Peter Hamby
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144 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 24 Jun
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Like a hefty gold chain.
I had a conversation with Gina Smith this morning when I arrived in Atlanta.
And I told her about...
Seven minutes later...
And so the bottom line is this.
I've been unfaithful to my wife.
Been unfaithful to my wife.
I developed a relationship with a, which started as a dear, dear friend from Argentina.
It began very innocently, as I suspect many of these things do, just a casual email back and forth in advice on one's life there and advice here.
But here, recently, over this last year, it developed into something much more than that.
Hey, buddy, I actually want you to know the first time I used the joke about no longer being a journalist and being a content man. And now content man applies to you. I also was the first person to call you a content man. I use that as a bit at your wedding as a little toast. I said, right, I'm no longer a journalist. I'm here as a content man. Fully, fully Snapchat at that point.
Yeah, I mean, the scale is real. I saw your pal Wendell Pierce, New Orleans slash Angeleno, I think, talk about how this is LA's Katrina. I don't necessarily know if that's the case. LA is famously stratified by race and class and geography. And there are people who are technically unaffected. It sort of felt like Katrina just swamped the entire city. You would know better than me, I guess. Yeah.
Yeah. The opposite thing is happening here. Like if you think about the geography of the city and all the incorporated cities within it, you know, generally not totally true, not totally true. And this needs to be stressed. But slightly more middle class to affluent neighborhoods affected.
Altadena is a hub traditionally of black middle class in the city over near the San Gabriel Mountains, over here near where I live in the Palisades in Malibu. There's some wealthy people up there. The traditional flats of LA, like where I live, used to be more of a black neighborhood in Venice. You go over to South Central and East Side, more black and Latino.
Because they are, quote unquote, the flatlands, they weren't as desirable to live in and therefore are...
unaffected in a way that you know having shitty air quality out there because like the ashes on my house don't look like fine dust like you would think like ash coming down like a volcano or something it looks like the soot in your fireplace like the end of a fire that you've been burning all night at christmas time or something there's like black and brown chunks
Like around my neighborhood and not in every neighborhood. It just depends where it falls. And that stuff is very, very much unhealthy. So, yeah, I mean, I think it's it's devastating. The flip side of all this is we all know people who are affected. The other thing that happens in Los Angeles and. By the way, this is the source of the property tax revolt back in the 70s.
It's not just wealthy people in the Palisades, for instance, who are affected by this. A lot of people in Southern California – and this was true down in – I was texting about this when Trump went down to Palos Verdes during the campaign. There are a lot of middle-class people there. who bought houses in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s, whatever.
And the property values have created a lot of wealth for them because it's such a desirable place to live, Southern California. And so you see people who have lost their homes who are rich and famous, some not so famous, some people that used to be famous. But then there's people who just lived in their house for many generations and their entire wealth is tied up in that.
And then you've got people who lost their houses and they own them and they still have to keep paying the mortgage on a house that doesn't exist. Like there's some crazy shit going on.
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