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it is La County Fair opening weekend. Who you look
outside and you look at the weather and it definitely
doesn't look conducive to having anything. I'm looking at NBC
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four and it says mostly cloudy Saturday night light rain.
Tomorrow is supposed to possibly be more of the same.
So in this first kick off weekend with the La
County Fair opening yesterday at five pm, the weather not
so great that Redondo Beach Beach Live Festival weather not
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so great, but such as the nature of southern California
and our very erratic weather patterns. But while you are
deciding whether or not you want to attend the La
County Fair this weekend, let me give you some backstory.
For our Deeper Dives segment. Deeper Dives Deeper Dives. So
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the history of the La County Fair is an interesting one.
You might know a little bit, but I'm sure some
of this Deeper Dive segment is going to give you
something you did not yet know, including the fact that
the La County Fair started in nineteen twenty two, and
it started not to necessarily invite people to rides and
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games and interesting food concoctions. No, it started as a
promotion for agriculture. It was all about saying, hey, out
here in Los Angeles, we have great farming and our
agricultural industry is the wave of the future. Come take
a look at all of our technology. It was practically
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an exhibit for all things farming, and it has since
changed and evolved into what we know now. So the
La County Fair welcomes just over seven hundred and eighty
thousand guests per year, sometimes less, sometimes more. It's actually
an eight percent increase in twenty twenty four from twenty
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twenty three as people again become more comfortable going out
to large crowds. It's a huge revenue maker, revenue stream
for the city and the County of Los Angeles rather
making over sixty million dollars per fare. Sixty million dollars.
I can think of just to few things we could
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do in LA County with that sixty million. So we'll
see how those funds are appropriated in the coming months
after the fair reps. It's a sixteen day run. At
one point it did go a little longer because of weather,
but it is generally sixteen days, all right. Nineteen twenty two,
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again agricultural promotion. It opened on October seventeenth, drawing just
under fifty thousand people. The name the Los Angeles County
Fair was registered in Sacramento, and reluctantly the LA County
Board of Supervisors through ten thousand dollars at the cause
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they didn't want The LA County Supervisors did not want
to pay for this fare. Sounds like twenty twenty five
when it comes to not wanting to do things that
could potentially revitalize and invigorate people in Los Angeles. But
the was nineteen twenty two, nevertheless, and at the time
there was harness racing, chariot races, can you imagine, and
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an airplane wing walking exhibition that made up the highlights
of the first year nineteen twenty three. The nineteen twenty
two fair was so successful that the nineteen twenty three
fair encourages permanent buildings to be constructed and an additional
sixty two acres are purchased. So this thing grew from
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forty three acres in nineteen twenty two to well over
one hundred acres in nineteen twenty three. Out there in
Pomona at the Fair Plex. In nineteen twenty five, the
fair was held in September instead of its original date
in October. They wanted to have better weather, as we
know it can obviously affect attendance.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Nineteen thirty two there was a tri county fair held.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was involving Orange County, Riverside County, and La Counties.
It continued to be a tri county event through nineteen
thirty seven. They felt that the more the merrier was
definitely at play. Hey, if you like to drink, then
you'll be happy to hear that. In nineteen thirty five
there was a wine competition. That's right, a wine competition,
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and it was so successful in nineteen thirty five and
for the subsequent years that it has continued all the
way into twenty twenty five. And today is the longest
running county fair competition. Not your chickens, or your your hens,
not your cows or your pigs. No, the wine competition
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is the longest running fair competition.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
In the forties we had a major historical event, World
War Two, and in nineteen forty one, just a week
after Pearl Harbor, three US Army divisions occupied the grounds
of the Fairplex so that they could position themselves and
ready themselves for war duty. In nineteen forty two, that
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continued and World War II actually just brought a complete
halt to the fair for six years, and the army
set up house on the fair grounds. More than fifty
four hundred Japanese were housed temporarily on that location on
their way to relocation camps.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
In nineteen forty five, continuing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
With the war, the facility the Fairplex became a camp
for German and Italian POWs. So from forty one to
forty five and even beyond that, World War II really
took hold of the fair grounds. You weren't getting your
normalized fair, No, it was a staging ground four our
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t In nineteen forty eight the fair reopened with a
new construction two million dollars were put into reconditioning the
entire program, and the County of la back then in
nineteen forty eight signed a forty nine year lease. They
had lofty goals and they felt that the success of
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the fair would allow for continued success at least forty
nine years into the future.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
In nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The world's largest man made ski jump was created with
artificial snow. They brought artificial snow to Pomona and it
featured Olympic hopefuls preparing for the nineteen fifty two Olympics.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
The fair became.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
A huge draw for people all around the country and internationally.
If you've ever been to the fair, you might have
seen that clock tower. It's a landmark. It's something that's
undeniably related to the fair as an image. While that
clock tower was constructed in nineteen fifty two, ten years later,
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a monorail that encircles the grounds and it actually is
over there in that storybook farm or heritage farm era
area that was constructed nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There was a.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Huge racetrack grand stand that was constructed and indoor dining
and outdoor terraced seating was introduced from sixty five to
eighty four, there were many more innovations, including the Golden
Empire Mine and more popular attractions that drew patrons into
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the fair grounds. In nineteen eighty four, the name of
the fair grounds is changed to Fairplex as we know
it today. Ninety three the sky ride was installed, so
we're continuing with innovations. And when you're driving out to that,
you'll notice a huge Fairplex sign. It's electronic. It's installed
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over there on the San Bernardino Freeway. Well, it's ninety
feets and it was constructed in nineteen ninety six to
welcome more and more people to the fair. So the
history of the fair is only eclipsed by its present.
And when we come back, I'll tell you all about
opening day at the fair, some things you can expect,
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and of course everyone's favorite topic, the food. Your deep
fried oreos, your deep fried deep fried stuff, deep fried
water I think they have at this or you're laughing,
it's a money maker, don't you take that idea. I'm
patenting it. Okay, all right, when we come back, we'll
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So we've been talking about the La County Fair and
I gave you some history about the fair. It started
in nineteen twenty two. It's all about agriculture, bringing people
to La and the fair Plex, which was named the
Fair Plex years later to see the newest innovations in farming,
look at what we're doing, and it eventually evolved into
what it is now, adding rides and attractions and concerts
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and expanding the acreage, and today it is one of
the biggest events in the country. Only a couple affairs
are larger. The Texas Fair, I think is larger, and
there's another one. But La County Fair is right up there.
And the opening day for the La County Fair was yesterday,
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so it's sixteen day run is well into effect.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We're in day two.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The theme this year for the La County Fair is
Art Unleashed. So they're not doing the agricultural a theme
of wanting to understand and share agricultural innovations.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
No, we're doing art.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And they say, quote unquote, the Fair has been a
celebration of art for more than a century. Home arts,
culinary arts, visual arts, performing arts, fine arts, the art
of having fun, the art of making memories. That's on
the fairs website. There are over seventy carnival rides. As usual.
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I have trouble getting on rides at carnivals and fairs.
Anything that comes out of a suitcase for me causes
me a little bit of anxiety. Now in my later years,
they do put it up like overnight, like one day
it's not there, the next day is there?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
How secure can it be? It's like a pop up.
But I've never died on the rides, So knock on.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Wood please everyone, thank you very much, But yeah it
is if that's your thing. There are plenty of rides
there for you to partake in. They also have, of course,
the adorable farm animals. You get out there and you'll
see those cute pigs and cute cows and all those things,
and all sorts of Blue Ribbon competitions, concerts. Quite a
few people are appearing at the fair this year, and
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yesterday they had a special discounted rate. You could get
in for half price practically, and I don't know if
that's continuing this weekend, but the hours for the fair
are eleven am to eleven pm, eleven to eleven from
today until May twenty six, eleven to eleven, and of
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course you can always purchase tickets online. However, they are
going cashless. They are going cashless in person, so while
you are inside of the park, I believe you can
pay for food with cash, but your parking is cashless
and other things are cashless, so make sure that you
do have some sort of alternative payment option on hand.
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Let's get into the food what everyone wants to know. Okay,
here's all the food you should try at this year's
La County Fair. And we'll do a little round robin
here and see if everyone in the studio would be
interested in trying this food first up, and you can
hit the talk back and let us know too if
this is something you'd be interested in. First up, Korean
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corn dogs topped with fruity pebbles. Fruity pebbles, Cereal Korean
corn dogs topped with fruity pebbles, Raoul, what say you?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, that's right, sober either way, Kayla. Nah, it's a
nough for me dogs. No, it's a no for you dog, Brigitta.
Are you doing the fruity pebble wrapped corn dog?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
If there is no dairy, then sun me up?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
What about brand there's a brand new bacon wrapped pork belly.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh yeah, no good.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Everybody says yes, yes, yeahga oh yeah I want that?
Oh yeah what about hot honey turkey legs? Oh yeah,
oh yeah, NOA, I don't want like I sent notes
of the pork and wrap belly, I mean the bake
wrap belly. I think I'm just opposite of Bragia and
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our old stuff like that. A meeting before. That's okay,
I can you know, duke it out. We got all
the things on the menu.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You know, the one time I had a turkey leg.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Was at a huge outdoor festival years years ago, and
this thing was I think it was a honey uh
drizzled one. You know, they're trying to dress it up
and charging twenty five dollars for it, and I bought it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I was duped into it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It's good except for the fact that bees were following
any and everyone who had a turkey leg, and bees
were landing on the turkey legs. It was the middle
of summer, so they're every and all you saw were
people running around the turkey leg like stand, literally throwing
their money into the air twenty five dollars turchise and
into the trash hands, which were then completely covered by
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swarms of bees. Must not have been in this economy.
Not in this economy. This is years prior. All right,
What about the fire roasted chili peppers with Queso blanco
and hot cheetos. Okay, that's spicy, but I'll do it
na cheese, Regina.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know that's a serious no for me.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Are they gonna have enough bathrooms around this place to
be able to handle everything that's them in their way?
One can pray, one can pray, chant hope all of
that So what they're focusing on this year, they say,
is value. They want to make sure that the fair
and all of its givings are affordable for the families
that come out. That is Dominic Paulmieri of Midway Gourmet.
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They're saying they want you to be able to afford it.
Lots of offerings. You can go down to that fair
and enjoy yourself from today until May twenty sixth, eleven
am to eleven pm. Lacountyfair dot com for tickets and
if you go, let us know, let us know what
you eat, let us know on that talkback if you've
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already gone yesterday, if you plan to go, what your
favorite food offerings are.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I would love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
And let me know if you get on one of
those rides that comes out of a suitcase and how
that goes for you. All right, don't do it after
you've had the kso wrapped caso, bacon, wrapped fried caso cheese,
pork belly thing.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Good luck. When we come back, we.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Will talk to Judy Mancuso, Executive director of Social Compassion
and Legislation. She is also an author, and we'll hear
about her latest book. Shortly and we're going to talk
with Judy and also Casey Colvin, that wonderful dog dad
who went viral after his twupups Oreo and Tikatika were
recovered in the Palisades fire. They have paired up to
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introduce a new act. It's called the Found Act aka
Oreos Law. And so we'll hear from Casey and Judy
about the progress of that act, what informed it, how
it came about, and everything else involved. On the other
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Forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Saturdays with
Tiffany with Me, Tiffany Hobbs here until seven. And next,
we're going to revisit a story that went viral and
continues to be viral on the Internet because of how
much it appealed to human emotion. Last hour, we spoke
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to Beth Bigler, the renowned pet grief counselor, about loss
and about moving through loss. And this next story, this
next guest really had to confront the potential loss of
both of his pets, Oreo, Antika Tika. And that's because
the Palisades fire was ravaging his neighborhood, and when he
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was not home and found out that his neighborhood, his
street was in danger, he was unable to get back
home quickly to be able to evacuate his pets. Fortunately,
and I'll let him tell the tale, he was able
to reunite with his pets, and that reunion is what
impacted and informed a new law, new piece of legislation
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that we will talk about shortly.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
First, let me introduce you to Casey Covin.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
He is the pet dad extraordinaire who I am speaking
about who went viral, and I'm so happy to have
him on the show.
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Hi, Casey, I.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Am smiling ear to ear. I love you, Tiffany, I
love Cafi. I'm so happy to be talking to you
guys today.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I know you love KFI.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
We have met before and we spent some time talking
about our affinity for the station and talk radio, and
I just think that you are such a light. You
have such great energy, and I'm so happy that your
story is making the international rounds because you deserve this
sort of positive attention.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It is.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
It is truly a blessing. And I was telling super
producer Kayla earlier, I was looking forward to coming into
the studios today for days. I was super excited because
I listened to KFI all the time. I mean, I
think Kayla was like, what's your favorite show. I'm like,
I listened to every single one of your shows.
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You are called a p one my friend as am I.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
You can check my eyewaar app you guys constantly.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I love it the plugs. Thank you. Okay, can you
tell us just kind of take.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Us back to the day of the fire and what happened.
Give us a quick summary. We saw the video, but
we want to hear it from you.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
What happened.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Well, that's the reason why I'm not in the studio
today is because of what happened that day. So I
am experiencing a little bit of challenges in terms of
leaving my animals. I do everything with my two dogs,
and it's something that was happenstance, right. I found my
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senior dog, Kikatika. I found her in the desert in
a pack of feral cats. I do a lot of travel.
My job is I work in software. So I work
in nightclubs and casinos at night providing software in security.
It's an app that my company's created, and then by
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day I do that same app in veterinary hospitals. Ironically,
the software is good in both veterinary hospitals and then
the nightclubs saw I was driving to the desert one
night and found Tikatika in a pack of feral cats.
And I realized today that I have not been without
Tikatika even during the fires, because she got rescued that day.
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And to go back to why I'm not in the
studios today, I was not going to leave my dog's
side during that windstorm back in January. If people didn't
experience the winds in Los Angeles when those fateful fires happened,
it felt like a hurricane outside. And I just got
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very nervous about leaving my dogs that day. And I
remember saying goodbye to Tica because she's my senior dog.
She's kind of got, you know, cloudy eyes, and she's
just we love each other so much, and I just
remember looking in her milky, cloudy eyes and thinking to myself,
I feel like this is the last time I'm going
to be seeing you, and I put like her collar
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on her, and I had an air tag on her
and thing for Oreo, Like I just wanted to make
sure that my dogs at least had a collar on them,
just in case anything happened. And I had tried to
avoid this meeting for days because of the potential of
bad weather. But finally it's like the deadline came and
I had to go to the city. So I literally
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just drove down Sunset Boulevard when I got a phone
call from my boss and she was like, are you okay?
And I was like, yeah, I'm fine. Why she was like,
your house is on fire. Oh, And I said, what
do you mean and she said she said, I'm watching
on the TV and I'm pretty sure that that's the
neighborhood that you live in. The house is on fire.
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So I tried to turn around on Sunset Boulevard and
drive back to where we were living at, but the
police had already put up barricades, and so I remembered
I was actually in like the eighty five hundred block
of Sunset and our house is like in the sixteen
thousand block, said we had the ways to go, and
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so I told the police officer that had a barricade up.
I said, my dogs are in the house, I said,
And I was told that the neighborhood's on fire. And
I said, you know, do you have dogs, sir, And
he said, yeah, I've got two dogs. I said, what
would you do with those were your dogs? He said, well,
you can't come through this roadblock. But if I were you,
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he said, I would get to my animals. And so
that kind of began the honesty that day of you know,
my brother's in the Marine Corps. So he taught me
when I was a kid that if you want to
get somewhere, just look at a map. Just look at
a map. Figure it out, you know, right, just ma'am,
you know. And so I just looked at a map
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and I figured, you know, where would the police roadblocks be.
And then I kind of backtracked from there, kind of
you know, you know, using guerrilla tactics, I guess you
could say. I mean, I managed to get within the
city confines with Santa Monica. And when I saw the
police roadblocks up on PCH, I called every bicycle store
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in town and I found myself a rental bicycle and
I rode a rental bicycle into the fires, and when
I couldn't ride anymore because I couldn't breathe because of
the smoke, I grabbed the firefighter and I said, can
you please go to save my dogs? And firefighter Brent,
God blessing you is a hero. Brent passed you on
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cal fire. He drove into the fires and broke down
the front door of the house and rescued Tikatika out
of the fires. But Oreo, Tikatika is like Oreo's wife.
So when Oreo saw this big handsome firefighter pick up
his wife and whisker away to a fire truck, he
ran out of the fires. And that was the less
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anyone had seen of them.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And then the story continues that you were told that
Oriole was spotted and you were able to make your
way back up to your property, and that is the
reunion that went viral. We saw many of us, millions
of people around the world saw you, Casey, see Oreo
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the first time and embrace Oreo, and we all cried
with you. And we're so happy that you had a good,
happy ending when so many were not.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Casey.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know, when we come back, we will continue this conversation,
and we'll also bring Judy Mancuso into the conversation to
discuss what happened because of that viral moment. Well, legislation
happened and it is called the found Act aka Oreo's Law,
and Judy will be on right after the break to
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tell us what that law is and where it is
in our congressional kind of process. What's going on, And
there's some good news that I'm happy to share right
here on kf I AM six forty Live everywhere on
iHeart iHeartRadio app. My goodness, I'm so I'm just choked
up behind this story. I'm forgetting our tag.
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Saturday Night playbook. Stay right here, all right. So we've
been talking to Casey Colvin, friend of mine, new friend
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of mine, I'm glad to say, and we were just
recapping the story of his that went viral, and Casey's
story involves rescue, the rescue of both of his dogs,
Tikatika and Oreo, with Oreo being the second dog rescued,
and that rescue is what went viral. We saw Casey
be reunited with Oreo in a beautifully touching moment that
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was broadcasted all over the internet and still will live
in perpetuity that way. And because of that viral moment,
something major happened. It didn't just stop when the cameras
went away. No, this is where Judy man Cuso. Uh oh, okay,
we think we lost Casey. That's okay. Judy man Cuso
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of Social Compassion in Legislation, she is the executive director.
That's where she comes in. She picked up that story
of Oreo, she picked up Casey Covin's mission to reunite.
And Judy, who is a force of nature all her
own is, is very well known in animal advocacy and
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has been on our show before. Paired with Assembly Member
Rick Zeber and authored a new bill called the Found Act,
the Found Act, which is Friends of Oreo Uniting during
Disasters Act aka the Oreo Law. Judy is here to
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give us an update on the Found Act and let
us know where it is in the legislation process, because
I hear there's good news, Judy.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
There is. We got out of our first committee, which
was the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, with a yeah,
with a unanimous vote. We got everybody on the committee
to vote for it. And so now it advances to
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what's called the Appropriations committee, where it is analyzed to
see how much cost it has to the state of
California or if local jurisdictions, you know, say well, it's
an unfunded mandate. So the next step is a big
step getting through appropriations. But we're going to do our
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best and we think will be good. And then it
goes to the full Assembly for a vote, which is
eighty members. Then it bounces over to the Senate. We
start in the and an Emergency Management committee. On the
Senate side, we go to Appropriations, we go to the
full Senate, and then finally it goes to the governor
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for signature. So we have a ways to go, but
the fact that we started off with a unanimous vote
out of the first committee is a great sign.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Congratulations, the work is not a vain You are most welcome.
Is there anything that the average citizen can do to
support the found act. Can we write our local city
leaders are our local state leaders and proposed and we
want this bill to pass.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yes. Yeah, So the process at the state capitol is,
you know, kind of very structured. So what we've done
is on our website, if you go to social compassion
dot org, what you'll find at the top menu is
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how to help, and you click on how to help,
and it says send a support letter, and then if
you're an individual, it gives you all the fields that
you need to fill out in order for us to
put into the legislative portal to get track. And then
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if you're a group an organization, it asks for some
other information. But when you go to our website and
do this, we then take all the data and put
it into the legislative portal at the right times so
that it shows up on the analysis in committee and
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every one of those letters are counted, because when people
just you know, make a phone call or send an email,
not always does it get in and get counted. But
we have this way that we've created on our site
to make sure everyone is captured and everyone can know
we don't use the data for anything else. We're not
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selling it, sharing it anything it is for these bills
and supporting the bills. So yes, we need support and
I would urge everyone to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
And where can they find your website?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Again, what is the name of the website?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Socialcompassion dot org. The group is Social Compassion and Legislation
the five oh one C four, but we have a
five oh one C three which is also just Social Compassion,
so that one gets you in. It's easier to remember,
and then you'll see up at the top how to
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help the legislation. So just Socialcompassion dot org. We'll get
them there and that's a little easier to remember.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Casey Colvin, thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Judy man So thank you Executive director of Social Compassion
in Legislation, and the two of you, combining your efforts,
your expertise, and your love for our animals, will make
this bill, this Act pass and it will be the
first of its kind in the country and hopefully it
will be replicated nationwide to make sure that animals are
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saved not only during fires, but other natural disasters as well. Judy, Casey,
thank you so much for coming on with us tonight,
and you're both welcome back anytime.
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it is La County Fair opening weekend. Who you look
outside and you look at the weather and it definitely
doesn't look conducive to having anything. I'm looking at NBC
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four and it says mostly cloudy Saturday night light rain.
Tomorrow is supposed to possibly be more of the same.
So in this first kick off weekend with the La
County Fair opening yesterday at five pm, the weather not
so great that Redondo Beach Beach Live Festival weather not
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so great, but such as the nature of southern California
and our very erratic weather patterns. But while you are
deciding whether or not you want to attend the La
County Fair this weekend, let me give you some backstory.
For our Deeper Dives segment. Deeper Dives Deeper Dives. So
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the history of the La County Fair is an interesting one.
You might know a little bit, but I'm sure some
of this Deeper Dive segment is going to give you
something you did not yet know, including the fact that
the La County Fair started in nineteen twenty two, and
it started not to necessarily invite people to rides and
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games and interesting food concoctions. No, it started as a
promotion for agriculture. It was all about saying, hey, out
here in Los Angeles, we have great farming and our
agricultural industry is the wave of the future. Come take
a look at all of our technology. It was practically
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an exhibit for all things farming, and it has since
changed and evolved into what we know now. So the
La County Fair welcomes just over seven hundred and eighty
thousand guests per year, sometimes less, sometimes more. It's actually
an eight percent increase in twenty twenty four from twenty
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twenty three as people again become more comfortable going out
to large crowds. It's a huge revenue maker, revenue stream
for the city and the County of Los Angeles rather
making over sixty million dollars per fare. Sixty million dollars.
I can think of just to few things we could
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do in LA County with that sixty million. So we'll
see how those funds are appropriated in the coming months
after the fair reps. It's a sixteen day run. At
one point it did go a little longer because of weather,
but it is generally sixteen days, all right. Nineteen twenty two,
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again agricultural promotion. It opened on October seventeenth, drawing just
under fifty thousand people. The name the Los Angeles County
Fair was registered in Sacramento, and reluctantly the LA County
Board of Supervisors through ten thousand dollars at the cause
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they didn't want The LA County Supervisors did not want
to pay for this fare. Sounds like twenty twenty five
when it comes to not wanting to do things that
could potentially revitalize and invigorate people in Los Angeles. But
the was nineteen twenty two, nevertheless, and at the time
there was harness racing, chariot races, can you imagine, and
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an airplane wing walking exhibition that made up the highlights
of the first year nineteen twenty three. The nineteen twenty
two fair was so successful that the nineteen twenty three
fair encourages permanent buildings to be constructed and an additional
sixty two acres are purchased. So this thing grew from
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forty three acres in nineteen twenty two to well over
one hundred acres in nineteen twenty three. Out there in
Pomona at the Fair Plex. In nineteen twenty five, the
fair was held in September instead of its original date
in October. They wanted to have better weather, as we
know it can obviously affect attendance.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Nineteen thirty two there was a tri county fair held.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was involving Orange County, Riverside County, and La Counties.
It continued to be a tri county event through nineteen
thirty seven. They felt that the more the merrier was
definitely at play. Hey, if you like to drink, then
you'll be happy to hear that. In nineteen thirty five
there was a wine competition. That's right, a wine competition,
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and it was so successful in nineteen thirty five and
for the subsequent years that it has continued all the
way into twenty twenty five. And today is the longest
running county fair competition. Not your chickens, or your your hens,
not your cows or your pigs. No, the wine competition
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is the longest running fair competition.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
In the forties we had a major historical event, World
War Two, and in nineteen forty one, just a week
after Pearl Harbor, three US Army divisions occupied the grounds
of the Fairplex so that they could position themselves and
ready themselves for war duty. In nineteen forty two, that
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continued and World War II actually just brought a complete
halt to the fair for six years, and the army
set up house on the fair grounds. More than fifty
four hundred Japanese were housed temporarily on that location on
their way to relocation camps.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
In nineteen forty five, continuing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
With the war, the facility the Fairplex became a camp
for German and Italian POWs. So from forty one to
forty five and even beyond that, World War II really
took hold of the fair grounds. You weren't getting your
normalized fair, No, it was a staging ground four our
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t In nineteen forty eight the fair reopened with a
new construction two million dollars were put into reconditioning the
entire program, and the County of la back then in
nineteen forty eight signed a forty nine year lease. They
had lofty goals and they felt that the success of
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the fair would allow for continued success at least forty
nine years into the future.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
In nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
The world's largest man made ski jump was created with
artificial snow. They brought artificial snow to Pomona and it
featured Olympic hopefuls preparing for the nineteen fifty two Olympics.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
The fair became.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
A huge draw for people all around the country and internationally.
If you've ever been to the fair, you might have
seen that clock tower. It's a landmark. It's something that's
undeniably related to the fair as an image. While that
clock tower was constructed in nineteen fifty two, ten years later,
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a monorail that encircles the grounds and it actually is
over there in that storybook farm or heritage farm era
area that was constructed nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There was a.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Huge racetrack grand stand that was constructed and indoor dining
and outdoor terraced seating was introduced from sixty five to
eighty four, there were many more innovations, including the Golden
Empire Mine and more popular attractions that drew patrons into
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the fair grounds. In nineteen eighty four, the name of
the fair grounds is changed to Fairplex as we know
it today. Ninety three the sky ride was installed, so
we're continuing with innovations. And when you're driving out to that,
you'll notice a huge Fairplex sign. It's electronic. It's installed
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over there on the San Bernardino Freeway. Well, it's ninety
feets and it was constructed in nineteen ninety six to
welcome more and more people to the fair. So the
history of the fair is only eclipsed by its present.
And when we come back, I'll tell you all about
opening day at the fair, some things you can expect,
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and of course everyone's favorite topic, the food. Your deep
fried oreos, your deep fried deep fried stuff, deep fried
water I think they have at this or you're laughing,
it's a money maker, don't you take that idea. I'm
patenting it. Okay, all right, when we come back, we'll
get right into it. It's KFI AM six forty live
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So we've been talking about the La County Fair and
I gave you some history about the fair. It started
in nineteen twenty two. It's all about agriculture, bringing people
to La and the fair Plex, which was named the
Fair Plex years later to see the newest innovations in farming,
look at what we're doing, and it eventually evolved into
what it is now, adding rides and attractions and concerts
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and expanding the acreage, and today it is one of
the biggest events in the country. Only a couple affairs
are larger. The Texas Fair, I think is larger, and
there's another one. But La County Fair is right up there.
And the opening day for the La County Fair was yesterday,
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so it's sixteen day run is well into effect.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We're in day two.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The theme this year for the La County Fair is
Art Unleashed. So they're not doing the agricultural a theme
of wanting to understand and share agricultural innovations.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
No, we're doing art.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And they say, quote unquote, the Fair has been a
celebration of art for more than a century. Home arts,
culinary arts, visual arts, performing arts, fine arts, the art
of having fun, the art of making memories. That's on
the fairs website. There are over seventy carnival rides. As usual.
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I have trouble getting on rides at carnivals and fairs.
Anything that comes out of a suitcase for me causes
me a little bit of anxiety. Now in my later years,
they do put it up like overnight, like one day
it's not there, the next day is there?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
How secure can it be? It's like a pop up.
But I've never died on the rides, So knock on.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Wood please everyone, thank you very much, But yeah it
is if that's your thing. There are plenty of rides
there for you to partake in. They also have, of course,
the adorable farm animals. You get out there and you'll
see those cute pigs and cute cows and all those things,
and all sorts of Blue Ribbon competitions, concerts. Quite a
few people are appearing at the fair this year, and
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yesterday they had a special discounted rate. You could get
in for half price practically, and I don't know if
that's continuing this weekend, but the hours for the fair
are eleven am to eleven pm, eleven to eleven from
today until May twenty six, eleven to eleven, and of
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course you can always purchase tickets online. However, they are
going cashless. They are going cashless in person, so while
you are inside of the park, I believe you can
pay for food with cash, but your parking is cashless
and other things are cashless, so make sure that you
do have some sort of alternative payment option on hand.
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Let's get into the food what everyone wants to know. Okay,
here's all the food you should try at this year's
La County Fair. And we'll do a little round robin
here and see if everyone in the studio would be
interested in trying this food first up, and you can
hit the talk back and let us know too if
this is something you'd be interested in. First up, Korean
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corn dogs topped with fruity pebbles. Fruity pebbles, Cereal Korean
corn dogs topped with fruity pebbles, Raoul, what say you?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, that's right, sober either way, Kayla. Nah, it's a
nough for me dogs. No, it's a no for you dog, Brigitta.
Are you doing the fruity pebble wrapped corn dog?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
If there is no dairy, then sun me up?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
All right?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
What about brand there's a brand new bacon wrapped pork belly.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Oh yeah, no good.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Everybody says yes, yes, yeahga oh yeah I want that?
Oh yeah what about hot honey turkey legs? Oh yeah,
oh yeah, NOA, I don't want like I sent notes
of the pork and wrap belly, I mean the bake
wrap belly. I think I'm just opposite of Bragia and
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our old stuff like that. A meeting before. That's okay,
I can you know, duke it out. We got all
the things on the menu.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You know, the one time I had a turkey leg.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Was at a huge outdoor festival years years ago, and
this thing was I think it was a honey uh
drizzled one. You know, they're trying to dress it up
and charging twenty five dollars for it, and I bought it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I was duped into it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It's good except for the fact that bees were following
any and everyone who had a turkey leg, and bees
were landing on the turkey legs. It was the middle
of summer, so they're every and all you saw were
people running around the turkey leg like stand, literally throwing
their money into the air twenty five dollars turchise and
into the trash hands, which were then completely covered by
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swarms of bees. Must not have been in this economy.
Not in this economy. This is years prior. All right,
What about the fire roasted chili peppers with Queso blanco
and hot cheetos. Okay, that's spicy, but I'll do it
na cheese, Regina.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know that's a serious no for me.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Are they gonna have enough bathrooms around this place to
be able to handle everything that's them in their way?
One can pray, one can pray, chant hope all of
that So what they're focusing on this year, they say,
is value. They want to make sure that the fair
and all of its givings are affordable for the families
that come out. That is Dominic Paulmieri of Midway Gourmet.
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They're saying they want you to be able to afford it.
Lots of offerings. You can go down to that fair
and enjoy yourself from today until May twenty sixth, eleven
am to eleven pm. Lacountyfair dot com for tickets and
if you go, let us know, let us know what
you eat, let us know on that talkback if you've
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already gone yesterday, if you plan to go, what your
favorite food offerings are.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I would love to hear it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
And let me know if you get on one of
those rides that comes out of a suitcase and how
that goes for you. All right, don't do it after
you've had the kso wrapped caso, bacon, wrapped fried caso cheese,
pork belly thing.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Good luck. When we come back, we.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Will talk to Judy Mancuso, Executive director of Social Compassion
and Legislation. She is also an author, and we'll hear
about her latest book. Shortly and we're going to talk
with Judy and also Casey Colvin, that wonderful dog dad
who went viral after his twupups Oreo and Tikatika were
recovered in the Palisades fire. They have paired up to
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introduce a new act. It's called the Found Act aka
Oreos Law. And so we'll hear from Casey and Judy
about the progress of that act, what informed it, how
it came about, and everything else involved. On the other
side of the break, It's Saturdays with Tiffany Here till
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Forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's Saturdays with
Tiffany with Me, Tiffany Hobbs here until seven. And next,
we're going to revisit a story that went viral and
continues to be viral on the Internet because of how
much it appealed to human emotion. Last hour, we spoke
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to Beth Bigler, the renowned pet grief counselor, about loss
and about moving through loss. And this next story, this
next guest really had to confront the potential loss of
both of his pets, Oreo, Antika Tika. And that's because
the Palisades fire was ravaging his neighborhood, and when he
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was not home and found out that his neighborhood, his
street was in danger, he was unable to get back
home quickly to be able to evacuate his pets. Fortunately,
and I'll let him tell the tale, he was able
to reunite with his pets, and that reunion is what
impacted and informed a new law, new piece of legislation
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that we will talk about shortly.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
First, let me introduce you to Casey Covin.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
He is the pet dad extraordinaire who I am speaking
about who went viral, and I'm so happy to have
him on the show.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Hi, Casey, I.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Am smiling ear to ear. I love you, Tiffany, I
love Cafi. I'm so happy to be talking to you
guys today.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I know you love KFI.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
We have met before and we spent some time talking
about our affinity for the station and talk radio, and
I just think that you are such a light. You
have such great energy, and I'm so happy that your
story is making the international rounds because you deserve this
sort of positive attention.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It is.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
It is truly a blessing. And I was telling super
producer Kayla earlier, I was looking forward to coming into
the studios today for days. I was super excited because
I listened to KFI all the time. I mean, I
think Kayla was like, what's your favorite show. I'm like,
I listened to every single one of your shows.
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You are called a p one my friend as am I.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
You can check my eyewaar app you guys constantly.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I love it the plugs. Thank you. Okay, can you
tell us just kind of take.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Us back to the day of the fire and what happened.
Give us a quick summary. We saw the video, but
we want to hear it from you.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
What happened.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Well, that's the reason why I'm not in the studio
today is because of what happened that day. So I
am experiencing a little bit of challenges in terms of
leaving my animals. I do everything with my two dogs,
and it's something that was happenstance, right. I found my
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senior dog, Kikatika. I found her in the desert in
a pack of feral cats. I do a lot of travel.
My job is I work in software. So I work
in nightclubs and casinos at night providing software in security.
It's an app that my company's created, and then by
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day I do that same app in veterinary hospitals. Ironically,
the software is good in both veterinary hospitals and then
the nightclubs saw I was driving to the desert one
night and found Tikatika in a pack of feral cats.
And I realized today that I have not been without
Tikatika even during the fires, because she got rescued that day.
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And to go back to why I'm not in the
studios today, I was not going to leave my dog's
side during that windstorm back in January. If people didn't
experience the winds in Los Angeles when those fateful fires happened,
it felt like a hurricane outside. And I just got
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very nervous about leaving my dogs that day. And I
remember saying goodbye to Tica because she's my senior dog.
She's kind of got, you know, cloudy eyes, and she's
just we love each other so much, and I just
remember looking in her milky, cloudy eyes and thinking to myself,
I feel like this is the last time I'm going
to be seeing you, and I put like her collar
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on her, and I had an air tag on her
and thing for Oreo, Like I just wanted to make
sure that my dogs at least had a collar on them,
just in case anything happened. And I had tried to
avoid this meeting for days because of the potential of
bad weather. But finally it's like the deadline came and
I had to go to the city. So I literally
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just drove down Sunset Boulevard when I got a phone
call from my boss and she was like, are you okay?
And I was like, yeah, I'm fine. Why she was like,
your house is on fire. Oh, And I said, what
do you mean and she said she said, I'm watching
on the TV and I'm pretty sure that that's the
neighborhood that you live in. The house is on fire.
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So I tried to turn around on Sunset Boulevard and
drive back to where we were living at, but the
police had already put up barricades, and so I remembered
I was actually in like the eighty five hundred block
of Sunset and our house is like in the sixteen
thousand block, said we had the ways to go, and
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so I told the police officer that had a barricade up.
I said, my dogs are in the house, I said,
And I was told that the neighborhood's on fire. And
I said, you know, do you have dogs, sir, And
he said, yeah, I've got two dogs. I said, what
would you do with those were your dogs? He said, well,
you can't come through this roadblock. But if I were you,
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he said, I would get to my animals. And so
that kind of began the honesty that day of you know,
my brother's in the Marine Corps. So he taught me
when I was a kid that if you want to
get somewhere, just look at a map. Just look at
a map. Figure it out, you know, right, just ma'am,
you know. And so I just looked at a map
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and I figured, you know, where would the police roadblocks be.
And then I kind of backtracked from there, kind of
you know, you know, using guerrilla tactics, I guess you
could say. I mean, I managed to get within the
city confines with Santa Monica. And when I saw the
police roadblocks up on PCH, I called every bicycle store
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in town and I found myself a rental bicycle and
I rode a rental bicycle into the fires, and when
I couldn't ride anymore because I couldn't breathe because of
the smoke, I grabbed the firefighter and I said, can
you please go to save my dogs? And firefighter Brent,
God blessing you is a hero. Brent passed you on
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cal fire. He drove into the fires and broke down
the front door of the house and rescued Tikatika out
of the fires. But Oreo, Tikatika is like Oreo's wife.
So when Oreo saw this big handsome firefighter pick up
his wife and whisker away to a fire truck, he
ran out of the fires. And that was the less
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anyone had seen of them.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And then the story continues that you were told that
Oriole was spotted and you were able to make your
way back up to your property, and that is the
reunion that went viral. We saw many of us, millions
of people around the world saw you, Casey, see Oreo
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the first time and embrace Oreo, and we all cried
with you. And we're so happy that you had a good,
happy ending when so many were not.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Casey.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know, when we come back, we will continue this conversation,
and we'll also bring Judy Mancuso into the conversation to
discuss what happened because of that viral moment. Well, legislation
happened and it is called the found Act aka Oreo's Law,
and Judy will be on right after the break to
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tell us what that law is and where it is
in our congressional kind of process. What's going on, And
there's some good news that I'm happy to share right
here on kf I AM six forty Live everywhere on
iHeart iHeartRadio app. My goodness, I'm so I'm just choked
up behind this story. I'm forgetting our tag.
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iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here for one final segment, and
then Michael Monks will take the big chair. So do
not turn away, you keep listening. You make us your
Saturday Night playbook. Stay right here, all right. So we've
been talking to Casey Colvin, friend of mine, new friend
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of mine, I'm glad to say, and we were just
recapping the story of his that went viral, and Casey's
story involves rescue, the rescue of both of his dogs,
Tikatika and Oreo, with Oreo being the second dog rescued,
and that rescue is what went viral. We saw Casey
be reunited with Oreo in a beautifully touching moment that
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was broadcasted all over the internet and still will live
in perpetuity that way. And because of that viral moment,
something major happened. It didn't just stop when the cameras
went away. No, this is where Judy man Cuso. Uh oh, okay,
we think we lost Casey. That's okay. Judy man Cuso
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of Social Compassion in Legislation, she is the executive director.
That's where she comes in. She picked up that story
of Oreo, she picked up Casey Covin's mission to reunite.
And Judy, who is a force of nature all her
own is, is very well known in animal advocacy and
(27:34):
has been on our show before. Paired with Assembly Member
Rick Zeber and authored a new bill called the Found Act,
the Found Act, which is Friends of Oreo Uniting during
Disasters Act aka the Oreo Law. Judy is here to
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give us an update on the Found Act and let
us know where it is in the legislation process, because
I hear there's good news, Judy.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
There is. We got out of our first committee, which
was the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, with a yeah,
with a unanimous vote. We got everybody on the committee
to vote for it. And so now it advances to
(28:24):
what's called the Appropriations committee, where it is analyzed to
see how much cost it has to the state of
California or if local jurisdictions, you know, say well, it's
an unfunded mandate. So the next step is a big
step getting through appropriations. But we're going to do our
(28:47):
best and we think will be good. And then it
goes to the full Assembly for a vote, which is
eighty members. Then it bounces over to the Senate. We
start in the and an Emergency Management committee. On the
Senate side, we go to Appropriations, we go to the
full Senate, and then finally it goes to the governor
(29:09):
for signature. So we have a ways to go, but
the fact that we started off with a unanimous vote
out of the first committee is a great sign.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Congratulations, the work is not a vain You are most welcome.
Is there anything that the average citizen can do to
support the found act. Can we write our local city
leaders are our local state leaders and proposed and we
want this bill to pass.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yes. Yeah, So the process at the state capitol is,
you know, kind of very structured. So what we've done
is on our website, if you go to social compassion
dot org, what you'll find at the top menu is
(30:04):
how to help, and you click on how to help,
and it says send a support letter, and then if
you're an individual, it gives you all the fields that
you need to fill out in order for us to
put into the legislative portal to get track. And then
(30:25):
if you're a group an organization, it asks for some
other information. But when you go to our website and
do this, we then take all the data and put
it into the legislative portal at the right times so
that it shows up on the analysis in committee and
(30:50):
every one of those letters are counted, because when people
just you know, make a phone call or send an email,
not always does it get in and get counted. But
we have this way that we've created on our site
to make sure everyone is captured and everyone can know
we don't use the data for anything else. We're not
(31:14):
selling it, sharing it anything it is for these bills
and supporting the bills. So yes, we need support and
I would urge everyone to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
And where can they find your website?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Again, what is the name of the website?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Socialcompassion dot org. The group is Social Compassion and Legislation
the five oh one C four, but we have a
five oh one C three which is also just Social Compassion,
so that one gets you in. It's easier to remember,
and then you'll see up at the top how to
(31:50):
help the legislation. So just Socialcompassion dot org. We'll get
them there and that's a little easier to remember.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Casey Colvin, thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Judy man So thank you Executive director of Social Compassion
in Legislation, and the two of you, combining your efforts,
your expertise, and your love for our animals, will make
this bill, this Act pass and it will be the
first of its kind in the country and hopefully it
will be replicated nationwide to make sure that animals are
(32:21):
saved not only during fires, but other natural disasters as well. Judy, Casey,
thank you so much for coming on with us tonight,
and you're both welcome back anytime.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Thank you, Tiffany, thanks for giving a voice to the voiceless.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
You are so very, very very welcome. It's been a
wonderful show.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
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I thank you as always for listening to tonight's program.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
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Speaker 3 (33:01):
On KFIAM six forty dot com, and make sure you
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to seven pm on Saturdays with Tiffany. Unfortunately, I can't
say go Clippers because we lost, but Clipper fans we're
used to it. Have a great weekend, everyone, be safe.
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