MEREDITH: HAPPY GROUNDHOG’S DAY.
PEOPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA AREPGETTI PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL.
HE IS ABOUT TO MAKE HIS PREDICTION ON THE CHANGE OF THE SEASON.
LET’S TAKE IT OVER TO PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL TO SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY, BRIAN.
IT IS YOUR BIG DAY.
BRIAN: COME ON, MAN.
>> I SEE HIM.
>> YOU’VE GOT THIS, PHIL!
>> PHIL, PHIL, PHIL.
>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL!
[APPLAUSE] MEREDITH: [LAUGHTER] IT IS LIKE SIMBA.
BRIAN: DON’T GO THERE.
MEREDITH: OK, SO THE PREDICTION, WE STILL HAVE NOT SEEN IT, RIGHT?
HE IS JUST BEING FORMALLY INTRODUCED.
BRIAN: HE IS LOOKING AROUND AND GETTING READY TO COMMUNICATE WITH SEVERAL MEN IN COATS AND TOP HATS.
MEREDITH: AS ONE DOES FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
LET’S TAKE IT BACK FOR A LISTEN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
>> PHIL, WE’VE GOT TWO SCROLLS, ONE IS SUMMER, WHEN HIS WINTER.
WHAT DO YOU THINK, BUDDY?
SPRING, SPRING, SPRING.
I DON’T KNOW.
WHAT DO YOU THINK, BUDDY?
HUH?
I DON’T KNOW.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
THE CLOSEST ONE TO YOU?
>> WHAT DID HE PICK?
>> WE DID SET A RECORD.
>> YOU GOT IT?
>> HEAR YE, HEAR YE, THIS SECOND DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2020, THE 144TH ANNUAL TRACK OF THE GROUNDHOG CLUB, PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL WAS AWAKENED FROM HIS BURROW TO THE CHEERS OF
THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF HIS FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
PHIL DIRECTED THE INNER CIRCLE TO HIS PREDICTION SCROLL, WHICH READS -- IT IS A PHIL-FANTASTIC DAY AND THESE BEAUTIFUL WOODS, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS ARE THE BEST, IT IS TRUE.
WHO WOULD NOT WANT NEIGHBORS JUST LIKE YOU?
MY FORECAST ON A DAY THAT IS A PALINDROME WILL CAUSE SOME TO CHEER AND SOME.
SO DO I HOPE -- SOME TO MOAN.
SO DO I HOPE YOU THINK IT IS NEIGHBORLY FOR THERE IS NO SHADOW OF ME.
SPRING WILL BE EARLY, IT IS A CERTAINTY!
MEREDITH: WHERE TO GO, PHIL!
THE TWO OF US IN NORTH CAROLINA AND CLOSE TO 25 THOUSAND PEOPLE IN PENNSYLVANIA, WE ARE EXCITED.
BRIAN, I NEED YOUR EXPERTISE FOR IT MEAN?
BRIAN: I’M GLAD HE WENT THAT WAY BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE A TOUGH TIME SELLING THE SEVEN-DAY FORECAST BASED ON A LONGER WINTER.
60’S TODAY.
70’S TOMORROW.
I DON’T SPRING GROUNDHOG -- I DON’T SPEAK GROUNDHOG-ESE, SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT.
AN EARLY SPRING ACCORDING TO PUNXSUTAWNEY PHI