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I've always maintained that it'd be interesting to see Matt (who's a finance bro) react to the Great Recession of 2008.

LegalEagle talks about the California Wildfires from an insurance payout standpoint. It's going to be bad. Really bad. I wonder if there's any way they can repurpose dead malls in the Los Angeles area like for shelters. Maybe the completed floors of the Graffiti Towers could be put to use? (Probably not but eh.)

Mark has publicly announced that he intends on kinda doing a prequel about JP set in the late 80's that will eventually replace A Summer Love.

Honestly? Thor bores the shit out of me and I really hope he's one of those college friends you drift apart from pretty early on.

It's a tough situation. I think they were shocked that Jeremy had the explosive reaction he had, because in all honesty, Jeremy's not very close to Brad and Jeanine was always the parent he was closest to. (Will went to Brad, Darius went to Robbie, and Jeremy went to Jeanine.) I think they might have figured that Jeremy would have a somewhat blase reaction to it. If I'm playing shrink, though, I think Jeremy's reaction was this bubbling mix about the rejection of his biological father, the truly nasty origins of how he was conceived, and feeling justification of, "Okay, so this is why I've never been Brad's favorite son- I never had a chance to be because I'm not really his son!" Then this got directed towards Will, the Golden Boy who couldn't be anything but Brad's son, and then the nastiness came out of Jeremy's mouth. And damn is Jeremy paying for that. Also, just general Theater Kid theatrics. Having gone to a performing arts high school, I've known and met a ton of kids like Jeremy. People hit their limit when dealing with kids like this and Jeremy is learning that lesson the hard way.

It looks like the firefighters were able to save Calabasas, Hollywood, Encino, and Brentwood!

I think Private Tim appreciates that as much of a snobby stuck up ass Jeremy is, he still pretty much obeys the rules that are set in front of him and doesn't overindulge in partying. Jeremy tipping over the Claremont model is probably the most rebellious and destructive he's ever been. Anyways (because I think we could all use some lightening up), this clip of Nicholas Alexander Chavez after some pretty obvious sniffle snacks is pretty hilarious. https://youtube.com/shorts/TUFYZBYbPqk?si=dtINN1Nu7xc_u3-5

Okay, so for an illumination for the current pace of the series...JJ and I were both born on December 7, 1985. He's not quite 19 and I just turned 39. 😂 There was a point though where the lag between current CAP time and current Real time was only 11 years.

I have never, ever suggested you pick up the pace or try to suggest boring years we can skip over like 2006 or maybe 2013-2015.

If I remember right, it's three adjoining houses and Darius basically took the one Robbie had. NOT Glendale! As a mall lover I'm hoping the Americana and Glendale Galleria are okay.

That's super depressing though. I can't imagine what it's like seeing your city burn down like that. Supposedly what happened to Pacific Palisades makes any previous Los Angeles wildfire look like nothing. I did kind of wonder how Malibu Colony is faring.

I'm earning a paralegal certificate. During an opening chapter of my first textbook they warned us our attorneys may have drinking, drug, or gambling problems to deal with the stress. Luckily you have CAP instead!

In the early 00's MTV had a reality show called Rich Girls. Tommy Hilfiger's daughter was on the show, and she was trying to make herself a burrito but gave up and called delivery. LOL I did kind of think that you were positioning Will as the more down to earth, "can hang with the common people" brother as opposed to stuck up ice prince JJ, but they haven't been as diametrically opposed as I thought they would be. I totally thought you'd have Will go on some kind of backpacking around Europe kind of adventure for his Gap Year and we didn't see him do anything like that at all.

Yeah, it took a lot, but it finally got there. Anyway.., Chapter 45 -When Jeremy realizes just how much he fucked up. "Trouble" by Coldplay I swear to god this song was everyone on t.v. at some point to denote a sad moment. LOL

I meant that Will at 18 is going to be Will at 25, 30, etc etc. I can't see him changing much. Jeremy's still got a LOT of growing up to do. No, he can't. I was on Prozac when I was 22 and some military recruiter guy backed away when I said that. Honestly, if you wanted any quicker way to get those military recruiter guys to back off, that would be it. LOL I don't know if it's still the same way anymore but you would see aggressive military recruiting all the time back then, especially because they'd try and call you off a list from the Selective Service draft you had to sign up for when you turned 18. The nicest part about turning 25 is that I stopped getting bugged about it. As my mentor Lee once said to me, "Jeremy, I really just cannot ever see you in the military." LOL