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The Weather Show · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  Welcome to Tigs Bits. This one is about the weather.
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  No, not the current conditions outside, but a conversation
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  about our favorite meteorologists, funny stories,
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  storm chasers, and a lot more. We are picking up where we left
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  off on the last show where Blasi and I kind of started talking a
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  little bit about the weather. Please subscribe like the show
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  to this. All of that just helps to keep
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  this show growing and we appreciate it.
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  Let's get into it. Boys, boys, boys.
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  It's good to finally have all three of us back on at the same
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  time. It seems like it's been forever.
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  This one's going to be fun for all of us weather geeks.
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  And I know that the three of us are so everybody humorous for a
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  little bit, please. OK, y'all can jump in now.
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  Y'all can talk. Hey, I thought you I.
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  Didn't know how long a spill you had.
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  I was. I'm going through my notes.
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  I just want to be prepared. I'm kidding.
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  We were talking a little. Further, I take one, I take a
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  week or two off. You guys that went to NBC,
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  Dateline Boot Camp, you guys come back on pro level.
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  I thought, I thought you're coming inside.
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  I'm like, oh shit, I'm not prepared.
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  And then you know what? The bus hit the brakes and I'm
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  like, oh shit, I'm not ready. It's OK.
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  It's OK. I'm sorry, Brantley.
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  We're giving you more work here, this baby left in.
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  No, I love it. You started talking about want
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  to do something about the weather and the first thing that
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  came in my mind, you know, it's funny you would think like some
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  meteorologist or major storm, which those came very rapidly,
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  but the first thing that came my mind was Randy Travis and that
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  old song. As long as old men sit and talk
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  about the weather, As long as old women sit and talk about old
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  men did. I used to love Randy Travis.
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  But dude, that's something. Those lyrics.
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  Somehow, every time Weathers mentioned, I hear Randy Travis
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  singing that one segment of his song.
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  Hey, you know. That should be.
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  That should be a regular thing we do on the show.
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  When we bring up a topic, what's the first thing that comes to
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  your mind? That we all have three because
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  all there's something different. That's a good one.
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  Yeah. And I don't know what I was.
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  I was on 38. I just passed a local catch and
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  I saw the text, and before I even got to the bottom of the
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  bridge, I could hear Randy Travis singing that song.
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  You know, it's weird how? What's the fuck when you when
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  you think of when somebody says weather what's the we're talking
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  about the weather what's the first thing you think of Tigs.
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  I mean I immediately think about a meteorologist.
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  You're all I'm a simple person. I mean I have weather songs and
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  stuff like that. I could I could start to think
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  think of. But though the first thing I
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  think of is. Is the weatherman, Is the is is
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  a weatherman and some extreme conditions and should I check my
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  radar? That's what I think.
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  True Louisiana list to go down. Checklist to go down.
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  When you hear the word I'm sure. I'm pretty sure that replies to
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  most of most of all the way. See, I'm like blacey though
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  would you said weather. First thing I thought about when
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  you said we're going to do a show about weather.
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  I wrote down Weatherman because first thing I thought was Hank
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  Jr. Weatherman.
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  And then I thought James Taylor, Fire and rain.
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  My wife gets on to me all the time for talking and song
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  lyrics, but hell, I can't help it.
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  I mean, that's, you know, I've listened to more songs that I've
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  read books. I can't.
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  Maybe. It's kind of what I do.
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  Yeah. I mean it it is exactly what you
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  do. So yeah, it just it makes sense.
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  But I mean think there are an absolute ton of songs about the
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  weather. I mean that didn't what really
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  what the path we're going down. But there are a ton of songs
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  about the weather and. Oh God, you think about, you
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  think the first one? I asked my wife before I came
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  back here today to the studio and she said hurricane, you
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  know, band of Heathers, which was originally a Von Helm song,
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  right. You know, that's because she's
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  also from Louisiana, obviously. And the first thing she thinks
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  about is weather hurricanes. I said, I asked her what's the
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  first thing you talk about weather hurricanes.
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  You know, she's like, you know, I was like, well, what about
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  leaving? Worst one.
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  She, you know, Sally was pretty bad.
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  We were here. A couple years ago, that was
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  pretty bad. But she said when she she left
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  home, my dear and Katrina and went to Baton Rouge, you know,
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  and you know that was wild and we talked about that.
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  But she said that she said that song and that made me think of
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  what all songs there are. And I mean you think about how
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  many another one raindrops falling on my head heat wave.
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  Yeah. Walking on sunshine.
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  I mean it's just the the list goes on and on.
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  There's 50 about hurricanes alone, like a Hurricane Neil
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  Young hurricane about the boxer Bob Dylan Hurricane Luke Combs a
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  couple years ago Blame It on the Rain By Milli Vanilli.
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  But that's the one I that's the one Charisse it out when I said
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  that because I went down just googled a list.
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  When I got to that, was sure. We we both dropped into Milli
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  Vanilli. Blame it.
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  God, I love I. Love Milli Vanilli, dude.
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  I think they got a bad rap. All they did was lip sync.
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  Like there was somebody singing like, let them just perform,
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  man. I thought that was great person
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  who was singing. It performed for God's sakes and
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  me. No one keep going.
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  Let it keep rolling, dude, who cares?
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  Singing it might have been, couldn't get out of it was
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  bedridden or something, but he could still blow.
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  They were like, well, let's put him back here and sing.
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  And these guys danced. Boom.
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  I mean, during that same time period, you had a TV show on
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  called Putting On the Hits and all they did was get it their
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  lips lip sync songs. And they judged him and
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  evaluated on. I thought Mila Benilli did it
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  better than anybody. They would have dominated and
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  put it on the hit. They were just before their tile
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  place. They were a little bit, a little
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  bit. It was frowned upon.
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  Then I saw them. I saw them in the Cajun Dome.
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  They were fans. Did you really?
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  They really. Were you saw them before it got
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  exposed? Yes, I did.
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  I saw them live, that show. I saw that show live.
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  It was incredible, just incredible.
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  And after the show, after the show, my dad, I went with my
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  dad. I was like 10 or 11, something
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  like 12 maybe. And and he goes, Brantley, I
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  don't know how those guys were singing.
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  They were doing backflips and having sword fights and they
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  never lost their breath back got.
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  Home. They were doing backflips and
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  having sword fights they were doing.
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  It was great. It's so good.
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  And then I don't think it wasn't stuff.
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  I got my first speed before that thing.
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  Just. That's when it That's when my
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  wheels came off of weeks, weeks, dude.
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  I got my first speeding ticket listening to Milli Vanilli.
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  Blame it on the rain. And I was going 55 into 35.
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  I mean, I was coming in hot, coming into OP, and it was
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  funny. The cop pulled me over and I was
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  in my mom's. She had a Mazda 929.
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  It was the first one they came out with.
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  That thing was luxurious, dude. It had.
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  It had three vents that would just sit there and do like this
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  and oscillate, you know, like, oh, I mean, it's just so smooth
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  and all lit up. I think they were with LED
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  before LED was LED. But then he pulled me over and
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  he was like you, Sir. You realize you were doing 55
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  and the 35. And I was like, yes, Sir.
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  And I was like, I'm not going to lie to you.
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  I was like, I was listening to that song by Milli Vanilli
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  blaming on the Rain Man. It was just so good.
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  And it this car drives so smooth.
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  And I was like, I did not realize, but you got me, you
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  know, and he actually. He gave me a ticket, but he was
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  super cool about it. Like he was.
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  I didn't. He was also a fan.
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  He kind of laughed about it. I was honest.
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  I was like, hey man, just blame it on the rain.
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  Don't, don't, don't, don't put a blame on me, you know what I
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  mean? Just blame it on the rain, you
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  know? And you know, there's a ton of
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  like, super big ones too. Like The Beatles.
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  Here comes the Sun Somewhere over the rainbow.
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  I mean, good Lord. Then there's some like the the
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  the 72 hit from the Brady Bunch. It's a sunshine day you know Zac
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  Brown colder weather you know the and then as far as not just
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  songs with weather in the titles or in involving in the song like
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  a November rain bands with weather in the the the name.
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  Only one I could think of was Earth Wind and Fire off top of
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  my head. I mean it's just.
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  Sticking everything, I'm sure every weather event possible.
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  Talking about? Let's pivot out of that.
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  What about talking about famous weather songs and weather names?
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  What about famous names in the weather business?
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  What about famous weather men? What?
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  What are the? Who are the top weather men that
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  you guys can think of? And when then we'll go, we'll go
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  off that, don't you think? Yeah, yeah, I think that.
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  I think that's a good place. Last week on last week's show,
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  Blacey and I kind of hit on a couple of them.
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  That's what started this whole thing of us wanting to to dive
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  in dive into it. We we start talking.
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  We're kind of correlating Bubba Bubba the Love Sponge watching a
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  guy that we that we both like Jeff Petrowski who's a storm to
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  an extreme storm chaser and and he was he that's he was just
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  butchering Jeff's and not even really showing his feed and
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  stuff. But that's what we were talking
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  about. That opened up this door.
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  As soon as we wrapped up, recording was like, we need to
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  do a show about the weather. And then yeah, and it worked
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  out. We didn't want to do it without
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  you. So we're glad that that you're
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  on because we know we know you have your takes.
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  See, we're all weather geeks. Oh yeah, I'm a weather nut.
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  I absolutely. Am Extreme went up with it.
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  So fascinating, you know, like oh man, they are, they are.
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  But I mean, it all really started with me with Cantori,
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  you know, that was the first person, and local guys like it.
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  In Louisiana, we had a guy, we have a guy, his name's Tom
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  Convica. He's kind of like Y'all's James
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  Spann and just, I mean, but he's trustworthy.
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  And you knew if he says that he's the goat.
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  I mean, he really is. And there's been a lot.
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  But that was who I'd watch growing up as a kid and and then
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  having The Weather Channel. And I didn't watch.
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  I always watch sports. But if I wasn't watching sports
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  when I was a kid, I was watching The Weather Channel.
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  Like I I loved it, fascinated by it.
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  And. And and before The Weather
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  Channel though like, so when The Weather Channel came along and
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  Ken Tory came along, nobody put it in the spotlight like that
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  and been down chasing, you know, getting in, you know, at a
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  hotel, you know, doing hurricanes.
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  Like I've never even seen that before but before that growing
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  up. I mean, I'm not going to lie to
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  you, man. There was a cat out of.
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  And I still do. I still follow him on Twitter.
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  He was kind of my weatherman as a kid until I realized there's
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  some weatherman that take it to another level as far as getting
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  out in the events. And now there's even more of
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  that. And you?
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  You'll probably remember this guy Jr.
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  Remember Rich Thomas from WSFA? Thomas Yeah, he's on my list.
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  He's on. Yeah, Rich.
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  Oh, Rich, dude. I mean, I always trusted Rich
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  when things got real. Like I wasn't going to WTB Y and
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  Dose and I was going to WSFA. And Rich Thomas is gonna let you
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  know what exactly what's going down.
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  I let's say I lived in my I lived in on Lake Martin,
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  obviously, and that's right, most storms came West to east,
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  so they would come to Montgomery.
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  We were northeast of Montgomery, so.
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  He was giving me the update I needed because he he was, he was
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  coming right at us. But yeah, that's that was my go
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  to Rich Thomas. He's on my list.
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  That's good stuff. Dude, he could articulate like a
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  storm like really well and like what's going on.
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  And he was very educated on that, you know, like so.
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  And he was with those guys for like 20 something, 30 years or
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  something. I don't know, before he ended up
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  leaving the station. But some personal issues, I
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  think kind of got in the way there.
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  Yeah. But it happened, yeah.
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  James Spann covered the the state, though pretty much he was
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  always every I think he was. Was he based out of Birmingham?
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  Originally, yeah, he's a Birmingham guy.
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  I didn't get to know him until later on either.
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  Like it was right, James Spann y'all y've turned me on to him.
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  I I had heard of him and once I saw him, I started following him
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  on Twitter. And once I saw him I went oh OK
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  yeah I've seen that guy whenever I've been you know I've stayed
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  in Gulf Shores or or wherever just somewhere where he where he
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  would come on somehow that I've I've seen him but man he's great
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  and he really really is he he he tweets a lot and he's he's
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  locked in I have this page that I follow on Twitter you know you
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  can you can RX you can follow list and just it has just
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  whatever by it's basically a list by topic so I follow these
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  weather this weather list that somebody's made it has a hundred
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  150 or so meteorologist storm chasers and all of that in it.
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  It's probably the best thing that that I follow on X because
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  it's just it's constant. I'm I'm able to keep up with
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  weather all across the country. Wildfires and things that you
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  don't really you're not going to see on your local news you may
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  not even see in your Twitter feed that that I can do.
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  But and he he's involved in that.
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  He's on that list too that whoever whoever it is that made
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  made it. So I'll have some.
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  Picture to find that and follow that, Yeah, I'll send it to you.
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  You'll do this. This Brantley turned me on to
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  that last hurricane to Jeff Petrowski.
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  I believe that you say you say it.
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  Yeah, Petrowski. And he was like, check this guy
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  out. And this was the day before the
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  hurricane came here recently. Yeah, so he's using Twitter too,
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  But he's on Twitter. He's everywhere.
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  He's streaming everywhere. And then when he's he woke up at
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  like 4:30 that morning when that storm was getting close to
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  coming on shore there and he was coming live from a parking lot,
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  you know somewhere in the Big Bend area, Perry, FL I believe.
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  And dude, when the amount of information that he was
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  delivering at such a rapid rate, that was accurate.
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  And like, he's in his truck, He's got the whole radar system
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  in his truck. He's in the middle of the storm.
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  The storm's about. He is driving.
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  I mean, Transformers are blowing up around him.
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  He's not sitting still at a hotel like he is on another
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  level of putting himself in the middle of it.
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  And it was fascinating to watch him.
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  He drove into it. He was coming on in the front.
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  The front eye wall came over. He started driving down the road
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  then it's calm and he's driving down the road now he's in the
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  eyewall and then the backside of the eyewall crossed him is he's
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  driving down the road. I mean like this guy gets off in
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  it, man. And his information delivery is
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  so rapid. It's like he's had 12 cups of
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  coffee you know like, but it's but it's good.
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  So yeah. Thank you Brantley for that.
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  I got. I watched another day chase a
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  storm and he was stopping in the middle of the road getting out I
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  mean on a four lane Rd. And he was picking up John.
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  Things of hell this big out in Oklahoma.
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  You know what I mean? Like look.
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  At this hell. And he's like all intense and
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  like, I mean you're wow, you can barely breathe after watching
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  him. You know he's like down the
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  road. I think the storm that he's just
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  giving you all the technical doubt.
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  He's so like into it. It's so it's like part of him.
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  But yeah, that dude's on another level, like.
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  He really is. Well he's been a he's been a
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  consultant and and Reed Timmer another guy that we've talked
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  about of course he he's extreme too and and that you can trace a
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  lot of stuff back with Reed Timmer and different shows
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  tornado chasers and stuff like that.
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  Those are the two best that I know of right now.
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  Those are the two at the that the most at the top of their
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  game. They are at the top of their
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  game, but both I do believe. I know Reed did for sure.
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  Hopefully Jeff did but there's a Twister too coming out.
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  I love Twister, one of my all time favorite movies.
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  It just really is well they've consulted with that and and Reed
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  Timmer has said a few things. He doesn't know everything but
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  but they've they're really going into the science of the tornado
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  and all of that stuff. So that'll be interesting to see
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  how it plays they. Consulted with Jeff on that, I
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  believe, because he's got pictures, I think, I mean.
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  What's his name? That's that.
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  That died. That was the main star?
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  Yeah. Bill Paxton.
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  Bill. Bill.
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  Paxton, Bill, there we go. He's got a picture of him and
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  Bill Paxton. And he even tells a story of
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  like he they were doing the initial release of the movie or
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  whatever the first viewing. And he, Bill comes up to him and
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  like hey come over here, man, like, you know and they sit
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  there and had a whiskey drink together.
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  Like he consulted with that one. This this Jeff Pruskowski guy
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  did. So yeah, he's he's like the real
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  deal. Like, I didn't know people like
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  that existed. Like that we could have well.
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  You normally just think about the the normal ones that
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  everyone on national TV, the handful you Al Roker, you know I
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  mean and then now say hello television Jim Cantory.
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  But Al Roker I mean Al I was the man as we'll give you a general
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  outline of the country with your kid.
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  You're like wow that's neat. It's cold there this time of the
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  year. You're doing stuff when he
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  talking about other places, but and make you feel good while
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  doing it. He's just a guy, yeah.
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  I wish Al Roker was my granddaddy, you know?
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  I mean, that's such a good dude, right?
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  I tell you down here we've got one I wish was my uncle also or
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  cousin or some Alan Seals. He is Pensacola based now I
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  believe. But he left and went somewhere
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  and worked Boston or somewhere for 20 something years and came
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  back. But he is great.
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  I think he is amazing when Charisse and I've already
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  adopted him as our go to when there's anything we'll listen
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  to. No offense to Ed Bloodsworth and
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  what's the other guy's name Darwin Singleton and those guys.
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  But we're going to get Alan Seal's you know, report.
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  That's what we're going off of. And oh, he's the same way.
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  He just seems like such a nice guy.
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  Like man, I wish I was related. That guy you know I've got.
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  I've got my guy here in southeast Louisiana.
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  His name's Joe. I'm going to butcher his last
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  name. De Greg De Gregorio.
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  Joe De Gregorio he he he's on Facebook.
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  He's on Joe De Gabriel. Yeah.
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  Hey, this dude is so it's kind of how he talks.
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  You can check him out on YouTube.
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  He has Facebook page. It's South Louisiana or
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  southeast Louisiana. Extreme weather South Louisiana,
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  extreme weather. But he he he's not really one
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  that's out in there. He's the guy that's reporting it
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  watching the radar, watching the maps watching all of this stuff
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  and man his accuracy is is it Yeah his his accuracy is
• 18:20
  impeccable. He consult.
• 18:22
  He's an he is a meteorologist but he he consults with he
• 18:27
  consults with movies with different movie crews and stuff
• 18:31
  like that, which is something I'd never thought about.
• 18:34
  But he talked in some of his live streams that I've watched
• 18:37
  about how you know these movies they they have a meteorologist
• 18:43
  on board that it's it's huge for when they're flying and things
• 18:47
  like that. Just different, all kinds of
• 18:49
  different things that can happen in a movie.
• 18:50
  Just not something I ever thought of.
• 18:52
  So he consults on things like that.
• 18:54
  He's just he is a badass, no other way around it.
• 18:59
  That opened your mind up too, because, you know, I've did.
• 19:01
  I've worked on some movies and TV background acting stuff and
• 19:04
  yeah, all the stuff they have to have to make stuff happen.
• 19:06
  I'm talking about y'all thousands of people at a place
• 19:10
  to do little scenes and stuff. It's crazy how many people are
• 19:13
  involved in all that. But yeah, that that's not a bad
• 19:16
  gig either. You're a normal meteorologist
• 19:18
  for your thing and then your side hustle is go work on a
• 19:20
  couple of movies because they're only last a couple of months
• 19:22
  here and there, you know? Yeah I'm sure they pay well.
• 19:26
  Yeah, yeah he's he said they do he's he's still he has uh he has
• 19:31
  some superstars that still reach him.
• 19:34
  You know. Yeah people are at heart are
• 19:36
  weather geeks right. I think we have to way more, way
• 19:40
  more people that he's. Well, we have to be.
• 19:42
  It's in our, it's in our, it's in our, it's in our evolution.
• 19:46
  To be nervous about the weather because floods and fires and
• 19:49
  shit is killed. We should be.
• 19:51
  Yeah, right. Because we have to.
• 19:53
  We should be. Yeah, exactly.
• 19:54
  We should be. Some people are not, which is
• 19:56
  crazy and it's like, but anyway. This is happening and it's
• 20:00
  coming. What's what's even more amazing
• 20:02
  is the ability to forecast. This to me is mind blowing.
• 20:06
  Even when things don't go as planned.
• 20:07
  They even tell you where things can change and how this could
• 20:11
  change and. Fall up a different way, But do
• 20:13
  they've gotten pretty Dang good at this?
• 20:15
  Like, you know, especially like. They dropped the ball on Sally
• 20:18
  for us. That was the one time, well, you
• 20:20
  know and it happens. It's like I've seen them come in
• 20:24
  and do this and they think it's gone and all of a sudden this
• 20:25
  thing we will wobbles and makes a whole different directional
• 20:28
  move. And they're like it was even
• 20:30
  with Michael that came on shore here.
• 20:32
  They thought it's going to be like a category two or three and
• 20:34
  then by 5:00 in the morning it's a category five that maybe the
• 20:37
  strongest storm that ever hurt hit United States, you know?
• 20:40
  Nuts. Yeah.
• 20:41
  But like, at the end of the day, they're they're they're good at
• 20:45
  giving you a really good heads up at what's going on, man.
• 20:48
  And what about, let me ask, y'all this So like in in y'all's
• 20:52
  lifetime, like like catastrophic weather events that you've like
• 20:57
  been that you like, I guess been a part of firsthand or witness
• 21:02
  to some level, Like what are the ones that stand out to you the
• 21:04
  most? Katrina, for me, I mean,
• 21:08
  obviously that was the biggest one I've ever been a part of.
• 21:13
  I wasn't directly involved in the storm.
• 21:15
  I wasn't in the storm. I lived here in Baton Rouge.
• 21:19
  But the the way that it affected everything moving forward, it
• 21:25
  still is in Baton Rouge. Like the traffic, the amount of
• 21:28
  people that moved to Baton Rouge overnight, the size of the place
• 21:32
  doubled the infrastructure. Here was not ready for that.
• 21:36
  Where I worked at one time when I lived in Florida with Hogan
• 21:39
  Hardwoods, we we had a place here in Baton Rouge.
• 21:42
  They had a place in New Orleans as well.
• 21:44
  It was flooded. We were able to go in and send
• 21:49
  70 or 80 trucks into New Orleans a handful of days after the
• 21:54
  storm and recover our our wood, which most of it had not gotten
• 21:58
  wet. You know, some of it had but but
• 22:00
  most of it had not, miraculously.
• 22:04
  Hadn't flooded there and the wind damage was bad, but not as
• 22:07
  bad as it was, you know over in in Biloxi and and over that over
• 22:12
  Gulfport and and and past Christian and all through there
• 22:16
  where they just got ravaged. And it's not even really talked
• 22:21
  about as much as it's just the flood that was in in New
• 22:24
  Orleans, but it been the whole Gulf South.
• 22:27
  It changed the commerce, it changed the economy, it changed
• 22:31
  the population and it changed where everybody left.
• 22:34
  So it's pretty easy to to hone in on Katrina being the the
• 22:38
  biggest thing I've been, biggest weather event that I've been.
• 22:40
  It was just a monster flood event, you know, I mean, anytime
• 22:44
  these whatever storm it is turns into a flood event, that's when
• 22:48
  things becomes truly catastrophic.
• 22:50
  You know what I mean? Like it's and.
• 22:53
  The the the second one very quickly is, is the flood.
• 22:57
  Baton Rouge had a a horrendous flood in 2016.
• 23:01
  There was 20 something inches of rain that was dropped in Denham
• 23:05
  Springs. It it flooded in Baton Rouge but
• 23:07
  it really flooded just the east of us.
• 23:09
  My friends at Gator Millworks their shop flooded.
• 23:13
  It had I think, I think 12 feet of water.
• 23:17
  It may have been even more than that.
• 23:19
  It was everything. It it just it killed everything.
• 23:22
  But they are tough, dude. They they were back operating.
• 23:27
  They missed hardly any days miraculously now it was a time
• 23:32
  of period of recovering and they but they they've dug in.
• 23:36
  I look forward to having Chad on the show to talk about that
• 23:40
  story that story of resiliency and all because that's that's
• 23:44
  something that you live with when you live in Louisiana.
• 23:47
  You have to live with floods and flooding and.
• 23:50
  And all of that, that was 100 year flood or 1000 year flood as
• 23:53
  they say it and and then you know we had another one in Baton
• 23:58
  Rouge, another flash flood not long after that.
• 24:01
  It's just a lot of things in these cities the the they're not
• 24:05
  prepared. They built its concrete jungles.
• 24:08
  The drainage is it there, the soil can't soak it up anymore.
• 24:11
  There's nowhere for the water to go.
• 24:13
  And so those, those, those floods.
• 24:16
  Those are the the biggest thing that I've dealt with in
• 24:19
  Louisiana and and in my life. And I've been listening to this
• 24:25
  audio book on Audible about Huey P Long called Kingfish, just
• 24:30
  kind of interested in listening to some of that stuff and just
• 24:32
  hearing it again. And one of the things kind of
• 24:35
  where I've stopped at right now, they're talking about Louisiana
• 24:38
  1927, the flood down in Plaquemine and and Saint Bernard
• 24:43
  Parish where they had to blow where they blew the levee.
• 24:46
  To relieve the river. And then you can go all deep
• 24:50
  into that. There's a lot of conspiracy
• 24:52
  theories and and everything on on why that was done at all.
• 24:56
  But floods, man. Floods in Louisiana just go, Oh
• 25:00
  yeah, hand in hand. I'll get off less, less.
• 25:02
  So it's the. Bottom of the It's the bottom of
• 25:05
  the Mississippi. River, all the water's got to go
• 25:07
  somewhere. That's why you don't bury
• 25:08
  people. That's why they're above ground
• 25:10
  over there in those places. I had cousins in that Denham
• 25:13
  Springs area when that went down, some grandmother's family
• 25:16
  and it was rough, buddy. I'm talking about, oh man, their
• 25:18
  whole. They were like, total loss, I
• 25:20
  mean. Oh yeah, total life.
• 25:22
  Jackets and stuff, I think. A whole yeah.
• 25:23
  Is crazy. Yeah, they're tough.
• 25:25
  Insane. But what about you Jr. like?
• 25:29
  Yeah, what kind of, you know, I was like, what's up to mine?
• 25:32
  Trina comes to mind because it was so I was an adult and you
• 25:35
  know, I knew the impact and watched it and and had, you
• 25:38
  know, that and Ivan down here when all that went down, I
• 25:41
  remember that. Changed the the the down here
• 25:45
  and then recently you know Sally and Zeta we we were here we were
• 25:49
  at home for those and Sally was a lot worse than it it seemed
• 25:52
  And then I I've never been through one like that we.
• 25:56
  About, I don't know, 6-7 years ago there was a category one or
• 25:59
  two when we were living at the condo and it came through, but
• 26:02
  you know, we were in a big superstructure and it wasn't
• 26:04
  that bad. But Sally dumped a lot of water
• 26:07
  and stayed and went slow and it a lot of wind damage.
• 26:10
  So walking out of the house after that, being in the house
• 26:12
  scared, you know, for 6-7 hours straight and then going out the
• 26:18
  next day and seeing the damage was like, Oh my God, you know,
• 26:21
  it took a long time to get straightened up after that.
• 26:23
  It's still not all the way but. But growing up, you know, on
• 26:27
  Lake Martin and in central Alabama and even in Mississippi,
• 26:30
  my grandparents are from my mom's from tornadoes, you know,
• 26:35
  and and afternoon thunderstorms in the summer would could be
• 26:39
  just as violent as you can imagine.
• 26:41
  But they were usually shortlived.
• 26:43
  That hurricane was like 6 hours worth of a good tornado, right
• 26:47
  close to you. But those storms growing up on
• 26:50
  the lake, the afternoon with the lightning and stuff, man, that
• 26:52
  was some strong stuff and. You know, I wasn't around for
• 26:55
  the big tornado that came through Alabama and did all the
• 26:58
  damage. I remember seeing footage of a
• 27:01
  of a of a horrific big boat and but boat sheds Old Lake Martin,
• 27:07
  yeah. Yeah, I saw.
• 27:08
  I saw a year or so later the path that it cut.
• 27:14
  Near where the amphitheater is and it stopped at the water.
• 27:16
  Then it went look across the lake and you can see it start up
• 27:18
  and it was about 3/4 of a mile wide.
• 27:20
  Did it look like it'd been clear cut on purpose?
• 27:22
  But that was where the storm had went through.
• 27:24
  It was wild looking, but I wasn't there for that.
• 27:26
  But those storms on the lake, I can remember being with my dad
• 27:29
  in a boat fishing and it'd be a beautiful day.
• 27:33
  And then you look over and it's dark over there.
• 27:35
  It's starting to and then look over 2 minutes later and it's
• 27:38
  black and it's coming and us trying to run from Chimney Rock.
• 27:41
  The storms coming from the dam and we got a turn to go home.
• 27:45
  So we're trying to figure it's coming in us it gets very John
• 27:48
  boat, you know that kind of stuff.
• 27:51
  I remember that, you know, you know lately, you know heat stuff
• 27:57
  to be, you know be in places where it's hot and dry.
• 27:59
  I was at, I just got back from Salt Lake City, UT, Denver, Co
• 28:04
  and it was, you know, fairly warm the daytime and cool,
• 28:07
  pretty cool at night. Man, it's so dry.
• 28:09
  There's a different type of weather, different type of
• 28:11
  climate, elevation, all that stuff.
• 28:14
  It's just it's weird cuz you think one thing but everywhere
• 28:19
  has their own we. Got their whole different.
• 28:21
  System stuff, man. You get into a, you get into a
• 28:24
  Blizzard situation. That's a like that's just a
• 28:27
  whole nother animal that we're not used to dealing with.
• 28:29
  Yeah, I have no experience. I have very little experience
• 28:32
  with bad, with any kind of snow and stuff.
• 28:34
  Nashville, we got some. I remember being released.
• 28:37
  Yeah, that's a memory there, coming back from the gym one
• 28:39
  time in Nashville. Knew it was going to get a
• 28:42
  little cool that night and might rain or might snow a little.
• 28:45
  Well, I left the gym, went to the gym a little later and I
• 28:47
  wanted to and I'm coming home and it's already gotten dark and
• 28:49
  I'm in flip flops, gym clothes tired.
• 28:52
  I'm in my car that I had before I had my truck.
• 28:56
  And on the way home, it's snowing and it's getting thick
• 28:59
  and I go to get off my exit and it don't look like anyone's
• 29:02
  been. It doesn't look like a good old
• 29:03
  Lord. So I went to the next exit,
• 29:05
  turned and go the back way to my house, look down the road, black
• 29:08
  and white Rd. couldn't. No one had been down.
• 29:11
  So that's not a good option either.
• 29:12
  And I'm not prepared. I don't have clothes to be
• 29:15
  walking in, you know 20 something degrees for a couple
• 29:17
  of miles right now and it's, it's I lived out the stick, so.
• 29:21
  I got back on back on Briley Pkwy, started heading back into
• 29:24
  town and I got behind an 18 Wheeler that was going to my
• 29:28
  exit because my exit had a U PS:.
• 29:31
  Terminal at it. So I followed that U PS:.
• 29:33
  Truck and he went left and I went right and I thought this is
• 29:36
  the shortest distance between my house and here.
• 29:38
  If anything goes wrong just have to hoof it and buddy that last
• 29:41
  mile and a half, two miles, ten and two.
• 29:43
  I was my my booty was tight. Trying to make sure.
• 29:45
  I made it. Home we did, but that was a
• 29:47
  scary one and that was just. Like you say, we're not
• 29:50
  prepared. Like at home you kind of know.
• 29:52
  Or in central Alabama, where I grew up, there was a little ice
• 29:55
  or a little chance of some freezing and ice.
• 29:56
  Man, they would shut stuff down you.
• 29:58
  Just don't go. They didn't have that deal with
• 30:00
  it and all, yeah. They still do it in that.
• 30:03
  Yeah, it gets it. It's farther north than you
• 30:05
  would think, so it it. Happens more often a lot.
• 30:09
  More yet, They're going to get snow a few times a year there
• 30:11
  and ice. I can remember my brother and I
• 30:13
  when he had moved up. I'm going to go try to get a.
• 30:16
  Masters or some or some form of continuing education at one of
• 30:20
  the schools around Nashville. And we were on campus somewhere,
• 30:23
  and he'd walked back in from the place and it started around.
• 30:25
  We were like, oh, this is pretty.
• 30:26
  And within 10 minutes it was the heaviest Blizzard storm of snow
• 30:32
  either one of us had ever seen to that point in our lives.
• 30:34
  You know, it was fine. We made it.
• 30:36
  It wasn't sticking or anything, but it was huge.
• 30:39
  We were like, this is Tennessee. We didn't know Tennessee had
• 30:42
  this much. You know, that's crazy.
• 30:45
  That's correct. I remember some of those.
• 30:46
  And then growing up on that lake, there were some those
• 30:49
  lightning and stuff. Popping lightning is the one
• 30:51
  that gets me. I still give me the heebie
• 30:52
  jeebies I know I've met. I respect Lightning.
• 30:56
  I respect lightning more than as much as anybody.
• 31:00
  Yeah. It hit near my house one time.
• 31:03
  I got some residuals through the house.
• 31:05
  I don't know if I told you all that story.
• 31:06
  It came through. I hit outside.
• 31:08
  Came through the mouse, pushed me back.
• 31:10
  All I remember is it felt like I saw a blue energy ball in my lap
• 31:14
  and I was pushed away and it and my arm was locked up like this
• 31:17
  for like 30 minutes. I could not straighten it out.
• 31:19
  It was wild, and it must. Have hit the house outside or
• 31:23
  something. Yeah, he came on through you.
• 31:25
  But it didn't for the computer. I was.
• 31:27
  I called my mom and told her, and she's like, are you kidding
• 31:29
  me? I was like, no, I was like, I'll
• 31:31
  just let you know. Call me back in an hour.
• 31:33
  Make sure I'm not. You know, I don't fall out from
• 31:35
  a heart attack or something because it's still storming.
• 31:36
  I'm in this house that's as big as my studio windows on every
• 31:40
  wall. I'm sitting in the middle like
• 31:41
  there's nowhere to go. There's no as you as you should,
• 31:44
  I don't. Want to get hit again though
• 31:45
  Because my arm's still. What arm's still like this?
• 31:47
  You know what I would try was? Like T Rex arm.
• 31:52
  Yeah, it would keep popping up. I'd get it down it.
• 31:54
  Was like, wow. That is so it was like when you
• 31:56
  get do the the pads to make your, you know the electrodes to
• 31:59
  make your yeah, yeah you got struck my light in the man's.
• 32:02
  Yeah. You, Joe.
• 32:03
  You really did. I mean, you call it what you
• 32:06
  want to. You got struck my light.
• 32:07
  You're sitting there. Like I was on my computer, yeah,
• 32:09
  and I was hitting your arm out. I was on my computer and it was
• 32:11
  an old school desktop computer, you know, you know, on a desk, a
• 32:17
  metal desk. And the mouse was wired to the
• 32:19
  computer. Yeah.
• 32:20
  And I remember it hit and I'm thinking, wow, it's getting bad.
• 32:23
  And it went, it made like a noise, almost like a hiss and
• 32:25
  then a pop. And then I remembered,
• 32:27
  literally. It seemed in my mind it seemed
• 32:29
  like a blue, like a Mortal Kombat.
• 32:32
  Or a yeah, yeah. Street Fighter all that, you
• 32:35
  think, right? In my lap.
• 32:37
  And then it pushed me back, not far, but about, you know, a foot
• 32:41
  back in my rolling thing. And my arm went like this.
• 32:45
  And I was like, Oh my gosh. And I'm like, oh, then I'm
• 32:49
  freaking. So then I called my mom like I
• 32:51
  just. I was a home.
• 32:53
  Tiny house. Anyway, that was one I didn't
• 32:55
  even think about. But yeah, that.
• 32:57
  And I've met, and I'm sure y'all have too.
• 33:00
  I've met several people in my life that have been hit by
• 33:03
  lightning multiple times and things like that.
• 33:06
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, it's funny
• 33:09
  like Jr. you just triggered so many thoughts.
• 33:11
  I got my board. I got a little board here and
• 33:13
  it's changing and I've got to figure out how to wrap.
• 33:15
  This well, one because they say I I can, I've got to interrupt
• 33:19
  you because I know one that you have to tell immediately.
• 33:21
  Right now, you've got to tell the story about the people,
• 33:25
  about that guy that you spoke to, his daughter that been
• 33:29
  struck. I spoke to his sisterinlaw,
• 33:31
  Yeah, still trying to chase her down.
• 33:33
  Like, I don't want to get her on here.
• 33:34
  He's been so he's a guy. It's Melvin.
• 33:37
  What is it? Melvin Roberts, I believe out of
• 33:40
  South Carolina and he's been struck by lightning, I believe
• 33:43
  12 Times Now. He's he's deceased now and and
• 33:48
  it was a result finally of all the lightning strikes, but Oh
• 33:52
  my. God, but no.
• 33:54
  I mean, I'd laugh because, all right, So what?
• 33:56
  You're talking about JRI got struck by lightning.
• 33:59
  Like, I feel like was an indirect hit, too.
• 34:01
  I was on my back porch. There were a bunch of people on
• 34:03
  my porch. I had like, it was under roof
• 34:05
  and I had a screen door and I stepped out onto a little
• 34:08
  concrete pad to, you know, use the bathroom real quick, you
• 34:11
  know, kind of just barely off the porch.
• 34:13
  But had to be like. Screen door.
• 34:16
  Yes. And lightning hit.
• 34:18
  Do knock me backwards. I mean, I lit up and my whole
• 34:21
  body became just like, yeah, buzzing, you know, like.
• 34:24
  Friend in high school, same thing.
• 34:26
  Screen door. And another time he was on a
• 34:28
  landline telephone. My buddy Jake Hill, a friend of
• 34:31
  mine in high school. So the same thing.
• 34:33
  Went to go inside Storm and grab the screen door to open it, pop
• 34:36
  somewhere, boom, he wakes up on the ground.
• 34:39
  Another time in the house, same thing.
• 34:41
  Yeah. It's so you don't know if it's
• 34:43
  direct. You don't.
• 34:44
  It couldn't be direct. No, I didn't just hit me in the
• 34:46
  top of the head, but like, you know.
• 34:48
  But he came. But somehow brutes.
• 34:50
  Oh, he's still enough. I walked in like my my legs
• 34:54
  weren't working right. I had to sit down like it was a
• 34:57
  I was affected highly, you know? Wow.
• 34:59
  And so I think about that. And I was Googling one day
• 35:01
  trying to find out people who had been hit.
• 35:03
  And I Googled this Melvin Roberts guy and found him and
• 35:08
  and I and I found his Facebook page.
• 35:09
  And I just kept digging because it was like 3 in the morning,
• 35:11
  4:00 in the morning, I was up, You know, I just happened to
• 35:13
  wake up early and I sent a Facebook page he's got.
• 35:17
  I sent a message. And then dude, I got a response.
• 35:19
  Actually, I didn't get a response.
• 35:20
  I got a phone call within like 30 minutes.
• 35:22
  At like 4:45 in the morning, I'm getting a phone call, but I
• 35:25
  didn't answer it. I was like, but this is strange.
• 35:27
  And it was his sisterinlaw from Ohio calling me.
• 35:29
  And she was going to tell me all about him.
• 35:31
  But he was now deceased. And I'm still trying to chase
• 35:34
  her down, like, so she summer's a busy time of the year for her
• 35:39
  and like, so we're still trying to coordinate something.
• 35:40
  But I want to get him on. But like, this dude has been
• 35:42
  struck more than anybody on the planet to record and he's out of
• 35:46
  South Carolina. But yeah, so that's to
• 35:48
  Brantley's point. That's something that's pretty
• 35:50
  crazy, that whole lightning, like that dude, if lightning
• 35:52
  gets anywhere near and I play golf or I used to play more golf
• 35:55
  and like you to get nearby. How many movies they show,
• 35:58
  things like that? Like, you know, like the guy
• 36:00
  that got struck a lot in great outdoors, like this guy.
• 36:03
  Oh yeah. And I believe some people are
• 36:06
  more like a Lightning's attracted to more people than
• 36:08
  others for whatever reason. And I think I'm up there on that
• 36:12
  upper echelon because of when I was a kid.
• 36:14
  I was out in the middle of a field between my grandmother's
• 36:17
  apartments, and I thank God. As a child, I was scared enough
• 36:21
  when things felt weird. I knew to run because God gifted
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  me with speed. So I would take off running if
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  something got strange, you know? I mean, whatever it was,
• 36:29
  whatever the moment was, I don't care if some dude was looking at
• 36:32
  me strange and he was, you know, driving a creepy van or
• 36:34
  whatever. I would just run like, good,
• 36:37
  good luck catching me. I was running and I was feeling
• 36:40
  real weird, dude. It's like my hair was like,
• 36:42
  lifting up and I was just like, why do I feel so strange?
• 36:45
  And I just took off in a I mean, just as fast as I could run
• 36:49
  towards his apartment. Dude, I ran maybe 50 yards and
• 36:52
  lightning hit right where I was. I mean, I turned around, it hit
• 36:55
  this, it hit a, it hit a like a a cell phone tower.
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  Wasn't a cell phone tower at the time like a whatever, a big
• 37:03
  tower else cell towers in yes. And hit that and hit right back
• 37:07
  there in that field and I was like and then I get hit again
• 37:10
  here in indirectly. So I'm just.
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  Confirming all the things I've known all my or last 25 years of
• 37:16
  my life, I knew when I after first time too.
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  I met Blazie. He might be a living superhero
• 37:21
  or alien of some sort living in a human body and it now
• 37:25
  confirmed he is Lightning Man. Blacey has Lightning Man
• 37:29
  Brother. I don't mess with himself
• 37:31
  because somewhere in my mind, I think Lightning is here to Take
• 37:34
  Me Out. And like.
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  And that's why I wouldn't even go from my front door to my
• 37:38
  garbage can. If lightning gets within like,
• 37:41
  you know, two or three miles, like I'm not.
• 37:43
  I'm not chancing it. You know, I'm.
• 37:44
  Not either. I'm the polar opposite of Blasi
• 37:46
  and I feel that it's I'm not fast.
• 37:48
  Oh man, I'm the first one for me.
• 37:51
  I did this time to go to the clubhouse and they're like,
• 37:53
  what's going on? I'm like, dude, I'm not screwing
• 37:55
  around this lightning. Like I'm not.
• 37:57
  Doing it, I get under. That's me.
• 37:58
  And I'm not doing that. And I've been at golf
• 38:00
  tournaments and we're standing on the back porch and there was,
• 38:03
  I remember there's a pine tree literally 10 feet from me, and
• 38:05
  I'm standing there talking to this lady that I knew she was
• 38:08
  older than me. I grew up, you know, with her
• 38:09
  son and dude, lightning hits this tree and we're and we're
• 38:13
  right next to this tree, you know?
• 38:14
  And it's like, and I'm just going, guys.
• 38:16
  Lightning is after me and I'm respected.
• 38:20
  So much. Well, I'm glad you're fast and
• 38:22
  you've got to outrun all this light here over these years we
• 38:25
  might hate. And if lightning came right now,
• 38:28
  I'd probably spend the night out here in my studio.
• 38:30
  You know what I mean? Like I just don't mess around
• 38:31
  with it, I. Would not.
• 38:32
  I don't take a chance, even between thunders.
• 38:36
  You know, like, boom. OK, I can run. 15 feet to get
• 38:41
  there. It petrifies me.
• 38:43
  It really does. It's one of the only things that
• 38:46
  I'm like truly, truly scared of. I used to fish.
• 38:51
  Have you ever been fishing and watched your fishing line like
• 38:55
  just float up? Because when when you're I've
• 38:59
  been on some I've been in some hairy situations on Toledo Bend
• 39:03
  where I I grew up fishing and kind of it's.
• 39:06
  Like those storms, it'll pop up just like on Lake Martin.
• 39:10
  I mean, if you don't, when you feel that first little breath,
• 39:15
  baby breath, I call it blow, and you see dark clouds, you better
• 39:19
  rip. You better get up, get, get your
• 39:22
  stuff and get back to the boat launch cuz that.
• 39:25
  Lake the worst is the worst is being stuck on the lake.
• 39:27
  Like, we've had to do this and I've had to do this recently.
• 39:30
  Well, several years ago now, but.
• 39:32
  Be out there and that you can't get anywhere.
• 39:34
  You're too far home. You have to just go to an island
• 39:36
  and you get on an island and on the islands, not the pine trees.
• 39:39
  And we know what they'll do to pine trees.
• 39:41
  We might have to. We're got.
• 39:43
  I know, I know Blacey's got time commitments today because he's a
• 39:45
  busy man. He's Captain Latin.
• 39:47
  But we might have to do another episode on whether maybe.
• 39:51
  We should see if we can get an actual meteorologist or weather
• 39:53
  person to come on and talk a little weather with us and.
• 39:56
  I have an episode of two, I think.
• 39:57
  I think it would be great to do something about that.
• 40:00
  Yeah. Well, I I had an opportunity
• 40:03
  this past weekend at the at the LSU at a tailgate, some sitting
• 40:10
  there and there's a there's a meteorologist here in Baton
• 40:14
  Rouge. He is one of my favorite
• 40:15
  meteorologist, Doctor Steve Caporetta.
• 40:18
  He's on the local news. He is he is money on his
• 40:21
  forecast. The dude is he's fantastic.
• 40:23
  Well he was good for he's he's friends and good friends with my
• 40:28
  a guy I work with David and Mindy Marks and and I saw them
• 40:33
  over there talking and I went oh God, here's my chance.
• 40:37
  I'm going to go talk to Doctor Steve.
• 40:39
  And then I got to Doctor Steve and and Mindy and David and they
• 40:42
  know. They know I'm a whether or not
• 40:44
  they, they know, they know how I am.
• 40:47
  And you know, I just absolutely fumbled the ball, man.
• 40:52
  I mean, I got so starstruck like we've talked, we've talked to
• 40:57
  DDP on here. We've had Taylor Hicks.
• 41:01
  We've had Marty Smith. Blacey's interviewed DeMarcus
• 41:05
  where Yeah, maybe we've had all of these people but I absolutely
• 41:11
  melted in front of Dr. Steve Cabretta and I could not get out
• 41:15
  my well, well, it's it's a very nice place.
• 41:18
  It's a it's a pleasure to meet you Dr. Dr. Steve.
• 41:20
  Man, I love the weather. I love the weather.
• 41:23
  Yeah. Like good.
• 41:24
  I couldn't get it out, talk, just absolutely, just.
• 41:30
  And the worst thing, a lot of my friends were all around and they
• 41:34
  kind of saw it. They watched it go down South.
• 41:36
  Is this brand doing this? Like what if?
• 41:39
  It happens. I've done it.
• 41:40
  Oh, I've done it. Oh, I've done it.
• 41:42
  Oh, it. Hell yeah, but I'd love to get
• 41:44
  Dr. Steve on the show. I will add one more storm story
• 41:47
  because that we we got awful in tangent because yeah, Jr. threw
• 41:50
  me off the lightning. Sorry, buddy.
• 41:53
  I'll break this down real fast and I'll wrap it up in 60
• 41:56
  seconds almost. So I grew up in Elba.
• 41:59
  We had the levee system, that little town.
• 42:02
  I grew up inside the levee from 73 to 84 and didn't have
• 42:06
  anything catastrophic happen. I've heard about the 1929 flood
• 42:09
  that was one in the late 70s, but it didn't get super bad in
• 42:12
  90. The levee, you know, failed.
• 42:15
  And just fill the town up. I mean the courthouse, the town
• 42:19
  every everything downtown was like 15 feet underwater and then
• 42:23
  happened again in 90. And so I've dealt with that
• 42:26
  growing up seeing like what floods can do to a area and like
• 42:30
  in a floods are slow. It's even a slower creeping
• 42:33
  thing than a hurricane because even after the storm passes you
• 42:36
  got to watch for that, you know that that flood level to keep
• 42:39
  rising. But the craziest thing I've
• 42:42
  probably ever been a part of, and I didn't think about it till
• 42:44
  you talked about Nashville. Was I was living in Birmingham
• 42:47
  from 2012 to 2015 and they had that snowpocalypse take place
• 42:53
  and I took my son to school. I was living in Hoover took him
• 42:57
  to school that morning. I promised him as if it starts
• 43:00
  to snow. They were just talking about it
• 43:01
  might snow and it was going to probably melt pretty quick after
• 43:04
  because the temperatures were going to get maybe down to 3231
• 43:07
  and then rise back up to about 35.
• 43:10
  I was like, I'll check you out of school and you can come watch
• 43:12
  it snow. Well, sure enough, about 9:00 AM
• 43:14
  I was working from the house that day.
• 43:16
  It started to snow and I was like, as promised, I'm going to
• 43:19
  go check him out. So I went and checked him out.
• 43:20
  We came back to the house, get back home.
• 43:23
  And I was like, hey, you only go to beef o'brady's and have
• 43:25
  lunch. This is probably 10:30, I mean
• 43:27
  almost 11:00. And let's go to Beef o'brady's.
• 43:30
  And I went to leave the neighborhood and the
• 43:32
  neighborhood I was in was kind of sits down.
• 43:35
  So we went to leave and not you got to go up a little hill to
• 43:38
  get up on the final. In any way you leave that
• 43:40
  neighborhood, you got to go up a little hill and did.
• 43:42
  There were cars that were already like, had crashed into
• 43:46
  each other trying to leave the neighborhood on that slopes.
• 43:49
  And so I was like, well, I guess we'll take the back exit.
• 43:51
  They've got some craziness going on this one.
• 43:53
  So I couldn't leave the back exit.
• 43:55
  And then I was like, we can't go anywhere.
• 43:57
  So I ended up going back to the house, dude.
• 43:58
  And then then that's when that madness happened, dude.
• 44:00
  There were 12,000 kids that spent the night in schools that
• 44:04
  night. And JD.
• 44:07
  Buddy JD. He had a four wheel drive and
• 44:10
  there's a good steak place or what's it called?
• 44:14
  Cajun cleaver. I think he stopped in there.
• 44:17
  He couldn't make it back to Gardendale, so he wiggles his
• 44:20
  way back to us and picks up some fine steaks.
• 44:24
  Do we grill up? We grill steaks at night.
• 44:26
  JD spends the night. We have a fabulous night.
• 44:29
  Dude, I'm watching. It looks like like the
• 44:31
  apocalypse. People are walking in up and
• 44:33
  down the roads like because all cars are seized up.
• 44:37
  Nobody can drive anywhere. There were grilling steaks
• 44:40
  hanging out, having a good evening.
• 44:41
  My next door neighbor's son got stranded at school the next
• 44:45
  morning about 7:00 AM We went in J D's truck and had a good 4
• 44:48
  wheel drive and we went and picked him up from the school,
• 44:51
  brought him back. But dude, that was a crazy
• 44:53
  weather event because that weather went from like 3132,
• 44:56
  dropped down to like 19 and every meteorologist thought it
• 44:59
  was supposed to go up to like 35.
• 45:01
  Like they missed it so bad and it just turned into just a.
• 45:05
  And it's like a sheet of ice covered Birmingham.
• 45:08
  So wow. Yeah.
• 45:10
  So there's that's probably the craziest weather event outside
• 45:12
  of the Hurricanes. I've been Opal, I've been a part
• 45:15
  of in the floods. That was so bizarre because it
• 45:18
  threw everybody off and nobody knew it was coming and it was
• 45:21
  just. Like you said earlier, they're
• 45:23
  usually they're they're really good.
• 45:25
  It's really good. I don't know what the percentage
• 45:27
  would be, but I bet 7580% of the time they nail it pretty Dang
• 45:30
  close. But then, that 20 boy.
• 45:33
  But it's unpredictable. Mother Nature, she's undefeated.
• 45:36
  And you know, we all do. When we come back and do the
• 45:37
  weather part too, we should talk about good weather.
• 45:41
  We've talked about bad weather. We should talk about some good
• 45:43
  weather, too. We're talking about the good
• 45:45
  stuff. Absolutely love some good
• 45:47
  weather like we're having right now.
• 45:49
  That's really good weather right now, boys.
• 45:51
  That's right. That's right.
• 45:52
  I know I had a good time this week.
• 45:54
  Thank you for having me on. Thanks everybody for listening.
• 45:58
  Same bat time, same bat play place.
• 46:00
  Boys and girls, thank y'all. Thank you.
• 46:02
  See you.