{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Justin's brain","title":"An Update on Justin and Wildfires","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":378,"description":"A lot of people have been messaging me after seeing wildfire footage on the news — so here's an update. There are three fires burning west of us here in the Okanagan Valley, and the lakes are acting as a wall between them and the city. The fires aren't the problem. The smoke is.\nSmoke gives me headaches, burns my eyes, keeps me indoors, and wrecks my ability to think and work. So my son and I got in the car and drove out of it — through a mountain pass where the air quality index hit 1,000, over to Vancouver, and onto a ferry to Victoria.\nAlong the way: a band in karate outfits that put a spell on an entire festival crowd, a full day working in person with my Transistor colleague Josh Anderton, and a walk-and-talk with Mike Vardy, one of Transistor's longest-running customers. Plus a growing suspicion that remote work, which I've championed for years, still has no answer for what happens when you sit beside someone.\nChapters\n 00:00 Why everyone's been messaging me\n 00:21 Three fires, and a wall of lakes\n 00:43 Smoke doesn't respect borders\n 00:56 What the smoke does to my head\n 01:10 Hitting the road with my son\n 01:46 An air quality index of 1,000\n 02:10 Over the pass, the air clears\n 02:32 The ferry to Victoria\n 02:49 The Thoons put a spell on the crowd\n 04:05 A day in person with Josh Anderton\n 04:28 There's no equal to working beside somebody\n 04:59 Catching up with Mike Vardy\n 05:34 Don't take clean air for granted ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UqqDv1UJafgztUHPZUZVwjORISRwWDKEaL8iomaxkdA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZDk1/NzE2MWZlMTEyZjdi/MWI5MjFiYmU3ZjA0/MTMwOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}