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Doug McIntyre in for John Cobalt on the John Cobalt show. Look at that. I got through the title the first time without getting it wrong, which is more than John has done.

Anyway, happy to have you listening on this Friday, which is getaway. There we go. Getaway day for almost everybody. Deborah, have you noticed that the studio here has been tagged by graffiti people? Yes, I have. All over this window. Yeah, it's not that pretty, is it? No, it's the Conway people. It seems to be anyway. Not that I'm pointing a finger, but. And you know what? You can't. I think people tried to rub it off and it's permanent.

Oh, it'll be there forever. Yeah. I think Shannon had something to do with it too. Oh, did she? Oh, good. Well,

fortunately you, uh, Eric, you didn't throw her under the bus. She won't, it won't get back to her because we know she's not listening. So anyway, we're happy to have you. We're here till 4 o'clock.

And there's tons of stuff to talk about, despite the fact that most of the world is shutting down.

You know when it gets real quiet in the news cycle between Christmas and New Year's?

It actually proves that the world could be a much better place if we chose to make it so.

Because what happens between, of course, Christmas and New Year's is all the troublemakers go to their docas or their villas or wherever it is they go.

They go skiing.

And they just shut down the trouble for about 10 days.

And then as soon as January 2nd rolls run, they go right back into the

mosh pit and start stirring the pot again. But it really just shows you how much of the outrage

and the controversy and the outright trouble, murder and mayhem, that we deal with on a daily

basis is totally arbitrary or voluntary. Let's put it that way. The people choose to be troublemakers.

Because when it's their downtime, they don't have like a designated assistant who just goes and

keep stirring the pot for them. It's not raining right now here in Burbank, but there's lots of

clouds floating around. Obviously, the rain that we've had is starting to move away.

And I guess it's supposed to start clearing up by the end of today and through the Christmas weekend and into next week.

The reason I'm bringing up rain, because it's a pretty boring subject to talk about, but something interesting is happening.

Finally, believe it or not, finally in California, a place where we routinely have horrific droughts that cause all kinds of problems, we're starting to actually collect the water.

Yeah, believe it or not. I saw this in the Los Angeles Daily

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