John, hi, it's me, Kid Midas, the original wave rider. John, I have to thank you for something. Can you guess whatever it might be?

Ah, airport pickup. Yep. Last night, we had a classic Long John Silver, R.D.U. Airport pickup. And I got to tell you, John, that was one of the best ever.

Yeah. I didn't have to wait for 45 minutes in the sweltering heat because you had

mistimed your departure from your house. Yes. I only had to wait a handful of minutes.

Right. I, on the other hand, waited 42 minutes because I was at the airport the second you landed

because there is always a possibility, a one in a million of possibility, that David will depart the airplane after landing and be out on the curb within two minutes because he did do that one time.

But last night I arrived. He said, I've landed. I said I'm here. And then 40 some minutes later, he came out.

That is why I generally wait until someone lands before I leave my house.

We had to sit on the tarmac and wait for a gate to open.

Everything was all messed up because of this Hurricane Ian, John, which I'm sure you've heard of.

Have you spent any time reading or watching Intel about Hurricane Ian in the last 72 hours?

Yeah.

I'm always so exhausted after these hurricanes have finished.

Because you've spent 72 hours in a boat saving stranded pets and animals from flooding?

No.

Oh, why you're so exhausted?

Because I've been tracking and forecasting it, you know, just watching it on behalf of the National Weather Service or FEMA or...

For myself.

But it is interesting than when I started watching this thing when it was down

south of Cuba many, many days ago, yeah, I never thought that the center of circulation

would end up traveling 30 miles to my west. So it pretty much came very close to going right over where I live.

So, yeah, it's been raining for five days. The sun is now out. It's great. Things are not great in Florida.

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