Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, so we hear at Misspelling are back and
Speaker 2: we're taping this on January sixteenth, twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 2: this was a really hard episode for me to even
Speaker 2: think and comprehend about recording, just the devastation in California,
Speaker 2: specifically Los Angeles, being an LA native, and just well
Speaker 2: for the last week watching the magical place that I
Speaker 2: was born into and grew up in, and not just
Speaker 2: that so many grew up there and meet families and
Speaker 2: created lives, but people moved to LA for the dream, right,
Speaker 2: LA is the dream place, and it's quite literally, we
Speaker 2: don't know if it'll ever be the same, And just
Speaker 2: seeing the devastation that people have gone through, it's uncomprehensible.
Speaker 2: And I guess you just never think and I know
Speaker 2: I'm not alone here, and sorry if I sound ignorant,
Speaker 2: but sometimes you just don't think that it's ever going
Speaker 2: to happen right in your backyard, right where you are.
Speaker 2: And we watch things all the time on the news,
Speaker 2: and we pray for people, and we try to help
Speaker 2: and get the word out when things and people.
Speaker 1: Are devastated across the world.
Speaker 2: But when it happens right in your hometown, You're like,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Everyone says you know, you should always
Speaker 2: be prepared, but I don't think you're ever quite prepared.
Speaker 2: As much as you could be prepared, you're just not.
Speaker 2: So I apologize because it's my duty as the host
Speaker 2: of this podcast to keep some consistency and to quite frankly,
Speaker 2: do my job and give you weekly tapings. And I
Speaker 2: was just frozen for a week. I didn't feel like
Speaker 2: an expert to talk about it. I didn't feel impacted
Speaker 2: enough to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 2: Feel and my audience knows me well I had any
Speaker 2: right to talk about it. But I know sometimes comfort
Speaker 2: for others comes in different ways, and comfort comes in
Speaker 2: knowing and relying on something that is constant and does
Speaker 2: make you happy. So I don't know if this episode
Speaker 2: will make you happy. But I'm here, I'm back, I'm committed,
Speaker 2: and as much as I'm cringing telling my own story
Speaker 2: because I don't feel I have any right to tell
Speaker 2: my story when so many others were impacted in such
Speaker 2: horrific ways, I am going to go through a little
Speaker 2: bit of what we went through because maybe some of
Speaker 2: it will resonate on a human level, a female level,
Speaker 2: a motherhood level, friend level, for a baby level.
Speaker 1: God for babies. Okay, here goes nothing, folks.
Speaker 2: So when the fires started last week, I remember, I
Speaker 2: remember getting the first text I got from one of
Speaker 2: my best guy friends and he said, are you seeing
Speaker 2: what's happening the fires? And I didn't know? And I
Speaker 2: said no, what do you mean? And it was the
Speaker 2: Palisades fire? And I immediately said, what's going on?
Speaker 1: There's a fire.
Speaker 2: It's happening, he told me. I of course. The first
Speaker 2: thing that goes through your mind is are we close?
Speaker 2: And I think that's just normal. You know, it's happening
Speaker 2: in La We live in La La La. Sounds like
Speaker 2: such a condensed version. We live in southern California, No
Speaker 2: La County like it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was close.
Speaker 2: Enough, and it was like, oh my gosh. My immediate
Speaker 2: reaction was, oh my god, my kids are in school.
Speaker 1: Do I need to.
Speaker 2: Go pick them all up? That was immediate, like what
Speaker 2: just happened? What's going on? It's not stopping. They said,
Speaker 2: it's spreading. He said it's coming over the hill. The
Speaker 2: hill meant it would come towards us. So immediately checked
Speaker 2: in with all the schools there were still open. There
Speaker 2: was the wind warning, which had been crazy. It was
Speaker 2: crazy because you know, we always get alerts and we
Speaker 2: see the weather warnings, and the nay before had said
Speaker 2: like high wind warnings, which if you live in California,
Speaker 2: you know, unfortunately it's been a drought and it's very
Speaker 2: dry and you always think, okay, there could be fires,
Speaker 2: especially high winds.
Speaker 1: Weather.
Speaker 2: It has been very inconsistent, very inconsistent. As someone that
Speaker 2: grew up, born and raised in La Are, California, our
Speaker 2: weather has changed so drastically. It's nothing like it used
Speaker 2: to be, and so there's no expectation. You don't know
Speaker 2: what's going to happen. It changes so frequently. We used
Speaker 2: to talk about earthquake weather. Now it's every advisory weather
Speaker 2: and it could change from day to day. So I
Speaker 2: checked with the schools. The schools did post something. We
Speaker 2: have parent chats. If you don't know, probably do know.
Speaker 2: I have five kids, seventeen, sixteen, thirteen, twelve, and seven.
Speaker 2: They're in four different schools. My son's at one high school,
Speaker 2: my daughter is at one high school. My two poor
Speaker 2: middle children. I always feel for middle children. They are
Speaker 2: at a middle school and then my youngest seven vo
Speaker 2: is at an elementary school. So, you know, as a
Speaker 2: single mom and their father works.
Speaker 1: He helps me with drop offs.
Speaker 2: When he can, but pickups he can't do because of
Speaker 2: his job. I was just like, oh my gosh, okay,
Speaker 2: I I got to get to these pickups. I got
Speaker 2: to pick them up. Am I standing by? Am I
Speaker 2: pulling the kids too soon?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I don't want to be that person. But anyway, the
Speaker 2: kids were fine. They came home. Teens being teens. I
Speaker 2: could hear them all, you know, on the and preteens
Speaker 2: on the phones with their friends, and they were just
Speaker 2: you know, that's all. They weren't talking about the fire.
Speaker 2: The fire is a close, is a closer. You're staying home,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? And it's a very different conversation
Speaker 2: than the conversation as an adult and a parent that
Speaker 2: you're having with your friends.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that.
Speaker 2: And my friend had said you got to get on
Speaker 2: watch duty app. First he said you got to get
Speaker 2: on Citizen, which I swore to go off of.
Speaker 1: That was taking me down, like years ago. I had
Speaker 1: to I had to get off of that.
Speaker 2: Because you know, it would be really random things that
Speaker 2: wouldn't even be helpful, and it was consuming my life
Speaker 2: in a panicked way. So I went back on Citizen
Speaker 2: and then he said, Watch Duty.
Speaker 1: This is the one. It's just the wildfires.
Speaker 2: It's you know, covering the palisades, covering the eaten fire,
Speaker 2: covering you know, all the smaller ones that were still arding.
Speaker 2: And so I went on that, and I got to
Speaker 2: be honest.
Speaker 1: I you know how your.
Speaker 2: Phone knows what you do the most. So like my phone,
Speaker 2: for instance, you know it'll pull up my messages, it'll
Speaker 2: pull up Instagram and now pulls up Watch Duty because
Speaker 2: it knows that's basically all I'm focused on. Because our
Speaker 2: phones know us. I have not gone off of it,
Speaker 2: and I think I refresh it like every five minutes.
Speaker 2: It's probably not even healthy, but you know, making sure
Speaker 2: like did I miss something.
Speaker 1: It's something not refreshed.
Speaker 2: And I don't know about it, but I think it's
Speaker 2: become a way of life now for everybody, at least
Speaker 2: for now until some sort of normalizing happens for LA.
Speaker 2: But that was Tuesday, I believe Wednesday, we had power outages,
Speaker 2: the winds were crazy, the kids didn't go to school
Speaker 2: by Wednesday, my friend who had alerted me of the fires.
Speaker 1: He said, you need to get prepared, you need to go.
Speaker 2: He wanted us to go as a single mom. I'm
Speaker 2: grateful that I have a couple guy friends that feel
Speaker 2: the need to step up. I have girlfriends as well,
Speaker 2: but they have families, you know, But I have guy friends.
Speaker 2: They don't have families, and they have made our families,
Speaker 2: specifically one of my friends, and he's made our family
Speaker 2: really a priority. And he checks in on us about everything, and.
Speaker 1: He was like, you need to go. It's getting close.
Speaker 2: And I kept looking and of course the kids are
Speaker 2: panicked and the kids, sorry, my dogs are barking. We're
Speaker 2: here at an airbnb and we're all here in it together.
Speaker 2: So he said, you need to pack up stuff and
Speaker 2: have everything prepared. And I kept saying, but but it's
Speaker 2: not close enough. We don't need to evacuate. We are okay.
Speaker 2: And I think, of course, my children come first and
Speaker 2: my family comes first. But I was trying to be pragmatic.
Speaker 2: I think, which I'm never I'm a dreamer. I'm you
Speaker 2: know me, I'm like okay, I listen to everyone and
Speaker 2: I'm like go.
Speaker 1: And I was like Okay, we have all our food here,
Speaker 1: We're financially secure here. You know, I don't. We're a
Speaker 1: big family.
Speaker 2: There's six of us, five kids, me, there's three dogs,
Speaker 2: there's a cat, and there's a ferret. And to put
Speaker 2: the burden of us on another family is insane, you know.
Speaker 1: It's just.
Speaker 2: Although I got to say, I did have a couple
Speaker 2: people reach out and say, if you need to come here,
Speaker 2: you know, we can do sleeping bags.
Speaker 1: We can.
Speaker 2: But I also think in my situation, people probably assume like, oh,
Speaker 2: she's fine, she has a lot of people that are
Speaker 2: wanting to put her up, or she's I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what people think. But anyway, I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: we're here in our home. I'm checking everything, I'm making
Speaker 2: sure it's fine. I'm seeing the proximity of the fire.
Speaker 2: I was more concerned at the time dealing with I
Speaker 2: have a couple good friends that live on Topanga, like
Speaker 2: old Tapanga, and like.
Speaker 1: They had to evacuate.
Speaker 2: I was more concerned telling them before they had the mandatory,
Speaker 2: like they couldn't go back in of getting their stuff out,
Speaker 2: and I said, we're here, there's six of us, Like,
Speaker 2: let me come to you and help you move stuff.
Speaker 2: You guys can all come to stay with us. I
Speaker 2: was more concerned about taking people in than getting us out.
Speaker 2: And my daughter, who is sixteen, she kept saying, my
Speaker 2: friends are evacuating. My friend, we need to go, We
Speaker 2: need to go. And I kept saying, but ours isn't mandatory.
Speaker 2: She's like, Mom, we're in the hills. This isn't a
Speaker 2: dress rehearsal, Like, we got to go. I can't say dressers.
Speaker 2: She doesn't know that that's my word. But anyway, I said,
Speaker 2: you guys keep some things like grab a few things.
Speaker 1: But I didn't.
Speaker 2: Want to leave yet. And then Wednesday night power was
Speaker 2: going in and out. Everything was going off. The winds
Speaker 2: were insane. You could smell the fires outside. We couldn't
Speaker 2: go outdoors. And my friend said, my friend, that was
Speaker 2: super helpful.
Speaker 1: He said, do me a favor. At least go gas
Speaker 1: your car up, so if you have to go and
Speaker 1: you have to go far, you have gas in your car.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad I took his advice. I did. I
Speaker 1: left the house with my daughter. We went.
Speaker 2: We filled the car up with gas, our SUV and
Speaker 2: that was prepared on Thursday. Then it got to the
Speaker 2: kids didn't go to school again. They were you know,
Speaker 2: schools were shut down, the fires were and it wasn't
Speaker 2: until another fire literally started on the other side of
Speaker 2: us that my friend said, you have fires starting on
Speaker 2: both sides of you.
Speaker 1: You've got to go. You've got to go now.
Speaker 2: And then right as he was like texting me this,
Speaker 2: I was getting the is it Amber alert for five
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but it was going off.
Speaker 2: I could hear it going off on all my kids'
Speaker 2: phones that our area we needed to go, and I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, let's go. Of course, I didn't have
Speaker 2: a plan. My friend had told me for two days
Speaker 2: to have a plan. I didn't listen. And I posted
Speaker 2: this on on Instagram. I told my story exactly how
Speaker 2: it went down. I'm always very authentic and truthful. Such
Speaker 2: an outpour of people concerned because we had to evacuate. Sorry,
Speaker 2: if you hear my dogs, they're they're going through it too.
Speaker 2: They don't know they're displaced too, so they're Yeah. I
Speaker 2: put on Instagram that friends had told me, like, have
Speaker 2: a plan back up, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: Have a plan.
Speaker 2: And when we evacuated and fled, we just literally we
Speaker 2: we did the best we could. I would say, in
Speaker 2: thirty minutes or less because it was getting dark, and
Speaker 2: my friend said, they're going to close the one on
Speaker 2: one soon.
Speaker 1: There's talk of it, and.
Speaker 2: You you got to get out and get on the one.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to get somewhere. So I said, kids,
Speaker 2: we got to get out of here fast. I didn't
Speaker 2: want to panic my kids either, like that. That's not helpful.
Speaker 2: Someone's got to be the voice of reason. Too bad
Speaker 2: they have me, but uh, it's yeah. So thirty minutes
Speaker 2: or less, we packed up six lives and three animals.
Speaker 2: It was it was I don't know how we did it, honestly.
Speaker 2: And my daughter Stella, she she's kind of we always
Speaker 2: I always joke with her as well, like she's I
Speaker 2: feel like she's my co parent. She's like the other mother,
Speaker 2: and she is good in situations. She said, Mom, you
Speaker 2: get your stuff, you get Bo's stuff. I'm going to
Speaker 2: help manage getting everything else in the car. And I
Speaker 2: said okay, And I went to my room and I
Speaker 2: looked around and I froze. I literally froze, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know what to take. Here's me
Speaker 2: self professed hoarder my whole life, and we were faced
Speaker 2: with the eminent thing of like, okay, so you kept
Speaker 2: all this stuff for years, but it could be gone.
Speaker 1: And in a moment, I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to take. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I took. It wasn't much. This is weird.
Speaker 2: I was wearing a Los Angeles T shirt that my
Speaker 2: daughter had di wide can cut and it was actually hers,
Speaker 2: and she was like, I don't want anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll take it in s cool. I was
Speaker 1: wearing a Los Angeles T.
Speaker 2: Shirt will Wave Back Waited, which is so bizarro, and
Speaker 2: I didn't even have it on because what was happening.
Speaker 1: So I went into my closet.
Speaker 2: I looked around and I was like, none of this matters, Like,
Speaker 2: who cares?
Speaker 1: Where am I gonna pack it? We don't have room.
Speaker 1: We don't have room to even put suitcases if we
Speaker 1: wanted to. We're packing a cage. We had to put
Speaker 1: our two big dogs in a cage so they don't
Speaker 1: move around. To put their cage in the.
Speaker 2: Back seat of our suv, it took up the whole
Speaker 2: back seat, to be honest, and then our third big
Speaker 2: dog like it was like.
Speaker 1: Nowhere.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, okay, I'd rather my kids grab things
Speaker 2: they want than me, like who cares about me? And
Speaker 2: so in that moment, in that panic moment, I looked down,
Speaker 2: I grabbed my I went to John Thomas d which
Speaker 2: was JTD in elementary school that if you grew up
Speaker 2: in La you know, and if you live in you know.
Speaker 2: I grabbed my jacket from nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: I grabbed that jacket. I don't think it fits me.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I grabbed that, because I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: this will be my memory, and great, this will be
Speaker 2: my one memory.
Speaker 1: And then I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I looked down at like my lou batons and my
Speaker 2: Blenciaga shoes and my.
Speaker 1: Ugh and I said, h what does it matter?
Speaker 2: And I did take a seashell because my uncle Danny
Speaker 2: was in the seashell business and he had given me one,
Speaker 2: and I grabbed that seashell. I grabbed a couple of
Speaker 2: my crystals because I was like, okay, I want to
Speaker 2: bring some good energy. Grabbed my contacts because I got
Speaker 2: to have those, and really that was all I grabbed.
Speaker 2: And then I went downstairs and I was like, okay, photos,
Speaker 2: I got a that and Stella said, Mom, Luckily, we
Speaker 2: still had a box from our last house that we
Speaker 2: never unpacked of our photos and memories and artwork. It
Speaker 2: wasn't it's not a big one. It's not everything, but
Speaker 2: at least I had something. And she said, I've got
Speaker 2: that one. And I have one photo album that growing up,
Speaker 2: my nanny, who was like my second mom, put together.
Speaker 1: So I'm really glad.
Speaker 2: I grabbed that photo album because I had no idea
Speaker 2: that our family beach house would be gone, so I
Speaker 2: grabbed it and I had pictures of my dad and
Speaker 2: us at the beach.
Speaker 1: There, so I grabbed that and packed food for the dogs,
Speaker 1: packed water. You're supposed to pack water, right you always
Speaker 1: know an emergency, like always packed water, and we shoved
Speaker 1: everyone in the car. My twelve year old he said, Mom,
Speaker 1: I had a really good idea. And I said what, baby,
Speaker 1: And he said, I put all my stuff into a blanket.
Speaker 1: Mind you, it was a really fuzzy, huge blanket.
Speaker 2: I put all my stuff in there and I tied it,
Speaker 2: just like Snoopy used to do when he would leave
Speaker 2: home and going back to the cartoon. It's Charlie Brown,
Speaker 2: and I was like, well, where's the stick? You know,
Speaker 2: I hold it, but uh it was ginormous and I'm like, okay, buddy,
Speaker 2: encouraging him, thinking this is not a good idea. And
Speaker 2: it was huge, huge, And then I see that Hattie,
Speaker 2: his thirteen year old sister, had followed suit, so she
Speaker 2: had that, and I'm like, we're not getting this all
Speaker 2: in the car. And then and then the argument started
Speaker 2: to break out. I brought like two T shirts, like
Speaker 2: why did she look? She brought like five pairs of
Speaker 2: pants and three belts, and like she doesn't need that.
Speaker 2: And I was like, listen, everyone has a different way
Speaker 2: of handling things and what's important to them. If we
Speaker 2: can get in the car, let's get in the car.
Speaker 2: And then and then we got in the car. We
Speaker 2: got in the car, we packed everyone in. Everyone was saying, I.
Speaker 1: Can't move, I can't breathe, I can't.
Speaker 2: It was stuffed and my daughter said, well, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna be able to see how the back.
Speaker 1: I said, it's okay. I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how we got ourselves packed into
Speaker 2: that car. It was like Tetris on a next level,
Speaker 2: and not in a good way, it was just jammed in.
Speaker 2: I looked back and my daughter Hattie was folded up.
Speaker 2: She had one dog across her. She was holding a ferret.
Speaker 2: And I said, oh my god. But you know what,
Speaker 2: I said, Okay, everything else, it's just stuff.
Speaker 3: It's just stuff.
Speaker 2: And we got out of there, and as we were leaving,
Speaker 2: I saw all the neighbors evacuating and getting in their
Speaker 2: cars and we drove and I and it was in
Speaker 2: that moment I remembered that because my kids said, where
Speaker 2: are we going?
Speaker 1: And I said, I don't know. I don't know where
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: And my best friend Jess is simultaneously calling and she's
Speaker 2: telling me they had to evacuate, and she's like, all
Speaker 2: hotels are booked, they're all sold out. There's nowhere to go.
Speaker 2: Where are you guys going? And of course, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know, I said, And then I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my gosh. And sometimes I believe everything
Speaker 2: happens for a reason. And in December at Iheart's jingle Ball,
Speaker 2: I was there with my two girls and a lot
Speaker 2: of people at one point were, you know, coming up
Speaker 2: because it's.
Speaker 1: Our demo the night of twent zero and they were like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we watched your childhood. Can we take
Speaker 1: a picture.
Speaker 2: My friends are here, we work with this business and here,
Speaker 2: and fans were here at the concert, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, of course. And we actually ended up missing
Speaker 2: the concert, mostly because I was taking pictures. But my
Speaker 2: girls understood that the kindness that comes with what I do,
Speaker 2: it's I don't know. It was important to me, and
Speaker 2: it was making all these people so happy. And there
Speaker 2: was the last person in line. Came up with her
Speaker 2: best friend and she said to me, I can't believe
Speaker 2: you're doing this.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I know you're here with your family. If you ever
Speaker 2: need anything, I'm with Airbnb. And I said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: we love Airbnb. We always you know, you guys are
Speaker 2: so cool to navigate. I have the app and we've
Speaker 2: used you guys so many times. Especially we went through
Speaker 2: Mold and we used them. And she gave me her
Speaker 2: number and she said if you ever need anything, and
Speaker 2: I didn't think much of it in that moment, and
Speaker 2: I reached out to her and I said, we're evacuating
Speaker 2: and we have nowhere to go, and I'm panicked.
Speaker 1: I just want to drive my kids out of here.
Speaker 1: And through the fires.
Speaker 2: And I said, I know this is a long shot,
Speaker 2: and her name's Jamie, and I didn't expect her to respond,
Speaker 2: and she did respond, and she said, we got you.
Speaker 2: We are going to we're going to help you out,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to put you in touch with one
Speaker 2: of my colleagues, Taylor, and Taylor stayed on the phone
Speaker 2: and on.
Speaker 1: Text with Stella the whole drive. I was scared.
Speaker 2: I was, And it was really amazing and what Airbnb
Speaker 2: has done for all of La in California and placing
Speaker 2: people that have lost their homes that have been evacuated,
Speaker 2: It's really been remarkable. And this is in no way,
Speaker 2: shape or form and add for Airbnb. It's just exactly
Speaker 2: how it happened in real life.
Speaker 1: So anyway, they found us the place because I said,
Speaker 1: well here's why, I said. I said, I'm getting on
Speaker 1: the one oh one, and they said, given the circumstances,
Speaker 1: a lot of people a going to Palm Springs, so
Speaker 1: you might want to head that way. And I said,
Speaker 1: the traffic is stand still that way. I said. I
Speaker 1: the kids were literally shoved. It was like painful for them.
Speaker 1: And I said, we don't have like I can't sit
Speaker 1: on the freeway with kids for five, six, maybe eight hours.
Speaker 2: At that point, everyone was evacuating and I said, I'm
Speaker 2: going to head on the one on one north. It
Speaker 2: was just a gut reaction, a cut decision, and I
Speaker 2: just drove and Stella said, Mom, Mom, are you sure
Speaker 2: you're going the right way? And I said, what's the
Speaker 2: right way right now? And she said, but the but
Speaker 2: it stands still going.
Speaker 1: South the other way. We're headed this way.
Speaker 2: Nobody's going and the fire, one of the other the
Speaker 2: smaller fire that had started after is headed up there,
Speaker 2: and Negre like, it's it's there, Like why are we
Speaker 2: headed this way? And I said I don't know, but
Speaker 2: this is where we are and this is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And she said, we're driving ray into the fire.
Speaker 2: And I looked and we could see the fire and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, smoke was coming through the vents,
Speaker 2: and I said to the kids. Everyone grabbed a T
Speaker 2: shirt and I said, put it over your mouth, hold
Speaker 2: your breath, and we're driving right through it.
Speaker 1: And they were panicked, are we going to be okay?
Speaker 1: And I said We're going to be fine. We're going
Speaker 1: to be fine.
Speaker 2: So as we were literally driving on the freeway, my
Speaker 2: kids covering their faces with T shirts and holding their breath.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think, like, God, I've seen this movie.
Speaker 2: I've seen this I'm my brain thinks in movies and TV.
Speaker 2: I was born into it, you know, so that's how
Speaker 2: I think. And as we're driving, specifically, I remember thinking
Speaker 2: like Independence Day and in Vivoca, a fox like on
Speaker 2: the freeway, like getting her kid and the dog out,
Speaker 2: and I just flashed to that and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, she made it through. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was different. It was aliens. It wasn't a fire, but
Speaker 2: it did feel, you know, apocalyptic, like everyone kept saying
Speaker 2: the word like everyone was like, what is happening around us?
Speaker 1: We didn't know if it was going to stop. We didn't,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was like, wow, okay, here's the movie.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I wish I had worked out a little bit more
Speaker 2: before it took the song, because there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: lot of running involved if it keeps going this way.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we drove through. We drove past it. The
Speaker 2: kids were able to breathe again. We finally hit an
Speaker 2: area way past where the fires were up north where
Speaker 2: we did hit standstill traffic, and I said to Stella, see,
Speaker 2: see there's traffic this way. They just got it out
Speaker 2: a little sooner and made it this far, and they're
Speaker 2: closing the roads near where the fire was.
Speaker 1: So we're okay, had it this way.
Speaker 2: And Taylor from Airbnb was was still texting with us
Speaker 2: and trying to find a place, and it was, you know,
Speaker 2: at this point, it was night and we were just
Speaker 2: driving and I didn't know where we were going. And
Speaker 2: he said, okay, I've tried a few places. They either
Speaker 2: can't accommodate this last minute, or you know, don't take animals,
Speaker 2: and because we do, we have our animals.
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, well I'm just.
Speaker 2: Going to keep going and uh he said, you know,
Speaker 2: you might have to try to a hotel for the night.
Speaker 2: And I said, no, one's going to take us with
Speaker 2: all these animals, and oh my god. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: there's going to be a sign. Let's keep going, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he said, oh my god, something
Speaker 2: just popped up. I don't know why it didn't pop
Speaker 2: up before, it just popped up. It's where we are now.
Speaker 2: Just contacted the owner. They you know, are listing on Airbnb,
Speaker 2: and they can set it up. They can take you
Speaker 2: guys tonight. It's a husband and wife. They have enough rooms,
Speaker 2: they can take your animals. And he was so great.
Speaker 2: He said, do you want to send me to send pictures?
Speaker 2: And I said, I said, to stell it, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: tell him, no.
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 2: We'll take anywhere. We're not picky, We're not. And I said,
Speaker 2: just you know, I'm not like that anyway. I'm easy.
Speaker 2: And I said, as long as we have a place tonight,
Speaker 2: we can always. We think about it tomorrow, and I
Speaker 2: just want my kids to feel comforted and can sleep.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We were just all crammed in a car and driving
Speaker 2: aimlessly and anyway, we got here and we checked in
Speaker 2: and it was unbelievably beautiful and gorgeous and a retreat
Speaker 2: of sorts, I would say, or at least to us
Speaker 2: it was. And it was dark so we couldn't see much,
Speaker 2: so the kids were tired. We were able to order
Speaker 2: pizza and get pizza in.
Speaker 1: Everyone found a room.
Speaker 2: We went to bed, and the next morning we woke
Speaker 2: up and I was able to see where we were
Speaker 2: because it was late, and I looked around. I walked
Speaker 2: outside and there was this beautiful cooi pond and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And then I.
Speaker 2: Find out that the area we're in, but not just
Speaker 2: the area, but the house specifically, is a monarch butterfly sanctuary.
Speaker 2: If you know me, you know I love butterflies or
Speaker 2: one of my main things always has been, but more
Speaker 2: so than that, butterflies were a big thing. And when
Speaker 2: my dad passed, I just remember everyone saying, look for
Speaker 2: him because he loved the butterflies, look for him. And
Speaker 2: when you see a monarch, that's your dad. And I
Speaker 2: was like, wow, and he loved koyfish. So sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to get emotional here, but I was just like,
Speaker 2: thank you, Dad. What I believe, there's no coincidences in life.
Speaker 2: I believe in synchronicity. I believe in signs.
Speaker 1: I believe Yeah, so I believe we found this place
Speaker 1: because of that.
Speaker 2: And it just made it even more special to be
Speaker 2: able to the next day go through the albums with
Speaker 2: my kids and show them Grandpa Aaron and be like,
Speaker 2: we're safe here, We're going to be okay. And when
Speaker 2: it's okay to go back, we still don't have power.
Speaker 1: At our house. Where we lived.
Speaker 2: Our house is fine for now, but when it's safe
Speaker 2: to go back, we will. And it's it's like when
Speaker 2: things are so horrible, you have to find blessings in.
Speaker 1: Tragedy.
Speaker 2: And for me as a mom, as a single mom,
Speaker 2: you know, my kids have gone through a lot in
Speaker 2: the last couple.
Speaker 1: Of years, say, while it is so tragic.
Speaker 2: Everything that is going on, we're together, we're safe, we're healthy, ish,
Speaker 2: we get psychot and we're able to have this time
Speaker 2: where we're spending time together.
Speaker 1: We're airbnbas, everything, we're cooking. I'm trying to give them
Speaker 1: some sort of normalcy while we're here.
Speaker 2: And you know, our schools did open this week, And
Speaker 2: I got to say, I wrote emails to all of
Speaker 2: our schools and I said, we're way up north. I
Speaker 2: couldn't get my kids to school daily if I tried.
Speaker 2: Right now, we were evacuated. We still don't have power,
Speaker 2: We can't go back. We didn't grab their laptops for school.
Speaker 2: We weren't prepared. And I said, but they accepted the absences.
Speaker 2: You know, we put them online for the week. But
Speaker 2: I got to be honest, you know, I didn't want
Speaker 2: to let my kids go back to school. If I
Speaker 2: were are still right there.
Speaker 1: I want them all in eyesight right now.
Speaker 2: They are what mean the most to me in my life,
Speaker 2: not things, not a home, They are my home, and
Speaker 2: I just wanted my pets around.
Speaker 1: You know, so many.
Speaker 2: People have lost their fur babies, and it's like, I
Speaker 2: just God, I don't want anyone out of my site
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Stay close. So yeah, that's our story.
Speaker 2: And my heart goes out to people who have lost
Speaker 2: everything and are so strong throughough and resilient. As an
Speaker 2: LA native, it's unbelievable to see that the LA history
Speaker 2: will never be the same. My kids generation, their kids
Speaker 2: generation will never know the La that I grew up in,
Speaker 2: the magical La that was because it's gone. Palisades gone,
Speaker 2: Pali High's gone. Like all my friends in La, like
Speaker 2: so many of them grew up in Palisades. Like my
Speaker 2: dad would write stories into nine O two one to
Speaker 2: zero about like move to this party in the Palisades,
Speaker 2: because it was what my real life was. And he
Speaker 2: was just telling the writers like here's what my daughter's experiencing.
Speaker 2: You know, people that went to Pali Like, it's just
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'll never be the same and Malibu.
Speaker 2: Malibu was a really magical place and to see that
Speaker 2: it was so devastated and just destroyed. It's not my
Speaker 2: story to tell, but I know it's been out in
Speaker 2: the press that my mother's beach house burned down.
Speaker 3: It did.
Speaker 2: The morning I found out, I didn't want to believe it.
Speaker 2: My friend said, Malibu's on fire. All of LaCosta Beach
Speaker 2: is on fire, and that's where our home was. And
Speaker 2: I said, oh, my god, no, And then sure enough, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been in touch with my mom. She's processing.
Speaker 1: It's a lot.
Speaker 2: My brother and I are just super grateful for the memories,
Speaker 2: and I think our family as a whole, and my
Speaker 2: mom and brother would attest to this. The greatest tragedy
Speaker 2: about losing that home was you know, they can post
Speaker 2: in the press how much the home was worth, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean not to my mom. It doesn't mean
Speaker 2: not to my family. It was losing the memories with
Speaker 2: my dad, but memories are always there.
Speaker 1: But it was just it was my dad's favorite place
Speaker 1: in the whole world. He was a workaholic.
Speaker 2: He worked really hard, came from nothing, built up like
Speaker 2: such an amazing self made man, and he loved the
Speaker 2: simple things like he loved going to that beach house
Speaker 2: and fishing and just just amazing memories and the families
Speaker 2: that we grew up with on that beach that lost homes.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm grateful we have all those memories. But
Speaker 2: Wiley's Bait shop, like that.
Speaker 1: Was a family owned business and I used to go
Speaker 1: on there with my.
Speaker 2: Dad and would buy bait. So my dad taught me
Speaker 2: how to fish when I was little, and would go
Speaker 2: there since I was five and go to Wiley's and
Speaker 2: be like, look, you know, I'm all grown up, and
Speaker 2: here's here's my children, and I'm teaching them how to
Speaker 2: fish now and share those memories and see such a
Speaker 2: beautiful institution and part of LA like historical gone and
Speaker 2: a family business, a small family business.
Speaker 1: But you know, the good news is.
Speaker 2: Everyone is stepping into help for everybody, and I'm hoping
Speaker 2: LA will rebuild. If anyone doesn't know Pete, we call
Speaker 2: it the Other nine two one oh podcast.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're a nine o two and oh expert,
Speaker 1: not just a man.
Speaker 3: I know a lot now.
Speaker 4: I know a lot more than I ever knew. You
Speaker 4: know a lot about you. I know a lot about you.
Speaker 1: Another creepy thing.
Speaker 3: With a lot of creep.
Speaker 4: I don't have my podcast microphone because it's a part
Speaker 4: of the earth now at the house I used to
Speaker 4: live with, I went back to the house, like, I
Speaker 4: have this cool picture of you as Donna Martin. I
Speaker 4: have Claire Arnold's pictures, right, I have all these cool things.
Speaker 4: I have the paintings from the Walsh House that Jill Hankel,
Speaker 4: the set decorator, gave me. I was like, one of
Speaker 4: these things is going to be there.
Speaker 1: To a little bit.
Speaker 3: Nope, total destruction. Nothing was there.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you and I used humor, and you
Speaker 1: guys were very good friends, and so.
Speaker 3: My heart just fluttered a little by the way when
Speaker 3: you said that it's true.
Speaker 1: You know I love you.
Speaker 3: I love you too. Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2: Going to make some silly joke like, well, it's just
Speaker 2: creepy that you had those paintings.
Speaker 4: Anyway, everyone everyone, and I mentioned the paintings too, are
Speaker 4: like they were really creepy. Why did you want them?
Speaker 4: But it was, you know, it was a shocking turn
Speaker 4: of events.
Speaker 3: The whole thing.
Speaker 2: The crazy part is, you know, we were all glue
Speaker 2: dour phones, looking at watch duty, looking at Instagram, just
Speaker 2: trying to get some like what's going on. What's going on?
Speaker 2: I felt like you and I were texting things were fine,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden I found out because
Speaker 2: I see your Instagram story and I was like what,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was a plot twist for me because we left.
Speaker 4: I had no idea what was going on. Like the
Speaker 4: power company told us the day before They're going to
Speaker 4: turn our power off the next day. I don't care,
Speaker 4: like fine, I could live with a little no power.
Speaker 4: And it went from the power did go off, it
Speaker 4: went from power out to there's a fire in Altadena.
Speaker 4: We have had wind and fire before, but so I
Speaker 4: was kind of like, well, I always saw the fire
Speaker 4: like so far off in the distance. I was like, well,
Speaker 4: it's smoky and whatnot, but we'll be fine. And so
Speaker 4: the whole time I just kept thinking, we're going to
Speaker 4: be fine. And then, like you said the watch app,
Speaker 4: you know, just paying attention to where the fire was spreading,
Speaker 4: it looked like it was going in the opposite direction
Speaker 4: of us. So I was just like, oh.
Speaker 3: We're fine. But then it started.
Speaker 4: Our whole house started to fill up with smoke and
Speaker 4: it was Honestly, one of the I haven't said this
Speaker 4: out loud, but like I was really scared. The house
Speaker 4: was making sounds that it never made before, Like a
Speaker 4: house doesn't really make sounds like it's dying or something
Speaker 4: like that, but that's what was happening. Like the the
Speaker 4: fireplace had this weird hissing sound going through it, and
Speaker 4: because of the wind, things just started pounding on our
Speaker 4: house and it became more and more like we need
Speaker 4: to get out of the house. Finally we got the
Speaker 4: evacuation noticed. We went to family, then we went.
Speaker 3: To a hotel. And that whole time though I was
Speaker 3: I'm a mister.
Speaker 4: Positivity, so I was like, I was like, we're not
Speaker 4: We're not going to be in the No, not our house,
Speaker 4: Like it's gonna be all the other houses and or
Speaker 4: it won't be anybody on our block because our block
Speaker 4: on Harriet Street, like everybody, all the neighbors, Like I
Speaker 4: haven't you know when you have like neighbor conflict. We
Speaker 4: never had that, Like I've had neighbor conflict in my
Speaker 4: life before, but not on this street. This street everybody
Speaker 4: was was really into each other.
Speaker 3: We used to hang out, we used to do like
Speaker 3: get togethers and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's a rarity by the way, right, because.
Speaker 3: So many does some shit that pisces you off at
Speaker 3: some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, it wasn't like that, And so we
Speaker 4: were all on a text threat about what was.
Speaker 3: Going on, and like yourself.
Speaker 4: Finally we saw on Instagram like places really near, very
Speaker 4: close to my house, like a car wash that I
Speaker 4: used to visit all the time, this little restaurant up
Speaker 4: the street from us, this pizza place, the pizza place
Speaker 4: that I brought you pizza from, Pizza Venice.
Speaker 3: All of those places were on fire.
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh shit, if those places are
Speaker 4: on fire, there's a really good chance my house is
Speaker 4: going to be on fire.
Speaker 3: But still had held hope that it wouldn't be that.
Speaker 3: And then had you packed up. We packed the dogs.
Speaker 4: A rack of clothes, like nothing, even like I just
Speaker 4: was like, oh, we'll be back by noon.
Speaker 3: I grabbed my computer, you know.
Speaker 2: Not like a plan, right, like when people talk about
Speaker 2: like did you have a plan, And people were sending
Speaker 2: out like notes with like.
Speaker 1: Here's the lists of stuff you're supposed to pack.
Speaker 2: I just froze when I saw stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: my situation is irrelevant compared to yours.
Speaker 1: But what do you pack?
Speaker 4: Like, what do you I'm a filmmaker. I grabbed all
Speaker 4: the hard drives with all the films.
Speaker 1: As creators don't our brains don't think like that.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I'm not even thinking like this.
Speaker 4: I'm still thinking like should I grab the computer, like
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll be back by eleven.
Speaker 3: It feels ridiculous to bring to bring this bulky computer.
Speaker 4: Like, I'm not in the mind even though the house
Speaker 4: is filled with smoke, the house is making these crazy sounds.
Speaker 3: I'm only talking about that.
Speaker 4: From the perspective of it, and that being now, I
Speaker 4: should have known all those things as were happening. And
Speaker 4: we took off and somebody in the group said the
Speaker 4: text said, I'm so sorry, but the house is.
Speaker 3: Totally gone and it's still you know.
Speaker 4: I saw the video and the drive by of my
Speaker 4: house and it was very much like, hey, are you okay?
Speaker 3: I'm okay.
Speaker 4: I was fine until I until then I started to
Speaker 4: see all those like Pizza Venice and Foxes and all
Speaker 4: those places that I go to. Though I go to
Speaker 4: places in Altadena. I love Altadena. I love that community.
Speaker 4: It's totally diverse. Like I fell in love with it.
Speaker 4: If I was going to pick a place to live
Speaker 4: in the world, it would be Altadena, Like it's my vibe.
Speaker 1: And you did pick it well, and you're a transplant.
Speaker 1: You're an East Coast transplant.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: I'm originally East Coaster. The guy across the street was
Speaker 4: originally East Coaster. We bust each other about East Coast baseball.
Speaker 3: So it was.
Speaker 4: It was a really beautiful neighborhood. And the impact of
Speaker 4: it all really hit me the next day when I
Speaker 4: went down there, you know, when I went down to
Speaker 4: to see the place, because like I said, even though
Speaker 4: you cross you see someone your house.
Speaker 3: Destroyed on on like a phone, like you get a
Speaker 3: text message, it's still like, well maybe this is there.
Speaker 4: Well maybe the thing is there, maybe Donna's pictures there,
Speaker 4: you know, none of that was there.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can get you another one of those I was.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask, Yeah, you were only like
Speaker 1: one of the couple keepers of boast of it.
Speaker 3: So it's true.
Speaker 4: And I while I and you know, I went up
Speaker 4: there and I and I was devastated Tory, like, I mean,
Speaker 4: my home was just totally destroyed there like the places
Speaker 4: that I got in and like pondered life in that
Speaker 4: in that backyard, and pondered whether or not I would
Speaker 4: ever meet Tori sp you know whatever, You know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Like I pondered all the big life questions.
Speaker 2: We're joking, guys, He's not really joking, but no, oh no.
Speaker 4: No, I mean that was pondered there for sure. But
Speaker 4: I you know, I just I lost it.
Speaker 3: It wasn't there.
Speaker 4: And then I mean the images of seeing your town
Speaker 4: that I just told you about, that I loved and
Speaker 4: would pick as my town totally decimated and destroyed our
Speaker 4: images that you'll never get out of your head. I mean,
Speaker 4: and I don't mean to be even more horrific, but
Speaker 4: the neighbor behind us had a dog that used to
Speaker 4: interact with our dogs all the time. And when I
Speaker 4: went into the backyard, the dogs was dead in the backyard,
Speaker 4: you know. And I'm just I don't know why he
Speaker 4: didn't save his dog, why he didn't take this dog.
Speaker 3: Maybe he was like me.
Speaker 4: I don't know that neighbor, but maybe he was like me,
Speaker 4: And I'll be back by noon. That's not even really
Speaker 4: an excuse for it, but just to see to see
Speaker 4: that with your own property totally gone, and like, I
Speaker 4: know we're joking about nine two one of other stuff,
Speaker 4: but like real shit, you know, like the family photos,
Speaker 4: the videotapes, the artwork that you got in Cuba, the
Speaker 4: memory of it all to see. Like I mean, when
Speaker 4: I was going through the rubble, I saw the little
Speaker 4: thing that said Cuba, you know what I mean, and
Speaker 4: it's like all those memories are like they're the physical
Speaker 4: memories of them are totally gone.
Speaker 3: I was at a bar a couple of nights ago
Speaker 3: listening to someone talking.
Speaker 4: He was like, they could take away my things, but
Speaker 4: they can't take away my memories. And that actually helped me.
Speaker 4: That helped me to be like, well, I still went
Speaker 4: to Cuba. I still remember getting the paintings. It's like, okay, fuck,
Speaker 4: I don't have the paintings anymore. But like that all happened,
Speaker 4: and you know, we we I was scared, really scared
Speaker 4: afterwards too, because I didn't know what was going to happen.
Speaker 4: We started to gofund me. I mean, I'm not even
Speaker 4: that kind of person, but it just felt like I
Speaker 4: had to. And there was this moment where I was
Speaker 4: just totally blown away by everyone's kindness from the nine
Speaker 4: O two and o community that listened to the other
Speaker 4: podcast that listened to your podcasts, that keep us all together.
Speaker 3: Like a family. And I learned that.
Speaker 4: Though I was not a cast member of nine O,
Speaker 4: two and zero, that it is a family.
Speaker 3: It's a deep family. And when you're in that family.
Speaker 4: You're protected by the people that were on it, the
Speaker 4: people that wrote it, the people that did various tasks
Speaker 4: on it, and also the community of people that loved
Speaker 4: the show. And all of them donated to the gofund me,
Speaker 4: all of them sent me text messages in wall wishes.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, my TV crush is Kathleen Robertson.
Speaker 3: You know, it's Caronald.
Speaker 4: She's literally checked in on me every day, like she
Speaker 4: has Like like I said to her one night, I
Speaker 4: was like, I don't have any clothes.
Speaker 3: I wish I could just have clothes. And she sent
Speaker 3: me like.
Speaker 4: A curated list of clothes that I had to buy
Speaker 4: because she used to always bust me about my other
Speaker 4: clo and she said and finally she called me, she
Speaker 4: was like, maybe maybe some outfits were good that.
Speaker 3: They were in right.
Speaker 1: I concur with that.
Speaker 4: And then Brian, you know, Brian, I mean I lost
Speaker 4: my guitar in this thing I got it in the
Speaker 4: nineties and it was something that was so special to me.
Speaker 4: And you know, he called me and was like, you know,
Speaker 4: I want to see you and went and got lunch
Speaker 4: and took us to lunch and really helped reshape my
Speaker 4: mind about all of this because the first, the first
Speaker 4: few days, it was it was like this deep grief
Speaker 4: that I'll never see those things again, like everything's over.
Speaker 3: And but he reminded me, like.
Speaker 4: He shaped my outlook a little bit and reminded me
Speaker 4: of the positive person I am, and like how to
Speaker 4: look at it from a from a positive place. And
Speaker 4: then he gave me a bit. He gave me a guitar,
Speaker 4: like he gave me his guitar from the nineties. I
Speaker 4: was like, this is the perfect one. And you, I mean,
Speaker 4: you're you're like, how can I help you? What can
Speaker 4: I do? Sending me people that you know, talking to me,
Speaker 4: you know, making me laugh, which you know is such
Speaker 4: a big part of me, and like you sending me
Speaker 4: text messages that are only funny to us, but getting
Speaker 4: a laugh out of me was just like.
Speaker 1: What like me saying like just checking in an asshole, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just checking an asshole makes me because.
Speaker 2: You got it, you know, yeah, the physical stuff that
Speaker 2: it's it's horrible. It takes tragedy for us to be
Speaker 2: like it was just stuff. But and I'm no one
Speaker 2: to say it. I didn't lose anything. You lost everything,
Speaker 2: but you have your family, you have your fur babies.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm well, you still got your humor and looks.
Speaker 3: So thank you.
Speaker 4: I I sorry, I and I can still have a
Speaker 4: homemade meal. Like I'm gonna bounce back. I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: to another place. I'm gonna make dinner. I'm going to
Speaker 4: go to lunch with you. I'm gonna you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Like, we're gonna I'm gonna enjoy life and
Speaker 4: have a fresh start at this.
Speaker 3: And I know there's a lot of people.
Speaker 4: That that their outlook right now is grief and devastation,
Speaker 4: and I am there with you.
Speaker 3: But it is a chance to begin again. And those
Speaker 3: are some of the most beautiful moments and times in
Speaker 3: your life when you can evaluate what's important and move
Speaker 3: forward with those things, and also then create new memories
Speaker 3: because in the end, what are we taking. Like I'm
Speaker 3: not going to ask them to put a picture of
Speaker 3: something in the you know, in wherever I am, like,
Speaker 3: in the end, what I'm going to be left with
Speaker 3: are my memories, and so they can take away my things,
Speaker 3: but they can't take away my memories.
Speaker 1: You'll attest to this.
Speaker 2: We have fast paced moving lives, especially in this industry,
Speaker 2: and we're going, going, going, We don't stop. You know
Speaker 2: when people say like, oh my gosh, different parts of
Speaker 2: the world, they live life differently, They take moments, they
Speaker 2: appreciate things often.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to say, you know, in La
Speaker 1: and even in New York, like it's just it's just
Speaker 1: so fast paced that we're always.
Speaker 2: Like work, work, work, you know, our family, but we
Speaker 2: got to go, got to go. And in the end,
Speaker 2: you're right, can't take it with you can't.
Speaker 3: And what I was going to say, what's been beautiful too,
Speaker 3: is that Los Angeles and.
Speaker 4: All of this entire place, this community are all dreamers,
Speaker 4: but they're all doers, and they're all helpers. And it's
Speaker 4: been beautiful to see how literally everybody is doing and
Speaker 4: helping people like me, other families like me. Those restaurants
Speaker 4: will rebuild the communities, come out in Los Angeles for
Speaker 4: their people, and as someone who lives here now, I'm
Speaker 4: really grateful to everybody who helped us in this time.
Speaker 4: But I'm also great, really happy that I live where
Speaker 4: I live because there's just such a beauty and I
Speaker 4: want to help you.
Speaker 3: What can I do to make you feel better?
Speaker 4: And it's really because of just the heart that people
Speaker 4: have out here, the imagination.
Speaker 1: Which I didn't I didn't know until.
Speaker 2: I mean, La and California has been through devastation and
Speaker 2: things before, but it's really this one that And maybe
Speaker 2: it's because I'm older now I'm able to really understand
Speaker 2: what's going on. I didn't always know if I believed
Speaker 2: the people in LA would do something like this, and
Speaker 2: they have.
Speaker 1: You're right.
Speaker 2: La has really come together, California has come together. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know people from all over the world are stepping.
Speaker 1: Into help, but.
Speaker 2: It is It does make me smile to know that
Speaker 2: is an LA native, a place that I was born
Speaker 2: and raised, that we are that community. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I would have thought LA was it became something
Speaker 2: so different for so long.
Speaker 4: It's nice to know the film community and the restaurant
Speaker 4: community are people of action.
Speaker 3: They're like, I gotta get.
Speaker 4: This done, this done, this scene, this thing, this thing,
Speaker 4: this meal, this thing, this thing, and when they find
Speaker 4: that there's crisis, and it's in other cities too, it's
Speaker 4: not just La.
Speaker 3: But what I love is that they they just did it.
Speaker 3: They just helped.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm like, I'm I'm just blown away. Because
Speaker 4: I started this little podcast during the pandemic, I got
Speaker 4: to meet you and my TV crush and Brian and
Speaker 4: Chuck and Larry and this whole community of people of
Speaker 4: fans of nine to two one zero that just stepped
Speaker 4: up in a major way and said I want.
Speaker 3: To help you.
Speaker 4: You made an impact in my life, and it's in
Speaker 4: a weird way seeing your legacy come to life of
Speaker 4: like the things that you've done, and it was very
Speaker 4: beautiful and emotional for me. It was almost more emotional
Speaker 4: to see all of that beauty and to live in
Speaker 4: that gratitude than to think about the destruction of it
Speaker 4: all this it was more important to me to feel
Speaker 4: that love than anything else. And I've never felt more
Speaker 4: loved in my entire life because of this horrific tragedy.
Speaker 1: Well, you are.
Speaker 2: Loved, and everyone in LA is loved. And to go
Speaker 2: back to where I was saying, I didn't know if
Speaker 2: people in LA would step up. Ever, I think that's
Speaker 2: only because I was so conditioned over the years and
Speaker 2: just hearing, Oh, everyone in LA's fake. You know, we're
Speaker 2: so conditioned to hear that from people. That's not what
Speaker 2: I knew growing up, Like, I just bought into.
Speaker 1: The perception that everybody put on us.
Speaker 2: And it's so nice that that's peeled back now and
Speaker 2: the world can see, like, LA is real, We're not fake.
Speaker 2: Everyone everyone in the moment of crisis all stepped up
Speaker 2: and helped each other.
Speaker 1: So what can they say about us now?
Speaker 4: I think you're one of the most authentic people I've
Speaker 4: ever met. I don't think that there's anything fake about you.
Speaker 4: And as a nine oh two and oh.
Speaker 1: Well just my nose, but.
Speaker 2: My boobs, but yeah, nothing else, so real no matter
Speaker 2: what they say.
Speaker 4: But I was gonna what I was gonna say was,
Speaker 4: you know, everyone I ever talked to from nine oh
Speaker 4: two and oh has always said that there is one
Speaker 4: person that was always in their corner.
Speaker 3: And supportive of them, and that's you.
Speaker 4: That goes from uh, every guest star I talked to,
Speaker 4: every director that they loved working with you because of
Speaker 4: them that you brought And it's that light that you have.
Speaker 4: There's a moment right here where I am in a
Speaker 4: really dark place, driving around all over trying to find places,
Speaker 4: not sure, displaced, and you offer me this bright light
Speaker 4: to come on here and talk to you and see
Speaker 4: your beautiful face and share some laughs with me, and.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing more beautiful.
Speaker 1: So thank you well, thank you for being my friend.
Speaker 3: I love you, love you too. See you guys, All right,
Speaker 3: by asshole.
Speaker 2: In this episode, we will post links of how you
Speaker 2: can help the victims of these fires. Super grateful iHeart
Speaker 2: has partnered with the Dream Center in LA and they
Speaker 2: are doing amazing work getting people who have lost everything
Speaker 2: what they need and are taking donations daily. So again,
Speaker 2: please look for that information in the description and just
Speaker 2: hug your loved ones really tight, keep them close.
Speaker 1: I love you, guys,