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Mark and load. This is Steve Dates. The Steve Dates Show.

And greetings, happy Friday to all of you. We are live and on Demandre on Blaze TV, Radio

and Podcast. Steve Dates here from the posh Dallas home-based studios of the Blaze alongside

Toddlers. I know we want our Aaron Mack and Tyre back. The audience misses that opening

montage, kicking the scroat to start off the show of regaling of all the rock get happening

in the culture. I'm getting tons of emails from people. They miss that rancid, putrid,

acid rain to lead off the show every day. He's the plum line. Yes, they miss that. But

that being said, it's 60 degrees outside. We were just outside waiting for our Uber, standing

in. I believe the word we're looking for here is the sun. Correct? I'm afraid when we

get off the plane in Demandre, you're going to ask me to hold you or something. I am a broken

vessel right now. The day before we left to come down here, because we're incompetent

and could not produce the show on our own, all we know how to do is talk into these

mics and we're barely adequate at that. So we had to have the smart people handle all

of Aaron's workforce. But the day before we left, a foot and a half of snow, I am now

reliably informed by a certain little birdie, my wife, that we have a freezing rain event

that may just shut everything down tomorrow. It's a Christmas miracle just for you. I am

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