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In a world created by Mike Dell, I

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guess you would call it Mike Dell's world.

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And good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever

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the case may be. This is Mike, and

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this is Mike Dell's world number four eighteen

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for those who are keeping score. This is,

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day twelve of NAPOD promo. And, for the

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first time in this series, I'm actually, in

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real time. What I mean by that is

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I've been recording them a couple days ahead

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of time, and then putting them out at,

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early early early in the morning and, didn't

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have any time yesterday to record. So, hey.

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Today is actually the twelfth of November. And

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I figured I'd take this opportunity to just,

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you know, sort of make a little, almost

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mid month update. We had our first snow

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here in Traverse City. I don't know. You

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know? Certain places got a lot of snow.

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Certain places didn't really, but most of it's

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all melted off now. It's up to forty

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one degrees Fahrenheit. I don't know. That'd be

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what? Plus five or six Celsius? Actually, I

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could tell you that here in a second,

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but, suffice to say, it's above freezing. There's

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a little bit of rain off to the

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east, of us, but, let's see. Yeah. Anyway,

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a little bit of rain off to the

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east of us. No big deal. Yeah. What

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is it? Five hey. I guess pretty good.

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Five degrees Celsius or forty one Fahrenheit is,

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what I've got at the airport right now.

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And since I'm not that far from the

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airport, that makes sense. But, anyway, I just

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wanna make sure I got an episode out

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today and, update you on what's going on.

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Ironically, or not ironically. That isn't even a

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right term. Why does everybody say that? It's

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not ironic. It's just what happened. Anyway, the

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the snow or the leaves have you know,

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we have mixed maples and oaks. Maples dropped

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their leaves earlier, and oaks generally hang on

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to them. And maples were hanging on to

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them until just, you know, tell this tell

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this no, really. I mean, we had a

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lot of leaves. I blew all the leaves

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out of the yard. I guess it was

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Saturday afternoon, something like that. And, it is

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Wednesday. And now the snow's melted that fell,

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you know, between Sunday and and now. And

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a whole bunch of leaves came down. You

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would never know I even blew the leaves.

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So, I've gotta do a quick run through

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the yard with this leaf blower again before

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it snows again. And also gotta get out

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to mom's house and and get all the

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leaves picked up out there, get the the

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mower deck off the tractor, get the snowblower

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on the tractor, and then get the tractor

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over to the tractor doctor for its yearly

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checkup. Get all the fluids, replaced and or

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serviced, and I'll make sure that that's gonna

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function through the winter or at least attempt

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to. So that's the the plan. So Friday,

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that's my plan is to get the leaves

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picked up, get the tractor situated enough to

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get it to the tractor doctor, the John

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Deere dealer. And, hopefully, that'll all that'll be

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all that needs to happen with the tractor

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until it gets back from the shop. And

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I put the cab on it and get

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it all battened down and ready to go

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for, real winter, which could start anytime. So

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but it sure did feel like winter. We

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went to dinner Sunday evening for my wife's

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birthday. Went to Outback Steakhouse and had a

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big group and and that was cool, but,

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it probably snowed six inches while we were

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eating dinner. It was just that, you know,

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wet heavy, you know, lake effect snow. And,

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yeah. It was, pretty intense. And then, you

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know, we drove, you know, Outback's kind of

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on the west side of town. I drove

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back to the east side. And by the

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time we got over here, there was hardly

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any. So it was a a thick band

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that went right over the west side of

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the town, and my mom and sister had

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a little bit of trouble getting home. Not

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really trouble. They got four wheel drive, whatever.

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You know, each of them do. And and,

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there's a big hill on the west side

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to get out of town. If you live

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west of town, you have to go, you

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know, at least one hill. They had to

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go up over Green Hill, and I guess

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there were people having trouble making the hill.

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So it was a bit of a challenge.

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But, typical typical winter here in Traverse City

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or typical beginning beginning of winter. I call

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it amateur winter driver mode because, people forget

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how to drive in snow. And that's where,

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you know, they have a lot of racks,

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and they go into the ditch and you

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know? But that's typical everywhere. I don't I

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don't think that's anything really unique here. It,

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just it it always takes people by surprise.

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I drive like foot you know, putty duddy,

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pots most of the time, so not a

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not a big change for me. I just

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know that, I need to slow down. You

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know? And then you get these these people

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with these big four wheel drives and and

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all that, and they think, oh, I can

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go everywhere. Yeah. You can go. But you're

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not gonna stop much better than, than somebody

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in a regular two wheel drive car or

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truck or whatever. But, so be it. But,

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anyway, well, I better get this going. I

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I'm gonna I'm gonna make this a short

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and sweet one. What I was planning on

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talking about today, I'll talk about tomorrow, Clinch

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Park. That's a little a little that's a

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a rather major park in Traverse City right

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on the waterfront and has an interesting history.

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So we'll be talking about that tomorrow. But