"A message from Tony"

hey it's to me uh... i know we're supposed to have a podcast today it's monday and we normally do podcast monday wednesday and friday but this is going to be one of our vacation weeks and we don't take many maybe two a year because i always like to do a hundred fifty podcast but something came up just a little while ago i don't know two three four weeks ago my friend alan the socialite said why don't you come to florida play golf and i said sure i always say sure but i don't actually then go to play golf in florida but i said sure and i talked it over with michael michael said he would join me for a couple of days if i wanted to do this and i talked it over with the people at pt i particularly madkella her and he said it's not like we just started to show an hour ago you know if you want to take some time off if you want to go play in florida you know do it so i thought about it and i made reservations to do it without actually thinking i was going to do it and now you're all thinking oh you know he's not doing the podcast this week because of all the snow in washington and there's no power in washington and he's standing outside in three degree weather and he's dying no none of that is true right now you know that is actually true yes right now yeah so so what happened was that i did it's a very complicated thing about buying tickets and airline tickets and changing airline tickets and wondering about the storm and this that and the other thing and as people know i'm not a good fire uh... i'm not i'm not going to make it any worse than that but i'm not real good at this and yesterday i had tickets yesterday will not yesterday if you listen to the sun monday i take it to go friday i was going to get out before the storm and i asked nijel to do me a favor and come with me to the airport and then drive my car back am i telling the truth so far i haven't yes i haven't wandered from the truth one question did you buy your tickets from Elizabeth and philip Jennings no i did not do that i wanted to so badly but you know that the show went off the air a little too quickly for me to do that or i would have done it for certain so i have these tickets i don't really want to go but i'm going to go i'm going to force myself to go and i say nice to do me a favor driving to the airport yes and he said sure drive you to the airport so what i'm going to say now is is a hundred percent true the plane is leaving from dullis and i'm about five miles from dullis when on my car phone without me knowing how this happened a message comes out loud and clear from united we are united airlines we're just trying to tell you now that your flight has been delayed now my flight was supposed to leave at five forty five my flight was delayed till nine thirty it's about three o'clock now how did i take that news night was that was like calm with that was i calm i know not a hundred percent calm you didn't seem to really want to go through with it at that point which i i understood you know yeah i was going to turn around and go home i was going to say i'll just stick stick through the snow but carol wanted to make this trip and carol said i'm going to go whether you go or not and we had this understanding that carol would stay there and wait for the plane and then it was fifty fifty that i would go home and one thing led to another and i stayed and i stayed and i stayed and i was just going to make sure she got on the plane and then i said you know what just do it i mean i talk to michael and liuz i mean i texted them more than talk to them thought about it i called for texted all the pilots that i knew and i said what do you think and they said do it you know get away from the snow you know the the flight will be fine and because you know i just thought well it's at night they can't see and now when i actually say that to a pilot it he laughs at me you know just thinks you're an idiot what he's talking about but anyway all of these things happened and i actually got on the plane and miracle of miracles it was like tremendously smooth um but when we landed when we landed in florida my normal bedtime as people probably know is about i don't know nine nine thirty if there's a game on that i really want to see i might stay up a little later but i'm up at five o'clock i'm out with the dog you know early in the morning so i'm not a nighttime person we landed at twelve thirty like not not shy day twelve thirty in the morning Saturday and the socialite was there to pick us up which was fabulous he was i mean he you know he was there yeah he was there to pick us up and i had meat all day i hadn't eaten a thing and so i i was you know i was excited with the fact that i was going to get off this plane i was going to walk through the concourse this the food stores were going to be open and i was going to get something eaten nothing is open nothing is open nothing's open nothing's open so anyway i i i got to florida and i'm going to play this week not going to the podcast but i'm going to have tremendous stories you know when i get back about playing golf in places that we played and i'm going to have great sympathy and empathy for people who are getting hit with this particular storm as you know we had kevin sheen with his fear casting and then we had Jason Salmon out you know to tell us what really might happen and by the time you hear this most of what might have happened will have happened and you just hope it's going to be an unbelievably prolonged period of below freezing weather truly truly cold weather but what you hope for is that there's a minimum of ice because ice freezing rain ice actually freezing rain not so bad right or sleet not so bad freezing rain bad right is that how it works Nigel freezing rain yeah freezing rain is not good and as as you said with the temperatures next week to be down all well below freezing um it's looking like okay all night yeah it's looking like it's going to be a nasty week honestly if there was one week out of the year to not be in Washington DC yeah totally by chance but you know totally by chance people would say well why did you pick this week well had nothing to do with with snow and ice because i didn't know i picked this week because it's the week between the championship games and the superbowl it's pretty much a dead week in sports and and even the people of pti said well as long as you're back for the the run up of the superbowl you know take some time if that's what you want to do that was the motivation was it was a dead week in sports yeah right yeah but it turns out no it's it's a brilliant plan because you're not going to be here to deal with like hopefully by the time you and Michael get back that the thaw will have begun and you guys will just see sort of the aftermath of all this well i mean what i was reading today in the capital weather gang was they said it was not going to even thought till after groundhog day which is the second of february that's the long yeah we've been in period of time but what i have said to people is you know i'll just buy a couple of sport jackets and shirts i'll find a studio i'll do the thing from here and now it will bond up then we'll go there is no one's going well if you're going to follow will wants footsteps you just buy another house down there that's where i've actually thought about doing that too of course but you know maybe we can find a way i don't know that we can find a way to a podcast but but i'll say to your bike or find Michael and i thought this too Sean thought this too we all thought let you know so you know because we get podcasts last week monday wednesday friday without mentioning this let everybody know what is going on do we are we in agreement that we did the right thing by doing this yes absolutely okay so people will be happy we hope we hope to be happy and warm and dry it's all i'm gonna draw because this this thing is it's not just it's not just washington dc it's all the way up in the in the east and northeast and i'm pretty sure it started in like around kexas and oklahoma right yeah it's a massive storm system it's it's disrupting things all over that that this is large swath of the country but yeah i i suppose up north like new york and boston and main i imagine they're just going to club it with this well and i will say that and we in washington we haven't had anything like this in quite a lot of years there's been a really haven't even when we've had massive snowstorms usually within a week the temperature gets over 40 and things melt and while it's a problem for a day or two it's not a problem for a week or two and this has all the arm earmarks of a problem for a week or two and not just for us but for a lot of people you know in new york filadelphia washington boston a lot of places that have had milder winters than normal in the last five to 10 years right sure you've been in new jersey milder winters than normal for five to 10 years correct yeah and this one's you know they're saying this is going to hit us pretty hard yeah everybody is making the same sort of prediction so i'm not going to gloat at not being there i will have some good stories i hope when i come back but that is the explanation as to what's going to go on this week are we good everybody well good absolutely and if i'm out of my bike yeah don't wear your bike do wear white and you'll blend in with the snow