California Burning - On Such A Winter's Day...

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Climate change reminded us it doesn't care one jot where you live or how much money you have last week.

Marina and Jemma discuss the apocalyptic scenes from LA as fires tore through the region, with some personal experiences that Jemma has permission to share from her friends caught up in the catastrophe.

They discuss the perfect storm that led to this and how the fires were not unexpected - in fact, you know who definitely expected the fires? Insurance companies - with many LA residents now being left without a thing because their home insurance company wouldn't cover them. Imagine having to pay a mortgage on a home that no longer exists.

An incredible tweet from Keith Wasserman - a wealthy man who thought he could buy his way out of the catastrophe sparks a discussion as to whether this could serve as a wake-up call, plus there's disgust at how Republicans and the right have weaponised the fires to point the finger of blame at...wait for it...diversity, equity and inclusion. And brace yourself for a clip of Trump regarding potential climate disasters that has aged like milk.

But there is a silver lining, as New York make political history that Jemma and Marina believe the rest of the world should follow, if only they had the balls.

The ladies finish up with a 'Rachel from accounts' teaser plus pudding from Professor Brian Cox that feels perfectly pertinent.

Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast

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0:00.0	And these insurance people decided to cancel their fire. And we're going through this. And it just
0:06.6	happened and they have no fire insurance. Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll
0:15.0	through social media so you don't have to. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte and you know how life works. One minute, the news
0:23.3	headlines are dominated by all sorts of things. The next, an event takes over and many of those
0:29.7	things, the pathetic, meaningless things like, say for instance, Liz Truss trying to sue Kier's
0:36.4	Stama for saying she crashed the economy,
0:38.7	which we'll get to in the next ep, along with Meta getting rid of fat checking,
0:43.7	and the latest disappointing news from Labor HQ, including the GIP that Rachel Reeves is
0:50.0	getting all of that pales into insignificance. It does. It does. So in late October last year,
0:56.2	we saw the hell that those flash floods unleashed in Spain. Hundreds of people lost their lives
1:02.6	and teams from France and Portugal arrived to work alongside emergency services. That was how
1:07.5	terrible the situation was. And now we've got California, which has succumbed to
1:11.9	numerous fires, which have left areas almost completely unrecognizable. This is a clip from
1:18.0	someone called Sophia on TikTok. I don't think anyone outside of LA truly understands just how
1:24.6	insane this whole fire situation has been today. So let me just paint a picture.
1:29.5	Like 10 different fires broke out today, including what I consider to be relatively weird areas,
1:34.7	like around downtown L.A. and West Hollywood, the worst of which the Palisades fire was originally
1:40.6	one acre as all things start, got to to 10 acres and there was an announcement that came
1:44.5	with it that was like it's going to explode to 200 acres in 20 minutes and I was like well that's insane
1:48.0	that's insane it did just that and then within an hour or maybe two it was at 1,000 acres already
1:53.3	it is now based on the last update that we've received 3,000 acres it started picking up so fast that
1:58.0	people were leaving their cars as they were trying to drive out, but they were gridlocked.
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