Happy New Year and welcome to Fitzdog Radio 2025.

Coming up on our 15th year of doing this podcast, week in, week out.

I don't give a shit if I'm in Turkey, South Africa, Chile.

I do it.

I get it done.

Except I've missed a couple in the last six weeks because of my extensive travel and my burnout.

I was a little burnt out.

I needed three weeks and I got it.

I just got back from South Africa yesterday and I went with my family. We'll get into that

in a minute, but the pressing issue right now is we're on fire. Fire on the mountain, baby. I'm in Venice Beach and the fires are about

seven miles away right now, blowing kind of in this direction, but we've got a lot of concrete.

We're not, this is more the city here in Venice. The Palisades has,

has some woods, has some trees. And then we've got Santa Monica in between us and us and the

palisades. So I think we're fine. I'm 95% sure we're fine. But the air is fucked. I can't breathe. My eyes are

burning. My car, I just washed it. And it's already covered in ashes. And yeah, it's crazy.

It's very sad that so many people have lost their homes.

I know what it's like to own a home.

My whole savings, my whole retirement, everything is in this house.

And I don't know if you know this, but a lot of the insurance companies canceled fire insurance for Californians like literally six months ago.

And so a lot of these people who thought they had a life after retirement are now going to be fucking Walmart greeters.

If you see somebody stand out front of Walmart and they've got their hair is singed,

yeah, they're from the Palisades.

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