Back to episode — Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25
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PT last night to digest a big legal document that I was asked to review. And I thought to myself, oh, perfect application for AI. I'm going to upload the document, and then I will query it to say, okay, is this handled? You know, what about this? What's it say about this? And it would summarize it for me, and I'd save a bunch of time. I was so happy to be in the age of AI. So I took my PDF file a…
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All right, let's talk about the LA fires. It's all horrible. You know, if you're new to my live stream, I live in Northern California, and you might say to yourself, well, Northern California, that's so far away from Southern California that you're probably not much impacted. Well, I'm not impacted directly by the fire. That's not a risk where I am. But if you live in California, you end up having a lot of friends in other parts of California. So I'm very impacted. And I had to cancel the man cave last night because there was just too many people who needed help and too many people I had to check on. And it was both family and friends. And it was a big weight.
So just not being in the direct fire is better than being in the fire. But let me tell you, the other residents of California, we're taking it in the gut. This is like being punched all day long. And five people dead, apparently, which is a gigantic tragedy. I suppose you could say something like, could have been worse. But five people is five people. One of them reportedly had stayed behind with his hose and was trying to save his house. And I always wondered how smart or dumb that strategy was, because there are a number of people who apparently did in fact save their houses because somebody stayed, you know, neighbor or they stayed with a hose. But one of them died. So if you're going to stay with a hose, just know, I don't know what the odds are of you dying in this sort of massive fire situation, but it might be like 20%. You know, I mean, it's crazy high. But people do what they have to do. If it's your entire life and you're not insured, which was the case in many cases, I guess you do what you got to do.
Anyway, so speaking of do what you got to do, I heard Greg Gutfeld on The Five yesterday requesting that people consider opening up their homes to other people. This one's not like a lot of different disasters. The sheer number of people who are displaced in a fairly populated area is kind of crazy, and they're not going to go back soon. So a lot of people are opening houses, donating money, trying to help in every possible way they can. So it's pretty much an all-hands-on-deck situation here. So if you don't see me putting in as much work, could you please understand that this isn't the week that my mind's on work. We're trying to keep people alive and help as we can.
So apparently there's, I think there's still zero containment. But the Santa Ana winds that made it so bad should be dying down by the end of today. So I'm hoping that we're going to see something like some containment now. I hate to say it, but probably the only thing that will bring this fire under control is burning everything that's burnable until there's just no fuel left. It's just the ocean. So I don't know what they're going to do. But Elon Musk has announced he's going to donate free Starlink terminals to the affected area in LA. I think that's maybe today or tomorrow he's going to do that.
X always makes me feel like the world is so small. So the richest, most interesting guy in the world right now is of course in every topic, and he's in this topic in a productive way. And then you see in the comments, when he says he's going to donate them, you see his brother Kimbal saying, you know, thanks brother. So he must be in LA and he must be affected. So even Kimbal Musk is in the mix. A lot of celebrities. We'll talk about some of those.
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war. So I'm guilty of probably, I don't know the specifics, but I think I probably reposted some fake news yesterday because there was so much speculation and not quite accurate. So I want to talk about the things we think we know and put them in context. If you haven't done this yet, I recommend it highly. If you're not watching one of the fake news networks like CNN talking about the context of…
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