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Speaker 2: So make sure you check out. Michael Monks is very special,
Speaker 2: a very special feature. Now let's get into something that
Speaker 2: is a bit of a pivot from our last segment.
Speaker 2: We had a wonderful segment with mister Ernie Singleton music industry.
Speaker 2: Let's make sure you catch that on the podcast under
Speaker 2: Featured Segments. This not as not nearly as fun of
Speaker 2: a topic, but something that needs to be shared. And
Speaker 2: when I came across this story, I said, you know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of focus on what we're putting in
Speaker 2: our bodies, how much we're putting in our bodies. Of course,
Speaker 2: weight loss and what we consume is always at the
Speaker 2: top of many of the conversations we have, especially as
Speaker 2: we get closer this summer and with talk about eggs
Speaker 2: and the prices of things going up, especially when it
Speaker 2: comes to food and other produce or produce in our stores.
Speaker 2: The talk continues about weight loss and what's happening around
Speaker 2: weight loss. And what also continues is the popularity of
Speaker 2: the semi glue tie drugs. The main one, the one
Speaker 2: that has probably the best name recognition, is o Zimpic.
Speaker 2: There's also we go Vy and these other kind of
Speaker 2: off brand ones. But for the last many years, drugs
Speaker 2: like ozempic have become popular with the masses, first starting
Speaker 2: with those who are managing their diabetes, and then another
Speaker 2: niche group came along and found out that it worked
Speaker 2: for weight loss, and now you can find ozempic pretty
Speaker 2: much anywhere online as long as you have something like
Speaker 2: a doctor's note or some sort of prescription that allows
Speaker 2: you to get it. And that is because it is
Speaker 2: a drug it's not a supplement, it is not something
Speaker 2: that is considered to be natural. No, it's a trug.
Speaker 2: It's a semi glue tide and you inject it. And
Speaker 2: because it's a drug, there are side effects. And what
Speaker 2: we're not seeing right now are commercials about semi glue
Speaker 2: tides with people in bathtubs holding hands while looking at
Speaker 2: the sunset talking about the virtues of their weight loss,
Speaker 2: while also along the bottom of the screen you have
Speaker 2: that ticker that says this drug can give you heart
Speaker 2: heart palpitations, and can cause stroke, and can cause kidney
Speaker 2: disease and all these other things. Because the popularity of
Speaker 2: ozempic far outweighs the side effects, at least right now,
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of talk about these side effects,
Speaker 2: including ozimpic face. That's said to be when people experience
Speaker 2: kind of this rapid weight loss, their face hollows and
Speaker 2: starts to sag.
Speaker 3: All the fatty tissue in their.
Speaker 2: Face goes away, and their faces are left kind of
Speaker 2: forlorn and again saggy. So ozimpic face became synonymous with
Speaker 2: ozimpic weight loss. There's also something called ozimpic, but the
Speaker 2: same thing that was happening to people's faces. It's happening
Speaker 2: to people's rear ends. You no longer had that plump,
Speaker 2: nice bagside. You had one that was sagging, one that
Speaker 2: was not necessarily the most appealing to you or to
Speaker 2: others to look at for that matter. And people started
Speaker 2: to really complain about their bodies and the side effects
Speaker 2: from these drugs. Another was hair loss. People were saying
Speaker 2: that they were having issues with hair loss and the
Speaker 2: side effects continue. But you don't hear as much about
Speaker 2: them per se as maybe we need to.
Speaker 3: Well that's until.
Speaker 2: Now The Daily Mail is running an article and it
Speaker 2: is called more Americans on Ozimpic Go blind as doctor's
Speaker 2: sound alarm over potentially startling side effect. So now you
Speaker 2: can enter blindness into the conversation. Here's what the article says.
Speaker 2: Experts have sounded the alarm about blockbuster weight loss drugs
Speaker 2: like Ozimpic leaving users blind, Kayla, have you heard of.
Speaker 3: This as a side effect?
Speaker 2: Has this been anything that's come across your social media
Speaker 2: friend groups? Any thing about blindness?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I have only heard the mental effects that it has
Speaker 5: on people. I didn't hear that it can cause depression
Speaker 5: or sadness or you know, feelings that necessarily that you're
Speaker 5: not necessarily used to. Really, yeah, I've heard that, but
Speaker 5: I haven't heard physical elements except for I helped you
Speaker 5: lose weight.
Speaker 3: And that's only physical effect that I've heard, which people
Speaker 3: want and see. I've heard only the physical side.
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard the psychological or emotional side of So
Speaker 2: they have all these thin people running around.
Speaker 3: And they're depressed, yes, exactly, or worse, it's what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Wow, Well, blindness is now the newest thing on the list.
Speaker 2: Several studies have linked the shots of these semi glue tides,
Speaker 2: specifically ozimpic two conditions that cause inflammation and block blood
Speaker 2: flow to the eye. And when you block blood flow
Speaker 2: to the eyes, it can cause severe and sometimes permanent
Speaker 2: vision loss. Great, wonderful, just wonderful. Right, So you can't
Speaker 2: even see how skinny you've gotten. You're blind and you
Speaker 2: just can feel it. You have to hope that she
Speaker 2: look good and that your face isn't sagging, your butt's
Speaker 2: not sagging, but you can't even see it. Now, researchers
Speaker 2: have detailed nine new reports. There are nine new reports
Speaker 2: of patients in the US who say they have gone
Speaker 2: blind after taking one of these drugs, and they're citing
Speaker 2: again ozimbic and monjarro to be the main drugs that
Speaker 2: are causing this side effects. There are nine people who
Speaker 2: say they've gone blind. One woman injected a dose of
Speaker 2: semi glue tide for her diabetes and she woke up
Speaker 2: the next day blind in her left eye. That prompted
Speaker 2: her to stop taking the medication. You think, right, you're blind,
Speaker 2: you wake up blind?
Speaker 3: She stopped. Did she get her vision back?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: So, here we go.
Speaker 2: So she stopped taking the medication for two months before
Speaker 2: her diabetes and FOT sheally forced her to go back
Speaker 2: on it. So she was taking it to manage her diabetes,
Speaker 2: and she stopped because of the side effect of blindness
Speaker 2: and the one eye. And when she stopped, her diabetes
Speaker 2: got worse. So the management became there you go, that's
Speaker 2: the issue.
Speaker 3: So she stopped. The diabetes forced her to.
Speaker 2: Get back on it, and two weeks after she restarted,
Speaker 2: she lost vision in the other eye.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: So now while she was originally treating the diabetes and
Speaker 2: then seeing the side effect or seeing the kind of
Speaker 2: the consequence of that be weight loss as well, she
Speaker 2: is now dealing with the blindness in both eyes. Nine
Speaker 2: reports of people going through this. Another woman who was
Speaker 2: taking the semi glue tide for a year, woke up
Speaker 2: one morning with something called a painless shadow above her
Speaker 2: left eye. Don't know what that is, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: sound like we wanted. When she went and got tested,
Speaker 2: because of course, what the heck is this, it revealed
Speaker 2: that blood vessels in her retina had become damaged, leading
Speaker 2: to blindness. Another person, yet another person of these nine,
Speaker 2: said that in his left eyes, I don't think this
Speaker 2: is just women. In his left eye, after taking one
Speaker 2: of the semi glue tides, he suffered bleeding, and when
Speaker 2: doctors told him to keep taking the drug because there
Speaker 2: was a lack of evidence linking the bleeding to the drug,
Speaker 2: it only got worse. So here are doctors, this doctor
Speaker 2: specifically saying, hey, no, no, no, there's been no study
Speaker 2: that says.
Speaker 3: That this is true.
Speaker 2: It could just be a happy, little, unhappy little coincidence. Right,
Speaker 2: this is not good, but it's not linked to this.
Speaker 2: Just keep taking it, you'll be fine. This gentleman kept
Speaker 2: taking it, and his blindness got worse. Researchers wrote in
Speaker 2: Jamma Optomology, this publication this research journal last month, just
Speaker 2: last month, that it's not clear exactly what could be
Speaker 2: causing the side effects.
Speaker 3: So there you go. They don't know, but they say that.
Speaker 2: Because it's unclear, you need to be careful. You start
Speaker 2: to feel anything or experience a shadow, you need to
Speaker 2: go ahead and consult with your doctor because you could
Speaker 2: very well.
Speaker 3: Be putting yourself at risk of blindness.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna talk a bit about
Speaker 2: California being at the center of the egg crisis, what
Speaker 2: can we expect, And then we're gonna talk to Rent
Speaker 2: the Chicken, Rent the Chicken, and we're gonna hear all
Speaker 2: about their homestead organization and how you can rent a
Speaker 2: chicken and produce your own eggs right here on KFI A.
Speaker 3: Not well, you're not gonna produce your eggs right here.
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Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with you and producer Kaylain and I
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Speaker 3: I love this show. I loved your interviewer, Ernie Singleton.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 2: You want to high from that, and that's what we're
Speaker 2: talking about. Just you know the pictures that you sent
Speaker 2: of me, I look like a kid in a candy store.
Speaker 2: I'm just giddy and so just happy to be talking
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Speaker 5: I respect like that and breaking news because he's given
Speaker 5: us like breaking information that he like. What if you
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Speaker 3: It will be up there. Shortly said.
Speaker 2: It was the first time he was talking about it,
Speaker 2: so you have to listen back to find out what
Speaker 2: that is. Very special, very special. Eggs you laugh, but yes, eggs.
Speaker 2: Eggs again are the conversation starter. They're what everyone's talking about.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you're laughing about it, then for good reason, because
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous. What's going on with eggs right now? I
Speaker 2: went to story yesterday, day before yesterday, one of the two.
Speaker 2: On Friday, on Valentine's Day, no Thursday, I was stopping
Speaker 2: for Valentine's Day and I went to a Vonn's and
Speaker 2: the Vonds.
Speaker 3: Had a good stock of eggs.
Speaker 2: I was happy to see that it was a good
Speaker 2: stock of eggs, and I kind of waited around because
Speaker 2: I was waiting for this crush of people to flood
Speaker 2: the aisle becas it didn't seem real. It seemed like
Speaker 2: a setup, because every time I've gone to Von's in
Speaker 2: the last maybe month, there's been one or two cartons
Speaker 2: and you open it up because you want eggs, and
Speaker 2: four or five of them are cracked, some of them
Speaker 2: are missing, or they're seventeen ninety nine for a dozen,
Speaker 2: and I refuse. I don't know about you, but I
Speaker 2: just can't move myself to spend double what something is
Speaker 2: worth just because it's there. I don't want to subscribe
Speaker 2: to supply and demand. We already do that with so
Speaker 2: many things. So eggs have been a source of contention
Speaker 2: for a lot of us. And as we now know
Speaker 2: because it's been talked about at nauseum, the influenza crisis
Speaker 2: with birds, the avian influenza crisis, the bird flew seems
Speaker 2: to be the reason why egg prices have skyrocket and
Speaker 2: why they're in fact so scarce. The average price of
Speaker 2: a dozen eggs in California right now thirteen dollars and
Speaker 2: forty nine cents thirteen forty nine. That's a lot more
Speaker 2: than what it was just at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: The average price at the beginning of the year was
Speaker 2: four ninety five four ninety five, maybe somewhere around seven
Speaker 2: dollars if you were at a price to your store,
Speaker 2: like maybe a Whole Foods or something like that, but
Speaker 2: still not thirteen forty nine for an average. And again
Speaker 2: you're seeing them for a lot higher in certain stores,
Speaker 2: and they've always been higher in California. That takes us
Speaker 2: to our next stories. Why are things this way in
Speaker 2: our state? Why is California dealing with a lot of
Speaker 2: the crisis, specifically when it comes to scarcity and inflation.
Speaker 2: And there are some reasons behind this, and what is
Speaker 2: in fact in store for California's future as it relates
Speaker 2: to eggs. So why are egg prices so high? Again,
Speaker 2: there's the Avian flu. And before I continue, we were
Speaker 2: talking about sema glue tides and I said semi glue tides.
Speaker 2: It is not and gerald Stone, one of our great listeners,
Speaker 2: mentioned that I was pronouncing it incorrectly.
Speaker 3: So it's sema glue tide. And this is Avian flu.
Speaker 2: Don't you dare say avi on It is avian flu,
Speaker 2: not like the water and that flu has led to
Speaker 2: the death of more than twenty one million chickens, including
Speaker 2: thirteen million in December alone. According to the US Department
Speaker 2: of Agriculture, the population of chickens those conveniently or conventionally
Speaker 2: caged has been reduced by eight percent.
Speaker 3: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: They're saying that this virus is unprecedented. We've heard that
Speaker 2: at way too many times in the last five years,
Speaker 2: specifically about viruses unprecedented, unprecedented times. Well, it is still true.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to the avian flu, that's what
Speaker 2: we're dealing with. And when it comes to the situation
Speaker 2: in California, people are trying to keep up with demand.
Speaker 2: The suppliers are finding it very difficult to meet the demand.
Speaker 2: The cost of a dozen eggs has risen fifteen percent
Speaker 2: over the last four weeks, more on the West coast.
Speaker 2: Our prices are particularly high because California relies largely on
Speaker 2: its own production of eggs.
Speaker 3: We don't outsource.
Speaker 2: We produce our own eggs, and that's been diminished because
Speaker 2: of the influenza outbreak. Forty percent of eggs consumed in
Speaker 2: California are produced right here. There is some good news
Speaker 2: on the horizon. Egg prices will likely return to normal
Speaker 2: once the chicken population is replenished and eggs are being
Speaker 2: produced at a normal rate. But right now people are hoarding.
Speaker 2: You can see it all over social media. People are hoarding.
Speaker 2: They're buying pallettes and pallets of eggs, They're selling eggs.
Speaker 2: I've seen eggs sold individually at liquor stores. This is
Speaker 2: unprecedented because now we have people trying to make money
Speaker 2: off of this crisis that we are all in fact experiencing.
Speaker 2: Most grocers are even implementing restrictions on how many dozens
Speaker 2: you can buy per trip. When it comes to the
Speaker 2: political side of this, our president, President Trump did in
Speaker 2: fact campaign on the promise that he would lower grocery prices,
Speaker 2: and he had frequently blamed President Biden for inflation and
Speaker 2: high everyday costs. We are waiting for that to take hold.
Speaker 2: That would be great, That would be great.
Speaker 5: Back in my day, eggs were so disposable you would
Speaker 5: throw them at people's houses. That that's you off. Now
Speaker 5: they're like it's like throwing a diamond ring.
Speaker 2: You must have been rich back in your day, back
Speaker 2: in my day, back in your day. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: we're looking forward to hopefully some reduction in these prices
Speaker 2: again as the chicken population is replenished, but for the
Speaker 2: time being, eggs are going to stay very, very high.
Speaker 2: Up next, we have another interview, a wonderful interview that's
Speaker 2: going to give us all a lot of insight into
Speaker 2: the egg production business and chicken farming and this business.
Speaker 2: Rent the Chicken is going to allow you to rent
Speaker 2: your very own chicken or two or three. We'll find
Speaker 2: out just how many you'll be able to rent and
Speaker 2: what you are expected to produce. On the other side
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Speaker 2: very special feature what is happening now in this next
Speaker 2: phase of recovery after the fires that ravaged southern California.
Speaker 2: It's two hour special airing right here on KFI and
Speaker 2: you can catch that tonight from seven to nine and
Speaker 2: again tomorrow from two to four, So make sure you
Speaker 2: don't miss that. If you've missed any part of our
Speaker 2: show today, you can absolutely catch up on what we
Speaker 2: talked about. We've covered some amazing topics, have had some
Speaker 2: great conversations. We're gonna have another one coming up in
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Speaker 2: have a very very wonderful show each week. Let's get
Speaker 2: into our next incredible guest or should I say egg
Speaker 2: silent guest? I would say eggcellent. That'd be a lot better.
Speaker 2: This conversation talks about something a little different than what
Speaker 2: you might be accustomed to. You might have heard of
Speaker 2: farm to table, Kayla, have you heard of farm to table?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well this particular concept is yard to table. How
Speaker 2: cute and it is started by This concept was started
Speaker 2: by Jin and Phil Tompkins out there in Freeport, Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: when they found it rent the Chicken in two thousand
Speaker 2: and thirteen Rent the Chicken.
Speaker 3: Their objective was.
Speaker 2: To help people have just one food source closer to
Speaker 2: their table. Yes, not the market, not the grocery store,
Speaker 2: but a food source closer to your own table. And
Speaker 2: they call that concept again, yard to table. Each location
Speaker 2: of Rent the Chicken is a family run affiliate helping
Speaker 2: families bring that one simple food source close to their
Speaker 2: own tables at home, one chicken rental at a time.
Speaker 2: And about the rental just a little bit. Rent the
Speaker 2: Chicken provides different increments of actual chickens. You might be
Speaker 2: able to get.
Speaker 3: Two hens or four egg laying hens.
Speaker 2: You'll also get all of the materials required to be
Speaker 2: able to house those hens and produce eggs, including a coop,
Speaker 2: a food dish, a water dish, and food for a
Speaker 2: five to six month rental.
Speaker 3: They also provide literature so.
Speaker 2: That you can read up on what you're doing and
Speaker 2: not just get out there all willy nilly and do
Speaker 2: these chickens some harm. No, they want you to take
Speaker 2: care of these chickens and to do right by them
Speaker 2: so that they can produce for you and your family.
Speaker 2: Rent the Chicken is a very special organization and in
Speaker 2: the wake of what's going on with the egg scarcity,
Speaker 2: with the Avian flu, with these price hikes, especially hitting
Speaker 2: us hard in California. As we've all been feeling, Rent
Speaker 2: the Chicken is aiming to combat that and provide you
Speaker 2: with your very own egg laying hens. And I'm very
Speaker 2: very happy to welcome Homestead Jin of Rent the Chicken,
Speaker 2: one of the founders with her husband there, Homestead Gin
Speaker 2: is joining us here on the show.
Speaker 4: Hi there, Gin, good afternoon. I don't know what time
Speaker 4: it is, good evening, It's okay. I am so blessed.
Speaker 4: That was beautiful. Oh. I've never been introduced so accurately
Speaker 4: and with such passion as you just introduced me. And
Speaker 4: I am honored. So thank you for having me today.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it, and you nailed it. I don't
Speaker 4: know what else we have to talk about.
Speaker 2: You are most welcome, Jen. And can I call you
Speaker 2: Jin or would you like me to call you Homestead Gin?
Speaker 4: You pick either one.
Speaker 2: I'll call you Jin for the sake of time. Homestead
Speaker 2: Gin is kind of long. I do love it. Though
Speaker 2: I do love it, we would absolutely fit that in
Speaker 2: at some point, okay, But just so you know the
Speaker 2: reason that I introduced you with that passion and with
Speaker 2: such detail is because that's what your organization is, rooted
Speaker 2: in passion, in a detailed execution of what you do.
Speaker 2: You're not just out here giving chickens away for fun. No,
Speaker 2: there's a true objective to it, and it's so that
Speaker 2: people can have a more holistic experience in their own homes.
Speaker 2: They don't have to go to the market. They can
Speaker 2: experience what it is to raise a live animal, a
Speaker 2: hen or an egg producing hen, and to then benefit
Speaker 2: from the labor of that hen to have fresh eggs
Speaker 2: on their kitchen table. And I think that that anyone
Speaker 2: who enters into that sort of relationship with rent the
Speaker 2: Chicken has to be should be passionate about what they're doing.
Speaker 2: So thank you for all that you are providing.
Speaker 4: Oh you're welcome, egg Cited to be on your show.
Speaker 4: I'm thrilled to chat about rented Chicken and all things
Speaker 4: chicken and yard to table. We could. We have a
Speaker 4: lot to chat.
Speaker 3: About, for sure, we do.
Speaker 2: And I have a question right out the gate, okay,
Speaker 2: And I've been thinking about it long and hard since
Speaker 2: I was told that you would be coming onto the show.
Speaker 2: I've gone back and forth over how to ask this question,
Speaker 2: but I feel like it is one of the most
Speaker 2: pressing questions on the list, and that question is homestead
Speaker 2: jin what came first?
Speaker 3: The chicken or the homestead.
Speaker 4: The chicken or the homestead, or chicken or the egg.
Speaker 4: I don't even know. The chicken, the homestead, the egg,
Speaker 4: it all came first. For in regards to rented chicken,
Speaker 4: we say that with rented chicken, the hen came first, okay,
Speaker 4: and then the egg because we deliver the rental package
Speaker 4: with the hen and the coop with we have a
Speaker 4: hatching program as well well, so we provide a five
Speaker 4: week hatching program with an incubator and fertile egg so
Speaker 4: people can enjoy the experience of hatching baby chicks live
Speaker 4: in their home. We provide this to schools, daycares, preschool,
Speaker 4: senior care facilities, and even libraries participate. It's incredible. And
Speaker 4: then they keep the chicks for two weeks. Just when
Speaker 4: they're not so cute, we pick them up and take
Speaker 4: them back. So in the case of hatch the chicken,
Speaker 4: the egg comes first, And in regards to the homestead,
Speaker 4: the homestead came first, and then the chickens came homestead
Speaker 4: Phil before he was homestead Phil and I met when
Speaker 4: we both lived outside of Baltimore, Maryland, and then not a.
Speaker 2: Place where you would normally have perhaps a homestead right
Speaker 2: in Maryland, kind of an urban that's.
Speaker 4: Right, it was very urban. We did not have a homestead,
Speaker 4: although homestead Phil took over my very nice, newly planned
Speaker 4: out flower beds and planted carrots because he was determined
Speaker 4: to play something that we could grow and eat. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So then we decided to move to rural western Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: one county over from where I grew up, and he
Speaker 4: warned me. He said, I want to do some homesteading.
Speaker 4: I want to get some chickens, and I want to
Speaker 4: have a big garden, and I would like to raise
Speaker 4: some meat rabbits. And I was like, you've lost your mind.
Speaker 4: You can pick two, That's what I told him. So
Speaker 4: since then, we've had chickens that lay eggs, we have
Speaker 4: chickens for meat, we raised turkeys, we've had meat rabbits.
Speaker 4: The garden gets bigger every single year. He truly is
Speaker 4: homestead Phil. Jen.
Speaker 3: What is a meat rabbit?
Speaker 4: Oh, so it's not associated with rented chickens, but they
Speaker 4: are large, large, rabbits that are bread and raised to
Speaker 4: be processed to put meat on your table.
Speaker 3: Got it, got it?
Speaker 4: I thought he was in, But golly, I make the
Speaker 4: best buffalo dip and I did not say chicken.
Speaker 2: I'll leave.
Speaker 4: I'll leave the imagination to you.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: You know there's a lot to be asked of you, Jin,
Speaker 2: and we don't have enough in this segment. Can I
Speaker 2: keep you on for one more segment so that we
Speaker 2: can find out some more details about Rent the Chicken,
Speaker 2: some more pressing questions about things like climate and resources
Speaker 2: and other factors that could help or hinder people who
Speaker 2: may want to enter into your Rent the Chicken program.
Speaker 2: Can we do that on the other side of.
Speaker 4: The break, yes, please wonder to do it.
Speaker 3: I'll thank you so much.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Homestead Jin of Rent the Chicken, a
Speaker 2: beautiful organization, and she's going to talk to us a
Speaker 2: bit more about the homestead organization that she and her
Speaker 2: husband started back in twenty thirteen and how they now
Speaker 2: are helping you produce egg laying hens. I have to
Speaker 2: say that slowly egg laying hens with Rent the Chicken.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that on the other side of the break.
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Speaker 2: with you here for one more segment, and then Michael
Speaker 2: Monks comes aboard via a very special two hour broadcast
Speaker 2: talking about what's happening now as the next phase of
Speaker 2: recovery occurs in the fire areas all around southern California.
Speaker 2: Make sure you listen to that very special broadcast from
Speaker 2: seven to nine right here on KFI, and tomorrow from
Speaker 2: two to four we are talking to Homestead Gin. Homestead
Speaker 2: Gin is a part of an organization that she started
Speaker 2: with her husband Phil in twenty thirteen called Rent the Chicken,
Speaker 2: and they are bringing chickens to your home, not in
Speaker 2: a way that you might be accustomed to. No, you
Speaker 2: are going to raise these chickens or chicks. Gin was
Speaker 2: explaining that to us in the last segment. And when
Speaker 2: these chickens mature, when you have these egg laying hens,
Speaker 2: you will then be able to produce your own eggs
Speaker 2: and hopefully be able to kind of subvert or get
Speaker 2: around the egg crisis that is looming all around the country,
Speaker 2: as is rent the Chicken. They are located all around
Speaker 2: the country, and Gin, I have some questions for you
Speaker 2: before we wrap up.
Speaker 3: When you think about creating.
Speaker 2: Your own chicken enclosure, because you provide rent the Chicken
Speaker 2: provides all the materials necessary for people to be able
Speaker 2: to house these hens in their homes or in their yards.
Speaker 2: What are some of the barriers that may prevent people
Speaker 2: from being able to participate in rent the Chicken. Do
Speaker 2: you have any examples of someone who may have said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I want a chicken, and then you get out there
Speaker 2: to their home and you're like, no, that's not going
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 4: Well, we do our best to ask the question of
Speaker 4: talk to us about your yard space when they make
Speaker 4: a reservation or when they're making their reservation, so that
Speaker 4: we can not be as alerted upon arrival that oh,
Speaker 4: my goodness, this is not going to work. Some barriers
Speaker 4: could be our potential renters really need to have some
Speaker 4: bit of green space or dirt space. We have had
Speaker 4: people call and they say, I live in an apartment.
Speaker 4: Can the chicken coop go.
Speaker 3: On my balcony?
Speaker 4: That is not a great choice. The chickens won't be
Speaker 4: as happy in that space, and they do. You know,
Speaker 4: your viewers might not. No chickens poop, so that has
Speaker 4: to go somewhere, you know, and and on the balcony
Speaker 4: is not the best place for it. We just want
Speaker 4: the chickens to be happy. We want our renters to
Speaker 4: have a great experience. We need a way to get
Speaker 4: the coop to the backyard, and if necessary, most of
Speaker 4: our coops can be delivered partially assembled, so we can
Speaker 4: get into a smaller space that way, and it works
Speaker 4: out fine. Like we do ask some questions in advance
Speaker 4: about the yard space to make sure that we believe
Speaker 4: we can navigate that coop into the backyard. That's most
Speaker 4: of our concern is making sure the coop can get
Speaker 4: to the backyard.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: And I saw on your website that you allow these
Speaker 2: chickens to be rented for five to six months. How
Speaker 2: soon can someone expect, under really good circumstances and conditions
Speaker 2: for their hens to produce eggs?
Speaker 4: So we have these amazing hens. Sometimes they lay in
Speaker 4: transit on the way to the renters out. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: usually within a couple of days. Sometimes sometimes their little
Speaker 4: systems get a little out of whackus, So what's going
Speaker 4: on in life? Once they make the transport, But it
Speaker 4: might take a few days to get back into the
Speaker 4: swing of things. But really they are usually ready to
Speaker 4: lay at delivery.
Speaker 2: And you are across the country. But we're speaking to
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are right here in Southern California.
Speaker 2: Where how can they participate in Rent the Chicken? If
Speaker 2: they live in southern California, where are you best contacted?
Speaker 2: Can they come out and visit your homestead? What can
Speaker 2: Southern Californians look forward to when they involve themselves with
Speaker 2: Rent the Chicken?
Speaker 4: Great question. They can go to rentichicken dot com, click
Speaker 4: on the pricing location or the drop down for California,
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. That's where we are. We don't really offer
Speaker 4: farm tours currently because of biosecurity and all the things
Speaker 4: happening with avian flu. We just want to keep our
Speaker 4: risks as minimal as possible. But if someone's interested, they
Speaker 4: can give us a call, make an online inquiry, or
Speaker 4: if they're all in and they see that they're within
Speaker 4: the delivery range, they can make a reservation right there
Speaker 4: on the website and then we'll be in touch about
Speaker 4: their yard space. Make sure that it's a good fit
Speaker 4: and plan on making our deliveries in April or May
Speaker 4: in the Greater LA area.
Speaker 2: Wonderful April or May. And again, can you give your
Speaker 2: website out one more time?
Speaker 4: Yes, Rent the Chicken dot Com. There's no hyphens. The
Speaker 4: is our middle name and we don't use a or hyphens.
Speaker 4: Rent the Chicken dot com.
Speaker 3: Got it.
Speaker 2: Rent the Chicken dot com drop down, California to be
Speaker 2: able to inquire online or get a phone number so
Speaker 2: that you can get your process started to get these
Speaker 2: egg laying hens to your yard space, and your yard
Speaker 2: will in fact be vetted first. They do their vetting
Speaker 2: to make sure that these are optimal situations or circumstances
Speaker 2: for these hens. No balconies sorry, people who live in apartments,
Speaker 2: sorry about that. You got to keep going to the
Speaker 2: market or you can find a local farmer that way.
Speaker 2: But you can't have hens on your balcony if you
Speaker 2: have dogs.
Speaker 3: Maybe another situation you're going to have to inquire about.
Speaker 2: You want to make sure that your circumstances are optimal
Speaker 2: for these egg laying hens from Rentthchicken, Rent the Chicken
Speaker 2: dot Com drop down California. We've been speaking to Homestead
Speaker 2: Gin of Rent the Chicken.
Speaker 3: She's one half.
Speaker 2: Of the duo, the Merry Duo of Homestead Gin and
Speaker 2: Homestead Phil Jin. Thank you so very much for spending
Speaker 2: some time with us. You have been absolutely excellent.
Speaker 4: Oh, you've been fantastic too. Thanks for the opportunity, Tiffany
Speaker 4: and Kayla, you are so welcome.
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Speaker 3: It's been a blast. You've all been excellent.
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