Hey, this is John.

As you likely know, this was a rough week in Los Angeles.

High winds brought on massive wildfires that destroyed homes and displaced tens of thousands of people.

And as I record this, it's still ongoing.

But I want you to know that Craig and I are both fine, along with Drew and Megana and your whole script notes team.

We're all safe and lucky, honestly.

Some of the folks you've heard on this podcast have lost their homes, lost everything.

And in due time, we will talk with them about what happens next and how to help.

For now, we're kind of in the getting through it phase.

Now, the office where we normally record script notes is currently sheltering three humans, a dog and a cat who's looking at me right now.

They're all currently evacuated from Santa Monica. Parts of Los Angeles have no power or no internet

or have to boil their water. Other parts are weirdly normal until we get those terrifying alerts on our phones.

In time, we may learn who or what sparked each of these fires, but the reality is the planet is

getting hotter, and extreme events like this are getting more common. So this week, we are

rerunning a conversation we had back in April 2022 with Anna Jane Joyner and Quinn Emmett discussing how to best talk about climate change on screen.

And I've been looking at a lot of screens this last week because I've watched helicopters dousing flames from the air.

I've watched families returning to find their houses destroyed.

And I'm reminded that so often we smash up things on screen

without really showing the consequences

what happens the day after, the week after.

We'll have giant monsters fighting each other in a big metropolis,

but we never see the families whose lives are crushed underneath.

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