Mm-hmm.

So, uh, uh, when I first moved out here, I thought, like, "Oh, my God, this, this state is always in a drought.

It seems like a tinderbox." And I believe that there were some pretty significant wildfires more to the north of Los Angeles.

Like, once you hit, I, I think, like, Bakersfield and north, and probably Ventura.

And a, a phenomenon I noticed is that when a fire gets to a certain size, it will hit national news, and then f- friends from home who aren't familiar with the geography would then text me and be like, "Are you okay?" And I'm...

I, I don't pay...

I especially don't really pay that much attention to local news.

Mm-hmm.