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Hey, it's Tony. I know we're supposed to have a podcast today. It's Monday, and we normally do podcasts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but this is going to be one of our vacation weeks. Now. We don't take many, maybe two a year, because I always like to do 150 podcasts. But something came up just a little while ago. I don't know, two, three, four weeks ago, my friend Alan, the socialite said, why don't you come to Florida and play golf? And I said, sure. I always say sure, but I don't actually then go to play golf in Florida. But I said, sure. And I talked it over with Michael, and Michael said he would join me for a couple of days if I wanted to do this. And I talked it over with the people at pti, particularly Matt Kelleher, and he said, it's not like we just started the show an hour ago. You know, if you want to take some time off, if you want to go play in Florida, you know, do it. So I thought about it and I made reservations to do it without actually thinking I was going to do it. And now you're all thinking, oh, you know, he's not doing the podcast this week because of all the snow in Washington and there's no power in Washington and he's standing outside in 3 degree weather and he's dying. No, none of that is true, right, Nigel? None of that is actually true.
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B
Yeah, that's right, Tony.
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A
Yeah. So what happened was that I. It's a very complicated thing about buying tickets and airline tickets and changing airline tickets and wondering about the storm and this, that and the other thing. And as people know, I'm not a good flyer. I'm not. I'm not going to make it any worse than that, but I'm not real good at this. And yesterday I had tickets. Yesterday. Well, not yesterday. If you're listening to this, on Monday, I. Ticket to go. Friday, I was going to get out before the storm, and I asked Nigel to do me a favor and come with me to the airport and then drive my car back. Am I telling the truth? So far, I haven't. I haven't wandered from the truth.
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C
One question. Did you buy your tickets from Elizabeth and Philip Jennings?
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A
No, I did not do that. I wanted to so badly, but you know that the show went off the air a little too quickly for me to do that, or I would have done it for certain. So I have these tickets. I don't really want to go, but I'm going to go. I'M going to force myself to go. And I say, nigel, do me a favor, drive me to the airport. And he says, sure, drive you to the airport. So what I'm going to say now is 100% true. The plane is leaving from Dulles and I'm about five miles from Dulles, when on my car phone, without me knowing how this happened, a message comes out loud and clear from United. We are United Airlines. We're just trying to tell you now that your flight has been delayed. Now, my flight was supposed to leave at 5:45. My flight was delayed till middle 9:30. It's about 3 o' clock now. How did I take that news, Nigel? Was that. Was I calm with that? Was I calm?
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B
Not. Not 100% calm? You didn't seem to really want to go through with it at that point, which I understood, you know, Yeah, I.
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A
Was going to turn around and go home. I was going to say, I'll just stick, stick through the snow. But Carol wanted to make this trip and Carroll said, I'm going to go whether you go or not. And we had this understanding that Carol would stay there and wait for the plane. And then it was 50, 50 that I would go home. And one thing led to another and I stayed and I stayed and I stayed and I was just going to make sure she got on the plane. And then I said, you know what? Just do it. I mean, I talked to Michael and Liz. I mean, I texted them more than talked to them, thought about it. I called or texted all the pilots that I knew and I said, what do you think? And they said, do it, you know, get away from the snow. You know, the flight will be fine. And because, you know, I just thought, well, it's at night, they can't see. And now when I actually say that to a pilot, he laughs at me, you know, just thinks you're an idiot. What are you talking about? But anyway, all of these things happened and I actually got on the plane and miracle of miracles, it was like tremendously smooth. But when we landed, when we landed in Florida, my normal bedtime, as people probably know, is about, I don't know, 9, 9:30. If there's a game on that I really want to see, I might stay up a little later. But I'm up at 5 o'. Clock. I'm out with the dog, you know, early in the morning. So I'm not a nighttime person. We landed at 12:30, like not, not Friday, 12:30 in the morning, Saturday. And the socialite was there to pick us up, which was fabulous. He was, I mean, he, you know, he was there. Yeah, he was there to pick us up. And I hadn't eaten all day. I hadn't eaten a thing. And so I was, you know, I was excited with the fact that I was going to get off this plane. I was going to walk through the concourse. This, the food stores were going to be open and I was going to get something to eat. Nothing is open. Nothing's open. So, anyway, I, I got to Florida and I'm going to play this week. Not going to the podcast, but I'm going to have tremendous stories, you know, when I get back, about playing golf and places that we played. And I'm going to have great sympathy and empathy for people who are getting hit with this particular storm. As you know, we had Kevin Sheehan with his fear casting, and then we had Jason Salmon out, you know, to tell us what really might happen. And by the time you hear this, most of what might have happened will have happened. And you just hope it's going to, it's going to be an unbelievably prolonged period of below freezing weather. Truly, truly cold weather. But what you hope for is that there's a minimum of ice, because ice, freezing rain. Ice. Actually, freezing rain, not so bad. Right? Or sleet, not so bad. Freezing rain bad, right? Is that how it works, Nigel? Freezing rain bad?
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B
Yeah, freezing rain is not good. And as you said, with the temperatures next week to be down all, well below freezing.
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A
It's like all day, all night.
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B
Yeah, it's looking like it's going to be a nasty week. Honestly, if there was one week out of the year to not be in Washington by chance. Yeah, totally by chance.
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A
But, you know, totally by chance, people would say, well, why did you pick this week? Well, had nothing to do with, with snow and ice because I didn't know. I picked this week because it's the week between the championship games and the Super Bowl. It's pretty much a dead week in sports. And even the people at PTI said, well, as long as you're back for the, the run up of the super bowl, you know, take some time if that's what you want to do. That was the motivation, was it was a dead week in sports, right?
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B
Yeah. But it turns out, no, it's a brilliant plan because you're not going to be here to deal with, like, hopefully by the time you and Michael get back that the thaw will have begun and you guys will just see sort of the aftermath of all this.
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A
Well, I Mean, what I was reading today in the Capital Weather gang was they said it was not going to even thaw till after Groundhog day, which is the 2nd of February. That's a long, extended period of time. But what I have said to people is, you know, I'll just buy a couple of sport jackets and shirts. I'll find a studio. I'll do the thing from here. And now what Wilbond does, don't move on Arizona when it's gone.
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B
Well, if you were gonna follow Wilbourne's footsteps, you just buy another house down there.
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A
That's where I've actually thought about doing that too, of course. But, you know, maybe we can find a way. I don't know that we can find a way to a podcast, but.
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C
But I'll send you a microphone.
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A
Michael and I thought this to. Sean thought this too. We all thought let you know. So you're, you know, because we did podcast this week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, without mentioning this, let everybody know what is going on. Do we. Are we in agreement that we did the right thing by doing this?
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B
Yes, absolute.
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A
Okay. So people will be happy.
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B
We hope.
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A
We hope they'll be happy and warm and dry. Because this, this thing is. It's not just. It's not just Washington, D.C. it's all the way up in the, in the east and northeast. And I'm pretty sure it started in like around Texas and Oklahoma, right?
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B
Yeah, It's a massive storm system. It's. It's disrupting things all over that. This large swath of the country. But, yeah, I suppose up north, like New York and Boston and Maine, I imagine they're just going to get clobbered with this.
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A
Well, and I will say that we in Washington, we haven't had anything like this in quite a lot of years.
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B
It's been a while.
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A
We really haven't. And even when we've had massive snowstorms, usually within a week, the temperature gets over 40 and things melt. And while it's a problem for a day or two, it's not a problem for a week or two. And this has all the earmarks of a problem for a week or two. And not just for us, but for a lot of people, you know, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, a lot of places that have had milder winters than normal in the last five to ten years. Right. Sean, you've been in New Jersey, milder winters than normal for five to ten years, correct?
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B
Yeah.
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C
And this one's, you know, they're saying this is going to hit us pretty hard.
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A
Yeah, Everybody is making the same sort of prediction, so I'm not going to gloat at not being there. I will have some good stories, I hope, when I come back. But that is the explanation as to what's going to go on this week. Are we good, everybody?
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B
We're good.
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C
Absolutely. And if I'm out on my bike.
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A
Yeah, on your bike. Do wear white and you'll blend in with the snow.