MB:127 with Kristen Malaby from Socal Trash Army

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Transcript

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three two one Kristen Hi how are you cool you want

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that shot now I'm ready uh how we're ahead ladies and gentlemen

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so this is actually a Kentucky straight oats bourbon whiskey uh with natural banana flavor

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I hope hair doesn't grow on my chest we're starting off strong

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yeah I'm actually gonna I'll take a shot with you okay and then

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um I'm gonna try this uh non-alcoholic cocktail a little bit later

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is that that's a shot or I think that's that's about right that's about right we're eyeballing it ladies and gentlemen

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there you go cheers [Music]

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was that a shot that was really good it was good can you taste the banana in there a teeny tiny bit yeah

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teeny tiny let me know if you want another one we'll see how this goes

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Kristen thanks for coming out and doing the podcast thank you for having me I

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appreciate it thanks for coming out um so tell me a little bit about SoCal trash Army

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oh man uh SoCal trash Army that just kind of randomly happened

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actually um I almost changed the name too really seriously it's actually a really cool

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name everybody says that yeah so I kept it

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I was uh kind of thinking it wasn't tying into everything that I do now I'm gonna pull this just a little bit right

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there there we go all right now you're good all right but yeah um

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it just happened actually it happened so quickly and um

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in a time in my life where I needed a fine purpose so with that

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um came SoCal trash Army and now it's kind of just this thing where everybody

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is supporting me so much and it started in 2019 correct correct so how how was

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like the organization and the grouping like in uh during the pandemic in 2020.

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we were under about our events oh okay yeah

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um we knew that having Gatherings and that type of thing um wasn't really a supported and even

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allowed and we were hearing you know you can get in trouble by the government that type of deal

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but um we honestly didn't care we wanted to get people outside we knew that there

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was you know a lot of people that um that are like me you know mentally need

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to be outdoors and there's still this need for the land to be taken care of so

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we just kind of said screw it and let's just do it we just kept on congregating

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and yeah okay we just kept coming people kept showing up so what what is SoCal trash Army can you

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can you tell us so at first um we just basically started out as trash Pickers

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um I've been picking up trash in Lytle Creek since I was 16. where's Lotto Creek it's right here in the San

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Bernardino Mountains okay San Gabriel San Bernardino Mountains and um

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you know I grew up in Fontana and I would go up to Lytle Creek when I was a teenager go hang out with my friends go

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smoke some weed and just kind of be out in nature be away from parents and the city right so but yeah I I started young

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and then I just would always go out there anytime I wanted to hang out anytime I just needed to get away I I

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lived a little stressful lifestyle as a child so anytime I can get out of my house I

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would I'd go up there I would pick up trash even at that point you know so many years ago in 1996.

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but um yeah I I loved being out there and so

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um when I got injured from my job um and again trying to find purpose in life I just decided to really get back

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into Lytle Creek and um hike every day since my legs worked and my arms didn't so I'd spend day after day being out

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there um and realizing that I had limitations at that point so you said when your legs

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worked and your arms didn't how did that happen Yeah man so I was initially a tattooer I

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had my own business I was in downtown Upland I tattooed makeup I traveled

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actually the whole United States doing Ballroom makeup um for professionals what's Ballroom

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makeup what is it like ballroom dancers oh okay like you know how they have the crazy makeup and their hair and yeah

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they look so you know chiseled oh wow yes okay these females would sleep three days in their makeup they were dedicated

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oh you're not you're you're serious three days I'm dead serious wow if they had a competition for three days

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straight they would sleep sitting up so you can give me like a nose job with makeup totally oh man something like

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that okay yeah we would change people's look completely but um I I did that and

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I had an awesome job but I needed health benefits and although I was a healthy female at that time

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um health benefits for me would cost 450 bucks so I applied at Costco not

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thinking I would get hired and I did and that part-time job turned into a full-time job and that a full-time job

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basically took over my life um I got hurt on my job one day I

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I woke up and I couldn't lift my hands on my mouth to brush my teeth

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and I couldn't lift the left one and then um I realized how bad it was can you

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talk about your injury like what actually happened yeah so I worked for Costco and literally legally I'm not

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supposed to say that but I really don't get enough and I I don't give enough like I worked at Costco I worked really

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hard working in a warehouse they demand numbers from you they do they demand a

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high quality you know um a product to push through to the consumer and I had just you know been

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working the same position for four years overhead lifting

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um off racks that are six feet tall and Trays that would weigh up to 100 pounds and well I'm 5'4

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so I my wings just literally gave out I literally suffered from 14 documented

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injuries at the time of um being examined so Costco was found 100 at

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fault I got a little tiny payout because people don't realize when they go to

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work every day that they have a price on their head already from their companies and that price isn't exactly what you

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think you're worth so um after a long process of healing and

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legally dealing with a bunch of BS and going through that trauma oh and after getting hurt uh two weeks

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later finding out that I was expecting my first baby oh yeah life literally

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changed for me it's crazy yeah that's a big change yeah I blew out both shoulders I have

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identical rotator cuff tears at nine o'clock I have a c-spine injury from C3 to C7

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um I literally tore both bicipitals I have really bad carpal tunnel I blew up

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both my elbows like I'm glad I looked normal but it is frustrating at times looking normal and

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and being out there like I am right I think they so do you still feel some

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of that pain on a day-to-day basis every day yeah

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that's why I smoke so much weed no I bet I bet it helps with the inflammation and and everything else it's it's a powerful

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thing man well honestly you know I would be spending the rest of my life on pills and I'm just not about that life

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um I refuse to buy into the pharmaceutical companies and spend that money and ruin other parts of my body

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that are working working and functioning just perfectly so um being medicated with cannabis I'm a

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strong I'm a strong advocate for it some of my sponsors are you know cannabis companies oh okay and um yeah I rock

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with it I'm I I smoke every day every hour I'm always high if you see me don't judge me I do this work being a stoner

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not all Stoners are lazy I know I think that's that's just like

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the the craziest stigma to cannabis is every cannabis user is lazy and

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sometimes when I use cannabis I I don't get stuck like I don't get stuck like how the those dumb commercials in the

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1990s the the you know the girl where she's like flat on I'm like it I wish

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weed would do that to me dude I when I start smoking I I I'm just constantly up

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and I'm I'm I need to do something like I hop on the laptop and I just start

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Googling stuff I research stuff or I start designing something on Adobe crazy

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yeah awesome nah cannabis is amazing during the day smoke some good sativa

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and at night when it's time to relax you know smoke that Endo some good endowing

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you'll be chilling get creative I'm an artist too so okay what kind of art do

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you uh play with I know you said you're a tattoo artist do you draw so I can't tattoo anymore

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unfortunately because of my injuries I can't tattoo but I and I actually learned how to

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rewrite I had to learn how to write over whoa yeah hold on yeah what was that

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like um um tears literally splashing down on

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paper really yeah so give me a timeline like uh like

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picking up the pen again for the first time how did that feel

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it was shaky it was intimidating

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um and knowing that like if I didn't start that I I wouldn't go forward

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I'm literally thankful for my daughter because she's what gave me a purpose

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when I got injured I thought life was over for me being an artist

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um not being able to express myself through my medium which is you know painting

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um was definitely definitely a mind [ __ ] like

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um but learning how to write and starting with ABC starting with my name starting with my

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phone number um I just learned to [ __ ] perfect it and then I just kept pushing myself to

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take steps to move further picking up the paintbrush and you know doing those

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really short strokes and learning that I have to paint on the floor and I can't use a canvas or I can't use you know a

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um a painting stand or you know any of that stuff like just finding my way like any other thing in my life now it was

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like entering a whole new world and I just learned how to [ __ ] adapt just

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like anything else you know um and I [ __ ] one of my first

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drawings was the book that I actually wrote for my daughter oh okay yeah and

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it's done and it just hasn't been printed yet wow do you have that on your your page

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can we can we look that up I don't no no it's just not yet no no wait for it it's

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coming I gotta get it printed if anybody is out there printer like hit me up so you so you need a you need a publisher

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you need you need somebody to oh I'm pretty sure there's somebody out there that can publish that yeah little

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lioness and little lion it's a short little poem from Mom to to baby and it

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was just one night you know I was just uh I could barely hold my daughter at times

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and it you know this might be TMI but breastfeeding her was like I would

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literally drip tears on her face and um

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I just was staring at her one night holding her just being so thankful for that moment like being so stuck in that

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moment of just being able to hold her and um this little poem just came from

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me and I was able to get it out I scratched lion or I scratch scribbled

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this lion you know and I put a crown on it my little lioness and just represents like you know

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the struggle so from so from these injuries you weren't so you weren't able to move your

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hands I'm like a T-Rex okay I cannot lift I

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have to yeah so just imagine like a pulley like you know anything

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um mine's broken so I cannot lift higher than oh wow okay I can't raise the roof

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I can't you know wave my hands in the air like I don't care um

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okay yeah I have complete limitations but it doesn't stop me at all absolutely

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not I will go out there I will move tires I will if I can pick up trash I

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will find a way so what did you get when did you get the idea or how did you get

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the idea for soul kill trash Army

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credit girl Ellie um why we weren't girls at the beginning

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but she had planned to clean up for little creek and someone tagged me in her post

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because my friend knew what I do already and um and you were just doing that just

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because I love the laughs you love the land okay yeah

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I know a [ __ ] weirdo it's all good that's cool no one needs

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to do it exactly you usually like doing that absolutely yeah

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it's not it's not like you got a DUI or something and you have to you know

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people make you go pick up trash or something like that I'm glad you [ __ ] said it it's not community service it's

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it's actually you know so many times something you want to do dude that's

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what I'm saying like so many times the [ __ ] stigma is it's a punishment totally yeah

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totally [ __ ] like everyone needs to be responsible it doesn't matter if it's

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trash if it's drinking if it's whatever you got to be [ __ ] responsible about what you're doing

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that's it if everyone was just responsible for what they were doing we would be straight absolutely but because

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people cannot here we are yeah so yeah I'm out there making sure that

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um the land's taken care of and so Ellie was just some random hiker and she

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posted like I want to do this good thing and plan a cleanup and I hit her up and we just literally immediately became

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such good friends talking about you know our our passion for seeing the land the

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way that it was and just trying to understand and motivate people and move them in a different position and that's

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basically all it took for me to get so amped up because we did that clean it

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and I think like like eight people showed up you feel me

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yeah but those eight people had an amazing time they loved hanging out with

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us it was all adults at this cleanup so we were blazing after we were just you

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know we were bonding we were hanging out we were just having really healthy discussions and so

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I loved it I was tied in immediately um about just like finding more people

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to get involved so what was initially your first step into getting other people involved in

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this

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my thing and that's more of what I was doing and that's

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posting more on Instagram on Facebook just wherever you were able to post so

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at first it was just Facebook yeah I was just posting on Facebook

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and you know people were sending me comments like dude this is so awesome you know I want to join the next time

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I'm like the next time hahaha it

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okay like we're gonna do this you know and then that's how it always was every time

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just more and more people showed up more and more people were sending me messages I'd be out there more because they drove

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me more to be out there more and um I would just go out there and talk to people on random days and they would

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just start picking up trash oh wow just half the stuff that's on my Instagram is not even documented of what we've really

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done to the land okay yeah so what is an undocumented that you can talk about

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all the education part of it yeah because it really takes

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like people going out and just having a conversation it's that conversation

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um just just starting it whether you know and being able to provide multi-languages because you know our

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space is open for everyone and so um you know just being able to like find

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ways to communicate with everybody that was out there and enjoying in the space and then them understanding like oh yeah

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like this is not cool let's let's you know and then the kids see that and then

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um they go run and tell their parents like hey they're picking up trash like this is so awesome and they educate

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their parents and it's like a domino effect yeah so it's it's really powerful honestly even if just you know a few

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people see you that's awesome that's amazing yeah I know when I seen

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when I seen your post from uh from more leaders he I guess Adam was out there he

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was helping you guys and he tagged something or and then I I jumped and I

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was like okay well call me was the name I'm telling you well Tommy was the name I went on the name can we pull up her IG

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yeah um and then I started I started going through your page started uh looking at

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um you know just a little bit of what you guys did and um I was like you know what amber

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let's reach out to her let's get let's get her on dude

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that's amazing so is it is it just Lytle Creek that you that you

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go to or do you go to multiple locations so

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primarily Lytle Creek okay however

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people call us hey this Trail hey this community the street this park needs

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love so we'll show it we'll just clean it up you know

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um and then wow we try to support no that's it was crazy that's a good

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amount of people where is that actually um which one that's Little Creek yeah I've gone

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camping here a few times it's it's great it's dope dude I love that space it's

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local it's it's free yeah you know oh yeah but I did I did notice

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um because my family and I went to to see the waterfall so we we walked through because we were on the like the

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camping side um and there was trash everywhere my mom had a bag and she was like picking things up that she saw on the way and

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then oh squeeze that's awesome yeah I love that uh so I

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mean how does that happen to to that space is it just negligence on you know

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people going out there honestly it's a multitude of things so

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you have your youngins that like to go out and have a good time and I get it you want to go shoot off your guns you

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want to go graffiti um half the time I want to leave the graffiti because some of it is really

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dope but then when I see like you know Lisa Salazar from Long Beach you know

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I'm like you gotta go babe you gotta go did you really see that or is it just

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really all the time damn it Lisa Salazar yeah or Pelon like oh yeah you've got

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you've got like yours no relation ladies and gentlemen no relation

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for real like no like sometimes it could just be you know people that aren't

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educated about hey like the forest rangers there's like three of them and

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for like the entire San Gabriel Mountain area there's only four literally

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wow people don't know this right okay so there's only four forest rangers for how

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how piece of a large lens so let's go from like San Bernardino Mountains

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before you hit Big Bear okay to like past Baldi down into like

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I want to say like pasadena-ish kind of those all of that

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is really San Gabriel mountains like that's that's a big we were we were just over there

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um yesterday yeah we're in the San Bernardino it's on San

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Bernardino Forest see and it's so big and all these guys are supposed to cover the mountains so for the general public

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I need them to understand you know I get sometimes people like are like oh you work with the forestry it's like bro

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this is a collaborated effort because you don't understand there's no funding you know and I could

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say this all day long about like you know things that I'm involved with there's no funding and that's why I want

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people to wake up and wonder where the funding is because there's money there's money all day for it but it's not going

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it's not being allocated directly to the places it should be and so

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that's uh it's a little something we need to tell the public are are you a non-profit

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um I'm strict right now I'm strictly Grassroots Grassroots okay uh I've been

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struggling with that a lot people are like you need to go you know non-profit status I've had

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Apple call me and tell me they want to work with me

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but they can't because I am not non-profit and that I should have done that yesterday so what is a Grassroots

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what is that am I missing something here like independent oh okay pretty much oh

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yeah we are not fun like well we are just I'm 100 volunteer around

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100 um we gain nothing except for what people donate so literally like the

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operation got fed I have to hustle every single week everything free I can get

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for the street community so yeah if I had that non-profit status

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it would help me get like so many more donations you know Converse would probably work with me I've been begging

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them to get on me and like you know Apple would have already been working with me

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um you know all these different bigger corporations would be like on board so because of your status

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with with that yeah because they're not gonna get that you know credit that tax credit yeah they want the tax write-off

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they want that oh yeah so if you if you work with me you're

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just doing it out of the goodness in your heart yeah like me so you want to be like me right

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you're just doing it damn so not not only do you pick up trash but you said

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that you helped um like other communities right you said is that weird so yeah like going back to

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the pandemic um when we were out there picking up trash I mean noticed that like more and more

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unhoused people were living in the forest which caused more trash because honestly

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in the forest yeah we'd find I mean if you've ever like

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seen a picture of Bob Hope's house I found an encampment that was literally like several layers High stories high

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they had views on views um of encampments yeah it was really

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really bad oh my God yeah so with that being said like it just

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drew me more into thinking about what's really happening to us as a as a culture yeah

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um and then I just tried to reach out and find anybody that could give me food at that point where can I get free food

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I wanted to feed these people you know I wanted to show them that like they're not alone you know especially living

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like in the forest and so um yeah I I like met a Doctor Gandhi

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and he was able to introduce me to this Hindu temple and these people are amazing

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um I was able to get free food meals but the thing was there then Norwalk so I

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had to like scrounge money to get a U-Haul and drive out there and yeah it was really difficult but um I do

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it and I just start feeding people and now it's it's an every week thing

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whoa yeah and then from

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wait by Bob Hope's house

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you threw me up wait hold on can we can we look up Bob Hope's house please I saw

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an encampment that literally looked like Bob Hope's house oh okay that's what you

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said okay I thought you said that I'm sorry another shot like jeez right oh you shouldn't but I

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understood the same that they were like covering Bob's hopes like view or something that's what I thought they

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just like if you've ever seen his house he has like the most amazing views in Palm Springs oh okay yeah maybe Google

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it can we look yeah give me some context geez

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I was in awe that was the last thing that I can like I grasped what you said

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about that um about that encampment they're just so wild because most I mean the general

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public usually okay see it yeah yeah okay so this encampment was

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literally several layers high as far as like the views it was so dope it was

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like I never seen something like it before so the encampment was where exactly it

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was um so it was in a little portion of Lytle Creek called Middle Fork Middle

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Fork yeah in the four like I was saying like I was

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saying um just before we looked up uh the Bob soaps uh Bob Hope's house

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um most the general public even me associate Home like um encampments like

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in Downtown LA or Riverside or downtown San Bernardino

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and Long Beach and you know different beaches but never the forest like never

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I would ever think that somebody or people would put up encampments in the

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forest so that's awesome that you brought that up because I can with the

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experience I have now explain to you why okay so

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when you're in the city and you're unhoused your encampment is going to be

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cleaned up every week the city and bur Tech is going to come through and is

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going to put all your belongings in their dumpster and then you have to start over that's if you get to even

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stay at that location where that happened and for people who suffer from mental

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illness who don't you know they have may have trauma with dealing with people in

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the public may get picked on a lot um those are the ones that move into the

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forest because they can't deal with you know the inner city problems of being

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unhoused right wow and and

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that I don't know that that's crazy that's just it blows my mind it's [ __ ] freezing

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dude dude not only that but I mean having to get any type of like

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food and yeah because you you're so far away from yes from other people from

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yeah in the city at least people throw something out yeah or something in here and I I I didn't know

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they were living there either that's crazy it's really really a whole different vibe honestly I bet yeah do

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you um because they're saying that you take them like food and stuff do you take like clothing or anything like that

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as well so do you take all those donations yeah so

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um I am so blessed that uh Oswaldo at the Garcia Center for the Arts and San

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Bernardino has been having my back from the start on this um he has like provided this huge

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storage for me to put my donations in oh wow okay yeah it's awesome and um I feel

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so blessed to be there because it's a healthy spot you know Adam's there too and like it's just the culture of all

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his artists you know and having this amazing space but yeah I am I collect donation donations all the time

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um I take clothing shoes blankets tents tarps any type of camping stuff lights

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you know propane any of that stuff I take um but yeah if you're gonna make a

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donation just hit me up DM me on Instagram SoCal trasharmy.com or dot

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Instagram whatever [Laughter] um but yeah as far as clothing I I kind

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of stopped taking because of my disability that is drawing a limitation you know I'm most of the time have

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volunteers rocking with me because of not being a non profit I really can't

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pay anybody so all these awesome people who do rock with me are just doing it because

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they either are addicted like me or they love me I don't know it's a combination

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but yeah wow I know it's a lot that is a lot it's a

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lot you're doing you're doing some [ __ ] off awesome things dude I got a

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doctor I got a doctor on my on my street team now really it's Soto I can't even

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tell you how dope this is he performed an ultrasound On this man's heart on at the park oh I

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think I've seen one of your videos right yeah because it's the one I just posted

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does it have a it does just click it

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top of the world is Globus [Music]

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[Music] still win heavy metals like Slipknot got

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to drive and I got tunnel vision I just hit my stride the way I run the business I've been making paper like I'm done to Memphis see the end game I got one

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division look I don't ever bother with a Critic hit him with a Chronicle already boom bottle full of riddle and I hit him with a little bit of riddle me this

33:03

riddle me dab my bad fell asleep at the gas no time to wait though Elon Musk I'm trying to bankroll new Tesla just cause

33:09

I say so electric whip like Ivan van Gogh I just I just did it did it double use only you know I've been you know

33:16

I've been winning top of the world the globe is spinning if you know you know

33:21

I've been on it look they said that I couldn't do it so

33:27

I wouldn't wow oh yeah there it is so right there in the park you know

33:35

those are so I deliver produce to about 10 to 15 families depending on what I

33:41

can get my hands on every week um they're just families that are like near our Center that are kind of going

33:48

through it you know and so they all have kids and and I'm kind of attached so

33:55

how did you first get hooked up with the um Garcia Center

34:01

um let me think back so it was December no November of 2020 I think it was and

34:11

the homie mentioned um or I said that I wanted to do a Christmas event that's what it was I

34:18

wanted to feed Dino the families that needed it and um so we decided to check

34:24

out the Garcia Center and never met Osvaldo but he was super down

34:30

um of having us there and so that day we just we just plan on feeding people

34:36

honestly but then um now mayor Helen Tran she stepped in

34:41

and she like donated like 3 000 toys and then one of my volunteers like had a

34:46

Santa suit and then we ended up feeding 500 I think it's five six hundred people that day

34:53

and then I never left [Laughter] and Oswald though he's the what is he

35:00

Center coordinator director head dude okay so he's the head of the yeah of the

35:07

center the man the man the center man that's good I mean you're

35:14

I mean I'm still I'm I'm still you know tapping into to um to all this uh even

35:21

with the Garcia Center um and what Adam does over there with with all the other artists in that area

35:28

but um I mean you see a lot of the focus on

35:35

like LA County and even art like a lot of the focus is

35:40

in La art and not much in San Bernardino County

35:46

and is there any other organizations that that you do work with out in San

35:51

Bernardino County oh man I work with so many awesome Orcs to be honest like doing this work and I

35:59

think like my success has been because like I'm transparent and honest and like

36:05

just doing the right thing of like what I feel you know is right um I work with some amazing amazing

36:13

organizations so number one is like sister's making a difference I literally

36:18

found a sister organizer in within that you know organization Ronnie is like

36:24

super special She's So Dope she tries so hard she's a single mom like me we understand you know what this life is

36:31

like because not many do it's a rough life our safety is always on the line

36:37

um it's just you know it's really really busy and people are always you know wanting our attention so Ronnie is like

36:44

one of my girls um and like I like for the fact that I I'm accepted by Coke which is a

36:52

like spiritual like Christian religion based organization they you know they

37:01

have me sitting on their housing committee oh and so It's So Dope that they allow me to be me

37:08

you know I freely speak and they support me and they encourage me and yeah it's

37:14

just been so rad working with all these organizations for sure and then the artist too like Adam you know I we all

37:22

get to hang out with each other and express with each other and push each other and I fully you know have all

37:30

these amazing people in my life and I want to see them just Thrive through ART I'm an artist myself you know I'm I'm

37:37

out there pushing that's the thing I'm gonna focus on this year is pushing myself more as an artist because I'm not

37:43

known for that but really personally that's me you know and so just finding ways of like doing what I do and

37:50

incorporating that through my art is like what I'm going to focus on and the Garcia Center having that space

37:56

to fulfill those you know goals is is amazing so yeah I mean like I'm so

38:03

blessed right now working with all these people what's your work day like what what's your work what how how busy do

38:11

you get with all this it's crazy is it it's so crazy no one

38:16

wants to date me like no one like everyone you know cannot deal with my schedule my kids she

38:23

hates pictures don't she doesn't want to be her picture taken [Music] um so like

38:30

Wednesday's my busiest day and I'll just give you that so Wednesday I wake up at

38:35

four in the morning I get my kid off to her dad at five drive to dino I do my

38:42

first distribution with music changing lives which is another amazing organization music changing lives yeah

38:48

okay there I um I volunteer there for about

38:53

an hour and a half with a bunch of amazing volunteers who are addicted to volunteering and so they're so special I

38:59

love you guys um and uh yeah I I'm there for about an hour and a half I loaded the car with

39:06

the produce that I'm gonna take from there because that's kind of how I I get mine and um then I take it over to the

39:15

Garcia Center if I have my car and then I usually have a truck

39:20

um two loads of produce get it back to the center we unload the truck everyone at the center like helps me bring the

39:26

things out of the storage whether it's water medical supplies clothes shoes that I've collected over the past week

39:32

and whatever before um we get that all you know kind of organized because I'm kind of OCD about

39:39

it organized on the tables we have our section for what's going to go on the streets we have our section for what's

39:44

going to go to the houses and then if well lately we've been taking care of another building on 4th Street with 200

39:52

plus people about to face homelessness so it's a building yeah it's a building

39:59

just a abandoned building or is it is it anybody to managed by by the city

40:06

so it was at one point a non-profit it was um kind of dorm rooms for the sports

40:12

center that's right next door but when covid hit

40:18

there was no longer allowed to be the sports School because of traveling and all that so the

40:23

owners took it upon themselves to charge cheap rent and rent out to the public

40:30

that backfired um and Not only was the owner of the building doing that but the city was

40:37

placing disabled seniors and sex offenders there um with people with minors very small

40:45

children and they had no idea they were living in this building together so this building has been kind of near

40:50

and dear to my heart and uh yeah I'm there quite frequently

40:56

so now is it are they just wanting to get rid of everybody so that they can

41:02

do what they were initially doing is that what's happening so now the building has been outed every news

41:08

channel has you know covered it um there is some people that got scared

41:13

and kind of just took the you know hotel voucher and then left which these hotel

41:19

vouchers that were offered were only for a week which was absolutely ridiculous

41:25

um they had the turn-in key program which gave them like fifteen hundred dollars which isn't even enough to cover

41:31

a new move-in cost um I don't care even at the most cheapest apartment you can't get a move

41:38

in for that so um and then some people left and then came back and then there's

41:44

ones that just never left and those are the ones that are you know fighting all the way they we've been telling them to

41:49

stick in there it's been really difficult every time I go there it's it's hugs and cries and just a you know

41:56

a bunch of anxiety it's a lot I'm telling you you should come out on the streets with me one day

42:04

that's only that's only until about two o'clock right there because after that you know it's um back

42:12

to the center I might have meetings from that point on and then city council

42:17

meeting or whatever it may be but um yeah it's usually meetings meetings

42:23

meetings because I sit on several housing committees I sit on other boards I sit uh

42:30

and and other thing I I have to educate myself constantly with what's going on and the information so I might be

42:36

attending like CCE ha and they might be talking about you know environmental justice what's what's that ccha it's um

42:44

the center for Community Action and environmental justice okay so I attend classes frequently if I can

42:52

get to them you know just depending on my gas yeah and my schedule as a mom because I

42:58

still have to be a mom through all that all that

43:04

and that's a Wednesday for you that's Wednesday should I even ask about Thursday but

43:11

dude like Saturday I'm in you know badass Toyotas and jeeps and flying

43:16

across the sand and going over all these you know things weren't picking up trash and Hauling trash and yeah out of the

43:22

desert and you know it's so much fun you know so and where is that

43:28

that weekend this past weekend I was uh with desert um desert cleanse project and we did a

43:34

cleanup in Johnson Valley so where's that um

43:40

in the desert bro in the desert [Laughter]

43:45

you know I'm not like can we can we google that Johnson Valley yeah it's like Apple

43:52

Valley or Victorville okay over there by Lucerne Valley off-roading areas

43:58

oh that's cool which off-roading isn't my thing I wish it was I need a truck if anybody hears me and wants to donate a

44:04

badass truck I cannot take my mom car to these locations

44:10

uh people take their jeeps and stuff yeah there's a whole dope like

44:16

off-roading community and so much fun it's fun it's a lot of fun my dad has

44:21

one of these the Can-Am so dude it is just one thing I gotta say about all

44:28

these different trash sites is consistently the number one thing out

44:34

there is beer cans and bottles oh yeah like consistently no matter if it's the

44:40

beach the forest or the desert that's what is like number one find

44:46

I don't understand that like uh but don't most people recycle I don't know even if you're in a

44:53

throwaway recyclables at least throw them in a bin like I mean that doesn't

44:59

make sense they need trash bags like what's what's the what's the solution

45:05

what is the solution I mean you know there's if there is one

45:15

is it

45:20

dude of men ladies and gentlemen no more men if if you all could just learn to

45:27

stop shooting your guns off at bottles kill the the first the first born of

45:33

every child in an America

45:39

no y'all just need to start being responsible about your bad behavior like go be bad boys like go do it whatever

45:46

but just I can clean up your [ __ ] up it's people with guns can we say that's the male with guns I don't have to say

45:52

that because I'm I'm cool with people being armed you know I understand the whole thing with protection and I'm

45:58

right but um but uh yeah like be responsible you know like

46:05

it's it's one time I will share a story so um I don't want to mention the company

46:11

but I do because they're so awesome so we had an employee from a company

46:19

that was driving down Lytle Creek mountain and he just got done doing a job up there and he just balled up his

46:27

McDonald's bag oh God oh God and checked it out the window now not realizing that

46:34

you know the residents up there they're not cool with that you know they've already dealt with so much [ __ ] up there

46:39

they're just so I'm getting flash flood messages with these pictures of the guy the company yada yada yada so I call the

46:48

company um and she's like I know I've had several calls already and I'm like I'm sorry doll you know we're not trying to

46:55

put you on the spotlight but there is a way to kind of fix this and she was down

47:01

to hear that you know um and I just said hey we're having to clean up this Saturday

47:06

I encourage my guy that messed up to come through and she was like you know what he'll be

47:13

there he'll be there the whole time and I was like awesome awesome and then

47:18

uh he showed up with like 12 dudes oh okay nice mind you this company is

47:26

like that's her thing is nature and trimming trees so

47:32

um when they showed up they were you know ready to go and you know what I I was so happy that that guy messed up

47:39

that day because these other dudes that never would have been introduced to that was

47:46

and they loved it so much that this company now is a sponsor they send all

47:52

their volunteers to me all the time um and I absolutely love Mo brays

48:02

[Laughter] we just seen the skill um a few weeks ago when we're on our way

48:08

to work the guy that was in the car behind oh yeah yeah I have this uh this weird

48:14

inclination to watch people when I'm when I'm in traffic and I'm like looking at my rear view

48:22

mirror and this guy is just like chucking trash out onto the street and I'm like

48:29

I'm like I'm like Amber check this guy out look at him look what he's doing and I can't stand it I can't and he's

48:37

just like not a care in the world not a care in the world and I'm just like wow just like like he was he was an

48:46

older gentleman he was an older gentleman should have known better I've seen one time I've seen um somebody

48:53

throwing out a baby um what is it called a paper a diaper

48:58

all day baby diaper you guys are being shocked I don't [ __ ] get it I don't get it people people put

49:06

Like Liquor bags of diapers in the water at Lytle Creek so for all you guys going

49:11

to Little Creek you know living it up in the water yeah it's contaminated like totally

49:17

no that's not the only thing the water is Mega contaminated yeah I've talked to

49:22

the suits at the water company about it and

49:29

what's usually the response this is why the water bill goes up this

49:34

is why they need to treat the water with so many chemicals because it's so contaminated do you buy that

49:41

yes she's like I see it I seen and have cleaned up the Santeria sites I've seen

49:48

rotting roosters and chickens and animals in the water I've we've picked

49:54

them out oh yes like in just last year I think we picked up 22 roosters out of

50:00

the water wait wait I'm wait you said like Santeria Santeria sites all day

50:06

where Voodoo Santeria what demonism I know about all of them I mean they do

50:11

them they do it there yes ma'am totally yeah I'm telling you my world is crazy I

50:18

need a film crew you guys would trip out at some of this stuff that I've seen in fact I went to go sign up my daughter

50:24

for um like she's going into kindergarten right so I'm at the school district and I'm sitting there with the lady and she's like

50:30

um I'm sorry but are you the girl that does the cleanups in Little Creek and I was like yep she's like oh my God oh my God

50:38

I can't believe I'm talking to you right now because what are they doing up there with all the roosters like those crazy people oh my God like she just kept

50:45

talking to me about the center yeah this is a thing oh totally

50:52

it's a it's a thing hopefully we don't run out of time no we we got a lot of time no we got we got we

50:58

got plenty of time we got time tell us about this bro so you know

51:05

I don't even know where to start I mean there had been times where I would find animals yeah but I wasn't

51:11

really putting it together until I started finding the actual locations and I think that's the thing about me is

51:18

that I just know where these locations are and I've studied them enough to know

51:23

um that uh what they're doing honestly so it's a

51:29

big thing uh they have groups they will literally take

51:35

buses or Vans up there of groups of people and you can purchase their

51:40

services on offer up what's up at um yep it ranges from three to eight

51:48

hundred dollars depending on exactly what type of cleanse you need

51:55

um if it requires a goat or a pig um that types of thing I'm telling you

52:00

it goes oh my god really deep I'm like I've been in that water well here you go

52:10

I are you okay I'm like let me see your face he's so troubled right now I think we've

52:17

both been in that water all right I'll tell you the process of the Santeria okay so I think that's where I'm lost

52:24

it's like no we have goats involved yeah well santerias like Voodoo like like a Latino

52:31

can you pull yeah pull it up it's actually like Cuban Cuban yeah it's afro-cuban that's right it's the history

52:37

I know this because again of all the research I've had to do but they you

52:43

know they have these beliefs and these spiritual rituals that they they do depending on the moon

52:48

um a lot of that has to tie in with it and the water is then they go there specifically because of the running

52:55

water so the belief is is that say you came to me and you you know you needed this

53:01

cleanse I'm gonna have you come to the water I'm gonna have you strip of your clothing there's probably going to be

53:08

some type of yelling and drumming and all of that um and you will be naked in the water

53:14

and then let's just say a rooster they will then slit the rooster which the

53:20

rooster does fill this by the way is completely tortured um and they will wash you with the blood

53:26

of the animal and that is your renewal process basically

53:32

um wow yes so we find a lot of clothing changes like I said just so many boxes of like

53:39

the roosters being in them and then the roosters eventually sometimes we'll

53:45

um find the heads completely in different locations because they've traveled down

53:50

the water it's just you just yeah so it takes a lot of research to find them and

53:56

keep up with their locations and is it always the same locations that they're going to or they're

54:02

they're going to usually usually like during the season

54:08

um they will keep it at one location but like it for themselves but there's

54:14

several different locations that this is happening isn't this the don't you have

54:19

like a painting of her that's your girl okay she's not my girl I went to Cuba in 2019

54:28

and um I I like to collect like artwork and things like that so I I got

54:34

um from I mean at that time I didn't know the severity of it right but she's pretty famous in Cuba she's like the

54:41

main like santera and um they were selling like art pieces of her and it's

54:48

like on a like an old newspaper and somebody did it so I I brought it home wow I I don't condone any of this again

54:56

honestly it's not for me to judge yeah my thing is is that like my thing is

55:03

like there's kids in this water so like really your ritual is now con like

55:11

hurting someone else you feel me like I've actually I know for a fact I've been cut in Lytle Creek and I've been in

55:18

the water and I've had to get shots in my butt oh yeah I wouldn't even think about that right now straight up from

55:24

Lytle Creek like numerous times my friends can tell you for a fact like yeah numerous and so that's what sparked

55:32

me about the contamination of the water and sure enough you know when I went to the suits they told me you know exactly

55:40

what it was yeah and like I said then you know with the

55:47

demonism I find the dogs out there because their thing is the dogs with the deity they will literally raise like the

55:55

dopest most expensive dog for 10 years what literally feed it the most

56:00

expensive food that thing will have like an amazing living situation until the day comes when it's time and then I find

56:08

like badass show dogs out there oh my God literally what do they what do they

56:15

do with the dogs they sacrifice them they sacrificed so they the dogs will usually be burned at

56:22

the legs and then what to be headed yeah and how how would they burn them like do do

56:29

they have them like on like a cross or something or so they're not hanging they're not hanging them so they usually

56:36

have like a space where the dog is like standing and they'll just burn that area

56:41

and then they do their thing I'm guessing I've never actually attended one I've just kind of watched some

56:47

things and um and then they will like lay the dog on this rock or piece of

56:55

wood or whatever and then beheaded yeah I'm like and this is happening what like

57:01

30 minutes from here literally happening here yeah

57:08

and then sometimes it's just you know like memorials you know I like you know

57:15

I see a lot of um sites that you know there was like

57:21

someone that had passed it was maybe a child we find a lot of like child you

57:27

know toys cars and stuff like that pictures letters

57:32

um so I'm like I'm not gonna lie and don't judge me because it wasn't me but

57:39

now that I think about it uh my cousin which he he just passed away

57:45

um about a month and a half ago but his ex-wife passed away years ago and um he

57:51

didn't tell us until years after and I'm sure that's why he didn't tell us but um

57:56

his wife loved going there to Lytle Creek and they would go like often and

58:02

um he went and he spread her ashes in the creek oh wow there you go so I'm sure she's not the only one that

58:09

was spreading definitely not the only one I can tell you that water is busy wow yeah

58:15

it's because it's just

58:22

March 18th I'm having a cleanup come out the lamb needs love I'm telling you like

58:28

it's a never-ending battle you know we we just came back from um Japan and um

58:33

when did we come back December like the first week of December yeah December 5th out of all the places that I've traveled

58:40

it I was we were mind blown by how clean it is there is not a trash can Insight

58:49

yeah and that was a weird thing too I mean there was no there was these ven I always say there's these vending

58:55

machines everywhere and no trash can to put any of cans or if we had like a bag

59:03

or a plastic something there was no there was no trash cans to put it so I

59:08

was literally carrying trash with me like all day until I got to my hotel room yeah so I I asked um one of the

59:16

ladies we had a like a guide one of the days and I was like why don't you guys have trash cans and she was like because

59:22

she said it's no one else's job to pick up after ourselves but ourselves yeah

59:28

and she said we have trash trucks and people do have trash like for like you know like hotels or businesses and

59:34

things like that she's like but that's as far as it goes picking up like like that trash truck she goes but we that

59:42

it's no one else's job throughout the day you know picking up our cans or things she's like no she's like if we're

59:48

gonna drink something or have trash we put it in our bag and we dispose of it when we get home and that's everybody

59:54

like you don't even see like a piece of gum on the floor nothing yeah there was

59:59

barely even any um I think that was like one of the first comments that I made uh

1:00:05

driving from the hotel to no uh from the airport to our first hotel was there was

1:00:11

no graffiti anywhere like just like on freeways and freeway passages even on the streets the streets

1:00:18

were it looked like a literally like a downtown LA but with no

1:00:24

uh yeah it wasn't it wasn't overpopulated with trash and there was no graffiti anywhere it was weird it was

1:00:31

so weird to me oh that's the price we pay for American culture yeah yeah we literally live in a

1:00:39

society where we are not being told or taught the proper things of life

1:00:46

I mean in school we're learning things that we're never going to utilize and we're completely missing the bigger

1:00:53

picture as of to other spaces they realize you know what is happening climately or

1:00:59

whatever and able to make those proper steps to educate and come in and show

1:01:06

the youth like hey this is what's acceptable we're already being responsible so if you're not you're an

1:01:12

outsider you know like exactly you know and so that's just this they have standards and here when your community

1:01:22

isn't offered um you know just the basic things about finding their gifts their special

1:01:29

talents and life um a lot of people are passed up and passed by and those people end up kind

1:01:36

of just giving up on on finding a way you know and so with that being said I

1:01:42

feel like those lost souls are the ones out there that are just like living it up doing whatever there's no consequences because nothing matters

1:01:49

when really they they do serve a purpose you know and I think that you know just

1:01:56

our whole system needs to be revamped from what it is now

1:02:01

missing the bigger picture yeah yeah I mean it's it does it

1:02:07

it has to start from from somewhere especially in education like from what I

1:02:14

heard from our uh tour guide that day was these the Japanese children were taught

1:02:22

from a very young age just about loitering or making themselves

1:02:30

accountable or making themselves responsible for uh for that

1:02:36

and it's something so minuscule too I mean throwing something away like how

1:02:41

when are we taught that you know like and that's but it makes a big difference

1:02:47

you see from from from learning something so small up until adulthood

1:02:53

like they they like not pounded in but you know what I mean like they it's it's

1:02:59

taught from a very young age and those simple things can really like universally like tie us together to one

1:03:06

another um you know all the children will learn the same things and so it's not like oh

1:03:12

just you know the whites are just you know this culture that culture whatever like everyone you know needs to be on

1:03:18

the same page about it and so it it does go back to the youth because

1:03:24

I can tell you one time I went to the park and no one showed up for this park

1:03:30

cleanup but there was kids that were already there and you know there was this this

1:03:36

park had a lot of graffiti honestly it had like a lot of like drawn dicks another thing that dudes do

1:03:43

damn it yeah you don't see females be doing that right

1:03:48

I am not male what is it males and dicks like we're obsessed with

1:03:56

the penis on the playground on the playground we're obsessed with him like

1:04:01

wow you can't stop touching them we can't stop thinking about him I mean come on guys help me out here but these

1:04:08

kids are young and new fully like that was not cool right so of course you know I get my graffiti removal wipes out and

1:04:17

um we start going to town and these kids are so flipping excited that there there's no f word on their slide and

1:04:24

then that there's no more oh it was a playground it was a playground yes that's what I'm saying terrible

1:04:33

that's what I'm saying we need to catch these guys the kids the kids were excited because

1:04:39

there was no f word on their place no more drawn D's all over

1:04:49

[Music] yeah and

1:04:55

it's just you know they get to go home and they tell their parents like yeah we moved to Graffiti and we did this good

1:05:01

thing and like yeah and their parents you know are like damn I should teach more good things to my kid because kids are receptive to that

1:05:08

stuff honestly they are like my kid loves to pick up trash my kid loves to

1:05:13

feed people on the streets even when we're not servicing and we're just out she's like Mom but that person needs

1:05:18

food mom like you know yeah and she's four like oh wow you know she grasped

1:05:25

the concept totally she serves with me and that's something that like has never

1:05:30

left me honestly I learned at a very small age and yeah it was like through a church and I'm you know I don't I have

1:05:39

no religion now but that still was embedded you know being able to hand that plate off to somebody and letting

1:05:45

like my brain understand that like they're gonna have a meal today you know and letting that process and sink in I

1:05:50

think that's so important and major for a little child to grasp because they actually have the time where they can

1:05:56

focus and sit on that thought and then kind of like reflects back to it with every decision or choice they go

1:06:02

out to make so let me ask you this so you're on I mean you do understand art and you

1:06:10

understand the I mean the concept of keeping the environment clean like when does it

1:06:18

become graffiti when does it become art like where's the where's the line

1:06:23

between that I don't think I have it on my Instagram but I have a piece at the Garcia Center that's on display right

1:06:29

now and it's a location in Lytle Creek that's like literally every tree and

1:06:35

rock is tagged tagged on and it is really really like effed up

1:06:42

um because again it's just like it's scribble

1:06:48

it's not cohesive or vibrant or positive

1:06:53

you know and um and it's titled it's not even art

1:07:00

because there is those pieces and I'm from Fontana so I I see street art every

1:07:06

day of my life I have so much respect for it my art is kind of reflective of

1:07:11

graffiti art um I love like the vibrancy like just the fluid bubbleness and like this like

1:07:18

you know the freedom of the expression um and I honestly leave those pieces I I

1:07:24

don't I don't remove them so it's like if you're gonna go out and tag in a nature split space like make it look

1:07:30

really good make it have purpose um not just an arrow like showing that

1:07:35

this is the way to Bonita Falls like hikes are supposed to be adventurous and you're taking the adventure out of wait

1:07:42

hold on so so people actually draw arrows to where yeah where they're supposed to go oh yeah it's like

1:07:48

seriously like why yeah why that makes no sense

1:07:57

if you're gonna get one I'm I mean honestly if you're like like not gonna be adventurous what's the

1:08:03

point and y'all are dumb too because it could be leading you into a bad situation like

1:08:08

dude that's absolutely no totally I've been chased out of there by crazy unhoused people that have been out there

1:08:15

for a really really long time so you you have to be like you have to take your street smarts into the forest when

1:08:22

you're there because you never know so I know you said earlier too about it being kind of dangerous like like how I and I

1:08:29

can imagine right like that it is dangerous because you're out there um not protected I mean you have people

1:08:36

that go with you but still and have you ever encountered something like pretty dangerous or is it every time or is it

1:08:43

just sometimes how are you on time by the way you're good oh I'm straight yeah I'm straight can I get you another drink

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yeah if you're down yeah well I'm gonna try this part

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um non-alcoholic beverage absolutely uh thanks parch for sending us a couple of

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cases I'm actually gonna try the spiced uh Pina Rita can we get that on the

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screen spicy right there there we go thanks guys for sending that out but you want try the how are the head right

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you're in it if you pour yourself a tiny inside a

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little bit yeah I'll try that you want to try this yeah I'll try it okay it's pretty good I I had it already she

1:09:24

had it for breakfast by the way I did have it for breakfast it has like really good properties for you and it tastes

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like a cocktail it's female owned ooh I know we love that I love that yeah

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oh this one's good oh it's spicy you can taste the spice in there all right I think it's made with

1:09:44

like Agave so it kind of tastes like like Mezcal like kind of like blue Weber Agave Kanye pepper

1:09:51

lime roasted pineapple oh that sounds I could taste the roasted pineapple in there

1:09:57

actually on ice with some mint in there yeah you can make a bomb ass cocktail uh

1:10:04

slowly pour over I slip straight from the chilled can oh wow an ancient ritual yeah parch thanks guys

1:10:13

for sending that out you're good on time you're good I'm good you got one chilling I'm chilling I have

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no kids tonight oh cool yay me there we go we're podcasting all night ladies and

1:10:25

gentlemen hey [Laughter] so you're out in the forest do you

1:10:32

encounter anything that can be remotely dangerous all day yeah that was your

1:10:38

question right Amber I mean are the on the streets or on the forest because

1:10:44

wherever you're at I'm sure that it's dangerous right honestly um I think I fear more political

1:10:52

than anything man I I totally fear more politically than

1:10:58

being on the Streets of San Bernardino yeah why is that

1:11:03

um so I have people in the community that support what I do and then I have people

1:11:09

in the community that do not support what I do and that's always fun so

1:11:14

what's on the opposition side of what you do the fact that the unhoused you

1:11:19

know they make money for people and so if they go away and there's this

1:11:26

actual solution then that money would go away I I was gonna tell you that because I I

1:11:32

feel like with just education right like we were saying like culture wise like like why aren't we educating ourselves

1:11:39

or our youth with us but if they educate us then things change and money goes

1:11:44

away and things go away right it's like a trickle effect is is that kind of what you're totally yeah yeah totally

1:11:52

so you know it really just depends on

1:11:58

on who is being paid by who and why and uh yeah it's good fun times

1:12:08

um luckily for me I feel like because I I do this like with my full heart you

1:12:14

know I'm protected but it is scary I mean you know the police and

1:12:19

council members yeah bless you all that they're always all over my Instagram you

1:12:26

know and that's a good time and it's just it's stressful sometimes

1:12:32

jeez man yeah because I I mean there's been times where I've had it out with the police on the streets really

1:12:38

absolutely over helping people yeah because you know I'm

1:12:44

enabling them or um you know I walk into them mistreating

1:12:49

the unhoused and I'm not gonna allow that so okay I see what you're saying so

1:12:55

I will literally have to set them straight you know and there's been a few times where some officers I've caught

1:13:00

them on like I've made my points and they literally have nothing they can say to me so I've had I tie that into

1:13:07

successful encampments where I have a few encampments that haven't been moved

1:13:12

recently they've been actually like able to stay where they're located so happy about that but with that being said you

1:13:20

know that cop you know doesn't really like me at that point so do you see them often around the city

1:13:27

man that's that's pretty scary yeah because if I have to make a real call to 9-1-1 like there's been a time where I

1:13:34

had a female who was just sexually assaulted and I need them to send an ambulance but once you say the words

1:13:41

homeless they send officers and you know it just

1:13:47

it doesn't turn into a good situation at that point especially when there's no female officer that shows up for a

1:13:53

sexual assault and so it it's it's difficult honestly really is

1:14:00

no ambulance no ambulance no ambulance but three officers show up

1:14:05

have you encountered anything like in in Lytle Creek as far as like

1:14:11

um like animals that that are like animals that are alive that can

1:14:17

potentially be harmless uh you know harmful to you totally yeah so

1:14:24

um there's I mean there's always coyotes okay yeah yeah um a few mountain lions a few mountain

1:14:30

lions uh we had a mom have a baby last last year so they were roaming around

1:14:37

um but that's been pretty much the only animal situation I've come yeah the rest

1:14:44

of them are usually dead so so yeah no no black bears or anything I have not no

1:14:49

thank God because I've given my my bear spray away to the streets there's a there's bear spray

1:14:56

yeah yes I give all my weapons to the females

1:15:01

on the streets you guys because you know they tell me what happens to them so I I have to buy blades all the time and

1:15:09

bear spray bear spray yeah it shoots up to 40 feet what yes can we pull that up

1:15:15

please yeah pull a video of somebody's spraying bear spray and someone please

1:15:20

make a donation this is wild yeah any any MB people in our community that has

1:15:27

access to this stuff oh yes I love it I want to see a video can we yes

1:15:35

oh yeah yep whoa

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right there that is not get a video so yeah that's close I'm trying to see if you can find a video then we're going

1:15:48

I can only type so fast that's a handsome man on that video by the way

1:15:54

uh the only reason why I ask is because I I've

1:16:00

is that did you find one oh that's braided up add a person both I

1:16:06

am I'm hey bear oh man oh wow I don't know I've

1:16:11

never seen this it's okay oh he just has it in case right yeah I

1:16:19

think this is one of like my fears you're supposed to make a lot of noise

1:16:25

he's like looks like he's like talking to him yeah yeah hey Bear yeah I'm

1:16:31

leaving oh not a stray dog bro yeah

1:16:38

oh my God speed it up let's see if something yeah how long is this where's the ice it's like three minutes

1:16:47

oh you're up on the tree whoa oh wow so cute but that seems like a young

1:16:55

yeah the Mama's probably around somewhere I don't think he actually sprays them no

1:17:01

oh he's just using it like just in case let's see this one

1:17:09

new tonight take a look at this dramatic video of a pot shop manager using bear spray to drive off three oh

1:17:18

and what does it do is it like me it's just like pepper spray yeah but it's much more intense for those suspects

1:17:25

Chris Vincent tells us I didn't know bear sprayed sister yes REI please

1:17:31

sponsor me well they won't because I'm not a non-profit I try and we'll send

1:17:37

you some stuff right they can send you stuff back a second time

1:17:43

he's ordering me to open up the register

1:17:49

and I couldn't so I noticed that the guy is a little bit away from me I grabbed the bear spray

1:18:05

well I just recently because I had two cans for myself you know but now I have

1:18:11

a zero that's wild yeah you learned something new every day we

1:18:17

do we learned something on this yeah pepper spray idiots yeah that's that's wild don't even waste your money on

1:18:23

pepper spray just get better get bear spray yeah just do it you hear what I'm saying like you don't know Spritz them

1:18:30

you want to like you know wow yeah no if if you're coming at me

1:18:36

bro you don't need to be a bear I will literally pepper spray yourself like for sure it's happening yep yep

1:18:45

I I recently was the last night I had a dream about being attacked by a bear oh yeah last night yeah that's why I asked

1:18:52

about the bear situation yeah pepper spray I mean bear spray bear spray any prayer spray yeah well tonight in your

1:18:58

dreams we'll get you some bears yeah give me some bear spray for that

1:19:03

bear yeah I think that's the animal that I am most

1:19:10

like then I fear for is being attacked by a bear I don't know

1:19:16

why I'm not even in the force as much as you are but I I'm afraid

1:19:24

of those creatures Beautiful Creatures but totally yeah I'll [ __ ] you up yeah yeah I'm I'm so afraid of snakes you

1:19:31

guys and everybody's like bro there's snakes out there all the time and I'm like don't lay down yeah I just don't even I'm not even

1:19:38

trying to look down at my steps you know like just I'm out I feel like like the

1:19:44

land's gonna protect me so yeah I'm cool there's snakes there's what else there's oh my God spiders a million different

1:19:51

types of spiders there's so many times I I like get to an encampment and I like I

1:19:57

should have known but I lift a blanket up and there's like a thousand million black spiders I'm just like [ __ ] okay

1:20:04

probably just gonna leave that no one's watching me right

1:20:13

I get paid for free so right yeah what did somebody say when you get

1:20:19

paid peanuts so I don't even get peanuts peanut shells Maybe

1:20:26

uh damn so they're they're spiders out there there's deer

1:20:32

I've seen I don't know what this one I'm pretty sure it was some type of like Mountain Goat Mountain Goat yeah okay

1:20:39

I'm pretty sure that's what it was yeah before somebody took a sheep out there because that could happen too

1:20:45

really people will pick it was deceased so it was hard to tell oh again all the

1:20:50

ones I know were dead okay those are the ones you encounter oh I can talk about this so many people

1:20:59

are douchebags they don't want their animal anymore and they go out to Lytle Creek and they dump it oh no yes alive

1:21:07

yes what I one day and Ellie was there

1:21:13

and the ranger was there they wanted to go see a Saint Teresa site I'm like are you guys sure they're like yes sure

1:21:19

enough this [ __ ] goes down march hold on March 18th are you are you taking people to Center recites no okay no no you hit

1:21:26

me up when you're going to a century I totally will yeah oh man we'll film it you're gonna be like yes let's film it

1:21:33

let's do it why I'll take the CR we'll take a crew out there I'll film it do we

1:21:38

have to hike we'll have audio not too bad the hike is not too bad but you know

1:21:44

and then at night is when it's really fun so if you want to see I'll wait for you guys here

1:21:50

she'll watch it when it's on YouTube Just FaceTime me then go put a body cam

1:21:55

on so I can be there there's no service out there so oh that's right oh wow yeah when I'm out there it's scary there's no

1:22:02

service yeah it's scary oh my God I know yeah

1:22:08

yeah I don't know don't look at me like that so the okay so people

1:22:14

just I mean you hear well in in the Mexican culture oh we're gonna go take your your your dog for a ride

1:22:21

they're going to light up that's where they are that's where my

1:22:27

dog went to Lytle Creek no joke this lady pulled up on us like I was saying like we were we just had to clean it

1:22:34

they wanted to go see the Saint Teresa site so I took him over there sure enough this lady pulls over and I'm

1:22:40

watching her and then I just see the dog fly out the

1:22:46

window what she's driving off my girl Ellie gets in her car like oh she gets

1:22:53

in her car she starts following her they're now chasing like each other up

1:22:58

the mountains my friend's chasing her up the mountain um she pulls like a U-turn my girl

1:23:04

follows her back down um at this point I have the dog in my arms and I'm standing in the middle of

1:23:10

the street along with the ranger and we're like trying to stop her and she just continues to drive at us

1:23:18

so then um I like kind of move out of the way of the Ranger kind of moves out of the way and I'm like every f word with the you

1:23:26

know holding the dog at this lady and she's like find me I dare you and so

1:23:31

okay um then this badass this badass biker

1:23:38

female pulled over sure braid went all the way down to her ankles I never seen

1:23:43

something like this and she was like did she just throw the dog I'm like yeah she got she ramped up that bike and like

1:23:50

drove after her and uh we just kind of were like standing in the street like stunned that

1:23:57

this dog was okay for one the way she just tossed him out the window

1:24:03

and for two that that just even happened tried to run us over but it was cool because we got the dog

1:24:09

to the rescue and it was chipped oh

1:24:15

so come to find out the dog was rescued from Riverside and her name was rainbow

1:24:21

which now it's rainbow Creek because we had to put that on there but yeah um they literally the sheriff called the

1:24:28

lady up and was like did you just dump your dog in Lionel Creek and she was like yeah

1:24:34

I don't want the dog anymore and the lady's like well you could have dropped it off here there or the other and so

1:24:40

now that that that lady actually has charges being pressed against her for a the dog and then for us being

1:24:47

almost ran over so she's yeah don't dump your dogs or

1:24:53

like don't dump your chip dog duh [Laughter]

1:25:02

how can she do that like idiot no but that's terrible horrible that's

1:25:09

that's horrible how do do you know like how long she had the dog for two years shatter for Tears

1:25:17

yeah that's [ __ ] up and she blatantly said I don't want him anymore she admitted I don't think she realized like

1:25:24

that she was gonna be in trouble because she flat out was like yeah I I can't

1:25:29

take care of the dog anymore like you know this dog was so sweet too like oh

1:25:34

my gosh like so cool what kind of dog was it a little Chihuahua she wasn't even shaking she

1:25:40

was chill I was like girl do you need to smoke a bowl and she was like yes like she does this my day it was so rough she

1:25:48

is crazy like yeah that's messed up for saving me

1:25:53

got you rainbow and this wasn't like at night or was it during the day no this

1:25:58

is like at 1 30 during the day really for sure well she she probably

1:26:03

figured ah nobody's out there around that time we just happened to be coming up from the sanctuary site at the right

1:26:10

perfect timing timing is everything in life you know I believe in Divine timing and so yeah it just went down completely

1:26:18

perfectly how many other crazy stuff do you come

1:26:23

across that's pretty wild I got stories bro that's pretty wild yeah to see I know I

1:26:30

like people are like you should write a book because it's a lot there's been so many things like even being on the

1:26:36

streets seeing women picked up and nearly trafficked right in front of me because they don't realize that I'm not

1:26:43

in housed you know and then and seeing like I could have been next or

1:26:48

like for instance one of my unhoused guys which I'm I'm really attached to his name's Gabriel

1:26:55

um he lived in front of the Church's Chicken and this guy was old like now knowing

1:27:01

his age he was 69 and he was disabled from his job he broke his back and if

1:27:07

you saw him walking around town he was completely slunched up like slunched over like he couldn't walk standing

1:27:13

straight at and um this guy was my friend there was so many rainy nights where I would like

1:27:20

take him food and then just go sit with him and eat on the corner of waterman

1:27:25

and what ninth is that ninth where the Church's Chicken is and we would just chill like in the dark you know just

1:27:32

hanging out and then um and uh I literally tried to get him off

1:27:40

the streets like I got him so many Walkers people kept bullying him for his Walkers and I don't know what happened

1:27:46

but um I saw him one day and then two days later I walked up to go feed him and

1:27:53

there was yellow caution tape and blood splatter all over Church's Chicken wall

1:28:00

and I thought he was dead but come to find out he murdered

1:28:05

somebody pretty sure it was a lady that kept taking his Walkers because her husband

1:28:10

also had a broken back and uh my guy now is in jail you know and

1:28:20

I have to be like you know kind of realistic like no he's got a roof

1:28:25

food medical attention that he needs that I couldn't get him

1:28:32

um but it's [ __ ] up that like this man could have had a chance

1:28:38

but he he just couldn't take it no more you know and we all have that point right like how much abuse are you

1:28:45

willing to take and so this man that I love like that I

1:28:50

know just shouldn't be in that situation you know is and

1:28:55

it's crazy like crazy knowing knowing that you know that he had the ability

1:29:00

for one to do that and uh people always like ah that could

1:29:06

have happened to you and it's like no I don't believe that I don't believe that you know there's intent with everything you know right so

1:29:14

just sucks I miss him and it it sucks that I mean even knowing

1:29:21

that I mean he has I mean he's being fed now I mean there's

1:29:29

there's um some sort of shelter I mean no I mean

1:29:35

sure there there could be some violence in there as well but it kind of it's

1:29:40

unfortunate that it takes that you know to get to a certain point yeah like it

1:29:46

took all that for him to get housed yeah like it sucks you know I had

1:29:53

just begged Fontana PD to help him get

1:29:58

him out of that situation um but because like of jurisdiction

1:30:04

him being Dino's you know Community like

1:30:09

Fontana couldn't help him and so yeah it sucked how

1:30:16

how much of that like the jurisdiction issue account is that a big problem it

1:30:22

is yeah it is because like even in my community right now there is a bar owner who wants

1:30:31

to go around and collect the unhoused and take them to LA

1:30:36

and why would he do that because he thinks that all of them are from LA

1:30:44

he thinks like how yeah he thinks he hears you know when people get released

1:30:51

from jail like here's a bus ticket or here's a train ticket take it to the like the last stop you know but we're

1:30:58

not Dino's not the last stop anymore and like sorry what's dino I'm San

1:31:04

Bernardino oh San Bernardino sorry I got it no no it's okay sorry

1:31:09

but um it's like a known fact that unhoused kind of stick to the locations

1:31:17

and the streets and the terrain that they know a because they have ties there and B because they know that they can

1:31:25

get you know resources to the things that they need um and so this bar owner thinks that

1:31:32

everybody just came from LA so

1:31:37

um he wants to take them and drop them off at City Hall and you know

1:31:43

but my thing is is that's not like a solution okay and then I know like after

1:31:50

interviewing and you know dealing with so many of the community on the streets

1:31:56

um that that's not a fact you know they're either from Dino or Riverside or Fontana or from another state

1:32:04

or their military vets you know something to that nature um but it's random to hear somebody say

1:32:11

they're from Los Angeles yeah that doesn't make sense yeah I know I know like a lot of people I mean out of are

1:32:17

you originally from California yeah I'm from Fontana born and raised okay so sorry we were from here but I know that

1:32:24

a lot of people say like Oh California Los Angeles all the homeless people homeless people right and I always tell

1:32:30

Gail I'm like you know a lot of these homeless people are from other states and they come to

1:32:36

California because we're you know believe it or not one of the states that pretty much protects them more than the

1:32:43

other states so I'm like if anything we have you know your people that you know

1:32:48

are looking for help and and to be safer and you know within our communities but

1:32:56

I I hear that all the time it's like oh no you guys are sending us you're homeless people or you know things like

1:33:01

that I'm like a lot of the people are from out of state yeah like so California is the land of opportunity we

1:33:09

know that because everybody wants to come here right uh now is just full of

1:33:14

warehouses but at one point it was like the place to be

1:33:20

and so there's so many people that are now seniors that came here to take a chance on like being an actor or like

1:33:27

you know just wanting to run away from a bad experience in life

1:33:32

um which is cool I get it like you know kudos for them to try to start over and find something fresh to do but

1:33:39

um when when that point was lost where they couldn't make it and they had no resources you know now they're on the

1:33:45

streets but there's also a lot of people who should be receiving like

1:33:51

government SSI and disability and

1:33:57

or like their welfare but because of that whole process and how hard it is

1:34:03

they're not getting it for whatever reason it's a long process it's a long process and especially if you don't have

1:34:10

the resources to get a state ID

1:34:15

um if you don't have a mailing address like there's a like

1:34:21

even the getting to the paperwork to do all the paperwork being literate doing

1:34:27

and getting copies of your Social Security card like there's a lot

1:34:33

in there the process is just it's a deterrent from people getting the help

1:34:39

that they need totally and you know once you're discouraged so many times

1:34:45

I mean what's going to cause you to continue trying you know so many people give up because they just feel like

1:34:51

there's no more um there's no more room for them to to do anything to better their situation

1:34:56

and going back to my disability that's kind of the reason why I do what I do I

1:35:03

see my face and a lot of these people becoming disabled was not something that

1:35:08

I ever expected you know and I was such

1:35:13

a hustler I tattooed I did makeup I worked at Costco I had paycheck coming

1:35:20

in money coming in all the time art selling you know it didn't matter I make

1:35:25

jewelry like I did all these things you know and in one moment just one day like

1:35:32

I even worked overtime the day before like I woke up and my arms weren't you

1:35:37

know working um and your whole world changing like everything you knew is completely

1:35:44

changed now you know and then and then nothing is on your side at that point

1:35:50

you know you have to hire an attorney you have to apply for government assistance you have to mentally like

1:35:58

deal with like the trauma of becoming disabled the pain that you're now living in trying to explain all of this to

1:36:05

[ __ ] everybody because you know you have to tell this person that person it's a process

1:36:10

for me like one thing I was really irritated about which made me start advocating for people with disabilities

1:36:16

is because everything has to be handwritten like everything even it's like tell us about your injury well I

1:36:22

can't because I can't [ __ ] write so you know like it's really really a

1:36:27

frustrating world you know and say you you give all that to someone who already

1:36:33

has a learning disability you know it's like what is that person gonna do it's

1:36:38

not like you get hurt on your job and then oh you're immediately assigned an advocate who can walk you through the

1:36:44

steps of the process which by the way we should have there's none of that it's like here you

1:36:50

go you're blind now go figure it out and you have no idea what you're doing

1:36:56

and they speak a whole other language your attorneys speak a whole other language and then all of a sudden just

1:37:03

it's it's it's just a complete mess you know and to find Hope in that well I

1:37:09

have to think the land but some people can't find that hope in anything

1:37:14

and so then what and I think that that's something that

1:37:21

we don't think about on a daily basis like you have people that are like oh these people are just lazy or all these

1:37:28

people are just out there because they're on drugs they're on alcohol they're on this they're on that like I'm not gonna support them I'm not gonna pay

1:37:34

my taxpayer money I'm not gonna give them money and it's like everybody was

1:37:39

you know we don't know the stories we don't know what happened to people we don't know what put them there you know and it's kind of like a little inhumane

1:37:46

to just kind of just think of them as like nobody anymore you know and I think for me that's what makes it like the

1:37:53

worst definitely and to be honest like I'm an

1:37:59

introverted kind of person you know but I cannot have all this information have

1:38:05

understanding the way I do and be quiet about it and so now I'm

1:38:11

full force the opposite and I don't know what I'm doing but I do

1:38:19

know that like I have understanding and I'm gonna fight for those who cannot fight for themselves flat out

1:38:25

I'm gonna fight for myself I'm gonna I'm gonna do what I can to you know because right now it's hard for me financially

1:38:32

I'm a single mom you know I don't make an income because

1:38:37

I'm technically living off of you know like

1:38:43

welfare because I'm in line for disability and when that'll be approved

1:38:49

who knows and I can't fully collect on my child support because I'm on welfare

1:38:55

so all my child support goes to the government and it's just like people

1:39:00

don't realize what it's like to live off the system unless you've done it like

1:39:06

you just don't know yeah and so people who haven't experienced that don't need

1:39:11

to be voting on it and don't need to be judging others

1:39:17

flat out like and so a lot of those people don't know about

1:39:22

me and and it's really hard to like say those things you know and for people to look back at

1:39:30

me and be like oh she's on welfare and then they're judgments and I do get judgment I I man I get a lot of I get a

1:39:36

lot of love and praise and everything but there are people out there that call me a bad mom because I'm broke you know

1:39:43

and like when my car got broken into in Lytle Creek you know I was upset because buying a new window for me 300 is not

1:39:51

that easy for me to come up with you know and I really try not to ask for donations

1:39:57

um I don't want people feeling sorry for me I don't even want people knowing my financial situation to be quite Frank

1:40:02

because it's embarrassing like I used to hustle so much you know but it is what

1:40:09

it is and I'm gonna make it through and we're gonna figure it out and that's why I'm fighting for a change

1:40:16

and and for you to be on those panels at the Garcia Center is it's it's amazing

1:40:23

because you can be the voice for all those people that have had a

1:40:29

an experience just like you totally yeah that's awesome thanks

1:40:36

thanks for doing this yeah totally thank you for having me thanks for for sharing

1:40:41

everything all your stories I really appreciate it and if there's anything that I can help out with or Amber or the

1:40:48

podcast or mind Buzz media I mean yeah we're totally there because you're doing an awesome job thanks I really

1:40:55

appreciate that I'm honestly so blessed like I I just love my life now I love being

1:41:03

disabled I fully welcome it you know it has given me like so much mindset that I never saw

1:41:12

before and um just being able to raise my daughter with this understanding and her

1:41:18

understanding me with a disability at four it shows it proves that we can you know

1:41:25

place these small seeds in little people and they can be conscious of like what's

1:41:31

actually happening in the world you know and what they're doing and their decisions that they're making and oh I

1:41:36

will throw away this piece of trash hey mom like you just littered that's not cool

1:41:41

and yeah like it's kind of my whole life has just kind of been like um

1:41:47

like just like I don't know like how do you say like

1:41:54

we'll see we'll see what happens so what what's what's next for

1:42:01

um SoCal trash Army where where do you want to see yourself where do you want to see this movement going

1:42:09

um damn that's a good question we haven't thought that far yet there's

1:42:14

always so much going on there's always so much going on

1:42:20

um um honestly like I just want to keep encouraging the

1:42:26

community to think about their space you know um like what is it London has a

1:42:33

Devonshire they like they made like 15-minute communities I

1:42:40

don't know if you guys heard about this but it's where like your living space you work and everything you do is in

1:42:47

fifth within 15 minutes of your house oh and you are not allowed to leave like

1:42:52

that sanction and if you want to travel or whatever it's like twice a year you can leave

1:42:59

your area and I was I saw that and I was like damn this could really happen because they

1:43:05

made Hunger Games so I mean this [ __ ] could really happen right that's interesting right and I was like

1:43:13

thinking to myself like what if that was to go down what would your 15-minute

1:43:19

space look like and if that's what you were stuck with like what are you gonna do about your

1:43:26

space and everyone would be forced to be working into like their own community

1:43:32

and I hate the idea of that 15-minute space but considering that it is like a

1:43:38

realistic possibility of what they could do to us in the future people need to start taking care of like their homes

1:43:44

straight up yeah I like that in a sense for like um

1:43:50

like a work you know like because a lot of people that at

1:43:57

least in my experience a lot of people live out in um like past San Bernardino

1:44:04

County but a lot of them work in Los Angeles like Los Angeles County and it

1:44:12

creates a lot of traffic like just like not traffic but like and then also just

1:44:19

the like gas I I I'm from what you told

1:44:24

me about the what was it the 15-minute project I've always had like this this thing

1:44:30

about that because I lived in Rialto for years and I and I worked in Glendora I

1:44:37

worked in San Dimas I worked in Pomona majority I'm in Chino now and most of my

1:44:44

commute is to Long Beach to Paramount and I make those trips daily and I think

1:44:52

about it and there's also people living in Los Angeles that work out you know like

1:44:59

reversed of what I do and I always thought about that like what if like we

1:45:05

were only allowed to work in our own County or what if we were only allowed

1:45:10

to work and I own in our own City like what would that look like what would that be what would that

1:45:16

how would that transpire with with Community how would that transpire with like traffic and just resources in

1:45:24

general that's just that's that's crazy like I didn't know that that was actually going to be a thing like or

1:45:31

that's a thing now I guess it just depends on honestly what's offered in your city because if you lived in San

1:45:39

Bernardino that would be dope there's there's plenty of places to work plenty of places to go do stuff at right

1:45:45

right but then if you're doing that in like Hemet you know they don't have a

1:45:50

lot of stuff they don't have a lot of resources they don't have a lot of things you know so that would really suck for their Community yeah but again

1:45:57

you know if you worked and lived in your space you would come become familiar

1:46:04

with your own house absolutely down the street from you yeah you know you probably wouldn't want to see them there

1:46:09

so people might come together and house them or whatever it may be yeah but yeah it's just kind of like a

1:46:16

realistic possibility I I want to like tell people about because that's crazy

1:46:23

it is crazy but it also makes sense like you said like because it's like you're

1:46:28

home you know or we would hope that people take care of their home and clean their space and make it comfortable but

1:46:34

yeah I mean our space is also outside our space is the community we live in we

1:46:40

shop in we go to the parking and everything and we just are letting it go to [ __ ] it's not good it's crazy too

1:46:47

because after covid you think everybody would have like so much more appreciation for their just a slight

1:46:53

little bit just a slight please right yeah nah man it's just I think it's just

1:47:00

getting worse and we live in a consumer world where people are so tied up with buying stuff you

1:47:07

know we can have it so instantly and it's like dude we don't need this [ __ ] like we do not need the stuff you know we're

1:47:15

not living Keeping Up with the Kardashians is something old you know like going to Disneyland all the time

1:47:22

and having passes that's kind of like a has been thing being outside is where

1:47:28

it's at it doesn't matter being at the beach being in the mountains hiking yeah doing you know the off-roading thing

1:47:33

like that's where life is you know yeah you would think like even in in 2020

1:47:39

when the lockdown was happening people were out more than ever I mean at least

1:47:46

that's and the feeling that I got that people went camping more they they went to the beach

1:47:53

more they they spent their time outside more and I don't know how that

1:47:59

it didn't you know continue even even with me like I like I admitted I haven't

1:48:05

been to the beach in so long and before like me and my son were going to the beach like every other day

1:48:10

and I mean we were we were going to Mount Baldy like all the time just to go

1:48:18

up we didn't I mean we didn't hike we're not hiking people but we just you know just stopped right there on the side of

1:48:23

the mountain and just hung out there and just chilled and just looked at the mountain and we would drive up a mile

1:48:30

stopped looked at the mountain took it all in you know we got to do that more

1:48:37

you got to take care of the space though yeah yeah it's just

1:48:42

I mean it's just everybody's job running out of Graces we're having all

1:48:49

these warehouses built in our areas especially in San Bernardino like all

1:48:54

these you turn around and there's another Amazon facility

1:49:00

either built or being built like in Highland there's this huge space and it

1:49:07

I forgot I think it's like Victoria Avenue and something huge facility huge

1:49:13

Amazon warehouse facility and see they're building all these you

1:49:18

know places to work right but no places to live so again it's going to draw more

1:49:25

traffic yeah to the area it's just you know I always laugh because they're

1:49:30

selling these houses for 800 000. I'm just like next to the freaking Warehouse

1:49:35

like directly literally right across the street you know you're going to be in traffic with big rigs and like why we

1:49:44

have the worst air quality um I was at city council speaking like

1:49:49

two weeks ago for Colton and um dang you do Colton too all the IE

1:49:55

basically really yeah and especially when my comrades you know they call me and they're like hey we're all gathering

1:50:01

for the warehouses for this city or that City that's when we come together and we

1:50:06

all fight together so yes so Colton was like two two weeks ago

1:50:13

um and I was like trying to read an article you know that literally we are in the 69th percentile for asthma what

1:50:22

seriously for just for Inland Empire and then we are in the 65th percentile for

1:50:30

um cancer wow so yeah and then they just want to keep building

1:50:35

more and more and more not holding you know the warehouses accountable the warehouses could be responsible for

1:50:42

keeping up you know simple Living Spaces they could be responsible for green spaces putting back into the parks or

1:50:49

putting back into education or even for the unhoused there's no reason why they

1:50:55

can't you know Amazon here Amazon build housing and run shuttles and get

1:51:02

these people employed yeah yeah you guys hire anybody so come on now give jobs

1:51:07

you know they're local and they'll be there to show up every day like you just gotta get them the Necessities that they

1:51:14

need help them get a driver's license help them get a roof make sure they're fed clean clothes you know because these

1:51:21

people need all the basic necessities to feel like a decent human being and

1:51:26

the the community will start thriving even though I don't want to see Amazon Thrive sorry you know

1:51:33

um but that is a way yeah yeah so but I I guess like going back to what you're

1:51:39

saying like political I mean that's what it it kind of comes down to because even in my city I I live in paramount I'm

1:51:45

like oh should I be no it doesn't matter I live in paramount you know I'm right next to Long Beach and everything and we

1:51:52

um I got approached by Two Gentlemen that are you know Scholars

1:51:57

um both like doing their doctorates and like environmental science and everything and and um I remember one day

1:52:04

they came and they sat with me and they were like hey we want to do um you know like a community outreach how can you help us how can we get this

1:52:11

out there to get our community knowing about what's happening and I'm like well what's happening so they started

1:52:16

laying it all out right and I've I've lived in this community since I was like two years old never knowing

1:52:24

what was happening and we have this like um metal place which is like one of the biggest like metal producing facilities

1:52:31

within like this whole region of the United States you know we it produces

1:52:36

like the most metal and um it sits in a small town I mean Paramount is Tiny it's

1:52:42

small and it's just like oozing out you know chemicals that are creating cancer

1:52:49

and all these things and we one of the guys actually lives across from it and

1:52:54

he um him and his I think his entire family all have cancer now to this day

1:53:00

and they're trying to do like a lawsuit with them and I was like well why isn't the city doing anything he's like well

1:53:06

because this company produces money for the city

1:53:11

and he's like and the city's Never Gonna shut them down or anything and regulation wise they're just kind of

1:53:17

putting a Band-Aid over it and saying hey you have to have this filter and that's it and he's like this filter is not helping [ __ ] and I'm just like whoa

1:53:24

and and you know and I was asking them like so why don't we know about this and he's like because he's like every time we have

1:53:31

um Community town community meetings he's like they won't send out flyers they won't let the community know they

1:53:38

won't disclose the location because I'm like yeah well where are they like I'm part of the community I want to know and

1:53:43

he's like they won't he's like they'll say that they do and they'll probably put one flyer out and it'll be like within one of their facilities and then

1:53:50

that's it and they're like yeah we tried and then nobody shows up to the meetings to you

1:53:56

know say no or say anything and he's like that's how it is and he's like and that's how it is in all cities he's like

1:54:02

Money Talks super typical they only have to announce it like one time and it's like in a newspaper and

1:54:09

nobody reads the newspaper anymore yeah he's like you can't even make the effort to put it on social media you know it's

1:54:17

really intense because um because they'll say they tried yeah you know but

1:54:26

how do you how do they sleep like I don't that's that part yeah literally

1:54:37

I wonder that so many times I'm just like how how do these people

1:54:44

like go about their daily business just knowing that knowing fully knowing

1:54:50

that they're doing something wrong like one of my buddies sits I'm on a board

1:54:56

I'm not gonna say because it's local and he literally one day left his cell

1:55:03

phone open and on documents right in front of me and then left and I didn't realize what I was looking

1:55:09

at but it was a classified email um regarding [Music]

1:55:16

uh it's even scary to talk about this because this is this could get us into trouble but um it was regarding about

1:55:23

something that ties literally every Community together um people that are housed that are

1:55:29

unhoused renting or owning or business but there's things that tie us all

1:55:36

together and that's Water and Power and gas so with that being said this email I

1:55:44

could not believe what I was reading I mean if the public knew you know really what was happening behind their backs

1:55:50

more and more people would be showing up to these Council meetings for sure like for sure but you know it takes effort to

1:55:57

get community support you know it has to directly affect people in order for them

1:56:03

to get you know um active yeah definitely

1:56:09

damn dude do you think he left he left that so you

1:56:15

can read it oh 100 oh yeah oh 100 because he knows what I do

1:56:21

um and he knows it's wrong and he was just you know I haven't expressed

1:56:27

this information because again I put myself of course in Jeopardy and it's

1:56:33

it's I live in a really scary world sometimes you guys yeah

1:56:40

it's really hard if there's anything that we can do to

1:56:45

to help out thanks do you want to push that yellow button

1:56:54

thanks for coming by I'm doing this all right you probably have more stories and

1:57:01

we gotta have you back cool I want to have you back in the next in the next couple of weeks things were

1:57:06

finding me interesting enough to have me so tell us uh what's going on with

1:57:12

socal's trash Army and and you yeah so we have a cleanup coming

1:57:18

out uh March 18th at 9 00 a.m uh Hidden Acres in Lytle Creek we're gonna do

1:57:24

graffiti removal I have a bunch of events coming up actually I have the E Street cleanup I have

1:57:30

um the Easter event I have just oh my gosh Juneteenth oh Juneteenth at San

1:57:36

Bernardino Valley College literally just come find me on Instagram or Facebook SoCal trash Army Instagram or SoCal

1:57:43

trash Army Facebook I don't give my number out anymore which one I'm like no don't no don't I

1:57:50

got crazies I got crazies that call me so I had to change the number recently too I just it's too much

1:57:56

to see that you have a like a wish list here right yes it is on my favorite

1:58:03

website Amazon but yeah we have a bunch of things that

1:58:08

we need that we're always collecting um I'm you know Grassroots again so the

1:58:14

support is you know is there but it's not a lot I can always use support from the community

1:58:20

um and hey donations for gas or anything you guys want to help me with like I'm accepting

1:58:25

cool also my art show I'm doing a trash art show it's my first art show nice

1:58:31

yeah it'll be at the little Gallery in August so keep up with me on that too

1:58:36

that's all and I want to say something to anyone who's ever volunteered for me like dude dudettes thank you so much for

1:58:45

rocking with me and I really truly appreciate you guys this would be nothing if it wasn't for you

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bye-bye bye thank you foreign