Take 2 Podcast: Primary upsets, wildfire crisis, Washington politics

talk some elections and what happened in the last few days and what's going to happen next uh politically our fires are kind of crossing paths again right now and just yesterday the governor has decided to ban fireworks statewide his ban though feels like a ban where you can say you're banning but not really because cities still get to make up their minds of whether or not um they're having fireworks in a safe space, a park, or if they're just going to allow them in general.

Mara, you first.

Was this the right step right now with so many fires burning across the state?

It feels like the prudent step right now.

I mean, I agree there are varieties of teeth to that, but one of the things I've been heartened by, so the two of you don't burst my bubble on this, but...

Like I saw that the sheriff's put out a thing that said, hey, let's be smart.

Maybe you should throw in with your city.

The governor is essentially saying the same thing.

I haven't heard all but one or two special people online that by and large, it feels like most of us are saying, yeah, Let's be super smart right now.

And usually I, we, we tend to start a fixing political and don't tell me what to do.

I feel like by and large, everyone is like, wow, we, we are very dry.

We are.

If

you go on X, there's a lot of them, the America with the LPA and just being like, it's our right.

It's our God given right to blow stuff up.

Rob, what do you think? Did the governor strike the right balance here? Or do you think he could have done more or less? Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's an appropriate thing to raise the issue.

Utah is dealing with a tremendous challenge with our dryness, the wind, the existing fires that tragically have burned.

I don't know what the total number is, but we have that one fire there in Beaver County that I heard is over 75,000 acres already burned.

dozens of structures.

It's a legitimate challenge that we have.

And one little fire can turn into something that's definitely a tragedy, not to mention even small things along the Wasatch Front pull resources away from some of these other fires that we have in rural Utah.

So like Mara said, I think it was the prudent thing to do.

And if nothing else, it's getting people talking.

And ultimately, I'm a big believer that, yes, we shouldn't be told what to do on a lot of things from the federal government or even state governments in as much and as long as we want to take the responsibility of stewardship.