1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. Hy, everybody, 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. I wanted to hop on 3 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: and just give you guys an update because we've been 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: flooded with you know, text messages and dms, people worrying 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: about us, wondering how we're managing. So I just want 6 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: to give you an update on these horrific fires that 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: are happening here in southern California, and an update also 8 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: on the I Choose Me Live event. So I'm gonna 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: have my husband join me now because I don't know, 10 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: I just need them buy me right now. Hey baby, Hi. 11 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a it's been a weird week, a 12 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 2: weird start to twenty five, right, let's say the least. 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: I thought this was going to be a good year. 14 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, we are jumping into it, all the resolutions and 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,279 Speaker 2: new beginnings and all that. 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: We thought this was going to be a great year. 17 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: We were going in strong and so excited for what 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: was to come, and then this just came out of nowhere. 19 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, mother Nature, has you pivot on your normally scheduled program? Yeah? 20 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a situation like this, like 21 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: a natural disaster? No, no, make you've been in hurricanes before. 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 2: I grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia and we went 23 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 2: through some hurricanes, but you know, I was you sleep 24 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: through them or you know nothing? Nothing this like, I mean, 25 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: it's catastrophic. It's almost like biblical like what's happening? And 26 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: it's still happening right now. It's you know, I mean, 27 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: it's not over. We have another windstorm coming next week, 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: and I think everyone's on edge. 29 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: Yeah hopefully. Why don't we start like, how did this 30 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: whole thing come into our life? Like on our radar? 31 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: I don't even remember what was the how it started? 32 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: Well, so, I you know, I know the news and 33 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 2: this was being predicted on Monday, and they were telling 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: us that it's going to be extreme winds and especially. 35 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: Where we live, and we were getting prepared for all 36 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: the strong wind warnings that we. 37 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: Were just we are remodeling, so we have some stuff 38 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: outside that we needed to tie down and kind of 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 2: get a hold of. And Tuesday afternoon, the winds were 40 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 2: picking up strong, and obviously the Palisades Fire had started, 41 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: and we were all kind of glued to that watching that, 42 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 2: not knowing I mean, I was reaching out to friends 43 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 2: that I know. I know you were as well and 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: giving us updates on Oh my children in school just 45 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: burned down. And then it was so far away but 46 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 2: so close, and it was about six o'clock. We had, 47 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: I think, we just ate kind of sitting around watching 48 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: the news, and then a chair flew by outside and 49 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: I thought to myself, wow, I didn't really tie down 50 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 2: everything sufficiently, and I walked outside. I looked up and 51 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 2: there was a fire and this was the Eating Canyon fire, 52 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: and which at the time, you know, probably five miles away. 53 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: We could see the flames though from our house it 54 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: was like one range, one hill over. 55 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 2: It felt like it felt like it was right next door. 56 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really scary, and so I think that's 57 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: when panic like set in. 58 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: Definitely panic set in. Came back in. 59 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I thought the fire was in 60 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: the Palisads. We're not close to the Palistads, so we're fine. 61 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, and all of. 62 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 2: A sudden, Eating Kenyon broke out, which if anyone doesn't know, 63 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: it's close to Altadena. My business partner has a house 64 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: in Altadena. So I saw on the news that it 65 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: was Eating Canyon I immediately called him. He did not answer. 66 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 2: He sent me a text him and his wife or 67 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: literally down the street we are getting bags and we 68 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: will call you when we're safe. And so then that 69 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: caused us to kind of go into heightened right. 70 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: You know, what is wild is that all of our 71 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: daughters were here with us under this roof, because well 72 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: two of them live with us, but Luca had flown 73 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: in to help me with the I Choose Me Live event. 74 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: So it just happened that we were all here, which 75 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: is never I know, but that's it was such a 76 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: good thing. I think I felt a little secure, more 77 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: secure just knowing that they were all near me and 78 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: I could protect them. 79 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: We could protect them, and we hadn't been like that 80 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 2: since COVID. 81 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: When did we realize everything is such a blur, like 82 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: a timeline. 83 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: I can't, I think everybody because this is so fresh. 84 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 2: I think for everybody. I think we're all as a 85 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 2: city in a state of trauma, shock, shock, drama. 86 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: I feel numb. Everybody I have talked to you says 87 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: they just feel numb. And I can so relate because 88 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: you're so shocked, and then you just feel immobilized, and 89 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: like with fear. 90 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: And you want to help, and how can I help? 91 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 2: And so after I called my business partner, he told me, 92 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: we have a friend that lives another like probably on 93 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 2: another ridge that we are close to, and he was 94 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 2: given us updates. So basically he was a little closer. 95 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 2: He was a little closer. He could see it. He 96 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: saw that the wind direction was moving away from us. 97 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: But then later on at night, we know that it switched. 98 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: It switched. That's the thing that's so wild about these fires. 99 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: You're on one side of it, and you're a mile away, 100 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: two miles away, three miles away, and then all the 101 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: sudden the wind will swirl or switch and the wind 102 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: is just insane. 103 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 2: And on Tuesday night we had wind guts up to 104 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: eighty to ninety miles an hour. 105 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, I felt like our house was going to 106 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: fly away, crumble, break every wall. 107 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 2: I thought all of our windows were going to explode. 108 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: Absolutely, So the kids were terrified. 109 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 2: Everybody was terrified. But we weren't getting We didn't get 110 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 2: an evacuation notice yet. 111 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: We were just sitting tight. 112 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: But we did start to prepare, so we did start 113 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 2: making bags. I got all the cars. 114 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: Well, you I think you were the first one to 115 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: start packing bags. Like I just was just like I 116 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: couldn't function. I was so freaked out. 117 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I had some people calling me and then 118 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: talking to you know, Johnny, and then you got all 119 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: our friend Kevin, and by that time it was you know, 120 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 2: a thirty nine, So we had grad we could gradually 121 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 2: start to prepare. We did, got to be around one o'clock. 122 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: The family, the girls, you everybody was getting pretty nervous. Still, 123 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: no evacuation we had had, like I don't know at 124 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 2: that time if we had a warning, but we were 125 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 2: definitely smelling smoke. You could see the fire warning. We 126 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 2: had a warning. 127 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't like evacuation mandatory. 128 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: By yeah, that's right. And so you could start to 129 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 2: smell the smoke. You could start, you could definitely you 130 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 2: could see it the whole time. So we all made 131 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 2: a decision. We called Peter and we all made a 132 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 2: decision to go over there. I made a decision to 133 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 2: stay back and stay the night here because we do 134 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 2: have a sick dog, she's fourteen. We didn't want to 135 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: move her. So you and the girls, you all drove 136 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 2: separate and you went to Peter's. 137 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, we took all the cards that we could and 138 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: left you one because you had filled up both of 139 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: the trucks. 140 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 2: I had both the trucks filled. 141 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was like ripping pictures off the walls. 142 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: Our walls are all still bare. 143 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 2: Hours later when we had we were fortunate to come 144 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 2: back to the house in the morning, but you all 145 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: spent the night at Peter's. I stayed here. I tried 146 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 2: to set an alarm for every two hours to keep updated. 147 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 2: I woke up at four o'clock in the morning and 148 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 2: seeing that, oh, from our window, I couldn't see any 149 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: actual fire. I could just see smoke. So I was like, oh, 150 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 2: that's a good thing because it was gone. And then 151 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 2: six point thirty in the morning I got a notification. 152 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 2: My friend reached out to me, who was on the 153 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: other side. He was like, we are leaving, We are 154 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: getting out of here. It's a little it's very close. 155 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 2: In my then we had had a full on evacuation. 156 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: Where we were that morning was a blur, just trying 157 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 2: to get everything situated and get everything out and get 158 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 2: to you while also, you know, it's surreal thinking that 159 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 2: you're not going to see your place ever again. And 160 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 2: that's why it's so it's so difficult because our house 161 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 2: did survive, and yeah. 162 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: Do you feel like I feel kind of like guilty, 163 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: a little bit of survivor guilt like that my house, 164 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: that our house survived. I feel so bad for everybody 165 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: who doesn't have a home now and everything is gone, 166 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: and I feel like, how can I possibly even be 167 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 1: happy again? 168 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 2: Like I feel terrible for you know, the Palisades, the 169 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 2: people that lost their home, but also the people that 170 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 2: maintained that home, and the plumbers, the pool people, the 171 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 2: cleaning services that now don't you know, they don't have 172 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 2: a job. So it's a trickle down effect that that 173 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 2: has just hit everybody in the city. And like I said, 174 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: it's it's still not done. It's a it's slow and 175 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: luckily right now this is Friday and we don't have 176 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: wind like we did. 177 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 1: But it's still so scary because new fires keep just 178 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: popping up in the most random places around the city. 179 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: When when that one in Hollywood on the Hollywood Hills 180 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: came up, that was terrifying because that is like Palisades, 181 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: another very very like densely populated area. 182 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 2: Because we had evacuated in the valley to Peters and so. 183 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: Now we once we were yeah, we were evacuated Peters, 184 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,239 Speaker 1: and we thought, okay. 185 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: We're the next morning, and then. 186 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: And then and then it changed, like all of a sudden. 187 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: We were like, wait, we need to evacuate from our evacuated. 188 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: Right And then we you know, that morning, which was 189 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, around eleven, when I was back at Peters, 190 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: said hello, and we had watched the news and it 191 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 2: was still over by us, but it was you know, 192 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 2: they were getting they were switching the direction. So I said, 193 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 2: we have time to go come over here and get 194 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 2: some more stuff. That's when we came over here around 195 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 2: eleven thirty twelve. 196 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: Oh, that's when I read that's. 197 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 2: When you ripped off everything on the walls. And then 198 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 2: we got pictures in big chests and we loaded up 199 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 2: the truck and basically took I. 200 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: Mean what I want. There were some strange things like 201 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: what I was thinking in those moments because I was 202 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know what to take when we. 203 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 2: First initially shocked, because we were trying to get everything 204 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: kind of going. I was doing sprinklers and stuff just 205 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 2: to kind of you know, embers were flying five miles 206 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 2: and we were a mile away from where this flame 207 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 2: was so you know, tried to saturate that, and you 208 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 2: were inside watering the plants. 209 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: I thought, if the plants they they're going to feel 210 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: sad from the fire and it's going to dry them out. 211 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: And I don't know, I wasn't even thinking. 212 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 2: I just think that that is another It's it's so 213 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 2: surreal what's happening, and you just. 214 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 1: In the in the panic moment, you know, you're. 215 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 2: In a house where you look outside and it's a 216 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: ominous glow of like fire and smoke, and it feels 217 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: like the fire's like right next to you. 218 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's when I think I just start shaking 219 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: like uncontrollably. I could barely rip things off the walls. 220 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: My hands were trembling like so much, and I and 221 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: it was full blown sweating and panicking. 222 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 2: Also, it's just so odd that, you know, when we're 223 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 2: loading up the car, it's so quiet outside and. 224 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: It's just still, and it's just eerie, ash falling, so eery, soery. 225 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: I think I even went to the to the orange 226 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 1: tree and tried to take off oranges to save them. 227 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. 228 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 2: Some the girls were like when we were loading the 229 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 2: truck and everybody was helping it was like, what are 230 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 2: those oranges in the back of the truck. I was like, 231 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 2: I don't My mom just picked like four oranges and 232 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 2: threw them in the back of the truck. 233 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 1: What did you think to take because it was kind 234 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: of like every man for himself. And I saw that 235 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 1: you had packed up some inches items as well. 236 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 2: What like what was interesting, like. 237 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: Your vintage Eagles sweatshirts and hats. 238 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, like you throw oranges in the back of 239 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: the truck. I your brain is like, I don't know, 240 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 2: but I know that I don't want to lose this. 241 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 2: I don't want to lose this, and I don't want 242 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 2: to lose that. 243 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: And I took all our family pictures and memories, and 244 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: you took your your sweatshirts in. 245 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: Your head some vintage Eagle stuff that I couldn't get back. Well, 246 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 2: I helped you with the pictures. 247 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: You did you can. This is the thing. You were 248 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: so amazing because you don't ever ask or like judge 249 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 1: anything I do. Usually when the shit hits the fan 250 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: and stuff, you're like, tell me what to do, I'll 251 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: do it. You you were like a Sherpa from heaven, 252 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: schlipping everything, loading heavy things into the back of the truck, well, 253 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: organizing us and trying to keep us all calm. 254 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, in those situations, you know, your brain is 255 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 2: trying to rationalize it while also trying to be really 256 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 2: quick and aware of what's going on and the unknown 257 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 2: is it's crazy. 258 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: When you're in that feeling of adrenaline rushing through you 259 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: and you're scared and you just kind of pick random things. 260 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: But I went straight for the pictures and uh things 261 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: like that, and I didn't take clothes. I took one clothes, 262 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: one outfit. I don't even know, no underwear. 263 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: Well, look, there's the sound, Yeah I did you hear us? 264 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 2: Hear that sound, the fire sound, And there's an app 265 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 2: that everybody's been on and that like sound is seared 266 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 2: like a notification warning and where another fire is popped 267 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 2: up or what's going on here? But in true reflection 268 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 2: of grabbing things, yeah, just when you when you're in 269 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 2: that and you're trying to save what you need to save, right, 270 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: I guess there was really nothing we really needed to 271 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 2: save because we were already all saved. The girls were fine. Yeah, 272 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 2: you know, we were just getting convenient things. 273 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, random, We had all the dog stuff. 274 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: That was the most important thing to us, I think, 275 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: and then the girls packed a bag. 276 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 2: I just you know, just also thinking about the people 277 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: who didn't have any time or the luxury. And it 278 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 2: was so quick and it was literally the perfect storm 279 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 2: in the Palisades. How that hit and then how it 280 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 2: hit an in canyon and even it when. 281 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: We were at Peter's house and we got that evacuation 282 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: warning for running his house. Yeah, when the running canyon 283 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: came up, that was terrifying, Like. 284 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 2: Well, everybody were right because it was close and you 285 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 2: were close to that because. 286 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: We were also like, where are we going to go? Now? 287 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: It's the next plan. 288 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 2: We had all gotten settled in. We all had a 289 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 2: family dinner together, which was really nice. 290 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that was like a. 291 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: We have we had all never done that before. 292 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: Well we've done it, but this was not in his. 293 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: Home or not in our home. 294 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,119 Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I feel. 295 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 2: Like it was nice. Lily, the Jack, the girls, we 296 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: ordered Chinese food. It was it was enjoyable in it 297 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 2: for that brief moment we were not thinking about Yeah, we. 298 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: Turned off the news for a minute and just sat 299 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: as a family and tried to. 300 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 2: Have you know, some sort of you know, normalcy. 301 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: When we had Peter on the podcast and we really 302 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: opened up some new channels of communication and you know, 303 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: sort of had a kind of restart to what our 304 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: relationship should be. I think that was amazing and that 305 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: probably was the opening the door opening for us to 306 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: be comfortable enough to even ask him, can we come 307 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: and stay at your house? And without hesitation, he was 308 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 1: like absolutely, And we went there and all our family 309 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: was together. The girls, Luca, Lola, and Fiona were there, 310 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: He was there, lily Is Beyonce was there, and Jack 311 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: there almost their almost two year old son, and all 312 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: of our dogs. So we all just sort of they 313 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: we all just sort of really hunkered down and watched 314 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: the news together and it was together. 315 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:41,719 Speaker 2: It was an enjoyable experience. 316 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: I told, uh, I don't know enjoyable, Like could anything 317 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: be enjoyable right now? 318 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 2: I mean, I think that with everything going on in 319 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 2: my brain, I was I was so grateful to be 320 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 2: in his place and be safe, be safe, and the 321 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 2: girls were safe and every but he was safe. It 322 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 2: was like, oh, okay, yeah, let's make the best of this. 323 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: I did ask you in bed, I was like, do 324 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 2: you feel weird? Sleeping in your ex husband's house. 325 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: I said, no, I really didn't at all. I didn't, 326 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: but I do. I have a confession to make. 327 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: I have a. 328 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: Confession to make. So he I guess Lily had made 329 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: some banana bread with chocolate chips in it, and it 330 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: wasn't just sitting there on the counter and nobody was 331 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: in the kitchen. So I kind of ate it all. 332 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 2: Sorry, guys, Well, she had me go back in there. 333 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: I had some and then I was. 334 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 2: Like, we stayed in the guest house was private, it's 335 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 2: like a back house. It was like a back house. 336 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 2: It was a garage converted into a bed. It might 337 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,880 Speaker 2: smell like a campfire too, because all of our clothes 338 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 2: when we got back where we smelled like a campfire. 339 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 2: But they're all right. 340 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: So going back to the banana bat first second, I 341 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: know who eats the sweets and the banana breads in 342 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: that house. And his name's Peter. So I went back 343 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: later and I was like, hey, is there more banana bread? 344 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: And he's like no, I think I think he got eaten. 345 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: I've said who ate it all? And he was like, 346 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I said, oh, I 347 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: know who ate it all and he gets up and 348 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: he walks out and he leaves the room. He goes 349 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: into the kitchen and I'm like, oh, okay, bye, and 350 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: he comes back in with the tiniest little saran wrap 351 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 1: back like wad, and it had literally one bite of 352 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: banana bread left in it, and he gave it to me. 353 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: You guys, he let me have the last bite that 354 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: he was hiding for himself. 355 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 2: That's so nice. I mean, that's so kind of him. 356 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 2: The girls were making fun of him because I walked 357 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 2: in from the guest house to get some water and 358 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 2: then peanut butter filled pretzels with chocolate on top, and 359 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 2: he's making a sandwich at eleven o'clock at night. 360 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think we were all stressed eating. 361 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 2: Everybody was probably doing things that. 362 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: They I have no plan to I have no plan 363 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: to stop stress either. 364 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 2: I didn't be in there because I was trying to 365 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 2: go steal chocolate covered peanut butter bruds. 366 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: I was not only stress eating. I was stressed vacuuming. 367 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: Is that I mean, I guess that's good for my heart. 368 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: Like I was exercising in some way, but I vacuumed 369 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: this entire house like four times, just because I didn't 370 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: know what else to do. 371 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 2: I think at one point I was like, I have 372 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 2: to I have to take a break from the news. 373 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 2: I need to turn on and I had a phone, 374 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 2: I had a phone and TV and I think you 375 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 2: may have told me we need to take a break. 376 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's almost impossible. 377 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 2: Impossible, But we all kind of managed to keep our 378 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 2: cool until we never got an evacuation like notice there. 379 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,959 Speaker 2: So I think that that was the most important, just 380 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: listening to every instruction and just really adhering to it. 381 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: And of course at that point we had to make 382 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: the difficult decision to postpone the I Choose Me Live event. 383 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: We've been working really, really always hard, and our whole team, 384 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: everybody at iHeart, all my family members have been working 385 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: to get us ready for the most exciting event that 386 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: we were so proud to be throwing, and everything was 387 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: falling into place with that, and then all of a 388 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 1: sudden this happened and we had to make the decision. 389 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: I think we made it on Wednesday that we needed 390 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 1: to let it be known that we couldn't do the event. 391 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: We had to postpone it. There was, I mean, not 392 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: a question in anybody's mind that it was important to 393 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: us that we kept our everybody involved safe, all the 394 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: guests that were flying in, all the panelists that were 395 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: flying in, and there to do it. It was not 396 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: It was like, of course, this needs to be the decision, absolutely, 397 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: But I still have to admit afterwards I felt like 398 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: sort of like what now. I felt sort of. 399 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 2: I think everybody in the city is in a what 400 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: now place? 401 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: That's the thing. And that was what made the decision 402 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: easy to make, was knowing that so many of our 403 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 1: neighbors and our fellow Angelino's were in this state of emergency. 404 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 2: I did feel such a sense of gratitude yesterday for 405 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: our situation and. 406 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, you came home and like the house was still. 407 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 2: Okay, and being over in Altadena with my business partner 408 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 2: and his house is still standing, but the smoke damage 409 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 2: because it was an older house that they had it 410 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 2: at all locked up, but the smoke blue the window open, 411 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 2: you could see the soot inside and the smoke damage. 412 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 2: And he's not going to be able to go back 413 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: there and live for you know, so who knows. 414 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: Not to mention his entire neighborhood has burned down. 415 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 2: In his entire neighborhood, even walking through it yesterday and 416 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: seeing the destruction of you know, the you'll notice that 417 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 2: one house is here, and then three houses are gone, 418 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 2: and then two houses are there, and then four are gone. 419 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 2: I was asking questions and the firemen they just did 420 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 2: not have the resources. They didn't they couldn't contend with 421 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 2: eighty to ninety mile an hour wind. 422 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: So they didn't have water, right. 423 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 2: They had to conserve the water. So when they were 424 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 2: coming up to places, if they saw that a house 425 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 2: was gone, they were like, we can't save it. We'll 426 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 2: try and save the house next to it. So they 427 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 2: doused all their resources on that one house and they 428 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 2: moved on to the next situation that they had to 429 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 2: fight like that. And it's just scary. There's nothing, there's 430 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 2: nothing that there's nothing that anyone can do. And I 431 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 2: think that that is frightening, and I mean it puts 432 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 2: a lot of things into perspective. But you know, you're 433 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 2: working so hard on the event coming up and so 434 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 2: wrapped up into that, and ye have to cancel it 435 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: because that is small pales in comparison. 436 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it was not the time to quite yet 437 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: to come together, but it will be, and I can 438 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: say without a doubt that we are going to find 439 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: a date to reschedule it because I kind of think 440 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: now more than ever, we need to feel supported by 441 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: our community, and I think that having the event in 442 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: some capacity will we'll offer us all like some solace 443 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: and some solidarity and that feeling of of being being neighbors, 444 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: being friendly, kind and having support. So we're definitely going 445 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: to be rescheduling it. We're just trying to find a 446 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: date in the near future. Stay abreast to any new 447 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: developments with that on our social media platform on I 448 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: Choose Me Live. We'll update you guys. 449 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's something. I mean, even now we 450 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 2: have Winds coming back next week. It's Friday and Tuesday, 451 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 2: and now we have to prepare for something else. 452 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: Mm hmm. It's crazy, though. What is what is really 453 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: pissing me off right now is the looters, the people 454 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: that are robbing from people, and the people that are 455 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: setting up fake like gofundmes. I know my friend Cameron 456 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: Matheson who lost his beautiful home in Altadena. He's devastated, 457 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: his family's devastated, and someone is online using his situation 458 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: to raise money for themselves. Basically they have no connection 459 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 1: with this. And I saw that he went on on 460 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: the Instagram earlier today and said, don't that's not me. 461 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: I'm not asking for money. So anytime you see somebody 462 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: trying to get money for me, it's not me, right, 463 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: which just sucks. 464 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 2: It's sad. Well, you know, they brought in the National Guard, 465 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 2: so that's good Johnny and Altadena that that's what everyone 466 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 2: was afraid of. Looters and people taking av. 467 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: We were afraid of it too when we left the house. 468 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were told we do have a gate. 469 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: We were told to leave the gate open in case 470 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 2: firemen have to come in and they need access. I 471 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: mean that being said, you live in the city and 472 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 2: with all these crimes and just everything that's been happening, 473 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 2: I didn't want to do that because they know that 474 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 2: our neighborhood just got evacuated. So who's to say that 475 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 2: no one's going to come in? And you know, yeah, 476 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 2: it's it's just another added thing to be worried about. 477 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 2: But and then you think to yourself, why am I 478 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 2: worrying about that ship because the house is going to 479 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 2: burn down anyway, I might see my house for the 480 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 2: last time. 481 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: So, but when we got to come home and we 482 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: found out that our house was saved, and we just 483 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: we are so grateful. 484 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 2: It was everyone working together, because I think we are 485 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 2: so grateful that we're so fortunate and so blessed. Yeah, 486 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 2: to have had our house stay through all of this. 487 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: And the neighborhood is a hot mess though, Like there's 488 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 1: a lot of trees around where we live. There's so 489 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: many down trees and broken limbs. 490 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 2: That's what you know, a lot of people are missing. 491 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 2: Is the wind damage that this storm caused in another 492 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 2: itself is like is one situation another situation. Yeah, that's 493 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 2: one of the worst wind events I've ever seen that 494 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 2: I've been here in twenty three years. 495 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: What wild, wild wind scary winds. 496 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, my my heart still goes out to 497 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 2: my heart goes out to all those people and my 498 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 2: prayers and thoughts and wherever you are. It's just really 499 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 2: puts everything in perspective. 500 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. Now it feels like even though the fires are 501 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: literally still burning and burning down houses and people are 502 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: still getting evacuated all over the city. Yeah, and you're 503 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: just like on pins and needles because you it's happening. 504 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: Like if you look at a map, it's sort of 505 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: surrounding the entire city and so you feel like a 506 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: sitting duck somehow, like you're just waiting for I mean, 507 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: and you can't come. 508 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 2: It's everybody has been advised to stay inside. I own 509 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 2: a bar restaurant and we have a patio and no 510 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 2: one's there and we're trying to be a haven for 511 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 2: people to come in. And but you know, everybody should 512 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 2: just stay home because of the smoke now, because of 513 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 2: the unhealthy air, because now the winds have completely stopped 514 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 2: and we're in just a stagnant face. 515 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: But if they're coming back, but they're coming back, yeah, 516 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: I'm so scared. Like every time the alert goes off 517 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: on my phone, it's the scariest feeling and it shoots 518 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: like the fear into every fiber of your body, and 519 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: you're like ready, you're on edge and ready to take action. 520 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: Because that's the thing. Like we do live in a 521 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: hillside and there is no humidity here and there. It 522 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: is so so dry, and it could happen. The embers 523 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: could come from anywhere and start new fires everywhere. So 524 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: it's just really a very nerve wracking time. 525 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 2: It feels like it feels like you're living in a movie, 526 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 2: but I don't know where Vin Diesel is or not. 527 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: The Rock I was like, the Rock would stop these fires. 528 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: This was this was one of his movies. 529 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 2: I like the Rock guy, the Rock. Yeah, he would 530 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 2: have crushed it. Yesterday. 531 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: We are definitely sharing resources on our socials and we're 532 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: going to put them in the show notes too, so 533 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: you can find out how to help, how to donate 534 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: to people that have been affected by this. I know 535 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,719 Speaker 1: we are going through our house and donating blankets and 536 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: coats and all the things that they're asking for, and 537 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: we want to go help people, but there are so 538 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: many restrictions about who can go in what the areas 539 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: and yeah right now. 540 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 2: I mean the only reason I was up in down 541 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 2: toa Dina yesterday is because I was at you know, 542 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 2: Johnny's house. But we did get to speak to some 543 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 2: people who had lost their whole like everything, and when 544 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 2: they were just speaking to us and seen in their eyes, 545 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 2: they were okay, that they were okay, their family was okay, 546 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 2: everybody was okay. Yes, it sucks, but in that moment, 547 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: you don't know, like I don't. We didn't lose our house. 548 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: Might yeah, I have a ton of good friends that 549 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: lost their houses from the Palisades to Malibu. 550 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 2: It just puts everything in such perspective that it really doesn't. 551 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think once you get out and you're safe 552 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: and your family is safe and you've lost everything, there's 553 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: this like feeling of none of it really matters, Nothing 554 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: matters except this moment and that we're here together. Yeah, 555 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: and there's heartbroken for everybody though. Yeah, we want to 556 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: share our gratitude the firefighters, the first responders, the now 557 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: the National Guard coming in, the National Guards, all of 558 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: the news people. 559 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 2: That have kept us, the news people who were around 560 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 2: the plan, you know, hour after hour after hour after hour, 561 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 2: and themselves in such danger and they were all doing 562 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 2: such a good job. Like Channel nine has the eaton Canyon, 563 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 2: Channel four has the Palisades. Oh my god, the running 564 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 2: fire just broke out. Katla has that. 565 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: So everybody's working really hard to keep helping people and 566 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: keep everybody safe during this devastating time. 567 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 2: And it's it's gonna be a it's gonna be a 568 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 2: tough road for the city. And I think, I I 569 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 2: know this city will all come together and community reach out, 570 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 2: especially in our neighborhood and mine and my business neighborhood 571 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: wasn't affected. But I've just been talking to those people 572 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 2: and they all want to go out into these other 573 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 2: areas once everything settles down and just help people. I 574 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 2: know that this will bring a lot of humans together. Yeah, 575 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 2: and I'm grateful that we're all safe. I'm so terribly 576 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 2: sad for everyone. 577 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I think that we have a good 578 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: system of warnings and the evacuation signals, but you. 579 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 2: Know, at the end of the day, we have to 580 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,959 Speaker 2: take care of each other and our neighbors in our 581 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 2: neighborhoods and be there for one another, and don't I 582 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 2: don't really know what anyone could have done with eighty 583 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 2: ninety mile an hour winds and the wind patterns. It 584 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 2: was tornadoes, like many tornadoes going east west, north south. 585 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: So we are just so grateful for everything. We're grateful 586 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: to have a home and be together as a family. 587 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: I think that, you know, for everybody listening, it's important 588 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: that you are prepared in any kind of disastrous situation, 589 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: have your to go back, you know, packed with things 590 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: that you might need, and. 591 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 2: Because you never you always look at stuff and you 592 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 2: always go well that's not gonna happen, right. 593 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: You don't think it's going to happen to you, but 594 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,680 Speaker 1: it does. So thank you for listening. I hope that 595 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,799 Speaker 1: this podcast helped and we will see you soon. 596 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 2: Bye bye, take care of everyone.