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Hey. Tenors Happy February I'm Tracey leads Kaplan,

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the creator of the Ten News and

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I have some updates for you. First.

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Some great news. The. Team will be

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back with new episodes in mid February. We.

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Have big plans of things to cover. The.

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Upcoming leap Year a very cool eclipse

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in April and of course will stay

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on top of any interesting gaming news.

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And. Now for some not so. Great news.

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We. Still have some fun raising to do to hit

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our goals and need to make some changes to keep

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you in news and butterflies for the rest of the

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season. Wait, did. I just

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say butterflies. I. Mean fun trivia

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for the. Rest of the season. We.

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Are pausing are Tuesday episodes of Ten Things

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You Need To Know and will release or

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full episodes every other week. We've

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been so appreciative of how much everyone has

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supported the show and to know what you

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go too long without hearing from us will

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put out some short the Ten News Explain

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segments on our off weeks. Sometimes.

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I'll be topics like we've already covered like

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today's Groundhog Day. Other times it'll

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be brand new topics that we haven't covered

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before. But. For today, I definitely

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want to know why. We think acute for a

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mammal will tell us the weather. I.

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Also really want to hear from all of you. Is.

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you want us to cover? Reach. Out

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Thanks. Again for listening and will see you back

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in the studio soon. And

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nine, seven, six, five, two,

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or three. How.

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On earth does a groundhog tell

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a spring is on? It's way

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let's go to Friends are the

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Ten Jacob in Olivia Rosensweig from

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The Curious Kid podcast for an

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explanation. On.

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World Hunger You tradition like no other.

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For over one hundred thirty years people

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have gathered in the small Pennsylvania town

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of Punxsutawney on February seconds to see

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a for Groundhog mean punks. It. Oh

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sees his shadow. The way it

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works as simple. As the wrong policies

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it's shadow because it's a nice and clear

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they suddenly invertible go back to withstand and

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we can expect six more weeks of winter.

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But. If the groundhog doesn't see

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it's shadow because it's to cloudy,

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Spring will arrive early through excitement

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of a large squirrel predicting the

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weather. In. Recent years, tens

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of thousands of people have traveled

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the Punxsutawney on February second, just

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to see what Punxsutawney Phil will

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do. So that must mean that

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the Grandfather's great at forecasting do

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either. Know. that tax

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attorney sales of actually pretty bad

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job protecting know web that he

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would be much better off just

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flipping a coin to see as

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winter will last and as a

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six weeks. And that's because you

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can expect to be right about fifty

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percent of the time by flipping a

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coin. According to records kept by the

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Ground Hog Club the organizers the Groundhog

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Day event punxsutawney Phil correctly predict the

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weather only thirty nine percent of the

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thing. Is.

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I can't really predict the

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earth. Observing

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the strange citizen. Probably

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because it's fun and a groundhog is

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super cute, but we definitely don't observe

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it because Punxsutawney Phil is actually good

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at predicting the weather. When it comes

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to animals that can actually be trusted

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to predict the weather, there are much

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better animals to turn to than the

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ground hogs. Assad's

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same As is

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that Nemesis out

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Soares. If

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you see lots of cows laying down chances

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are that mean is coming. We believe cows

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do this. To save themselves the nice try

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spot to weed out the rain. You.

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Can also have to the sky. And

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see what surprise as safe as he

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wants to get a sense for the

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upcoming was. That says because birds can

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usually be seen flying low in the

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sky if the sense that bad weather

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is on the way. They do this

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because the low pressure. that arrives before

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a storm can make it uncomfortable

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for birds to fly at high

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altitudes. It's so cool that there

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are animals that can actually sense future

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weather. It's really neat, and

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we're sorry if we exposed Punxsutawney

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Phil for being a poor meteorologist.

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Roundhog Day is a fun holiday

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with lots of long-standing traditions, and

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we should enjoy it whether or

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not Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow.

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Just remember not to put your winter

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clothes away if Punxsutawney Phil

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predicts an early spring. Happy

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Groundhog Day, everybody!