Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. President Biden is addressing the cease
Speaker 1: fire deal that has just been forged between Israel and Hamas.
Speaker 2: Here we we'll dip in for a minute.
Speaker 3: Strongest supporter Iran launched the tax in Israel, and those
Speaker 3: attacks failed. After my administration organized the Coalition of nations
Speaker 3: to stop them, and after I ordered the US ships
Speaker 3: and planes to come to Zita's defense.
Speaker 2: We also shaped Israel's.
Speaker 3: Strong and calibrated response, destroying Iran's air defenses but avoiding
Speaker 3: an escratory cycle of an all war. The United States
Speaker 3: also organized the coalition of twenty countries to stand up
Speaker 3: to a tax by the Huthis, including their missile attacks
Speaker 3: in Israel. Then Hesblah, another Hamas' strongest backers, was significantly
Speaker 3: weakened on the battlefield, and this leadership is destroyed. With
Speaker 3: our support, Israel negotiated cease fire with them, and after
Speaker 3: that Lebanon finally elected a new president who's not who's
Speaker 3: not beholding hesblog and he can begin a new chapter
Speaker 3: for the Lebanese people. All told these developments in the region,
Speaker 3: which the United States helped to shape, change the equation.
Speaker 3: And so now the terror network that once protected and
Speaker 3: sustained to Moss is far weaker. Iran is weaker. Iran
Speaker 3: is weaker than it has been in decades. Hesblaw is
Speaker 3: badly degraded. And after more than fifteen months of war,
Speaker 3: A Moss's senior leaders are dead, thousands of MOSS fighters
Speaker 3: are dead, and the military formations have been destroyed. With
Speaker 3: nowhere to turn, Moss finally agreed to releasing hostages. You know,
Speaker 3: there was no other way for this war to end
Speaker 3: than with a hostage deal. And I'm deeply satisfied this
Speaker 3: day has come, finally come for the sake of the
Speaker 3: people Israel and the families waiting in agony.
Speaker 1: So that's a bit of Joe Biden. And what essentially
Speaker 1: he's saying is that there was the drip drip, and
Speaker 1: you might expect that it comes from this perspective of
Speaker 1: American support in the Middle East, such that there were
Speaker 1: pressure on there was pressure a on those involved directly
Speaker 1: with the hostagens. And also he identified the whot easing diues,
Speaker 1: identified a Husbal Law and Iran and he's saying, look,
Speaker 1: we in America, through my administration, which is what you'd
Speaker 1: expect this president to say, put pressure on all of
Speaker 1: these other groups through American support for Israeli military incursions,
Speaker 1: and that all helped collectively to bring this about. Now again,
Speaker 1: there'll be a bunch of different interpretations on this, but
Speaker 1: that's essentially what Joe Biden is saying right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in phase one the last six weeks, and that
Speaker 4: will include US hostages being released. Within that first phase,
Speaker 4: you talk about the administration, the administration that has four
Speaker 4: days left on its watch, because of course the Trump
Speaker 4: administration comes in and we know how strong he has
Speaker 4: been in his words when it comes to the Israel
Speaker 4: Hamas War and also Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker 5: So we'll keep a watch on this.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, we're going to get back to our
Speaker 4: coverage of the wildfires in southern California. We've been talking
Speaker 4: to people who have lost everything in all of this.
Speaker 4: We want to hear another man's perspective because he saw
Speaker 4: his home in the Palisades burn. He watched it literally
Speaker 4: play by play from his Tesla camera.
Speaker 5: He wasn't at home.
Speaker 4: He has a wife and two kids three and five
Speaker 4: years old. Those little girls were at school. He was
Speaker 4: out of town at a convention for work, and meanwhile
Speaker 4: this all erupted. James Borrow is on the line now, James,
Speaker 4: good to have you.
Speaker 2: Oh your car, his car was parked in front of the house.
Speaker 5: James, you can you can take it from there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Well the thanks for having me on there.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think, yeah, I guess in terms of
Speaker 6: of actually seeing it, you know that the whole day
Speaker 6: was kind of just obviously you're a crazy day. But
Speaker 6: starting at like ten thirty am, my wife actually saw
Speaker 6: a bunch of smoke coming out of the mountains. I
Speaker 6: think I was actually on a plane heading to the
Speaker 6: lot of things that morning, and so she had tactically
Speaker 6: said this looks bad, and so she went ahead and
Speaker 6: I learned of the schools and got our kids out
Speaker 6: of school really early in the morning. So we were
Speaker 6: really fortunate that she was out of out of the
Speaker 6: Dallas dates before even the evacuation notice was put in place,
Speaker 6: And we obviously were just watching it all day, just
Speaker 6: trying to see, you know, really what was gonna happen,
Speaker 6: just because you know, they were very clear, like everyone
Speaker 6: knew these winds were coming, you know, like we could
Speaker 6: talk about that next, but you never could imagine that
Speaker 6: it would get to our neighborhood, which is really far
Speaker 6: away in terms of just in terms of just you know,
Speaker 6: it's like a ten to fifteen minute drive from where
Speaker 6: it started. And anyway, as the day got worse, it
Speaker 6: became pretty clear that this is getting out of control,
Speaker 6: and so I went to the airport trig get a
Speaker 6: flight home, and a friend said, go ahead and check
Speaker 6: your car. You know, it has cameras on it. And
Speaker 6: so my car was parked across the street and I
Speaker 6: logged into my car, and literally within two minutes of
Speaker 6: pulling up those cameras, I saw a flame jump from
Speaker 6: our neighbor's house to our sideyard, to the garage and
Speaker 6: then engulfed the whole house. At this point, that was
Speaker 6: like maybe seven thirty pm. And yeah, I watched the
Speaker 6: whole thing. Obviously, it's a real experience. And even to
Speaker 6: this day, I've not been back up there, but I
Speaker 6: could still log into my car and check. And so
Speaker 6: I've been trying to why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the evacuation is own. Just to be clear,
Speaker 1: it's there was the evacuation zone is still such that
Speaker 1: you can't even as a resident get back into that.
Speaker 2: Area, correct.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah. We attempted the other day to get up there.
Speaker 6: It was a five Well I waited five hours and
Speaker 6: was not able to go. I know people that were
Speaker 6: there for like thirteen hours, and so it's been the
Speaker 6: only way to really kind of check in for me.
Speaker 6: Other people have got up there, I think with people
Speaker 6: that you know, affiliated with the press, they were able to.
Speaker 2: So we've seen.
Speaker 6: Videos obviously, but yeah, yeah, so it was really really
Speaker 6: really crazy experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to see it live on your Tesla camera.
Speaker 1: You know, I've mentioned before that, you know, we were
Speaker 1: in the Getty fire in our neighborhood burned. I lost
Speaker 1: my house and I also had a Tesla parked in front,
Speaker 1: and but back then they were the old school teslas
Speaker 1: and you had to go in and get the chip
Speaker 1: out to see it, so it took a long time.
Speaker 1: I just it occurred to me days later that I
Speaker 1: could get it. When I finally got in, I got
Speaker 1: that chip and watch it. Afterward. We had secure cameras
Speaker 1: at the house and I could see the embers. It
Speaker 1: was almost like a snow globe. I could see these
Speaker 1: embers coming up all around the house. So I watched
Speaker 1: it also through security cameras that were at the house.
Speaker 1: But to see it from across the street from your car,
Speaker 1: it had to be because again it wasn't after the fact,
Speaker 1: you were seeing it as it happened. I can only
Speaker 1: imagine it was an emotional experience as well to watch that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the motion obviously is it's profound.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And we lived a few blocks away from the
Speaker 6: fire station. Obviously, you know at that point the station
Speaker 6: and the trucks were all over the place. And by
Speaker 6: no means I like, you know, blame the fire department,
Speaker 6: but it was just one of the things when you know,
Speaker 6: even as the day was unfolding, in my head, it
Speaker 6: was like I lived so close to the fire station,
Speaker 6: like eventually that you think there'd become you just assumed
Speaker 6: that just proximity that that you were safer and and
Speaker 6: this just wasn't the case.
Speaker 5: Where does your frustrations lie now?
Speaker 4: I mean I know that you are you're understanding, but
Speaker 4: you're frustrated that you can't go into your property. I
Speaker 4: know a lot of people feel that way. I've heard
Speaker 4: from a lot of homeowners, and your shoes. Where does
Speaker 4: your frustration lie? Just though, as you're picking up the
Speaker 4: pieces and sort of looking back on what happened.
Speaker 6: Without as local government, it's totally inept and competent with
Speaker 6: the communication from the government has been horrible.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: The most valuable sort of infrastructure that we've had up
Speaker 6: until now it's been a week, has been WhatsApp. And
Speaker 6: all the neighbors and friends are self organizing. I mean,
Speaker 6: there are WhatsApp groups for how to handle lawyers and
Speaker 6: whatspp groups for a state farm. And you know this,
Speaker 6: you know, and I think people don't quite It's hard
Speaker 6: for them to wrap their heads around how devastating this
Speaker 6: is like for the community. Like, you know, my entire
Speaker 6: neighborhood is gone. My five year old's school has gone,
Speaker 6: My three year old's preschool has gone. The place that
Speaker 6: they got art class has gone, the place music class
Speaker 6: has gone, place through which the gymnastics is gone, The
Speaker 6: library's gone. You know, I'm forty years old. I have
Speaker 6: a bunch of friends my age, you know, little kids
Speaker 6: that live there. Every single one of their houses has gone.
Speaker 6: I don't have a single friend with a house anymore.
Speaker 6: So it's just you can't like you can't fathom how
Speaker 6: widespread it is. And I would say just in terms
Speaker 6: of frustration, you know a lot of people are pointing
Speaker 6: out the insurance companies to be fair to them. They
Speaker 6: told us they were dropping us, right, there were sixteen
Speaker 6: hundred of us that were state farm insured. And you know,
Speaker 6: over the last few months, they were transparent. They got
Speaker 6: us into the fair plan. I had to pay you know,
Speaker 6: four hundred percent more, which is ridiculous, but at least
Speaker 6: they were I think transparent. The local officials knew that
Speaker 6: all of us had been dropped, and they did not
Speaker 6: go ahead and say, Okay, my citizens now are at
Speaker 6: elevated risk. Let check the water pressure, Let's make sure
Speaker 6: that the fire engines are being worked on, Let's make
Speaker 6: sure the reservoirs filled. So it is you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: my take is a low government. Basically, it's been like
Speaker 6: a facade, like they were playing government and like this
Speaker 6: is just you can't imagine incompetent it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is when you need government.
Speaker 1: James Borrow, we're out of time, but your story is
Speaker 1: honestly one and your perspective that's shared by so many Angelinos.
Speaker 1: I wish you so well. Building back your life, and
Speaker 1: I am so grateful on behalf of all of us
Speaker 1: at KFI for you sharing your story.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: James Nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just astounding talking about the Israel and Hamas deal
Speaker 1: from time to time. We carried the remarks of the
Speaker 1: president live. And the new president and Trump administration begins
Speaker 1: on Monday, and I'm sure there will be conversations around
Speaker 1: to what degree that incoming administration was having an effect
Speaker 1: on fast tracking negotiations which had been under way.
Speaker 5: For so long, Yeah, putting the pressure on.
Speaker 4: And then also he says he's going to stop the
Speaker 4: war in Ukraine immediately, so we'll see what happens there
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Obviously we're focusing on the fire. And one of
Speaker 1: the aspects of Los Angeles and Southern California fires and
Speaker 1: disasters generally is that they're populated by celebrities.
Speaker 2: It's an odd fact and it's a weird thing.
Speaker 1: In the grim desperation of so many who've been displaced,
Speaker 1: who've lost to everything, you see these stars show up,
Speaker 1: you know, to help out and among them, and I
Speaker 1: saw Eva Longoria saw well, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, Jennifer Garner was out there.
Speaker 1: And probably the highest profile in the middle of it
Speaker 1: all was Gutenberg, you know, saying, you know, we've got
Speaker 1: to move these cars out of the way. That was
Speaker 1: during the entire inferno. Well, Jay Leno showed up yesterday
Speaker 1: and he brought his Hey, Bronnie's, you know, it's fire
Speaker 1: engine from nineteen forties. I think that was the idea,
Speaker 1: was he was. They're not just for the personal appearance.
Speaker 1: He was serving food.
Speaker 2: You came by to drop off some supplies.
Speaker 7: We're cooking for the for the crew, and well, you guys,
Speaker 7: if you're hungry, we got we've got a big barbecue
Speaker 7: going because you know, we're getting box lunches. We figure,
Speaker 7: let's get some hot food. So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 7: I drove a nineteen forty one America La France fire truck.
Speaker 2: So guy's got to go.
Speaker 7: You brought your own fire, drop own fire. It's good
Speaker 7: to have your own fire truck. Where do you live
Speaker 7: in La and in nineteen forty one forty one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so but anyway, so we've got it loaded up
Speaker 7: and we cooked yesterday in Pasadena at the Rose Ball
Speaker 7: for the crew there, and we're here today and we'll
Speaker 7: attend the locations the next two or three days.
Speaker 1: Jay is wonderful and he's a friend of Kofi, and
Speaker 1: it's great to see him out there. And it's again
Speaker 1: one of those weird aspects.
Speaker 5: Of you know, all of the celebrity and all of
Speaker 5: that Shutthern California.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and of course he was darking to Anderson Cooper, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: another celebrity.
Speaker 2: And that's truely now you emerging the celebrity.
Speaker 5: Okay, So we're going to talk about the root cause.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because yeah, we'll talk about it quickly, just because
Speaker 1: something we talked about yesterday and you were getting your
Speaker 1: maternity scan yesterday. I think it was lovely but sad
Speaker 1: you couldn't be here. But I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: that they're looking at this fireworks, this illegal fireworks thing
Speaker 1: that was going on on New Year's Eve and then
Speaker 1: pointing to that as the thing that could produce this
Speaker 1: fire six days later.
Speaker 4: Well, and the fire actually happened on New Year's Day,
Speaker 4: so it happened six days before January seventh, which of
Speaker 4: course is when the Palisades Fire started. And so yes,
Speaker 4: atf they have seventy five personnel on the scene.
Speaker 5: They're investigating this.
Speaker 4: This is that Skull Rock trail which is a very
Speaker 4: popular hiking trail and there was a kids, literally kids
Speaker 4: out there seen the night before.
Speaker 5: They were able to quickly put that fire out.
Speaker 4: But LAFD PIO Eric Scott was asked about this and
Speaker 4: he says, yeah, it's not unconscious, it's not You can
Speaker 4: conceive that this could have reignited six days later.
Speaker 5: Fires can do that.
Speaker 1: We will follow up on this, but that is the
Speaker 1: last part of what you just said is the thing
Speaker 1: that I'm really being educated on that something could reignite
Speaker 1: six days later if the winds are strong enough. It's
Speaker 1: an extraordinary notion. The moment has come we take a
Speaker 1: little break from some of the seriousness. Dad has called
Speaker 1: into the show.
Speaker 5: I even miss hearing Gary Hoffman. Ever, Daddy fails.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to check in Gary Hoffman. How are you, sir?
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm appropriately sore. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: Now tell everybody why, just remind.
Speaker 8: Us so my vacation is. I am playing in a
Speaker 8: Major League baseball fantasy came out in Scottsdale, Arizona, where
Speaker 8: you come on out, you play five, six, seven baseball
Speaker 8: games in the course of the week and go home
Speaker 8: sore and happy.
Speaker 5: I mean, how how realistic, is it? Though?
Speaker 4: When you say MLB major league status, how dare you?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 8: What? What? It's We're playing on the real fields. We're
Speaker 8: playing on Scottsfield Stadium field, which is where the Giants
Speaker 8: do their spring training games. They have their their Winter
Speaker 8: league ball teams play here, the minor league of course,
Speaker 8: during the during the offseason, so it's legit. We've got umpires,
Speaker 8: we've got our coaches are all former players.
Speaker 5: Awesome.
Speaker 8: Yeah. My coach on my team is J. T. Snow
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, of course the Giants and the Angels of course.
Speaker 8: So and it's just fun. It's a blast show you
Speaker 8: you hit the ball off of t No no, no.
Speaker 8: Yesterday we did live pitching, so we just it was
Speaker 8: our first game and it was really for a lot
Speaker 8: of guys the first time they had seen live pitching
Speaker 8: since about the eighth grade. And you could tell. But
Speaker 8: but we pitched to each other. I think as we
Speaker 8: get later in the week, you're going to see that
Speaker 8: fifty year old arms are not built to throw four
Speaker 8: or five innings day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so they may turn it over and have some
Speaker 8: of the former Major leaguers come in and throw pitches
Speaker 8: for us. I mean The point is we're not here
Speaker 8: to strike out. We're all here to hit and you know,
Speaker 8: get the ball in the in the outfield and try
Speaker 8: to move around a little bit so that that that's
Speaker 8: the Probably the biggest change is that we're not doing
Speaker 8: full time, full pitching like like they have in the past.
Speaker 5: That makes it more fun though.
Speaker 1: Well, I got it's everybody participating. My questions about the demographic,
Speaker 1: like what are the ages of the people who are there.
Speaker 8: The youngest camper is twenty he's here with his dad.
Speaker 8: We have a couple. We have a brother and sister
Speaker 8: who are twenty five and twenty eight. There's another father
Speaker 8: and son. The son is I think twenty seven and
Speaker 8: dad is seventy three. I think that's pretty close to
Speaker 8: the top. Seventy one, seventy two, seventy three is the
Speaker 8: is the highest ages. Wow, and then the vast majority
Speaker 8: of people fifties and sixties.
Speaker 5: Probably this is not your first rodeo.
Speaker 8: You do this regularly, Well, I'd love to do it regularly.
Speaker 8: It's a little cost prohibitive to do it every year,
Speaker 8: but it is one of those things that I have
Speaker 8: thoroughly and I mean I get to go, I get
Speaker 8: a full uniform tailored to well, not tailored, but I
Speaker 8: mean my size uniform with my name on the back of.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 8: I get to play baseball with all of these guys
Speaker 8: that you know love playing it as well, and it's
Speaker 8: just I mean, it's a it's a really for me.
Speaker 8: This is sort of that bucket list item that I've
Speaker 8: been lucky enough to do, and it's great. I Mean,
Speaker 8: one of the things about the sport at baseball is
Speaker 8: that there is a lot of downtime. And I know,
Speaker 8: for for people who aren't smart enough to follow it,
Speaker 8: they think that it's boring because of that downtime. But
Speaker 8: there's nobody who tells stories the way baseball players tell stories.
Speaker 8: So every morning we get we get a chance to,
Speaker 8: you know, hang out with these former players and ask
Speaker 8: them all the questions that we always wanted to ask them, like, hey,
Speaker 8: I was at that game when you hit the walk
Speaker 8: off home runner, I remember you when you played with
Speaker 8: the Angels, And what was it like to play with
Speaker 8: Barry Bonds? And I mean all of these great things.
Speaker 8: And they love coming out here too. I Mean, they
Speaker 8: love this game. They love the camaraderie that is just
Speaker 8: built around this game. It's inherent in this game. So
Speaker 8: this I mean, it's just it's fun for everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you're your listeners.
Speaker 4: By the way, you were you and Shannon, you were
Speaker 4: off during the holidays, deservedly so, and then you come
Speaker 4: back and then you abandoned them again.
Speaker 5: And now here we are.
Speaker 2: She went from deservedly so to abandon them again. I
Speaker 2: noticed that.
Speaker 4: But now your listeners they know why. I mean, this
Speaker 4: is what a great thing for you to be doing.
Speaker 1: By the way, the downtime in baseball is the part
Speaker 1: that's the only part of baseball I'm good at, is
Speaker 1: the downtime. So you know, the dugouts, sitting around telling stories.
Speaker 1: That's where I really excel. Yeah, So it continues for
Speaker 1: the rest of the week, and then at the end
Speaker 1: they're like trophies and presentations.
Speaker 2: I've heard. I know only one other person's.
Speaker 1: Actually gone through it and goes through it regularly, and
Speaker 1: that's I believe how they end most of these things.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're doing sort of a round robin. There's four teams.
Speaker 8: We're going to play each team at least once, and
Speaker 8: then by Friday morning they will have determined who is who.
Speaker 8: You know, how they rank, and we have a consolation
Speaker 8: game and then a championship game, and the championship game
Speaker 8: is played out here on the stadium field again. I mean,
Speaker 8: we have a full announcer, they have pictures up on
Speaker 8: the scoreboard each of us, They have walk up songs,
Speaker 8: they do everything that is so awesome.
Speaker 5: Are you I haven't seen you haven't posted anything, have you.
Speaker 8: I just think keana a picture from that. I just
Speaker 8: took this afternoon so you can see. It's just incredible,
Speaker 8: beautiful weather. It's actually and I know this is going
Speaker 8: to hit hard in the wrong way, but it's a
Speaker 8: little windy today, nothing like La obviously, But other than that,
Speaker 8: I mean, it's beautiful blue skies. It's going to be
Speaker 8: seventy degrees today, probably seventy four tomorrow. Yeah, but I'll
Speaker 8: throw some pictures up there. They actually have a couple
Speaker 8: of photographers that are going around and have been taking
Speaker 8: pictures of games and people and you know, running on
Speaker 8: bass and batting situations.
Speaker 2: So what position do you like? Where are you on
Speaker 2: the field today?
Speaker 8: I've been playing third and short, switching off their depending
Speaker 8: on who's up on the other team.
Speaker 5: Have any ground balls gotten by.
Speaker 8: You gotten by me. How dare you again?
Speaker 1: I really and that one. I'm gonna throw a flag
Speaker 1: to come on the guy. He's not a pro.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, hey, he is.
Speaker 3: A pro.
Speaker 5: I'm given him an opportunity to you know, flex his muscle.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to cross reference that story. I'll just
Speaker 1: go with what he says. Okay, no error is a
Speaker 1: third or shot.
Speaker 2: Gary.
Speaker 1: It's so excited basically because of your excitement. It's really
Speaker 1: it does sound like big fun. So it's cool that
Speaker 1: you took.
Speaker 2: Time out to a check in with the show, and
Speaker 2: we can't wait to have you back. Pal.
Speaker 8: Now, I got to go back into the trainer's room
Speaker 8: and see if I can get some tiger bomb or
Speaker 8: something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, get the cupping done.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, cuppy cupping.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, that means something different in baseball.
Speaker 5: You know that's true.
Speaker 1: I don't know if cupping is quite as popular in baseball.
Speaker 1: But all right, Gary, all the best, Thanks for checking
Speaker 1: in man. All right, Gary Hoffman.
Speaker 8: Thanks guys, thanks for holding down the fort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, Thank you, Gary. Wow, you bet he
Speaker 1: seems as though he's very happy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Alm, he's definitely in his element.
Speaker 2: Really really good stuff.
Speaker 1: You're just talking about baby names in the break because
Speaker 1: Marla is expecting very exciting. We're all kind of getting
Speaker 1: caught up in the excitement.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you're so excited.
Speaker 2: I like the name Mark for her little girl. Anybody right, yeah?
Speaker 2: An By on that? No, yeah, spell at M A
Speaker 2: r q ue you see. Oh yeah, yeah, you see
Speaker 2: it's a little different.
Speaker 4: Or you know, another m name would be money because
Speaker 4: we did IVF and she caused a fortune. Yeah, poor
Speaker 4: little thing, she's gonna have a little complex. Do remind
Speaker 4: her of that bit of damager out of the gate.
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you this quick story about my mother.
Speaker 1: I had a very tough time with my back in
Speaker 1: my early thirties. I've had a bad back, real problems
Speaker 1: with discs et cetera lower back. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have that, but mine led to a surgery. It was
Speaker 1: excruciatingly painful leading up to the surgery and the surgery itself.
Speaker 1: And my mother is wonderful and she's still around ninety four.
Speaker 1: We lost my dad this past year, but they both
Speaker 1: came out to the recovery room, you know, as I'm
Speaker 1: in the hospital and I had this lower lumbar surgery.
Speaker 1: So I'm coming out of anesthesia and literally just and
Speaker 1: I mean the pain is really big in that beginning,
Speaker 1: right as you recover.
Speaker 2: And my mother leans over and she said, now you
Speaker 2: know how childbirth feels.
Speaker 1: I thought, really, Mom, that's where you're going. Got you
Speaker 1: back your first comments. You're still beautiful to come out
Speaker 1: and visit, but your first comments are yeah, so you
Speaker 1: should remind the.
Speaker 5: You know, the little one, Yeah, make her feel bad.
Speaker 2: This is my mom and dad paid a lot of
Speaker 2: money to have you.
Speaker 1: It's true that join us on this earthly plane, so
Speaker 1: respect that.
Speaker 4: Can can let me tell you this? How's this for timing?
Speaker 4: So yes, we did IVF. The company that I work
Speaker 4: for didn't offer any insurance. Most, I would say, the
Speaker 4: majority of companies don't. It's more rare that a company does,
Speaker 4: and same with my husband's so hence we pay out
Speaker 4: a pocket worth every penny. Honey beg she's listening right now.
Speaker 4: But we literally on January fourth, came home from running
Speaker 4: errands on the weekend, got the mail. I opened it up,
Speaker 4: and it is from insurance that says, as of January one,
Speaker 4: we cover IVF costs. Wow, as of January one, twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five, and you know me, Monday morning, I was
Speaker 4: on the line to say, is there anything retroactive.
Speaker 5: Because it's literally months ago?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 5: No, Wow, not a penny.
Speaker 2: That's so many things in life that are that way.
Speaker 5: But I'm thrilled.
Speaker 4: Of course, I commend the company and it will help
Speaker 4: so many people because that's one of the inhibitive things
Speaker 4: about it is the financial costs.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course.
Speaker 1: I mean you're lucky that you had the the means
Speaker 1: to make it happen, exactly. And I guess that's what
Speaker 1: you're saying, is right, That insurance is there to help
Speaker 1: others who may not have the means.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So just to round out the Palisades fire again, there
Speaker 1: is the I would say it's fair to say that
Speaker 1: ATF is the elite team of investigators, you know, when
Speaker 1: it comes to investigations of this sort. And so they're
Speaker 1: looking at this area of scorched chaparral. They are eliminating
Speaker 1: things like the the blaze starting from some an electrical fire.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're they're eliminating these transmission lines. They
Speaker 1: found the lines they appear to be intact. I think
Speaker 1: that's a fair summary.
Speaker 5: But is that in the that's in the Eating fire.
Speaker 2: That's in No, that's in the Palisades fire.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: They found lines that were intact, they found lines that
Speaker 1: were not.
Speaker 2: They feel linked to the fire.
Speaker 1: In other words, so that's why they're looking at that
Speaker 1: scorched chaparral in the Eton fire. It appears that there
Speaker 1: is a link between southern California edison and the origins
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 5: Correct, That's what I was getting to.
Speaker 1: Okay, so these two fires are very different that way.
Speaker 1: In the case of the Palisades fire, they're focusing on
Speaker 1: that again, that illegal fireworks thing that was going on
Speaker 1: that did start a fire. The blaze was put out right,
Speaker 1: and they feel as though it was reignited days later.
Speaker 1: It's an extraordinary scenario and narrative that I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: thought at all possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, LAFD spokesperson Eric Scott came out
Speaker 4: and he said, because our reporter out there, Matthew Seedorf,
Speaker 4: who by the way, got the exclusive video just yesterday.
Speaker 4: You can find it on FOXLA dot com if you
Speaker 4: want to take a look at this. It's cell phone
Speaker 4: video that he obtained that shows that New Year's Day fire,
Speaker 4: which ended up burning about ten acres before it was extinguished.
Speaker 4: But Eric Scott with LAFD said, it is not unreasonable
Speaker 4: to think that the embers could be reignited six days later.
Speaker 4: So ATF is, you know, looking into that, and they've
Speaker 4: got the microscope. But yesterday, of course, of course, because
Speaker 4: it's quote early in the investigation, the ATF special Agent
Speaker 4: in charge during the afternoon briefing said, at this point
Speaker 4: we're looking at everything, the idea of talking about a cause.
Speaker 5: At this point, everything is considered a theory.
Speaker 1: Sure, of course, I mean they don't want to close
Speaker 1: the book on anything yet, and so the investigation continues.
Speaker 1: By the way, we had a pretty good conversation about this.
Speaker 1: In fact, my head was whipped around on this on
Speaker 1: my show, my YouTube show it's called The Mark Thompson Show,
Speaker 1: and I taped something. I recorded something last night with
Speaker 1: an eco journalist who went into how this actually happens,
Speaker 1: How six days later you could have the reanimation of
Speaker 1: these embers that were really dormant.
Speaker 2: I mean they again, I didn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I just thought, I'm sorry, I can't understand how that's
Speaker 1: even possible. She goes through it so if you're curious
Speaker 1: to find it on YouTube. It's yet to air. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to air in the next hour, but
Speaker 1: you can find it any time. It's up there. It's
Speaker 1: on YouTube, it's The Mark Thompson Show, and just go.
Speaker 1: We'll break it out as a separate video. But it's
Speaker 1: fascinating that that could even happen. And the last thing
Speaker 1: I would say is, you know, we had the Lahina
Speaker 1: reporter and he talked about the parallel because in the
Speaker 1: Lahina fire, it clearly was just that they had a fire,
Speaker 1: they put it out, They left the scene thinking that
Speaker 1: it was put out and completely extinguished, and it was
Speaker 1: re animated by those wins and that wiped out that
Speaker 1: entire community.
Speaker 4: And that's why the hotspots that are still out there
Speaker 4: in the Palisades fire footprint are so important to monitor
Speaker 4: because yes, they're active hotspots, so it's more than just
Speaker 4: putting out a fire completely. But nonetheless, even if it's
Speaker 4: just a little a little bit, I mean, it can
Speaker 4: just explode all all over again.
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