March 12, 2025 • 27 mins
Aired February 9, 2025: Lisa Foxx talks to the CEO, Richard Ayoub, about all the ways that Angelinos have come together to help feed those in need after the devastating LA fires. He shares all the extra ways they are getting much needed food, toiletries and more to fire victims AND how folks are needed to help in the kitchen and to deliver meals.
Project Angel Food is supporting fire victims in Los Angeles by expanding its services to serve more people, delivering fresh meals and emergency supplies, relaxing qualification requirements, and making wellness calls, all while encouraging donations and volunteer efforts
Ongoing Volunteer Needs:
They still need volunteers in the coming weeks to fill delivery routes and kitchen shifts. Your support is critical in helping us care for our seriously ill neighbors, who are at even greater risk due to the fires. If you’d like to contribute financially, donations are also urgently needed. Please visit angelfood.org/fire to help fund these essential services.
Thank you again for your compassion, generosity and willingness to help during this challenging time. Together, we are making a real difference.
Project Angel Food is supporting fire victims in Los Angeles by expanding its services to serve more people, delivering fresh meals and emergency supplies, relaxing qualification requirements, and making wellness calls, all while encouraging donations and volunteer efforts
Ongoing Volunteer Needs:
They still need volunteers in the coming weeks to fill delivery routes and kitchen shifts. Your support is critical in helping us care for our seriously ill neighbors, who are at even greater risk due to the fires. If you’d like to contribute financially, donations are also urgently needed. Please visit angelfood.org/fire to help fund these essential services.
Thank you again for your compassion, generosity and willingness to help during this challenging time. Together, we are making a real difference.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
For over thirty five years, Project angel Food has been
nourishing the health and spirit of vulnerable Angelinos facing critical
and life threatening illness by preparing and delivering more than
one point.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Five million medically tailored meals every single year. They deal
with love, care, and dignity.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And after a considerable number of their clients lost everything
in these devastating wildfires, Richard, who's our CEO?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Who's on with me? Hi? Richard?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hi, Lisa, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm doing all right? Well, I'm impressed by your power.
So Richard, Richard ayub, he gets right on KTLA. He
reached out of the public, and boy did the public
show up. They helped out in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
They raced a volunteer, they race to get those meals delivered.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So what an incredible display of Angelina's coming together to
make this happen for people in need.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Absolutely, you know, we were low on volunteers and we
had to keep serving the people. We serve people living
with the critical illness. They have mobility issues, and many
of them, you know, don't have a lot of money
to buy groceries. And then you add wildfires on top
of it. So there's layer after layer of layer of
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difficulty and challenges, and so our kitchen needed help and
we did a cry for help on television KTLA. We
also went on Instagram and within days we got eight
thousand phone calls in the email. We couldn't even keep
up with it.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We had to hire more people in volunteer services, people
email people wow and forced us Lisa to upgrade our technology.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
We now have Calendary, which is a great software that
you can go online angelfood dot org and then you
can actually sign up for a shift there without having
to call. He'll say we need seventeen people onbrus ten
and you can sign up there. It makes it a
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lot easier.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You can choose the time.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And also do we have two location options or is
it just Lincoln Heights where the temporary kitchen is right now, So.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's just Lincoln Heights which is our temporary kitchen. It's
really fantastic, five thousand square feet. Yeah, yeah, we can
get fifty to sixty people in there. It's really really
fun and engaging when you have that many people stepping
up at that level.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, you know, my honey Eric and I were there
on Thanksgiving and yeah, the energy, especially on Thanksgiving, It
really any day of the week. If you volunteer your
time to get back with Podjet Angel Food the energy
you're right, I mean, you have your people who've worked
there for forever because they love us so much as
such a family, and then the new people come in
and they kind of feed off the energy and it's like,
I'll do.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Cucumbers, Well, can I cut carrots?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You know, you can do the massed potatoes, you can
do the broccoli, you can help with the chicken.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I mean, obviously there's someone in charge as to how
it all works.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's a very well oil misis in that kitchen, but
having more hands, more hands on deck, you can get
it done more efficiently and just help to feed more
people in need more quickly.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Eighty percent of that kitchen every day is volunteers. We
have chefs who are professional and trained. We also have
kitchen assistants and dishwashers, and we have registered dietitians who
work with them and create the perfect meal for people
with their conditions. Because food is medicine and everything is
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really very strategic and scientific, and so it's really important
that we get the portions right. So even when the
volunteers are there. You'll notice sometimes, Lisa, you've said to me,
why does my scooper look smaller than Eric's. It's not
because Eric is a bigger guy. It's because your amount
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of corn needs to be less than his amount of
mashed potatoes. Everything is determined by portion control by the
registered dietitians, and.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Of course the dieticians talk to each client's doctor to
make sure that they're on the same page for all
these ailments that your clients have, whether there has to
be some kind of a medical condition to receive free
Project Angel food food for a year. So it's people
suffering from congestive heart failure to kidney failure, severe diabetes, cancer,
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Alzheimer's patients, someone who had a stroke, chronic kidney disease,
and others.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yes, people with HIV AIDS, people with gastro intestinal problems.
We also have a vegetarian meal for people who need that,
and then we add different layers of it. It's so personalized.
If you have a religious preference against pork, we can
accommodate you. If you have a nut allergy, we can
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then accommodate that as well. So it's really very very specified.
But I particularly do not like mushrooms. In fact, I
can't stand the texture of them. But I cannot say
if I'm a client, can you send me something with
no mushrooms? That's way too picky. You know, you just
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pulled the mushrooms out.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Really, come on, you're the boss.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You can get a meal delivered with no mushrooms. I
think no, And you know firsthand mushrooms are not.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The food is delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh yeah. You know. We add different herbs and spices
because we take out salt, because you know, salt is
not good for a lot of our diets. And so
our clients will say, oh my god, I've never had
Apricot chicken before. That case so delicious. Yeah, there's a
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Moroccan chicken. We have a lot of different varieties. One
of my favorites is the turkey lasagna. It's really delicious.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, to name some other dishes. Now we're getting hungry.
I'm doing it hy dire, Richard, But go ahead, name
a few more dishes.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
My gosh, I know you look great.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You lost twelve pounds, Lisa thirteen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Now it's up to thirteen. So yep, I'm thirteen, I
meaning clean.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And lean, and that's kind of what the meals are
that I see that we deliver on behalf of Project
Angel food of these clients. I mean, they're getting very
healthy meals to nourish their bodies. But the proportions, the
portions are perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And it's also a variety. So another favorite dish is
kishe It's the spinach keish and we pairent with tater
tots and that is that's been voted the number one
dish for a few years in a row.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That does sound yet, because that.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Harkens back to some of your youth.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
There, it does. It's a throwback.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, it's a throwback, absolutely so. But whenever you walk
into the kitchen, it smells amazing, you know, because that
food is cooked fresh and then we flash freeze it
and we deliver a week's worth of food at a time.
And the freezing process packs all the flavor nutrients in
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aroma without any preservatives, so there are no additives. It's
just what you see. It's just the green beans, the carrots,
and that delicious meat loaf. Turkey meat loaf is another
favorite dish that we have there. Can you tell that
I like turkey?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I can tell? And you do all this about how
many clients are we up to? Because I know people
apply more and more people apply to be a client
of Project Angel Food all the time. So how many
clients are we up to?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So we have twenty seven hundred clients a day. And
because of the fires and because we're taking on people,
we're fast tracking anyone in the Altadena Pasadena area who
has mobility issues, who has respiratory problems, we are no questions,
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We're fast tracking you. We're putting you on the program
and we're going to deliver the meals to you. And
so we expect we're going to take on three hundred
more people. Wow, this week alone, we onboarded one hundred
new people to the program.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And then, you know, so scary with all this going
on out of these terrible fires. I mean, people are
still figuring out where the're going to live for the
next year or two. So you're figuring out, I guess
with people where to deliver if they lost their home,
right where to deliver.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The thing about Project Angel Food is because we're delivering
food and love, we know where people live, we know
where people have moved because food is so important. And
I just got an email over the weekend from Anna.
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She said, my name is Anna. Me and my husband
lost her home due to the eating fire. I heard
a project Angel Foods from a friend. We're currently living
at the Ramada Hotel in Pasadena. My husband has mobility
problems and we have two dogs. That makes it difficult
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for me to get around. I hope we qualify for
your food delivery program.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
God bless them.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Anna is on the program right now, Anna, you qualify.
The meals went to her this past week.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then did you have to ask her if they
have a microwave in the room there at the Ramada.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, yeah, that's all you need is a Macuay.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, if they don't, we buy them one.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh my gosh, look at that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And especially with what's going on, you know, and I
told you this right away after many, many many conversations
over the you know always you know, he's one of
my besties, so we talk all the time, talking text
all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But you know, Eric and I delivered to that mobile
home park. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to hold
it together here.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Eric and I delivered meals to the mobile home park
right there on the palis aes on pH You know,
there are a lot of singers in there, and it's
completely wiped out. So just so terrible to see to
know that all those people are displaced, and it's going
to be a long time before they figure out where
they're going, but at least to know when they find
a temporary.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Place, they've got their food taken care of.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And they've got you guys to call and to reach
out to and at least get that take that stress
off their plate of having to buy food, figure out
what I'm gonna eat, and everyone's so stressed out right now,
so you know they can get That's.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What it is. We want to remove some of the stress,
you know, losing your house, losing all your personal possessions,
losing you know, those things that your grandmother gave you,
losing everything. We just want to make sure that hey, okay,
you've got food, and we're also giving everyone a hygiene kit.
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What we realized is when I delivered some meals recently,
people are saying, oh, I don't have any shampoo or
any anything anymore because when up and my grocery stores
in't around anymore. So we're doing the hygiene kit with shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrush,
toilet paper, hands, nice grass. And you know, I visited
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client Jacqueline, and she said to me, the thing I
forgot is the flashlight. So every single client in that
area is going to get a flashlight too.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Oh my gosh, so amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Look at you guys, you're just like to the rescue,
probably Angel food to the rescue.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Thank you for that, Richard, Thank you. I'm sure so
many people just appreciate every every little thing.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But like you said, taking some stress off people's plates
who lost everything with their food delivery for the week
and other odds and ends, and the hygiene kit and
flashlights and maybe a microwave if needed. That's just wonderful
that y'all are doing this and you're able to do
this thanks to donations, right.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Donation nations. You know, we got eight thousand people volunteering,
then we got hundreds, nine hundred. I think the number
just went up. Mark McBride told me we had eleven
hundred people make donations aware from ten thousand dollars to
one hundred thousand dollars. Oh my gosh, like one thousand,
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one hundred new donors to Project Angel Food because of
our fire relief fund, and it's helping us do this.
It's helping us feed more people, it's helping us provide
more services to the people we are feeding. Beyond those
hygien kits, were also giving them a grocery kit with
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canned goods and non perishable items just in case they
have to evacuate again, just in case there's another emergency,
and just in case, just so you have it there.
It's like you have this bag of goodies there, and
it just says, Okay, that's one least thing I have
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to worry about.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, And you know, Richard, I know that's the wonderful
And I know also there's other cases where you've also
helped to feed. Say, you know, it's the grandma who
lives with several of her grandchildren and she's the one
who's six.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
She's the one who's getting the food, but.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
She is maybe low on resources, so she ends up
giving all her food to the kids because she wants
to make sure that they eat before her, so selfless.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But you are like, no, no, no, don't need to
do that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You need to have your healthy food for you, and
we're going to also send additional meals to feed your grandkids.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Absolutely. And I can tell you that I was just
meeting with Ben Martin, who heads up our client services team,
and he said, we've been talking to some people and
they're saying, I'm with my husband and my daughter and
we all need food. And so I said, we're going
to feed them all. We're going to feed all of them.
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We're dispensing with our usual criteria and we know that
we're going to have to feed them for three to
six months, okay, because we're in an organization that's here before
the crisis, during and after the crisis, and people are
going to be, you know, disheveled. People are going to
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be in different areas and not know where they can
find their next meal, and we're just going to make
sure that we take that off of the table for them.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So amazing, and again with all the donations that people
are throwing your way, but we also love when your
celebrity friends and fans of Project Angel Food are able
to come into the kitchen and donate their time and
you know, post it on social media because then that
gets people also excited to make donations and be a
part of it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well, you know, I know last night. You had a
few sweet dreams, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Last night? I have not had a sweet dreams since
January seventh. Sorry, I'm not I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm going to keep it real. So Annie Lennox, who
sings the.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Rhythm, Okay, that's where you're going you was just saying
it sweet dreams all made of our volunteer.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It was any lens. Yeah, yes, got it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So Annie called me up and said, I want to
make a donation, and she did very generous. And then
she said, is there anything else I could do? Richard?
And I said, if you would come and thank the
staff and volunteers, I think it would mean the world
to them. And so she called me back and she said,
I'll be there tomorrow at three o'clock. She came. She
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talked to every single staff member.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I saw the pictures.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, every single volunteer. She spent time with them, she
took pictures. She was lovely.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
How many songs? How many songs did you say? No,
I'm gidding. See we didn't put it on the spot.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You know what. She didn't need to say.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I just brought her really wonderful, beautiful energy. And this
is what she said. She said, project a food turns
helplessness into action.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Amen, And how Wonderfulder for her to be a part
of that, you know, and to share that on social
media people can see you always have. Like you said,
the kitchen is a very busy place with normal, regular
people like me. And also you get people that take
it over. I think you have, like all the people
from Young and the wrestlers were just in there the
other day, right.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
They took over the whole kitchen. Oh my god, the restless.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You turn left and right there's one beautiful person and
more beautiful and more. I'm like, wow, sorry, yeah, just
like a big modeling photo shoot. It was amazing and
gorgeous and they're all hard workers and they all have
beautiful hearts. Laura Lee Bell and you know the Kate
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Linder and Mark Grossman, all these amazing actors and actresses
who you know, gave up their day to make meals
and they did hundreds of meals in record time. And
then we also on Martin Luther King Day, which is
the National Day of Service, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom,
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the first partner, his wife and then the family, they
all came in and they volunteered with us and it
was incredible and the governor he went by thanked every
staff member, every volunteer, and I can tell you he
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cried five times there.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
He also met with two of our staff members who
lost their homes and fires and he hugged them. It
was like amazing. He even gave me a nine. Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
He was feeling generous. Now, I mean, all this crying,
I should have been there. Come on, I'm like the
biggest crier.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, you should have been there, definitely, But just always.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You never know who's going to be in the kitchen
Project angel Food, And because they're going through a massive
renovation at their normal location on a Vine Street in Hollywood,
north of Milrose, you're undergoing a massive renovation and hopes
of ultimately serving even more people when it's done in
a little over a year from now.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Three times as many people.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So huge.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And you know, I wouldn't say sadly so needed because
it puts you out of work, but I mean, so
many people who need, so many Angelina's who need Project
angel Food.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You know they need you.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Guys exactly, and we're proud to serve them. I will
tell you recently, I went to the ear Nose and
Throat doctor and I was there at the front desk
and one of the ladies who works at the front
desk says, you do God's work. I said, oh, well,
thank you for saying that. And the office manager said,
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where do you work? I said, I work at Project
angel Food. She goes Project angel Food. I said, yeah,
she goes. My husband had cancer, he was on a
feeding tube, and you sent meals, not for him, but
for me, and you keep you kept sending for three months. Wow.
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And I cried cheek right, it was like the governor
and we hugged each other. It was really this beautiful
moment where someone who's taking care of me, we took
care of her.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And what are the odds right that you would just
connect just how it came up casually in conversation.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Isn't that odd? And then the doctor came out and
he said, I volunteered for Project dangel Wood when I
was in high school. I delivered the odd and it
was one of the best experiences of my life.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Big love.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Just two out of five people in that office had
direct connections with the organization.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
We like that office. Well, I mean, hey, the more people,
the volunteer all over the city.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing to give back.
As we know, it's important to get back, and giving
back is healing. So in whatever way you're able to
to help Project Angel Food and help continue their mission,
help help them serve more people, whether you can volunteer
in the kitchen, their temporary kitchen and Lincoln Heights, whether
you can deliver meals, it's such an important part of
this whole process. How you get the meals out to
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people on a day to day basis, and then how
you're helping the fire victims with all of these extra items.
So so generous, and we can continue to pay for
those through your donations. And you have so many generous
people who listen to the radio and watch you on
TV and follow you guys on social media and just
know how big your hearts are and how hard y'all
work to make this happen. We encourage folks to donate
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whatever you can. Every dollar counts. Volunteer your time or
offer to deliver, and if you or someone that you
know is in need of these services, you can log
onto Angelfood dot org and apply or send you an email.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Uh huh, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Can send us in an email and if you want
to donate, it's angelfood dot org slash fire and it
goes directly to the fire relief and you can email
us if you know someone who needs some meals at
this critical time. And you said something really important, Lisa,
that volunteering heels and I have seen it firsthand, like
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I worked NonStop every single day up until this past
Tuesday when the fire started. And when people are in
that kitchen and they're doing good, they forget about the fires,
they forget about the destruction, and they forget about their
worries because they know they're taking some good action that's
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making the world a better place. And so it does heal.
You're there with other like minded people who want to
do good in the world, and you also are erasing
any depression or anxiety in you because you're not sitting
around waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, distraction at its finest, you know, we say on
the radio escapism. You know, we know what people are
going through, and we're giving away concert tickets or theme
park tickets and it's like, hey, just go escape for
a day, Go escape for a couple of hours, and
escaping to give back gives back to your heart too,
and it helps you, like you said, take our mind
off things for a little bit, but also to do
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good for others.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It makes you feel like, okay, now now my heart
is full too.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Absolutely, it does so much good. And Annie Lennox after
she left and visited, you know, all our volunteers and staff,
she said, Richard, I feel like this was a shot
in the arm for me. Like, not only does she
make our volunteers feel good, it made her feel good.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Ah, like maybe she had she hadn't volunteered in a while.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, And also just being around that kind of energy
and knowing that you're making an impact on someone.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
As long as it wasn't like a shot in the
arm like a shingle shot or a COVID or a
flu shot, because that was her.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
No, sometimes those do her. It really depends on the
person doing the shot. Sometimes they can't find that vein.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh, the second shingle shot hurts for sure. I don't
know if you've had it yet, but whoo, that'll.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Take it out.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now old enough yet you easy?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Easy?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oops? Oops?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
See my doctor made me an extra young age okay, okay, yeah,
you're young. So anything else we need to talk about
before I know you have to go on your next
meeting zoom call. You're always working, working, working, anything else
you want to cover? Anything else coming up? Like any
are we doing events yet? What's our next big project?
Angel food fundraiser.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yes, oh my god, we have an incredible event. It's
an art auction. It's at Bottom So on February twenty seventh.
It's Angel Art and we have sixty amazing works of
art that we are auctioning off. And it's a lot
of contemporary art and you can get some good deals
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and at the same time help an amazing cause.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Wonderful. Wait now is this online or we have to
we buy a ticket and go to this place.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You go in person and you enjoy the experience of
being at Bonhams on sunset and I'll tell you some
of the artists if you want to.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Know, sure, I mean not recognize orshe okay.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
John Baldassari, Robert Russienburg, Richard mis Rock, Peter Alexander, Jeff Coons,
Jim Dine, herb Ritz, William Wegman, Shepherd Ferry Great, a
lot of others, amazing artists here.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So we're going to go to angelfood dot org and
go to the events page and buy a ticket for
this Angel Art event on February twenty seventh in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yep, right there in the heart of Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So we can hang out with you in person and
like many people who want to get back and make
a difference, and also her little artsy and want to
do something different and get out of the house and
get dressed up a little bit and go again, take
your mind off what's happening in the world and do
good by looking at art, maybe buying some art, and
just hanging out with amazing people.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Also, there's nothing better, in my opinion than having some
original art in your house. Yeah, you could go buy
art from the gallery or wherever, but you want to
get it, like something that's kind of original and unique
and special. I've got quite a bit in my place.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You do, Yeah, you have one of you.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You're always very curious about it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I know, Well, that's what art is supposed to do.
It's a conversation piece. I like when it's a conversation piece.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I have a piece of burnt toast that this art
is painted on.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And it's very unique, very unique.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Don't try me.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's a good conversation starter. See there's a lot of
questions right there, so to be continued. They could ask
you in person.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
When you buy a ticket to an Angel Art benefiting
project Angel Food twenty seventh in Hollywood, all the information
if you're able to attend and buy a ticket angelfood
dot org for more, and if you would like to
do anything to help our fellow neighbors and folks. So
many thousands of people forever change by these wildfires, and
it's a long road ahead, so it's one day to time,
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and any way that you can help out, like we said, volunteering, donating,
volunteering to deliver, volunteering to work in the kitchen, anyway
you can get back to help these folks through through
the worst time. Angelfood dot org, angelfood dot org, slash
fire for all the info.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Absolutely, and Lisa, I just want to thank you and
all of our broadcasters either on radio or television who
really have ushered us through these very difficult moments. You know,
it's just so reassuring to have your voice and your
spirit on the radio when the city is hurting, and
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so I just want to thank you personally.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You're sweet, Thank you so much. Well, well, you know
we all got to kind of come together to.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Get through these things, and you know, using giving you
our platform to get out this information is important too,
and people need it, need to hear it, They need
to hear about good things happening to help those who
are hurting.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So thank you for what you're doing, Thank you for
what you do, Thank me for what I do. I
don't know. And then we encourage folks again.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
To get one to tell your boss he needs to
thank you for what you do.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Ah well, I'm sure, I'm sure we'll send them a note.
Richard Au, the CEO, the wonderful CEO of Project angel Food,
we love you. We thank you for all that you
and your team does for so many angelfood dot org
for all the info.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I love you too, Lisa,
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
For over thirty five years, Project angel Food has been
nourishing the health and spirit of vulnerable Angelinos facing critical
and life threatening illness by preparing and delivering more than
one point.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Five million medically tailored meals every single year. They deal
with love, care, and dignity.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And after a considerable number of their clients lost everything
in these devastating wildfires, Richard, who's our CEO?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Who's on with me? Hi? Richard?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hi, Lisa, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm doing all right? Well, I'm impressed by your power.
So Richard, Richard ayub, he gets right on KTLA. He
reached out of the public, and boy did the public
show up. They helped out in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
They raced a volunteer, they race to get those meals delivered.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So what an incredible display of Angelina's coming together to
make this happen for people in need.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Absolutely, you know, we were low on volunteers and we
had to keep serving the people. We serve people living
with the critical illness. They have mobility issues, and many
of them, you know, don't have a lot of money
to buy groceries. And then you add wildfires on top
of it. So there's layer after layer of layer of
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difficulty and challenges, and so our kitchen needed help and
we did a cry for help on television KTLA. We
also went on Instagram and within days we got eight
thousand phone calls in the email. We couldn't even keep
up with it.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
We had to hire more people in volunteer services, people
email people wow and forced us Lisa to upgrade our technology.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
We now have Calendary, which is a great software that
you can go online angelfood dot org and then you
can actually sign up for a shift there without having
to call. He'll say we need seventeen people onbrus ten
and you can sign up there. It makes it a
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lot easier.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You can choose the time.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And also do we have two location options or is
it just Lincoln Heights where the temporary kitchen is right now, So.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's just Lincoln Heights which is our temporary kitchen. It's
really fantastic, five thousand square feet. Yeah, yeah, we can
get fifty to sixty people in there. It's really really
fun and engaging when you have that many people stepping
up at that level.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well, you know, my honey Eric and I were there
on Thanksgiving and yeah, the energy, especially on Thanksgiving, It
really any day of the week. If you volunteer your
time to get back with Podjet Angel Food the energy
you're right, I mean, you have your people who've worked
there for forever because they love us so much as
such a family, and then the new people come in
and they kind of feed off the energy and it's like,
I'll do.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Cucumbers, Well, can I cut carrots?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You know, you can do the massed potatoes, you can
do the broccoli, you can help with the chicken.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I mean, obviously there's someone in charge as to how
it all works.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's a very well oil misis in that kitchen, but
having more hands, more hands on deck, you can get
it done more efficiently and just help to feed more
people in need more quickly.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Eighty percent of that kitchen every day is volunteers. We
have chefs who are professional and trained. We also have
kitchen assistants and dishwashers, and we have registered dietitians who
work with them and create the perfect meal for people
with their conditions. Because food is medicine and everything is
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really very strategic and scientific, and so it's really important
that we get the portions right. So even when the
volunteers are there. You'll notice sometimes, Lisa, you've said to me,
why does my scooper look smaller than Eric's. It's not
because Eric is a bigger guy. It's because your amount
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of corn needs to be less than his amount of
mashed potatoes. Everything is determined by portion control by the
registered dietitians, and.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Of course the dieticians talk to each client's doctor to
make sure that they're on the same page for all
these ailments that your clients have, whether there has to
be some kind of a medical condition to receive free
Project Angel food food for a year. So it's people
suffering from congestive heart failure to kidney failure, severe diabetes, cancer,
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Alzheimer's patients, someone who had a stroke, chronic kidney disease,
and others.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yes, people with HIV AIDS, people with gastro intestinal problems.
We also have a vegetarian meal for people who need that,
and then we add different layers of it. It's so personalized.
If you have a religious preference against pork, we can
accommodate you. If you have a nut allergy, we can
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then accommodate that as well. So it's really very very specified.
But I particularly do not like mushrooms. In fact, I
can't stand the texture of them. But I cannot say
if I'm a client, can you send me something with
no mushrooms? That's way too picky. You know, you just
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pulled the mushrooms out.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Really, come on, you're the boss.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You can get a meal delivered with no mushrooms. I
think no, And you know firsthand mushrooms are not.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The food is delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh yeah. You know. We add different herbs and spices
because we take out salt, because you know, salt is
not good for a lot of our diets. And so
our clients will say, oh my god, I've never had
Apricot chicken before. That case so delicious. Yeah, there's a
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Moroccan chicken. We have a lot of different varieties. One
of my favorites is the turkey lasagna. It's really delicious.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, to name some other dishes. Now we're getting hungry.
I'm doing it hy dire, Richard, But go ahead, name
a few more dishes.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
My gosh, I know you look great.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You lost twelve pounds, Lisa thirteen.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Now it's up to thirteen. So yep, I'm thirteen, I
meaning clean.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And lean, and that's kind of what the meals are
that I see that we deliver on behalf of Project
Angel food of these clients. I mean, they're getting very
healthy meals to nourish their bodies. But the proportions, the
portions are perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And it's also a variety. So another favorite dish is
kishe It's the spinach keish and we pairent with tater
tots and that is that's been voted the number one
dish for a few years in a row.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
That does sound yet, because that.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Harkens back to some of your youth.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
There, it does. It's a throwback.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, it's a throwback, absolutely so. But whenever you walk
into the kitchen, it smells amazing, you know, because that
food is cooked fresh and then we flash freeze it
and we deliver a week's worth of food at a time.
And the freezing process packs all the flavor nutrients in
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aroma without any preservatives, so there are no additives. It's
just what you see. It's just the green beans, the carrots,
and that delicious meat loaf. Turkey meat loaf is another
favorite dish that we have there. Can you tell that
I like turkey?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I can tell? And you do all this about how
many clients are we up to? Because I know people
apply more and more people apply to be a client
of Project Angel Food all the time. So how many
clients are we up to?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So we have twenty seven hundred clients a day. And
because of the fires and because we're taking on people,
we're fast tracking anyone in the Altadena Pasadena area who
has mobility issues, who has respiratory problems, we are no questions,
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We're fast tracking you. We're putting you on the program
and we're going to deliver the meals to you. And
so we expect we're going to take on three hundred
more people. Wow, this week alone, we onboarded one hundred
new people to the program.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And then, you know, so scary with all this going
on out of these terrible fires. I mean, people are
still figuring out where the're going to live for the
next year or two. So you're figuring out, I guess
with people where to deliver if they lost their home,
right where to deliver.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
The thing about Project Angel Food is because we're delivering
food and love, we know where people live, we know
where people have moved because food is so important. And
I just got an email over the weekend from Anna.
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She said, my name is Anna. Me and my husband
lost her home due to the eating fire. I heard
a project Angel Foods from a friend. We're currently living
at the Ramada Hotel in Pasadena. My husband has mobility
problems and we have two dogs. That makes it difficult
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for me to get around. I hope we qualify for
your food delivery program.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
God bless them.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Anna is on the program right now, Anna, you qualify.
The meals went to her this past week.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then did you have to ask her if they
have a microwave in the room there at the Ramada.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, yeah, that's all you need is a Macuay.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, if they don't, we buy them one.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh my gosh, look at that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
And especially with what's going on, you know, and I
told you this right away after many, many many conversations
over the you know always you know, he's one of
my besties, so we talk all the time, talking text
all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But you know, Eric and I delivered to that mobile
home park. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to hold
it together here.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Eric and I delivered meals to the mobile home park
right there on the palis aes on pH You know,
there are a lot of singers in there, and it's
completely wiped out. So just so terrible to see to
know that all those people are displaced, and it's going
to be a long time before they figure out where
they're going, but at least to know when they find
a temporary.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Place, they've got their food taken care of.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And they've got you guys to call and to reach
out to and at least get that take that stress
off their plate of having to buy food, figure out
what I'm gonna eat, and everyone's so stressed out right now,
so you know they can get That's.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What it is. We want to remove some of the stress,
you know, losing your house, losing all your personal possessions,
losing you know, those things that your grandmother gave you,
losing everything. We just want to make sure that hey, okay,
you've got food, and we're also giving everyone a hygiene kit.
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What we realized is when I delivered some meals recently,
people are saying, oh, I don't have any shampoo or
any anything anymore because when up and my grocery stores
in't around anymore. So we're doing the hygiene kit with shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrush,
toilet paper, hands, nice grass. And you know, I visited
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client Jacqueline, and she said to me, the thing I
forgot is the flashlight. So every single client in that
area is going to get a flashlight too.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Oh my gosh, so amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Look at you guys, you're just like to the rescue,
probably Angel food to the rescue.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Thank you for that, Richard, Thank you. I'm sure so
many people just appreciate every every little thing.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But like you said, taking some stress off people's plates
who lost everything with their food delivery for the week
and other odds and ends, and the hygiene kit and
flashlights and maybe a microwave if needed. That's just wonderful
that y'all are doing this and you're able to do
this thanks to donations, right.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Donation nations. You know, we got eight thousand people volunteering,
then we got hundreds, nine hundred. I think the number
just went up. Mark McBride told me we had eleven
hundred people make donations aware from ten thousand dollars to
one hundred thousand dollars. Oh my gosh, like one thousand,
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one hundred new donors to Project Angel Food because of
our fire relief fund, and it's helping us do this.
It's helping us feed more people, it's helping us provide
more services to the people we are feeding. Beyond those
hygien kits, were also giving them a grocery kit with
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canned goods and non perishable items just in case they
have to evacuate again, just in case there's another emergency,
and just in case, just so you have it there.
It's like you have this bag of goodies there, and
it just says, Okay, that's one least thing I have
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to worry about.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, And you know, Richard, I know that's the wonderful
And I know also there's other cases where you've also
helped to feed. Say, you know, it's the grandma who
lives with several of her grandchildren and she's the one
who's six.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
She's the one who's getting the food, but.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
She is maybe low on resources, so she ends up
giving all her food to the kids because she wants
to make sure that they eat before her, so selfless.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But you are like, no, no, no, don't need to
do that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You need to have your healthy food for you, and
we're going to also send additional meals to feed your grandkids.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Absolutely. And I can tell you that I was just
meeting with Ben Martin, who heads up our client services team,
and he said, we've been talking to some people and
they're saying, I'm with my husband and my daughter and
we all need food. And so I said, we're going
to feed them all. We're going to feed all of them.
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We're dispensing with our usual criteria and we know that
we're going to have to feed them for three to
six months, okay, because we're in an organization that's here before
the crisis, during and after the crisis, and people are
going to be, you know, disheveled. People are going to
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be in different areas and not know where they can
find their next meal, and we're just going to make
sure that we take that off of the table for them.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So amazing, and again with all the donations that people
are throwing your way, but we also love when your
celebrity friends and fans of Project Angel Food are able
to come into the kitchen and donate their time and
you know, post it on social media because then that
gets people also excited to make donations and be a
part of it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well, you know, I know last night. You had a
few sweet dreams, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Last night? I have not had a sweet dreams since
January seventh. Sorry, I'm not I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm going to keep it real. So Annie Lennox, who
sings the.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Rhythm, Okay, that's where you're going you was just saying
it sweet dreams all made of our volunteer.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
It was any lens. Yeah, yes, got it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
So Annie called me up and said, I want to
make a donation, and she did very generous. And then
she said, is there anything else I could do? Richard?
And I said, if you would come and thank the
staff and volunteers, I think it would mean the world
to them. And so she called me back and she said,
I'll be there tomorrow at three o'clock. She came. She
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talked to every single staff member.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I saw the pictures.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, every single volunteer. She spent time with them, she
took pictures. She was lovely.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
How many songs? How many songs did you say? No,
I'm gidding. See we didn't put it on the spot.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
You know what. She didn't need to say.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I just brought her really wonderful, beautiful energy. And this
is what she said. She said, project a food turns
helplessness into action.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Amen, And how Wonderfulder for her to be a part
of that, you know, and to share that on social
media people can see you always have. Like you said,
the kitchen is a very busy place with normal, regular
people like me. And also you get people that take
it over. I think you have, like all the people
from Young and the wrestlers were just in there the
other day, right.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
They took over the whole kitchen. Oh my god, the restless.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You turn left and right there's one beautiful person and
more beautiful and more. I'm like, wow, sorry, yeah, just
like a big modeling photo shoot. It was amazing and
gorgeous and they're all hard workers and they all have
beautiful hearts. Laura Lee Bell and you know the Kate
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Linder and Mark Grossman, all these amazing actors and actresses
who you know, gave up their day to make meals
and they did hundreds of meals in record time. And
then we also on Martin Luther King Day, which is
the National Day of Service, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom,
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the first partner, his wife and then the family, they
all came in and they volunteered with us and it
was incredible and the governor he went by thanked every
staff member, every volunteer, and I can tell you he
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cried five times there.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
He also met with two of our staff members who
lost their homes and fires and he hugged them. It
was like amazing. He even gave me a nine. Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
He was feeling generous. Now, I mean, all this crying,
I should have been there. Come on, I'm like the
biggest crier.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, you should have been there, definitely, But just always.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You never know who's going to be in the kitchen
Project angel Food, And because they're going through a massive
renovation at their normal location on a Vine Street in Hollywood,
north of Milrose, you're undergoing a massive renovation and hopes
of ultimately serving even more people when it's done in
a little over a year from now.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Three times as many people.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So huge.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And you know, I wouldn't say sadly so needed because
it puts you out of work, but I mean, so
many people who need, so many Angelina's who need Project
angel Food.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You know they need you.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Guys exactly, and we're proud to serve them. I will
tell you recently, I went to the ear Nose and
Throat doctor and I was there at the front desk
and one of the ladies who works at the front
desk says, you do God's work. I said, oh, well,
thank you for saying that. And the office manager said,
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where do you work? I said, I work at Project
angel Food. She goes Project angel Food. I said, yeah,
she goes. My husband had cancer, he was on a
feeding tube, and you sent meals, not for him, but
for me, and you keep you kept sending for three months. Wow.
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And I cried cheek right, it was like the governor
and we hugged each other. It was really this beautiful
moment where someone who's taking care of me, we took
care of her.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And what are the odds right that you would just
connect just how it came up casually in conversation.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Isn't that odd? And then the doctor came out and
he said, I volunteered for Project dangel Wood when I
was in high school. I delivered the odd and it
was one of the best experiences of my life.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Big love.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Just two out of five people in that office had
direct connections with the organization.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
We like that office. Well, I mean, hey, the more people,
the volunteer all over the city.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing to give back.
As we know, it's important to get back, and giving
back is healing. So in whatever way you're able to
to help Project Angel Food and help continue their mission,
help help them serve more people, whether you can volunteer
in the kitchen, their temporary kitchen and Lincoln Heights, whether
you can deliver meals, it's such an important part of
this whole process. How you get the meals out to
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people on a day to day basis, and then how
you're helping the fire victims with all of these extra items.
So so generous, and we can continue to pay for
those through your donations. And you have so many generous
people who listen to the radio and watch you on
TV and follow you guys on social media and just
know how big your hearts are and how hard y'all
work to make this happen. We encourage folks to donate
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whatever you can. Every dollar counts. Volunteer your time or
offer to deliver, and if you or someone that you
know is in need of these services, you can log
onto Angelfood dot org and apply or send you an email.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Uh huh, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Can send us in an email and if you want
to donate, it's angelfood dot org slash fire and it
goes directly to the fire relief and you can email
us if you know someone who needs some meals at
this critical time. And you said something really important, Lisa,
that volunteering heels and I have seen it firsthand, like
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I worked NonStop every single day up until this past
Tuesday when the fire started. And when people are in
that kitchen and they're doing good, they forget about the fires,
they forget about the destruction, and they forget about their
worries because they know they're taking some good action that's
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making the world a better place. And so it does heal.
You're there with other like minded people who want to
do good in the world, and you also are erasing
any depression or anxiety in you because you're not sitting
around waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, distraction at its finest, you know, we say on
the radio escapism. You know, we know what people are
going through, and we're giving away concert tickets or theme
park tickets and it's like, hey, just go escape for
a day, Go escape for a couple of hours, and
escaping to give back gives back to your heart too,
and it helps you, like you said, take our mind
off things for a little bit, but also to do
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good for others.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It makes you feel like, okay, now now my heart
is full too.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Absolutely, it does so much good. And Annie Lennox after
she left and visited, you know, all our volunteers and staff,
she said, Richard, I feel like this was a shot
in the arm for me. Like, not only does she
make our volunteers feel good, it made her feel good.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Ah, like maybe she had she hadn't volunteered in a while.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, And also just being around that kind of energy
and knowing that you're making an impact on someone.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
As long as it wasn't like a shot in the
arm like a shingle shot or a COVID or a
flu shot, because that was her.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
No, sometimes those do her. It really depends on the
person doing the shot. Sometimes they can't find that vein.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Oh, the second shingle shot hurts for sure. I don't
know if you've had it yet, but whoo, that'll.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Take it out.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now old enough yet you easy?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Easy?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Oops? Oops?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
See my doctor made me an extra young age okay, okay, yeah,
you're young. So anything else we need to talk about
before I know you have to go on your next
meeting zoom call. You're always working, working, working, anything else
you want to cover? Anything else coming up? Like any
are we doing events yet? What's our next big project?
Angel food fundraiser.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yes, oh my god, we have an incredible event. It's
an art auction. It's at Bottom So on February twenty seventh.
It's Angel Art and we have sixty amazing works of
art that we are auctioning off. And it's a lot
of contemporary art and you can get some good deals
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and at the same time help an amazing cause.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Wonderful. Wait now is this online or we have to
we buy a ticket and go to this place.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
You go in person and you enjoy the experience of
being at Bonhams on sunset and I'll tell you some
of the artists if you want to.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Know, sure, I mean not recognize orshe okay.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
John Baldassari, Robert Russienburg, Richard mis Rock, Peter Alexander, Jeff Coons,
Jim Dine, herb Ritz, William Wegman, Shepherd Ferry Great, a
lot of others, amazing artists here.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
So we're going to go to angelfood dot org and
go to the events page and buy a ticket for
this Angel Art event on February twenty seventh in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yep, right there in the heart of Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So we can hang out with you in person and
like many people who want to get back and make
a difference, and also her little artsy and want to
do something different and get out of the house and
get dressed up a little bit and go again, take
your mind off what's happening in the world and do
good by looking at art, maybe buying some art, and
just hanging out with amazing people.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Also, there's nothing better, in my opinion than having some
original art in your house. Yeah, you could go buy
art from the gallery or wherever, but you want to
get it, like something that's kind of original and unique
and special. I've got quite a bit in my place.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You do, Yeah, you have one of you.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You're always very curious about it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I know, Well, that's what art is supposed to do.
It's a conversation piece. I like when it's a conversation piece.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I have a piece of burnt toast that this art
is painted on.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And it's very unique, very unique.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Don't try me.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's a good conversation starter. See there's a lot of
questions right there, so to be continued. They could ask
you in person.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
When you buy a ticket to an Angel Art benefiting
project Angel Food twenty seventh in Hollywood, all the information
if you're able to attend and buy a ticket angelfood
dot org for more, and if you would like to
do anything to help our fellow neighbors and folks. So
many thousands of people forever change by these wildfires, and
it's a long road ahead, so it's one day to time,
(26:17):
and any way that you can help out, like we said, volunteering, donating,
volunteering to deliver, volunteering to work in the kitchen, anyway
you can get back to help these folks through through
the worst time. Angelfood dot org, angelfood dot org, slash
fire for all the info.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Absolutely, and Lisa, I just want to thank you and
all of our broadcasters either on radio or television who
really have ushered us through these very difficult moments. You know,
it's just so reassuring to have your voice and your
spirit on the radio when the city is hurting, and
(26:56):
so I just want to thank you personally.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You're sweet, Thank you so much. Well, well, you know
we all got to kind of come together to.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Get through these things, and you know, using giving you
our platform to get out this information is important too,
and people need it, need to hear it, They need
to hear about good things happening to help those who
are hurting.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So thank you for what you're doing, Thank you for
what you do, Thank me for what I do. I
don't know. And then we encourage folks again.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
To get one to tell your boss he needs to
thank you for what you do.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Ah well, I'm sure, I'm sure we'll send them a note.
Richard Au, the CEO, the wonderful CEO of Project angel Food,
we love you. We thank you for all that you
and your team does for so many angelfood dot org
for all the info.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I love you too, Lisa,
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