#2424: Porkchop Boy
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This election season you can expect to hear a lot of news some of it meaningful much of it not |
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| 0:39.3 | clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for the Study of Guys and |
| 0:44.5 | Snow here at Carotoc Plaza. Now ponder this. I'm pondering. Why did every one of |
| 0:50.6 | us feel compelled while the region was under like three feet of snow |
| 0:54.0 | blankets it under blanket it paralyzed by yeah and everything in the world was |
| 0:58.3 | closed even the mail wasn't delivered why did we feel compelled to go out get in the car and go someplace? |
| 1:05.0 | Now my brother got up and actually went to work. I called his house. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah? I was looking for him, figuring that he might do something stupid and Joanne says oh you missed him he's left for work |
| 1:19.0 | Now you don't go to work when it's not snowing. What's up man? |
| 1:23.8 | Well, it's interesting that yes, it's true. |
| 1:26.7 | We have talked for many years about the fact that people have, guys, |
| 1:31.3 | have to go out in the snow. |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah, not just people. |
| 1:33.2 | In fact, I was going to call you because I know what you're driving. |
| 1:36.9 | And I wanted to let you know that they were having a sail on light bulbs up in New Hampshire. |
| 1:41.0 | I thought you might want to take a little ride during the blizzard. |
| 1:43.4 | I got them during the last night. But you notice I went out and I wasn't even driving. |
| 1:49.3 | I went out just to be out just to commune with nature |
| 1:53.0 | commune with the public transportation system and nature and just walk through the snow because it was wonderful |
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