Philip Keene
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Everything on television is about they were going to be eaten and everything's going to be destroyed and the earth is on fire.
There were days when we couldn't go outside and play.
at school because the smog layer was so thick and so bad.
We could go outside, but we had to sit on the benches at lunch.
We weren't allowed to move.
We have fire season, pilot season, flash flood season.
I grew up in Tustin, behind the orange curtain.
I was born in Hollywood.
And then when I was four, I moved to Central America.
Nicaragua.
Hawthorne.
And then when I came back to the United States, I had to learn how to speak English all over again.
No, no, no.
You know how – let's say your mom and dad would have a fight and your mom would go to your grandmother's house?
My mom went to Central America and took me with her.
I was a kid, though, and I was living with my aunt, so it was fun.
It was before the earthquake, though, so it was okay.
1969, 1970.