Thousands gathered at Gobblers Knobb as Punxsutawney Phil emerged from how burrow and predicted six more weeks of winter.
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#GroundhogDay #PunxsutawneyPhil #Winter
And 4 more years of MAGA tears 👇😭😭 you can’t spell HATRED without RED HAT
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What a silly, outrageous and endearing tradition. Boo to the 6 more weeks of winter, though!! LOL
6 weeks is March 21 the first day of spring lol it’s stupid
Only if you aregreedy texan
Betrayed by the varmint again! Where’s Bill when you need him
Shout out to George Floyd on 618 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals!
Is there a non sequitur contest going on?
Go away. Stay out of the real world and crawl back under your rock
So stupid, typical USA.
Scranton Biden predicts 3 more years of tyranny
That would be a running joke on the late night shows later 🤪🤪🤪🤪😜😜😜
Alright let’s eat um
Woohoo…NBC finally reported something real! Congrats NBC.
Why are we still doing this
Offend by all the white guys? Typical
Because the whites said so
You gotta hand it to this town. They created a cutesy holiday that is listed on calendars & put their town on the map.
I never understood this 😕
This is such a stupid tradition but I like it
“Weird” tradition
Don’t drive angry
I think spring is coming early no more winter
For a second I got confused and thought this was Biden, the similarity is uncanny.
I always watch Groundhog Day the movie with Bill Murray to cheer me up. So sad 6 more weeks of winter. Figures.
Wholesome asf
He didn’t see his shadow. Fake news.
Right now, in 2022, in 12 states in america, there is a law called: “no minimum age”, this means, in these 12 states, adults can marry any age as low as 7 years old!
Thanks!
Yeah, _but what happened to GROUNDHOG_ *MILLTOWN MEL????* probably *QUIT* like everyone else…..just saying.
Bruh… u not a fortune teller ..who can tells times and weather..let’s mother nature do it own things .. who believes in you that we have 6 more week of winter…
If you look at history…
The rat has been wrong 70% of the time.
Bummer..
🤣
Now I just hope no one gets stuck in that dream sequence.
It’s been 2 years my friend
Boo for winter!
This kind of crazy is fun crazy, not the other kind of crazy.
I seen the weed , I smoke a blunt ?
Only in America where they don’t trust the science but announce every year it’s 6 more weeks of winter with these bozos by talking to a rodent.
So True it’s sad 😩 it’s surely Siily!
The people were ready to boo that poor rodent lol.
Sick we are in 2222 guys
Happy Groundhog Day
Fake news lol…..
“Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.”
In 2014 former Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio dropped a groundhog and killed it. Democrats have a habit of killing things, including the country.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Easter marks the unofficial end of Winter
Good to hear
A sea of white men. Really guys?
Cry about it.
“A sea of black men. Really guys?”
I aspire to go see this in person one day. It’s such a neutral and fun holiday.
I’m in Florida and it’s gonna be in the 80’s the next few days. We had record lows not even a few days ago. Global warming hitting us weird. The warmer weather means abnormal rain and flooding for us so I’m looking forward to more winter.
https://youtu.be/dpoFCCQYllw
You can’t blame the groundhog so six more weeks of winter
The groundhog thinking… what’s the problem with all these freaks? Leave me alone in my burrow! lol
Hahaha haha dam he saw his shadow lol 😆
Imagine booing at phil
I can’t believe this event hasn’t been cancelled or called out yet for being 100% white men. Where’s the brothers at? CANCEL PHIL!
wheres the illegals at that plowed the roads for them to arrive there and use those tree stumps also cut by illegals?
I’m predicting March 20th
Wait, where is Phil Connors?
Someone asked why are we still doing this.. because it’s fun.. because it’s a simple tradition.. did you see how calm and how everyone in the crowd was happy and getting along? No one single person yelling or fighting each other.. can we just have this one tradition without people trying to be politically correct? Can’t we just leave it alone.. this is something that makes people happy
Would be fine if Phil was brought out and actually *did* or *did not* see his shadow. But when the scroll is picked by one of the handlers it just becomes dumb.
Totally Agree with you on that one!
Yes until a gun doesn’t up
I hope you don’t mind me saying but you are quite the looker miss. 😉
One of our strangest traditions, although it is fun. 🇺🇸
The world is coming to a end 😂
Run for the phills.
Complete Garbo! Why a longer winter?
TNO… Trust No One
I’m that 1 guy that u people should listen to. raise ur chin and agree. Think of how much we’ve been through listening to false promise. Ur in control of ur own destiny 😁
Humor me and don’t delete this boss🎭
Phil!!!!
That groundhog is spoiled❄️🥶♥️♥️♥️♥️
he is so cute.
I’m ready for spring let’s hops we do not get that 6 more weeks of snow 🙂
I’m SO glad we still have silly traditions like this in our country. Especially in these times. You rock, Punxsutawney Pete!!
Phil lol
They should have yeeted Phil this year. I am so tired of winter
And before anyone freaks out, I love animals and I was not at all serious. Except about being sick of winter. 😁
Omg I was going to be so sad until I read the last part. LMAO this made me laugh so hard. Poor old Phil. He’s cute as heck. I wish I could groundhogsit Phil lol
That’s crazy to live in a town that’s known for this one day.
ALL MY LIFE IVE TRIED TO FIGURE THIS OUT. . . I would so much like the answer before I die. I’ve written to news commentators on tv and I’ve even written to the chamber of commerce in Puxatauney . . To no avail. If the groundhog sees its shadow that means 6 more weeks of winter. . . I ask WHY ?
In order to see a shadow, you need sunshine. So if the sun is out, WHY would they say winter instead of spring ?
Well, maybe it has something to do with hibernation Wild groundhogs will sleep longer if winter persists.
Its a folktale.💙
@Barbara Barlow what does hybernating have to do with seeing a shadow ? One is sleeping . . . The other is standing outside in the sun. . I’m sorry, I’m not understanding your connection
https://youtu.be/pq9yyaZ25YI
Groundhogs hibernate in winter. If there are 6 more weeks of winter, then, according to folk tales, the Groundhog will go back into its hole to continue hibernating for 6 more weeks. The Groundhog is therefore made the decider of whether or not more winter will occur. But how does he decide if more winter is happening? He’s just an animal, not a weatherman. What would cause him to go back into his hole? I imagine that the storytellers made it to where the groundhog is afraid of its own shadow, causing it to scurry in fear back into its hole, and 6 more winter weeks of winter just so happens to occur every time it does scurry in fear back to its hole. This is just a theory, but a theory that is depicted in the Rankin and Bass “Jack Frost” television special. Maybe it would help to “make sense” of it to watch that, as nonsensical as it all is. Honestly, I understand your confusion. 😂 I hope this helps, though. Sorry if it doesn’t.
GROUNDHOGDAYEEESSSEEESSSOOOYYYOOOEEESSSEEESSSWWWOOORRRLLLDDDWWWIIIDDDEEESSSEEESSSOOOYYYOOOEEESSSEEESSSGGGLLLOOOWWWBBBAAALLLEEESSSEEESSSOOOYYYOOOEEESSSEEESSS
haha everyone in the crowd went NO!
Hehe
Staten Island Stan disagrees! He is more confident now that deBlasio is no longer around. The only time “hizzoner” tried hold Stan, he dropped him. Stan died a week later of internal injuries. [I know. Lazarus.]
No I want it to be spring so when spring is over it will be summer have a Lotta fun go to the pool have fun but I don’t want six weeks off phone sorry to disappoint you
Looks the groundhog doesn’t agree with the global warming narrative😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
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A Bunch of Malarkey……who invented Rat Day?
We Ohioans want BUCKEYE CHUCK! Phil is a piker–not to be trusted!!!!!
1:17 Phil:::: I ordered 6 more weeks of deep-freezing Global-Warming!!! Now, put me back into my tree-house clowns!!!!
Serious Myron Cope vibes coming off the MC.
Love it!
Second most famous groundhog …..go meet Chunk on You Tube.
When can this groundhog rest in his real home and also stop saying ” found his shadow ” How can Phil found his shadow if they keep taking him out. Phil is suppose to find his own shadow. Man keeps ruining nature. Let Nature take its own course !!!!!!!!!
They keep blocking the sun for him to find it. Now they wouldn’t do this to a BEAR.
I think that Phil is smarter than all the people who “listen” to him!!!!!
Silence! None shall belittle the All Seeing Punxsutawney Phil nor those wish to listen on his divine wisdom 🦫🙏 (That’s a Beaver but you get the point)
White Folks have some weird and corny traditions.
Now i wanna watch Groundhog day again 🤣.
Spring is literally 5 weeks and 3 days away. How do people fall for this scam?
Because it’s the American culture…..people have the right to play along and have fun, why are you such a stick in the mud?. The video is full of good vibes.
@BransinBeatz Because people actually literally believe this groundhog. I lived in Edison New Jersey. Groundhogs all over. But people take it seriously. I guess people like to live in their delusional world.
amazing to see a shadow with total overcast sky. such a dumb tradition.
This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat!
It’s culture, everyone around the world does stupid stuff.
Groundhogs played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. The colonists would strategically place groundhogs to create burrows in roads that would severely halt the British supply chain. The British wagons would get stuck in mud and holes created by groundhogs. The British were furious and brought in dogs to punish the pesky vermin, but the groundhogs were quite an elusive foe. Thus began America’s love for groundhogs that remains entrenched in the fabric of our country to this very day.
Anyone else prefer to celebrate privately?
The question on everybody’s minds is…does Phil…feel lucky?
Goddammit PHIL
How they going to see six more weeks of winter if it’s the camera so the pictures make them see his shadow I think that’s a nonsense people they can see their Shadow if they take pictures and stuff like that I think he’s 40 40 or less than 40 of PCS saddle and stuff like that he always mess up every year and stuff like that I don’t know what people would think I think it was this it looks like summer spring is coming back soon so quickly
I think the groundhog got blind with all those cameras and it looks like it doesn’t talk or anything that’s a lot of gameplay and stuff like that cool people would think about a groundhog the human got the same humidity and diagnostics and stuff like that who would think about this groundhog what would they they think the people of the American people of all the world the weather doesn’t know where the the human is mother nature
They always think the human being thinks they think the animal is the one it ain’t it’s God God makes the position of spring and the summer and everything and people does it as a holiday to the concern of the people it’s like sometimes I see this people are blind but people that get disappointed when they hear the truth the facts God is always in the demand and the time in the year if we going to get a real summer we are because God is in charge every time
Wolf: The groundhog said 6 more weeks of winter, so I ate him.
The inner circle should give Phil more time, like wait for him to start chewing on one of the scroll sticks or even grab it with his mouth. Than Phil really gets to choose instead of the inner circle. Phil needs to get a big reward on his reactions. He lifted his head up when the reader said “With my shadow I have cast.” Phil seemed surprised by that. Sorry! Inner circle, you picked the wrong scroll. In Milwaukee, Gordy gets to walk around and is not pressed for time, he doesn’t have to choose a scroll. Gordy did not see his shadow. I still love watching Phil, he is so Adorable! Inner Circle please give Phil more space, and Stop choosing for him.
Can we acknowledge how dumb this is
i have wondered if the groundhog is someone’s pet because i would think a random wild groundhog would not be so people friendly.
I had to tell my supervisor that I needed the day off from work to celebrate GroundHog day.
Groundhogs are so cute and adorable!
I love groundhogs!
“Then it’s the same old shtick. The guy with the big stick raps on the door. They pull the little rat out. They talk to him. The rat talks back and then they tell us what’s gonna happen.”
That’s the beaver
Phil is so hot
Good kawai
Spring starts in February here in freaking California where I live. 🥵😭😖 I miss the East coast!!