I welcome Salina Zito of the Washington and

examiner and the Wall Street journals to take us to Erie County.

Erie County is the bellwether of the keystone of the bell weather of the only

race you need to watch for the presidential contest soon enough.

Selina, a very good evening to you.

You very carefully educated me over the years to understand the victory of the

Keystone State is not in Philadelphia County, not in the color counties where I

grew up in the east. Not even in Allegheny County, your Pittsburgh, but it's in Erie County. And we go to

Betty's diner in Erie County and pause momentarily about this kingdom of Erie County.

They spelled D-I-N-O-R.

Can you explain that to the audience while we're explaining Erie County?

D-I-N-O-R.

Good evening, you, Selina.

Good evening. Well, there's various lore of why it's spelled D I N O R that's, you know, very eerie. Some people say it's a lot of the people that initially

owned diners in in in western northwestern Pennsylvania were immigrants from Greece and from Germany.

And so they, you know, people speculate, well, was it felt wrong because, you know you know not understanding how it should be

spelled or was it a gimmick you know to try to get more people in you know a lot of people don't realize

that Erie in particular the the city of Erie which lies on Lake Erie is a very big

tourist area.

Every blue collar kid, including myself,

spent their summers at the beaches.

There are 17 beaches along Preskile.

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