Welcome back to the Podforce One podcast. I'm Miranda Devine. Today we are with Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania.

Senator Dave McCormick, thanks so much for joining Podforce One. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

I wanted to just congratulate you for being the first Senator ever to go to Groundhog Day in your home

state.

This was, this was something else.

I mean, I've heard about this for years and of course the movie.

Bill Murray, really sort of brought it into focus, but I'd never been.

And this was four degrees, something like that.

A hundred thousand, or I'm sorry, 10,000 people scream, been there since, you know,

the middle of the night, many of them college kids, they drove from everywhere.

They were Texas, Florida.

I met a couple of kids that had driven in from California.

And, you know, they're all waiting for Pung Satani Phil.

And my mom had actually grown up in Pung Satani.

So I remember going back as a kid.

And, you know, there was a couple really famous places that I remember going for lunch.

And my dad had been a student teacher in Punksitani High School.

That's how they met.

So this is like full circle.

It's in your blood.

It's in my blood.

And just the groundhog, I can't get it.

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