Brian Lear on WNYC and for our last 10 minutes we're going to change the mood we're going to change the vibe

we're going to make it light we're going to make it funny because the world is making it how hot.

How hot is it?

Is the question for our last few minutes today?

It's so hot the swimming pool is starting to boil.

It's so hot, the asphalt is melting and starting to boil. It's so hot the asphalt is melting and

sticking to my shoes. It is shockingly hot if you're in New York City it is probably

the hottest day of the year, probably will be the hottest day of the year across the east and the Midwest

right now, so hot that we will end the show today by asking simply, how hot is it?

You're invited to call up and finish the sentence. It's so hot that

two one two four three three WNY C two one two four three three nine six nine two and

they don't all have to be jokes but you know this is kind of a classic

set up line for funny finishes and we're definitely inviting that but you know it's so hot you can literally feel the heat

radiating off the buildings in the city it's so hot cockroaches are flying that's an actual

WNY headline from eight years ago, courtesy of Stephen

Nessen, our transportation reporter. He wrote, for these cockroaches, the American cockroach,

beneath the first set of wings which are used for protection is another

pair which is used for flying. This hot muggy weather with heat indexers putting us into the

100s is the perfect condition for cockroaches to fly because like us they're just trying to stay cool.

So there you go. Listeners, how would you complete the sentence?

212 433 9692, seriously or comically, it's so hot that

212, 433, 9. 962.

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