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I'm Brad Listy.

How's it going out there?

I'm in Los Angeles.

It's still weird here.

I don't know what else to say about it. It's

it's hard to know if the air is good to breathe. There's been an airborne like toxic event

with these fires and getting information about whether or not the air is clean and breathable

is a frustrating process because

nobody really knows. Like the AQI on my phone is good, but you go outside and you breathe and

you feel it in your chest and it's kind of chalky and weird. And then you read that like the AQI

doesn't measure everything and there's things in the air that the

AQI might not be measuring. So hopefully whatever it is that you're breathing isn't too bad.

That's basically what we've got. So you just, you know, you stay inside. I'm not a stay inside person.

I move to Los Angeles because I don't want to be

inside. I like to be outside. But now I've got to be inside. Getting a little stir crazy. And it feels

depressing that the air might not be breathable. And how long is this going to last for? Because it's a,

you know, it's connected to the fires.

And then there's all this wreckage from the fires, all this debris.

And if the wind blows, it can spread ash, which is toxic.

And so that ash isn't going away.

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