Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Buckingradt Podcast. I'm Jared

at Sexton. I'm here with my friend, my compatriot, my co-host, Nick Hausman, who of course

lives in Los Angeles, California, and has been dealing with the fallout from the unprecedented historical

fires in that region.

How are you doing, buddy?

I mean, I am very fortunate.

We're doing fine.

Everything was okay.

You know, the worst that we dealt with personally was just the awful air quality, not easy to breathe.

It can't really be outside.

The weird haze, you know, it casts a glow across the city of a weird orange, sickly orange thing.

But, you know, I had one of my good buddies had to sleep over last night because he lives in Hollywood and they were evacuated, which just for context, like where the Runyon Canyon fire happens, it's a very popular place for people to go hiking,

right just like sort of where the Hollywood sign is.

We've never had fires through there.

And so this was unprecedented.

The winds were really, you know,

100 mile an hour winds in the Palisade.

So it's been, thankfully,

I haven't been directly affected like that,

but it's been scary and it's caused a lot of, you know, destruction in its wake.

Yeah, before we get into the reasons why this is happening, of course, the right-wing radicalization and weaponization of this shit.

What's it, what's it like in Los Angeles right now?

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