Hi, it's David Remnick, and I've got a quick but important note before we start.

Up till now, the podcast of the New Yorker Radio Hour has been the same hour-long program that we put on the radio.

But as of this week, we're changing that. We're going to give you two episodes, same contents,

but we've rearranged it for the best podcast listening experience, because we know

an hour can be a lot to tackle sometimes. So we'll post the second part of this show in a couple of

days. If you want to hear exactly the hour that we broadcast on the radio, no problem. You can always do

that at New Yorkerradio.org. You can play it right off the homepage. And listen, this is important. Please let me know

what you think of the new format. Email us at New Yorker Radio at WNYC.org. And here's the episode.

These are just anecdotes, but it's building up into something more coherent.

I think it's interesting to really try to unravel what his ties.

There's a sort of country-city divide.

How about this weather?

I know, it is so much weather right now.

From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour,

a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

I was considering staying home instead of dealing with all this weather.

No one can drive in this weather.

As soon as weather comes, it's like, people have never seen weather before.

Do you remember yesterday's weather? Compare that to today's weather. It's like, are we even living in the same weather?

Did you hear this morning record weather? And that's not even if you count weather.

Speaking of weather,

did you see that hilarious video where animals react to weather? What? Right into the weather.

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