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That's right.

This is what you're doing.

You can't.

If we're not going to talk about it, you can't lead every show with I'm not talking about it.

I love weather.

Well, then you know what?

It's a fair point you make.

I will not do that anymore and I apologize.

You spread your wings and you fly because I love it. I like weather. I like it.

Last time you talked about it, you came through.

It's not like he didn't hit.

You hit, right?

Like if you said, if you spent the entire week talking about all the snow that we're going to get and then we got nothing, I could understand he's cut off.

No, no.

You talked about it.

I threatened that if it doesn't happen, we're cutting you off. And what happens? Smashed with snow. RJ made me feel very badly. I mean, we should be... You should be thanking God that you have me to give you some weather analysis. That's what I'm saying. We should be building you up. Archie's tearing you down. No, tearing me down. And I told you earlier last week, and this is when it really got to be contentious,

I said, look out, there could be something percolating for the weekend.

And it turns out there was.

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