I don't want to be on grim all the time.

This hour especially, but the statistics that are out that about the suicide rate and

the overdose rate now are life expectancy is declining again.

It's just astonishing.

Well, yeah, it's one of those things that's shocking yet not entirely surprising.

But we will take a look at that in a moment or two.

Right now though, a follow up if you will on the devastating and enormous camp fire and

buy extensions, some of the other fires in California and the West Coast over the last

couple of years.

We're talking to Tim Taylor, the county superintendent of schools in Butte County.

You join us now.

Hello, Tim.

How are you?

Good, Joe.

We're hanging in.

We're getting ready for the kids to come back to school Monday.

So we're getting very excited.

It's what we need right now.

We're supposed to be some children and start teaching them and being around them.

Right.

Right here here.

And Tim and I actually, in a previous life and we were both younger and better looking

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