Oh, baby, welcome to it. It is the 9th of January, 2024. Happy Thursday to you almost, almost Friday.

Can't wait. I'm Derek Hunter. This is the

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everybody who supports the program there. I really do super appreciate it. Let's get started with

busy show today. Let's go. There's a course a lot going on out in California. It is, I'll just say it.

What the hell. Sick mind. No, I'm not going to say it. Never mind. Maybe I'll just say it. What the hell? Sick mind.

No, I'm not going to say it. Never mind. Maybe I'll save it for Saturday when nobody's listening.

But the blame game is happening out in California.

I don't want to make fun. I mean. Hunter Biden lost his home and it's horrible.

Anybody who loses their home is terrible.

You probably don't want to be downwind from that smoke, but that's beside the point.

It is a disaster of epic proportions, but I want to warn against the way it's going to be used, it's going to be

used as evidence of climate change. Yeah, man-made climate change, except it's not quite the way

that you'd believe or they would have you believe. The man-made change to the climate to the environment is in the name of the

environment. California, like I've said yesterday, is a desert. Southern California is largely a

desert, not completely, but by definition it is a desert. Doesn't get a lot of rainfall.

But they have a lot of access to water or did from

Northern California. There's mountains. There's snow melt. There's water that runs down that used to be

either naturally through rivers or directed through human beings to Southern California. So it's

sort of the basis of the movie

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