Hello guys, welcome back to step by step with me, Shelby Church.

I want to thank you guys, first of all, for all the feedback on the first episode.

Everyone in the YouTube comments seemed very excited.

And that made me so excited because I wasn't sure.

Sometimes I'm like, okay, do people actually want to listen to me, Yap for 40 excited because I wasn't sure sometimes I'm like okay do people actually

want to listen to me yap for 40 minutes I don't know but I'm really happy that we're down for it

because I love podcasts really quickly wanted to hop in here while I'm editing to give an update

on the fire in L.A. because I've gotten a lot of comments asking if I'm okay and what's going on there.

And I am okay. I decided to drive to Palm Springs to get out of the smoke. I don't live close to

the fire and honestly there I feel like there's no way it could reach me. If it reached me,

the whole city of LA would have to burn down. And these wildfires, they typically stay in the

hills where there's a lot of brush. And I do kind of want to touch on a little bit about the fire

because I feel like I have some thoughts on it because this is not the first time I've experienced

fire evacuations and everything in California. I used to live close to the base of Belair. And it was Westwood,

technically. So it's the base of the hills, if you're not familiar with L.A. And that area would catch

on fire every year, three years in a row, like clockwork. This year, I think the reason that it is so

bad is because we had a ton of rain last year.

We had all this new growth.

I'd never seen L.A. become so green.

And I haven't seen anyone talk about this with regards to the fire.

There was just so much more plants in the hills, natural brush that grows that is not normally there.

It's normally a lot more just dead. And so it was

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