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Rising from the Ashes: A Fundraiser for Wildfire Victims · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, folks, and how you doing? Welcome to my podcast.
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  My name is David, and I'm your host of this legendary podcast,
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  the Deconstructing Topic Podcast. Let's go.
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  Man, in this little episode, it's going to be real quick. I got a little announcement going on there.
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  You know, as you already know, people out there kind of been,
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  like, reaching out to me. It's like, oh, you know, are you still doing podcasts? Absolutely.
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  But just took a little, you know, a little pause here, little break here,
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  whatever the case, to address a couple of things.
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  We're doing it. But the special announcement, trust me, is something good for
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  a lot of people that know me.
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  You know, I've been part of fundraisers and doing things. So I just want to
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  announce that we are having a fundraiser.
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  Well, I say we, you know, we're talking about the SEIU, Latino Caucus,
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  the Service Employee International Union, which I'm part of.
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  You know what I mean? So we're having a fundraiser. Saturday,
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  June 14th from 6 to 10 p.m. The tickets will be $50.
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  It will include some food and some drinks. There's going to be some music.
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  I'm going to put the flyer under this on the subscription, so we're going to make it happen.
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  This fundraiser, proceeds will go to the families that were devastated by the
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  wildfires in California.
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  A lot of people know that, you know, what those fires just going rampant.
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  It don't matter what neighborhood or what plays in California, which is,
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  There were a lot of families that were definitely affected, and especially families
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  from the SCIU, the Service Employee International Union, and,
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  you know, other families. And then we got other of the union families as well that are affected.
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  You know, when it comes to, you know, things like this that devastated with
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  it, 9-11, I belong in a union that represents the cleaners and so on.
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  Porters, commercial buildings, residential.
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  And, you know, when it comes to, like, example, 9-11 happened,
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  the devastating, there was a lot of members affected, a lot of union,
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  a lot of people affected, obviously.
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  Just to tell you that, yes, our union family, we are extending to the point
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  of many sectors that, sadly, when it comes to situations like this,
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  whether it's the wildfire, whether it's other things that is out of our control, we all get affected.
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  And when lives are lost, homes are lost, a lot of things just don't happen.
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  It so you know we decided to make sure that we do this fundraise it's gonna be fun it's gonna be cool,
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  i'll be there obviously and all the information i will be put it on the description
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  box there wow and of course feel free to share and all this good stuff reach
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  out to me like i said the information will be in the flyer you could reach out
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  to me directly and the person that's uh you know,
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  part of and the head of the fundraisers, the information will be in the flyer.
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  It's definitely going to be cool.
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  It's one of those things that I've participated in many fundraisers,
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  whether it's the Latino Caucus and other organizations, even from back.
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  I mean, it's always a thing for me, you know what I mean, to help a cause,
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  to put our differences on the side, whatever it is, whatever that's going on
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  in this world, just, you know, let's just help each other out because that's
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  all we have. We have to help each other out.
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  The fundraiser is called Rising
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  from the Ashes. It's going to be Latino solidarity for the fire victims.
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  And there's a lot of, you know, when it comes to the people that,
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  especially in the nurse union, SCIU, over in California, there were people there that,
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  you know, sadly sometimes the narrative would be like, oh, you know,
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  these are affluent neighborhoods and so on that has been affected.
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  But no, it's a lot of neighborhood, a lot of places in California that got affected,
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  hardworking people, people that, you know, have owned homes for like 30,
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  40 years, you know, that type of deal.
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  And then, you know, sadly, you know, there's some people that's like,
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  ah. But again, there's a lot of people that do get affected.
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  When it comes to, when it came to the wildfire, definitely it's people that
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  got affected where, you know, lost their home partially.
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  A lot of them lost their homes and it's a little bit difficult.
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  And, you know, want to say, well, you know, the insurance and so on.
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  Sometimes we don't necessarily want to say just because these people might have
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  insurance or whatever the case might be.
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  Listen, when it comes to situations where it's devastation like that,
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  keep in mind, things just go crazy.
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  So, yes, if you're a homeowner and you got insurance, you would think like,
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  okay, any other time that it was just an isolated fire, you would think,
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  okay, paperwork, boom, boom, boom, boom, let's get it done.
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  But if you got thousands of people that have got affected, you already know
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  there's still people out there that still kind of in limbo, living hotel to
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  hotel, whatever the case might be.
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  So, you know, you never want to kind of say to yourself and whether you want
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  to say, you know, you got the government stepped in for whatever capacity, local, state, federal.
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  Then you got the insurance company, whatever they did, whatever it is.
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  I know there's some stories behind that situation.
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  You know, at the end of the day, you can't just be like, OK,
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  let's depend on that or just let's think that our brothers and sisters out there
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  are going to be doing good because they got that. That's why we're doing this fundraiser.
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  And, you know, and I participated in another, or at least I've gone on other
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  avenues and helped out the fire. Because, again, there were a lot of people.
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  There were people that came to this country, opening business,
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  tacos over there in California.
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  You had a family, two generation, three generation, where they had a business,
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  you know, taco place. You know, you got a lot of Mexicans over there and so
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  on. And, you know, hey, listen, you know, not to say anything crazy out there,
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  but, you know, a lot of them, hey, they work hard.
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  They work hard. And basically, you know, for their home to be just boom out of nowhere.
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  So, yeah, we got a little ring there on my direct line. That's for sure.
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  So, you already know we be doing something exciting. So, it is going to be Saturday, June 14.
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  That's the day before Father's Day. So, we also going to do like a little kind
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  of Father's Day theme as well. So we got a shout out to the fathers out there
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  who come in and just come in. Like I said, just bring whatever it is.
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  If, let's say, people who are listening to this and listening to other areas,
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  again, if you want to donate, buy the tickets.
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  By all means, by all means. And then, you know, if you can't make it,
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  you know, it's always good to let us know.
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  But, hey, you know, it's always going to go for a good cause.
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  It's going to be on 25 West 18th Street. Well, the information will be in the
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  fly by 25 West 18th Street in New York City.
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  I just want to be very specific. New York City, you know, if you're in the area in New York City.
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  Reach out. June 14th. June 14th is around the corner.
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  It's a Saturday. I'm hoping for a beautiful day because, you know, I'm in New York City.
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  And sadly, for some reason, it's someone kind of kidnapped the sun for a while.
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  I mean, you know, we get one sunny day and then we get the next three rain and gloomy and so on.
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  And hey, listen, excuse me. I sometimes enjoy that type of weather.
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  But, you know, I need my son. I need my vitamin D. you know
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  what i mean something you know so that's
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  what's going on with that situation but we're definitely gonna make it happen
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  you know with that day it's gonna again um it's
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  gonna be 6 p.m to 10 p i think
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  one of my elders in the gym said hey wait a minute for all us
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  elders uh you know i think that's a little bit too late you
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  know what sometimes i say hey that means that you're not
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  it's never too late to party right doesn't matter
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  what age whatever the case might be let's get the party
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  let's get the show started let's enjoy this
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  good thing that it's again beautiful fundraisers
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  fun fundraisers you know people gonna ask me some couple of people ask me about
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  the hey bring your casual bring your sunday's best whatever you know you feel
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  that hey if you could move him you want to move come in as comfortable as you
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  can by all means by all means there'll be drinks good food,
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  I myself, I believe I will be in the bartender.
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  So I'll be cracking some click, click, a couple of bottles there of beer.
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  So, yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be interesting.
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  The food is always, not sure what the menu is, but we always got a robust menu.
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  Because a lot of times, a lot of our fundraisers are Latino-themed.
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  A lot of our food are Latino-themed food.
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  For those out there, some rice and beans, some, you know, chicken, pollo, you know, baked.
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  So, Pelin, all that good stuff, all that could be there. You know what I mean?
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  But just show up, reach out. We make it happen for the Latino caucus here.
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  If you're doing something interesting, June 14th, don't forget,
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  between 6 and 10, check out the description. The fly will be there.
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  All the information will be there.
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  All right? Hope to see y'all soon. Make it happen. Let's go.
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  Much love. I'm out of here. Peace.