All right. Thank you, Scott Shannon. Thanks to all of you for being with us.

Write down our toll-free number. It is 800941. Sean, if you want to be a part of the program,

let me start because we're going to talk a little bit about the poor forest management in California and how preventable these wildfires are out there,

if only common sense measures were adopted, but that does not negate the human toll

that has gone on out there. It is one of the saddest things, and I've had this happen to friends of mine, and I'm sure

most of you have too.

If somebody works so hard their entire life, they have a dream, they want a house for

themselves and their family, it is so built into the American psyche that that is a huge achievement in one's life to be able to get their own home.

And it means so much to everybody and all the family memories that are in there, et cetera.

And you're watching hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of homes burned down.

I don't want to forget the human component of all of this and let the people of California

that are living through this know that our thoughts, our prayers, our love are all sent to all of you.

I'm sure it's not exactly heartwarming to hear that, well, you'll be able to rebuild,

blah, blah, it just, it is, it will up turn up your life.

It will just change things around the entire trajectory of your life now is in a whole

different direction.

There is so much that we're learning that, to me, is infuriating and just angers me.

I saw Joe Biden out there with Gavin Newsom.

Gavin Newsom, probably his biggest booster in the entire country, and he stuck with him to the end.

And it's nice that Joe went out there.

It's appropriate that he went out there.

Where was Joe when Hurricane Helene destroyed, you know, parts of Georgia and especially

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