and a special round of applause for thunder conductor dave gilatta. it s my pleasure now, i d like to we have everybody? like the two gentlemen to come forward, our co-handlers and your host john griffith and ron plata. finally, i d like to introduce the vice president, the gentleman who will explain a little bit more to you about what s going to happen today. and that s mike johnson. he ll be introducing jeff lundy, fair weatherman. thank you all for coming. michael? ok, guys. there s a lot of mystery that surrounds phil s prediction and we ve been asked over the last
pretty cold. a number of them already have am antifreeze in them. several of those on the screen. unseasonably warm in the region and i will say this, it turns out they ve done the statistics, punxsutawney phil has never been wrong in 125 years, has never gotten it wrong. brian, you think it s wrong because of the attire there. it s actually 31 degrees. it s below freezing and they re wearing t-shirts. let me get this straight, if the rodent sees his shadow, then we have six more weeks of winter. if he does not, then we re staying in whatever we ve been in the last two months which is not winter ooment auto spring actually starts six weeks from now anyway and right now, out in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, mostly cloudy which means he won t see his shadow which means we could see an early spring and that s going to make all those people there so happy. no matter what happens or what we re in the middle of, we ll stop when we see that punxsutawney phil emerge, correct?
antifreeze in them. several of those on the screen. unseasonably warm in the region and i will say this, it turns out they ve done the statistics, punxsutawney phil has never been wrong in 125 years, has never gotten it wrong. brian, you think it s wrong because of the attire there. it s actually 31 degrees. it s below freezing and they re wearing t-shirts. let me get this straight, if the rodent sees his shadow, then we have six more weeks of winter. if he does not, then we re staying in whatever we ve been in the last two months which is not winter ooment auto spring actually starts six weeks from now anyway and right now, out in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, mostly cloudy which means he won t see his shadow which means we could see an early spring and that s going to make all those people there so happy. no matter what happens or what we re in the middle of, we ll stop when we see that punxsutawney phil emerge, correct? are they playing the ymca actually there or i