Four, three, two, boom.

What's up, man? How are you?

Hello, thanks for being here.

Well, I'm pleased to get here. It's a kind of a strange day in this part of LA, isn't it?

This is as strange as it ever gets. The big concern in Los Angeles has always been, according to a firefighter that I talked to once

that the right wind catches a fire and it takes it all the way through Los Angeles

down to the coast. Yeah. It's not quite that. It didn't go through Hollywood. It didn't go they think one day it's going to happen and with the right win they're not going to be able to stop it

But Jesus. This is pretty bad. This is about as bad as I've ever seen it happen all in one day

Yeah, it was extraordinarily driving down the road about as bad as I've ever seen it and happen all in one day.

Yeah, it was extraordinarily driving down the road to get here, just these huge,

just huge pillowy, I thought it was just, you know, mountains and I thought it was a strange cloud formation, but it was just smoke.

Yeah, it looks like a giant gray mountain in the distance. Yeah, it's it's insane how bad it's gotten I've had it happened

Three this is the third time I've been evacuated since I've moved here 20 plus years ago. Wow.

Yeah, it gets rough.

But this is the roughest I've ever seen.

Jamie and I were doing the podcast yesterday.

And when it was over, I had like five text messages from friends that lived in my neighborhood

saying how bad it was and then

when we got home the wind was just crazy and it's just it's humbling you know I mean it's

super unfortunate for all the people that are losing their homes and losing their, you know, losing their

property, but the reality is this is, it's nature, you know, this is something that you just can't avoid there's nothing you

do about it gets dry like this and I don't know what started it I hope it wasn't a cigarette

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