Greetings, pals. It's me, Dee Trussell, and you're listening to the Ducat

Trussell Family Hour podcast, and I'm recording this from New York City. I'm in

the Big Apple. I'm looking out right now at the Statue of Liberty. I could see

her upstretched arm through a pretty thick veil of sweet New York fog and

New York rain. Now, when I lived in New York City, I would probably consider this

to be a shitty day, but having been in the strange utopian weather systems of

Los Angeles, blue skies pretty much all the time, no rain ever. This is absolute

paradise. And anytime I come here, I always get wrenched in the heart because

a part of me thinks, man, are you really going to raise your son in a place

where you have to point when the wind blows because that's kind of unique. I

mean, we get the Santa Ana winds. I get it, but no thunderstorms, no rain. If you

do get a thunderstorm, it scares the Almighty shit out of you. You think it's

some pre-earthquake that's happening or some military testing site is

detonated a new experimental weapon. You never go right to the fact that, oh, it's

a thunderstorm, which is one of the things that you get to enjoy when you live in a

place that isn't a desert, which is what technically LA is. Also, I'm not bitching

about it. I love LA. And anytime I come back there, I'm always happy to be

there. And God, forgive me for even tip-towing around the most embarrassing,

boring exploration a person can have the difference between New York and LA.

To quote, gatama Buddha, some people will tell you this place is better than

that place, but I say unto thee, the whole world is on fire. Regardless, I like

some weather. I like some rain and I love being here in New York because New York

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