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So now we're going to talk with Rob Mons.

We just played you a clip from his film, a documentary called Paradise Abandoned, Inside the Pacific Palisades Fire.

It's being released today.

It's a 30-minute documentary.

He grew up in the Palisades and moved east for college.

His mother's home burned in the fire.

His brother Rocky works at Palisades High School,

obviously impacted by the fire. So he came back to help. And what he found stunned him.

And he said it was not a fluke that the palisades burned down. It was abandoned to burn. He said it was a man-made disaster. We played

you a piece of his film and now we're going to talk to him. This Rob Mons. Welcome. How are you?

Thank you, man. I appreciate the intro. Yeah, I was fascinated just by the four-minute clips.

Since this thing was released today, I haven't had a chance to see this. Let's run through your background briefly. So you were Pacific Palisades kid. You grew up there and just tell me the background story. Well, first, can I get the plug-in, which is we just dropped it today? So if anybody who is hearing this wants to watch it, they can just check it out for free on my YouTube channel at Rob Mons.

Yeah, Palisades Born and Bread went out to the East Coast,

and then when the Palisades fire happened,

I mean, stated objectively, it's an extraordinarily odd thing to have occurred, right?

Yeah.

Which is a couple embers in some dry brush, just a couple miles from the house that I grew up in,

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