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Austin Wintery, who is a video game composer, Mike Bithel, who is a video game director, and Alana Pierce, who is a video game writer.

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How am I in terms of fires?

I said, Austin, how are you in terms of the LA fires, which is why we took a break for a couple

of weeks because the city is on fire?

I had a pretty front row view of the whole thing, especially when it started.

It was very surreal because the, the Altadino one, the Eaton fire,

kind of was rising up directly in front of my studio and arched across the entire sky.

So it was

weird because that morning of Wednesday the third or whenever it was when it first began,

I went up on the roof of my studio because half the sky was this like,

picturesque blue sunrise, pearl, like ocean blue. And then, and then the other half was just black.

Yeah, and it's like a line.

It was, it was.

Oh, really?

You can like see the edge of it.

Yeah, you can see the blue underneath the black.

Yeah, very crazy.

Well, and it went straight up.

It was, it was, it was very surreal.

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