Hey, so what's up? Matt Gates here. Good see you, Matt. Thanks for doing this.

Everyone in America was tuned into your epic rant as we were seeing Los Angeles burn and fire hydrants not work.

And we were watching this place of great wonderment and creativity and wealth, uh,

uh, turn into ashes before our eyes. And you were like America's Jiminy Cricket in that

moment and gave us a sense of conscience. Thanks, man. I hope we're rolling because that sounded

pretty good. We are.

I roll right into it.

So I am curious after like that was on every news clip, it was on every social media page of consequence.

What kind of feedback did you get from the people that live in California? Well, I should tell everyone what we're doing here quickly as a kind of a home and home.

I'm doing Matt's show.

He's doing my show.

And together, it'll be one.

And so, well, Matt will ask me some questions.

I'll ask Matt some questions.

If you're curious,

my listeners of why it seems formatically a little different, because we're doing both shows simultaneously. I go through life saying things that I think are very pragmatic all the time.

And people, it angers a lot of people. And then eventually Bill Maher says what I say,

but it's like seven years later. And then people go, you know, Bill Maher's starting to make

sense, but it's all shit I talked about for the last decade. So I mean, I used to be a builder.

I was a contractor that was my job. So I had an, you know, I used to be a builder. I was a contractor. That was my job. So I had an,

you know, I had a relationship with plan check and building and safety and the Department

of Building and Safety and all the red tape and all the ordinances. That went back to the 90s

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