All right, everybody, welcome back.

Happy Skews Day to you.

It's skews day when you're watching this at least.

We warned you last week.

We might start pre-recording.

Well, that's what we've done.

We're coming to you from the past.

It's actually Monday evening, about 5 o'clock Pacific on the left coast.

This is still skews, though. I'm still trying that still Mark. How you doing, Mark?

Good, man. Yeah, we wanted to pre-record anyway, but Matt's worried about the rolling blackouts.

They're still going on Los Angeles during the fires, which we're going to be talking about for the entire show today.

And I wanted to make a quick announcement.

We lived,

bitch.

Some people didn't.

It's been a fucking hellacious, miserable week in the city, even if it was kind of weirdly normal for a lot of the time.

Well, but isn't it?

I mean, the winds are coming back, aren't they?

The next couple of days, like the bad, so I mean, like, but, I mean, how likely is it that it could be like last week? Like, with the winds, I mean, like now there's a lot more active resources in place and stuff. Like, is that going to make a different? Right. So hopefully this week it won't, you know, knock on wood.

It won't go like it.

But yeah, the winds are about to return.

So it's still people still. Yeah, there's firefighters and equipment in from all over the country in the world now. So it's a lot, they've got a lot more resources brought to bear. and also, you know, the winds are blowing south this time, which is the Santa Ana winds,

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