Intro — LA rain, UK weather, and gutters

0:00GOG internet this is your captain speaking Lester Nar joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chowdery my friend how are you today >> doing well you know not as well as I could be because it's like raining and cold >> it's uh in Los Angeles miserable it's a little Seattle right now in LA >> dude oh my gosh >> if this is what it's like in the UK I understand why everyone's miserable >> yeah it also reminds me of why I moved out of the east coast after college and back to my beautiful home of LA. And I'm not one of those guys who's like, we need this, >> you know? Maybe maybe like California needs this, but like in LA, the water is just going into the ocean. >> Yes.

0:40>> Like the the stuff that's coming outside of the studio is just going like like the rain needs to to happen where the reservoirs are. >> Yes. >> To fill the reservoirs, not here. >> Yes. Right. >> I don't We don't need We don't There is a a 6 to 12 in of water flood on the road. >> Yeah. I had to jump over that I was like >> in the driveway. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And there was a, you know, there was a timing battle there because the longer I stood to figure out how to get over that puddle, the wetter I got. So I'm like, what? You know, there's a calculation I was making of like where where am I okay getting wet? >> I I want people to understand like houses don't have gutters here. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Like like literally there's no gutters.

1:21So everything just falls off the side of buildings. It's >> Yeah. It's that's so funny. It's just it's a >> as I was I was mentioning earlier, rain has done more chaos and damage than any other culture war issue you want to bring up about Los Angeles. That's true. >> Rain is our number one enemy. Um >> but I think so we have a couple of good stories this week. >> Yeah, >> we're on episode 17. We're about to wrap up season 1, which I'm arbitrarily saying is every year is a season. >> Yeah, that's good. >> So we're getting close to the end of season one. >> This is the pilot season. >> Pilot season. Uh, it's kind of like Breaking Bad. It's going to be a cult classic. People thought the first season was slow and then all of a sudden it was

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