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Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the Opie Radio podcast with Opie, who's dealing with an upper respiratory infection still from having the flu but I'm doing

all right maybe I shouldn't have went sledding with the kids yesterday because that didn't help

that didn't help rocket down snowy hills and then walking all the way up to the top breathing

heavy because you got an upper respiratory infection but man I'm just trying to plow through brothers, brothers and sisters. I'm trying to plow through. And I got my friend Ron the waiter. And, you know, we were talking a mere minute before I turned this thing on. And Ron goes, oh, I got something to start the show that's going to piss you off. Why are you trying to piss me off, Roddy, Ron?

It doesn't take much.

Why are you trying to piss me off this early morning?

You always wake up a little irritated.

Now I doubt, Ron.

And it's manifesting into a chest cold.

Now, Ron, this is the flu that everyone else has in New York City right now.

So hold on then.

Did you walk across the street to fucking Dwayne Reed or CVS and get your free flu shot?

I ain't getting the flu shot until this year goes away.

I told you that already.

I told you that already. I told you that already.

Oh, by the way, I don't think you're allowed to get a flu shot if you're sick. You're not allowed to have to. Duh. So anyway, how are you, bud? You good? Does your dog also have a respiratory issue?

Why would my dog have a respiratory issue?

I don't know because sometimes like the canine stuff transfers to humans.

You can have like, are you spitting up hairballs?

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