Being born and raised in SoCal means earthquakes (and fire) are a fact of life. When I was school aged we had most of the most recent large earthquakes—Northridge, San Francisco as well as some of the smaller ones in more recent years and how people reacted fascinated me and since Japan’s record setting earthquake and tsunami I’ve realized how underprepared I am and set about educating myself and this series helped me realize that it’s more a case of woefully underprepared and I now have emergency kits in backpacks in my car and home and a folder dedicated to what we will need in an emergency. Thank you for helping me learn about this complex issue and help me get more prepared!

The amount of ads makes this impossible to listen to.

Listen to the episode about native land management. The show presents irrelevant details about mistreatment of the Indians, fetishizes native culture. They pretend that native people extracting what they want from the land is somehow more noble than what others extract. They pretend that native people are some how essential to the ecosystem, and seem to forget that the ecosystem existed long before humans arrived in North America. The episode ends with disparaging capitalism. The show 100% conforms with far left ideology.

I just completed listing to Episode 5 and I am so very humbled. There is so much I did not know or realize about the indigenous communities that lived here before Europeans arrived on this land. Please listen and learn. I trust that Mr. Margolis will help see a way forward.

Too many ads and annoying 2nd person presentation.

Hard to listen to a show with so many ads. There are too many in this podcast and they’re too long. I know it’s somewhat unfair to criticize one specific show for the entire podcast ad environment. But I’m listening to fewer and fewer shows now because there are too many ads in them. It’s time for the podcast community to rethink monetizing podcasts, and what part ads could and should play in that. If ad dollars must float big budget shows, please make the ads vastly shorter, quieter, less repetitive and with fewer total ad breaks. I can’t even name one advertiser for this show and yet I’ve quit listening a few minutes into the first episode many times now.

The podcast has great production and poses interesting questions but the suffers from the problem many podcasts experience. The host has certain expectations that result in his bias coming through at times when interviewing subjects who do not agree with his view. It often creates a more alarming conspiracy like feel that is somewhat off putting.

I really enjoyed Season 1 from Laist Studios. It did an excellent job of portraying what The Big One was, why it's expected, and how people should react before, during and after that event. But this season, which they represent in their own byline as a survival guide for wildfires, is anything but. Six episodes in, we're still just talking about prescribed burns. And we get it, they're effective, native peoples invented them, we should respect their knowledge and revive the practice on a national scale. We even get a hearty helping of white guilt. What we don't get, is any discussion of how people should react before, during and after a wildfire. There are some fascinating relevant stories told. We follow a native tribal leader on a prescribed burn, getting a first hand view of how it impacts the land, or a wildfire survivor recounts how he scrambled to a residential pool and fought for his life in the water for hours. And those stories could have been part of a larger narrative of how to react to disaster. It just seems like they lost the plot of what they set out to create here. It's a shame, because there are a ton of aspects I would have loved to hear about. Hopefully they'll get back to the narrative in Season 3.

I can’t recommend this podcast enough!

Such an amazing series, so very relevant to all of us in LA and beyond!