Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.

Can you digger?

Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Revenant podcast brought

you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.

Apologies in advance.

If I just, if you hear a big thud sound and then I stopped talking,

I just came back from breakfast at Al Johnson's in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, where I had the

Swedish pancake special and I may succumb to food coma.

But with that brief note of jocularity and levity, we're doing something that we haven't done

in a little while here, but we used to do fairly regularly and hopefully we'll do more of. We're having one of our own here. James Sutton is a reporter for the morning dispatch. He was a former intern, but now he's like a, he went through the blood rituals to become a fully paid reporter here. He's written a lot about California and California wildfires for us.

And we figured we should do something on the news about all of this.

And Declan lost some sort of bet and said, why don't you have James on?

And I said, okay.

So James, welcome to the remnant.

Thanks for having me, Jenna.

All right.

So just sort of big picture.

We're recording this Tuesday morning, January 14.

Where do things stand?

So we're sort of in a waiting area, waiting period right now, but not a good one.

So right now, if you go to the Cal Fire dashboard, and you can look this up at home,

they have a great fire map. There's about 40,644 acres burned, that total in the Los Angeles

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