Everybody, a couple of notes. First up, there was the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles that started last night.

There's now expanded the four or five fires around L.A., Southern California. And so just want to

send our thoughts out to the folks that are involved in that in some level. People that have had to

evacuate. I've had some friends who have had to evacuate.

Producer, Katie Cooper is out there and has been posting some pictures of some fires

that look a little too close for comfort.

For me, we're hoping for the best for everybody on that front.

I had the most minor experience with this.

In Oakland, we had the apartment building right behind mine caught on fire and uh we'd

evacuate one night go to a hotel and man it's scary stuff just kind of monitor in your phone

trying to look at the app and trying to see where the fire is expanded to whether your house is

in the uh is in the target zone so it is tough i was already planning on doing a climate episode here in the next week or two.

And so we'll be doing that and having a longer talk about this.

As far as today's schedule, just a reminder on Wednesdays, I do the political fluffery

with my buddy Sarah and JVL over on the next level podcast.

Every Wednesday, It's out Wednesday

late afternoon usually. So make sure you subscribe to that feed or you go check it out on YouTube.

We'll be doing the Gulf of America's silliness, the Aline Cannon horrors, Joe Biden's interview

with Susan Page, all that kind of political stuff we'll be doing with Sarah and JVL

on the next level. Today on Wednesday, sometimes we'll be doing fun, longer form interviews about

various topics. Today I wanted to do a double header and just get deep on the budget stuff because

like the actual substance of what it's going to impact people's lives this year is the

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