Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: It's groundhog Day, yea? And also, what the hell is
Speaker 2: groundhog Day? This is such a strange thing to explain
Speaker 2: to anyone who doesn't live here.
Speaker 3: People pull a rodents out of the ground and then
Speaker 3: ask the animal to predict the weather. You know what?
Speaker 3: This is so unfair because if Africans were doing this
Speaker 3: shit and you heard that we pulled animals.
Speaker 2: Out of the ground, how.
Speaker 3: Would you be judging us? I mean, you realize there
Speaker 3: are villages in Africa where people wear animal skin, And
Speaker 3: if I try to explain that Americans use groundhogs to
Speaker 3: predict the weather, they'd probably.
Speaker 2: Be like, but why not use satellite data?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: And now for our continuing coverage of Groundhog Day ninety
Speaker 1: nine eha, the road less taken. Today was Groundhog Day,
Speaker 1: and weathermen across the country took a break from using
Speaker 1: state of the art Doppler radar to get their forecast
Speaker 1: wrong and instead turned to a rabid marmot that eats
Speaker 1: its own stool. In Pennsylvania, thousands of spectators waited all
Speaker 1: night in the rain to see the world's most famous
Speaker 1: groundhog punks, A tawny phil Phil did not see his
Speaker 1: shadow this year, but as usual, did set eyes on
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people dumb enough to stand in
Speaker 1: the rain all night to watch a saggy road and
Speaker 1: get pulled out of the dirt. In Nebraska, Unadillo the
Speaker 1: groundhog did see his shadow this morning, forecasting six more
Speaker 1: weeks of brutal winter weather, which is bad news for
Speaker 1: Midwesterners who look forward to an early spring so they
Speaker 1: can get a jump on the hot, muggy summers that
Speaker 1: bring tornadoes and flooding. And because no, not yet, and
Speaker 1: because they can't go a single day without making children cry.
Speaker 1: Peter spokesman Dan Matthews objected to the treatment of the groundhogs, saying, quote,
Speaker 1: this poor creature is dragged into the daylight with people
Speaker 1: screaming at him. You only have to look into his
Speaker 1: eyes to see how bewildered he is. Matthews reportedly then added,
Speaker 1: much like I am every time I'm told to stop
Speaker 1: alienating people at parties with my freakish obsession with animals.
Speaker 1: Matthews went on to say, quote, these animals haven't volunteered
Speaker 1: their services and should be left in peace. True, But
Speaker 1: Dan was unable to then explain how an animal who
Speaker 1: genuinely wanted to would go about volunteering for a yearly
Speaker 1: experiment to predict the weather. And that was our continuing
Speaker 1: coverage of Groundhog Day ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, which leads me to ask, what
Speaker 3: the hell is Groundhog Day? Have you looked into this?
Speaker 3: People pull a rodent out of the ground and then
Speaker 3: ask the animal to predict the weather, which is so
Speaker 3: unfair because if Africans were doing this shit and you
Speaker 3: heard that we pulled animals out of the ground, think
Speaker 3: about what you said about it. There are villages in
Speaker 3: Africa where people wear animal skin, And if I tried
Speaker 3: to explain that Americans use groundhogs to predict the weather,
Speaker 3: they'd be like, but why not you still data?
Speaker 1: Ah Febrary second eleven Howmedy Central's Worldviews headquarters in New York.
Speaker 1: This is the Daily Show with johns joke. Actually know
Speaker 1: today's Groundhog's Day, which means we get to find out
Speaker 1: how much longer this brutal winter will last. We're gonna
Speaker 1: quickly take a look at photo of Puckstani Phil to
Speaker 1: see if he saw his shadow, and oh, that's not good.
Speaker 1: I guess that means six more years of winter and
Speaker 1: we're gonna need a new ground hug.
Speaker 3: Saturday was Groundhog Day, which leads me to ask, what
Speaker 3: the hell is groundhog Day? This is insane. People pull
Speaker 3: a rodents out of the ground and then they ask
Speaker 3: the animal to predict the weather. This is so unfair
Speaker 3: because if Africans were doing shit like this, and you
Speaker 3: heard that we pulled animals out of the ground, like
Speaker 3: there are villages in Africa where people wear animal skilled skin.
Speaker 3: And if I try to explain that Americans use groundhogs
Speaker 3: to predict the weather, they'd be like, ah, but why
Speaker 3: not use this? That's how I didta What's going on
Speaker 3: in America?
Speaker 1: Not blew Wary?
Speaker 2: Third fifty.
Speaker 1: Comedy Central's Worldviews headquarters in New York.
Speaker 4: This is the Daily Show with charms too.
Speaker 1: Well, it's another kind of cold, and I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: day here in the Northeast, that'd kind of a lot
Speaker 1: of it. How much longer are we gonna have to
Speaker 1: put up with this?
Speaker 3: The rough winter weather is not over. That prediction not
Speaker 3: from the National Weather Service, but from a rodent in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about Shepherd Smith. The guy
Speaker 1: knows how to deliver a line. I forgot. We're actually
Speaker 1: still using groundhog based technology to predict our weather. And
Speaker 1: obviously Groundhog zero is Pucksatawny, Pennsylvania, where the Doppler three
Speaker 1: thousand of rodents was greeted by cheering throngs and Gobbler
Speaker 1: Knob's best Zach Brown cover band. You know, I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like that guy in the audience. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: freezing my balls off. Just get to the groundhog.
Speaker 2: When Phil finally looked down, Yes, a.
Speaker 3: Shadow, I see?
Speaker 1: Oh did did the groundhog see his shadow? Could mean
Speaker 1: there's gonna be six more weeks of winter, or that
Speaker 1: you pretty much always see your shadow when you have
Speaker 1: the place lit up, like the set of Transformers.
Speaker 4: Those are cleag lights.
Speaker 1: Anybody would see their shadow and cleeg lights, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, that's fine, It's it's a cherished tradition.
Speaker 1: There's more winter. The groundhog saw his shadow, What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Yet several others reportedly saw no shadow.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess we'll have to teach the controversy or
Speaker 1: some groundhogs are lying? Why would groundhogs lie? What do
Speaker 1: they have against us?
Speaker 3: Set Island Zoo's new resident groundhog never left his enclosure
Speaker 3: during his Groundhog Day debut. Mayor de Blasio dropped the
Speaker 3: groundhog last.
Speaker 2: Year, which may or may not have conceived to its
Speaker 2: death a week later.
Speaker 4: Did you hear that?
Speaker 1: They said him dropping the groundhog may or may not
Speaker 1: have contributed to the groundhog's death. A week later, may
Speaker 1: or may have not. He dropped a groundhog off Mount
Speaker 1: de Blasio. It's right there on the video. Can we
Speaker 1: get a grand Jerry Staten Island God. The point is,
Speaker 1: after years, after years of this treatment, some sort of
Speaker 1: uprising is just a matter of when. Well.
Speaker 3: A groundhog delivered more than just a prediction at an
Speaker 3: event in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: He said, He says that he want to ask if
Speaker 2: it saw it shadowed Jimmy.
Speaker 4: The groundhog chomped down on the Mayor's ear.
Speaker 1: You know that that's what you get for keeping grubworms
Speaker 1: in your ear.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was Groundhog Day, which leads me to ask, what
Speaker 3: the hell is Groundhog Day? People pull the rodents out
Speaker 3: of the ground and then ask the animal to predict
Speaker 3: the weather. I'm sorry this is so unfair because if
Speaker 3: Africans were doing shit like this and you heard that
Speaker 3: we pulled animals out of the ground, like there are
Speaker 3: villages in Africa where people wear animal skin, And if
Speaker 3: I tried to explain to them that Americans use groundhogs
Speaker 3: to predict the weather, they'd be like, ah, but why
Speaker 3: not use this such a light data.
Speaker 1: For more of the story, we go to our own
Speaker 1: senior meteorologist, Jordan Klepper. He's been monitoring the forecast with
Speaker 1: Westchester Wallly. Jordan, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: That shan, thank you god. It has been a well
Speaker 3: of a day here. I'm happy to report that Westchester
Speaker 3: Waally did not see his shadow, So Springer's on the way.
Speaker 1: Are you okay? It looks like was Wally mad at
Speaker 1: being dragged out of his hole this morning because you.
Speaker 2: Look a little scrappy.
Speaker 1: It was a little.
Speaker 3: All's well, that ends well.
Speaker 1: Glad here, Jordan. Maybe next year he he won't give
Speaker 1: you as much trouble.
Speaker 2: Oh you won't.
Speaker 3: I've made sure that you'll see your shadow.
Speaker 4: And hell, what.
Speaker 1: You're in a lot of trouble, Jordan. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: You should have done it.
Speaker 4: Today is groundhog Day, which leads me to ask, what
Speaker 4: the hell is groundhog Day? People pull a rodents out
Speaker 4: of the ground and then ask the animal to predict
Speaker 4: the weather. Really, this is so unfair because if Africans
Speaker 4: were doing shit like this, and you heard that we
Speaker 4: pulled animals out of the ground, like there are vintages
Speaker 4: in Africa where people wear animal skin, And if I
Speaker 4: try to explain to them that Americans use groundhogs to
Speaker 4: predict the weather, they'd be like, but why who do
Speaker 4: you subtle in data?
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