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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Pucks

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Speaker 1: a trendy Phil because it's Groundhog Day. Uh and that

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Speaker 1: is the short show title. I'm Jack and I'm thrilled

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Speaker 1: to be joined by super producer Becca Rama. Hello. Hello,

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Speaker 1: um whoo hoo hello, the Becca Rama's catchphrase. Um, what's

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Speaker 1: going on? Becca? How are you doing? I'm great. It

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Speaker 1: is the second day of Black History Month. I will

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Speaker 1: remind every day that I'm on this podcast of February.

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Speaker 1: And also it's my best friend's birthday. Happy birthday to

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Speaker 1: see who wow February second. A lot of good, a

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Speaker 1: lot of good February birthdays in my favorite season. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, it is Groundhog's Day. So I'm sure most

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Speaker 1: people are just tuning in to find out what happened.

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Speaker 1: Did the groundhog see their shadow? I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: do a drum roll, but what you looked it up?

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Speaker 1: You found out for us? Yes, and it is that

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Speaker 1: he did see his shadow or they we what is

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the gender of a groundhog is,

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Speaker 1: but um, the shadow is scene and that means six

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Speaker 1: more weeks of winter. But as we were discussing off

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Speaker 1: the pod, what does that even you know, how do

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Speaker 1: we gauge that, Like, why is it that if they

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Speaker 1: saw their shadow it would be six more weeks Because

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Speaker 1: in theory, wouldn't it mean it's a sunny day and

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Speaker 1: that we would have more sunshine. Lots of questions around

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Speaker 1: the lore of what it means to see the shadow

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Speaker 1: on Groundhog's Day. Yeah, this is a good reminder of

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Speaker 1: a couple of things. First of all, history was like

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Speaker 1: crippling lee boring, Like there was a time when it

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Speaker 1: was just so boring that like your brain was at

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Speaker 1: that point on the verge right between like before you're

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Speaker 1: about to fall asleep and then like something like crosses

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Speaker 1: your mind and you write it down and then later

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Speaker 1: look at it and it's complete nonsense. Like that feels

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Speaker 1: like just what the entire human civilization was going through

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Speaker 1: for a while there. And also I think just looking

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Speaker 1: for an excuse to get drunk in a field around animals.

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Speaker 1: I think that this was brought over to America by

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Speaker 1: German immigrants. And yeah, I don't know. I've had pets.

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Speaker 1: I've never noticed them noticing their shadow before. I've seen

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Speaker 1: them like react to their reflection. That's the thing that

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Speaker 1: animals do. A shadow is not a thing I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: I also like it could It's entirely possible. Like I

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Speaker 1: have three dog and three bird, one hermit crab sample sides.

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Speaker 1: So maybe those animals are just way dumber than groundhogs.

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Speaker 1: And groundhogs are just like performative little you know, they love,

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Speaker 1: they love to get out there and do do a

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Speaker 1: big thing. But I can't imagine a reality where the

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Speaker 1: groundhog knows that they are noticing their shadow. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: want to read this tweet from the U. S d

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Speaker 1: A Forest Service. Uh, it was quite funny, and I

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Speaker 1: think just feeds into what you were saying Jack about

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Speaker 1: how like it's all a bunch of WHOI history was

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Speaker 1: boring and we needed stuff to make it fun. But

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Speaker 1: it says I cannot pronounce his PUNSI philtani Phil saw

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Speaker 1: his shadow this morning, meaning six more weeks of winter.

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Speaker 1: But we're not sure we trust him. He's always been

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Speaker 1: kind of shady. Okay, so maybe a groundhogs not a

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Speaker 1: great prognosticator. But you might run across one on your

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Speaker 1: national forest hashtag groundhog Day on your national forests. Huh.

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Speaker 1: That is that tweet is perfect perfectly encapsulates the type

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Speaker 1: of person who's like into Groundhogs Day, who like makes

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Speaker 1: really bad puns as a habit, and yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: you know, the person in the office who like that

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Speaker 1: sounds pitch perfect encapsulation of the voice of the person

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Speaker 1: who's really into ground Hugs Day or other bullshit holidays.

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Speaker 1: Um anyways, shout out to uh people who were into that,

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Speaker 1: I know, shout out to the groundhogs and Groundhogs Day. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and also I do like that movie. It's a good movie.

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Speaker 1: Bad holiday Jackass forever. Speaking of good movies, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, but people are pumped. People are psyched.

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Speaker 1: The new Jackass movie comes out in theaters. I believe

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Speaker 1: Movies make a billion dollars. So, just like the Oscar

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Speaker 1: circuit this year generally like it's all kind of wonky

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Speaker 1: always fun to see with other people. Yeah. Uh, Texas

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Speaker 1: how do I say this, White sheltered parents afraid of

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Speaker 1: to be mad about, specifically like Judy Bloom books specifically

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Speaker 1: crazy that this is a headline the Texas book band

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Speaker 1: don't even feel like there was enough books about queer

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Speaker 1: to me that Judy Bloom wrote books that contained cool

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Speaker 1: like most teenagers, right, Like, this doesn't This isn't a

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Speaker 1: According to Katie Kuric, who loves to talk that ship.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, so some people are I I don't know

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Speaker 1: the last time we talked about the Rogan thing, but

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Speaker 1: some people are pulling their podcasts off Spotify. Mary Trump

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Speaker 1: Roxanne Gay both took their shows off Spotify to protest

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Speaker 1: Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation. Well, we'll see if this changes

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Speaker 1: hear a lot of people be like the Tesla is

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Speaker 1: wouldn't want to fly on one of his rocket I

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Anyways, Uh, those are the things that are

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Speaker 1: the whole last episode of the show. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining Becca. Where can people find you and

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Speaker 1: gonna find much Instagram. Cool. Well that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for us. We are back tomorrow, like I said before, Um,

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Speaker 1: and until then, be kind to each other, be kind

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Speaker 1: to yourselves, get the vaccine, wear a fucking mask. Maybe uh,

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Speaker 1: don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk

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Speaker 1: to y'all tomorrow. Bye, m hm hm