Further West
Absolutely Not
Dear Media
4.9 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Heather recaps her experience in LA during the start of the wildfires. She shares harrowing tales from friends who lost so much and remembers that even during this time of chaos we can find moments of joy and heroism. Please join Heather and find ways to support those affected by the fires such as BStrong Foundation, World Central Kitchen, and the Love and Ethos Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the Absolutely Not podcast, where we do the most and the least at this same damn time. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. |
| 0:31.5 | I hope you're having a gorgeous day. |
| 0:33.8 | If you listen to this podcast today and you think to yourself, wow, Heather seems like she's on the fritz. |
| 0:40.7 | Just know, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically, I sure am. |
| 0:47.9 | This is the best part of my week. |
| 0:50.1 | And I recorded such a stellar episode and everything that could have gone technologically wrong went wrong. |
| 0:58.6 | Mercury is not in retrograde. Oh no, baby. Los Angeles is on fire. We will get into all the wild details of my harrowing experience in LA this week. |
| 1:09.1 | We'll talk about how to support our communities and we'll also talk |
| 1:12.1 | about how somehow I've managed to go further west. I really am hanging on by a thread. I know we're |
| 1:21.6 | trying to start the new year off on a positive foot and damn it, we're going to find the silver |
| 1:25.9 | lining. But in the the meantime please buckle up |
| 1:30.1 | get yourself ready maybe light a fucking joint actually we're against anything that lights up take a gummy |
| 1:38.1 | do not pop an add roll because i am already speedballing on this one. Pour yourself a glass of wine |
| 1:45.8 | because dry January is fucking over. Hug your loved ones, sit around, giggle because we're doing |
| 1:53.2 | the best we can. Let's get into it. Thanks for being here and welcome to absolutely not. |
| 1:59.2 | So I am actually doing this episode, old school style. |
| 2:04.2 | There will be no video. |
| 2:05.9 | It's just me and a Zoom and one long mic sitting in a hotel room. |
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