January 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Standing in the midst of the Los Angeles fires, a scene of both chaos and heroism, one can't help but feel the overwhelming emotional weight of destruction. We walk you through the heart of the Palisades and Eaton fires, sharing firsthand accounts that capture the devastation—the loss of homes, cherished memories, and beloved pets. Listen to the voices of the brave firefighters battling unpredictable flames and learn about the extraordinary efforts made to protect what they can, as these fires, driven by volatile conditions, carve an indiscriminate path through the community.
Communities find strength in unity as they rise to support each other during these catastrophic times. We shine a light on the tireless dedication of local and international firefighters, volunteers, and organizations who are stepping in to offer aid, shelter, and hope. This episode celebrates the incredible resilience and compassion displayed by people rallying together to provide food, water, and shelter, and the unexpected joy of shelter animals finding new homes. Despite the challenges posed by misinformation and political finger-pointing, acts of kindness prevail, and we emphasize the importance of supporting volunteer centers and fostering displaced animals.
Beyond the immediate crisis, we explore the intricate tapestry of political undercurrents that accompany these disasters. From the uneven aid distribution between states to the creative defiance found in art, we discuss how these fires highlight broader national issues. As the nation reflects on its past and future, the gathering of past presidents at Jimmy Carter's funeral, with all its awkwardness and irony, offers a moment of levity amidst serious discourse. The episode also touches on the adaptability of Gen Z in the face of technological challenges, such as potential TikTok bans, showing how different generations respond to crisis and change. Come listen to how we weave through these themes, offering insights and encouraging continued support for affected communities.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On January 7th the Los Angeles fires broke out and
causing unimaginable damage topeople's homes, lives and the
environment.
To date, the Palisades fire hasburned over 24,000 acres, over
12,000 structures.
That number is surely going togo up.
So now is not the timenecessarily for the blame, but
just getting all the facts, allthe facts.
(00:27):
It gets me to the kind ofbroader issue, which is how
painful it is that this is soquickly used as a political
football.
Yo hey, won't we go slap today?
All right, the world may notneed another podcast, but it can
definitely use a slap.
Welcome to Slap the Power, theshow where we bring together
(00:50):
artists who use their powers forprogress.
I am Rick Biodill.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And I'm Asia Nakia.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's right On the show today the Los Angeles fires
.
We have Compassion Kinds updateliterally from the ground and
literally an hour fresh frombeing at ground zero in the
Palisades.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It is also the last week of the Biden administration
and also the first week of aconvicted felon with access to
nuclear codes.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We talk TikTok ban and how we're saving the ship
here at Slap the Power.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And then we've got our Pause for Progress, where we
are going to give some specificupdates on some of our fur
friends that you may alreadyknow, and also some of our new
fur kids from the fire lines.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
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Speaker 1 (02:45):
Uh, on january 7th, the los angeles fires broke out
and causing unimaginable damageto people's homes, lives, in the
environment.
There have been uh fires allover the city and to date, the
palisades fire has burned over24 000 acres, over 12 000
structures.
That number is surely going togo up.
Um, I've seen, uh, the deathtoll.
(03:08):
I believe.
I believe 21.
Somebody will have to doublecheck it, but that number is
sure to go up.
And uh, the eaton fire over 14000 acres burned.
Only 27 percent contained asia.
You are just literally in thedoor from spending not only the
last couple of days in thePalisades but the weekend in
(03:31):
Pasadena and dealing with theEaton fire and things.
And what can you tell us fromyour perspective on the ground
and especially coming at it fromall of the animals and animal
rescue standpoint?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's been really tough.
You know we're doing a lot oflike search and rescue.
We've got identified addresseswhere we have animals that were
known to be in the homes duringthe fires that could not be
evacuated.
Unfortunately, a lot of peoplecouldn't find their cats.
Some people had to run, youknow, they didn't expect the
fire to be coming their way.
They didn't find their cats.
Some people had to run.
They didn't expect the fire tobe coming their way.
They didn't have a lot of timeto plan.
But it's just, you know it'sreally hard to walk by people's
(04:10):
personal belongings just throwneverywhere.
You see kids' games, you seephotographs, you see someone's
filing cabinet.
I mean, it's just, it's beenreally rough and it's just
completely demolished.
It's been really rough and it'sjust completely demolished.
But also, in the same time it'sbeen really odd because you'll
be at one house with green grassin perfect condition and walk
(04:33):
10 feet across the street to acompletely burned down building
and it's like so hard to wrapyour head around.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Why do you think there is Now?
You've been talking to some ofthe firefighters there,
obviously.
Why do you think there is Now?
You've been talking to some ofthe firefighters there, why do
you think that is so?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I know.
So.
One of the things is the firelines, and obviously they're
actively trying to put out fires, you know, while they're
happening.
But also building materialsmake a huge difference.
A lot of people stay behind andwe're like hosing and wetting
their houses.
I think that that's a hugefactor in it too.
Um, and really you can see the,the, I would say the main
(05:08):
divider is really street tostreet, like, yeah, you can walk
down one street and all thehouses on the left are burnt
down, but then all the houses onthe right are fine.
It's just really bizarre yeah um, but yeah, i's you know.
Nobody has a clear cut answer.
It's just like you knowmultiple, you know either that
(05:28):
you know a spark, you know flewand then caught a line of houses
in a row but then didn't catchthe ones next to it.
Just still, you can tell me allthe logic and all the reasons,
but when you're standing in themiddle of it and you're
literally looking to the rightand it's complete destruction,
(05:50):
everything burnt to the ground.
And you're looking to the leftand there's like a bird feeder
and green grass and every fencepost intact, it's just, it's
really wild, it's been reallycrazy to see.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I saw and listened to Gavin on PSA and it was amazing
and I felt like that'severything you want out of a
leader in a situation like that,with respect to there's so much
that's still unknown, so now isnot the time necessarily for
the blame, but just getting allthe facts.
Broader issue, which is youknow, which is how painful it is
(06:24):
that this is so quickly used asa political football right and
how this is going to be theworld that we're dealing with.
It's absurd, because what it isis the minions are already out
there in congress saying, ohwell, this aid is going to have
to come with conditions on it.
It's like um, conditions forright now, for what?
(06:45):
And the thing is they can'tanswer it.
No, they're not interested ingoverning.
When covet hit, they weren'tinterested in governing.
Let me remind you, in indecember of 2019, trump knew
about covet.
Take yourself back to march andapril of 2020.
But in December of 19, he onBob Woodward tapes, he knew
(07:09):
about COVID.
What do you think these peopleare going to do when these
things happen in the future?
The heartlessness of it andcruelty is about to be the point
they're showing us.
They want California to betreated as a different country.
Shout out to Norm Chad.
He had a great bit this morning.
That was just brilliant whereit was like we got to keep the
number at 50 on 50 states, butlet's make the Dakotas one and
(07:32):
let's make the Carolinas one,and then that means we get two
states to pick from and we couldgo Puerto Rico, how you feel?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
about that.
All right, giving them votingrights.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Puerto Rico voting rights.
How about Canada?
Sure, sure Right.
Why not Mexico?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, I'm about all of it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And speaking of Canada and Mexico, the first
ones to show up and have ourback Speaking of this amazing
resilient city, yeah, what haveyou seen on that?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
side.
I mean, yes, they are here,they are here, they are helping,
and it is just one of thosethings like that I'm like and
here we are, you know, facingmass deportation and throwing
Mexico under the you know tableall the time A blank check to
build as many makeshift prisonsas you want Right, I mean camps,
(08:18):
I mean sorry.
But it just shows theirresilience and it shows their
heart and it shows how theirleader chooses to lead.
She is a total badass.
I'm.
I'm just always gonna praisethe mexican president this woman
is, oh my I just love her somuch and she, she's just, she's
(08:39):
not scared of trump and she'snot, she's not gonna, not let
her people help when she wantsto do the right thing.
And I mean we've been seeingthe firefighters out there.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, it's amazing.
What's the coolest thing you'veseen so far, done so far with
respect to chalking up a W inthis horrific scenario?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean we've had some pretty intense like evacuations
that were a little scary, youknow know sirens going off and
police coming in and um justtrying to evacuate animals as
quickly as possible.
We we did have a case with 25cats, um, we had to literally
catch every single one of them.
It was quite intense.
Um, they definitely kicked mybutt yeah I'm still recovering,
(09:21):
but, um, you know, then we'vealso had like interesting
rescues, like getting 17 koifish, you know, like there's
just so many interesting animalsleft behind.
But also I've what I've sort ofenjoyed is just hearing a bird
chirp every once in a while andwe saw an owl, you know.
The other night there was afamily of rabbits and you're
(09:44):
just like, okay, some of youguys made it you know yeah and
we're just like trying to leavelike bird seed and things out,
um, but they all seem so likeeager for, for help and for food
, and it's just a time foreverybody to come together and
that's.
I think that's really what I'vebeen seeing, like everyone's
been helping.
Hey, do you need a water?
Like everyone's checking in onyou, the firefighters are making
(10:06):
sure you if you need a sandwichwhen they pass you in the field
.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You know everybody's just it's good, it's good vibes,
and that's what I felt.
I know from the volunteercenters and stuff like that that
we've seen.
They've just been so a lot ofour dear friends and family
members have lost everythingthat they have.
It's it's.
It's it's hard to process foryour family members and friends.
And then it's when it's on thiskind of level I I heard today
(10:33):
in a meeting that we had earlierwhere it was.
Uh, I'm sure this isn't privateinformation or anything like
that, but um, caa alone, theagency just alone, 27 of their
employees lost their homes justfrom CAA.
So now put that across theindustry and uh, yeah, I'm just
(10:53):
I, you know I've seen nothing.
But but uh, the city be whatthe city is, which is bad-ass.
Everybody's been rallying wherethey're maxed out on on
clothing and basic, you know,housing, utensils and stuff, and
that's just it's.
It's killer when you see thecity rally like that in such a
tough situation.
And then you look at the restof the country, or even here, if
(11:18):
you're on the fox news side ofthe aisle, and things like that,
where you have everybodypointing a finger, causing a
blame game on things that theydon't know anything about,
misinformation and reallydunking on California in a way
that it really just shows them.
It's really just showing howbad this stuff isn't good faith
(11:41):
arguments, because when ithappens to South Carolina, you
know the Democrats control theweather.
When it happens to California,you know it's wokeism.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Right and we deserved it.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, and so just incredible love and props to the
firefighters, to our Canadianfirefighter friends and Mexican
firefighter friends, everybodythat's helping on the volunteer
side and saving animals likecompassion kind friends and
Mexican firefighter friends,everybody that's helping on the
volunteer side and savinganimals like compassion kind.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
When I was coming out today, honestly, to get here.
You know we don't always thinkabout all the tasks that firemen
have to do.
We always think about savingfires and saving people in, you
know, in these situations.
But like today, they were likeclearing.
They were up like halfway upthe mountain, clearing uh debris
and clearing out like trees andbranches that I guess can catch
(12:28):
fire easily.
Is what I'm I'm assuming yeah,but you know, like you just see
them carrying like tons ofbranches up and down, up and
down the mountain, like they'redoing a lot of work.
I mean a lot, a lot yeah and alot of them have been super
helpful with animal rescue stuff.
There's been some houses wehaven't been able to access and
they'll go and they've beensending me updates and photos
(12:50):
and doing full walkarounds and Imean just really, really cool
stuff happening.
What needs the most help rightnow?
You know it's one of thosethings where there's so many
individual cases.
Right, there's a ton ofGoFundMes up.
Obviously, my heart goes tothose families, so if you can
support some of the GoFundMesthat are going on there are, of
(13:10):
course, a lot of organizationscollecting donations, but really
really do your research and Ithink it just does better if you
can go to the actual volunteersites like the donation centers
you know, instead of justclicking online and sending in a
donation, if you can actuallyphysically go, then you can
really see what's going on.
I mean meals, opening your hometo foster, you know, an animal
(13:34):
from evacuees.
That's a really, really goodway to help.
There's just so many, so manythings going on.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Do you have?
I'm sure there's a list offoster animals that you're
adding to the Compassion Kindsite which you can get through
from our show notes, the linksin our show notes, as well as at
Compassion Kind, which is dope.
That's a great way to you know,adopt a little foster.
Yeah, because we're getting aninflux of animals.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Unfortunately, some people are going to surrender.
We're going to see more of thatover the next coming weeks.
But on the flip side, it's alsobeen sort of a good thing for
some of the shelter animals thathave been up on euthanasial
lists and things, because a lotof orgs come in during these
disasters and take animals fromthe shelters so new animals can
come in and because we're in adisaster situation, they have to
(14:23):
uphold the standard.
You know.
Usually it's 30 days.
It may differ it differs fromstate to state but to reunify
animals with their you know furfamily or with their family
members.
So I'm really hoping theyuphold that and we slow down on
some of the euthanasias, youknow, during this time, because
a lot of people are going to belooking for their animals.
Not everyone is microchipped,you know they end up with this
rescue or they end up at thisshelter, you just don't know.
(14:44):
So I'm hoping it's like a timefor the animals to get a little
reprieve at least out of theshelter systems, because
everyone is eager to help,everyone's eager to come down
with a van and take dogs out,but we really can't take animals
out that are found during thefire because we have to be able
to try and reunify them.
So it's only if it's an ownersurrender and only if they're
(15:06):
coming from a shelter where theywere already identified as an
animal pre-fire.
Wow yeah, so so you knowthere's a, there's a lot of
stuff going on, but then there'ssome good things that come out
of these situations, sure, and Ilike to try and focus on them,
not to take away from the bad,but if you can find one or two
little shining lights in thesemoments no 100%, that's one of
them 100% yeah.
(15:27):
And just seeing people cometogether and give each other
meals and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And LA, you know LA is soresilient and it's I've been
actually hopeful for the firsttime in a long time, just by
just seeing so much of thisthat's around.
So, yeah, you know, kind ofpivoting, but not, you know, at
(15:52):
the time of the recording, atthe time of our recording right
now.
Now we're in the final week of,uh, you know, sleepy joe biden
administration and the you know.
But, uh, you know, say what.
You will accomplish a lot, youknow, accomplishment well,
there'll be plenty of time totalk about that, but um and uh,
which means we're entering inthe second and I'm telling you
(16:15):
it won't be the last, but secondTrump term.
We'll say hopeful Trumpadministration and DREAMers,
members of the LGBTQIA community, communities of color and so
many more people.
They're just on edge on whatthis new administration is going
(16:35):
to bring.
There's going to apparently bea shock and awe flurry of
executive orders on on day one.
The rally on the 19th.
Um, which is what, for it's thefirst time in the same way of
conditioning aid is the firsttime that that's ever been done.
I just feel like we're going tomake a show out of first times
coming up over the next X amountof time, but you know when,
(16:59):
what do you expect?
I mean, it was funny because Ieverybody's kind of got a
different understanding, do?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
you believe Trump when he says he's?
Going to pardon all theinsurrectionists.
I, I, I have to like.
It's like I don't believeanything he says, but then I
believe everything he says youknow, I'm in this weird place
with everything that comes outof his mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
He keeps us in this zone of like stupid and insanely
important.
You know, ridiculously stupidand insanely important and you
know things like.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You know, we're changing the Gulf of Mexico and
we're renaming.
You know, there's just so muchhoopla going on right now that I
don't know what is going to betrue, what's going to be not,
but what I do know is that myfriends that are in you know
partnerships where they'rescared that they may not, they
may take away marriage rights.
I mean, I have friendsliterally that have gotten
(17:51):
married in the last three months, sure, just to try and protect
themselves.
So there is a lot of thoughtand a lot of people definitely
living in fear.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And definitely trying to like set themselves up.
I've been talking to somefriends that are working on
their dual citizenships.
I mean it's it's heavy yeah.
Yeah, I mean I'm definitelyworking on my dual citizenship.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You can find me in Kalimnos, codename GTFO.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You can find me in Kalimnos operating a little dog
sanctuary on the island.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We're a worldwide pod anyway, so we're going to be
doing our pod from wherever weneed to.
But it is interesting howthey're already signaling the
same thing that he did in hisfirst term, which was treating
the blue states differently thanhe treats the red states and
withholding aid and things likethat, which is just mob boss
shit.
It's just awful.
It's not United States ofAmerica and we're just going to
(18:45):
have to deal with this bullshit,or, I'm sorry I've got to
restate it we're just going tohave to re-deal with this BS.
Until we don't.
Now, the thing to hope for isthat they're really just
ridiculously dumb, and anytimeyou put that many dumb people
Actually, scratch that, scratchthat.
(19:06):
I'm going to take that.
The thing that we have to, Ithink, be hopeful for is they're
not there to govern as we'vedetermined right.
And so they kind of run intoeach other a lot.
They kind of you know thatquest for power.
It's like the ring the ring youknow, they just kind of get that
thing going.
I do want to give a shout out,though, to uh ice cube putting
(19:27):
it out there in a new joint thatyou know arrest the president,
go ahead.
You got the evidence.
He's russian intelligence, youknow, and so I, you know, I do
think.
Think art in any way, shape andform, whether it's podcasts,
whether it's songs, whether it'sTikToks, whatever it is is
going to be.
You know, it's, there's,there's a lot, there's a lot of
(19:48):
material out there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh yeah, I think it's like our survival, you know,
yeah, Like we're going to haveto use art to make it through
this.
Yeah Well, I mean on a lighternote.
Presidents old and new gatheredto pay respects to Jimmy Carter
and his funeral.
I didn't get to see this.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Rest in power, king, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Past presidents, vice presidents first, ladies were
mingling and somehow Trump wasnot excluded from this.
So tell me I mean, because thisis sort of new knowledge to me.
I've been so deep in fires,sure, actually saving lives and
animals from real fires, yeahthat and so news headlines, and
(20:29):
you know, I'm just sort of outof it this week, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So enlighten me.
Yeah, no, and this is greattoo's.
One of the things we love aboutthe show here is chopping up
things that most people probablyhaven't heard and definitely
haven't.
Uh, you know, kind of, becausea lot of people have heard about
, obviously, jimmy Carter'sfuneral, but it's overshadowed
by, understandably, so manythings that are going on.
(20:54):
Um, but of particular note atthe funeral was that it was five
generations of presidents thatwere there.
So mike pence's was there, um,trump's vice president with his
wife, and you know trump triedto have him killed.
Trump, trump was like I'm a,you know trump was.
When they were hang mike pence,he said in, you know, on the
(21:17):
grand jury indictment, now youcan go find yourself.
He said good, right and so, butyet it's standing.
Can you imagine no to saying I,just I, you know I tried to
have you killed or I was coolwith having you killed, and then
we got to go there and shakehands.
Well, pence being I don't know,he's stuck in this like
generation of, like when therewas like Reagan, you know
(21:37):
there's just this long gonegeneration Right, and they like
preserve you know the kind ofdignity of the office.
Meanwhile he's taking a dump onthe, you know, on the Resolute
desk and you know tick talkingabout it, tweeting about it, at
two in the morning.
I, you know, and so, but what'sfunny is the, his wife would
(21:57):
not, mike pence's wife would notshake trump's hand, shout out
to karen pence because, um, youknow, uh, mad respect.
And then the thing that kind ofbothered, I think, a lot of
people, myself included, is itwas just a little, it's a little
hard, because I, I think theproblem with trump is you, you
hit it on the.
You have to take him seriouslyand can't take him seriously at
(22:21):
the same time, and it's askingus to juggle this cognitive
dissonance as as as a society,that does not work.
It.
It can't work and I, so barackobama and everybody that you
know, and kamala harris and youknow we love everybody that you
know and Kamala Harris, and youknow we love Kamala.
We, you know, worked with thecampaign and everything,
(22:41):
rightfully so they said.
You know, you explain what youthink this man is going to do to
democracy, that he'sauthoritarian and waiting, that
it's fascism.
All of these things themajority of everybody on our
side know to be true and believe, and yet, at the same time, now
that it's post-election, barackobama's sitting there next to
(23:02):
donald trump and they're justkind of having sitting there
talking and laughing.
I respect the fact that.
You know, I saw west wing.
You know, as the president, youhave to deal with dictators.
You have to humor people thatdo atrocities to their, to their
people.
I understand diplomacy andthings like that and I
(23:23):
understand being taken thehigher ground and and.
But it's a little tough to seebecause you run a campaign
saying that this man is the endof democracy, this man which we
believe right, but he is, andyou know, let's bear this whole
thing out, right, but it's hard.
It was hard to see and I thinkthat bothered a lot of people.
And then there was anothersituation where, um, uh, there
(23:46):
was another situation wheregeorge w bush in the aisle,
trump was to the left, barackwas just to the right of him,
and then george bush.
George w bush was to the left,barack was just to the right of
him, and then George Bush.
George W Bush was to the rightof him.
So when George W Bush wascoming back from the casket, he
had to cross in front of Trumpand he kind of didn't do
anything to Trump, but he gaveBarack Obama a little belly tap
(24:10):
in a way.
That was kind of like I thinknow I've heard we could be wrong
, we could be wrong, but Ibelieve this is to be true which
is there's a seating chart andthere's kind of a way that they
just set up that.
It's just a tradition where thepresidents go, and so you want
to put them all in one closearea so you can get a shot, and
(24:32):
it's also something that neverhappens and things like that.
Um, and it's also somethingthat never happens and things
like that.
So the proximity to each otherwas particularly electric,
considering all the things thateven Trump has said to about Joe
Biden you know, and Joe Bidenand things like that, and they
have to sit right next to him.
So we're balancing this sort ofdecorum kind of thing and out of
respect, and so you know I'llrespect Trump, showed up with
(24:57):
Melania, you know, to payrespects to the longest living,
you know, president, and so cool, you know, I think.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Cool that everyone can be in the room together.
I mean, at least that's greatand props to.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Trump for being on good behavior and all that.
And let's see how long thatsort of decorum lasts and how
much that gets given back to theother person.
But all right, so now reallycleansing the palate.
Please give us some good news.
We bring our segment Pause forProgress.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean, you know, we've been kind of rocking and
rolling lately with FindingFosters which has been amazing.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
How's.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Rachel.
Rachel is so good.
The only thing is that I reallyneed to boot her out of the
house at some point, becauseshe's becoming very integrated
in my household and follows meeverywhere and is a little
obsessed with me, and she's nowbeen yelling at my son, nico,
every time he gets close to mewhen we are going to bed.
So if anyone would like tofoster rachel, I would
(26:02):
appreciate that, because littlehome girl is uh getting too
attached to me now yeah, well,yeah, she's adorable.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I know right, when you brought her in the first
time with her, with her littlekind of like wheelie setup, I
know Like she was like justglued to you.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
She really is.
But yeah, you know, Mr Wiggles,Noah, all the pups.
Mr Wiggles is so good oh mygoodness, yeah, I mean everybody
is great.
We've moved so many intoFosters to make room for some of
the fire kids that are comingin, some of the owner surrenders
that are coming in, andeveryone's really kind of been
stepping up in the midst of, youknow, the chaos.
(26:42):
So it's been a good foster weekfor us, which sounds rare, it
sounds weird, but yeah.
And then we've had some reallygood rescues on the ground, lots
of animals moving.
We've had a lot of sad momentstoo.
You know, not everyone has beenalive that we have found, so
that's been really hard.
So we're really trying tobalance you know, the winds this
(27:05):
week and we still have a bunchof animals that we're looking
for, you know.
So we're setting traps.
The good news from today isthat a few of our feeding
stations all the food wasmissing.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So the good news from today is that a few of our
feeding stations all the foodwas missing, so that means
somebody's coming around.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, sure, and you can kind of tell when it's like
birds or squirrels taking thefood.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
This was, you know, the dog or the cat came and took
the food, so there's hope.
They're just hiding.
They're scared, you know.
So we're just going to keeptrying until you know, at least
a few more weeks, until we findall these dogs and cats that are
missing.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I love that as an update.
You know, make sure to checkour website for all the constant
updates, both from Paws forProgress as well as Compassion
Kind's work out in the field.
And thank you you know if Idon't say it enough thank you
for all the stuff that you andyour team and everything is
doing.
(27:58):
It is, it's the real work, youknow, along with all the first
responders and firefighters andvolunteers and everything, and
just you know God love all youand your families and, yeah,
props to Los Angeles again.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, the Angelenos are stepping up.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, when we come back from break, you're gonna
get some more insights from theground.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
yeah join me, sasha Peters, on women in the nude,
season 2, where we bear it allexcept for our bodies.
Leave that to your imagination.
My wish for women is that westrip away the fear of judgment
and really embrace the fullspectrum of who we are.
I don't know if you were comingto terms with being pregnant on
the show.
Yeah, I think she was a littledepressed.
Let's live boldly and openlyand change the narratives that
(28:41):
define us.
I called my doctor.
I'm like I want to drive my carthrough a brick wall.
We deserve it and there's nobetter time than now.
Let's get out of our comfortzone and get down to the bottom
of who we are.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right, tiktok is about to be banned, or is it On
the 19th?
We've known this for a longtime.
They're trying to ban TikTok,which is funny because I've
never had a virus on TikTok, butI've had viruses all the time
on Facebook and I've had virusesall the time on Twitter.
I know Norm has viruses all thetime on Twitter, elon.
(29:15):
So we're going to pivot here.
Where are the kids?
The kids we?
Asher, our Gen Z correspondent,hipped us to lemonade.
We might set up some lemonadestand.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Make some lemonade.
We're going to set up alemonade stand.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Also, I love this one .
This one's really funny.
So the company, I don't know.
Do you know?
This is a company that makestiktok is by dance, right, and I
guess they're trying to saythis is a security threat, blah,
blah, blah.
And it probably is, but I'm surethat is yeah, but um, uh,
they're the bite dance is thecompany, and so as, and and I
think asher might be able toeven expand on this a little bit
(29:55):
more but so gen z kids aremoving to an app that's also
owned by ByteDance and it's madeit the number one social app on
all of iTunes and it's calledRed Note and I could be wrong.
If I'm wrong, hit us in thecomments and tell me, but I
think this is it, and so it onlyhad a Chinese version, which is
really, really funny.
(30:15):
So people were going on therewith Google Translate and doing
English and it'll translate itto Mandarin, and then they were
making like Chinese TikToks onit, because it's basically the
Chinese version of TikTok, andthe thing is, you want the
algorithm, you want the shit.
And then they were like, ohwell, there wasn't an English
version necessarily of it,because even when I saw it and I
(30:36):
downloaded it, it was a Chinese.
I had Chinese writing and notEnglish writing on it.
But what they did is theChinese being the Chinese, like,
in a matter of like three hours, they engineered it, they
cooked up an American version.
So, red note, there's anEnglish version as well.
That, I think, could you knowwho knows who knows?
(30:58):
But the Gen Z kids are jumpingon there to piss our government
off because it's like we'll justgo to another Chinese app.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, like take this away from us and watch what we
do.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Take this away from us, I mean, I kind of like that
you know what I like about thatis that's Gen Z saying take that
app away from us and we'll goto the worst boyfriend, the one
that you know the boyfriendwe'll go to the really really
awful guy yeah like thedelinquent like three charges
boyfriend that your mom doesn'tlike right, I'm gonna go down to
county and find my nextboyfriend speaking of, does uh,
(31:28):
what's his name?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
have a new wife?
Yet who?
Who?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
luigi, luigi uh, does luigi I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Is Luigi married yet?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, that's true, we'll have to get an update on
Luigi yeah, is he getting mailin, commissary?
I don't know but I feel likehomies got to be getting
engagements.
Make sure you're not going tolose any Slap the Power or
anything from Slap the Network,because we'll be there upping
your grill promise.
But unfortunately the app willbe banned in US this Sunday if
(31:58):
it isn't sold.
Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tankfame has said he'd like to
purchase the TikTok assets.
Unfortunately, bytedance claimsit's not for sale and as of now
, things are not looking greatfor TikTok.
It's millions of users, youknow.
I think it's going to splinterinto a lot of things.
It could go back to Instagram,facebook and all that stuff, but
(32:19):
also Red Note hey, shout out toRed Note Lemonade.
Who knows?
We'll see where it goes.
I also think this could getkicked down the field and if it
does go, I think I've heard thatit goes dark on the app.
It goes dark on the App Store,but we're going to be able to
continue to use it for theforeseeable future until there's
an update that gets updated onthe App Store and then, if you
(32:42):
update, it will, I think, shutit down.
And then there's also thingswhere you can use a VPN and say
you're living in a not oppressedcountry like Canada or Mexico,
yeah, somewhere like that.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Just use your VPN to say you're coming from there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I'll just TikTok from Puerto Rico.
Call it a Mexico, yeah,somewhere like there.
Just use your VPN to say you'recoming from there.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, I'll just TikTok from Puerto Rico.
Call it a day.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be interesting.
If you are on TikTok and you'rescared, let us know where
you're going, hit us up in thecomments and things like that
and let us know what's happeningto your TikTok journey, because
they've got a great algorithm.
It really is good.
It really is.
My For you page pretty muchknows me pretty well, I know I
know All right, so before we getout of here, another edition of
(33:24):
Make this, ish Make.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Sense Asher.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Our own Gen Z correspondent, asher Freidberg,
brings issues of the day andexplains from a Gen Z
perspective how this makes sense.
So this time we have to summonhim, though right.
Is that the deal?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, yeah, because we never know where he is.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Right, sure, that's true, all right.
So I guess, what do we do?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm going to click my heels under the desk three
times Okay do it?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, okay, one, two, three, we're live.
You can't, actually, you can beon this show.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, you actually could drink a hippie water.
Yeah, you could drink thishippie water, probably could.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
We'll allow it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right.
Maybe after we're done, it'sstill fires based.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yeah, no, it's been a tough.
It's been officially a week asof the day we're shooting this
about a week and a half whenthis is out.
But yeah, I mean, gen Z has hada very unique perspective on
the fires.
There's been a combination of alot of empathy and a lot of
people putting efforts to helpout.
There's been a lot of lack ofempathy.
I would say it depends on whoyou are.
(34:37):
It's very much going to bebased on who you are.
A lot of it's going to becelebrity-based.
People are.
I mean, look, if you're apolitician, some people are less
sympathetic towards politiciansthey don't like, or people who
share political views they don'tlike.
People are talking about JamesWoods, mel Gibson, but then
there's celebrities that it'snot necessarily a political
thing and more of a perceivedidea of wealth thing, whether or
(35:00):
not it's true or not, the ideathat there seems to be no
sympathy for celebrities whohave lost their homes, possibly
pets and maybe more.
It's been a really interestingdual perspective where, again,
we are clearly not a monolith.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
No, no, and you know, from Altadena to the Palisades,
it's all stretches of theeconomic spectrum, and what is
it that you think is the Gen Zstandout?
(35:36):
As far as I only know Gen Z tobe.
Really, in these situations,what comes across my algorithm
is a lot of really reallyawesome, awesome energy and
people.
What's been the worst thingthat you've seen?
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Well, I do want to just quickly highlight what you
were saying, because, yes, a lotof Gen Z has been very, just,
very sympathetic, you know,empathetic, wanting to help
people, donating their food,their clothing.
We all know that.
But the assumption is that theyare and that it's all
celebrities and it's not.
It's not, and especially inAltadena, I mean, I'm going to
houses where, yes, they're nicehouses, but they've had them in
(36:28):
their families for decades.
Yeah decades, decades, decades,and it is complete devastation
for them because, even thoughthe value of the home reached
you know 50 times more than whatit was when they got it.
Now they have nothing andthey're not going to be able to
get a house that can compare tothe home that they had.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
That's the problem.
So that's the problem.
The market has moved on.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
They're going to go from their nice three-bedroom
house in Altadena to maybe a onebedroom apartment that they can
afford.
I mean, that's not so peoplearen't factoring in those.
You know those pieces and it isa little spotty and a lot of
people did inherit these homes.
So not only that part, but thenon the celebrity side, of
course, we can all take away theguilt and you know feeling bad
(37:12):
because we know that they havefunds to renew and get.
But, to your point, memoriesare lost.
That is your home, where you'veraised your children.
I mean, people have lost theiranimals.
You know their loved ones.
So there's different ways tofeel bad, you know.
Yeah, there's just differentways to approach it.
(37:36):
It's not always about money.
We're so focused on money andand I get it if you're the
person on the other end thatdoesn't have the funds to get a
new house, I get it, yeah, butwe can still all agree and
relate on the fact that memoriesbeing lost, the home that you
share your dinners with yourfamily every night and the home
that's been in your home, youknow, in your family for
(37:56):
generations.
Like it's terrible and and forthe fur babies.
On my end I mean, I don't carehow, I don't care what house
you're in.
Yeah, it's devastating to losea family member.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So and the love you put into these houses and things
like that.
Yeah, you know, and things likethat.
Yeah, you know it's, yeah, it'sa lot Well, gen Z, boomer X,
millennial Y, it doesn't matter.
If you need help and don't haveit, make sure to reach out and
you know.
I think you know again.
(38:31):
I think, like you said, you'reproud of Gen Z.
I am too.
I'm proud of everybody that'sbeen around, as far as all the
people that are kind of in ourthread, of all generations.
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
Well, we're not going to forget it here in.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
California.
All right, well, somber show,but that will do it for us.
Thank you guys for listening.
Thank you guys.
Thank you for all the work thatyou're doing.
Thank you firefighters, thankyou all the volunteers.
Again, uh, thank you to asher,our gen z correspondent, and, uh
, everybody, stay tough, loveeach other and someone else and
make sure to like, subscribe,share, uh, and if you want to
(39:08):
hear something on the show,email us.
We might even do that too.
So, all right, till next week,sonics.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Love.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Action, progress and power and power.
See you guys next week.
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On January 7th the Los Angeles fires broke out and
causing unimaginable damage topeople's homes, lives and the
environment.
To date, the Palisades fire hasburned over 24,000 acres, over
12,000 structures.
That number is surely going togo up.
So now is not the timenecessarily for the blame, but
just getting all the facts, allthe facts.
(00:27):
It gets me to the kind ofbroader issue, which is how
painful it is that this is soquickly used as a political
football.
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artists who use their powers forprogress.
I am Rick Biodill.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And I'm Asia Nakia.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's right On the show today the Los Angeles fires
.
We have Compassion Kinds updateliterally from the ground and
literally an hour fresh frombeing at ground zero in the
Palisades.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
It is also the last week of the Biden administration
and also the first week of aconvicted felon with access to
nuclear codes.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
We talk TikTok ban and how we're saving the ship
here at Slap the Power.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And then we've got our Pause for Progress, where we
are going to give some specificupdates on some of our fur
friends that you may alreadyknow, and also some of our new
fur kids from the fire lines.
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And a little later Make this Ish.
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Speaker 1 (02:45):
Uh, on january 7th, the los angeles fires broke out
and causing unimaginable damageto people's homes, lives, in the
environment.
There have been uh fires allover the city and to date, the
palisades fire has burned over24 000 acres, over 12 000
structures.
That number is surely going togo up.
Um, I've seen, uh, the deathtoll.
(03:08):
I believe.
I believe 21.
Somebody will have to doublecheck it, but that number is
sure to go up.
And uh, the eaton fire over 14000 acres burned.
Only 27 percent contained asia.
You are just literally in thedoor from spending not only the
last couple of days in thePalisades but the weekend in
(03:31):
Pasadena and dealing with theEaton fire and things.
And what can you tell us fromyour perspective on the ground
and especially coming at it fromall of the animals and animal
rescue standpoint?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's been really tough.
You know we're doing a lot oflike search and rescue.
We've got identified addresseswhere we have animals that were
known to be in the homes duringthe fires that could not be
evacuated.
Unfortunately, a lot of peoplecouldn't find their cats.
Some people had to run, youknow, they didn't expect the
fire to be coming their way.
They didn't find their cats.
Some people had to run.
They didn't expect the fire tobe coming their way.
They didn't have a lot of timeto plan.
But it's just, you know it'sreally hard to walk by people's
(04:10):
personal belongings just throwneverywhere.
You see kids' games, you seephotographs, you see someone's
filing cabinet.
I mean, it's just, it's beenreally rough and it's just
completely demolished.
It's been really rough and it'sjust completely demolished.
But also, in the same time it'sbeen really odd because you'll
be at one house with green grassin perfect condition and walk
(04:33):
10 feet across the street to acompletely burned down building
and it's like so hard to wrapyour head around.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Why do you think there is Now?
You've been talking to some ofthe firefighters there,
obviously.
Why do you think there is Now?
You've been talking to some ofthe firefighters there, why do
you think that is so?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I know.
So.
One of the things is the firelines, and obviously they're
actively trying to put out fires, you know, while they're
happening.
But also building materialsmake a huge difference.
A lot of people stay behind andwe're like hosing and wetting
their houses.
I think that that's a hugefactor in it too.
Um, and really you can see the,the, I would say the main
(05:08):
divider is really street tostreet, like, yeah, you can walk
down one street and all thehouses on the left are burnt
down, but then all the houses onthe right are fine.
It's just really bizarre yeah um, but yeah, i's you know.
Nobody has a clear cut answer.
It's just like you knowmultiple, you know either that
(05:28):
you know a spark, you know flewand then caught a line of houses
in a row but then didn't catchthe ones next to it.
Just still, you can tell me allthe logic and all the reasons,
but when you're standing in themiddle of it and you're
literally looking to the rightand it's complete destruction,
(05:50):
everything burnt to the ground.
And you're looking to the leftand there's like a bird feeder
and green grass and every fencepost intact, it's just, it's
really wild, it's been reallycrazy to see.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I saw and listened to Gavin on PSA and it was amazing
and I felt like that'severything you want out of a
leader in a situation like that,with respect to there's so much
that's still unknown, so now isnot the time necessarily for
the blame, but just getting allthe facts.
Broader issue, which is youknow, which is how painful it is
(06:24):
that this is so quickly used asa political football right and
how this is going to be theworld that we're dealing with.
It's absurd, because what it isis the minions are already out
there in congress saying, ohwell, this aid is going to have
to come with conditions on it.
It's like um, conditions forright now, for what?
(06:45):
And the thing is they can'tanswer it.
No, they're not interested ingoverning.
When covet hit, they weren'tinterested in governing.
Let me remind you, in indecember of 2019, trump knew
about covet.
Take yourself back to march andapril of 2020.
But in December of 19, he onBob Woodward tapes, he knew
(07:09):
about COVID.
What do you think these peopleare going to do when these
things happen in the future?
The heartlessness of it andcruelty is about to be the point
they're showing us.
They want California to betreated as a different country.
Shout out to Norm Chad.
He had a great bit this morning.
That was just brilliant whereit was like we got to keep the
number at 50 on 50 states, butlet's make the Dakotas one and
(07:32):
let's make the Carolinas one,and then that means we get two
states to pick from and we couldgo Puerto Rico, how you feel?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
about that.
All right, giving them votingrights.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Puerto Rico voting rights.
How about Canada?
Sure, sure Right.
Why not Mexico?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, I'm about all of it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And speaking of Canada and Mexico, the first
ones to show up and have ourback Speaking of this amazing
resilient city, yeah, what haveyou seen on that?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
side.
I mean, yes, they are here,they are here, they are helping,
and it is just one of thosethings like that I'm like and
here we are, you know, facingmass deportation and throwing
Mexico under the you know tableall the time A blank check to
build as many makeshift prisonsas you want Right, I mean camps,
(08:18):
I mean sorry.
But it just shows theirresilience and it shows their
heart and it shows how theirleader chooses to lead.
She is a total badass.
I'm.
I'm just always gonna praisethe mexican president this woman
is, oh my I just love her somuch and she, she's just, she's
(08:39):
not scared of trump and she'snot, she's not gonna, not let
her people help when she wantsto do the right thing.
And I mean we've been seeingthe firefighters out there.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, it's amazing.
What's the coolest thing you'veseen so far, done so far with
respect to chalking up a W inthis horrific scenario?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean we've had some pretty intense like evacuations
that were a little scary, youknow know sirens going off and
police coming in and um justtrying to evacuate animals as
quickly as possible.
We we did have a case with 25cats, um, we had to literally
catch every single one of them.
It was quite intense.
Um, they definitely kicked mybutt yeah I'm still recovering,
(09:21):
but, um, you know, then we'vealso had like interesting
rescues, like getting 17 koifish, you know, like there's
just so many interesting animalsleft behind.
But also I've what I've sort ofenjoyed is just hearing a bird
chirp every once in a while andwe saw an owl, you know.
The other night there was afamily of rabbits and you're
(09:44):
just like, okay, some of youguys made it you know yeah and
we're just like trying to leavelike bird seed and things out,
um, but they all seem so likeeager for, for help and for food
, and it's just a time foreverybody to come together and
that's.
I think that's really what I'vebeen seeing, like everyone's
been helping.
Hey, do you need a water?
Like everyone's checking in onyou, the firefighters are making
(10:06):
sure you if you need a sandwichwhen they pass you in the field
.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You know everybody's just it's good, it's good vibes,
and that's what I felt.
I know from the volunteercenters and stuff like that that
we've seen.
They've just been so a lot ofour dear friends and family
members have lost everythingthat they have.
It's it's.
It's it's hard to process foryour family members and friends.
And then it's when it's on thiskind of level I I heard today
(10:33):
in a meeting that we had earlierwhere it was.
Uh, I'm sure this isn't privateinformation or anything like
that, but um, caa alone, theagency just alone, 27 of their
employees lost their homes justfrom CAA.
So now put that across theindustry and uh, yeah, I'm just
(10:53):
I, you know I've seen nothing.
But but uh, the city be whatthe city is, which is bad-ass.
Everybody's been rallying wherethey're maxed out on on
clothing and basic, you know,housing, utensils and stuff, and
that's just it's.
It's killer when you see thecity rally like that in such a
tough situation.
And then you look at the restof the country, or even here, if
(11:18):
you're on the fox news side ofthe aisle, and things like that,
where you have everybodypointing a finger, causing a
blame game on things that theydon't know anything about,
misinformation and reallydunking on California in a way
that it really just shows them.
It's really just showing howbad this stuff isn't good faith
(11:41):
arguments, because when ithappens to South Carolina, you
know the Democrats control theweather.
When it happens to California,you know it's wokeism.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Right and we deserved it.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, and so just incredible love and props to the
firefighters, to our Canadianfirefighter friends and Mexican
firefighter friends, everybodythat's helping on the volunteer
side and saving animals likecompassion kind friends and
Mexican firefighter friends,everybody that's helping on the
volunteer side and savinganimals like compassion kind.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
When I was coming out today, honestly, to get here.
You know we don't always thinkabout all the tasks that firemen
have to do.
We always think about savingfires and saving people in, you
know, in these situations.
But like today, they were likeclearing.
They were up like halfway upthe mountain, clearing uh debris
and clearing out like trees andbranches that I guess can catch
(12:28):
fire easily.
Is what I'm I'm assuming yeah,but you know, like you just see
them carrying like tons ofbranches up and down, up and
down the mountain, like they'redoing a lot of work.
I mean a lot, a lot yeah and alot of them have been super
helpful with animal rescue stuff.
There's been some houses wehaven't been able to access and
they'll go and they've beensending me updates and photos
(12:50):
and doing full walkarounds and Imean just really, really cool
stuff happening.
What needs the most help rightnow?
You know it's one of thosethings where there's so many
individual cases.
Right, there's a ton ofGoFundMes up.
Obviously, my heart goes tothose families, so if you can
support some of the GoFundMesthat are going on there are, of
(13:10):
course, a lot of organizationscollecting donations, but really
really do your research and Ithink it just does better if you
can go to the actual volunteersites like the donation centers
you know, instead of justclicking online and sending in a
donation, if you can actuallyphysically go, then you can
really see what's going on.
I mean meals, opening your hometo foster, you know, an animal
(13:34):
from evacuees.
That's a really, really goodway to help.
There's just so many, so manythings going on.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Do you have?
I'm sure there's a list offoster animals that you're
adding to the Compassion Kindsite which you can get through
from our show notes, the linksin our show notes, as well as at
Compassion Kind, which is dope.
That's a great way to you know,adopt a little foster.
Yeah, because we're getting aninflux of animals.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Unfortunately, some people are going to surrender.
We're going to see more of thatover the next coming weeks.
But on the flip side, it's alsobeen sort of a good thing for
some of the shelter animals thathave been up on euthanasial
lists and things, because a lotof orgs come in during these
disasters and take animals fromthe shelters so new animals can
come in and because we're in adisaster situation, they have to
(14:23):
uphold the standard.
You know.
Usually it's 30 days.
It may differ it differs fromstate to state but to reunify
animals with their you know furfamily or with their family
members.
So I'm really hoping theyuphold that and we slow down on
some of the euthanasias, youknow, during this time, because
a lot of people are going to belooking for their animals.
Not everyone is microchipped,you know they end up with this
rescue or they end up at thisshelter, you just don't know.
(14:44):
So I'm hoping it's like a timefor the animals to get a little
reprieve at least out of theshelter systems, because
everyone is eager to help,everyone's eager to come down
with a van and take dogs out,but we really can't take animals
out that are found during thefire because we have to be able
to try and reunify them.
So it's only if it's an ownersurrender and only if they're
(15:06):
coming from a shelter where theywere already identified as an
animal pre-fire.
Wow yeah, so so you knowthere's a, there's a lot of
stuff going on, but then there'ssome good things that come out
of these situations, sure, and Ilike to try and focus on them,
not to take away from the bad,but if you can find one or two
little shining lights in thesemoments no 100%, that's one of
them 100% yeah.
(15:27):
And just seeing people cometogether and give each other
meals and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And LA, you know LA is soresilient and it's I've been
actually hopeful for the firsttime in a long time, just by
just seeing so much of thisthat's around.
So, yeah, you know, kind ofpivoting, but not, you know, at
(15:52):
the time of the recording, atthe time of our recording right
now.
Now we're in the final week of,uh, you know, sleepy joe biden
administration and the you know.
But, uh, you know, say what.
You will accomplish a lot, youknow, accomplishment well,
there'll be plenty of time totalk about that, but um and uh,
which means we're entering inthe second and I'm telling you
(16:15):
it won't be the last, but secondTrump term.
We'll say hopeful Trumpadministration and DREAMers,
members of the LGBTQIA community, communities of color and so
many more people.
They're just on edge on whatthis new administration is going
(16:35):
to bring.
There's going to apparently bea shock and awe flurry of
executive orders on on day one.
The rally on the 19th.
Um, which is what, for it's thefirst time in the same way of
conditioning aid is the firsttime that that's ever been done.
I just feel like we're going tomake a show out of first times
coming up over the next X amountof time, but you know when,
(16:59):
what do you expect?
I mean, it was funny because Ieverybody's kind of got a
different understanding, do?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
you believe Trump when he says he's?
Going to pardon all theinsurrectionists.
I, I, I have to like.
It's like I don't believeanything he says, but then I
believe everything he says youknow, I'm in this weird place
with everything that comes outof his mouth.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
He keeps us in this zone of like stupid and insanely
important.
You know, ridiculously stupidand insanely important and you
know things like.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You know, we're changing the Gulf of Mexico and
we're renaming.
You know, there's just so muchhoopla going on right now that I
don't know what is going to betrue, what's going to be not,
but what I do know is that myfriends that are in you know
partnerships where they'rescared that they may not, they
may take away marriage rights.
I mean, I have friendsliterally that have gotten
(17:51):
married in the last three months, sure, just to try and protect
themselves.
So there is a lot of thoughtand a lot of people definitely
living in fear.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And definitely trying to like set themselves up.
I've been talking to somefriends that are working on
their dual citizenships.
I mean it's it's heavy yeah.
Yeah, I mean I'm definitelyworking on my dual citizenship.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You can find me in Kalimnos, codename GTFO.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
You can find me in Kalimnos operating a little dog
sanctuary on the island.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We're a worldwide pod anyway, so we're going to be
doing our pod from wherever weneed to.
But it is interesting howthey're already signaling the
same thing that he did in hisfirst term, which was treating
the blue states differently thanhe treats the red states and
withholding aid and things likethat, which is just mob boss
shit.
It's just awful.
It's not United States ofAmerica and we're just going to
(18:45):
have to deal with this bullshit,or, I'm sorry I've got to
restate it we're just going tohave to re-deal with this BS.
Until we don't.
Now, the thing to hope for isthat they're really just
ridiculously dumb, and anytimeyou put that many dumb people
Actually, scratch that, scratchthat.
(19:06):
I'm going to take that.
The thing that we have to, Ithink, be hopeful for is they're
not there to govern as we'vedetermined right.
And so they kind of run intoeach other a lot.
They kind of you know thatquest for power.
It's like the ring the ring youknow, they just kind of get that
thing going.
I do want to give a shout out,though, to uh ice cube putting
(19:27):
it out there in a new joint thatyou know arrest the president,
go ahead.
You got the evidence.
He's russian intelligence, youknow, and so I, you know, I do
think.
Think art in any way, shape andform, whether it's podcasts,
whether it's songs, whether it'sTikToks, whatever it is is
going to be.
You know, it's, there's,there's a lot, there's a lot of
(19:48):
material out there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh yeah, I think it's like our survival, you know,
yeah, Like we're going to haveto use art to make it through
this.
Yeah Well, I mean on a lighternote.
Presidents old and new gatheredto pay respects to Jimmy Carter
and his funeral.
I didn't get to see this.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Rest in power, king, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Past presidents, vice presidents first, ladies were
mingling and somehow Trump wasnot excluded from this.
So tell me I mean, because thisis sort of new knowledge to me.
I've been so deep in fires,sure, actually saving lives and
animals from real fires, yeahthat and so news headlines, and
(20:29):
you know, I'm just sort of outof it this week, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So enlighten me.
Yeah, no, and this is greattoo's.
One of the things we love aboutthe show here is chopping up
things that most people probablyhaven't heard and definitely
haven't.
Uh, you know, kind of, becausea lot of people have heard about
, obviously, jimmy Carter'sfuneral, but it's overshadowed
by, understandably, so manythings that are going on.
(20:54):
Um, but of particular note atthe funeral was that it was five
generations of presidents thatwere there.
So mike pence's was there, um,trump's vice president with his
wife, and you know trump triedto have him killed.
Trump, trump was like I'm a,you know trump was.
When they were hang mike pence,he said in, you know, on the
(21:17):
grand jury indictment, now youcan go find yourself.
He said good, right and so, butyet it's standing.
Can you imagine no to saying I,just I, you know I tried to
have you killed or I was coolwith having you killed, and then
we got to go there and shakehands.
Well, pence being I don't know,he's stuck in this like
generation of, like when therewas like Reagan, you know
(21:37):
there's just this long gonegeneration Right, and they like
preserve you know the kind ofdignity of the office.
Meanwhile he's taking a dump onthe, you know, on the Resolute
desk and you know tick talkingabout it, tweeting about it, at
two in the morning.
I, you know, and so, but what'sfunny is the, his wife would
(21:57):
not, mike pence's wife would notshake trump's hand, shout out
to karen pence because, um, youknow, uh, mad respect.
And then the thing that kind ofbothered, I think, a lot of
people, myself included, is itwas just a little, it's a little
hard, because I, I think theproblem with trump is you, you
hit it on the.
You have to take him seriouslyand can't take him seriously at
(22:21):
the same time, and it's askingus to juggle this cognitive
dissonance as as as a society,that does not work.
It.
It can't work and I, so barackobama and everybody that you
know, and kamala harris and youknow we love everybody that you
know and Kamala Harris, and youknow we love Kamala.
We, you know, worked with thecampaign and everything,
(22:41):
rightfully so they said.
You know, you explain what youthink this man is going to do to
democracy, that he'sauthoritarian and waiting, that
it's fascism.
All of these things themajority of everybody on our
side know to be true and believe, and yet, at the same time, now
that it's post-election, barackobama's sitting there next to
(23:02):
donald trump and they're justkind of having sitting there
talking and laughing.
I respect the fact that.
You know, I saw west wing.
You know, as the president, youhave to deal with dictators.
You have to humor people thatdo atrocities to their, to their
people.
I understand diplomacy andthings like that and I
(23:23):
understand being taken thehigher ground and and.
But it's a little tough to seebecause you run a campaign
saying that this man is the endof democracy, this man which we
believe right, but he is, andyou know, let's bear this whole
thing out, right, but it's hard.
It was hard to see and I thinkthat bothered a lot of people.
And then there was anothersituation where, um, uh, there
(23:46):
was another situation wheregeorge w bush in the aisle,
trump was to the left, barackwas just to the right of him,
and then george bush.
George w bush was to the left,barack was just to the right of
him, and then George Bush.
George W Bush was to the rightof him.
So when George W Bush wascoming back from the casket, he
had to cross in front of Trumpand he kind of didn't do
anything to Trump, but he gaveBarack Obama a little belly tap
(24:10):
in a way.
That was kind of like I thinknow I've heard we could be wrong
, we could be wrong, but Ibelieve this is to be true which
is there's a seating chart andthere's kind of a way that they
just set up that.
It's just a tradition where thepresidents go, and so you want
to put them all in one closearea so you can get a shot, and
(24:32):
it's also something that neverhappens and things like that.
Um, and it's also somethingthat never happens and things
like that.
So the proximity to each otherwas particularly electric,
considering all the things thateven Trump has said to about Joe
Biden you know, and Joe Bidenand things like that, and they
have to sit right next to him.
So we're balancing this sort ofdecorum kind of thing and out of
respect, and so you know I'llrespect Trump, showed up with
(24:57):
Melania, you know, to payrespects to the longest living,
you know, president, and so cool, you know, I think.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Cool that everyone can be in the room together.
I mean, at least that's greatand props to.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Trump for being on good behavior and all that.
And let's see how long thatsort of decorum lasts and how
much that gets given back to theother person.
But all right, so now reallycleansing the palate.
Please give us some good news.
We bring our segment Pause forProgress.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean, you know, we've been kind of rocking and
rolling lately with FindingFosters which has been amazing.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
How's.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Rachel.
Rachel is so good.
The only thing is that I reallyneed to boot her out of the
house at some point, becauseshe's becoming very integrated
in my household and follows meeverywhere and is a little
obsessed with me, and she's nowbeen yelling at my son, nico,
every time he gets close to mewhen we are going to bed.
So if anyone would like tofoster rachel, I would
(26:02):
appreciate that, because littlehome girl is uh getting too
attached to me now yeah, well,yeah, she's adorable.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I know right, when you brought her in the first
time with her, with her littlekind of like wheelie setup, I
know Like she was like justglued to you.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
She really is.
But yeah, you know, Mr Wiggles,Noah, all the pups.
Mr Wiggles is so good oh mygoodness, yeah, I mean everybody
is great.
We've moved so many intoFosters to make room for some of
the fire kids that are comingin, some of the owner surrenders
that are coming in, andeveryone's really kind of been
stepping up in the midst of, youknow, the chaos.
(26:42):
So it's been a good foster weekfor us, which sounds rare, it
sounds weird, but yeah.
And then we've had some reallygood rescues on the ground, lots
of animals moving.
We've had a lot of sad momentstoo.
You know, not everyone has beenalive that we have found, so
that's been really hard.
So we're really trying tobalance you know, the winds this
(27:05):
week and we still have a bunchof animals that we're looking
for, you know.
So we're setting traps.
The good news from today isthat a few of our feeding
stations all the food wasmissing.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
So the good news from today is that a few of our
feeding stations all the foodwas missing, so that means
somebody's coming around.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, sure, and you can kind of tell when it's like
birds or squirrels taking thefood.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
This was, you know, the dog or the cat came and took
the food, so there's hope.
They're just hiding.
They're scared, you know.
So we're just going to keeptrying until you know, at least
a few more weeks, until we findall these dogs and cats that are
missing.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I love that as an update.
You know, make sure to checkour website for all the constant
updates, both from Paws forProgress as well as Compassion
Kind's work out in the field.
And thank you you know if Idon't say it enough thank you
for all the stuff that you andyour team and everything is
doing.
(27:58):
It is, it's the real work, youknow, along with all the first
responders and firefighters andvolunteers and everything, and
just you know God love all youand your families and, yeah,
props to Los Angeles again.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, the Angelenos are stepping up.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah, when we come back from break, you're gonna
get some more insights from theground.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
yeah join me, sasha Peters, on women in the nude,
season 2, where we bear it allexcept for our bodies.
Leave that to your imagination.
My wish for women is that westrip away the fear of judgment
and really embrace the fullspectrum of who we are.
I don't know if you were comingto terms with being pregnant on
the show.
Yeah, I think she was a littledepressed.
Let's live boldly and openlyand change the narratives that
(28:41):
define us.
I called my doctor.
I'm like I want to drive my carthrough a brick wall.
We deserve it and there's nobetter time than now.
Let's get out of our comfortzone and get down to the bottom
of who we are.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right, tiktok is about to be banned, or is it On
the 19th?
We've known this for a longtime.
They're trying to ban TikTok,which is funny because I've
never had a virus on TikTok, butI've had viruses all the time
on Facebook and I've had virusesall the time on Twitter.
I know Norm has viruses all thetime on Twitter, elon.
(29:15):
So we're going to pivot here.
Where are the kids?
The kids we?
Asher, our Gen Z correspondent,hipped us to lemonade.
We might set up some lemonadestand.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Make some lemonade.
We're going to set up alemonade stand.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Also, I love this one .
This one's really funny.
So the company, I don't know.
Do you know?
This is a company that makestiktok is by dance, right, and I
guess they're trying to saythis is a security threat, blah,
blah, blah.
And it probably is, but I'm surethat is yeah, but um, uh,
they're the bite dance is thecompany, and so as, and and I
think asher might be able toeven expand on this a little bit
(29:55):
more but so gen z kids aremoving to an app that's also
owned by ByteDance and it's madeit the number one social app on
all of iTunes and it's calledRed Note and I could be wrong.
If I'm wrong, hit us in thecomments and tell me, but I
think this is it, and so it onlyhad a Chinese version, which is
really, really funny.
(30:15):
So people were going on therewith Google Translate and doing
English and it'll translate itto Mandarin, and then they were
making like Chinese TikToks onit, because it's basically the
Chinese version of TikTok, andthe thing is, you want the
algorithm, you want the shit.
And then they were like, ohwell, there wasn't an English
version necessarily of it,because even when I saw it and I
(30:36):
downloaded it, it was a Chinese.
I had Chinese writing and notEnglish writing on it.
But what they did is theChinese being the Chinese, like,
in a matter of like three hours, they engineered it, they
cooked up an American version.
So, red note, there's anEnglish version as well.
That, I think, could you knowwho knows who knows?
(30:58):
But the Gen Z kids are jumpingon there to piss our government
off because it's like we'll justgo to another Chinese app.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, like take this away from us and watch what we
do.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Take this away from us, I mean, I kind of like that
you know what I like about thatis that's Gen Z saying take that
app away from us and we'll goto the worst boyfriend, the one
that you know the boyfriendwe'll go to the really really
awful guy yeah like thedelinquent like three charges
boyfriend that your mom doesn'tlike right, I'm gonna go down to
county and find my nextboyfriend speaking of, does uh,
(31:28):
what's his name?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
have a new wife?
Yet who?
Who?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
luigi, luigi uh, does luigi I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Is Luigi married yet?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, that's true, we'll have to get an update on
Luigi yeah, is he getting mailin, commissary?
I don't know but I feel likehomies got to be getting
engagements.
Make sure you're not going tolose any Slap the Power or
anything from Slap the Network,because we'll be there upping
your grill promise.
But unfortunately the app willbe banned in US this Sunday if
(31:58):
it isn't sold.
Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tankfame has said he'd like to
purchase the TikTok assets.
Unfortunately, bytedance claimsit's not for sale and as of now
, things are not looking greatfor TikTok.
It's millions of users, youknow.
I think it's going to splinterinto a lot of things.
It could go back to Instagram,facebook and all that stuff, but
(32:19):
also Red Note hey, shout out toRed Note Lemonade.
Who knows?
We'll see where it goes.
I also think this could getkicked down the field and if it
does go, I think I've heard thatit goes dark on the app.
It goes dark on the App Store,but we're going to be able to
continue to use it for theforeseeable future until there's
an update that gets updated onthe App Store and then, if you
(32:42):
update, it will, I think, shutit down.
And then there's also thingswhere you can use a VPN and say
you're living in a not oppressedcountry like Canada or Mexico,
yeah, somewhere like that.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Just use your VPN to say you're coming from there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I'll just TikTok from Puerto Rico.
Call it a Mexico, yeah,somewhere like there.
Just use your VPN to say you'recoming from there.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, I'll just TikTok from Puerto Rico.
Call it a day.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be interesting.
If you are on TikTok and you'rescared, let us know where
you're going, hit us up in thecomments and things like that
and let us know what's happeningto your TikTok journey, because
they've got a great algorithm.
It really is good.
It really is.
My For you page pretty muchknows me pretty well, I know I
know All right, so before we getout of here, another edition of
(33:24):
Make this, ish Make.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Sense Asher.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Our own Gen Z correspondent, asher Freidberg,
brings issues of the day andexplains from a Gen Z
perspective how this makes sense.
So this time we have to summonhim, though right.
Is that the deal?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, yeah, because we never know where he is.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Right, sure, that's true, all right.
So I guess, what do we do?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm going to click my heels under the desk three
times Okay do it?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, okay, one, two, three, we're live.
You can't, actually, you can beon this show.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, you actually could drink a hippie water.
Yeah, you could drink thishippie water, probably could.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
We'll allow it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right.
Maybe after we're done, it'sstill fires based.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yeah, no, it's been a tough.
It's been officially a week asof the day we're shooting this
about a week and a half whenthis is out.
But yeah, I mean, gen Z has hada very unique perspective on
the fires.
There's been a combination of alot of empathy and a lot of
people putting efforts to helpout.
There's been a lot of lack ofempathy.
I would say it depends on whoyou are.
(34:37):
It's very much going to bebased on who you are.
A lot of it's going to becelebrity-based.
People are.
I mean, look, if you're apolitician, some people are less
sympathetic towards politiciansthey don't like, or people who
share political views they don'tlike.
People are talking about JamesWoods, mel Gibson, but then
there's celebrities that it'snot necessarily a political
thing and more of a perceivedidea of wealth thing, whether or
(35:00):
not it's true or not, the ideathat there seems to be no
sympathy for celebrities whohave lost their homes, possibly
pets and maybe more.
It's been a really interestingdual perspective where, again,
we are clearly not a monolith.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
No, no, and you know, from Altadena to the Palisades,
it's all stretches of theeconomic spectrum, and what is
it that you think is the Gen Zstandout?
(35:36):
As far as I only know Gen Z tobe.
Really, in these situations,what comes across my algorithm
is a lot of really reallyawesome, awesome energy and
people.
What's been the worst thingthat you've seen?
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Well, I do want to just quickly highlight what you
were saying, because, yes, a lotof Gen Z has been very, just,
very sympathetic, you know,empathetic, wanting to help
people, donating their food,their clothing.
We all know that.
But the assumption is that theyare and that it's all
celebrities and it's not.
It's not, and especially inAltadena, I mean, I'm going to
houses where, yes, they're nicehouses, but they've had them in
(36:28):
their families for decades.
Yeah decades, decades, decades,and it is complete devastation
for them because, even thoughthe value of the home reached
you know 50 times more than whatit was when they got it.
Now they have nothing andthey're not going to be able to
get a house that can compare tothe home that they had.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
That's the problem.
So that's the problem.
The market has moved on.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
They're going to go from their nice three-bedroom
house in Altadena to maybe a onebedroom apartment that they can
afford.
I mean, that's not so peoplearen't factoring in those.
You know those pieces and it isa little spotty and a lot of
people did inherit these homes.
So not only that part, but thenon the celebrity side, of
course, we can all take away theguilt and you know feeling bad
(37:12):
because we know that they havefunds to renew and get.
But, to your point, memoriesare lost.
That is your home, where you'veraised your children.
I mean, people have lost theiranimals.
You know their loved ones.
So there's different ways tofeel bad, you know.
Yeah, there's just differentways to approach it.
(37:36):
It's not always about money.
We're so focused on money andand I get it if you're the
person on the other end thatdoesn't have the funds to get a
new house, I get it, yeah, butwe can still all agree and
relate on the fact that memoriesbeing lost, the home that you
share your dinners with yourfamily every night and the home
that's been in your home, youknow, in your family for
(37:56):
generations.
Like it's terrible and and forthe fur babies.
On my end I mean, I don't carehow, I don't care what house
you're in.
Yeah, it's devastating to losea family member.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So and the love you put into these houses and things
like that.
Yeah, you know, and things likethat.
Yeah, you know it's, yeah, it'sa lot Well, gen Z, boomer X,
millennial Y, it doesn't matter.
If you need help and don't haveit, make sure to reach out and
you know.
I think you know again.
(38:31):
I think, like you said, you'reproud of Gen Z.
I am too.
I'm proud of everybody that'sbeen around, as far as all the
people that are kind of in ourthread, of all generations.
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
Well, we're not going to forget it here in.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
California.
All right, well, somber show,but that will do it for us.
Thank you guys for listening.
Thank you guys.
Thank you for all the work thatyou're doing.
Thank you firefighters, thankyou all the volunteers.
Again, uh, thank you to asher,our gen z correspondent, and, uh
, everybody, stay tough, loveeach other and someone else and
make sure to like, subscribe,share, uh, and if you want to
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hear something on the show,email us.
We might even do that too.
So, all right, till next week,sonics.
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