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0:14Good morning, good morning, good afternoon.

0:15How are you doing out there in the world?

0:18And well, this is a revamp of prepare responder covers program we put on last two, oh, guess two years ago, right, We started with it.

0:29I'm looking into all different aspects of what it is to respond to large scale emergencies and not just Emergency Management. Still, we're looking at law, fire, EMS, private industry, public side of things.

0:47It's a broad brush.

0:49And so I'm excited.

0:51And so Todd and I, Todd Manzat is the 2 Todd's here.

0:55Start talking about it, what it is and, and, and you know, he's got some really great insight.

1:01I've known Todd for a while now.

1:04And as you can tell here, the Blue Cell is the premier sponsor of this program.

1:08And so I want to thank Todd for that.

1:10And Todd, welcome.

1:11Welcome to our show, I guess, for lack of better term.

1:14Hey, well, thanks, thanks for the welcome.

1:16And, you know, it was, it was kind of funny as we were kind of batting this around at the end of last year and, you know, here we are now getting ready to kind of jump right into it.

1:29But certainly the world's events have helped us to have at least some stuff to talk about in the last 30 days.

1:38It feels like it's April already.

1:40And I know we'll get into a little bit of that.

1:42But thanks for having me.

1:43I'm glad to be part of it.

1:46I think this is the longest January I've ever lived, Right?

1:53Well, it's, you know, in some ways we're thinking back a little bit to, you know, what's going on.

1:58I was in New Orleans this week and the events of New Year's Eve are in the distant past when they're worried about the Super Bowl.

2:06They had a snowstorm and they had a a Sugar Bowl.

2:09And it's, it's really interesting that the tempo right now is as real as it gets with regards to, you know, what we are going to be talking about here, you know, interested about that.

2:22It's like, you know, obviously the, the events of January 1st with both New Orleans and Vegas, how quickly it came out of, out of the news cycle because you know, fires happened in, in, in California, you know, and that kept us hopping over here.

2:40You know, obviously you guys all know that I live in, well, maybe not everybody, but I, I live in Southern California.

2:46And so those fires directly impacted my area, not necessarily where I live, but close enough to where I have friends that lost homes and stuff in the fire.

2:57So, I mean, and then then we got rain right after that, which is causing problems.

3:03And then there's snow storms in in Louisiana in the South that's causing problems there.

3:07And we're still not recovering from Hurricane Helene, You know, And then in the midst of all this, we get a new presidential administration, which is definitely moving fast, you know, And yeah, so are, are we going to be able to take your breath?

3:28Well, you know, I don't know that we have a choice, right?

3:30It's that kind of race.

3:32And, you know, being as ready as we can be in different places, that's kind of part of it.

3:38So that the folks who are sprinting as fast as they can can be relieved.

3:41And one of the things that was interesting when I was in, in Louisiana this past week, they were talking about barring snow plows from another state.

3:49Who, who does know how to do that, you know, pretty interestingly.

3:52And then obviously, unfortunately, the events in DC with the, with the plane crash as the, you know, the most recent thing, another really, you know, significant type of event and response.

4:09Just hearing, you know, some of the press conference stuff where they're talking about, you know, the things that, you know, I teach all the time, Unified command 300 respon