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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, kf.
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you and we just had a
lovely conversation and insightful and informative talk with JR.
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Jackson.
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He hosts quite a few different things, including The Watch
List with JR. Jackson and JR.
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Rated.
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He's a former senior producer and contributor on The Young
Turks as well. Very well known, very well known analyst,
and we were so grateful to have him on here
on Saturdays with Tiffany. So let make sure you catch
that under featured Segments. It'd be posted a little bit
later this evening. We're going to take our deeper dive
segment and we're going to look at laws that will
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be going into effect on Tuesday, July first. It is
insane to me that July is already here. It does
feel like time is going by faster. I know we
say this, we share this with the other often, but
it does feel like that's the reality. Because it is
July first, in a couple of days, and with that
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comes an onslought of new laws that will become real,
real and practiced in California.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
These laws range from.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
New descriptors for Airbnb and other short term rentals, as
well as additional transparency for the recently established care Court.
So let's get into a few of them so you
can know what to expect, and then at six point
thirty we'll have Aaron ac Christiansen on to talk about
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efforts in downtown LA and specifically skid Row with rescuing
animals that are being neglected, abused, and not taking care
of in other ways. All right, let's get into it.
New laws taking effect on July first in California. So,
if you're like me, you subscribe to different things, whether
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it's your Netflix or whether it's something that you did
a trial subscription for, and often we forget to cancel,
or you might set a reminder and try to remember,
you know, let me cancel that free one week subscription
before they start charging my card. Well, if you're like me,
when you try to cancel, it's hard. It's like they
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put the cancelation segment of the website or app bury
deep within all these other areas, and it's hard to
parse through those things and find that one little button
that cancels your subscription. A lot of us complain about that.
In California has listened it is attempting the state of
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California to eliminate that cumbersome cancelation process for subscriptions. As
of July first, people like you and I will be
able to cancel subscriptions through the same same method you
use to sign up for the subscription. So if you
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signed up via email, just click that button and you
signed up, you will be able to cancel that subscription
to that digital paper or that makeup, whatever you're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I don't know what you're doing, You'll be able to
do it through email.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If you do it through the app and a specific
area on the app, you'll be able to go back
to that app. Now, I don't know how California as
a state will be able to kind of get its
hand in all these different subscriptions and make it so,
but it is law as of July first, and I
imagine that if after July first, you have trouble unsubscribing
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canceling your subscriptions, you'll be able to point to this new.
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Law and have your situation be made whole and right.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So that's the simplified cancelation process and it hopefully will
save you a few bucks. Talking about vacations in summer,
a lot of people decide they don't want to do hotels,
they don't want to stay with friends or family, they
don't want to take a poop cruise. Maybe they want
to do Airbnb or another type of short term rental. Well,
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as of July first, these short term rentals will need
to disclose all fees and related charges for failing to
follow cleaning tasks. So what that means is a list
of clearly detailed tasks must be provided on that platform.
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Failing to do so will result in a potential cleaning bee.
So if you're going to rent a room or whatever
it is for however long it is you're going to
be renting it for, you're out of town, you're on
a business trip, whatever it is, often you'll have with
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these short term rentals via Airbnb or verbal or any
house whatever, a list of things you're responsible for as
the renter. Most people don't want to go on vacation
and have to be saddled with cleaning up with housekeeping duties.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But if you do these.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Short term rentals, that's part and parcel with it. That's
a part of renting someone's property, you're expected to clean
it up. In some cases, those cleaning fees can be exorbitant.
They can tack on fifty one hundred, two hundred dollars
to what otherwise might be an acceptable amount of money
to pay for that particular situation, and people have complained
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about that. So they're saying, now a list of clearly
detailed tasks must be provided. People can't say, okay, I
want you to clean the living room before you check out.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
What does that mean? What does that entail?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You might just pick up your things or put things
back where you got and put the remote back on
the table, bluff the cushions a bit. What they need
now is to provide explicit and specific details about what
cleaning the living room means. Sweep, mop, take out the trash,
do all these things, which will probably start to push
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people back to hotels because no one wants to go
on vacation and be the help all right, next one.
These are laws taking effect on Tuesday, July first. When
it comes to students' mental health, the mental health of
our k through twelve students, California has been an avant
garde leader in responding to mental health. Whatever side you're
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on politically, I think we all can agree that kids
should have their mental health needs be taken care of
lest they grow up and become dependent adults who are
experiencing mental health crises that we then will complain about.
On the back end, well, California school for seven through
twelfth graders who provide students with school IDs will need
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to print the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number on the
back of those IDs. Kids are issued an ID. When
I was growing up, I had an ID. You had
an ID if you went to a public school or
maybe private in California. Now schools for seventh through twelfth graders,
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this is not your third grader, this is not your
kinder student.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So don't panic.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Your seventh through twelfth graders will have on the back
of their student IDs the number to the suicide and
Crisis Lifeline. Because, while you may not want to admit it,
mental health is being challenged amongst adolescents and children. You
can point to social media, you can point to whatever
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it is you might see as a stressor, but the
facts are clear. Students kids are experienced saying a lot
of mental health stressors and the suicide and Crisis Lifeline
will be printed on the back of their school IDs.
Next one, Let's say you are a third party seller
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of stolen goods. Maybe you're trying to make a hustle,
you didn't know or you didn't know that the items
you're selling are stolen.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well.
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Last year, the California legislature focused on cracking down on
retail theft, introducing a package of bills that raised penalties
and increased available resources. One of the new laws, taking
effect on July first, will require online marketplaces to establish
a verification process to ensure that sellers aren't selling stolen
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merchandise and they will then notify the police about potentially
stolen items.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It might not gets you that forty seven dollars Louiviton
bag that you had your eye on because it was stolen,
but it is a good thing if you are on
the other end in which you have become victimized and
now your things are on the marketplace. So California legislature
will require these marketplaces online to establish that verification process
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to make sure that the items being sold are not stolen,
and if they are found out to be stolen, they're
going to the police about those items. When we come
back to continue our deeper dive segment, we'll further this
conversation about laws taking effect on July first, including drink
lids at bars, workplace protections for domestic workers, and the
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Care Act, which has to do with medical costs. All
of that and more on the other side of the break,
and then a conversation at six point thirty with Ac
Christiansen right here on Saturdays with Tiffany KFI AM six
forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
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iHeartRadio app to me Hobbs here with you until seven o'clock,
of which then Michael Monks will be joining the table
to preview for us what will be going on on
his big show. Make sure you stay tuned for that
at six point thirty. Again, stay tuned because we'll be
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talking to Aaron Ac Christiansen, and he has a lot
to let us know about what's going on downtown and
Downtown LA when it comes to pets, dogs, cats, everything
in between and the neglect and abuse that many of
these pets are subjected to and how he and others
are leading a major effort to do a big rescue
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operation to get those pets out of downtown LA and rehoused.
Right now, though, we're talking about laws going into effect
on Tuesday, July first, because that is about twenty laws
are going to take effect and you should know what
they are. We talked about the simplified cancelation process making
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it easier for you to undo your subscriptions online, and
we have a talk back from a listener.
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Aloha, Tiffanya, Mauie County.
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Just love you girl.
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Hey.
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One way around the stuff when your subscriptions I learned
from a gentleman is to buy cards, you know, the
gift cards. Get a gift card that way when it
runs out of time and get another gift card and
they don't have all your credit card or debit information. Okay,
Aloha kid, you're doing great.
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We just love you, oh Aloha, and my best to
you and all of you out there in Maui County
and hopefully you guys are on the other side of
what you've been dealing with for such a long time.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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We also talked about with these new California laws short
term rental fee disclosure so you can know what tasks
responsible for as far as cleaning is concerned, should you
book an Airbnb. Mentioned what's going on in California schools
for kids in seventh through twelfth grade, they're going to
have the suicide and Crisis lifeline number printed on the
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back of their school IDs. Back or front doesn't quite specify,
but on their IDs they'll have access to that suicide
and crisis lifeline as well as the California legislature is
making sure that stolen goods are being cracked down on.
When it comes to online marketplaces, they want these online marketplaces,
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whatever it may be, Facebook Marketplace or anything at seed,
anything that you buy online, to make sure that they're
not selling stolen merchandise. So there will be a verification
process implemented and followed per this new law that makes
it so selling stolen merchandise is not a thing. And
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if you still try and do it, those online marketplaces
are going to be accountable and expected to turn you
in to the police.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Continuing, drink lids at bars. You go out to a bar,
your cup may very well be uncovered that's kind of commonplace,
and many bars, you're just getting a cup, right, whether
it's plastic or glass or whatever, it may be not
necessarily a lid on top of that drink. But bar owners,
as of July first, will now need to have lids
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available for their customers drinks upon request. And this is
an effort to mitigate the very terrible reality that people
put things in the drinks of others. It's called roofing,
and they say that there must always be a sign
posted in a visible area, and that sign must read quote,
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don't get roofeed drink lids and drinks. By making drug
test kits available here, ask a staff member for details.
Kind of makes you wonder why wasn't that in place before?
But better late than ever, I suppose, so you'll be
able to ask for a lid for your drink, not
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to take it to go. This is not New Orleans,
and I guess in Santa Monica you'll be able to
walk around the promenade down there with your drink, but
it's for when you're in the bar so that your
drink doesn't get spiked. I'm not laughing at the spiking
as much as I'm laughing at the or snickering at
the fact that we're even having to discuss this in
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twenty twenty five, but this is where we're at.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Next.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Another law taking effect July first, involves workplace protections for
domestic workers, So California went ahead and expanded the definition
of employment for all cal OSHA protections, which now will
include nanny's and how most cleaners employed by agencies. The
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provisions don't apply to private individuals who hire someone to
perform household tasks such as a private cook or chef,
or private cleaning service or private childcare in your own home.
But if you're a nanny or a house cleaner employed
by agency, the definition of employment for your cow OSHA
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protection will now also include you. And finally, the Care
Act will be displaying increased transparency. The Care Act was
passed in twenty twenty two, and Care is an acronym.
This act allows people on behalf of someone who's experiencing
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mental health issues to petition a court to get court
ordered treatment including medication, housing, and other resources. So that's
what the Care Act does past three years ago. Allows
people to act on behalf of someone who's experiencing mental
health challenges to make sure that you can petition the
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court to get a court order treatment plan, medication, housing,
other resources. The new law would require that the courts
provide updates on that treatment process to the petitioners about
the individual's progress. So, if you're the person acting on
behalf of a person experiencing mental health challenges and you
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are petitioning the court to get a court ordered treatment
plan for that person, the court will now be required
to provide updates on the treatment process to you, so
you can make sure that you are following along and
in agreement or fixing whatever needs to be fixed about
this court order treatment plan.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
All of these.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Laws take effect on Tuesday, July first, and if you
want to find more information about that, you can go
to ABC ten dot com and they have all of
these laws outlined right there and a quick Google search
as well. We'll give you more information about the laws
taking effect in California on Tuesday when we come back.
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We're talking to Aaron ac Christiansen about all things animal
rescue right here on kf I AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
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Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
What a big, fun Saturday summertime show. And one of
the things that I really wanted to make sure we
made good on was having our next guests join the
program last week when all of the news about Iran
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was breaking. Of course, as we are a news talk station,
we pivoted and made sure that we gave you wall
to wall coverage about what was going on in Iran,
and we did, and we did a good job at it,
I must say, but we also had to shift some
things around. And one of the things that we shifted
around is Aaron Ac Christiansin. We weren't able to have
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Aaron on Ac as we like to call him, on
last week, but he was so generous in his extremely
busy and stretched thin schedule to give us time today
that I wanted to make sure that we jumped at it.
And like I said, that we made good on the
promise to deliver AC to you. Let me tell you
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a little bit about Aaron Ac Christiansin. And when I
say a little bit, just a little bit, because if
I read off all of his accolades, we wouldn't have
time to talk to him. Well, AC found it the
Animal Advocacy Network because he's absolutely a person who is
all action and less talk. In fact, there's a hashtag
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with the reverse of that, less talk, more action that
you can look up and see any number of examples
of AC out in the field, out on the ground,
boots to the ground, involving himself in all things animal
advocacy and rescue. AC has led pet rescue efforts from
New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina in two thousand and five
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all the way back to California all corners of the state,
including responding to the wildfires in January, where AC was
an everyday fixture in the Palisades in the Altadena area.
Other fires as well prior to the January wildfires, where
AC has rescued animals big and small and helped with
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those reunification efforts. Well, now AC is a part of
a task force responding to a very bad situation in
downtown LA. And what AC and this task force are doing,
I must say, AC.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Will put everyone ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
He'll say it's not him, He's not the one who
should be getting the attention or any sort of limelight
that it's this person or this organization, but AC is
right there as well. What they're doing is they're going
onto the streets of downtown downtown LA and they're finding pets, dogs, cats,
everything else that are being neglected and abused.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
They don't stop there. They're not just observers.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
They are actively rescuing and rehousing these pets to remove
them from these dire situations. And I wanted AC to
come on today and last week to talk about those efforts,
what he needs going forward for the Animal Advocacy Network,
and some good news about plans that are in the works.
And right there, I think we're ready to be grasped
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in terms of habitata, a place in which animals will
be able to have refuge and be safe under AC's care.
I'd be very very happy for all of you listening
to welcome with your kind, kind kind hearts Aaron, Ac
Christiansen to KFI and Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Hi Ac, Holy wah? How do I follow that?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Tiffany, Like I.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Said, if I were to give everything that you do,
we'd have no time to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Let's get into it. Let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Tell us about what's going on in downtown LA and
why we should care.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Actually, so before you do that, tell us what you're doing,
because you're on the road right now.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Where are you headed.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I am thirty minutes out from Victorville the Fairgrounds. There
is a fire in a rural area that is spreading
quite quickly, and I have a ton of rescue partners,
including the amazing organization bybrick k nine, which they do.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
They are not only like.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
A dog sanctuary, dog rescue, but they make some of
the most amazing fresh dog food on the planet.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh wow, they have a ton of fosters.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
They actually have a working ranch also, And she just
sent me a picture from her bathroom and the smoke
plume is literally in her backyard. So oh, I've got
my four horse trailer hooked up and I am flying
U the khone right now.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh so you are literally right now on the way
to provide rescue and support to this community as this
fire unfortunately continues to rage.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Yes, ma'am, Lake Fire. Yeah, you can follow it on
watch app. It's all over X right now.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So, yeah, we've been reporting on it right here in
our newsroom. But tell us a bit about what's happening
in downtown LA.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
All right, Well, the situation spans from Wilmington, which is
where our ports are, all the way to south central Compton.
I mean we're talking.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I couldn't even tell you. Skid Row alone loan is
fifty blocks of just pure health.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
But now, I mean the fires didn't help things, but
now there are just so many unhoused and it's just
thousands of r v's and tents, and I mean literally,
we could have a thousand volunteers out there sixteen hours
a day and we would find ten neglect hit cases
every day.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I mean, it's just it's it's a nightmare.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
And yeah, we're trying to do something about it, and
we're being we've been quite impactful.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
One of the things.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And thank you for doing that, because that's no easy
feat by any stretch of the imagination. It comes with
a lot of risk and great rewards if you experience
success with that. But there's a lot you have to
go through to experience success. And I'm sure success isn't
even necessarily the best word to describe being able to
remove these animals.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
This is a duty.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
You're not necessarily looking for accolades as much as you
are doing what comes naturally to you to save these animals,
But tell us a bit about some of those risks
when it comes to going into these areas.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You're all over social media.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I've seen you post quite a bit about challenges and
being challenged by people who you're attempting to separate from
these abused and neglected pets.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Tell us a bit about it.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Skid Row is not just a place where homeless call home.
It's unfortunately an area where a lot of people like
to handle their illegal business. So there's a lot of
dog fighting down there. These people don't actually reside in
skid Row, but much like a I guess like a
drug ring or a prostitution ring, it's run from the
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outside with people that are down there. So we've got
we broke up one that had eight dogs, including a
couple of bait dogs, and then we've got our eyes
on a couple California. So our leadership has been no help.
So it's organizations like WUFA Women United for Animal Welfare
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that are.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Just boots on the ground. They've been down.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
There a lot longer than me, and they've they've built
a lot of repport down there, and they have a
lot of insiders down there, and that's how I got involved.
I didn't want these ladies running around on their own,
so I got involved. Initially just kind of transport security,
but then I saw the need and there's no way
I could just you know, sit on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Can you tell us some of the stories in which
you know what actually before we do, because we're gonna
go up, We're up against a break and I don't
want to cut your story off before we shift over
after the break to some examples of ways in which
you've been able to remove these pets from this situation downtown.
Tell people where they can reach you on social media
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and follow what you're doing today, follow the things that
you're doing in the future.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, I'm Instagram is my main platform, and it's Animal
Advocacy A d v O C A C Y and
it's just net et. The website is Animal Advocacynetwork dot org.
But I'm really active on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
That's kind of where I do all my posts.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
It's you know, it's kind of my biggest platform.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
As far as the the rescue goes.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
My personal page, that Vegas guy, I've got a decent
following from my days in Vegas and as a.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Celebrity chef and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
So but that's mostly kind of bipolar, my personal life
all over the place. But Animal Advocacy Net on Instagram,
got it.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's a lot. And the thing is we'll be able
to continue the conversation. You'll share the host tags and
websites when we come back, as well as some examples
of ways in which you have been able to remove
animals from these really terrible situations in downtown LA and
what you need going forward to help fund hopefully this
property that you are planning to help these animals. We'll
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get into that on the other side of the break, AC,
So hang on drive safely. He's en route right now
to rescue during this lake fire. He's right there, boots
on the ground. Animal Advocacy Network Aaron ac Christiansen and
will continue the conversation on the other side of the break.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Hang on AC.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
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If I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you, Saturday's with Tiffany one more segment.
And he's just heard Tim Conway there talk about his
own Deeper Dive if like everyone's taking our Deeper Dives segment, Kayla.
But you know it's a good thing. It's a compliment.
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It's a compliment. He's also talking about law. How about that?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Tim Conway a listener yourself. I see you also talking
to Aaron Ac christian Sin, founder of the Animal Advocacy Network.
He's a beast in animal rescue advocacy, as is in
the title there of his organization. He's even on the
road right now heading up to the lake fire out
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there outside of it.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Think you said Lake Paris? Is that correct? Ac?
Speaker 6 (28:21):
No, it's s.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Y Yeah, got it, got it? Thank you, Please jump
in and correct me anytime. That's perfectly.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And he's on his way out there to hopefully help
rescue any animals in need as this fire unfortunately continues
to rage in that area. And it's just a testament
to who Aaron Ac Christiansen is. So AC was telling
us a bit about advocacy and rescue in downtown LA.
It's challenges, it's pitfalls. Can you tell us some of
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the positive stories. Let me give us one or two
positive stories about rescue in downtown LA.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Yeah, let me you know, let me say that one
out of one hundred cases, the dog the cat is
in a beautiful situation. I mean there's you know, homeless
or amazing caretakers of their animals.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
But that's one in a hundred.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
And in those cases we will get permission from the
owners and you know, just get them their vaccine, stay
a neuter if needed, chips and then return them. So
you know, one in one hundred cases is positive. It's
the other ninety nine that is just it's hard.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think I saw yesterday and again, correct
me if I'm wrong, but there was one pet owner
who did in fact relinquish their dog I think without
too much challenge.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Do you find that that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Seems to be something that your organization experiences where people
will in fact give their animals to you if you
kind of can provide them with that trust and that
assurance that things will be okay.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Are they are they distrusting?
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Are they trusting?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
There's a really gross.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Thing that happens with some of the organizations down there.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Katies individuals to relinquish the dogs. I don't pay. I
don't pay. I appealed.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
You know, I've got a black belt in verbal judo.
So if that doesn't work, then I remove the dogs
by any means. Okay, necessary, But a lot of the
organizations down there do pay. They cover that up, and
then it just seems kind of like it was just
you know, the owner.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
I was happy to let the dog go A I
don't know how to. You know, it's trying to you're
laying it out.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You're laying it out very plain right there.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I think we all understand what you're saying, what you're
not saying too.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Okay, So let's let's shift gears a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Let's go away from that the pay to play situation,
and let's talk about what you need ac as you
go forward, because, like I said before, kind of teased it,
there's a huge property you're interested in. What is it
that you're planning on doing with this property? And what
do you how can we help?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Okay, So my old rescue partner who is unfortunately she
was in a really bad accident and was paralyzed from
the waist.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Down, but she's she's recovering and she'll.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Be back on my by my side in no time.
But she has a fourteen acre property that used to
be an equine sanctuary where she would uh she'd bring
veterans up and kids with special needs and they would
work with senior horses and rescue animals and it was
it was really awesome.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Well, that property has.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Been sitting empty now for a couple of years since
her accident, so I took it over, oh about a
two weeks ago now, because there's.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
A huge need.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
There's a huge need for not we call them desert dogs,
but it's more than just desert. There's a there's a
thing here in California and in Vegas where people when
they're done with their dogs, they just dump them mount
into the desert or the forest or into BLM properties.
So we're dealing with a lot of that, plus the
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skid row issue, and as we all know that all
the shelters and rescues and stuff are beyond capacity, and
so we're spending thousands and thousands of dollars to fly
these dogs. And I just got done doing an Idaho
to Colorado back to California trip, which you know costs
thousands of dollars from the organization that was you know,
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getting these dogs to safety. So with this property, hopefully
we can raise some funds and we get some big
donors involved and get some of the big organizations involved
with this property, we could potentially house hundreds on rotation.
Uh you know, we'll have with with the help of
doctor Kevin mcaveelly and doctor Annie you know, my friend
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and Monica crew, they'll have full vet care, they'll get
everything that they need and then when they're.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Ready to go uh for uh forever homes the term
I don't like.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
But anyways, when they're ready to go there for forever homes,
uh you know, we'll we'll make that happen.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
We'll we'll have placement, uh you know all that.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
So it's just a it's it's just a spot that's
needed in California so that we cannot.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Save save as many dogs.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
And I want to do a barnyard cat program there
also for some of these feral communities that were in
the Palace as an Altadena that lost.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Their you know, their communities. So it's it's more than
just dogs.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Absolutely, Aaron, tell people where they can reach you, where
they can follow you, support, you give your website and
your social media out one more time, all.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Right, I have a GoFundMe up for the bare minimum
that's needed to get this sanctuary up and going. Like
I said, the property is already obtained.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
I got my kennel license.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
It's uh, it's above Temecula, so above wine country. I'm
gonna go start knocking on some wine doors and see
if there's anything we can do to to make money
and you know, potentially grab some bottles of wine also.
But anyway, so it's it's a beautiful proper for teen acres,
We're going to dedicate u at least five acres to
the strays and the desert dogs, which will leave another
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five for what we'll call it just temporary fostering. Where
we got the plants. We're working with a couple organizations
that have done this in the past, and so we've
already got the plans for all the kennels and everything.
And then I want to dedicate a few acres because
there's a beautiful pond on the property. I want to
dedicate a few acres to those in rescue first responders.
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That's and kind of you know, just have a place
where you can come and hang out with rescue animals
and kind of just decompressed and unplugged, but yeah, to
help again. Animal Advocacy nets on Instagram. Animal Animal Advocacynetwork
dot org is the website website but linked to the
go fundme and all the ways to donate are on
(34:57):
those And I am a legit five ole well I
should say we no, I started out as solo, but
now I've got one hundreds of volunteers working with me,
so it's been pretty amazing. But we are legit five
O one C three so everything is tax deductible, and
we're also looking for volunteers, so and donations of fencing.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
We need a ton of fencing.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
We need a ton of I guess it's called asphalt
grinding for the road up, So lots of lots of
needs more than just monetary.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Awesome, ac, Thank you for everything you're doing. Be safe
out there as you're headed to that fire, the lake
fire to rescue animals and do what you do as
only you can. We appreciate you coming on, and of
course you're welcome back here anytime, barring there's not a
war outbreak or something.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Hey Tiffany, we really appreciate your voice. For all the animals.
You've been amazing, amazing, amazing for all of us an
animal rescue.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
So thank you, Paulso.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
You're so welcome. Have a wonderful and safe forth. We
have one final talkback that will end the show.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
With Hey, Tiffany, nothing important, just that you're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Thank you, as are all of you.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Have a wonderful fourth of July, a say, fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Remember if you are not into the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
For the eagles out there in Big Bear Valley, there's
a petition that's circulating, so you can definitely try and
lend your efforts towards that to protect the eagles. The
eagles are all like five months old now, and if
you're watching them like I do, it's just a magical
experience to behold. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
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Tiffany Hobbs here with you and we just had a
lovely conversation and insightful and informative talk with JR.
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Jackson.
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He hosts quite a few different things, including The Watch
List with JR. Jackson and JR.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Rated.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
He's a former senior producer and contributor on The Young
Turks as well. Very well known, very well known analyst,
and we were so grateful to have him on here
on Saturdays with Tiffany. So let make sure you catch
that under featured Segments. It'd be posted a little bit
later this evening. We're going to take our deeper dive
segment and we're going to look at laws that will
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be going into effect on Tuesday, July first. It is
insane to me that July is already here. It does
feel like time is going by faster. I know we
say this, we share this with the other often, but
it does feel like that's the reality. Because it is
July first, in a couple of days, and with that
(01:07):
comes an onslought of new laws that will become real,
real and practiced in California.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
These laws range from.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
New descriptors for Airbnb and other short term rentals, as
well as additional transparency for the recently established care Court.
So let's get into a few of them so you
can know what to expect, and then at six point
thirty we'll have Aaron ac Christiansen on to talk about
(01:39):
efforts in downtown LA and specifically skid Row with rescuing
animals that are being neglected, abused, and not taking care
of in other ways. All right, let's get into it.
New laws taking effect on July first in California. So,
if you're like me, you subscribe to different things, whether
(02:01):
it's your Netflix or whether it's something that you did
a trial subscription for, and often we forget to cancel,
or you might set a reminder and try to remember,
you know, let me cancel that free one week subscription
before they start charging my card. Well, if you're like me,
when you try to cancel, it's hard. It's like they
(02:25):
put the cancelation segment of the website or app bury
deep within all these other areas, and it's hard to
parse through those things and find that one little button
that cancels your subscription. A lot of us complain about that.
In California has listened it is attempting the state of
(02:45):
California to eliminate that cumbersome cancelation process for subscriptions. As
of July first, people like you and I will be
able to cancel subscriptions through the same same method you
use to sign up for the subscription. So if you
(03:06):
signed up via email, just click that button and you
signed up, you will be able to cancel that subscription
to that digital paper or that makeup, whatever you're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I don't know what you're doing, You'll be able to
do it through email.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If you do it through the app and a specific
area on the app, you'll be able to go back
to that app. Now, I don't know how California as
a state will be able to kind of get its
hand in all these different subscriptions and make it so,
but it is law as of July first, and I
imagine that if after July first, you have trouble unsubscribing
(03:44):
canceling your subscriptions, you'll be able to point to this new.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Law and have your situation be made whole and right.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So that's the simplified cancelation process and it hopefully will
save you a few bucks. Talking about vacations in summer,
a lot of people decide they don't want to do hotels,
they don't want to stay with friends or family, they
don't want to take a poop cruise. Maybe they want
to do Airbnb or another type of short term rental. Well,
(04:18):
as of July first, these short term rentals will need
to disclose all fees and related charges for failing to
follow cleaning tasks. So what that means is a list
of clearly detailed tasks must be provided on that platform.
(04:38):
Failing to do so will result in a potential cleaning bee.
So if you're going to rent a room or whatever
it is for however long it is you're going to
be renting it for, you're out of town, you're on
a business trip, whatever it is, often you'll have with
(04:58):
these short term rentals via Airbnb or verbal or any
house whatever, a list of things you're responsible for as
the renter. Most people don't want to go on vacation
and have to be saddled with cleaning up with housekeeping duties.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But if you do these.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Short term rentals, that's part and parcel with it. That's
a part of renting someone's property, you're expected to clean
it up. In some cases, those cleaning fees can be exorbitant.
They can tack on fifty one hundred, two hundred dollars
to what otherwise might be an acceptable amount of money
to pay for that particular situation, and people have complained
(05:40):
about that. So they're saying, now a list of clearly
detailed tasks must be provided. People can't say, okay, I
want you to clean the living room before you check out.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
What does that mean? What does that entail?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You might just pick up your things or put things
back where you got and put the remote back on
the table, bluff the cushions a bit. What they need
now is to provide explicit and specific details about what
cleaning the living room means. Sweep, mop, take out the trash,
do all these things, which will probably start to push
(06:17):
people back to hotels because no one wants to go
on vacation and be the help all right, next one.
These are laws taking effect on Tuesday, July first. When
it comes to students' mental health, the mental health of
our k through twelve students, California has been an avant
garde leader in responding to mental health. Whatever side you're
(06:41):
on politically, I think we all can agree that kids
should have their mental health needs be taken care of
lest they grow up and become dependent adults who are
experiencing mental health crises that we then will complain about.
On the back end, well, California school for seven through
twelfth graders who provide students with school IDs will need
(07:05):
to print the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number on the
back of those IDs. Kids are issued an ID. When
I was growing up, I had an ID. You had
an ID if you went to a public school or
maybe private in California. Now schools for seventh through twelfth graders,
(07:27):
this is not your third grader, this is not your
kinder student.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So don't panic.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Your seventh through twelfth graders will have on the back
of their student IDs the number to the suicide and
Crisis Lifeline. Because, while you may not want to admit it,
mental health is being challenged amongst adolescents and children. You
can point to social media, you can point to whatever
(07:53):
it is you might see as a stressor, but the
facts are clear. Students kids are experienced saying a lot
of mental health stressors and the suicide and Crisis Lifeline
will be printed on the back of their school IDs.
Next one, Let's say you are a third party seller
(08:15):
of stolen goods. Maybe you're trying to make a hustle,
you didn't know or you didn't know that the items
you're selling are stolen.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Last year, the California legislature focused on cracking down on
retail theft, introducing a package of bills that raised penalties
and increased available resources. One of the new laws, taking
effect on July first, will require online marketplaces to establish
a verification process to ensure that sellers aren't selling stolen
(08:49):
merchandise and they will then notify the police about potentially
stolen items.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It might not gets you that forty seven dollars Louiviton
bag that you had your eye on because it was stolen,
but it is a good thing if you are on
the other end in which you have become victimized and
now your things are on the marketplace. So California legislature
will require these marketplaces online to establish that verification process
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to make sure that the items being sold are not stolen,
and if they are found out to be stolen, they're
going to the police about those items. When we come
back to continue our deeper dive segment, we'll further this
conversation about laws taking effect on July first, including drink
lids at bars, workplace protections for domestic workers, and the
(09:43):
Care Act, which has to do with medical costs. All
of that and more on the other side of the break,
and then a conversation at six point thirty with Ac
Christiansen right here on Saturdays with Tiffany KFI AM six
forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Ass you're listening to KFI on demand product.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Shizzle okaf I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app to me Hobbs here with you until seven o'clock,
of which then Michael Monks will be joining the table
to preview for us what will be going on on
his big show. Make sure you stay tuned for that
at six point thirty. Again, stay tuned because we'll be
(10:24):
talking to Aaron Ac Christiansen, and he has a lot
to let us know about what's going on downtown and
Downtown LA when it comes to pets, dogs, cats, everything
in between and the neglect and abuse that many of
these pets are subjected to and how he and others
are leading a major effort to do a big rescue
(10:46):
operation to get those pets out of downtown LA and rehoused.
Right now, though, we're talking about laws going into effect
on Tuesday, July first, because that is about twenty laws
are going to take effect and you should know what
they are. We talked about the simplified cancelation process making
(11:08):
it easier for you to undo your subscriptions online, and
we have a talk back from a listener.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Aloha, Tiffanya, Mauie County.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Just love you girl.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
One way around the stuff when your subscriptions I learned
from a gentleman is to buy cards, you know, the
gift cards. Get a gift card that way when it
runs out of time and get another gift card and
they don't have all your credit card or debit information. Okay,
Aloha kid, you're doing great.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We just love you, oh Aloha, and my best to
you and all of you out there in Maui County
and hopefully you guys are on the other side of
what you've been dealing with for such a long time.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
We also talked about with these new California laws short
term rental fee disclosure so you can know what tasks
responsible for as far as cleaning is concerned, should you
book an Airbnb. Mentioned what's going on in California schools
for kids in seventh through twelfth grade, they're going to
have the suicide and Crisis lifeline number printed on the
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back of their school IDs. Back or front doesn't quite specify,
but on their IDs they'll have access to that suicide
and crisis lifeline as well as the California legislature is
making sure that stolen goods are being cracked down on.
When it comes to online marketplaces, they want these online marketplaces,
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whatever it may be, Facebook Marketplace or anything at seed,
anything that you buy online, to make sure that they're
not selling stolen merchandise. So there will be a verification
process implemented and followed per this new law that makes
it so selling stolen merchandise is not a thing. And
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if you still try and do it, those online marketplaces
are going to be accountable and expected to turn you
in to the police.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Continuing, drink lids at bars. You go out to a bar,
your cup may very well be uncovered that's kind of commonplace,
and many bars, you're just getting a cup, right, whether
it's plastic or glass or whatever, it may be not
necessarily a lid on top of that drink. But bar owners,
as of July first, will now need to have lids
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available for their customers drinks upon request. And this is
an effort to mitigate the very terrible reality that people
put things in the drinks of others. It's called roofing,
and they say that there must always be a sign
posted in a visible area, and that sign must read quote,
(13:56):
don't get roofeed drink lids and drinks. By making drug
test kits available here, ask a staff member for details.
Kind of makes you wonder why wasn't that in place before?
But better late than ever, I suppose, so you'll be
able to ask for a lid for your drink, not
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to take it to go. This is not New Orleans,
and I guess in Santa Monica you'll be able to
walk around the promenade down there with your drink, but
it's for when you're in the bar so that your
drink doesn't get spiked. I'm not laughing at the spiking
as much as I'm laughing at the or snickering at
the fact that we're even having to discuss this in
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twenty twenty five, but this is where we're at.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Next.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Another law taking effect July first, involves workplace protections for
domestic workers, So California went ahead and expanded the definition
of employment for all cal OSHA protections, which now will
include nanny's and how most cleaners employed by agencies. The
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provisions don't apply to private individuals who hire someone to
perform household tasks such as a private cook or chef,
or private cleaning service or private childcare in your own home.
But if you're a nanny or a house cleaner employed
by agency, the definition of employment for your cow OSHA
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protection will now also include you. And finally, the Care
Act will be displaying increased transparency. The Care Act was
passed in twenty twenty two, and Care is an acronym.
This act allows people on behalf of someone who's experiencing
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mental health issues to petition a court to get court
ordered treatment including medication, housing, and other resources. So that's
what the Care Act does past three years ago. Allows
people to act on behalf of someone who's experiencing mental
health challenges to make sure that you can petition the
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court to get a court order treatment plan, medication, housing,
other resources. The new law would require that the courts
provide updates on that treatment process to the petitioners about
the individual's progress. So, if you're the person acting on
behalf of a person experiencing mental health challenges and you
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are petitioning the court to get a court ordered treatment
plan for that person, the court will now be required
to provide updates on the treatment process to you, so
you can make sure that you are following along and
in agreement or fixing whatever needs to be fixed about
this court order treatment plan.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
All of these.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Laws take effect on Tuesday, July first, and if you
want to find more information about that, you can go
to ABC ten dot com and they have all of
these laws outlined right there and a quick Google search
as well. We'll give you more information about the laws
taking effect in California on Tuesday when we come back.
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We're talking to Aaron ac Christiansen about all things animal
rescue right here on kf I AM six forty Live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
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Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
What a big, fun Saturday summertime show. And one of
the things that I really wanted to make sure we
made good on was having our next guests join the
program last week when all of the news about Iran
(17:53):
was breaking. Of course, as we are a news talk station,
we pivoted and made sure that we gave you wall
to wall coverage about what was going on in Iran,
and we did, and we did a good job at it,
I must say, but we also had to shift some
things around. And one of the things that we shifted
around is Aaron Ac Christiansin. We weren't able to have
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Aaron on Ac as we like to call him, on
last week, but he was so generous in his extremely
busy and stretched thin schedule to give us time today
that I wanted to make sure that we jumped at it.
And like I said, that we made good on the
promise to deliver AC to you. Let me tell you
(18:35):
a little bit about Aaron Ac Christiansin. And when I
say a little bit, just a little bit, because if
I read off all of his accolades, we wouldn't have
time to talk to him. Well, AC found it the
Animal Advocacy Network because he's absolutely a person who is
all action and less talk. In fact, there's a hashtag
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with the reverse of that, less talk, more action that
you can look up and see any number of examples
of AC out in the field, out on the ground,
boots to the ground, involving himself in all things animal
advocacy and rescue. AC has led pet rescue efforts from
New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina in two thousand and five
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all the way back to California all corners of the state,
including responding to the wildfires in January, where AC was
an everyday fixture in the Palisades in the Altadena area.
Other fires as well prior to the January wildfires, where
AC has rescued animals big and small and helped with
(19:45):
those reunification efforts. Well, now AC is a part of
a task force responding to a very bad situation in
downtown LA. And what AC and this task force are doing,
I must say, AC.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Will put everyone ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
He'll say it's not him, He's not the one who
should be getting the attention or any sort of limelight
that it's this person or this organization, but AC is
right there as well. What they're doing is they're going
onto the streets of downtown downtown LA and they're finding pets, dogs, cats,
everything else that are being neglected and abused.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
They don't stop there. They're not just observers.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
They are actively rescuing and rehousing these pets to remove
them from these dire situations. And I wanted AC to
come on today and last week to talk about those efforts,
what he needs going forward for the Animal Advocacy Network,
and some good news about plans that are in the works.
And right there, I think we're ready to be grasped
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in terms of habitata, a place in which animals will
be able to have refuge and be safe under AC's care.
I'd be very very happy for all of you listening
to welcome with your kind, kind kind hearts Aaron, Ac
Christiansen to KFI and Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Hi Ac, Holy wah? How do I follow that?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Tiffany, Like I.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Said, if I were to give everything that you do,
we'd have no time to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Let's get into it. Let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Tell us about what's going on in downtown LA and
why we should care.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Actually, so before you do that, tell us what you're doing,
because you're on the road right now.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Where are you headed.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I am thirty minutes out from Victorville the Fairgrounds. There
is a fire in a rural area that is spreading
quite quickly, and I have a ton of rescue partners,
including the amazing organization bybrick k nine, which they do.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
They are not only like.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
A dog sanctuary, dog rescue, but they make some of
the most amazing fresh dog food on the planet.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Oh wow, they have a ton of fosters.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
They actually have a working ranch also, And she just
sent me a picture from her bathroom and the smoke
plume is literally in her backyard. So oh, I've got
my four horse trailer hooked up and I am flying
U the khone right now.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh so you are literally right now on the way
to provide rescue and support to this community as this
fire unfortunately continues to rage.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Yes, ma'am, Lake Fire. Yeah, you can follow it on
watch app. It's all over X right now.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
So, yeah, we've been reporting on it right here in
our newsroom. But tell us a bit about what's happening
in downtown LA.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
All right, Well, the situation spans from Wilmington, which is
where our ports are, all the way to south central Compton.
I mean we're talking.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I couldn't even tell you. Skid Row alone loan is
fifty blocks of just pure health.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
But now, I mean the fires didn't help things, but
now there are just so many unhoused and it's just
thousands of r v's and tents, and I mean literally,
we could have a thousand volunteers out there sixteen hours
a day and we would find ten neglect hit cases
every day.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
I mean, it's just it's it's a nightmare.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
And yeah, we're trying to do something about it, and
we're being we've been quite impactful.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
One of the things.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And thank you for doing that, because that's no easy
feat by any stretch of the imagination. It comes with
a lot of risk and great rewards if you experience
success with that. But there's a lot you have to
go through to experience success. And I'm sure success isn't
even necessarily the best word to describe being able to
remove these animals.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
This is a duty.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
You're not necessarily looking for accolades as much as you
are doing what comes naturally to you to save these animals,
But tell us a bit about some of those risks
when it comes to going into these areas.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You're all over social media.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I've seen you post quite a bit about challenges and
being challenged by people who you're attempting to separate from
these abused and neglected pets.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Tell us a bit about it.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Skid Row is not just a place where homeless call home.
It's unfortunately an area where a lot of people like
to handle their illegal business. So there's a lot of
dog fighting down there. These people don't actually reside in
skid Row, but much like a I guess like a
drug ring or a prostitution ring, it's run from the
(24:47):
outside with people that are down there. So we've got
we broke up one that had eight dogs, including a
couple of bait dogs, and then we've got our eyes
on a couple California. So our leadership has been no help.
So it's organizations like WUFA Women United for Animal Welfare
(25:12):
that are.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Just boots on the ground. They've been down.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
There a lot longer than me, and they've they've built
a lot of repport down there, and they have a
lot of insiders down there, and that's how I got involved.
I didn't want these ladies running around on their own,
so I got involved. Initially just kind of transport security,
but then I saw the need and there's no way
I could just you know, sit on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Can you tell us some of the stories in which
you know what actually before we do, because we're gonna
go up, We're up against a break and I don't
want to cut your story off before we shift over
after the break to some examples of ways in which
you've been able to remove these pets from this situation downtown.
Tell people where they can reach you on social media
(25:55):
and follow what you're doing today, follow the things that
you're doing in the future.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, I'm Instagram is my main platform, and it's Animal
Advocacy A d v O C A C Y and
it's just net et. The website is Animal Advocacynetwork dot org.
But I'm really active on Instagram.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
That's kind of where I do all my posts.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
It's you know, it's kind of my biggest platform.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
As far as the the rescue goes.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
My personal page, that Vegas guy, I've got a decent
following from my days in Vegas and as a.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Celebrity chef and whatnot.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
So but that's mostly kind of bipolar, my personal life
all over the place. But Animal Advocacy Net on Instagram,
got it.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's a lot. And the thing is we'll be able
to continue the conversation. You'll share the host tags and
websites when we come back, as well as some examples
of ways in which you have been able to remove
animals from these really terrible situations in downtown LA and
what you need going forward to help fund hopefully this
property that you are planning to help these animals. We'll
(27:06):
get into that on the other side of the break, AC,
So hang on drive safely. He's en route right now
to rescue during this lake fire. He's right there, boots
on the ground. Animal Advocacy Network Aaron ac Christiansen and
will continue the conversation on the other side of the break.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Hang on AC.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
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Speaker 3 (27:27):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand k.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
If I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you, Saturday's with Tiffany one more segment.
And he's just heard Tim Conway there talk about his
own Deeper Dive if like everyone's taking our Deeper Dives segment, Kayla.
But you know it's a good thing. It's a compliment.
(27:52):
It's a compliment. He's also talking about law. How about that?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Tim Conway a listener yourself. I see you also talking
to Aaron Ac christian Sin, founder of the Animal Advocacy Network.
He's a beast in animal rescue advocacy, as is in
the title there of his organization. He's even on the
road right now heading up to the lake fire out
(28:16):
there outside of it.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Think you said Lake Paris? Is that correct? Ac?
Speaker 6 (28:21):
No, it's s.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Y Yeah, got it, got it? Thank you, Please jump
in and correct me anytime. That's perfectly.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And he's on his way out there to hopefully help
rescue any animals in need as this fire unfortunately continues
to rage in that area. And it's just a testament
to who Aaron Ac Christiansen is. So AC was telling
us a bit about advocacy and rescue in downtown LA.
It's challenges, it's pitfalls. Can you tell us some of
(28:52):
the positive stories. Let me give us one or two
positive stories about rescue in downtown LA.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Yeah, let me you know, let me say that one
out of one hundred cases, the dog the cat is
in a beautiful situation. I mean there's you know, homeless
or amazing caretakers of their animals.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
But that's one in a hundred.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
And in those cases we will get permission from the
owners and you know, just get them their vaccine, stay
a neuter if needed, chips and then return them. So
you know, one in one hundred cases is positive. It's
the other ninety nine that is just it's hard.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think I saw yesterday and again, correct
me if I'm wrong, but there was one pet owner
who did in fact relinquish their dog I think without
too much challenge.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Do you find that that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Seems to be something that your organization experiences where people
will in fact give their animals to you if you
kind of can provide them with that trust and that
assurance that things will be okay.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Are they are they distrusting?
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Are they trusting?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
There's a really gross.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Thing that happens with some of the organizations down there.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Katies individuals to relinquish the dogs. I don't pay. I
don't pay. I appealed.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
You know, I've got a black belt in verbal judo.
So if that doesn't work, then I remove the dogs
by any means. Okay, necessary, But a lot of the
organizations down there do pay. They cover that up, and
then it just seems kind of like it was just
you know, the owner.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
I was happy to let the dog go A I
don't know how to. You know, it's trying to you're
laying it out.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You're laying it out very plain right there.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I think we all understand what you're saying, what you're
not saying too.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Okay, So let's let's shift gears a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Let's go away from that the pay to play situation,
and let's talk about what you need ac as you
go forward, because, like I said before, kind of teased it,
there's a huge property you're interested in. What is it
that you're planning on doing with this property? And what
do you how can we help?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Okay, So my old rescue partner who is unfortunately she
was in a really bad accident and was paralyzed from
the waist.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Down, but she's she's recovering and she'll.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Be back on my by my side in no time.
But she has a fourteen acre property that used to
be an equine sanctuary where she would uh she'd bring
veterans up and kids with special needs and they would
work with senior horses and rescue animals and it was
it was really awesome.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Well, that property has.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Been sitting empty now for a couple of years since
her accident, so I took it over, oh about a
two weeks ago now, because there's.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
A huge need.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
There's a huge need for not we call them desert dogs,
but it's more than just desert. There's a there's a
thing here in California and in Vegas where people when
they're done with their dogs, they just dump them mount
into the desert or the forest or into BLM properties.
So we're dealing with a lot of that, plus the
(32:08):
skid row issue, and as we all know that all
the shelters and rescues and stuff are beyond capacity, and
so we're spending thousands and thousands of dollars to fly
these dogs. And I just got done doing an Idaho
to Colorado back to California trip, which you know costs
thousands of dollars from the organization that was you know,
(32:29):
getting these dogs to safety. So with this property, hopefully
we can raise some funds and we get some big
donors involved and get some of the big organizations involved
with this property, we could potentially house hundreds on rotation.
Uh you know, we'll have with with the help of
doctor Kevin mcaveelly and doctor Annie you know, my friend
(32:53):
and Monica crew, they'll have full vet care, they'll get
everything that they need and then when they're.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Ready to go uh for uh forever homes the term
I don't like.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
But anyways, when they're ready to go there for forever homes,
uh you know, we'll we'll make that happen.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
We'll we'll have placement, uh you know all that.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
So it's just a it's it's just a spot that's
needed in California so that we cannot.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Save save as many dogs.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
And I want to do a barnyard cat program there
also for some of these feral communities that were in
the Palace as an Altadena that lost.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Their you know, their communities. So it's it's more than
just dogs.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Absolutely, Aaron, tell people where they can reach you, where
they can follow you, support, you give your website and
your social media out one more time, all.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Right, I have a GoFundMe up for the bare minimum
that's needed to get this sanctuary up and going. Like
I said, the property is already obtained.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
I got my kennel license.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
It's uh, it's above Temecula, so above wine country. I'm
gonna go start knocking on some wine doors and see
if there's anything we can do to to make money
and you know, potentially grab some bottles of wine also.
But anyway, so it's it's a beautiful proper for teen acres,
We're going to dedicate u at least five acres to
the strays and the desert dogs, which will leave another
(34:13):
five for what we'll call it just temporary fostering. Where
we got the plants. We're working with a couple organizations
that have done this in the past, and so we've
already got the plans for all the kennels and everything.
And then I want to dedicate a few acres because
there's a beautiful pond on the property. I want to
dedicate a few acres to those in rescue first responders.
(34:35):
That's and kind of you know, just have a place
where you can come and hang out with rescue animals
and kind of just decompressed and unplugged, but yeah, to
help again. Animal Advocacy nets on Instagram. Animal Animal Advocacynetwork
dot org is the website website but linked to the
go fundme and all the ways to donate are on
(34:57):
those And I am a legit five ole well I
should say we no, I started out as solo, but
now I've got one hundreds of volunteers working with me,
so it's been pretty amazing. But we are legit five
O one C three so everything is tax deductible, and
we're also looking for volunteers, so and donations of fencing.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
We need a ton of fencing.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
We need a ton of I guess it's called asphalt
grinding for the road up, So lots of lots of
needs more than just monetary.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Awesome, ac, Thank you for everything you're doing. Be safe
out there as you're headed to that fire, the lake
fire to rescue animals and do what you do as
only you can. We appreciate you coming on, and of
course you're welcome back here anytime, barring there's not a
war outbreak or something.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Hey Tiffany, we really appreciate your voice. For all the animals.
You've been amazing, amazing, amazing for all of us an
animal rescue.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
So thank you, Paulso.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
You're so welcome. Have a wonderful and safe forth. We
have one final talkback that will end the show.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
With Hey, Tiffany, nothing important, just that you're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Thank you, as are all of you.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Have a wonderful fourth of July, a say, fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Remember if you are not into the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
For the eagles out there in Big Bear Valley, there's
a petition that's circulating, so you can definitely try and
lend your efforts towards that to protect the eagles. The
eagles are all like five months old now, and if
you're watching them like I do, it's just a magical
experience to behold. Thanks for listening.
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