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Thank you. Hi, everybody, welcome to the Cognitive Dissidence Podcast, or is it a show? I don't know.

We'll call it a podcast, Cognitive Dissidence Podcast. I'm your host, Parallel Mike from the Parallel Systems Broadcast and Parallel Mike podcast. And I'm joined by my co-host and Monica.

I'm going to hand it over to you because it looks like you are back in your beautiful house. So do

want to just update us as to how it's going over there? Absolutely. Yes, I'm Monica Perez from the

Monica Perez show. And last time we

talked was two days after my entire town. We were right in the middle of the blast zone for

one of the two big L.A. fires. And I mean, when I was talking to you, I really still smelled like

smoke. I was absolutely shaking. I didn't want to cancel our show. And so the difference between that, which was about one month ago, I think four weeks almost to the day, it's four weeks to the day since the fire. And just it's been such a long road, even for me and my house didn't burn down. I mean, it was damage,

but we managed, many things came together for us to save it. And it was a lot, even this past month,

there's a lot of scare about toxins and you can't go up there and our gas was out, our power was

out, our electricity is out, our Wi-Fi is still out. So we had to buy a little, like a weird

little station for the house. Had to, to the elusive Mr. Perez for that. And so it was amazing.

They had sheriffs, police, the National Guard, stopping us from coming home. In the beginning, we were climbing over

fences and stuff and gates because there were animals up there. My neighbor had chickens. We had

a lot of steak in the freezer. We had to access the house just to button it up. And we were

okay with the sheriff and the cops. We would be like, hey, can we go in?

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