Speaker 4>was making sounds that it never made before, Like a

0:42:12.920 --> 0:42:16.000
<v Speaker 4>house doesn't really make sounds like it's dying or something

0:42:16.040 --> 0:42:21.480
<v Speaker 4>like that, but that's what was happening. Like the the

0:42:21.520 --> 0:42:25.920
<v Speaker 4>fireplace had this weird hissing sound going through it, and

0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:29.399
<v Speaker 4>because of the wind, things just started pounding on our

0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:33.040
<v Speaker 4>house and it became more and more like we need

0:42:33.080 --> 0:42:34.799
<v Speaker 4>to get out of the house. Finally we got the

0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:38.680
<v Speaker 4>evacuation noticed. We went to family, then we went.

0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:41.000
<v Speaker 3>To a hotel. And that whole time though I was

0:42:41.120 --> 0:42:42.400
<v Speaker 3>I'm a mister.

0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:44.960
<v Speaker 4>Positivity, so I was like, I was like, we're not

0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.520
<v Speaker 4>We're not going to be in the No, not our house,

0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:51.799
<v Speaker 4>Like it's gonna be all the other houses and or

0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:55.280
<v Speaker 4>it won't be anybody on our block because our block

0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:58.160
<v Speaker 4>on Harriet Street, like everybody, all the neighbors, Like I

0:42:58.160 --> 0:43:02.080
<v Speaker 4>haven't you know when you have like neighbor conflict. We

0:43:02.160 --> 0:43:04.920
<v Speaker 4>never had that, Like I've had neighbor conflict in my

0:43:04.960 --> 0:43:08.000
<v Speaker 4>life before, but not on this street. This street everybody

0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:10.799
<v Speaker 4>was was really into each other.

0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:12.560
<v Speaker 3>We used to hang out, we used to do like

0:43:13.600 --> 0:43:14.800
<v Speaker 3>get togethers and stuff.

0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:17.880
<v Speaker 1>That's a rarity by the way, right, because.

0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:20.520
<v Speaker 3>So many does some shit that pisces you off at

0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:20.919
<v Speaker 3>some point.

0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:23.960
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but no, it wasn't like that, And so we

0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:25.960
<v Speaker 4>were all on a text threat about what was.

0:43:25.920 --> 0:43:30.320
<v Speaker 3>Going on, and like yourself.

0:43:30.360 --> 0:43:34.239
<v Speaker 4>Finally we saw on Instagram like places really near, very

0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:36.120
<v Speaker 4>close to my house, like a car wash that I

0:43:36.200 --> 0:43:40.319
<v Speaker 4>used to visit all the time, this little restaurant up

0:43:40.400 --> 0:43:42.959
<v Speaker 4>the street from us, this pizza place, the pizza place

0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:45.200
<v Speaker 4>that I brought you pizza from, Pizza Venice.

0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:47.800
<v Speaker 3>All of those places were on fire.

0:43:48.840 --> 0:43:51.920
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, oh shit, if those places are

0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:55.000
<v Speaker 4>on fire, there's a really good chance my house is

0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:55.920
<v Speaker 4>going to be on fire.

0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:59.879
<v Speaker 3>But still had held hope that it wouldn't be that.

0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:05.320
<v Speaker 3>And then had you packed up. We packed the dogs.

0:44:06.480 --> 0:44:10.440
<v Speaker 4>A rack of clothes, like nothing, even like I just

0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:12.239
<v Speaker 4>was like, oh, we'll be back by noon.

0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:14.239
<v Speaker 3>I grabbed my computer, you know.

0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:17.520
<v Speaker 2>Not like a plan, right, like when people talk about

0:44:17.560 --> 0:44:19.720
<v Speaker 2>like did you have a plan, And people were sending

0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:22.120
<v Speaker 2>out like notes with like.

0:44:22.080 --> 0:44:25.439
<v Speaker 1>Here's the lists of stuff you're supposed to pack.

0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:28.600
<v Speaker 2>I just froze when I saw stuff like that, and

0:44:28.800 --> 0:44:31.160
<v Speaker 2>my situation is irrelevant compared to yours.

0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:34.640
<v Speaker 1>But what do you pack?

0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:36.680
<v Speaker 4>Like, what do you I'm a filmmaker. I grabbed all

0:44:36.680 --> 0:44:37.799
<v Speaker 4>the hard drives with all the films.

0:44:38.280 --> 0:44:40.600
<v Speaker 1>As creators don't our brains don't think like that.

0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:42.239
<v Speaker 3>Right, Well, I'm not even thinking like this.

0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:44.960
<v Speaker 4>I'm still thinking like should I grab the computer, like

0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:46.280
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I'll be back by eleven.

0:44:46.320 --> 0:44:49.359
<v Speaker 3>It feels ridiculous to bring to bring this bulky computer.

0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:51.319
<v Speaker 4>Like, I'm not in the mind even though the house

0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:54.920
<v Speaker 4>is filled with smoke, the house is making these crazy sounds.

0:44:55.360 --> 0:44:56.799
<v Speaker 3>I'm only talking about that.

0:44:56.760 --> 0:44:58.759
<v Speaker 4>From the perspective of it, and that being now, I

0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:01.440
<v Speaker 4>should have known all those things as were happening. And

0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:05.360
<v Speaker 4>we took off and somebody in the group said the

0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:08.439
<v Speaker 4>text said, I'm so sorry, but the house is.

0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:12.359
<v Speaker 3>Totally gone and it's still you know.

0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:14.920
<v Speaker 4>I saw the video and the drive by of my

0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:18.520
<v Speaker 4>house and it was very much like, hey, are you okay?

0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:19.200
<v Speaker 3>I'm okay.

0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:22.640
<v Speaker 4>I was fine until I until then I started to

0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:26.319
<v Speaker 4>see all those like Pizza Venice and Foxes and all

0:45:26.360 --> 0:45:28.200
<v Speaker 4>those places that I go to. Though I go to

0:45:28.280 --> 0:45:32.000
<v Speaker 4>places in Altadena. I love Altadena. I love that community.

0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:34.840
<v Speaker 4>It's totally diverse. Like I fell in love with it.

0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:36.960
<v Speaker 4>If I was going to pick a place to live

0:45:37.880 --> 0:45:41.200
<v Speaker 4>in the world, it would be Altadena, Like it's my vibe.

0:45:41.680 --> 0:45:45.520
<v Speaker 1>And you did pick it well, and you're a transplant.

0:45:45.520 --> 0:45:46.880
<v Speaker 1>You're an East Coast transplant.

0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:47.480
<v Speaker 3>That's right.

0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:50.480
<v Speaker 4>I'm originally East Coaster. The guy across the street was

0:45:50.520 --> 0:45:53.800
<v Speaker 4>originally East Coaster. We bust each other about East Coast baseball.

0:45:54.200 --> 0:45:54.920
<v Speaker 3>So it was.

0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:59.520
<v Speaker 4>It was a really beautiful neighborhood. And the impact of

0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:02.920
<v Speaker 4>it all really hit me the next day when I

0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:07.560
<v Speaker 4>went down there, you know, when I went down to

0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:11.360
<v Speaker 4>to see the place, because like I said, even though

0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:14.680
<v Speaker 4>you cross you see someone your house.

0:46:14.640 --> 0:46:20.160
<v Speaker 3>Destroyed on on like a phone, like you get a

0:46:20.160 --> 0:46:23.239
<v Speaker 3>text message, it's still like, well maybe this is there.

0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:26.760
<v Speaker 4>Well maybe the thing is there, maybe Donna's pictures there,

0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:28.919
<v Speaker 4>you know, none of that was there.

0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:32.080
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I can get you another one of those I was.

0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:36.000
<v Speaker 1>I was going to ask, Yeah, you were only like

0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.520
<v Speaker 1>one of the couple keepers of boast of it.

0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:40.200
<v Speaker 3>So it's true.

0:46:40.239 --> 0:46:41.840
<v Speaker 4>And I while I and you know, I went up

0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:46.040
<v Speaker 4>there and I and I was devastated Tory, like, I mean,

0:46:46.360 --> 0:46:50.080
<v Speaker 4>my home was just totally destroyed there like the places

0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:55.319
<v Speaker 4>that I got in and like pondered life in that

0:46:55.520 --> 0:46:59.080
<v Speaker 4>in that backyard, and pondered whether or not I would

0:46:59.080 --> 0:47:02.880
<v Speaker 4>ever meet Tori sp you know whatever, You know what

0:47:02.880 --> 0:47:05.400
<v Speaker 4>I mean, Like I pondered all the big life questions.

0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:10.120
<v Speaker 2>We're joking, guys, He's not really joking, but no, oh no.

0:47:09.960 --> 0:47:12.480
<v Speaker 4>No, I mean that was pondered there for sure. But

0:47:12.520 --> 0:47:14.719
<v Speaker 4>I you know, I just I lost it.

0:47:14.719 --> 0:47:15.480
<v Speaker 3>It wasn't there.

0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:19.720
<v Speaker 4>And then I mean the images of seeing your town

0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:21.719
<v Speaker 4>that I just told you about, that I loved and

0:47:21.719 --> 0:47:26.319
<v Speaker 4>would pick as my town totally decimated and destroyed our

0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:29.319
<v Speaker 4>images that you'll never get out of your head. I mean,

0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:33.640
<v Speaker 4>and I don't mean to be even more horrific, but

0:47:34.920 --> 0:47:40.640
<v Speaker 4>the neighbor behind us had a dog that used to

0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:46.400
<v Speaker 4>interact with our dogs all the time. And when I

0:47:46.480 --> 0:47:52.719
<v Speaker 4>went into the backyard, the dogs was dead in the backyard,

0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:57.880
<v Speaker 4>you know. And I'm just I don't know why he

0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:00.000
<v Speaker 4>didn't save his dog, why he didn't take this dog.

0:48:00.120 --> 0:48:01.000
<v Speaker 3>Maybe he was like me.

0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:03.400
<v Speaker 4>I don't know that neighbor, but maybe he was like me,

0:48:03.440 --> 0:48:06.480
<v Speaker 4>And I'll be back by noon. That's not even really

0:48:06.520 --> 0:48:12.920
<v Speaker 4>an excuse for it, but just to see to see

0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:19.719
<v Speaker 4>that with your own property totally gone, and like, I

0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:21.440
<v Speaker 4>know we're joking about nine two one of other stuff,

0:48:21.440 --> 0:48:26.279
<v Speaker 4>but like real shit, you know, like the family photos,

0:48:26.520 --> 0:48:30.440
<v Speaker 4>the videotapes, the artwork that you got in Cuba, the

0:48:31.040 --> 0:48:33.759
<v Speaker 4>memory of it all to see. Like I mean, when

0:48:33.800 --> 0:48:37.360
<v Speaker 4>I was going through the rubble, I saw the little

0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:40.080
<v Speaker 4>thing that said Cuba, you know what I mean, and

0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:44.840
<v Speaker 4>it's like all those memories are like they're the physical

0:48:44.880 --> 0:48:46.480
<v Speaker 4>memories of them are totally gone.

0:48:47.200 --> 0:48:48.799
<v Speaker 3>I was at a bar a couple of nights ago

0:48:48.880 --> 0:48:49.759
<v Speaker 3>listening to someone talking.

0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:52.080
<v Speaker 4>He was like, they could take away my things, but

0:48:52.120 --> 0:48:56.480
<v Speaker 4>they can't take away my memories. And that actually helped me.

0:48:56.960 --> 0:49:00.400
<v Speaker 4>That helped me to be like, well, I still went

0:49:00.400 --> 0:49:04.680
<v Speaker 4>to Cuba. I still remember getting the paintings. It's like, okay, fuck,

0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:08.440
<v Speaker 4>I don't have the paintings anymore. But like that all happened,

0:49:11.280 --> 0:49:14.960
<v Speaker 4>and you know, we we I was scared, really scared

0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:18.160
<v Speaker 4>afterwards too, because I didn't know what was going to happen.

0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:21.560
<v Speaker 4>We started to gofund me. I mean, I'm not even

0:49:21.560 --> 0:49:23.319
<v Speaker 4>that kind of person, but it just felt like I

0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:29.359
<v Speaker 4>had to. And there was this moment where I was

0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:35.000
<v Speaker 4>just totally blown away by everyone's kindness from the nine

0:49:35.000 --> 0:49:38.080
<v Speaker 4>O two and o community that listened to the other

0:49:38.160 --> 0:49:42.080
<v Speaker 4>podcast that listened to your podcasts, that keep us all together.

0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:43.920
<v Speaker 3>Like a family. And I learned that.

0:49:46.600 --> 0:49:48.880
<v Speaker 4>Though I was not a cast member of nine O,

0:49:48.960 --> 0:49:51.520
<v Speaker 4>two and zero, that it is a family.

0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:54.840
<v Speaker 3>It's a deep family. And when you're in that family.

0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:57.799
<v Speaker 4>You're protected by the people that were on it, the

0:49:57.840 --> 0:50:02.240
<v Speaker 4>people that wrote it, the people that did various tasks

0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:06.800
<v Speaker 4>on it, and also the community of people that loved

0:50:06.840 --> 0:50:11.799
<v Speaker 4>the show. And all of them donated to the gofund me,

0:50:12.040 --> 0:50:16.760
<v Speaker 4>all of them sent me text messages in wall wishes.

0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:22.400
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you know, my TV crush is Kathleen Robertson.

0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:23.480
<v Speaker 3>You know, it's Caronald.

0:50:24.360 --> 0:50:27.880
<v Speaker 4>She's literally checked in on me every day, like she

0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:31.000
<v Speaker 4>has Like like I said to her one night, I

0:50:31.080 --> 0:50:32.680
<v Speaker 4>was like, I don't have any clothes.

0:50:32.760 --> 0:50:38.080
<v Speaker 3>I wish I could just have clothes. And she sent

0:50:38.160 --> 0:50:39.040
<v Speaker 3>me like.

0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:42.399
<v Speaker 4>A curated list of clothes that I had to buy

0:50:42.440 --> 0:50:45.160
<v Speaker 4>because she used to always bust me about my other

0:50:45.239 --> 0:50:48.400
<v Speaker 4>clo and she said and finally she called me, she

0:50:48.480 --> 0:50:51.799
<v Speaker 4>was like, maybe maybe some outfits were good that.

0:50:51.760 --> 0:50:53.719
<v Speaker 3>They were in right.

0:50:54.880 --> 0:50:55.719
<v Speaker 1>I concur with that.

0:50:57.160 --> 0:51:00.600
<v Speaker 4>And then Brian, you know, Brian, I mean I lost

0:51:00.640 --> 0:51:02.719
<v Speaker 4>my guitar in this thing I got it in the

0:51:02.840 --> 0:51:06.440
<v Speaker 4>nineties and it was something that was so special to me.

0:51:08.120 --> 0:51:11.600
<v Speaker 4>And you know, he called me and was like, you know,

0:51:11.640 --> 0:51:13.040
<v Speaker 4>I want to see you and went and got lunch

0:51:13.080 --> 0:51:16.480
<v Speaker 4>and took us to lunch and really helped reshape my

0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:20.399
<v Speaker 4>mind about all of this because the first, the first

0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:24.400
<v Speaker 4>few days, it was it was like this deep grief

0:51:25.520 --> 0:51:28.680
<v Speaker 4>that I'll never see those things again, like everything's over.

0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:31.480
<v Speaker 3>And but he reminded me, like.

0:51:33.719 --> 0:51:35.719
<v Speaker 4>He shaped my outlook a little bit and reminded me

0:51:35.760 --> 0:51:38.600
<v Speaker 4>of the positive person I am, and like how to

0:51:40.760 --> 0:51:43.680
<v Speaker 4>look at it from a from a positive place. And

0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:46.320
<v Speaker 4>then he gave me a bit. He gave me a guitar,

0:51:46.560 --> 0:51:48.520
<v Speaker 4>like he gave me his guitar from the nineties. I

0:51:48.560 --> 0:51:51.440
<v Speaker 4>was like, this is the perfect one. And you, I mean,

0:51:51.480 --> 0:51:53.839
<v Speaker 4>you're you're like, how can I help you? What can

0:51:53.880 --> 0:51:56.200
<v Speaker 4>I do? Sending me people that you know, talking to me,

0:51:56.760 --> 0:51:59.359
<v Speaker 4>you know, making me laugh, which you know is such

0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:02.440
<v Speaker 4>a big part of me, and like you sending me

0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:07.960
<v Speaker 4>text messages that are only funny to us, but getting

0:52:08.000 --> 0:52:09.359
<v Speaker 4>a laugh out of me was just like.

0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:14.760
<v Speaker 1>What like me saying like just checking in an asshole, Yeah.

0:52:14.680 --> 0:52:17.960
<v Speaker 3>Just checking an asshole makes me because.

0:52:17.640 --> 0:52:20.759
<v Speaker 2>You got it, you know, yeah, the physical stuff that

0:52:21.239 --> 0:52:24.040
<v Speaker 2>it's it's horrible. It takes tragedy for us to be

0:52:24.160 --> 0:52:27.080
<v Speaker 2>like it was just stuff. But and I'm no one

0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:29.600
<v Speaker 2>to say it. I didn't lose anything. You lost everything,

0:52:30.600 --> 0:52:34.120
<v Speaker 2>but you have your family, you have your fur babies.

0:52:36.040 --> 0:52:36.200
<v Speaker 3>Good.

0:52:37.160 --> 0:52:39.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm well, you still got your humor and looks.

0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:40.799
<v Speaker 3>So thank you.

0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:46.680
<v Speaker 4>I I sorry, I and I can still have a

0:52:46.680 --> 0:52:50.640
<v Speaker 4>homemade meal. Like I'm gonna bounce back. I'm gonna go

0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:53.880
<v Speaker 4>to another place. I'm gonna make dinner. I'm going to

0:52:53.880 --> 0:52:55.840
<v Speaker 4>go to lunch with you. I'm gonna you know what

0:52:55.880 --> 0:52:58.719
<v Speaker 4>I mean, Like, we're gonna I'm gonna enjoy life and

0:52:58.800 --> 0:52:59.880
<v Speaker 4>have a fresh start at this.

0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:02.520
<v Speaker 3>And I know there's a lot of people.

0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:07.560
<v Speaker 4>That that their outlook right now is grief and devastation,

0:53:07.719 --> 0:53:08.719
<v Speaker 4>and I am there with you.

0:53:09.400 --> 0:53:13.799
<v Speaker 3>But it is a chance to begin again. And those

0:53:13.840 --> 0:53:15.920
<v Speaker 3>are some of the most beautiful moments and times in

0:53:15.960 --> 0:53:20.480
<v Speaker 3>your life when you can evaluate what's important and move

0:53:20.480 --> 0:53:24.200
<v Speaker 3>forward with those things, and also then create new memories

0:53:24.719 --> 0:53:27.359
<v Speaker 3>because in the end, what are we taking. Like I'm

0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:29.560
<v Speaker 3>not going to ask them to put a picture of

0:53:29.560 --> 0:53:32.640
<v Speaker 3>something in the you know, in wherever I am, like,

0:53:32.680 --> 0:53:34.520
<v Speaker 3>in the end, what I'm going to be left with

0:53:34.520 --> 0:53:37.960
<v Speaker 3>are my memories, and so they can take away my things,

0:53:37.960 --> 0:53:39.600
<v Speaker 3>but they can't take away my memories.

0:53:48.440 --> 0:53:49.400
<v Speaker 1>You'll attest to this.

0:53:49.440 --> 0:53:53.680
<v Speaker 2>We have fast paced moving lives, especially in this industry,

0:53:54.520 --> 0:53:57.239
<v Speaker 2>and we're going, going, going, We don't stop. You know

0:53:57.239 --> 0:53:59.520
<v Speaker 2>when people say like, oh my gosh, different parts of

0:53:59.640 --> 0:54:03.759
<v Speaker 2>the world, they live life differently, They take moments, they

0:54:03.800 --> 0:54:06.200
<v Speaker 2>appreciate things often.

0:54:07.160 --> 0:54:09.400
<v Speaker 1>You know, I got to say, you know, in La

0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:14.400
<v Speaker 1>and even in New York, like it's just it's just

0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:16.680
<v Speaker 1>so fast paced that we're always.

0:54:16.360 --> 0:54:19.160
<v Speaker 2>Like work, work, work, you know, our family, but we

0:54:19.280 --> 0:54:22.040
<v Speaker 2>got to go, got to go. And in the end,

0:54:22.160 --> 0:54:26.520
<v Speaker 2>you're right, can't take it with you can't.

0:54:26.560 --> 0:54:29.000
<v Speaker 3>And what I was going to say, what's been beautiful too,

0:54:29.160 --> 0:54:33.680
<v Speaker 3>is that Los Angeles and.

0:54:35.200 --> 0:54:38.840
<v Speaker 4>All of this entire place, this community are all dreamers,

0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:44.359
<v Speaker 4>but they're all doers, and they're all helpers. And it's

0:54:44.400 --> 0:54:48.319
<v Speaker 4>been beautiful to see how literally everybody is doing and

0:54:48.440 --> 0:54:53.160
<v Speaker 4>helping people like me, other families like me. Those restaurants

0:54:53.200 --> 0:54:56.400
<v Speaker 4>will rebuild the communities, come out in Los Angeles for

0:54:56.440 --> 0:55:02.399
<v Speaker 4>their people, and as someone who lives here now, I'm

0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:05.920
<v Speaker 4>really grateful to everybody who helped us in this time.

0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:09.279
<v Speaker 4>But I'm also great, really happy that I live where

0:55:09.280 --> 0:55:12.520
<v Speaker 4>I live because there's just such a beauty and I

0:55:12.560 --> 0:55:13.120
<v Speaker 4>want to help you.

0:55:13.200 --> 0:55:15.560
<v Speaker 3>What can I do to make you feel better?

0:55:15.640 --> 0:55:19.920
<v Speaker 4>And it's really because of just the heart that people

0:55:19.920 --> 0:55:24.000
<v Speaker 4>have out here, the imagination.

0:55:24.880 --> 0:55:27.040
<v Speaker 1>Which I didn't I didn't know until.

0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:31.839
<v Speaker 2>I mean, La and California has been through devastation and

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<v Speaker 2>things before, but it's really this one that And maybe

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<v Speaker 2>it's because I'm older now I'm able to really understand

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<v Speaker 2>what's going on. I didn't always know if I believed

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<v Speaker 2>the people in LA would do something like this, and

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<v Speaker 2>they have.

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<v Speaker 1>You're right.

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<v Speaker 2>La has really come together, California has come together. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I know people from all over the world are stepping.

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<v Speaker 1>Into help, but.

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<v Speaker 2>It is It does make me smile to know that

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<v Speaker 2>is an LA native, a place that I was born

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<v Speaker 2>and raised, that we are that community. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if I would have thought LA was it became something

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<v Speaker 2>so different for so long.

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<v Speaker 4>It's nice to know the film community and the restaurant

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<v Speaker 4>community are people of action.

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<v Speaker 3>They're like, I gotta get.

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<v Speaker 4>This done, this done, this scene, this thing, this thing,

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<v Speaker 4>this meal, this thing, this thing, and when they find

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<v Speaker 4>that there's crisis, and it's in other cities too, it's

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<v Speaker 4>not just La.

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<v Speaker 3>But what I love is that they they just did it.

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<v Speaker 3>They just helped.

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<v Speaker 4>And yeah, I'm like, I'm I'm just blown away. Because

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<v Speaker 4>I started this little podcast during the pandemic, I got

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<v Speaker 4>to meet you and my TV crush and Brian and

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<v Speaker 4>Chuck and Larry and this whole community of people of

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<v Speaker 4>fans of nine to two one zero that just stepped

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<v Speaker 4>up in a major way and said I want.

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<v Speaker 3>To help you.

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<v Speaker 4>You made an impact in my life, and it's in

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<v Speaker 4>a weird way seeing your legacy come to life of

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<v Speaker 4>like the things that you've done, and it was very

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<v Speaker 4>beautiful and emotional for me. It was almost more emotional

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<v Speaker 4>to see all of that beauty and to live in

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<v Speaker 4>that gratitude than to think about the destruction of it

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<v Speaker 4>all this it was more important to me to feel

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<v Speaker 4>that love than anything else. And I've never felt more

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<v Speaker 4>loved in my entire life because of this horrific tragedy.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you are.

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<v Speaker 2>Loved, and everyone in LA is loved. And to go

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<v Speaker 2>back to where I was saying, I didn't know if

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<v Speaker 2>people in LA would step up. Ever, I think that's

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<v Speaker 2>only because I was so conditioned over the years and

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<v Speaker 2>just hearing, Oh, everyone in LA's fake. You know, we're

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<v Speaker 2>so conditioned to hear that from people. That's not what

0:57:51.800 --> 0:57:56.240
<v Speaker 2>I knew growing up, Like, I just bought into.

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<v Speaker 1>The perception that everybody put on us.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's so nice that that's peeled back now and

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<v Speaker 2>the world can see, like, LA is real, We're not fake.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone everyone in the moment of crisis all stepped up

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<v Speaker 2>and helped each other.

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<v Speaker 1>So what can they say about us now?

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<v Speaker 4>I think you're one of the most authentic people I've

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<v Speaker 4>ever met. I don't think that there's anything fake about you.

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<v Speaker 4>And as a nine oh two and oh.

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<v Speaker 1>Well just my nose, but.

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<v Speaker 2>My boobs, but yeah, nothing else, so real no matter

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<v Speaker 2>what they say.

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<v Speaker 4>But I was gonna what I was gonna say was,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, everyone I ever talked to from nine oh

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<v Speaker 4>two and oh has always said that there is one

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<v Speaker 4>person that was always in their corner.

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<v Speaker 3>And supportive of them, and that's you.

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<v Speaker 4>That goes from uh, every guest star I talked to,

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<v Speaker 4>every director that they loved working with you because of

0:58:59.720 --> 0:59:02.320
<v Speaker 4>them that you brought And it's that light that you have.

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<v Speaker 4>There's a moment right here where I am in a

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<v Speaker 4>really dark place, driving around all over trying to find places,

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<v Speaker 4>not sure, displaced, and you offer me this bright light

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<v Speaker 4>to come on here and talk to you and see

0:59:15.880 --> 0:59:19.600
<v Speaker 4>your beautiful face and share some laughs with me, and.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, there's nothing more beautiful.

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<v Speaker 1>So thank you well, thank you for being my friend.

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<v Speaker 3>I love you, love you too. See you guys, All right,

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<v Speaker 3>by asshole.

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<v Speaker 2>In this episode, we will post links of how you

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<v Speaker 2>can help the victims of these fires. Super grateful iHeart

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<v Speaker 2>has partnered with the Dream Center in LA and they

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<v Speaker 2>are doing amazing work getting people who have lost everything

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<v Speaker 2>what they need and are taking donations daily. So again,

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<v Speaker 2>please look for that information in the description and just

0:59:56.640 --> 0:59:59.280
<v Speaker 2>hug your loved ones really tight, keep them close.

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<v Speaker 1>I love you, guys,