2025-01-27
8 分钟Npr.
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I'm Waylon Wong here with Darian Woods.
Hey, Darian.
Hey, Waylon.
So often on the show we do listener questions, but today is kind of a twist on that idea because we actually had our own questions.
We have questions and our questions are about the LA wildfires because as we were reading around, there were some curious things that popped up that we wanted to look into.
Yeah.
So for example, victims of the wildfires are understandably going to go fund me to raise money.
But warnings are going around that getting donations that way could make you ineligible for federal assistance.
We get to the bottom of that.
One and we explore what it means when brands say they're donating proceeds of sales to wildfire relief.
We will have answers for you and for us after the break.
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