Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Karissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Aaron, did you sleep last night? I
Speaker 1: mean the guests that we have on this week's Calm
Speaker 1: Down podcast I have been hearing about for years. Aaron's
Speaker 1: love affair with Jim Cantory, the meteorologists from the Weather
Speaker 1: Channel is our guest today. How excited are you? He's great?
Speaker 1: He is the Elvis Presley. He is a rock star
Speaker 1: of all rock stars with the weather, and um, I
Speaker 1: died for the weather. Besides sports. I don't really know
Speaker 1: if I cared too much about anything else. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: Howard who's laying here, But yeah, I have so many
Speaker 1: questions for him. I have one question for you, and
Speaker 1: then we will get to Jim. Where did the love
Speaker 1: of weather come from with you? I think honestly being
Speaker 1: raised in Tampa, Florida, and knowing that you're going to
Speaker 1: have a downpour from four o'clock to five o'clock on
Speaker 1: this guys are gonna get really, really dark. We had
Speaker 1: to run around our house and unplug everything. But also
Speaker 1: there was such a watch around the time hurricane season
Speaker 1: came on. Is it a hurricane warning? Is it a
Speaker 1: hurricane watch? What is it. My dad was in the news,
Speaker 1: but I just I don't know. It's live, it's unscripted.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like our job, except you know, really
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes you're light, you're endangered, people are losing
Speaker 1: their lives. I just love it. I've my husband, you know,
Speaker 1: growing up in Canada, he really didn't know much about
Speaker 1: hurricanes obviously, and then when a hurricane would happen down south,
Speaker 1: I would turn on the Weather Channel and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, wall to wall coverage, and he's like, God,
Speaker 1: you're really into this, and that's the reason why from
Speaker 1: growing up there. Well, then let's not wait any longer.
Speaker 1: Jim Cantory coming up next on the Combat podcast. Aaron
Speaker 1: won'tcome now, Jim, I'm so excited about having you on
Speaker 1: today that Karissa, she normally does the intros, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna mess this up. I mean, there's only a couple
Speaker 1: of people I start sweating profusely around you, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: uh in that order. But yeah, I mean you are
Speaker 1: known as the rock star of meteorologists and the job
Speaker 1: I wanted to have. We should do like the holiday
Speaker 1: one day and switch houses or switch jobs that what
Speaker 1: do you say we start this Sunday and Sidelines will
Speaker 1: net work. I'm not going to be there. I'm actually
Speaker 1: it's on NBC next year. Next year we can talk
Speaker 1: to Eric Shanks about it. But Jim Cantory, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining the Calm Down Podcast. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited that you're here than she has been talking about
Speaker 1: you forever. Yeah, it's funny. We've we've talked about but
Speaker 1: I never got to be honest with the year, and
Speaker 1: I never knew that you had this thing where I
Speaker 1: want you would have been a meteorologist if you didn't
Speaker 1: do the sports thing so well, that are probably a
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. I mean, Jim, it's just the the
Speaker 1: opportunities are endless. You know, you really are, you really are.
Speaker 1: You know most people you know talk to Aaron and
Speaker 1: I are like, oh, you guys have such incredible jobs,
Speaker 1: like to be a sportscaster, and so to me. I
Speaker 1: just always think it's fascinating where Aaron has a dream
Speaker 1: job that that most people would want, but yet she's
Speaker 1: still says that you have her real dream job, a
Speaker 1: job that you have now done for over thirty six
Speaker 1: years give or take, okay five, I'll just keep it
Speaker 1: moving fine. The number is not important. Definitely. I was
Speaker 1: reading that about you right out of college. You started
Speaker 1: at the Weather Channel. Is that incredible to you that
Speaker 1: you started one place and have never left. I was
Speaker 1: painting a huge building and I was up on the
Speaker 1: scaffolding and my brother comes out and he goes, hey, Jim,
Speaker 1: the Weather Channel wants to talk to you. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we just got them on table. So
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it was. It was, It's crazy. I
Speaker 1: came down for an interview and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: And I had a car with no air conditioning, which
Speaker 1: I managed to get through Atlanta for two years before
Speaker 1: it died on me. So that was that was. I mean, guys,
Speaker 1: if you think about the good job in the weather,
Speaker 1: especially going out in the field covering the storms, and
Speaker 1: you think about covering you know, the Super Bowl or
Speaker 1: covering uh, you know, major League Baseball's playoffs in World Series,
Speaker 1: there's kind of a common thread there. I mean, storms
Speaker 1: are our World Series, storms are our super Bowl. So yes,
Speaker 1: and we go out there and we'd have to perform.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it. That's that's we got four quarters
Speaker 1: to go through and and just like you guys do
Speaker 1: and we gotta do it. We gotta, we gotta, we
Speaker 1: gotta game up. Where did the passion come from? Where
Speaker 1: did this begins? Back in the nine eight, we had
Speaker 1: a huge blizzard in New England, which is famous, the
Speaker 1: Blizzard of seventy eight shut down Boston, shutdown Providence. It
Speaker 1: is it is kind of the benchmark for storms in
Speaker 1: New England. Um, but you know we also got crushed
Speaker 1: that win or two with tons of snow and Vermont.
Speaker 1: So I mean, being a like a fourteen year old kid,
Speaker 1: I had like these snow piles over my head and
Speaker 1: I thought, cool is this. I'm looking down the road
Speaker 1: and I thought I was in like a snow tunnel.
Speaker 1: I just never seen so much snow that I am
Speaker 1: my entire life. I mean, they're bring payloaders out to
Speaker 1: move it just so people could drive on a single
Speaker 1: lane on the road. It is incredible. Jim, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can pick one right. It'd
Speaker 1: be similar to asking us maybe a favorite event, but
Speaker 1: what is that one moment that sort of stands out
Speaker 1: for you and your incredible career where you're like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm doing this right now? You know Katrina
Speaker 1: was it was the storm is because there was so
Speaker 1: much going on there, you know, building up to the storm.
Speaker 1: I started in Florida, then we drove all the way
Speaker 1: up to Biloxi to cover you know, the landfall when
Speaker 1: it was when it was a monster. And it's just
Speaker 1: trying to convince people that, Um, excuse me if you
Speaker 1: don't leave die. I mean that's hard. And you have
Speaker 1: the casinos were all along the water to be able
Speaker 1: to gamble in Mississippi, all the casinos are on the water.
Speaker 1: So you know, I kind of hollered out and I said,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do here as a broadcaster to
Speaker 1: try and convince these people this is serious because we
Speaker 1: got forecast for twenty plus foot storm search So I
Speaker 1: look and I'm right there at the Treasure Bay Casino,
Speaker 1: which was this big pirate ship over the water. And
Speaker 1: I looked over. I said, you see that ship right there, Um,
Speaker 1: it's going to be underwater tomorrow. So we need to
Speaker 1: get these people out of here. It's gonna be. So
Speaker 1: the mayor comes down. He goes, you know, Jim, you're
Speaker 1: really scaring us, And I said, good, yeah, good. I
Speaker 1: want you to be scared because I want you to
Speaker 1: get to be safe and get out. But then at
Speaker 1: the same time, Jim, you're still there. So that's what
Speaker 1: always is Like the thing, I'm like you, what you
Speaker 1: guys do and the dangerous situations that you remain in
Speaker 1: while you're advocating for everyone else to get out is
Speaker 1: something that I applaud because I could never do it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we like to think that we've got all
Speaker 1: the risks taken care of, but you know, this day
Speaker 1: and age with Live View, it was different back in
Speaker 1: two thousand five because you were kind of at the
Speaker 1: mercy of a satellite truck right when the winds were
Speaker 1: fifty six, that dish went down and you were done.
Speaker 1: You were done broadcasting. You take a few features on
Speaker 1: the side, but then you know you were done. But
Speaker 1: now with live View and cell phone and be able
Speaker 1: to go HD audio and video, you're broadcasting through the
Speaker 1: whole high wall. Yeah, you know, you're going through the
Speaker 1: whole thing. So I'm just like, you know what, if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand out on that whole thing, I'm gonna, like,
Speaker 1: I have to think about this. I'm gonna put body
Speaker 1: armor on, put a helmet on, because all it takes
Speaker 1: is one little laceration, and here I am bleeding out
Speaker 1: there on air, and I really don't want that. That's
Speaker 1: not the image. I don't want to be the story.
Speaker 1: I want to tell the story, right. So so that's
Speaker 1: kind of how that goes. But in two thousand five,
Speaker 1: you know, during Katrina, we thought we were at twenty
Speaker 1: seven feet. We were told we would be at and
Speaker 1: we weren't. We were at twenty feet. So you have
Speaker 1: seven more feet of surge, which means that the water
Speaker 1: came in the Armed Forces Retirement Home and so you know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it wasn't about doing the broadcast anymore.
Speaker 1: We couldn't do it anyway. So we basically helped the
Speaker 1: twenty Navy CEBES, which is the land based unit of
Speaker 1: the Navy that we're there with the vets get Everything
Speaker 1: was on the first floor, all all the food, all
Speaker 1: the medicine, and all of them because they were eating
Speaker 1: breakfast at the time when this thing came in. So
Speaker 1: we had to get them up to the second floor.
Speaker 1: And so we're carrying you know, think about that, those
Speaker 1: those electric wheelchairs. You know, the guys, guess these guys,
Speaker 1: our heroes couldn't move some of them, right, So we
Speaker 1: had to carry these things up these sweaty stairs and
Speaker 1: you know, but that was the job that that was
Speaker 1: now our mission was to help them out as much
Speaker 1: as we could, and that's what we did. How long
Speaker 1: were you, guys, logan or base there? Jim where? I mean?
Speaker 1: When could you get out? And what did that consistent
Speaker 1: for you? Hus? See? They kept us there another five
Speaker 1: seven nights. Slept in the car. Wow, yeah, free, let's see.
Speaker 1: I think that the most incredible dinner I had was
Speaker 1: frost to many weeks with cheese Wiz on top. That
Speaker 1: was a memorable one. That was my college. Did you
Speaker 1: have to go cheese wiz? Or why? Why did you
Speaker 1: go cheese wiz? Okay? Was that? Was that supposed to
Speaker 1: be a good thing? But I did cheese with No,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was. But honestly, when you're starving,
Speaker 1: cheese is really good. Yeah. Yeah, So clearly you know
Speaker 1: your your job is not just a job. It's it's
Speaker 1: not a clock in and clock out. Is all hours
Speaker 1: of the day and saving people's lives at times. So
Speaker 1: do you even when we're not in the field. But
Speaker 1: you guys don't see, is us kind of looking at
Speaker 1: the computer models at nauseam. Where is this storm going
Speaker 1: to go? What's this model doing, what's that model doing?
Speaker 1: How has the model changed? Oh? Wow, that models come
Speaker 1: in line with this model. Models coming on with that fast.
Speaker 1: It is there an off season for you? I mean
Speaker 1: it's I mean, is that silly to ask, like, you know,
Speaker 1: because we have the we have downtime. No, actually that's
Speaker 1: a great question. Um, Sometimes if we're not getting severe
Speaker 1: weather or a late season, for like October November is
Speaker 1: kind of the time where you can inhale and exhale
Speaker 1: right before hurricane season Florida girl, yep, yeah, storm season.
Speaker 1: So like after hurricane season, before winter storm season is
Speaker 1: when when we kind of get that break. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you get these you know, lake effects snow events. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, breaks over, let's get let's get up
Speaker 1: to the Great Lakes. Yeah. So obviously I knew you
Speaker 1: were going to mention Katrina. But early in your career,
Speaker 1: and I asked this a utter in players that see
Speaker 1: like a maybe a Jamaar Chase or something like that,
Speaker 1: come in or Joe Burrow come in. When was your
Speaker 1: first in your career holy shit moment, Like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: this is a major you know, this is big time
Speaker 1: meet me at the tornado. But it wasn't like on
Speaker 1: the air. You know. It was the sheeps tornado in Kansas.
Speaker 1: It was the only super cell of the day. It
Speaker 1: dropped a tornado and the corn feels a big cone
Speaker 1: like you know, stove pipe tornado. And I was pretty
Speaker 1: damn close to the thing. But it's amazing. You can't
Speaker 1: even hear it. What is that? I was just gonna say,
Speaker 1: what does that feel like? What is that out there?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just like, holy you know, if we
Speaker 1: were close to that, I mean I had to see
Speaker 1: the corn stalks getting kind of ripped up, huge scout,
Speaker 1: but I mean that was like the holy ship moment.
Speaker 1: The first one, the first one, not to mention, on
Speaker 1: that same trip, we were broadcasting on the side of
Speaker 1: the road and lightning struck about fifty yards away, So
Speaker 1: that was that was kind of the second one all
Speaker 1: in one day, mind you two and one day. But
Speaker 1: you guys, lit soap you to flee. I just want
Speaker 1: to say this. You have these probably these little ring
Speaker 1: lights and everything like that. I just want you to
Speaker 1: know I'm dealing with that. Well, but do we get
Speaker 1: a what a report right now? Would you mind, Jim?
Speaker 1: What are we working with out there? Please? It's too cold,
Speaker 1: It's I've had enough of the cold. Man. I'm still
Speaker 1: fought out for the last month of being out in storm.
Speaker 1: It'll turn me on so much. Jim, give me a
Speaker 1: weather report, come on where you wherever? Just give me
Speaker 1: anything wherever. Okay, let's uh, let's do Florida. Increasing showers, rain,
Speaker 1: no thunderstorms, no severe that. But then the sun comes out.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be in the seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties. What's our humidity It's not gonna be a
Speaker 1: very high that one, and the offs, the pressure, the pometer.
Speaker 1: All you guys have to do is just go buy
Speaker 1: your hair. Yeah, that's true, well half of my So
Speaker 1: you know, I can't really judge that, Jim. If you
Speaker 1: can't get the hair done, the humidities high, I obviously
Speaker 1: can't judge the humidity with that. But you guys keep
Speaker 1: m okay. So we've we've experienced the dangerous, the you know,
Speaker 1: the bad. What's been your favorite moment in a positive
Speaker 1: way on the job or a situation that you've reported
Speaker 1: on where you're like you know what. This is a
Speaker 1: really good gig. I got. Yeah. Well, I mean the
Speaker 1: time that I got the thunder snow in Plymouth, mass
Speaker 1: when I watched it today for you was your florious
Speaker 1: central and and the whole way that it came to
Speaker 1: be was the fact that you know, we moved down there,
Speaker 1: we moved out of our comfort zone, the long Worth
Speaker 1: Marriott in Boston, and we said, all right, let's just
Speaker 1: try Plymouth. Let's go down there. They can They pushed there,
Speaker 1: like Jim, it's gonna be stronger day, It's gonna the
Speaker 1: winds are gonna be a little bit stronger, like who
Speaker 1: the hex of the meitable difference be fifty five? I
Speaker 1: mean honestly, but we'll go We'll we'll go down there
Speaker 1: for you. And so I see Reynolds Wolf who takes
Speaker 1: my place in Boston, get thunder snow, and I was
Speaker 1: the more realized. So I literally put my face down
Speaker 1: in the snow. I was just laying there, just absolutely
Speaker 1: demoralized that he got it and I didn't, because it's
Speaker 1: pretty hard to be live. What is thunder snow? I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're asking, Yeah, you know that's sometimes I
Speaker 1: just talked like you guys know no, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: completely turned on. But keep telling us all about thunder snows.
Speaker 1: The thing about the thunderstore in the summer, right, the
Speaker 1: air pops up to these big towering cumulus clouds. Um
Speaker 1: they get to a place where you get electrical charge
Speaker 1: and discharge and boom, you get thunder and light and
Speaker 1: it's really rare. It never happens. The same thing can
Speaker 1: happen in winter. It's just above the cold. So if
Speaker 1: that's happening and it's you know, it's snowing like crazy
Speaker 1: and you get thunder and lightning in the stump store.
Speaker 1: But what is just like seeing sas watch it never happens,
Speaker 1: Like what is it? Why is it such a big deal? Okay,
Speaker 1: this happens there, and it's happened to be five times
Speaker 1: on the air during live television. Go back and get
Speaker 1: them all. I'm telling you right now. You did get
Speaker 1: six by the way, you got sick event, So it's
Speaker 1: happened five different times. That event Brady has seven things.
Speaker 1: What oh my gosh, that was anyway, you saw what
Speaker 1: happened Once I finally got it, in Plymouth. I was.
Speaker 1: I just went absolutely nuts. You lost. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I love everything about this. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: What's can I go back to the tornado situation? Because
Speaker 1: I grew up in Florida. I grew up in Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: lightning capital of the world. I mean, I remember the
Speaker 1: days where lightning was striking. My mom was like, unplug
Speaker 1: the VCR. We're gonna lose everything. But and I've been
Speaker 1: through hurricanes, tornadoes were the one thing that it was like.
Speaker 1: I remember having the drills in our classroom. Those that
Speaker 1: is just scary. Ship. I mean, you just mentioned briefly
Speaker 1: how you don't hear anything. I always heard a tornado
Speaker 1: would be like hearing a train, a freight train coming.
Speaker 1: So that was just my first mornado in Kansas, which
Speaker 1: is great. Let him be out there in the high
Speaker 1: plains all right, when they start coming into Nashville and Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and right now you've got debrief flying around, and you
Speaker 1: absolutely hear that because it's right outside your window, right
Speaker 1: So that so that's the difference. So I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in Seattle, Jim and I left when I
Speaker 1: was eighteen because I was over I was over the rain. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: it is beautiful like three months out of the year.
Speaker 1: But every time I tell someone I'm from Seattle, they're like,
Speaker 1: rain allot it there. We're like, okay, we get it.
Speaker 1: So what is the number one question you get asked
Speaker 1: when people ever know who's who you are? But when
Speaker 1: you say you know as a meteorologist, the question I
Speaker 1: get asked the most is what. The question I get
Speaker 1: asked the most is why do you get paid if
Speaker 1: you get it wrong half the time? Ye, Jim, it's true,
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, but not you. You don't get it wrong.
Speaker 1: You know the pressure. We only get it wrong of
Speaker 1: the time. Now we've gotten better. Uh, here's what I
Speaker 1: would say to you for Seattle though. All right, don't
Speaker 1: let them tell you it rains all the time, because
Speaker 1: it's more of a god I love him. Okay. So
Speaker 1: it's really not like a pouring Florida downpour like Aaron's
Speaker 1: used to all right, with the big drops where if
Speaker 1: you have to go to your car to a building
Speaker 1: you're soaked. I mean you guys can usually walk through
Speaker 1: the rain drops out there. It's it wasn't my favorite Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: well yes, it's not perfect sunshine since my California residency.
Speaker 1: But I did buy a place in Nashville, and the
Speaker 1: first week I had the place, seven trees in my backyard,
Speaker 1: one on the house, and I was like, this isn't Kansas.
Speaker 1: Toto is nowhere to be found. What's going on down here?
Speaker 1: I had no idea about this inclement weather. And then
Speaker 1: Aaron's dad was like giving me the whole rundown of
Speaker 1: the South that I was like, I probably should have
Speaker 1: done my agents before this purchase, but do I need
Speaker 1: to be work? There's been an unseasonable amount of snow
Speaker 1: or maybe that is I should be asking you. Is
Speaker 1: it feel like there's a lot more snow this year? Uh?
Speaker 1: There was a month ago. I mean there was we
Speaker 1: haven't had any snow in like a month. So yes.
Speaker 1: So that so that got so much news. That got
Speaker 1: so much because you know, we got like normal for
Speaker 1: the month of December and all of this because we
Speaker 1: didn't have anything back east. It was warm, it was
Speaker 1: incredibly warm back and then and then it shut down.
Speaker 1: Then we got busy in the East January and you
Speaker 1: guys didn't get any snow at all. So we've literally
Speaker 1: literally just surprised, and here we are in February. What
Speaker 1: would surprise people the most about your job? With ours
Speaker 1: and me being on the sidelines, there's no bathrooms. I literally,
Speaker 1: and Jim, you could probably relate to this. I hold
Speaker 1: my p for like eight hours at a time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I play a game with myself called Let's test my kidneys.
Speaker 1: I'll probably need some sort of transplant like a few
Speaker 1: years because I've tested. It's a fun game show. But
Speaker 1: what's the one thing about your job that surprises people? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: it's certainly not how I hold my yourrination, because here's
Speaker 1: the deal. If I got easier for you to go,
Speaker 1: it's easier for dudes, it always is. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. That's a that's a fact.
Speaker 1: Let's see what surprises people about my job. Gosh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe maybe the hours, Maybe as much time
Speaker 1: as I spend out of the office looking at the
Speaker 1: weather that I do in the office. Sometimes it's more
Speaker 1: actually so maybe so I I um, I like to
Speaker 1: wager jim on on games, and I'm allowed to wager
Speaker 1: on games. So I have a lot of friends and
Speaker 1: family be like, Okay, what are your bets this week?
Speaker 1: What are we working with. How many of your friends
Speaker 1: and family are when they're going on a vacation or
Speaker 1: you know a storm's coming, are they texting you asking
Speaker 1: you for inside information or just you know, sort of
Speaker 1: tapping into the knowledge that that thirty seven years has provided.
Speaker 1: You know. What's funny is like nobody believes me when
Speaker 1: I tell him something like what I was gonna snow
Speaker 1: the other he goes because, well, another forecast is only
Speaker 1: calling for a couple of inches. But I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you could get like six or eight. Actually, God's
Speaker 1: not listening to you. You'll hold me up, but they're
Speaker 1: not calling for that on television. Michael, Thanks, Thanks, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't get a lot of love
Speaker 1: from from sometimes my sister. You know what, if we
Speaker 1: have like a severe weather event in Atlanta, she'll call
Speaker 1: me and she'd be like, all right, what's the really?
Speaker 1: What is your phone number? Four? It's it's when the games,
Speaker 1: It's when the games on the line, right, guys. I've
Speaker 1: I've tweeted you before, like during big games. I think
Speaker 1: that's when I first I was telling a story before
Speaker 1: you came on. I was tweeting for college well all
Speaker 1: day long, Jim, that's the scary part. But um, I
Speaker 1: know I did when I first started college game Day
Speaker 1: and I tweeted you and you tweeted me back, and
Speaker 1: I was like, holy sh it, I made it like
Speaker 1: this is so fantastic and huge for me. Guys, I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask Vegas, I know nothing about betting, curse
Speaker 1: and knows this are their bets? Are their lines for
Speaker 1: the weather? Can you bet on the weather or storms
Speaker 1: or anything? Bet on everything? And I think somebody told
Speaker 1: me to get there. There was I don't know, you
Speaker 1: tell me, well, okay, well I thought you guys would
Speaker 1: never ask. So there's always bets for the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: for example, like if it was being played you know
Speaker 1: so far has a cover on it, so that's not
Speaker 1: an issue there. But if it's yeah, right where it's
Speaker 1: but it's not Lambeau or it's not you know, it's
Speaker 1: outdoor stadium, so there would be bets on, you know,
Speaker 1: if there's going to be a game delay, a rain delay,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be because of weather. There's always something
Speaker 1: to bet on when it comes to that. So in fact,
Speaker 1: the next opportunity there is to bet on whether I'm
Speaker 1: doing it. Jim and I'm calling you for some inside info.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll totally give you guys what I think. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm still upset though the Packers under is that your team,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm having a little tough time. That's
Speaker 1: my team really, I don't know, maybe twelve years ago
Speaker 1: into the story on the Packers fifteen years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: they let us in. I'll never forget getting red Daddy
Speaker 1: brings us room. It starts throwing, uh, you know, stuff
Speaker 1: at us, right, you know, that's my guy, and they
Speaker 1: and they just let us talk to you know. I'm
Speaker 1: going through the dressing room Farves getting dressed and he
Speaker 1: looks sober at me and he goes, hey, you're that.
Speaker 1: You're that Elvis Presley of weather Brett. Yes. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll play this game. I look back in
Speaker 1: him and I'm like, and you're that, You're that And
Speaker 1: it was just kind of those moments, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But I just absolutely fell in love with
Speaker 1: the family nature of the Packers. It's it's just the
Speaker 1: whole town is is Green Bay Packers, and I just
Speaker 1: kind of fell in love with that because I never
Speaker 1: really followed a football team when I was growing up
Speaker 1: in Vermont. I mean I was skiing every weekend right
Speaker 1: around and watched until I was in college. You know,
Speaker 1: isn't Red fantastic. I was actually telling the story after
Speaker 1: the forty Niners Green Bay game, how obviously it's their
Speaker 1: job to keep those players warm, but the stuff that
Speaker 1: they think of, the little gimmicks that they have on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, Jim, I'll tell you this, and it's actually
Speaker 1: one of my questions I wrote down for you. As
Speaker 1: I was walking on the sideline it was early in
Speaker 1: the game. I was like, shop, I must look really cold.
Speaker 1: One of their guys on the support staffs that here
Speaker 1: put these in your pockets and it was almost like
Speaker 1: pantyhose like stocking material full of those heaters instant heaters,
Speaker 1: but they were the handwarmers, but they were different because
Speaker 1: they lasted for two days. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell they got going on in Green Bay? But
Speaker 1: were what were you blown away with just the little
Speaker 1: things that they have to keep guys warm anything, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the seats, blowing, the feet under the seats,
Speaker 1: just being around some type of warmth and things like that.
Speaker 1: The fact that they heat that remember Aaron back you
Speaker 1: Soldier Field or Lambeau. They didn't heat the ground, right,
Speaker 1: hence the frozen lamps under their fields. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, and so that was our our story. So
Speaker 1: here comes this new stadium. You know, the field is heated.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a softerly. It still hurts,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a little bit of stuff. I was
Speaker 1: just blown away by by the way they take care
Speaker 1: of their players and Red just this is so you know,
Speaker 1: he's been there forever and just absolutely love with that.
Speaker 1: Everyone's right, he'll call me where did that you know where?
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, thanks for reaching. Yeah. Yeah, he's got
Speaker 1: nothing going on. That brings me to my my question
Speaker 1: that I have for you about Aaron's celebrity siding when
Speaker 1: she saw you at the derby or at the airport,
Speaker 1: Like she's clearly still talking about that. Did you have
Speaker 1: you had a situation where you've got to meet a
Speaker 1: celebrity or something other than Brett Farve because of your
Speaker 1: job that you're like, this is these are the perks
Speaker 1: of the gig that I really appreciate. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So Trouty is an absolute weather Jim
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, Mike Trout. So he he loves the weather,
Speaker 1: he asked, loves the weather. He literally for the last
Speaker 1: month this day has been blowing up my phone. I'm
Speaker 1: not lying. What I don't think about? I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't care I do this. Yeah, what's he care about?
Speaker 1: He wants to know them. He's like, dude, you see
Speaker 1: the GFS, just the European Do you think the Europeans
Speaker 1: gonna come around? Because I think that mean and they rushed.
Speaker 1: So the European is the European Center's mall. Okay, So
Speaker 1: there's global models, there's high resolution models that Aaron does
Speaker 1: give us the cliff notes. Yeah, has been the the
Speaker 1: American model and the European model. And I want to
Speaker 1: say this is lately the American model has come around
Speaker 1: really well okay course and outperformed the Europeans. So this
Speaker 1: is kind of a big deal. So we've got this
Speaker 1: competition going. It's that it wasn't just King euro Now
Speaker 1: the GFS is starting to show face the American model.
Speaker 1: So what do you I mean, I know what we
Speaker 1: researched and what we do to get ready for games.
Speaker 1: What are you looking at? Where's your go to? Because
Speaker 1: mine is a bunch of apps. That's the other thing.
Speaker 1: I want to know what weather apps. You look at
Speaker 1: the weather you gotta say weather channel. Crap. I just
Speaker 1: blew that one. But I'm always asking the kickers because
Speaker 1: I want to know about the wind guys and what
Speaker 1: they're thinking, and I want to talk to them about it.
Speaker 1: And I'm always like, what are you guys looking at?
Speaker 1: Here's his weather? Whether channel is a great app for
Speaker 1: like stories and things like that, but that isn't like
Speaker 1: one of my game day apps. Okay, let's go right,
Speaker 1: So radar scope, my radar. You love that she's so
Speaker 1: passionate about this. She g r earth E gives me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: current weather. It's like subscription based stuff. Yeah. But this,
Speaker 1: this is this is all like the techno. You know,
Speaker 1: I can see what's going on in real time and
Speaker 1: I could say, oh wow, look at that swall line
Speaker 1: west of St. Louis. It just popped up. I gotta
Speaker 1: talk about my god, I'm gonna need a whole vocabulary.
Speaker 1: So how has the game of football has changed over years?
Speaker 1: Is now a passing league? There's you know, less emphasis
Speaker 1: on the running back that used to be taken. You know,
Speaker 1: the first round a bunch of Like now if you
Speaker 1: get your receivers, you get your DBS, Like there's the
Speaker 1: game has changed. Has weather changed? I think the weather
Speaker 1: dissemination has changed. I mean even at the Weather Channel,
Speaker 1: we have this immersive mixed reality which sounds sexy, but
Speaker 1: it kind of allows us to get into Like we
Speaker 1: can stand on the Boston Common and give a broadcast.
Speaker 1: We can show how the morning gets there's no snow
Speaker 1: on the ground, and then as we go through the day,
Speaker 1: the snow gets heavier, the sky is dark, you can
Speaker 1: see the snow coming down. All of a sudden it's covered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we go through the day's forecast while standing in
Speaker 1: the studio watching the scenery behind this change. It so
Speaker 1: broadcasting and also, um, you know these models that I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. I told you about a couple of global models.
Speaker 1: There's also high resolution models that we look at and
Speaker 1: some of these have some pretty intense detail. They come
Speaker 1: out every hour. They can show us, you know, even
Speaker 1: storms that look like super cells or tornadic storms on
Speaker 1: the on the model, which is like holy cow, you
Speaker 1: know that that's kind of an eye open I love it. Well,
Speaker 1: we could talk to you all day long, all the
Speaker 1: apps right now? What you miss? I know? Wait, can
Speaker 1: I I want to talk to listen, I'm begging. I
Speaker 1: have two questions and I'll let you go. As Troy
Speaker 1: would say, I appreciate your time, and I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you go after this. Um it's so two of my questions.
Speaker 1: Packing is huge in my life. Whether I'm going to
Speaker 1: Green Bay or I'm doing a game in Jacksonville or Miami.
Speaker 1: What are whether you are covering a hurricane or nor
Speaker 1: East or what are your go toos? When Jim Cantori
Speaker 1: is packing up his duffel bag, I gotta have the computer,
Speaker 1: I gotta have the laptop charger, stuff like that. No,
Speaker 1: but I mean like two pairs of boots, two pairs
Speaker 1: of jackets, because sometimes they you know, if we're out
Speaker 1: in the soaking rain, it's like here, come back in
Speaker 1: three hours. We're gonna need you to come back in
Speaker 1: three hours. My jackets still soaked, my pants are still
Speaker 1: so So I gotta have a double there, you know,
Speaker 1: like a double outfit to go through there, through through
Speaker 1: all that. What's your best? Like rain here not here? Wise?
Speaker 1: All right? So the trick the trick in the summer,
Speaker 1: and I don't care what anybody says, but you if
Speaker 1: you're standing outside in six hours and horizon rain, you
Speaker 1: can actually go hypothermic. When it's eighty degrees outside. Well,
Speaker 1: the water is against your body, so the water draws
Speaker 1: the heat from your body, and you're exhausted. You haven't
Speaker 1: eaten for for three or four days, you haven't slept,
Speaker 1: and so you start getting tired and a little shaky. So, um,
Speaker 1: I put a neoprene suit on underneath all my rain gear.
Speaker 1: I've had to have you give me like this whole interview.
Speaker 1: What is the neoprene suite? Been surfing is what I use?
Speaker 1: And yeah, okay, there you go, and you can have
Speaker 1: you can get different thicknesses. Yeah, okay, so you can
Speaker 1: have a really super thick water you can have and
Speaker 1: that's that's usually enough to kind of keep my core
Speaker 1: temperature warm where I can just continue to do the broadcast.
Speaker 1: So if you're out, you know, and especially if there's
Speaker 1: ever a game, you know, eron, if you're doing a
Speaker 1: game where it's in the rain or the cold rain
Speaker 1: or the snow, do you pren see it underneath? I
Speaker 1: know I should have. I did the worst Patriots Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys game It was the coldest I've ever been in
Speaker 1: my life. And the poor offensive linemen were just like,
Speaker 1: here comes stand by our heater. Blah blah blah. Enough
Speaker 1: about me, One more question about me, Jim. If you
Speaker 1: were going to throw me in any storm or situation
Speaker 1: for my first gig, my audition on the Weather Channel,
Speaker 1: what would it be? What would what do you think
Speaker 1: I could do? You know what, You're gonna go right
Speaker 1: into the blizzard. I want you a blizzard, said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want you to blizzard where you're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to like the snow is literally blowing in your mouth
Speaker 1: an example. If you've got what you got, bring goggles.
Speaker 1: The goggles because I'm telling you it's weird when you
Speaker 1: got like little needles popping in your eyes blowing at
Speaker 1: and the things I have to talk about are the
Speaker 1: wind gus right, how many feet of snow we're getting
Speaker 1: at the time, how long we think this storm is
Speaker 1: going to go on? And what like shelters that are opening,
Speaker 1: if there's electricity throughout the city. What else do I
Speaker 1: need to cover? How much? Yeah? Yeah, like you know,
Speaker 1: shut down? How long do you want to take a second? Well, Jim,
Speaker 1: what do you say we have Aaron, do a little
Speaker 1: audition right now. Yes, you want to spot, can throw
Speaker 1: together a weather report and take take a minute, compose yourself.
Speaker 1: Can we do it, Jim, But we can like back
Speaker 1: and forth. Also, I'll be like the studio anchor. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So okay, so Aaron, you're in um what's
Speaker 1: your favorite eastcost Boston? I don't care. I just want
Speaker 1: to be with you. Can be together. Let's be on
Speaker 1: site together. Let's go to Boston. We're on sight together,
Speaker 1: all right, on We're on site together. We're on site
Speaker 1: together in Boston, and it's we we got a blizzard.
Speaker 1: We're in the heart of it right now. All right,
Speaker 1: we got a quarter mile visibility. And I look at
Speaker 1: you and I'm like, Aaron, okay, So we just got
Speaker 1: word out of the National Weather Service in Boston that
Speaker 1: we have verified a blizzard. Now at Logan, we have
Speaker 1: had three consecutive hours of forty miles per quarter mile
Speaker 1: visibility or less. It's actually an eighth of a mile
Speaker 1: because if you walk over there ten ft, I can't
Speaker 1: even see you. Well, I'm here, Jim, I am here,
Speaker 1: and the models are showing us this is These conditions
Speaker 1: are probably gonna last for about forty five minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour longer. We're gonna let you know. Obviously things
Speaker 1: continue to change, but these models are telling us this
Speaker 1: is how long it's going to be. This is what
Speaker 1: we're seeing from cities close by, Jim, this is the
Speaker 1: amount of snow they are getting. Obviously, driving conditions you're
Speaker 1: not even going to see, right, Jim, what are what
Speaker 1: are you seeing from the models where you are? You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen the same thing. I'm saying forty five minutes
Speaker 1: to an hour just of these same conditions. So then
Speaker 1: we start lightening up a little bit, but not before
Speaker 1: we're buried three four eight ft drifts. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we're gonna get out of here. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: stuck here for a week. Well, guys, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being here. Aaron and Jim on site in
Speaker 1: the eye of the storm. We will check back in
Speaker 1: with you guys later. Thank you so much. Stay safe, guys,
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back with more after the break
Speaker 1: with the you guys, Jim, would you beat this was?
Speaker 1: She's gonna she's hired, she will do this. I'm like, hey, Aaron,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to you. You know, out of the break,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to you on an update, you know
Speaker 1: what's going on with Aaron Rodgers that She's like, I'm
Speaker 1: more concerned. Can I do a weather report? I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: She said this all the time from studio. She's more
Speaker 1: interested in doing that. I absolutely believe you are a
Speaker 1: dream What game do you want to cover? Jim? What
Speaker 1: would you like to do? Uh? You know, I actually
Speaker 1: love I would love to announce, like a baseball game
Speaker 1: happen for you. It sounds like, yeah, you never know,
Speaker 1: you never know, because I mean I've always loved baseball.
Speaker 1: Grew up with my dad Yankees fans. We used to
Speaker 1: sit out on the porch and you know, in Vermont
Speaker 1: and try and tune in, uh you know whatever station
Speaker 1: was holding me, Yankees the fan, whatever the heck it was,
Speaker 1: and just it was scratchy, scratchy. You know, here's the picture.
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson was like, oh, what happened? We had what happened?
Speaker 1: You know, we have to wait, had to hear it.
Speaker 1: But but I just remember those times, and I just
Speaker 1: always grew up loving baseball and that's definitely my favorite
Speaker 1: still sports and weathering is to have, like the best
Speaker 1: player in baseball be such a weather geek. Okay, and
Speaker 1: and him and I kind of having this great relationship
Speaker 1: talking about the weather and we're just butts, just buds.
Speaker 1: It's great well to necessities in life. We need sports
Speaker 1: and we need to know what's happening with the weather.
Speaker 1: So thank god we have you, Jim. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on the Calm Down podcast. Aaron will not calm down.
Speaker 1: I will now hear about this for the next week
Speaker 1: at minimum was our conversation with you, So thank you.
Speaker 1: What's funny is I always think that people have to
Speaker 1: kind of calm me down out in the storm. I
Speaker 1: think I have to actually calm Aaron down a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. I love it. I love getting the
Speaker 1: gear on, I love being out there. I love talking
Speaker 1: about there. I love talking about the band. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's like ripping in your face. You can't help it. Christie,
Speaker 1: you gotta get out there too. I know there's like
Speaker 1: deep down somewhere. Maybe do you you want to be close by?
Speaker 1: Maybe in the car. I'm the lodge. I'm that girl
Speaker 1: that's I'm having a hot Toddy in the lodge and
Speaker 1: I'm watching the weather report. So I'll let you guys
Speaker 1: go out to the elements. Okay, there's a reason Aaron
Speaker 1: does sidelines that I'm in studio. I do not have
Speaker 1: the balls to be out there anymore. Blue balls. Whoa
Speaker 1: um jam. We love you, appreciate you, Thank you so much, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for having meant it. Let's how much derby and
Speaker 1: talk about it. Yeah yeah, Calm Down with Aaron and
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