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So this week, Randall and I, welcome back Preston Dennett, very, very long-time paranormal researcher, author of 22 books.

And that was just yesterday, right, Preston?

Yep, that's right.

Okay, that's what I used to say when I wrote a lot of those books on technology.

In those cases, though, they were such rush jobs. You know, I'd be writing

a thousand-page book that gave me six weeks to complete that book. And you never got paid as much

as the time was worth. Kind of rat race, which I'm no longer involved in. In any case, I think we were all talking here about the fact

that we're doing this right after Thanksgiving, and obviously those who live in California

are concerned about the weather and the forest fires and such. What part of the state do you live in,

Preston? Well, I live right near the Wolsey Fire, actually. I live in

Recita in San Fernando Valley. My brother lives in Topanga Canyon. They were in the evacuation zone.

Yeah, it was pretty intense there for a while, though this happens pretty regularly. We've dealt with

this for, gosh, every five years or so, something like this seems to

happen. But this is a bad one. Gosh, northern California, that's where it really hit hard.

How do these fires get started? You know, we've been hearing some rumblings conspiracy theory

type stuff that people are actually setting them on purpose as part of some sort of

underground terror activity or something. Is there, what do you think about that idea?

You know, anything's possible. There's lots of people out there who are just intent and

destructing. As far as the Woolsey Fire, no one seems to know quite how that one happened,

except it was up near the

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