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I don't know if we've ever done this before Michael. I don't know if we've ever done this before. Let's start the show at the breaking news donkey breaking news donkey to start the program. We've never done that before breaking news.

The hobo camp behind the radio station has exploded in flame.

The west coast bomb explosion. I haven't heard that theme for a bomb fire. Bomb fire. Yeah, so there's a homeless well see we broadcast from California. So there's a there's a bomb camp everywhere.

But the one next to us is opposed to any of the other many thousand. The bomb camp next to us exploded in fire this morning. Alex comes in just a few minutes ago and said, hey, there's a giant fire outside the radio station and wait.

Loan behold there was now in the short amount of time since then till now a fire truck did arrive and start spraying water on it. But it was a pretty good size fire there for a while. Hansen our executive producer went out there. We were going to have live coverage from the fire, but it was a pretty good size fire.

Actually, I wanted to have the fire going while we're on the air. So I suggested stoking it like taking I got all these old newspapers taking them out there throwing them on the fire to keep it going. So we'd have live coverage. But that's controversy. That's probably irresponsible.

Yeah, but you know what else is there like crazy. It was spreading like I just can't think of a metaphor. It's funny. You would say that that that would be irresponsible for me to, you know, throw newspapers on that fire to stoking. You know, it's also irresponsible.

Having thousands and thousands of people just living willy nilly intense full of drugs and campfires and stolen goods right next year car as you walk into work. That's pretty irresponsible too.

I remember the local fire authorities said at the end of last year, what was they put out something like 195, bum fires, several of which spread and caused serious property damage and threatened lives. And yet we allow these junky camps to exist because I'm a, I don't know because of one stupid court ruling.

This is they're expecting the worst fire season in the western half of the United States in history of this year. And we're at the very beginning of it. And we just saw our first fire and a bum still just hanging around and, you know, smoke and have camp fires to barbecue weenies with their stolen grill and do their thing.

And everybody's going to just let them I guess, which is insane. We now turn to our man on the scene executive producer Mike Hansen reporting live from the site of the bum fire Hansen. Are you there? Can you hear us?

I am. I can't hear you gentlemen.

I'm reporting from the smoke filled back 40 of the radio rants. So wait a minute before I tell you anything. Did you say stoking the fire is a bad idea because I started stoking and then you seem to reverse course.

Hey, hey, so the question got you got got I don't park on that side of the building. You know more about that particular bum camp of an I do. So there's there's there's hobos that live in the bushes there.

Yes, there is a whole bow. Not a gentle hobo. He seems to have a number of friends, not which are visible. But yeah, he's out here with some frequency. I just looked at his tent. It's still over there. It's about.

I don't know 50 yards from his tent. The fire. Another hobo showed up hoping to I don't know. Do his his big good citizen. He was trying to find a fire extinguisher in his trunk. Until I waved him off in the fire department showed up and quickly extinguished the fire.

Yeah, it is so smoking over here though. So the guy with the car is a street person, but he has a car.

I don't know who that guy is. Yeah, he's just hearing some some local homestead and he had the look. The night of the open road. Well, that that fire was way too big to put out with the fire extinguisher. I'm glad you talked him out of it because that was going to be a waste of time.

Yeah, well, the fire authority showed up smartly and took care of it. I salute them. Yeah. And that I would guess is not the sort of thing that even makes the news that yet another hobo camp caught on fire. Yeah.

Well, why would it so common? Yeah, they made work of it. Our local fire department. Yeah, congratulations. You nice job, everybody. Yeah, this could be your Pulitzer Hansen. Well, well played.

Hansen said that the guy has some friends who are invisible. I think I know what he's talking about. And it harkens back to a term we learned yesterday at the end of the show.

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