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Good morning, Northern Michigan.

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This is Cup of Traverse City for the

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12/02/2025.

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I'm Mike.

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And I guess as usual, we'll start with

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the weather.

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Looks like,

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today, we have a little chance of snow

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before 10AM,

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and then mostly cloudy

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and high near thirty. Again, just kinda like

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yesterday.

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I looked out my window here, and I've

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got a, what's called a y'all o meter.

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Y apostrophe a l l, y'all o meter.

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And it's a, snow gauge from Ryan Hall

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y'all,

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which is a YouTube channel,

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about weather on, of course, on YouTube.

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Anyway, I I bought some of his merch,

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and,

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I got a 42 inch y'all o meter.

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So and it's up to four inches,

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where I've got it placed. Of course, we've

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had more snow

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elsewhere in the area, but in my little,

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little, area there, it's up to four inches.

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So,

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anyway, that's, that's it for the weather. It

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looks like, tonight,

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50% chance of snow showers,

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mostly after 1AM.

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And, of course, Wednesday snow showers,

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Wednesday night snow showers.

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Yeah. It's a recurring theme this time of

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year,

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but that's alright.

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So after twenty years of trying, a Traverse

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City man's crossword puzzle is gonna appear in

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the New York Times today. So if you

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get the times or play the the New

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York Times app,

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it's a,

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a puzzle from

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somebody here in Traverse City.

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Trying to find there we go. Jonathan

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Bodd.

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And, his puzzle's gonna appear today.

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And,

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he's been trying to submit,

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you know, lots of times over the years,

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I guess, 20.

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And usually, he gets a

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rejection notice, but,

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he opened

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the email requesting edits.

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So, anyway, come to find out,

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he had a couple little edits he had

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to make, and, his puzzle's gonna be in

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the times. So

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I don't know very many people around here

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that get the New York Times, but I

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guess online and,

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and in the gaming app there for, New

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York Times because their crossword puzzles are usually

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pretty legendary.

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You know, my father-in-law used to love crossword

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puzzles. And, every year at Christmas time, it

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was

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pretty easy to get him a book of

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crossword puzzles.

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And my wife likes them too. So,

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anyway,

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on

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to one other story,

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which I love. You know, I drive a

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a full size Toyota Tundra, which is not

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known for the best gas mileage.

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So whenever gas prices are getting lower,

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that's a good thing. So gas prices in

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Michigan have dropped

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by 15¢

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in the last week.

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And

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statewide, the average is $2.96

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a gallon for regular unleaded.

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And what I found interesting about this

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is

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Traverse City is the lowest price in the

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state at,

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where was it? Yeah. Ann Arbor is the

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highest

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with $3.00 6, and Traverse City

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is least expensive at $2.63

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a gallon. I think I paid $2.50

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something the other day at Costco, so Costco

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is even cheaper.

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But, yeah, I love it when, the gas

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prices go down, especially going into this

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time of the year. I use a lot

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of gas. You know, we got the tractor.

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In fact, they went and picked that up

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yesterday and

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and,

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from the dealer. And, well, I thought I

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bought a new one. I they had service.

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But, anyway, picked that up from the dealer.

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So,

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yeah, I'm gonna be using lots of gas.

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I fill that tractor up. Well, last year,

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it was at least a couple times a

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week.

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Just doing,

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three driveways.

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This year, I'm gonna do a little less.

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I'll do, of course, one driveway, and then

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I'll do mine and, and the neighbor's side.

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Still three, but, I'm not gonna do mine

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as much. You know, wife and I both

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have four wheel drive, which I highly recommend.

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Go see, Mike Dole's World,

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episode about winter driving

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and, all that. So,

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anyway, with that, everybody have a great day,

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and I will catch you tomorrow.