January 22, 2025 • 40 mins
In this heartfelt episode, Curly and Maya tackle the devastating impact of the recent L.A. wildfires, sharing personal reflections on how natural disasters affect our communities. They explore stories of resilience and kindness that have emerged amidst the chaos, from neighbors helping neighbors to unsung heroes on the frontlines. The hosts also provide practical advice on how listeners can make a difference
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following episode includes discussions about recent fires and their
impact on affected communities. Our intention is to provide thoughtful
commentary and some insight while remaining respectful to those who
have been directly impacted. We do recognize that this topic
may be difficult for some listeners, so we definitely encourage
you to prioritize your mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, we're trying to give you accurate information. We're not experts,
and we encourage you to stay informed through credible sources
and local updates. For more information on how to donate
or find resources, please check out our socials at Maya
in the Moment or at the Curly V Show. Now, Gianny,
my name is.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Curly and I'm Maya, and welcome to the Super Secret
Prestie Clouds Podcast. A super secret club where we talk
about super secret things.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, like secrets that are super That's what it is.
In each episode we'll talk about love, friendship, heartbreas men,
and of course our faith. It secret.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Here Well, welcome back to another episode of the Super
Secret Vestie Club Podcast. We were out last week. Last
week's episode, if you noticed, was a repost. Thank you
so much to our team Maho and Betty enough for
just holding space for everything happening. We were supposed to
(01:28):
record live on when was it Wednesday? In person, and
we were just like, I don't I don't think that
this is gonna happen because of the fires things. She
just got a little crazy. So they were holding it down,
you know.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So shout out to too, because when we initially were
like everybody stay home, it wasn't as intense as it was.
We didn't know how intense it was going to get
by the evening. So here we are, ladies and gentlemen,
here to talk about what went down in La, what
was going on last week. Where we are at now
in terms of what's happening, our emotions, some resources, and
(02:09):
just other things. It's literally been fourteen days into twenty
twenty five. Oh god, Yeah, by the time you hear this,
it'll be a little bit more. But as of right now,
it's fourteen days in and she's kind of wild.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
She is very spicy and unpredictable. And I mean this
whole thing started like what Monday, Tuesday winds Santa Ana
wins right, and then I heard that there was like
a fire and but it unfortunately there are like a
lot of fires in the Malibu area right like every
(02:44):
so often, and you don't really hear, you know, about
them like spreading too much. They usually get contained. But
this was a case where it was winds plus the
fire and it just started spreading super fast and it
became very concerning. And there's this app called Watch Duty
(03:04):
that has been very, very pivotal for everybody. It's been
showing like the evacuation zones and just like the wind
conditions and the containment percentages and everything, which has been
really great to just get updated. But it's been I mean,
you know, it's been so devastating.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I mean they were saying that we were getting
hurricane speed winds out here, Like the gusts were going
up to like eighty miles per hour. It was pretty intense. Like,
as somebody who's been born and raised here, I've never
witnessed this level of like catastrophe or destruction. I've never
(03:46):
seen so many pockets of our city like just going
through the same thing at the same time. Like it
really affected some of the most like elites in the city,
the you know, middle class, upper and lower middle class.
It really had this fire really just had no, it
didn't care. It didn't care like what you could afford
(04:07):
or anything. And it's been really interesting. You're right, like
I don't think that we have ever. We didn't foresee
this coming. I think fires were something that I always
felt like that was something very far away that happened
to people that lived in the hills and the mountains
are far away in the valley, like not in the city.
And just for context too, like at one point we
(04:27):
had a fire like in Hollywood, like in the middle
of the city, like the Hollywood Hills being on fire
is just insane, Like just like the idea if you
were to be like just you know, tomorrow morning, the
hollywoodis are going to be in fire, like I would
never have believed you in like yeah years.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And it just happened so quick because that night it
like it happened at night, whereas like you know, I
feel like for me and you like we were in
the red flag zone, which means like you know, just
be wary of the you know, winds and fire and stuff.
And then my area got taken off of the red
flag zone. It was just like not affected area. And
(05:12):
then this it was at night time, and then the
sunset fires happened like that, like Hollywood was being evacuated.
I was ready to go to bed. I was like, Okay,
everything's fine, Like everything's gonna be chill. And then it happened.
Everybody had to evacuate, and we were kind of like
waiting to see, like I mean, just staying up all
(05:34):
night to see if it was gonna hit Griffith Park
because that's really where like the Hollywood Sign is. There
was a lot of misinformation that the Hollywood Sign burned down.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh my god. I hated all the AI stuff, all
those things that were happening. Also, just for context as well,
I think I heard on one of the news stations
that they were saying that La County houses more people.
This county has more people in it than any county
in the entire country. So like when we're talking about evacuating,
we're not saying like, oh, we're evacuating a few people.
We are evacuating a shit ton of people that are
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having to leave their home, thousands on the whim in
their cars in traffic. We already have traffic every single day.
Like imagine kind of like what happens when they're like
get out now.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It got bottlenecked at bottlenecks where everyone's leaving up the
same and it's not like okay, get ready to like
they give you the zones through the watch duty thing,
the like if you get zoned, and then it has
like three levels, which is like get ready, evacuate and
go and then like fire like area for a lot
of people, they just got the evacuation notice of go
(06:42):
and they just had to leave. Yeah, you know, I
didn't even have time to prepare.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, that was an interesting too conversation as well, because
like Maya and I were talking about like what you know,
you don't think about these things. They're just like, yes
you think about like we have earthquakes here, and yes
we have natural catachevihees here, and it's like, you know,
you kind of have an idea of what you do,
but when it's actually happening, you're like, what do I
take with me? And you know, I had told her
that I had had a conversation with another dear friend
(07:08):
of ours and she was telling me like, get the
show Shanty Chantal Houston, she's hosted the show with us,
and she was like, you know, have your your documents ready,
have like electrical chords ready for any of your you know,
your phones, your computers, have your passport, your ID, like
(07:28):
all these things, water, dry, food, And in my head
I was like, oh girl, I didn't even get that far.
I was like my whole thing was like, get the dogs,
get the snake, hop in the car, and you know,
take my favorite jacket, my favorite sweater. Like I didn't
even think about my documents. I didn't even think about
like take a charger, because I wouldn't even be I
wouldn't be going that far, you know, because in my head,
I'd be like, where am I going to charge? You know?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, and everybody's talking about having a go bag and same.
I was like I kind of bring things that are
like yes, documents, of course, yes, all that stuff, but
I'm like, where do I fit my puppets?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, you know Jonas pillows, there's and you know, they
might sound silly, but that's also so real. Like I
have a friend Selena as Titty. She was a drag
queen on and Rupa's Drag Race. She was crying on
her because she had to evacuate Hollywood, and she was
just showing all her life's work of costumes and gear
and outfits and she's like what would I do without mind?
(08:27):
And she's just crying, and I felt for her, Like
I have another friend who was like like, I know
it's really small, but I was thinking about like my
favorite boots, you know, like she's like my favorite boots
that have stars on them, my cowboy boots, and people
losing family heirlooms or photos and all these things, and
it's just like it might sound small, and to some people,
(08:48):
they're like, there's just stuff, and it's like stuff has
sentimental value. A lot of people were saying, like it
could be a mug that your mom that passed away
gave you. It could be your BoA's necklace that she
gave you before she went, like yes, we are so
happy to leave with our lives and we're animals or
our kids or whatever. But there's still the added thing
(09:09):
of like then what like truly when the word homeless,
like it's kind of like these people are homeless, where
are their homes? I believe it's like ninety thousand people
that just don't have a home anymore, that just have nothing,
and like not everybody out here can afford insurance, right,
not everybody out here has family to go to. Not
(09:31):
everybody out here has the financial means to go. And
that's the thing too. People think la like superstars and
stars in Hollywood and and it's like I wrote something
years ago about my life in Hollywood and we called
it like the flat lands of Hollywood, right, like because
in the flat lands, we're not in the hills. We're
real people, you know, Like we have our neighborhoods here.
(09:52):
We have like just like any other neighborhood, like a
dry cleaner is a Goddes city. Yeah, somebody sellings on
the streets and philetas, like kids running around and playing
on the sidewalks, like we are very much and our
parents who are working two to three jobs to keep
us there, Like, you know, it's it's a real they're
real people that lost a lot of stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's devastating. And that's also just why people are like
recommending a go bag for anything, for any you know,
disaster or potential disaster, just any for anything. So this
is what they're saying. This is just good info to have,
like Google this, bookmark this, like write this stuff down,
(10:36):
Like what do you take an emergency go bag? Like
these are some essentials obviously for if you're in California
and there's the fires, please wear your masks like this
is not any propaganda stuff like the air is so
bad and has so many properties and chemicals in pollution.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, it's a nine to eleven types of pollution in
the air. Like firefighters that went to Ground zero nine
to eleven suffered from medical issues after their volunteer work
because they weren't wearing masks. They weren't told that there
was asbestos in the air. There was all these chemicals
in the air, like that is what we're dealing with
also in La County. So yes, wear your masks please.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, because you think about like that all the chemicals
in the houses everything like that stuff burning that's not
good to inhale at all. So if you have an
air purifier, like please use that as well, a N
ninety five masks or respirators, portable charger and cables. Water supply.
It says at least one to two liters of water
(11:37):
per person, plus water purification tablets, non perishable food, first
aid kit, and of course your documents, your copies of
important documents in an IDs, medical records in a waterproof bag.
This was really important too. That people were saying that
we need to have our numbers written down, like our
(11:58):
contact lists, like written down physically, because you know, if
our phones go out, Like I mean, back in the day,
we used to remember all that stuff, like our old
home phone number was just saying it the other day.
Cash in small bills since ATMs and credit cards machines
may be unavailable. And then emergency tools, you know, flashlights
with extra batteries, battery powered or hand crank radios for
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updates if the cell towers are down. And an evacuation plan,
which is so important to just let your family and
friends in your community know what you're doing. I like
told Curly that I was I got the first flight
out to Arizona because I just freaked out. I got
scared and I was going to stay with him, and
(12:41):
then it just like that sunset fire just like really
freaked me out. It was too close for comfort, and
I just like I just left.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Quick sidebar Before we get into that this list, I
question for you flashlights. Do you have a flashlight in
your apartment, your cell phone? Your cell phone flashlight doesn't count, Yes,
I don't. I was like I had some, and I
was like, oh, they ran out of batteries. I was like,
I'll figure it out later. I have my phone and
I'm like, oh, I don't have like genuine flashlights, you
(13:27):
know what I mean. So just little things like that,
by the way, But yeah, you to your point about
you like what you were feeling in that moment, Like
I think you said it best where it felt kind
of like pandemic vibes again, where it was like get home,
like get to your family, Like yes, you know, I
got into my car and I was like, I got
to get to my family. I live further south and
(13:50):
like in central LA, and I went north to be
with my family because they were a little bit closer
to the other fires. And I just thought, like in
case something happens, you know, they have extra hands, but
also I can, like we have animals, so it's like
I can help with the animals, load them up in
my car. And you know. One of the interesting things
that we were thinking about, like talking about culturally. So
(14:12):
I'm currently working with a couple of other people and
MI will be joining us soon. A couple of Latinos
on a Latino Family list of families that have been
displaced and they have they lost their homes and they're
looking for help. So they have go fund Me accounts
and you can donate, you can submit your family to it.
We're doing a lot of work to get actual funds
sent to these families as soon as possible. Like actually,
(14:34):
like they are already getting funded, Like I'm seeing all
these accounts that are getting funded by a lot of
community people, but also go fund me themselves. They're already
going in and adding money into these accounts. Are pretty dope.
One thing that's really interesting that I've been seeing is
that culturally Latinos, we like to live around our family,
Like we're really big on family. So one of the
things that I just got the chills. One of the
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things that we're unfortunately seeing is that it's not just
one person in the family losing their home. Everybody losing
their home. That's the cousins, the daughter, and the mother,
people their generational wealth, generational wealth because they're all next
to each other, right, Like you know, my sister lives
just a few like a mile away from like my
from my parents, and I'm like, oh, I would love
to live close too, because we're always together. And so
(15:17):
it's not about like why can't they go stay with
the family, like they're literally and it's it's you know,
when you read all these stories, you're kind of like
they're also heartbreaking. I think the story that got to
me the most, that kind of broke me, you know,
because I have a lot of friends that I grew
up with that lost their family homes, you know, like
large properties that belong to people of color, women of color,
(15:40):
right Latina's, Philippinas, Black Americans, like just different people that
you don't see that as much anymore. You don't see
people like having these big, beautiful homes and then just
to lose it all. There was a story of an
older black gentleman who they found dead holding a hose
because he was he was hosing his house down, you know,
and like that just like broke me. Like a man
(16:01):
who stayed behind for his Childhoo with special needs. Like
you know, it's been really heartbreaking to read all of
these stories and just kind of what's seeing what's happening
culturally in la Like we talked about this before. One
half of the city is like going through it, grieving, mourning,
(16:22):
we recognize that there's a natural catastrophe. The other half
is posting about the rams online, you know what I mean.
Like the other half is like, you know, I had
a friend asked me if I wanted to go out,
and I was like, I don't feel right going out
to a bar. I don't feel right, like you know,
putting on a cute little outfit and being like maybe
(16:42):
I'll find love today. Like they're just you know, like
I feel like I'm mourning, Like I'm grieving, Like a
lot of Angelino's feel like we're grieving a friend. You
know this our city is so we rep hard in La,
you know what I mean, Like we rev so hard.
We have our teams like the Lakers, Dodgers, you know, Hollywood,
(17:03):
like even East LA, you know Boyle Heights, you know
South Central. All of these areas wappen really hard. And
so when it comes to these areas, you know, it's
it's super catastrophic. It's a it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yes. And I think another thing about the community is
and culturally is that I feel like a lot of
people have really stepped up. Like although there's like a
lot of people, I mean, we'll get to that later,
like online who are just being weird and just kind
of insensitive.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
There.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I've seen like an outpouring of just support. And like
our friend Fedpa had his birthday on the eleventh, and
you know, he was going to have a birthday thing
and then he ended up changing it to like a
volunteering day for everyone. And there's it's so easy to
help and to volunteer in any way that you can,
(17:59):
but sharing a link or like clicking on that link
and donating whatever you can, or just sharing it to
other people, or like dropping off clothes or like if
you you have to think of also like these people
lost everything that means office supplies, clothing, jewelry, hair stuff,
(18:23):
or you know, even just essentials.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, so even people who have businesses, you know,
we saw I saw this one Signora who's a Senora Olympa.
She lost all of her kit to clean houses. A
man who's a gardener lost all of his tools to garden.
People are losing not you know, not just things that
they like, but things that they need. Their car when
Signora lost her car, that is what helped her provide
(18:46):
her services, and they're just like there's just everything is
just gone.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I've seen even at some volunteering places that they've had
to turn volunteers away because they have like so much,
which is like amazing to see just everybody stepping in.
And that's the thing that I'm like, Okay, it's this
weird feeling of like morning and devastation and just like
(19:14):
feeling so like heartbroken for these people. And then on
the other hand, you're like, there's still some good in
this world in the community, and our people rep LA
so hard, but also just us as human beings so hard.
So that's why it's hard to see sometimes or not
see when people don't share l I'm like, girl, I
(19:38):
see you wanting us to tap on your links on
your stories for your branded thing, but you can't even
share this fucking link this Like it's just pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Souse. I was talking to a friend of mine about this. Actually,
our manager shout out to our manager and she was
saying that she's, you know, an LA girl too, and
she was saying, like she lives out here, and she
was saying like that it's been interesting for her to
see both faces of humanity, you know, one side that
is just there and helping and giving their all, and
then on the same side, like literally people setting these
(20:11):
fires on purpose. Like we've had a lot of incidents
like some guy just lit a tree on fire and
was Hollywood yesterday or two days ago, some guy lit,
some lady lit another fire. All these people are just
lighting fires. They think that I think that one of
them the big fires were They did say that it
was arson, but I don't know if those are whispers.
I haven't confirmed, but just things like that in terms
(20:33):
of my own frustrations, as somebody who's from here is like,
I don't know, I might be being really sensitive, but
I was saying, like, I'm upset with people who live
here who aren't sharing anything online, who aren't talking about it.
I'm upset with people who have family and friends who
live here who haven't said anything about it, like not
(20:53):
sharing any resources. And then I think the one that
kind of like gets me the most though, is influencers.
And we all know that the a lot of influencers
have already sold their souls to the Internet and clout
and to numbers. Like, by the way, when people say
don't sell your soul to stay in, this is what
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they mean. They mean, like, don't sell your soul to cloud,
don't sell your soul to get people to like you,
don't sell your soul to things that are like so
rooted in the earth, like you know, at some point,
like when does your spirit kind of speak up for
people that need it? So for me, watching influencers create
anything humorous, I don't. I don't find anything funny at all,
(21:34):
Like your brain sparked an idea that might be funny,
and I see them going viral. I see them people
being like, oh my god, this is so funny. Oh
my god. Yes I thought I was like, but I'm
just like, I'm just like, damn, like you you went viral.
I'm so happy for you, Like that's so good. I'm
glad of this tragic I hope you're donating that happen.
It might be they might be donating more money than
(21:56):
I than that we are than people are, Like they
might be right. And then you know, I saw other
ones people being so insensitive. Somebody wrote by La and
the caption I saw people creating AI and you know
you mentioned it earlier of Hollywood on fire, like downtown
on fire, and they were like the caption was like heartbroken,
and I'm like, but why create the visuals for it?
(22:17):
Like this is not something that people, you know, you
can just turn on the news babes. You don't have
to create ai for more destruction, you know. And actually
what's been very interesting is that a lot of neighborhoods
that are seen as you know, quote the most hood
in LA A lot of the neighbors that are a
lot of the neighborhoods that are seen as you know,
the kind of like the ones that people don't want
(22:38):
to live in, they were all safe. They were all
like you know, people were like not downtown being the
safest place you could be in right now, and it
was like right And we talked about also too, like
the frustrations about seeing people making this turning this into
religious stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, I'm sorry. I believe in God, I believe in Jesus.
I grew up very Catholic. I definitely identify as spiritual.
I am not on the super religious going to church side.
Like I'm not down for that because I feel like
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I've been seeing and not everyone, but a majority of
people being like, well, see, Jesus is coming back, Jesus
is coming back. It's like great, Jesus is coming back.
And there's still people who lost things and people died,
and like that's great. You're all high and Mighty that
you're Jesus their God or whoever is coming back. What
(23:37):
the fuck does that mean? Well, like, are you going
to follow in Jesus's footsteps and contribute to a society
in some way and help? Like are you just gonna
be like, oh, I told you Jesus, this is what happens.
Is Jesus coming back, you better, you better repent for
your sins. Yeah, repent for my sins. After I like, help,
(23:59):
don't to these people or after you know what I'm saying, Like,
it just does not make any sense, and I think
it's like giving low IQ.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Sorry, it's just really painful for me to see. Like
number one, Latinos, you know, tend to be some of
the most religious people, right, Like they tend to be
Like I could, I couldn't count Latinos. How many Latino
people are like that? You know, my friend's mom was
like sad, you know, like when somebody passes away in
(24:28):
my family, all the senora has come out to pray.
And so you think about this demographic and you're like,
so when you're saying that God is punishing, you're talking
about him punishing some of the most religious people, some
of the most devout people. Mathia has never missed a
day of Mass. She goes since she praised her people
all the time. She offers her services. She had to
be she was evacuated, so like what does that mean for her? Right,
(24:48):
Like so many people who are people of the same faith,
I think that when it comes to talking about when
you're placing your your values and you know what, it
reminds me of. Okay, there's this old ancient inscription like
on like in Egypt, with like this old tomb and there.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Is this and I just want to say, he can
say this because in his past life he was an
Egyptian queen. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So there is this tomb that they found with this man.
He is a I think he's he's like a muralist.
He paints in these tombs. That's what he does for
a living. He's like and he's rich for it, right,
And he is losing his eyesight, like he is going
blind or he as he's getting older, as I said,
it's getting verse. So he's writing in these inscriptions and
(25:41):
he's writing in these I forget what hieroglyphics. He's asking
the gods to help him with his vision, like please
bring my vision back because I'm going to lose my money,
I'm losing my livelihood. And as somebody living in twenty
twenty five, you kind of think like, damn, you know,
he probably just needed some glasses or some shit, or
like you know, he could have some laser surgery or
something or maybe you know something. And so for me
(26:04):
it feels a little similar in that you know, you're like, no, no, no,
there's a lot of science, scientific data that shows like
global warming, right, like zero rain in this area, not
enough resources. La is a desert. It is a desert.
Like we are not we are next to the ocean,
but we are a desert. We don't have we don't
(26:25):
grow these trees. Every palm tree that you see in
Hollywood was brought here and planted. They're not native to this,
to this area. Like so it's like, what did we
think was going to happen? What did people think was
going to happen? It's not God that's doing this, in
my opinion, it's just this the way that things are designed,
like the way that the way that we're fucking up
the environment in a lot of ways, and if we
(26:48):
don't take care of our earth in a lot of
ways like this is what is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And I don't knock the power of prayer. I think
prayer is so important and I really do feel that
it works. So my suggestion is like, instead of pointing
fingers and the blame on like or or saying Jesus
is coming back and repent all that, use your fuck
(27:28):
your super power of prayer to pray for some rain,
pray for some solace, pray pray for some peace support,
you know, but like rain.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You know. Yeah, my mom got like TikTok and her algorithm.
It's like saying, it's like for sure, Senora TikTok, and
it was like, uh, like it was like the reason
why La got fires was because nobody thanked Jesus at
the Golden globes. And it was like, you know, I
(28:01):
think that it's so easy to spend anything. It's so
easy to spend you know. I think you see it
in you've seen it in humanity, ancient cultures for forever
ephro diities. The queen of love Zeus is in charge
of the thunder, you know, and people believe believed in
that at the time, you know, and now a lot
of people see it as like something that you learned
(28:21):
as an elective Greek mythology, right, something that we loved
watching on Zena or a Disney movie. So it's been
really hurtful. I would say this is and by the way,
like sorry if this is triggering and activating to people
of faith. It's just been very hurtful to see that
the people who should have the most compassion the people
whose religion is rooted in not just love, but radical love.
(28:45):
You know, I always joke, I think I've said to
see plenty of times that I was like, if Jesus
was like here today, we would be like, girl, Jesus
brought another homeless lady to the dinner. He said, he
brought all these people that we don't know, all these
sinners into the house. Then he said that I needed
to wash their feet. You're like, wouldn't we be like, girl,
don't ad buy Jesus to the party anymore. He's crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You just want to have a Sunday?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Can we can we just have a normal dinner? And
she's just like, did you hear what he did? He
fucking like through through the tables in front of the
church and he destroyed people's property, like.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You know, because Jesus.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But that's what I'm saying, Like, it's radical love. It's
not like pick and choose who I'm gonna love. I'm
gonna pick and choose like who I think is deserving
of my of my love. And it's like the man
who started this religion talked about radical love. And so
it's like, if you can't find it in your heart
to have an ounce of sympathy, girl, you've got it
(29:42):
all wrong. You're missing the point. And what did Jesus say?
You know? What is it? Let he who is sinned
cast the first stone? You know? Like, Okay, it's just
crazy to me that I'm like, people will point out
people's sins, and I'm like, the older I've got, the
older that I've got, and the more that I'm like,
hold up, I'm judging myself because I'm an ex alcoholic,
(30:04):
ex cokehead who you know, Jack saw twenty six times
a day, and you're mad at me while you're out
here stealing. You're out here like doing all these crazy things.
And I'm a bad person because I like watching Muscle
Harry Bears. Anyways, you noticed why.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I didn't react at all to any of that.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I was like I feel like, you know, one of
the things that Kaba and us to talk about is that,
you know, we somehow we always leave the conversation back
to Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And thank you Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, I think you and I also will lead it
to uh dick update because of everything. Beyonce had an
announcement she was supposed to release something today and pushed
it back because she was like, you know, I don't
feel comfortable. But she didn't say it like that. She
was like, you know, it's not I'm reading the room
(30:57):
not the right time. Yeah, but she you know, she
pushed it back. All the fans are mad. She also
sidebars she lives in I think Malibu or something, so
I'm like, she.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Donated two point five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
To which is a little low in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Oh really yeah a billionaires girl.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I mean hello, she just had one of the largest
tours in the world.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Like, make it a billion, make it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Make it, give it at least fire.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
She could stop the fires with her voice.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
She could stop, you know, get Beyonce on the stage,
she could stop. She you know, I'm just like, come on, lady,
not lady, my queen, Oh, Queen of mine, get her
to safety, get Miss Tina Knowles and that whole family
to safety.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And then fine, they were on a jet, they were
on the same jet.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
What does she say she does? Uh, I don't know.
She has like a line in one of her songs. Okay,
next topic. Yeah, let's just you know, by the time
this comes out, Trump will be president, so good luck
to feature us.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
TikTok We had two other points. So basically like we're
going to talk about I mean, by the time this
comes out, we're recording this song in fourteenth it's going
to be the twenty second or something when this comes out.
And Trunk Trunk, Yeah, Trunk, he does already be inaugurated
and don't support it, don't like it, don't want it
(32:16):
at all. And I heard that Carrie Underwood is going
to be there, so future us was that gonna be
a thing?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
How do you feel about that? You know what? I
don't actually know who Carrie Underwood is, so when I
saw that, I was like, my dog is this literally baby,
he's so big?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And then the TikTok ban We don't know as of
now if it's going to happen or not. So by
the time this comes out. Let us know if it's
if it's out or not. But let's go into our
astrology portion of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Glue, do you think TikTok's going to be gone? Oh?
He gave me his paw.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'm going to hold your hand when I say this.
Welcome to the astrology portion of the podcast. So today
I just wanted to give you a little bit of
what's going on in astrology right now. Basically, Mars has
been in retrograde since December sixth of last year, twenty
twenty four. When things go retrograde, We've heard about mercury retrograde,
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which means that everything goes backwards. Everything like your calls
get dropped, emails don't send, or communication. Mercury is the
planet of communication. So applying that to Mars, which is
the planet of conflict, things are backwards.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I've had different discussions with people where I've wanted to
have like a conflict resolution and it's gone berserk. So
we will be in Mars in cancer retrograde until February
twenty third. So this period can dampen motivation and hinder
progress on new initiatives, potentially affecting commitments like New Year's resolutions.
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The retrograde emphasizes introspection, particularly concerning home, family, and emotional security.
Astrologer's advice postponing major goal setting until Mars resumes direct
motion or until the spring equinox on March twentieth, when
energies are more conducive to forward, conductive conducive to forward movement.
(34:33):
So we can also apply this astrology to like what's
going on right now, Like this is a huge hinderance
in everybody's lives right now where it and it's specifically
concerning home, family, and emotional security, which is yeah, it's
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it's super wild. So what to expect after February twenty third,
Energy levels will see stabilize, Taking action on personal and
professional goals will feel smoother. You'll feel more empowered to
push forward without emotional setbacks. Honestly, like I feel like
we try to say this every year, Like our system
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has it kind of wrong where we start the new
year in January because spring equinox and astrology starts in March.
And if you just think of like baby Jesus, like
he was born in April, like he came back as
an aries because he hated being Capricorn so much, which
I've always said and I've always felt in my soul
(35:37):
like you know, I don't know, I get it. I
get it as an aries myself. I get it. So
just chill out a little bit on things as much
as you can. Like, yes, still plan and set your goals,
but things are kind of wild right now, so yeah,
really put more energy into it. After February twenty third,
(36:01):
I would say, you know, start start planning things out
in March, like that's always when I feel rejuvenated, not
only because it's my birthday, but because it I feel
like by the third month, it really feels like the
start of the year.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like for me, I would say,
throw that back, ursh that back, you know, wave that
hair around.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
After February twenty third, I just feel like I'm so tired.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'm like, just get messy, you know what. Like there's
so many there's so many things that it's like, just
just get messy. Girl. You want to like I always
tell you shoot your shot. You want to dress like
I just saw that sniky dress, like dressed up like
a pickle princess at some point love it. And yeah,
I'm like, you want to dress up like a pickle.
Princess be a pickle.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Oh okay, well that's just my suggestion. Astrology doesn't lie.
These are interpretations of the stars, so just take care
of yourself. My mom's in here, she's like trying to
be so quiet. She's like picking up things. She's like,
we're is kind of creating more noise than anything.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
My astrological input would be, uh, air out the cohunhun.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Just spread those cheeks and let's for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
My advice will always be living your best life. That's it.
Like I think that like learning, seeing everything that's happening.
I'm like, girl, do the thing.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And that concludes the astrology portion.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Well, maya, here we are another episode. How do you plead?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Please donate and volunteer if you can. There are so
many different resources if you look at both of our socials.
Curly has been working on a list that has a
bunch of displaced families that are like so well organized.
I have like a link in my bio a link
tree of like just different resources where to donate to,
(38:00):
like people with babies or animals or disabilities. There's so
much information out there. We're in the age of information,
so please get involved. However you can and take care
of yourself.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yes, also too, Just to also be clear, the list
that we're working on is also working on a way
to get funds to people who don't have access to
bank accounts, people who might be undocumented and afraid to
actually put their information on there. We're working on different
ways to work with different types of people within our community.
(38:33):
I will say that life can change in the blink
of an eye, like your life can change. On Sunday,
I was having dinner with some friends and we were
actually discussing how we were going to help those in Gaza,
and the next day we were talking about how we
were helping people down the street. So, you know, hug
(38:53):
the people that you love, eat the foods that you
want to eat, Drink the things that you want to drink,
Wear your favorite outfit on the things that you've been
saving for a while, Kiss whoever you want to kiss,
Send that photo that you want to send, don't put
your face in it, hide all your tattoos, and oh wait,
don't send it unless they ask for it. Unsolicited stuff
(39:15):
is not fun. But also have fun. Enjoy your life. Well, Maya,
where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You can find me at Maya in the Moment, Aya
in the Moment, anywhere you scroll what about You.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
You can find me at the Curly v Show on
Instagram and TikTok and for literally like thirty point thirty
seconds red note and then tell me to delete it
so and we'll see.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, we'll sleep about tiotok. But we love you guys
so much. We hope you are staying safe and healthy
and well. And please wear your masks if you are
in LA, but also just in general because the bird
flu and stuff is anyway, I love you, b to
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The following episode includes discussions about recent fires and their
impact on affected communities. Our intention is to provide thoughtful
commentary and some insight while remaining respectful to those who
have been directly impacted. We do recognize that this topic
may be difficult for some listeners, so we definitely encourage
you to prioritize your mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, we're trying to give you accurate information. We're not experts,
and we encourage you to stay informed through credible sources
and local updates. For more information on how to donate
or find resources, please check out our socials at Maya
in the Moment or at the Curly V Show. Now, Gianny,
my name is.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Curly and I'm Maya, and welcome to the Super Secret
Prestie Clouds Podcast. A super secret club where we talk
about super secret things.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, like secrets that are super That's what it is.
In each episode we'll talk about love, friendship, heartbreas men,
and of course our faith. It secret.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Here Well, welcome back to another episode of the Super
Secret Vestie Club Podcast. We were out last week. Last
week's episode, if you noticed, was a repost. Thank you
so much to our team Maho and Betty enough for
just holding space for everything happening. We were supposed to
(01:28):
record live on when was it Wednesday? In person, and
we were just like, I don't I don't think that
this is gonna happen because of the fires things. She
just got a little crazy. So they were holding it down,
you know.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So shout out to too, because when we initially were
like everybody stay home, it wasn't as intense as it was.
We didn't know how intense it was going to get
by the evening. So here we are, ladies and gentlemen,
here to talk about what went down in La, what
was going on last week. Where we are at now
in terms of what's happening, our emotions, some resources, and
(02:09):
just other things. It's literally been fourteen days into twenty
twenty five. Oh god, Yeah, by the time you hear this,
it'll be a little bit more. But as of right now,
it's fourteen days in and she's kind of wild.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
She is very spicy and unpredictable. And I mean this
whole thing started like what Monday, Tuesday winds Santa Ana
wins right, and then I heard that there was like
a fire and but it unfortunately there are like a
lot of fires in the Malibu area right like every
(02:44):
so often, and you don't really hear, you know, about
them like spreading too much. They usually get contained. But
this was a case where it was winds plus the
fire and it just started spreading super fast and it
became very concerning. And there's this app called Watch Duty
(03:04):
that has been very, very pivotal for everybody. It's been
showing like the evacuation zones and just like the wind
conditions and the containment percentages and everything, which has been
really great to just get updated. But it's been I mean,
you know, it's been so devastating.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I mean they were saying that we were getting
hurricane speed winds out here, Like the gusts were going
up to like eighty miles per hour. It was pretty intense. Like,
as somebody who's been born and raised here, I've never
witnessed this level of like catastrophe or destruction. I've never
(03:46):
seen so many pockets of our city like just going
through the same thing at the same time. Like it
really affected some of the most like elites in the city,
the you know, middle class, upper and lower middle class.
It really had this fire really just had no, it
didn't care. It didn't care like what you could afford
(04:07):
or anything. And it's been really interesting. You're right, like
I don't think that we have ever. We didn't foresee
this coming. I think fires were something that I always
felt like that was something very far away that happened
to people that lived in the hills and the mountains
are far away in the valley, like not in the city.
And just for context too, like at one point we
(04:27):
had a fire like in Hollywood, like in the middle
of the city, like the Hollywood Hills being on fire
is just insane, Like just like the idea if you
were to be like just you know, tomorrow morning, the
hollywoodis are going to be in fire, like I would
never have believed you in like yeah years.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And it just happened so quick because that night it
like it happened at night, whereas like you know, I
feel like for me and you like we were in
the red flag zone, which means like you know, just
be wary of the you know, winds and fire and stuff.
And then my area got taken off of the red
flag zone. It was just like not affected area. And
(05:12):
then this it was at night time, and then the
sunset fires happened like that, like Hollywood was being evacuated.
I was ready to go to bed. I was like, Okay,
everything's fine, Like everything's gonna be chill. And then it happened.
Everybody had to evacuate, and we were kind of like
waiting to see, like I mean, just staying up all
(05:34):
night to see if it was gonna hit Griffith Park
because that's really where like the Hollywood Sign is. There
was a lot of misinformation that the Hollywood Sign burned down.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh my god. I hated all the AI stuff, all
those things that were happening. Also, just for context as well,
I think I heard on one of the news stations
that they were saying that La County houses more people.
This county has more people in it than any county
in the entire country. So like when we're talking about evacuating,
we're not saying like, oh, we're evacuating a few people.
We are evacuating a shit ton of people that are
(06:05):
having to leave their home, thousands on the whim in
their cars in traffic. We already have traffic every single day.
Like imagine kind of like what happens when they're like
get out now.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It got bottlenecked at bottlenecks where everyone's leaving up the
same and it's not like okay, get ready to like
they give you the zones through the watch duty thing,
the like if you get zoned, and then it has
like three levels, which is like get ready, evacuate and
go and then like fire like area for a lot
of people, they just got the evacuation notice of go
(06:42):
and they just had to leave. Yeah, you know, I
didn't even have time to prepare.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, that was an interesting too conversation as well, because
like Maya and I were talking about like what you know,
you don't think about these things. They're just like, yes
you think about like we have earthquakes here, and yes
we have natural catachevihees here, and it's like, you know,
you kind of have an idea of what you do,
but when it's actually happening, you're like, what do I
take with me? And you know, I had told her
that I had had a conversation with another dear friend
(07:08):
of ours and she was telling me like, get the
show Shanty Chantal Houston, she's hosted the show with us,
and she was like, you know, have your your documents ready,
have like electrical chords ready for any of your you know,
your phones, your computers, have your passport, your ID, like
(07:28):
all these things, water, dry, food, And in my head
I was like, oh girl, I didn't even get that far.
I was like my whole thing was like, get the dogs,
get the snake, hop in the car, and you know,
take my favorite jacket, my favorite sweater. Like I didn't
even think about my documents. I didn't even think about
like take a charger, because I wouldn't even be I
wouldn't be going that far, you know, because in my head,
I'd be like, where am I going to charge? You know?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, and everybody's talking about having a go bag and same.
I was like I kind of bring things that are
like yes, documents, of course, yes, all that stuff, but
I'm like, where do I fit my puppets?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, you know Jonas pillows, there's and you know, they
might sound silly, but that's also so real. Like I
have a friend Selena as Titty. She was a drag
queen on and Rupa's Drag Race. She was crying on
her because she had to evacuate Hollywood, and she was
just showing all her life's work of costumes and gear
and outfits and she's like what would I do without mind?
(08:27):
And she's just crying, and I felt for her, Like
I have another friend who was like like, I know
it's really small, but I was thinking about like my
favorite boots, you know, like she's like my favorite boots
that have stars on them, my cowboy boots, and people
losing family heirlooms or photos and all these things, and
it's just like it might sound small, and to some people,
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they're like, there's just stuff, and it's like stuff has
sentimental value. A lot of people were saying, like it
could be a mug that your mom that passed away
gave you. It could be your BoA's necklace that she
gave you before she went, like yes, we are so
happy to leave with our lives and we're animals or
our kids or whatever. But there's still the added thing
(09:09):
of like then what like truly when the word homeless,
like it's kind of like these people are homeless, where
are their homes? I believe it's like ninety thousand people
that just don't have a home anymore, that just have nothing,
and like not everybody out here can afford insurance, right,
not everybody out here has family to go to. Not
(09:31):
everybody out here has the financial means to go. And
that's the thing too. People think la like superstars and
stars in Hollywood and and it's like I wrote something
years ago about my life in Hollywood and we called
it like the flat lands of Hollywood, right, like because
in the flat lands, we're not in the hills. We're
real people, you know, Like we have our neighborhoods here.
(09:52):
We have like just like any other neighborhood, like a
dry cleaner is a Goddes city. Yeah, somebody sellings on
the streets and philetas, like kids running around and playing
on the sidewalks, like we are very much and our
parents who are working two to three jobs to keep
us there, Like, you know, it's it's a real they're
real people that lost a lot of stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's devastating. And that's also just why people are like
recommending a go bag for anything, for any you know,
disaster or potential disaster, just any for anything. So this
is what they're saying. This is just good info to have,
like Google this, bookmark this, like write this stuff down,
(10:36):
Like what do you take an emergency go bag? Like
these are some essentials obviously for if you're in California
and there's the fires, please wear your masks like this
is not any propaganda stuff like the air is so
bad and has so many properties and chemicals in pollution.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, it's a nine to eleven types of pollution in
the air. Like firefighters that went to Ground zero nine
to eleven suffered from medical issues after their volunteer work
because they weren't wearing masks. They weren't told that there
was asbestos in the air. There was all these chemicals
in the air, like that is what we're dealing with
also in La County. So yes, wear your masks please.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah, because you think about like that all the chemicals
in the houses everything like that stuff burning that's not
good to inhale at all. So if you have an
air purifier, like please use that as well, a N
ninety five masks or respirators, portable charger and cables. Water supply.
It says at least one to two liters of water
(11:37):
per person, plus water purification tablets, non perishable food, first
aid kit, and of course your documents, your copies of
important documents in an IDs, medical records in a waterproof bag.
This was really important too. That people were saying that
we need to have our numbers written down, like our
(11:58):
contact lists, like written down physically, because you know, if
our phones go out, Like I mean, back in the day,
we used to remember all that stuff, like our old
home phone number was just saying it the other day.
Cash in small bills since ATMs and credit cards machines
may be unavailable. And then emergency tools, you know, flashlights
with extra batteries, battery powered or hand crank radios for
(12:21):
updates if the cell towers are down. And an evacuation plan,
which is so important to just let your family and
friends in your community know what you're doing. I like
told Curly that I was I got the first flight
out to Arizona because I just freaked out. I got
scared and I was going to stay with him, and
(12:41):
then it just like that sunset fire just like really
freaked me out. It was too close for comfort, and
I just like I just left.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Quick sidebar Before we get into that this list, I
question for you flashlights. Do you have a flashlight in
your apartment, your cell phone? Your cell phone flashlight doesn't count, Yes,
I don't. I was like I had some, and I
was like, oh, they ran out of batteries. I was like,
I'll figure it out later. I have my phone and
I'm like, oh, I don't have like genuine flashlights, you
(13:27):
know what I mean. So just little things like that,
by the way, But yeah, you to your point about
you like what you were feeling in that moment, Like
I think you said it best where it felt kind
of like pandemic vibes again, where it was like get home,
like get to your family, Like yes, you know, I
got into my car and I was like, I got
to get to my family. I live further south and
(13:50):
like in central LA, and I went north to be
with my family because they were a little bit closer
to the other fires. And I just thought, like in
case something happens, you know, they have extra hands, but
also I can, like we have animals, so it's like
I can help with the animals, load them up in
my car. And you know. One of the interesting things
that we were thinking about, like talking about culturally. So
(14:12):
I'm currently working with a couple of other people and
MI will be joining us soon. A couple of Latinos
on a Latino Family list of families that have been
displaced and they have they lost their homes and they're
looking for help. So they have go fund Me accounts
and you can donate, you can submit your family to it.
We're doing a lot of work to get actual funds
sent to these families as soon as possible. Like actually,
(14:34):
like they are already getting funded, Like I'm seeing all
these accounts that are getting funded by a lot of
community people, but also go fund me themselves. They're already
going in and adding money into these accounts. Are pretty dope.
One thing that's really interesting that I've been seeing is
that culturally Latinos, we like to live around our family,
Like we're really big on family. So one of the
things that I just got the chills. One of the
(14:55):
things that we're unfortunately seeing is that it's not just
one person in the family losing their home. Everybody losing
their home. That's the cousins, the daughter, and the mother,
people their generational wealth, generational wealth because they're all next
to each other, right, Like you know, my sister lives
just a few like a mile away from like my
from my parents, and I'm like, oh, I would love
to live close too, because we're always together. And so
(15:17):
it's not about like why can't they go stay with
the family, like they're literally and it's it's you know,
when you read all these stories, you're kind of like
they're also heartbreaking. I think the story that got to
me the most, that kind of broke me, you know,
because I have a lot of friends that I grew
up with that lost their family homes, you know, like
large properties that belong to people of color, women of color,
(15:40):
right Latina's, Philippinas, Black Americans, like just different people that
you don't see that as much anymore. You don't see
people like having these big, beautiful homes and then just
to lose it all. There was a story of an
older black gentleman who they found dead holding a hose
because he was he was hosing his house down, you know,
and like that just like broke me. Like a man
(16:01):
who stayed behind for his Childhoo with special needs. Like
you know, it's been really heartbreaking to read all of
these stories and just kind of what's seeing what's happening
culturally in la Like we talked about this before. One
half of the city is like going through it, grieving, mourning,
(16:22):
we recognize that there's a natural catastrophe. The other half
is posting about the rams online, you know what I mean.
Like the other half is like, you know, I had
a friend asked me if I wanted to go out,
and I was like, I don't feel right going out
to a bar. I don't feel right, like you know,
putting on a cute little outfit and being like maybe
(16:42):
I'll find love today. Like they're just you know, like
I feel like I'm mourning, Like I'm grieving, Like a
lot of Angelino's feel like we're grieving a friend. You
know this our city is so we rep hard in La,
you know what I mean, Like we rev so hard.
We have our teams like the Lakers, Dodgers, you know, Hollywood,
(17:03):
like even East LA, you know Boyle Heights, you know
South Central. All of these areas wappen really hard. And
so when it comes to these areas, you know, it's
it's super catastrophic. It's a it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yes. And I think another thing about the community is
and culturally is that I feel like a lot of
people have really stepped up. Like although there's like a
lot of people, I mean, we'll get to that later,
like online who are just being weird and just kind
of insensitive.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
There.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I've seen like an outpouring of just support. And like
our friend Fedpa had his birthday on the eleventh, and
you know, he was going to have a birthday thing
and then he ended up changing it to like a
volunteering day for everyone. And there's it's so easy to
help and to volunteer in any way that you can,
(17:59):
but sharing a link or like clicking on that link
and donating whatever you can, or just sharing it to
other people, or like dropping off clothes or like if
you you have to think of also like these people
lost everything that means office supplies, clothing, jewelry, hair stuff,
(18:23):
or you know, even just essentials.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You know, so even people who have businesses, you know,
we saw I saw this one Signora who's a Senora Olympa.
She lost all of her kit to clean houses. A
man who's a gardener lost all of his tools to garden.
People are losing not you know, not just things that
they like, but things that they need. Their car when
Signora lost her car, that is what helped her provide
(18:46):
her services, and they're just like there's just everything is
just gone.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I've seen even at some volunteering places that they've had
to turn volunteers away because they have like so much,
which is like amazing to see just everybody stepping in.
And that's the thing that I'm like, Okay, it's this
weird feeling of like morning and devastation and just like
(19:14):
feeling so like heartbroken for these people. And then on
the other hand, you're like, there's still some good in
this world in the community, and our people rep LA
so hard, but also just us as human beings so hard.
So that's why it's hard to see sometimes or not
see when people don't share l I'm like, girl, I
(19:38):
see you wanting us to tap on your links on
your stories for your branded thing, but you can't even
share this fucking link this Like it's just pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Souse. I was talking to a friend of mine about this. Actually,
our manager shout out to our manager and she was
saying that she's, you know, an LA girl too, and
she was saying, like she lives out here, and she
was saying like that it's been interesting for her to
see both faces of humanity, you know, one side that
is just there and helping and giving their all, and
then on the same side, like literally people setting these
(20:11):
fires on purpose. Like we've had a lot of incidents
like some guy just lit a tree on fire and
was Hollywood yesterday or two days ago, some guy lit,
some lady lit another fire. All these people are just
lighting fires. They think that I think that one of
them the big fires were They did say that it
was arson, but I don't know if those are whispers.
I haven't confirmed, but just things like that in terms
(20:33):
of my own frustrations, as somebody who's from here is like,
I don't know, I might be being really sensitive, but
I was saying, like, I'm upset with people who live
here who aren't sharing anything online, who aren't talking about it.
I'm upset with people who have family and friends who
live here who haven't said anything about it, like not
(20:53):
sharing any resources. And then I think the one that
kind of like gets me the most though, is influencers.
And we all know that the a lot of influencers
have already sold their souls to the Internet and clout
and to numbers. Like, by the way, when people say
don't sell your soul to stay in, this is what
(21:13):
they mean. They mean, like, don't sell your soul to cloud,
don't sell your soul to get people to like you,
don't sell your soul to things that are like so
rooted in the earth, like you know, at some point,
like when does your spirit kind of speak up for
people that need it? So for me, watching influencers create
anything humorous, I don't. I don't find anything funny at all,
(21:34):
Like your brain sparked an idea that might be funny,
and I see them going viral. I see them people
being like, oh my god, this is so funny. Oh
my god. Yes I thought I was like, but I'm
just like, I'm just like, damn, like you you went viral.
I'm so happy for you, Like that's so good. I'm
glad of this tragic I hope you're donating that happen.
It might be they might be donating more money than
(21:56):
I than that we are than people are, Like they
might be right. And then you know, I saw other
ones people being so insensitive. Somebody wrote by La and
the caption I saw people creating AI and you know
you mentioned it earlier of Hollywood on fire, like downtown
on fire, and they were like the caption was like heartbroken,
and I'm like, but why create the visuals for it?
(22:17):
Like this is not something that people, you know, you
can just turn on the news babes. You don't have
to create ai for more destruction, you know. And actually
what's been very interesting is that a lot of neighborhoods
that are seen as you know, quote the most hood
in LA A lot of the neighbors that are a
lot of the neighborhoods that are seen as you know,
the kind of like the ones that people don't want
(22:38):
to live in, they were all safe. They were all
like you know, people were like not downtown being the
safest place you could be in right now, and it
was like right And we talked about also too, like
the frustrations about seeing people making this turning this into
religious stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, I'm sorry. I believe in God, I believe in Jesus.
I grew up very Catholic. I definitely identify as spiritual.
I am not on the super religious going to church side.
Like I'm not down for that because I feel like
(23:16):
I've been seeing and not everyone, but a majority of
people being like, well, see, Jesus is coming back, Jesus
is coming back. It's like great, Jesus is coming back.
And there's still people who lost things and people died,
and like that's great. You're all high and Mighty that
you're Jesus their God or whoever is coming back. What
(23:37):
the fuck does that mean? Well, like, are you going
to follow in Jesus's footsteps and contribute to a society
in some way and help? Like are you just gonna
be like, oh, I told you Jesus, this is what happens.
Is Jesus coming back, you better, you better repent for
your sins. Yeah, repent for my sins. After I like, help,
(23:59):
don't to these people or after you know what I'm saying, Like,
it just does not make any sense, and I think
it's like giving low IQ.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Sorry, it's just really painful for me to see. Like
number one, Latinos, you know, tend to be some of
the most religious people, right, Like they tend to be
Like I could, I couldn't count Latinos. How many Latino
people are like that? You know, my friend's mom was
like sad, you know, like when somebody passes away in
(24:28):
my family, all the senora has come out to pray.
And so you think about this demographic and you're like,
so when you're saying that God is punishing, you're talking
about him punishing some of the most religious people, some
of the most devout people. Mathia has never missed a
day of Mass. She goes since she praised her people
all the time. She offers her services. She had to
be she was evacuated, so like what does that mean for her? Right,
(24:48):
Like so many people who are people of the same faith,
I think that when it comes to talking about when
you're placing your your values and you know what, it
reminds me of. Okay, there's this old ancient inscription like
on like in Egypt, with like this old tomb and there.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Is this and I just want to say, he can
say this because in his past life he was an
Egyptian queen. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So there is this tomb that they found with this man.
He is a I think he's he's like a muralist.
He paints in these tombs. That's what he does for
a living. He's like and he's rich for it, right,
And he is losing his eyesight, like he is going
blind or he as he's getting older, as I said,
it's getting verse. So he's writing in these inscriptions and
(25:41):
he's writing in these I forget what hieroglyphics. He's asking
the gods to help him with his vision, like please
bring my vision back because I'm going to lose my money,
I'm losing my livelihood. And as somebody living in twenty
twenty five, you kind of think like, damn, you know,
he probably just needed some glasses or some shit, or
like you know, he could have some laser surgery or
something or maybe you know something. And so for me
(26:04):
it feels a little similar in that you know, you're like, no, no, no,
there's a lot of science, scientific data that shows like
global warming, right, like zero rain in this area, not
enough resources. La is a desert. It is a desert.
Like we are not we are next to the ocean,
but we are a desert. We don't have we don't
(26:25):
grow these trees. Every palm tree that you see in
Hollywood was brought here and planted. They're not native to this,
to this area. Like so it's like, what did we
think was going to happen? What did people think was
going to happen? It's not God that's doing this, in
my opinion, it's just this the way that things are designed,
like the way that the way that we're fucking up
the environment in a lot of ways, and if we
(26:48):
don't take care of our earth in a lot of
ways like this is what is going to happen.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And I don't knock the power of prayer. I think
prayer is so important and I really do feel that
it works. So my suggestion is like, instead of pointing
fingers and the blame on like or or saying Jesus
is coming back and repent all that, use your fuck
(27:28):
your super power of prayer to pray for some rain,
pray for some solace, pray pray for some peace support,
you know, but like rain.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You know. Yeah, my mom got like TikTok and her algorithm.
It's like saying, it's like for sure, Senora TikTok, and
it was like, uh, like it was like the reason
why La got fires was because nobody thanked Jesus at
the Golden globes. And it was like, you know, I
(28:01):
think that it's so easy to spend anything. It's so
easy to spend you know. I think you see it
in you've seen it in humanity, ancient cultures for forever
ephro diities. The queen of love Zeus is in charge
of the thunder, you know, and people believe believed in
that at the time, you know, and now a lot
of people see it as like something that you learned
(28:21):
as an elective Greek mythology, right, something that we loved
watching on Zena or a Disney movie. So it's been
really hurtful. I would say this is and by the way,
like sorry if this is triggering and activating to people
of faith. It's just been very hurtful to see that
the people who should have the most compassion the people
whose religion is rooted in not just love, but radical love.
(28:45):
You know, I always joke, I think I've said to
see plenty of times that I was like, if Jesus
was like here today, we would be like, girl, Jesus
brought another homeless lady to the dinner. He said, he
brought all these people that we don't know, all these
sinners into the house. Then he said that I needed
to wash their feet. You're like, wouldn't we be like, girl,
don't ad buy Jesus to the party anymore. He's crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You just want to have a Sunday?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Can we can we just have a normal dinner? And
she's just like, did you hear what he did? He
fucking like through through the tables in front of the
church and he destroyed people's property, like.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You know, because Jesus.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
But that's what I'm saying, Like, it's radical love. It's
not like pick and choose who I'm gonna love. I'm
gonna pick and choose like who I think is deserving
of my of my love. And it's like the man
who started this religion talked about radical love. And so
it's like, if you can't find it in your heart
to have an ounce of sympathy, girl, you've got it
(29:42):
all wrong. You're missing the point. And what did Jesus say?
You know? What is it? Let he who is sinned
cast the first stone? You know? Like, Okay, it's just
crazy to me that I'm like, people will point out
people's sins, and I'm like, the older I've got, the
older that I've got, and the more that I'm like,
hold up, I'm judging myself because I'm an ex alcoholic,
(30:04):
ex cokehead who you know, Jack saw twenty six times
a day, and you're mad at me while you're out
here stealing. You're out here like doing all these crazy things.
And I'm a bad person because I like watching Muscle
Harry Bears. Anyways, you noticed why.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I didn't react at all to any of that.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I was like I feel like, you know, one of
the things that Kaba and us to talk about is that,
you know, we somehow we always leave the conversation back
to Beyonce.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And thank you Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, I think you and I also will lead it
to uh dick update because of everything. Beyonce had an
announcement she was supposed to release something today and pushed
it back because she was like, you know, I don't
feel comfortable. But she didn't say it like that. She
was like, you know, it's not I'm reading the room
(30:57):
not the right time. Yeah, but she you know, she
pushed it back. All the fans are mad. She also
sidebars she lives in I think Malibu or something, so
I'm like, she.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Donated two point five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
To which is a little low in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Oh really yeah a billionaires girl.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I mean hello, she just had one of the largest
tours in the world.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Like, make it a billion, make it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Make it, give it at least fire.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
She could stop the fires with her voice.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
She could stop, you know, get Beyonce on the stage,
she could stop. She you know, I'm just like, come on, lady,
not lady, my queen, Oh, Queen of mine, get her
to safety, get Miss Tina Knowles and that whole family
to safety.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And then fine, they were on a jet, they were
on the same jet.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
What does she say she does? Uh, I don't know.
She has like a line in one of her songs. Okay,
next topic. Yeah, let's just you know, by the time
this comes out, Trump will be president, so good luck
to feature us.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
TikTok We had two other points. So basically like we're
going to talk about I mean, by the time this
comes out, we're recording this song in fourteenth it's going
to be the twenty second or something when this comes out.
And Trunk Trunk, Yeah, Trunk, he does already be inaugurated
and don't support it, don't like it, don't want it
(32:16):
at all. And I heard that Carrie Underwood is going
to be there, so future us was that gonna be
a thing?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
How do you feel about that? You know what? I
don't actually know who Carrie Underwood is, so when I
saw that, I was like, my dog is this literally baby,
he's so big?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And then the TikTok ban We don't know as of
now if it's going to happen or not. So by
the time this comes out. Let us know if it's
if it's out or not. But let's go into our
astrology portion of the podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Glue, do you think TikTok's going to be gone? Oh?
He gave me his paw.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'm going to hold your hand when I say this.
Welcome to the astrology portion of the podcast. So today
I just wanted to give you a little bit of
what's going on in astrology right now. Basically, Mars has
been in retrograde since December sixth of last year, twenty
twenty four. When things go retrograde, We've heard about mercury retrograde,
(33:28):
which means that everything goes backwards. Everything like your calls
get dropped, emails don't send, or communication. Mercury is the
planet of communication. So applying that to Mars, which is
the planet of conflict, things are backwards.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I've had different discussions with people where I've wanted to
have like a conflict resolution and it's gone berserk. So
we will be in Mars in cancer retrograde until February
twenty third. So this period can dampen motivation and hinder
progress on new initiatives, potentially affecting commitments like New Year's resolutions.
(34:09):
The retrograde emphasizes introspection, particularly concerning home, family, and emotional security.
Astrologer's advice postponing major goal setting until Mars resumes direct
motion or until the spring equinox on March twentieth, when
energies are more conducive to forward, conductive conducive to forward movement.
(34:33):
So we can also apply this astrology to like what's
going on right now, Like this is a huge hinderance
in everybody's lives right now where it and it's specifically
concerning home, family, and emotional security, which is yeah, it's
(34:54):
it's super wild. So what to expect after February twenty third,
Energy levels will see stabilize, Taking action on personal and
professional goals will feel smoother. You'll feel more empowered to
push forward without emotional setbacks. Honestly, like I feel like
we try to say this every year, Like our system
(35:15):
has it kind of wrong where we start the new
year in January because spring equinox and astrology starts in March.
And if you just think of like baby Jesus, like
he was born in April, like he came back as
an aries because he hated being Capricorn so much, which
I've always said and I've always felt in my soul
(35:37):
like you know, I don't know, I get it. I
get it as an aries myself. I get it. So
just chill out a little bit on things as much
as you can. Like, yes, still plan and set your goals,
but things are kind of wild right now, so yeah,
really put more energy into it. After February twenty third,
(36:01):
I would say, you know, start start planning things out
in March, like that's always when I feel rejuvenated, not
only because it's my birthday, but because it I feel
like by the third month, it really feels like the
start of the year.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like for me, I would say,
throw that back, ursh that back, you know, wave that
hair around.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
After February twenty third, I just feel like I'm so tired.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'm like, just get messy, you know what. Like there's
so many there's so many things that it's like, just
just get messy. Girl. You want to like I always
tell you shoot your shot. You want to dress like
I just saw that sniky dress, like dressed up like
a pickle princess at some point love it. And yeah,
I'm like, you want to dress up like a pickle.
Princess be a pickle.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Oh okay, well that's just my suggestion. Astrology doesn't lie.
These are interpretations of the stars, so just take care
of yourself. My mom's in here, she's like trying to
be so quiet. She's like picking up things. She's like,
we're is kind of creating more noise than anything.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
My astrological input would be, uh, air out the cohunhun.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Just spread those cheeks and let's for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
My advice will always be living your best life. That's it.
Like I think that like learning, seeing everything that's happening.
I'm like, girl, do the thing.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And that concludes the astrology portion.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Well, maya, here we are another episode. How do you plead?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Please donate and volunteer if you can. There are so
many different resources if you look at both of our socials.
Curly has been working on a list that has a
bunch of displaced families that are like so well organized.
I have like a link in my bio a link
tree of like just different resources where to donate to,
(38:00):
like people with babies or animals or disabilities. There's so
much information out there. We're in the age of information,
so please get involved. However you can and take care
of yourself.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yes, also too, Just to also be clear, the list
that we're working on is also working on a way
to get funds to people who don't have access to
bank accounts, people who might be undocumented and afraid to
actually put their information on there. We're working on different
ways to work with different types of people within our community.
(38:33):
I will say that life can change in the blink
of an eye, like your life can change. On Sunday,
I was having dinner with some friends and we were
actually discussing how we were going to help those in Gaza,
and the next day we were talking about how we
were helping people down the street. So, you know, hug
(38:53):
the people that you love, eat the foods that you
want to eat, Drink the things that you want to drink,
Wear your favorite outfit on the things that you've been
saving for a while, Kiss whoever you want to kiss,
Send that photo that you want to send, don't put
your face in it, hide all your tattoos, and oh wait,
don't send it unless they ask for it. Unsolicited stuff
(39:15):
is not fun. But also have fun. Enjoy your life. Well, Maya,
where can people find you on social media?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You can find me at Maya in the Moment, Aya
in the Moment, anywhere you scroll what about You.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
You can find me at the Curly v Show on
Instagram and TikTok and for literally like thirty point thirty
seconds red note and then tell me to delete it
so and we'll see.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, we'll sleep about tiotok. But we love you guys
so much. We hope you are staying safe and healthy
and well. And please wear your masks if you are
in LA, but also just in general because the bird
flu and stuff is anyway, I love you, b to
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