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Doug McIntyre, in for John and Ken. Actually, I'm just in for Ken today. I can't, I can't sub for both of them. It's asking too much of one man.

It really is. So, so thank you. So I'm just going to, I'm just going to be in for Ken today. And we'll, we'll slog through this the way Southern California slog through tropical storm Hillary. And hopefully you are amongst the many millions who got through this with minor inconveniences. Obviously, that's, that's not the case for everybody. We've got a lot to talk about today until 4 o'clock when Conway comes.

Oh, by the way, you are listening to KFIA AM 640 live everywhere on the IHeart radio app.

So we have all had a day in our lives that was awful for us when everybody else seemed to be

going on about their business, just in a normal, just an, maybe even a great day.

I experienced this recently.

My mom passed away on July 29th, which is very sad.

She was 91.

She had a peaceful exit from this world.

But as I'm standing on the church steps in New York after the funeral, waiting for

everybody to get organized to get into their cars, I see people, you cleaning over their shoulders or a guy drove by with a kayak on the roof.

He's off to have some kind of an adventure.

And meanwhile, I got a dark cloud over my head psychologically.

And we've all experienced moments like this where you've had some personal blow

and you can't understand how the rest of the

world could even be rotating. How did the sun rise this morning on everyone else? And that's

kind of how I look at what happened with Tropical Storm Hillary, because fortunately,

blessedly, most of us got through it with just a lot of rain. Maybe you had some flooding, maybe had a couple of branches come down or the leaves are in the pool or whatever.

And then there are those in this vast area of Southern California that had a hell of a hard time, a really bad time.

And the cautionary tale here, as we've seen, for instance, with the Rolling Hills Estate where it's likely that the previous heavy rains in the wintertime may have caused those landslides that destroyed neighborhoods. And we've seen that happen up after heavy rains up in the Santa Barbara area, where hillsides have come down months afterwards, that these problems can have a long tail.

But because the vast majority of Southern California,

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