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Zach Weissmueller

Meghan Daum: After the Fires, What's Left of L.A.?

What have the wildfires done to southern California and the people who live there? And could any of this destruction have been prevented? Just asking questions.

The wildfires breaking out across Greater Los Angeles have so far killed at least 25 people and damaged or destroyed over 12,000 structures, according to the Los Angeles Times

Today's guest lost her home in a fire that started in the Eaton Valley of the San Gabriel Mountains. "This is what's left of my house," she wrote on X. "Every house on the block is burned to the ground."

Meghan Daum is a writer and author of five books including The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through The New Culture Wars and The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, a PEN Center USA Award winner for creative nonfiction. She also hosts the podcast The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum.

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Chapters:
  • 00:00 Podcast theme
    00:27 Opening monologue
    1:44 how are you holding up?
    2:37 what is Altadena like?
    07:28 a first-person perspective on the fires starting
    12:53 Meghan's experience in Altadena post-fire
    14:06 Arson?
    17:27 Trump attacks Newsom
    21:28 Woke politics doesn't really explain California's issues.
    22:42 The various policy failures here
    26:42 How do locals feel about the state government?
    34:52 California's economic inequality is going to get worse
    43:28 Are there local shortages?
    46:04 Newsom is banning "price gouging"
    56:42 Will California see a political shift?
    01:01:04 Final question of the show

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