A life spent all in gold.

Well, isn't that what turns out going down the road?

Down the road, all the weather's scary here down the road.

Hello and welcome to episode 1716, the effectively wild A-Paceball podcast with

band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters, I'm Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joint band, Meg Raleigh of band graphs. Meg, how was your long weekend?

It was good, it was marked by rain, Ben?

Yes, yes, where I was as well.

I think my transition to Arizona is complete because I have looked down and I said,

we need it. We really do, that is a statement of fact, but the delight I took was pronounced

after having lived much of my life in places that rain.

A great deal.

Yeah, growing up in Seattle, you don't really say we need it.

No.

No, you're like, please stop what ancient or new gods have I angered with this to make

it continue, but instead, well on Friday, I was like, it's humid here.

I feel like I should be able to sue someone about that, but then there was actual rain

and it was very welcome. Cut the temp, woke up on the actual 4th of July and it was 80 degrees,

went for a bike ride, was in a world without fear of turning to smoke and ash.

So in that respect, quite nice.

Also, the good thing about rain the day before the 4th of July is that it discourages people

from doing fireworks late into the evening because it's rainy.

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