Oh, hey, it's your cousin, 3,000 miles away.

Checking in to see if your house is on fire, Alley Ward, except in this case, I'm the cousin's cousin,

and everyone is texting me to ask if my house is on fire.

And it is covered in cinders, and it's raining down ashes, and we're about a mile or so

as the crow flies or as the embers drift from the evacuation line

of the wildfire that's raging in L.A. right now they eat in fire near Pasadena. And this week,

I've been in Las Vegas last few days on a business trip. And I've been like up all night feverishly

refreshing the watch duty app for updates on the fire spread. Meanwhile,

my husband Jarrett, your pod mother has been like packing up our passports and our birth certificates

and our baby who's a 12 year old dog and he's been straying with friends here and there until the

winds died down a little bit. But we're back home. And

most of our neighbors on our street have evacuated. The air is very heavy with smoke from like

a thousand or so homes a few miles away that were lost in Altadena. I haven't slept much at all the

last couple days. And the winds are picking back up tonight. And at press time, there's zero percent containment on

the nearby to us eaten fire. And then the Pacific Palisades fire is barely contained and it's

growing. And fires are starting and smoldering all over L.A. I have a nasty smoke headache. And so I'm

giving you this very relevant encore while I catch my

breath about how fires start, why they're getting worse, and how indigenous knowledge and

fire management differs from what we have going on right now. And then at the end,

there's a very relevant 2025 secret about something that has made me cry several times today, which is very

spooky. Okay, here we go. The CDC has a bunch of recommendations about dealing with the smoke,

which will link in the show notes for this episode. But in case you can't stay indoors,

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