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Speaker 1: Hello, every Welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I am
Speaker 1: a Laura Kane and this is my fabulous co host,
Speaker 1: Eric Rimmer. Eric Edward Rimmer.
Speaker 2: Thank you for spelling that all out for everybody.
Speaker 1: Well, at least I remembered your middle name and your
Speaker 1: birthday January eighth, when you didn't thank you, find you're
Speaker 1: welcome because because of yes last week's debacle and producer
Speaker 1: Brian High, I'm never going to live that down. You're
Speaker 1: never going to live that down ever.
Speaker 2: Uh never.
Speaker 1: So okay, first of all, what up with the world?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Is this climate change? Is this like or think? What
Speaker 1: are we going to explode here any moment? We last
Speaker 1: year we had floods, this year red flag warning and fires.
Speaker 1: Now that I have my little job in the newsroom,
Speaker 1: the Coco newsroom, all it was last week fire fire, fire, fire,
Speaker 1: fire fire. It was so scary, it.
Speaker 2: Was so weird. I was at work and people kept
Speaker 2: calling and they're like, are we supposed to evacuate? And
Speaker 2: I'm like what are you talking?
Speaker 1: Oh yeahuse that was the Fashion Valley.
Speaker 2: Fire, yes, and so I was like, no, what and
Speaker 2: they're like the canyons on fire and I'm like what canyon?
Speaker 2: Like there's canyons everywhere and they're like, oh, it's a
Speaker 2: fashion valley and I'm like no, We're okay. And everybody
Speaker 2: was like how are you so calm? And I'm looking,
Speaker 2: I've lived here my whole life, like RIGHTVI GE's bad.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll they got it out in an hour
Speaker 2: or two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the one that was really scary was the
Speaker 1: one at the border. It's a border to fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean my friends Dave and Jeff who have the
Speaker 1: Dave and Jeff's shore.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He Dave lives in East Lake and he was posting
Speaker 1: these incredible photos. They were just like the fire was
Speaker 1: right behind his walls. Was scary, and they were getting
Speaker 1: ready to evacuate, they were getting the dog ready and
Speaker 1: it was just really scary. My friend Tanya too, and
Speaker 1: so so there was that. Then Friday, I was I
Speaker 1: filled in for somebody who does traffic in the morning
Speaker 1: and there was a fire that started on the fifty
Speaker 1: two and the eight oh five. So every little fire
Speaker 1: that was starting, like, we were on it and we're
Speaker 1: scared because the winds were so bad. So it was
Speaker 1: on a system called the cat. We have a hp
Speaker 1: CAT where the chp enters codes and the codes mean
Speaker 1: different things, and so we decipher the codes and we
Speaker 1: explain you know, accidents, incidents, things on the roadway. Well
Speaker 1: I read through they have like this paragraph like so
Speaker 1: and so's unit is on the scene. So number one
Speaker 1: lane is blocked, so they have like kind of sentences.
Speaker 1: So I was looking down through the incident and at
Speaker 1: the very bottom it said, uh, reporting party says he
Speaker 1: saw meteor fall from the sky and start the fire
Speaker 1: on the fifty two and the eight oh five.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait what?
Speaker 1: And so I reported that because it was on the
Speaker 1: CHP official CAD system, you know, And so that started
Speaker 1: a crazy amount of talk, like people are like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I saw it too. But there was a
Speaker 1: SpaceX launch that same morning, and somebody said that they
Speaker 1: never launch over land. They always launch over water, so
Speaker 1: it couldn't have been space debris from that particular thing.
Speaker 1: But we don't know if that was caused by a meteor.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think somebody flicking a cig out of
Speaker 1: their car, somebody lighting an encampment fires, somebody setting it
Speaker 1: on purpose, a car backfiring. It could be multiple things,
Speaker 1: but a meteor. So that was pretty exciting, but not
Speaker 1: exciting because it was scary.
Speaker 2: And now it's raining.
Speaker 1: But we have somebody that just celebrated a very ominous anniversary.
Speaker 1: Last week, the twenty second of January tw twenty four,
Speaker 1: we were dealing with massive flooding. Yes, remember all those
Speaker 1: people whose homes were completely destroyed. We have on the
Speaker 1: show tonight Lorena Montes and she is a survivor of
Speaker 1: those floods. And when I got to talk to her,
Speaker 1: she's also the development director for a foundation called the
Speaker 1: Foundation for the Children of the Californias, and she and
Speaker 1: her foundation help the only pediatric hospital in Tijuana and
Speaker 1: they work in conjunction with Rady Children's Hospital in some ways.
Speaker 1: So she's going to talk about the foundation and how
Speaker 1: important it is for you know, our kids, just kids
Speaker 1: in general, and what they need and stuff. And so
Speaker 1: she's going to be so interesting. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: talk to her too. But that's going to be after
Speaker 1: your dirt and after some other things that we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I finished my lego bouquet. Thank you very much. It
Speaker 1: was very fun. I've been wanting to and needing to
Speaker 1: de stress and that really helped great. I know it's
Speaker 1: totally gonna get dusty, but it'll never die.
Speaker 2: It'll never die, but pieces will get so heavy with
Speaker 2: dust that they will just fall off.
Speaker 1: Do you want to see my newest project.
Speaker 2: Which is not I don't know if I can handle it.
Speaker 1: It's almost done. It's for Charlie and his wife. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna make it into a picture
Speaker 1: or into a pillow. It's my first time ever doing
Speaker 1: needle point.
Speaker 3: Are you doing like an embroidery?
Speaker 1: Don't give me shade right off the bat.
Speaker 3: That was snark.
Speaker 1: It's needle point. I know I'm not eighty five years old,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It could have fooled me.
Speaker 1: So this is it.
Speaker 2: Oh, what a good job I'm doing?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 2: Did a really nice job.
Speaker 1: Look at that, Like, there's all sorts of different stitches
Speaker 1: you have to learn how to make.
Speaker 2: Like you have to say, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1: Now, don't look at the back of it. It is
Speaker 1: a disaster. But like you have to make this certain
Speaker 1: circular one, and then there's a French one, and then
Speaker 1: there's a whip stitch, and then.
Speaker 2: There's you've never done this before.
Speaker 1: No, I just followed instructions and watched.
Speaker 2: You follow instructions really well. Do you know what it
Speaker 2: would look like if I tried to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it distresses me so much. And this
Speaker 1: has been last week was crazy, maybe one of the
Speaker 1: craziest weeks of my life for various reasons.
Speaker 3: You should do a pillow. Next it says like Grandma's
Speaker 3: house or something, bless.
Speaker 1: This mess, bless this needle point, bless this mess, butting
Speaker 1: or I hate housework. My mom had a sign that
Speaker 1: said I hate housework.
Speaker 2: You could you could make me one that says like
Speaker 2: the honeydo list.
Speaker 1: You know, a needle point honey do list.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, And you know what, even if I did make
Speaker 1: you a needle point to say I made you a
Speaker 1: needle point Madonna portrait, would you even display that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Know, see, I knew it.
Speaker 2: My house looks like a.
Speaker 1: Museum, and you're saying that the quality of my work
Speaker 1: is not museum quality.
Speaker 2: You know, the quality of your work is very, very nice.
Speaker 2: I just won't have anything embroidered anywhere in my house.
Speaker 1: Anything homemade is what you Okay? And I also have
Speaker 1: a story about the text message I accidentally sent to
Speaker 1: the dog rumor instead of.
Speaker 2: Oh instead two my mom oh boy.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a good one. And so I want
Speaker 1: to know if you guys have something similar like that.
Speaker 1: Everybody has that look at me.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I'm kidding.
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Speaker 1: my daughter all got their pieces and they were so excited.
Speaker 1: So I printed them out and look what it came with. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that was for my niece. It is that's my
Speaker 1: dad's ashes mixed with some crystals, white crystals, and they
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Speaker 1: she goes, I'm literally crying when I open this. That's
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Speaker 3: Okay, So.
Speaker 1: I was having quite the week. My mom texted me
Speaker 1: and she said, Nanny. She calls me nanny nanny, just
Speaker 1: checking on you, seeing how you're doing. I quickly wrote back, OHMG,
Speaker 1: I'm completely losing it. I'm a mess. Unfortunately, the text
Speaker 1: message went to Bestie's dog grooming, where had just picked
Speaker 1: up Elvis. So they get this random text from a
Speaker 1: customer this is oh MG, I'm losing it. I'm a mess,
Speaker 1: and they I went, oh, and this happened to me.
Speaker 1: Another notable time when this happened to me was a
Speaker 1: while ago. A girl that I went to rehab with.
Speaker 1: She we were in communication and she said, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: going to a kid's birthday party, and I texted her back,
Speaker 1: who's But instead I accidentally texted back horror. She's like
Speaker 1: just the word whore after that, like I'm going to
Speaker 1: a kid's birthday party? Or oh my god, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm so so sorry. I freaking spell check. And you
Speaker 1: always got to be aware of who you're texting. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I know, has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, what happened?
Speaker 2: So I'm in property management, So this was a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago and we were going to this We
Speaker 2: would have these meetings that we would have to attend,
Speaker 2: you know, with like city council members and stuff like
Speaker 2: that where they tell you new laws and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So before it started, they would have like a little
Speaker 2: cocktail hour or whatever, and you could get sodas or
Speaker 2: drinks and they'd have or derbs and stuff. And a
Speaker 2: friend of mine that was new to property management was
Speaker 2: going and he said, is do I need to bring anything?
Speaker 2: And I was like, no, there's going to be snacks
Speaker 2: and food or snacks and booze is what I said.
Speaker 2: And he came back with, wow, that sounds like some party.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, what do you mean? And I look
Speaker 2: back at my text and spell check change snacks to anal.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, it wasn't spell shack.
Speaker 2: God. I was like, how on earth I've never used
Speaker 2: that word in a text in my life. That's possible
Speaker 2: that just I was like, there'll be anal and booze.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's great.
Speaker 3: Out of seriously, I was like, he was just texting
Speaker 3: the wrong person.
Speaker 1: Happened to you, Brian?
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, shoot, it's not Saturday. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You've never accidentally sent the wrong text to somebody You've
Speaker 1: never sent like.
Speaker 3: No, I'm very careful. Also, it's not that hard to
Speaker 3: text back the right person.
Speaker 1: Well, when you're in a hurry and you're you got
Speaker 1: your mind on fifty other things, it's not that hard.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you know some of the pictures that
Speaker 2: I send you sometimes just to get your goat.
Speaker 1: You have back down on the throw up, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate I have.
Speaker 2: But this was a hundred times worse. And I sent
Speaker 2: it to the wrong person.
Speaker 1: Ooh, the anal thing or another thing.
Speaker 2: No, this was a whole nother thing.
Speaker 1: Wait, this was a video meant for me?
Speaker 2: No it was no, it was a It was a
Speaker 2: picture meant for a friend. What like we send each
Speaker 2: other like the gross of stuff, and I accidentally sent
Speaker 2: the picture to somebody else?
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah was it? Did it have to do
Speaker 1: with like eecal matters?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Oh no?
Speaker 2: What was I born in a barn?
Speaker 1: Hello? The last video you sent me was like the
Speaker 1: family guy with like.
Speaker 2: That was funny. That was a cartoon that was different.
Speaker 2: That was hard. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's do your fabulous cue the music please
Speaker 1: for a lot double D news.
Speaker 2: There's a lot. Okay, So I think what I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do with the Oh, and I have big news about well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you the Oscar nominations came out
Speaker 2: because they came out late, okay, because of the fire
Speaker 2: is and everything. And then we have the Razzie nominations,
Speaker 2: which are good. I'm going to the Academy Awards.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to tell them you're friends with Laura.
Speaker 2: That'll sing my ship. I've been so don't screw it
Speaker 2: up for me.
Speaker 3: You get to bring people.
Speaker 2: No, I'm styling somebody.
Speaker 3: Who are you styling?
Speaker 2: Don't know yet. I won't know until forty eight hours
Speaker 2: ahead of time.
Speaker 1: But do you get to stay?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm staying. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you need an assistant that doesn't know anything about
Speaker 3: styling that's not Laura Kane because she's been banned.
Speaker 1: Do you okay, when you do your job and you
Speaker 1: are styling this person, do you have to stay with
Speaker 1: the person the whole time? Yes, to make sure that
Speaker 1: you know this piece of thread is not showing or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you're not waiting in the wings or do you wait?
Speaker 1: Do you sit in a seat or do.
Speaker 2: You wait off? It just depends like if they're gonna it,
Speaker 2: well you will. You've never styled before.
Speaker 1: I've never styled before, but I've actually been in the seat.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 2: They'll say, you know, oh, just go hang out or
Speaker 2: go do whatever, because I'm gonna go and then leave
Speaker 2: or and then I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna be on the red carpet too, for sure?
Speaker 1: Are you going to dress in a tuxt?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna dress in a suit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Can we do a watch party of the cameo ward
Speaker 3: to see if we can spot him?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that would be great. That'd be funny.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how fun? Okay, when are you gonna
Speaker 1: find like how far in advance?
Speaker 2: Well, they're on the second of March, so i'll know
Speaker 2: a couple of days ahead of time.
Speaker 1: Only a couple of days. That's that's uh.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell as much as I can tell.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you this after the event. Are
Speaker 1: you allowed to say who it was?
Speaker 2: That is?
Speaker 1: Like an NBA?
Speaker 2: That's what I'll find out. Sometimes you have to sign
Speaker 2: an NDA.
Speaker 1: So I'll oh, I hope it is a celebrity that
Speaker 1: is just super diva is.
Speaker 2: No, I've never had troublesome. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: For stories, yea, for a story.
Speaker 2: Story, I'm I was hoping it would be Demi Moore,
Speaker 2: but it's not.
Speaker 3: She has get like Lake Lively.
Speaker 2: God no, please help me. I was gonna say no.
Speaker 3: I'm still on their side with this only because oh.
Speaker 2: No, we're going to talk about that. Oh it's getting
Speaker 2: so chess.
Speaker 1: I just saw a reel about all the women who
Speaker 1: actresses who hate Blake Lively. Oh yeah, she's not well
Speaker 1: liked by a lot of people, including her former Gossip
Speaker 1: Girls co star Leyton, the.
Speaker 3: People she outgrew because they're still stuck on Gossip Johansson.
Speaker 3: I don't like Scarlett I do.
Speaker 1: Oh why not?
Speaker 3: No reason, I just don't care for anyway.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what are you going to start with?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're going to start with a Blake Lively thing. Okay.
Speaker 2: So she went to the judge because now she's freaking
Speaker 2: out because Justin Baldoni has provided three different reels of
Speaker 2: just footage that they used for like a montage of
Speaker 2: like when they did you see the movie?
Speaker 1: I didn't see the movie, but I think I saw
Speaker 1: a piece of this. It's it's like that. It was
Speaker 1: just like y roll type scene.
Speaker 2: He had a mic on and she didn't realize it
Speaker 2: was on and so there's three different scenes where she's
Speaker 2: accused him of something, but it's blatant that he didn't
Speaker 2: do anything on the mic, right, So she said that
Speaker 2: in one particular scene that they were rehearsing, he like
Speaker 2: nuzzled her neck and tried to kiss her and no,
Speaker 2: And so what it shows is they're shooting this b
Speaker 2: roll and it's stuff for did you see the movie? Okay,
Speaker 2: So they're in a bar and they're just getting to
Speaker 2: know each other and he says to her, you know,
Speaker 2: because when you shoot these be reels, you're not just
Speaker 2: gonna sit there and stare at each other. You talk
Speaker 2: about something, and so it's not uncomfortable. So he says
Speaker 2: to her, oh, you know, they're going in. They're dancing,
Speaker 2: and he says, I hope my beard doesn't scratch you.
Speaker 2: And she said, well, I hope my spray tand doesn't
Speaker 2: come off on you, and he goes, no, it smells fine.
Speaker 2: She goes, oh, that's my body makeup, and then she says,
Speaker 2: you know, you really need to do something with your nose.
Speaker 1: You can hear her saying that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she.
Speaker 3: Says it flat out, I think because it was poking
Speaker 3: her and he says, well, that's she goes, you need
Speaker 3: to just take like a medical leave and go get
Speaker 3: that taken care of. She said that, Okay, I have
Speaker 3: seen the clip. I think that was pretty clearly a joke.
Speaker 3: Though there was a lot of banter. There's nothing inating, No,
Speaker 3: But what she's oh, I think so, because when she's
Speaker 3: doing is painting him as a total psychopath. Well, I
Speaker 3: just want to point out that this all started when
Speaker 3: she did send him in this production car or his
Speaker 3: management a like you know, a letter saying hey, this
Speaker 3: is stuff that's happened. That's not cool, and they agreed
Speaker 3: to it and they said, sorry, we'll work on this.
Speaker 3: Like there's already been some admittance of guilt from when
Speaker 3: I write.
Speaker 2: But then what they did, what she and her husband did,
Speaker 2: is they sold the story to the New York Times,
Speaker 2: and the New York Times edited the text messages, so
Speaker 2: there was editing going on. He and his attorneys and
Speaker 2: the production company provided everything unedited. And it doesn't back
Speaker 2: up what she's saying at all.
Speaker 1: So is she suing him?
Speaker 2: Is he suing each other?
Speaker 1: They're suing each other?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, and I believe him. I at first was
Speaker 2: on her side. But now after you see all this,
Speaker 2: it's not cool if that's what she's doing because it's
Speaker 2: setting women back. So it's setting people back to say, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know, if she's going to do it, and they're
Speaker 2: comparing her now to Amber heard her yea, so good?
Speaker 2: Not so good because he released all that camera footage
Speaker 2: of her like slapping him and stuff like that that
Speaker 2: she didn't know existed. Yeah, so it's going to be
Speaker 2: interesting to see how this So when when she found
Speaker 2: out that all this existed, Blake Lively, she tried to
Speaker 2: put a gag order on Baldoni and his attorney so
Speaker 2: that they couldn't submit it, and the judge said no, sorry, sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it would be interesting. So my songs just Carrie Underwood.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I heard she had a moment. She had
Speaker 1: a moment.
Speaker 2: At what happened. So they moved her the venue inside
Speaker 2: because of the rain and the cold weather and everything.
Speaker 2: So she went from it being a large venue to
Speaker 2: which I think she's used to playing, to a very
Speaker 2: small thing with everybody crowded around her. And they had
Speaker 2: technical difficulties as far as like music and sound. So
Speaker 2: she sang at a cappella and she did a very
Speaker 2: nice job.
Speaker 1: Was she supposed to have music in the background, Oh, yeah, she.
Speaker 2: Did, but then they said she had she was dissatisfied
Speaker 2: with the performance. Those are in hers said she handled
Speaker 2: it well. There was rumors that she had a hissy
Speaker 2: hit and stuff, but she was just like, I wish
Speaker 2: I would have known that this is what they were
Speaker 2: going to do, but she found out at the last minute.
Speaker 1: Well they they probably didn't know if they had to
Speaker 1: move it insidecause it was going to be so freaking cold. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she just needed to roll with the punches, which it
Speaker 1: sounded like she did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, people have come down on her,
Speaker 2: but she is literally not said anything about her political
Speaker 2: affiliation or anything. And she was, you know, She's like,
Speaker 2: I love this country and I'm gonna sing and that's it.
Speaker 1: You will always stick up for your songstress. Oh you
Speaker 1: you're your face? You're number one? Is that your number
Speaker 1: one songstress?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Kylie Minogue? No Madonna?
Speaker 2: I do love my Madonna?
Speaker 1: Who number one?
Speaker 2: Excellin Deonto? I like them all share probably share, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody buckle up next flip. Netflix is getting more expensive again,
Speaker 2: already canceled it. It's going from fifteen forty nine to
Speaker 2: seventeen ninety nine. A mine, that's for the base, Like,
Speaker 2: that's for the base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not even the sharing thing.
Speaker 3: I was going to twenty five.
Speaker 2: The premium plan which I have is twenty two ninety nine.
Speaker 2: It's going to twenty four ninety nine. Yeah, so there
Speaker 2: better not be any fricking commercials.
Speaker 1: No, it's like you gets it because I share it,
Speaker 1: like Evan uses it, and Charlie uses it, and I
Speaker 1: use it and that some and so does Antonio. So
Speaker 1: when there have been a couple of times when I've
Speaker 1: wanted to watch something really bad, like the New Squid Games,
Speaker 1: and it says sorry unavailable, I'm like, turns out Charlie
Speaker 1: and Maya turned on Netflix for their dog and left
Speaker 1: so they could go like on a date, so I
Speaker 1: couldn't watch my Netflix. The dog was watching Netflix.
Speaker 2: I was so madded.
Speaker 1: Oh, all all these thoughts were taken. But you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like annoyed by all the content. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of content on Netflix, but it's all
Speaker 1: dubbed so poorly, Like it's a lot of it is foreign,
Speaker 1: and they dub over the English voices, so it bothers me.
Speaker 3: What do you want them to do?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe don't you volunteer to go for anybody?
Speaker 1: I should just I should just read the subtitles.
Speaker 3: But it's also only like the Korean for example, shows
Speaker 3: that are in Korean.
Speaker 1: No, there's a whole bunch of them.
Speaker 3: There's there's there's a lot, a lot of different ones, right,
Speaker 3: all their foreign stuff. They have plenty of domestic stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what when are we going to talk
Speaker 1: about that movie that's not on Netflix that's on Amazon Prime?
Speaker 2: Which one when you told me to watch? Which one?
Speaker 2: Was that?
Speaker 1: Blink?
Speaker 2: Always God?
Speaker 1: Channing Tatum dude, psychological thriller?
Speaker 2: It was like crazy, it was insane. Yeah, it's a good,
Speaker 2: really really good.
Speaker 1: You're gonna yeah if you like that kind of dark.
Speaker 2: I usually I can figure things out. I don't know
Speaker 2: where I know. I know it's very very good. It's
Speaker 2: kind of.
Speaker 1: Fancying him play a bad guy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: So that's on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2: Did you hear he is allegedly bisexual?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah allegedly.
Speaker 2: I know. I just ordered a shirt that says allegedly okay,
Speaker 2: so I can wear it all the time. Yeah, do
Speaker 2: you remember Billy Rayayris. I honestly did not even know
Speaker 2: he was still alone.
Speaker 1: I have achy breaky hut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he passed away. No, Miley's dad, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I wow, his adopted son Trace, So I guess he
Speaker 2: Billy race Iris saying something for you know who and
Speaker 2: it was a disaster.
Speaker 1: You know who?
Speaker 3: Yeah, his favorite.
Speaker 1: I can't Oh, oh okay, so Billy okay?
Speaker 2: Inauguration Well, no, something I think prior to that, but
Speaker 2: I guess it was a colossal failure. So he had
Speaker 2: a train wreck cup of performance at the inauguration ball,
Speaker 2: and it caused many to speculate that something was wrong
Speaker 2: with his health. So his adopted son Trace posted a
Speaker 2: letter on Instagram to express this concern, which of course
Speaker 2: you do on social media to express your concern about
Speaker 2: a family member. Is a sober surprise. Surprise, he got
Speaker 2: mad and is threatening to sue his kid.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, well is he like in recovery? I don't remember.
Speaker 2: If I don't know, I didn't say, so, I have
Speaker 2: no idea. Always okay, So now we're going to get
Speaker 2: into the oscars and stuff. So the other night I
Speaker 2: watched the substance.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's gory, is all, get out of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you don't like vomiting, I do not.
Speaker 1: I am a vomit phobe.
Speaker 2: I am a tooth of phobe, and a fingernail of
Speaker 2: phobe and a needle of phobe. And this movie had
Speaker 2: all three things. I thought I was going to it's die.
Speaker 2: There are more needles in this movie than.
Speaker 1: Did you The Office? In general, I liked it up
Speaker 1: until the very end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought she did a great job. She did.
Speaker 2: She deserves an Oscar nomination and a very good job.
Speaker 1: Body they use for the young Demi Moore her button
Speaker 1: like that woman has like the best body on the planet.
Speaker 3: Okay, so yeah, so you don't know who that is.
Speaker 2: She she's the daughter of was that actually her? Her?
Speaker 2: Her body? Of course, Wikipedia to everything saw it because
Speaker 2: she worked out for like months to get that body.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's since it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got a great body.
Speaker 3: But if you I remember, she's been in a ton
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 2: She was in sane, almost fire. She was a model.
Speaker 1: I recognize her. Oh that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Okay, Margaret Quality is Okay, the girl that plays the
Speaker 2: so if you haven't seen it, it's the director's first
Speaker 2: movie that she did was called Revenge, and it was
Speaker 2: really good. It was blood soaked as well. But she's
Speaker 2: very into like female empowerment and stuff, and so with
Speaker 2: this one in a nutshell, Demi Moore is an aging
Speaker 2: TV star. She gets fired and she goes to the doctor.
Speaker 2: She's in a car accident. She goes to the doctor
Speaker 2: and the nurse is like, hey, this worked for me,
Speaker 2: and he gives her a flash drive that says the
Speaker 2: substance on it, and she orders the thing and you
Speaker 2: inoculate yourself. And then every seven day her back literally
Speaker 2: splits open and she gives birth to like.
Speaker 1: A younger version version.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and it is.
Speaker 1: But every seven days you have to read, you have
Speaker 1: to switch bodies again.
Speaker 2: So the younger version is like, hey, I'm loving this
Speaker 2: hedonistic lifestyle and all this success that I'm getting. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tweak it. And that's when all all break slough
Speaker 2: because you're not You're supposed to stick with the plan,
Speaker 2: and she doesn't stick with there's Demi up against. She
Speaker 2: is up against I will tell you in just a second. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: So she's nominated for a first time Oscar this year.
Speaker 2: That's great and she deserves it. She she does a
Speaker 2: great job in this movie.
Speaker 1: That makes me happy for women who are, you know,
Speaker 1: in their fifties. Yeah, make a kick and stretch and
Speaker 1: get Oscar nominations.
Speaker 2: Still, she's I believe sixty. Oh incredible. Yeah, she looks great.
Speaker 1: Didn't them Angelina Jolie get snubbed?
Speaker 2: She did for Maria that's it was a very good movie.
Speaker 1: I wonder where she got.
Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people got snubbed because of
Speaker 3: who is getting the most awards for most nominations Amelia
Speaker 3: Perez who is in that.
Speaker 2: As Zoe Saldana Jomez, Yes, Selena Gomez.
Speaker 3: It's not super well received outside of just the critics
Speaker 3: seems really like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's like a musical drama. And I think
Speaker 2: it's regarding like a transgender woman.
Speaker 3: Cartel leader, carteli. It's a weird story. And I heard
Speaker 3: Mexico in particular has some problem as their community is
Speaker 3: having some serious issues with them.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard mixtrevis so
Speaker 2: I'm going to go. So it's the ninety seventh Academy Awards.
Speaker 2: It is what's his name that's hosting it. That Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to go over the basics because now
Speaker 2: there's so many Yeah, don't do screenplay, So best Picture,
Speaker 2: I've only heard of a couple of these. Aurora the Brutalist,
Speaker 2: a complete Unknown.
Speaker 1: That's the one with Timothy shalom es.
Speaker 2: Dune Part two, Amelia Perez, I'm Still Here, Nickel Boy's
Speaker 2: the Substance, Wicked directing Aurora the Brutalist, Complete Unknown, Amelia
Speaker 2: Press in the Substance.
Speaker 3: Dennis LLave got shafted on that for Best Director.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Actress in the leading role Cynthia Rivo for Wicked, Carlos.
Speaker 1: Get an egot if she gets it, Oscar.
Speaker 2: Uh Carlo, Sophia Gascon for Amelia Perez, Mickey Madison for Aurora,
Speaker 2: Demi Moore for the Substance, and Fernando Torres for I'm
Speaker 2: Still Here. Actor in a leading role is Adrian Brody
Speaker 2: for The Brutalist, Timothy Chalomey for a complete Unknown, Coleman
Speaker 2: Domingo for sing Sing, Ralph Fines for Conclave, and Sebastian
Speaker 2: stand for the Apprentice. Actress in a supporting role Monica
Speaker 2: Barbaro for a complete unknown, Ariana Grande for Wicked, Felicity
Speaker 2: Jones the Brutalist, Isabella Rossolini for Conclave, Zoey's Aldana for
Speaker 2: Amelia Prez, and actor in a supporting role is Eura
Speaker 2: Boriso for Aurora. Kieran Culkin a real pain.
Speaker 1: Oh I saw that that was really good?
Speaker 2: Was it because like Prime or something else? Edward Norton
Speaker 2: for a complete unknown, Guy Pierce for the Brutalist, and
Speaker 2: Jeremy Strong for The Apprentice.
Speaker 1: Is a complete unknown out yet.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. Yeah, and then there's you know, costume
Speaker 2: design and all that stuff. But I'll just go over
Speaker 2: the basics.
Speaker 3: Honestly, not that many great movies. I feel like in
Speaker 3: the Oscars this year, I.
Speaker 2: Was summarised with as gory as the substance was.
Speaker 3: Substance was really well received. I don't blame that one.
Speaker 3: Amelia Prez. I'm very surprised because that one, like the
Speaker 3: at least the audience scores on it is like really bad. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of controversy with the Brutalist, but I've
Speaker 3: heard it's all right, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah if yes, and then there's some like Aurora. I've
Speaker 2: heard good things about.
Speaker 3: I've heard it's just it was a small movie that
Speaker 3: was very small.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The biggest thing is that Dennisville in the way of
Speaker 3: Knotting nominated for Best Director. Is crazy because.
Speaker 2: I one of my favorite movies is uh Prisoners.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's a great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Should I pay to see heretic? It's on, like you
Speaker 1: can rent it?
Speaker 3: Just wait, you might like it. Wait how much?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If it's like three bucks, you'll go for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three ninety nine.
Speaker 3: It's worth It's worth three bucks.
Speaker 2: The substance was worth five ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, okay, So now the Razzies they have us.
Speaker 1: They don't have an event for the Razzies.
Speaker 2: They do if they do, yes, and you can big.
Speaker 2: Actually you can actually pay an annual fee or a
Speaker 2: I believe it's a lifetime fee. Is five hundred.
Speaker 1: Did the celebrities go to get Sometimes?
Speaker 2: They do, not very often. I think one year Gina
Speaker 2: Davis was nominated for like some Cutthroat Island or something,
Speaker 2: and she came in person to pick up.
Speaker 3: I would go to every single why totally, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I absolutely would. So with the Razzies, the joker leads
Speaker 2: the pack by seven nominations, Borderlands six and Madam Webb six.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we get all of them. Way terrible. It
Speaker 2: was bad, so was well, I didn't even see it. It
Speaker 2: was so bad. Oh, by the way, Speak of the Joker.
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga, her new CD drops on March third, and
Speaker 2: it's called Maham and it's considered it's going to be
Speaker 2: a dark dance record whatever that means.
Speaker 1: Dark dancer.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but we'll find out.
Speaker 2: So worst picture is Borderlins, Joker, folea do, Madame Webb,
Speaker 2: make Alopolis, which I've never heard of.
Speaker 3: That's uh, that's oh my god, what's his name? Apocalypse
Speaker 3: now Coppola. That's Francis Coppola's movie. That's his thing. That
Speaker 3: was that's his Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't make heads or tails.
Speaker 3: Of the of the I think I think it's something
Speaker 3: that might become a classic in like thirty years, just
Speaker 3: because it's so bad, No, just because it will be
Speaker 3: one of those things that's misunderstood.
Speaker 2: And Reagan Worst Actor, Jack black.
Speaker 1: Wade, Yeah, Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 3: Reagan's not popular anymore.
Speaker 2: Worst actor I think anything Jack Blackson would probably be
Speaker 2: Jack black okay, whatever for Dear Santa, Zachary Levi for
Speaker 2: Harold in the Purple Crayon.
Speaker 1: Oh, I still love that.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of that either. Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
Speaker 2: Joker fole Ad, Dennis Quaid for Reagan, and Jerry Seinfeld
Speaker 2: for Unfrosted. Did you see that on Netflix?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: So bad? Oh my god. If Joaquin is to win,
Speaker 2: he would be the first to have an oscar Anna
Speaker 2: Razzi for the same role.
Speaker 1: That is really great.
Speaker 3: They should give it to him then, just for.
Speaker 2: That worst actress Kate Blanchette for border Lands, Lady Gaga
Speaker 2: Joker fole Ado, Bryce Dallas Howard for Argyle, Dakota Johnson
Speaker 2: for Madam Webb, and Jennifer Lopez for Atlas. Did did
Speaker 2: you guys?
Speaker 3: At was awful? Our Yle was also awful.
Speaker 2: Atlas was though I didn't even finish it. It's literally
Speaker 2: Jennifer Lopez inside like a robot and it's just her
Speaker 2: face for the whole movie.
Speaker 1: No, I'm kind of like not on that.
Speaker 2: I think she's pretty, but I don't want to stare
Speaker 2: at her that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Go.
Speaker 2: We're supporting actor Jack Black for Borderland see I told
Speaker 2: you anything. He's in as bad what Kevin Hart for Borderland,
Speaker 2: Shi Lah Booth for Megalopolis to hear raheem from Madame Webb.
Speaker 2: John Voight really got the shaft Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadowland and Strangers.
Speaker 2: We're supporting actress Arianna Depoe's Argyle and Craven the Hunter Leslie.
Speaker 2: I'm down for Reagan, Emma Roberts for Madam Webb, Amy
Speaker 2: Schumer for Unfrosted Fka Twigs for the Crow.
Speaker 3: Okay, dude, Amy Schumer, I forgot. I haven't seen her
Speaker 3: in anything or even online in like half a decade
Speaker 3: at this point.
Speaker 1: What did I just read about her?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: Something?
Speaker 2: She's got a new well she had some health issues, yeah,
Speaker 2: something like, but now she's got a new.
Speaker 3: Movie coming out of where she didn't get canceled, but
Speaker 3: she got some flak and she had oh because she
Speaker 3: was recycling jokes, she was stealing the cardinal sin.
Speaker 2: Yes, a couple more things.
Speaker 1: Then we got to get Lorena.
Speaker 2: Yes. In regards to Lady Gaga, the song she did
Speaker 2: the collaboration called Die with a Smile, Yeah with Bruno
Speaker 2: Bruno Mars. It's the fastest song in history. One billion
Speaker 2: streams on Spotify. Really yeah. And then I did see
Speaker 2: another movie this weekend called Mother's Instinct. It's on Prime
Speaker 2: and Hulu and it's with Jessica Chastain and the girl
Speaker 2: from devil Ware's Product which one and Hathaway and they
Speaker 2: play There's a Death and they play bickering housewives.
Speaker 1: Is it good?
Speaker 2: It was? Okay?
Speaker 1: Never mind, never mind? Okay, let's cute some music, because
Speaker 1: it's time to bring up or get any kind of music.
Speaker 1: I don't even care, just to break it up because
Speaker 1: we have special guests in the house. Lorena Montes, please
Speaker 1: join us up on the stage, up on our fabulous studio,
Speaker 1: which is my living room, which is BacT with stuff
Speaker 1: right now. So I apologize for the way it looks.
Speaker 1: So Lorena, welcome to the show. And then bring your
Speaker 1: mic a little bit closer to your mom in here.
Speaker 1: There we go. Okay. So I met Lorena through Beto.
Speaker 1: We've had Beto on the show before, Beto Perez and
Speaker 1: he's on Rock one, O five three. He's also on
Speaker 1: gam In ninety five to seven. He's a DJ. He
Speaker 1: does a lot for the community. And when I was
Speaker 1: working in the newsroom, I was like oh, we need
Speaker 1: to find somebody who suffered from the floods, because it
Speaker 1: was a year ago, on the twenty second of January
Speaker 1: that the floods just destroyed so many people's homes, and
Speaker 1: you were one of them, and so I got to
Speaker 1: talk to you, and it turns out you are also
Speaker 1: You also are the development director for a very important foundation,
Speaker 1: which we will get to you in a minute, but
Speaker 1: first I want to talk to you about the floods.
Speaker 1: First of all, welcome Lorena, and talk about that day
Speaker 1: a year ago. Where were you? What happened? Bring us back?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Well, that day, I actually was working.
Speaker 4: I was working in a different job and working from
Speaker 4: my dining room table, and it was rained pretty hard,
Speaker 4: just like it was today, and I have to say
Speaker 4: I have a little PTSD from rain today too. But
Speaker 4: I just watched out my window as the water started
Speaker 4: to rise and.
Speaker 1: Just was a little shocked.
Speaker 4: And then I naively put a towel by my door,
Speaker 4: thinking oh, that's going to stop, and it just started
Speaker 4: to rise from the planks of wood because we had
Speaker 4: full wood floors, and the water just started to rise
Speaker 4: throughout the whole house, and I saw our cars like
Speaker 4: just start the water was highest outside in our front
Speaker 4: yard and our house sits kind of, you know, at
Speaker 4: a decline. The front of the house of our neighborhood
Speaker 4: is called Mountain View. The cross streets through Ocean View
Speaker 4: and forty seconds and anyhow, that as the water was
Speaker 4: rising throughout the house, and you know, I could see
Speaker 4: things starting to go down the street because the current
Speaker 4: was so fast. We actually had a huge van like
Speaker 4: old school grandma and nine eighty five van sitting out
Speaker 4: in the front yard and the water actually took it
Speaker 4: down the street. That's how fast the water was flowing.
Speaker 4: And my husband came home through the backyard at the
Speaker 4: time that it was flooding because he works in construction
Speaker 4: and his job site was closed down for the rain.
Speaker 4: And he gets there and you know, he helped me
Speaker 4: get our dog outside and bring it to the higher
Speaker 4: point of our backyard. And that street had a lot
Speaker 4: of water going down, but it was essentially coming to
Speaker 4: our front of the house. We started to help our
Speaker 4: neighbors across the street get out of their homes.
Speaker 1: How are you doing that with our paddle boards, Doe,
Speaker 1: You were like paddling.
Speaker 4: Well, we just were using the paddle board to help
Speaker 4: them like get on it. It was about waist high
Speaker 4: to try to get them to our backyard so they
Speaker 4: could get out the back street. And our neighbor across
Speaker 4: the street the night before, their mother in law, someone
Speaker 4: had passed away and the ambulance had told them to
Speaker 4: leave her body there, but the water was rising so
Speaker 4: significantly that they, you know, were like no way. So
Speaker 4: they brought her body on air mattress and left it
Speaker 4: on our trampoline.
Speaker 1: WHOA, Well, they waited.
Speaker 4: You know for the medical team to come pick her up.
Speaker 1: But Okay, how fast did this all occur?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: What is the time span?
Speaker 4: I remember taking a picture of the street and sending
Speaker 4: it to my coworkers while we were in the zoom,
Speaker 4: and that was like ten thirty and by noon, like
Speaker 4: the street, the.
Speaker 1: House was you know, completely flooded.
Speaker 4: We had about two feet of water in our home
Speaker 4: and we're on a higher end of the street itself.
Speaker 4: Our neighbors across the street probably had five to six
Speaker 4: feet of water in their house.
Speaker 1: Did you have time to like gather important things? Did
Speaker 1: you even think about that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I was mostly I mean my daughter was at school,
Speaker 4: so I knew she was safe. That was my big
Speaker 4: concern was just you know, if she if her school
Speaker 4: was okay, because she was in body a Logan school,
Speaker 4: and and our papers, so I'm pretty organized. I have
Speaker 4: a file cabinet, you know, just fire file cabinet, and
Speaker 4: that's all my papers said. My husband actually helped me
Speaker 4: just throw it on turn bed, so I was like, well,
Speaker 4: hopefully it doesn't get that high and we'll just leave
Speaker 4: it there. So but we landed up staying because we
Speaker 4: were helping quite a few neighbors. And then I'm not
Speaker 4: really sure what happened to stop the The rain stopped,
Speaker 4: but it was still.
Speaker 2: I mean, the water was still.
Speaker 4: Really high, and then at one point you could tell
Speaker 4: a difference in the water retracted pretty quickly, so I
Speaker 4: don't know what the city did. The street behind us
Speaker 4: is the flood canal, and that, from my understanding, had
Speaker 4: I mean, you could see it afterwards after the water
Speaker 4: cleared and everything. There were i mean refrigerators and stuff
Speaker 4: like that that they were taking out of the canal itself.
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm sure part of that is a
Speaker 4: combination of what was coming out of the homes along
Speaker 4: the canal, but also you know, the debris and things
Speaker 4: like that that they've had, and our neighbors that live
Speaker 4: on that side of the street have reported repeatedly that,
Speaker 4: you know, the city should come clean up things.
Speaker 1: And is that one of those great things like the
Speaker 1: grates that No.
Speaker 4: It's actually like a man made creek, oh quickly is
Speaker 4: what it looks like. But it's it's huge. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's a good twenty feet across. You know, it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's not a small little stream that runs down.
Speaker 1: So when the water receded where you what were you
Speaker 1: left with?
Speaker 4: And because you were out house, it is just mud everywhere.
Speaker 4: I have pictures where you know, they just telling you
Speaker 4: take pictures of everything, take pictures of everything. My husband
Speaker 4: and this quick thinking, you know, we.
Speaker 1: Threw out a lot.
Speaker 4: I mean we threw We had to throw out all
Speaker 4: of our furniture and dressers, like you can't keep any
Speaker 4: of that stuff because it's toxic at this point. So
Speaker 4: you know, there was nothing basically left every where.
Speaker 1: Did you go?
Speaker 4: We went to Famili's home that night. My daughter was
Speaker 4: you know, picked up by a friend there at school
Speaker 4: and brought to our family.
Speaker 1: And when were you able to come to move back
Speaker 1: into your home safely? Just recently. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: In August, late August, right before my daughter started school,
Speaker 4: we moved back in and there were still quite a
Speaker 4: few things that we need to continue updating. But you know,
Speaker 4: our house was built in nineteen fifty one, one of
Speaker 4: the first homes on the block, so so much which
Speaker 4: was not updated essentially. So now with this flood, you know,
Speaker 4: the small things that we just updated our kitchen, now
Speaker 4: we had to do a total recall of our entire
Speaker 4: house because everything was from nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: Did you have flood insurance?
Speaker 4: No, we didn't. We're not on the side of the
Speaker 4: street that technically is mapped out as a flood risk.
Speaker 1: So were you Did you get help? Was it hard
Speaker 1: to get help? Did you get like you be able
Speaker 1: to get repressing? Oh my god, I bet you went
Speaker 1: through a lot of red tape. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, one of the things I think that's I guess
Speaker 4: silver lining on the whole thing is that we're homeowners,
Speaker 4: so we were eligible for quite a few different programs FEMA,
Speaker 4: you know, was one assistant. Some of the FEMA loans
Speaker 4: that are little lower rates and that sort of thing
Speaker 4: we're eligible for. But the amount of work that goes
Speaker 4: into it is exponential. And I was so fortunate to
Speaker 4: have a job that I was working remote, so I
Speaker 4: could spend all day waiting for FEMA to like get
Speaker 4: all the paperwork that they needed or come to the
Speaker 4: house and you know, measure everything to make sure we
Speaker 4: weren't lying about, you know, the damage that was done.
Speaker 4: And you know, I have a master's degree, so getting
Speaker 4: through that paperwork was no light thing by any means.
Speaker 4: So I just my heart goes out to all the
Speaker 4: families that don't have all of those privileges, you know,
Speaker 4: right and access to these kinds of you know, supports
Speaker 4: and systems. And my job was phenomenal in supporting me
Speaker 4: and allowing me to take the time off to be
Speaker 4: there for the number of things that you have to
Speaker 4: do in this process.
Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy a year later what we dealt with
Speaker 1: like that same day. A year later and it was
Speaker 1: completely flip flopped. I know when fire, I know. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when we were talking, she was telling me about
Speaker 1: her your new job that you recently just got last month, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she said, thank you. Yeah. She's the director, the development
Speaker 1: director of the Foundations, the Foundation for the Children of
Speaker 1: the Californias and explain to us what that is and
Speaker 1: why it's important that we know about it.
Speaker 4: Definitely. So the Foundation for the Children of the Californias
Speaker 4: has been around for over thirty years. We just celebrated
Speaker 4: our thirtieth anniversary last year. I came to find this
Speaker 4: organization just by an introduction from someone I had worked
Speaker 4: with in the past and was really excited about the
Speaker 4: mission to enhance the health and nutrition of children in
Speaker 4: the San Diego mega region. San Diego's huge, and we're
Speaker 4: pretty wealthy, but to know that so many kids are
Speaker 4: still malnourished and under accessing healthcare that's you know, high quality,
Speaker 4: is just something I can understand. And so this foundation
Speaker 4: supports one of the only pediatric hospitals in Northern Tijuana.
Speaker 4: So children come from all over Northern Mexico to access
Speaker 4: the specialty care that is in this hospital, and that's
Speaker 4: one of the primary initiatives that we support as a foundation.
Speaker 1: We really are here for.
Speaker 4: Binational children's health along the border region and making sure
Speaker 4: that they have access to healthy nutrition and you know, teaching,
Speaker 4: education and specialty services that we do. We have an
Speaker 4: amazing surgical unit dentistry. One of the great things about
Speaker 4: the clinic itself is that you know, families can come
Speaker 4: there for let's say a kleflip pellet surgery, which is
Speaker 4: one of the things that is access there most frequently,
Speaker 4: and get all the follow up care that they need
Speaker 4: there in one place, so they don't have to go
Speaker 4: to multiple different places. And you can imagine if you're
Speaker 4: an underserved person living in an urban region or a
Speaker 4: rural region of Mexico, it's hard to get to doctors
Speaker 4: to continue to do that. So it's nice to be
Speaker 4: able to go to one places.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of families do come here to Raidy
Speaker 1: Children's Hospital, but like I'm sure that they can't do
Speaker 1: follow up appointments constantly, right because it's no small order
Speaker 1: heading across the border half the time, you know, so
Speaker 1: is the hospital? Do they provide the same kind of care? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: There are some partnerships with physicians on the United States
Speaker 4: side that do work with Rady's that volunteer their time
Speaker 4: as well at the hospital to do follow up care
Speaker 4: with some of the children. You're right, Crossing the border
Speaker 4: is no small feet for anybody. Even if you have
Speaker 4: sent through your global entry, you know it can take
Speaker 4: an hour or two two so it's nice to be
Speaker 4: able to have faster service. We do have a great
Speaker 4: telehealth program as well, so if families have been served
Speaker 4: initially you know, in TJ, but need to do follow
Speaker 4: up here in the United States, they're able to you know,
Speaker 4: still meet with their physicians and stuff. And so one
Speaker 4: of the great things the hospital didn't close during COVID
Speaker 4: because of the telehealth and you know, for many families
Speaker 4: that are monolingual Spanish speaking, this is a huge access
Speaker 4: point to getting your care for your kids.
Speaker 1: So we have a link on our web page Laura
Speaker 1: Kane after dark dot com. It has a link to
Speaker 1: the foundation's website. Now, somebody who's listening or watching why
Speaker 1: should help and give because what you need is is funds,
Speaker 1: right right.
Speaker 4: But I mean, I think there's a lot of different
Speaker 4: ways to be involved with our organization, volunteer opportunities. I
Speaker 4: think it's great to introduce other people and families to
Speaker 4: this resource because you know, we serve children from anywhere.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't have to be a Mexican citizen.
Speaker 4: You can be a US citizen, you could be a
Speaker 4: Ukrainian citizen, it doesn't matter. The hope is is that
Speaker 4: all children will have access to this quality care, and
Speaker 4: so I think, you know, spreading the word about this
Speaker 4: resource is one great thing. Of course, funding is always
Speaker 4: essential to keep the doors open and keep the quality
Speaker 4: care up to code and up to you know, the
Speaker 4: standards that everybody should have. I don't think healthcare should
Speaker 4: be a luxury, you know, it's part of our human dignity.
Speaker 4: And for me, I think this is such a great
Speaker 4: example of that being the mission for the last thirty years.
Speaker 4: You know, our founder she just was, you know, shocked
Speaker 4: from the stories that I've heard. I never met her,
Speaker 4: but you know her mission has always been to make
Speaker 4: sure children had care that she saw, you know, in
Speaker 4: the United States.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that, oh my gosh, that's that's really great.
Speaker 1: So if you want to give, and if you have
Speaker 1: your tender sport spot in your heart for children, yes,
Speaker 1: this would be a great foundation to support. And what
Speaker 1: is the website so we could use somebody wants to
Speaker 1: write it down right now?
Speaker 4: They it's obviously www dot u s FCC dot org.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, I mean, congratulations on the new job and
Speaker 1: your master's degree. Oh yeah, that was well where'd you
Speaker 1: go to school?
Speaker 4: I went to the University of New England. Oh what
Speaker 4: are you from the East coast now, I'm actually from Denver, Colorado. Okay,
Speaker 4: I've been in San Diego for almost twenty years now.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh my gosh. Well, I'm glad to know
Speaker 1: that you are back in your house. I mean, is
Speaker 1: it all totally for the most part, the most part, okay,
Speaker 1: the most part.
Speaker 4: It's it's coming along.
Speaker 1: It took a while, it did, it did.
Speaker 4: But you know, it's uh, it looks beautiful. And thank
Speaker 4: God for a handy husband and the honeyde list.
Speaker 1: Poor guy, It's God, You're lucky. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy I want to meet. Is a handy man. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, somebody that can fix anything and plug anything
Speaker 1: in and set up put up a TV on the wall.
Speaker 2: You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Honey do list.
Speaker 4: It doesn't leave our house.
Speaker 1: It's it comes.
Speaker 4: I every once in a while will be like, hey,
Speaker 4: can you hang this stuff in my office? And then
Speaker 4: I'm like, never mind, I need you to do the curtains.
Speaker 1: Thanks well, Lorena, Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about this foundation, and I think
Speaker 1: it's wonderful. And beautiful, and like you said, every child
Speaker 1: deserves quality care and so thank you for that, and
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing your story and being on our podcast.
Speaker 1: And something we do at the end of each episode
Speaker 1: is we have a little saying, So I'll say it first,
Speaker 1: and then will you say it? And then Eric says it,
Speaker 1: and then we're done. Okay, okay, cheerleaders.
Speaker 3: I love this.
Speaker 1: I know it's our little tagline. Okay okay. So thank
Speaker 1: you guys for watching and listening. We always appreciate it
Speaker 1: so much. We do and love your podcast. Love your podcast,
Speaker 1: Love your podcast. Thank you guys, Love me my sweet babies.
Speaker 1: Bye bye, everybody, Bye bye bye bye.