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🗓️ 17 August 2025
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0:00.0 | Okay, tonight. |
0:14.5 | Finding resilience in hard times. |
0:18.4 | As most of you know, I live in Los Angeles, which I love. And a while ago, I wrote an |
0:24.5 | episode about getting sleepy in the Santa Monica Mountains, and I took you on a drive from my house |
0:31.4 | through to Panga Canyon. In it, I traced the exact route, exploring, and describing all the beauty along that |
0:40.6 | amazing drive. |
0:42.9 | Well, this winter, the fires in L.A. reached into that canyon, scorching a significant portion |
0:50.6 | of it along that route, which sucked, obviously. |
0:57.7 | And what many people don't know is that most Angelinos have been cut off from the areas |
1:02.6 | that were affected by the fires. |
1:04.8 | Like, we haven't been able to see them, except on the news, until very, very recently. Unless you were a resident of the affected |
1:13.7 | area, you couldn't go in, and roads have been blocked for months as the debris has been cleared |
1:19.5 | out. So that drive to the Pacific Ocean has been impossible. Until now. I drove that route for the first time yesterday. It was sad, comforting, beautiful, and inspiring all at once. You see, the lower part of the canyon burned. |
1:46.6 | The mountains were scorched. |
1:51.7 | Lucky for Topanga, the fire reached only a very few structures, |
1:57.4 | but thousands of acres of trees and other vegetation succumbed to the fires. |
2:03.5 | And as I drove through it, I was amazed by what I saw. |
2:11.0 | There were burnt trees like with black branches, charcoal black, |
2:15.5 | with bright green leaves growing from them. |
2:19.0 | Grassy vegetation and wildflowers between the scorched trees. |
2:22.9 | Within just six months, nature had |
2:25.0 | pushed past the fire, |
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