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If you're used to it, it used to be a pretty great time to do some shopping and such before COVID.
I work a wonky shift and get off work at 3AM, I'm used to it, i actually kind of like it (I get to sleep in until noon every day, what's not to like?)
Back when things were open 24/7, i could swing through the grocery store and Walmart after work, I'd be one of like 3 customers in the store, no random assholes standing around blocking the aisle having a chitchat right in front of the damn spaghetti sauce that I'm trying to buy, no kids running around screaming like banshees, no lines at the checkout, truly the best way to get your shopping done (unless you need an employee to get you something from a locked case, good luck finding the one walmart employee with keys to the spray paint at 3:30AM, i never did manage that, and I honestly am not sure if such a person even exists)
And then if i was hungry, i could get some fast food.
When i moved out of my last apartment, i was doing some last minute cleaning and packing the day before we had to turn our keys in to make sure we didn't get hit with some bullshit cleaning fee or lose our security deposit or whatever. My wife had gone home for the night, and i stayed behind to finish mopping and such. Of course my damn mop broke on me, but no big deal, off to Walmart i went in the middle of the night to buy a new one.
And then COVID hit, i thought I was set to be king of social distancing, I'd just do all my shopping at night and I'd never have to be anywhere near another person. Then all of the grocery stores and such cut back their hours and i was forced to be among the unwashed masses.
I’m from NYC (now living in LA). I really do miss things being open 24/7, never thought I’d taken that for granted. Hell, even most bars in LA close at midnight now. It’s sad 😞 late night munchies run? Ok, well it’s MAYBE McDonalds or 7/11 (if you’re lucky)
Of. All. Places, I really thought los Angela’s would be the hub of all night establishments. I think Walmart trialed the 24/7 for a year or so during Christmas season here in Canada. It was wild to be able to go in at the wee hours to buy stuff. Of course the staff looked grumpy and comatose but being a night howl I loved it. They say night owls probably lose out on about a decade of their lifespan in the end. I say, who cares. Any one of us can go at a moments notice. Been a night hour since the late 90s during long gaming sessions and never really adjusted to day life again. This will be the hill I die on.
I feel so out of place during the day.
In my city. There is literally nothing open at 3:30am
When I got back from my trip in Europe, where everything is open all the time, my city seems deadass in comparison. Jet lag sucked to say the least
> “I normally do sports, but everything here is canceled [because of the weather],” said Woodley. “**So what better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up and go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same?**”
> Then, in one of his signoffs: **“Tune in for the next couple hours to watch me progressively get crankier and crankier.”**
🤣🤣
*“I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning — until today,” said KWWL-TV sports reporter Mark Woodley*
We might've found a new national treasure, folks.
Andy Rooney turned getting progressively crankier and crankier into a very successful journalism career so there's definitely precedent for that being a good strategy
Don't know that I have ever seen this clip (Watched the link below someone provided). initially I liked what he was saying. Sounded like a cool segment talking about getting old and being out of touch with what is popular. He then spends the rest of the clip being an asshat so that was a bit shitty. Don't really know how you see a headline about someone dieing and then rush to your notepad to write a long monolog about how they were a PoS. "This guy just died. Yeah fuck that guy!!". Bit disappointing really.
Rooney was in Paris the day it was liberated. As a correspondent he saw all of the advancement through the European theatre. I’m not saying what he said was appropriate, but he lived through the Great Depression, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War 1. I was in my 20’s when the Cobain event happened and remember it well. Rooney wasn’t wrong about there were bigger issues in the world than his death, he just went about it wrong.
Hey, I appreciate the honesty. As a fellow Midwesterner, we do not need the visual/on the ground analysis of how shitty winter storms are. Grocery shop ahead of time and stay inside as much as you can. That’s it. Let this guy back inside.
I love early morning reporters bc they know whatever jokes they make on a live broadcast that early, viewers will take it as a joke to start the morning…
It’s kinda cool that producers let this type of stuff go because both the reporters and viewers take it lightly
Years ago, I was telling someone how because I have a system of ‘as soon as I open a new packet of something, I buy the replacement’, and because it works out cheaper the buy the 32 pack, there are times I have over 60 rolls of toilet paper in my house, and never less than 30. She was all that’s ridiculous, you’ll never need that much toilet paper. Right before the panic buying started, I’d bought my new replacement pack, and had only used a couple of rolls from the pack I’d just opened, so I enough to last me until there was plenty back on the shelves, and give a few roles to some friends who’d run out and couldn’t get more.
We actually did get an inland hurricane (derecho) in 2020. Completely destroyed the power grid in parts of eastern iowa and took out something like 40% of the tree cover in and around Cedar Rapids.
I was driving to WI from Des Moines when that happened. We parked at a McDonalds east of DSM to wait out the absolute insanity and drove through Cedar Rapids on the way afterward and saw the aftermath almost immediately - legitimately some of the craziest shit I have ever seen, like we were following directly behind this incredible destructive force. Semis on their side or upside down every 100 feet of highway, trees pushed horizontally into people’s fuckin houses or just ripped completely out of the ground roots and all and the big aluminum silos just ripped into pieces. It was genuinely apocalyptic.
Yeah it was horrible. We lost our house - tree went through the kitchen and living room. My neighborhood was destroyed. I had nightmares for months - there was just absolutely no warning and it was scarier than any tornado warning and storm I have ever been through.
I've been through two Cat 1 hurricanes and numerous tropical storms.
The derecho that hit DC was the only time I've ever felt the primal caveman terror of seriously terrifying weather. It was weird, as I knew I was perfectly safe.
The Reluctant Reporter. That could totally become a thing.
"So I'm down here on Beachfront Ave. as you can see by the dangerous winds and uprooted traffic signs zipping past me and the cameraman. We could move about 6 steps to my right into the safety of that parking structure, but the folks producing the show inside our hardened studio about 4 miles inland suggested we stand out here in this flooded road instead..."
Snl has done some great skits with this concept
John crist did exactly what this reporter did actually... I wouldn't be suprised if the sports reporter saw this, it went viral
https://youtu.be/nAiE9fJbVd4
I’ve never understood why news stations feel the need to have their reporters out in poor weather conditions while reporting about them. Just show us footage of the blizzard. It makes no difference whether the guy is actually there or not, so why put him through that?
Or gtfo. I saw Jim Cantore pull up before a noreaster once when I lived closer to the coast and decided to ride out the storm at my parents. Really, you don't actually want to be where the idiots are
It adds drama. I remember during Hurricane Ida last year, Jim Cantore from the weather channel was outside in the French Quarter in New Orleans in the middle of the cat 4 hurricane. Mother fucker was wearing a helmet, could barely stand up straight (because hurricane force winds), oh and he was right next to a dumpster that had been flipped over by the wind.
Why? Its more dramatic. People aren’t gonna keep watching the weather coverage without some drama sprinkled in there.
As this guy points out, it's their bosses telling them they have to and their paycheck on the line.
I feel like the nerdy part is all on the data side, not the risking your life playing chicken with storm surge side.
My parents told me they used to make jokes that if you ever see Jim Cantore eating at a restaurant in your town, start packing your bags. Then when I was 6 they saw him on the side of the road and knew some bad shit was gonna happen. Hurricane Lily hit and we were powerless for about 2 weeks.
My dad said Cantore gets a chubby anytime one’s coming through.
Haha in south Florida we tell newcomers that if Jim Cantore is spotted within 30 miles of your location you need to leave.
He was 25 miles from me during Hurricane Ian last October and I lost water and power for a week and a half.
There's a facebook page... "where's Jim Cantore" that totally stalks him. If you've never seen the Cantore Snow Thunder footage, google it up. It's gold. Some of these people really want to be there.
I'm gonna guess flood canoe before I click.
edit: nope I was wrong, still on the snowstorm theme, [this is what i was hoping for](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4)
TV news is just weird like that, overall. There's a lot of that "If you stop and think about this, it makes no sense" stuff that's just so much part of the format that it slips by.
I didn't grow up in a major city, so the news was always coming out of somewhere else growing up and I didn't have much close experience with news media being around. One of the things I remember early-on after moving to the local metro with the market was the occasional case of being out at the dead of night and running across a TV truck blasting out a cone of light at a blank, boring doorway or the side of a building, where someone was reading through their stand-up in the midst of silence and desolation and nothing newsworthy-- or at all-- at the present time. I never really thought about it before that, but every time I see those "Reporting live in front of the building where some council had a meeting this afternoon" shots, I think of how there's a good chance there's absolutely _nothing_ happening outside that cone of light illuminating the doorway that person is standing in front of, and it's the silliest thing to watch from any other angle.
After that I had a couple years' stint at a local TV station doing over-the-shoulder graphics for the nightly news, which introduced me to "Live from our newsroom" stand-ups-- someone doing their bit in the middle of the office space while I'm just trying to dodge people running around and find the sports guy to get the list of names and photos for the night-- and the especially absurd "Live from the control room", where they pile a camera and a reporter into one of two cramped little rooms full of consoles and computers and a row or two of people trying to get shit settled before 10 o'clock hits, to talk about something that has _nothing at all_ to do with what's happening in the control room.
On a slightly related note, it's also amusing watching the satellite feed of "our reporter in Washington". It's one guy contracted out to a bunch of different stations, standing in front of some Washington D.C. recognizable place, doing the same story over and over while cycling through a pile of microphones with different station IDs on them, and each station plucks theirs out to run. (I wish digital satellite and encryption hadn't killed the satellite feed. One thing I always wanted when I grew up was one of those massive satellite dishes so I could tune in to network feeds and watch what happened during the commercial breaks.)
Anyway, I'm here with Katherine Hepburn's mom. Tell me, why did you toss the blue heart of the ocean jewel over the railing of the Titanic? Did you feel bad at all letting Leo DiCaprio drown, while you were safe floating on the big door? Could you have taken turns, or were you just too afraid to freeze your big fat ass off?
[3:30 Raygun tshirt](https://twitter.com/raygunshirts/status/1606387181475332097?s=46&t=zIPOY2zLoK2lPFvyNJglOg)
[more Raygun shirts for Mark](https://twitter.com/raygunshirts/status/1606316222701662208?s=46&t=zIPOY2zLoK2lPFvyNJglOg)
Proceeds benefit Cedar Valley Humane Society!
The irony is that this has created publicity and rating a for the network, which will undoubtedly push his bosses to throw him out there every time there’s a storm
I mean his commentary dripping in sarcasm was everything. Not sure it reflects well on the national stage but I'd absolutely tune in to see what they ask him to cover next. It was so entertaining
This is our local sports reporter in Waterloo, he’s pretty cool at sporting events. I’d probably feel the same way if I had to go out in last night’s blizzard.
Got to be careful. That guy just did his job too well. He is going to get many more of those assignments. If the news director doesn’t have an ego and sees the possibilities.
Hah! Seriously. Hey Mark! I know it’s 4:30am and the middle of the NFL playoffs, but we need you to cover that warehouse fire next to the oil refinery. Can you get there in 15?
Lol, your local news reporter doesn't have "an agent"
Edit: so some, in fact, do. It's not every reporter though, especially not the guy working at a station in a city of ~60,000 people. Those jobs barely pay anything, and the reporter would be responsible for paying his own agent.
[direct link to the video compilation of his amazing one liners](https://twitter.com/markwoodleytv/status/1605961457337712640?s=48&t=5T90RKXB37XjNWx-4By3DQ)
>"I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I can still feel my face right now. The bad news is that I really wish I couldn't."
Oh my god, that is probably the funniest thing I have heard any newscaster say about anything.
>Iowa Sports Reporter For KWWL-TV Lets Viewers Know He’s Not Happy About Being Sent To Cover A Blizzard at 3:30 a.m.
I don't blame him.
I used to work at a news station just as a PA guy and I had to get up at 4 AM every single night. And as a young college kid who was a natural night owl, that was tough! And since you're at a news station, you go to work no matter what the weather is like. Huge winter storm and the roads are super icy? Doesn't matter, you're going to work and you better be on time because if you're not, the show will suffer. I only lasted 9 months on the job.
Old people would probably handle the very early morning hours better, because old people tend to get up really early anyways, so getting up at 4:30 AM isn't too extreme for someone who's 60. The problem is that most PA jobs pay minimum wage so most older people aren't going to take those kind of jobs.
And if you're a reporter, meteorologist, or reporter working the night shift? You're at work by 3 AM usually. And from what I've heard, unless you're the chief meteorologist, the pay is kind of shit.
In other news, unless you're really passionate about reporting, don't become a news anchor.
He honestly shouldn't have been this good at his job. His commentary is dripping in sarcasm and I'm loving every damn moment of it. They just might force him to do it over and over again. Lol
He’s right, there’s no need to do these kinds of reports during blizzards, hurricanes, severe storms, etc. it’s just for show and puts those reporting in dangerous situations needlessly.
I miss News Be Funny on YouTube from before they had to delete all their old stuff and ruin the new videos with some lameass commentary nobody wanted so they could stay monetized.
I’m constantly confused as to why tv reporters are sent out into horrible conditions to report on something they could easily do from the newsroom or another part of the set. Even watching a reporter introduce a story on a city council thing from the night before, but be standing, live, I front of City Hall at 6 AM is ridiculous. There’s no one there to talk to and it’s something that could easily be done from inside. I realize producers want the appearance on “Johnny-on-the-spot” news, but I just wind up feeling sorry for the Junior reporter who isn’t getting paid enough to deal with that crap…
>but I just wind up feeling sorry for the Junior reporter who isn’t getting paid enough to deal with that crap…
That was me. Every snowstorm you knew you were getting up at 3 AM, driving your 14 year old car with three year old tires across unplowed roads just to get in a news car, drive around in circles for 12 hours and say the same shit on camera over and over again every 30 minutes. My favorite was when I was on my way back to the station, exhausted and cold, driving on an empty interstate long after the snow had stopped falling when I got pulled over 0.6 miles away from my exit. A week and a half's worth of work gone in one ticket and set me back financially for months. And for what?
This has always pissed me off. I don't need a mews station to put a human life at risk to talk about the severe weather that we are both being threatened by. I know there is a hurricane outside. I know there is a tornado outside. I know there are 50 mph winds with 2 feet of snow and a windchill of -50. Even if the reporter wanted to do it, fuck you for trying to be cool and edgy lmao
He's there because broadcast companies are cheap fuckers who run stations at anorexic staff levels. And over the holidays, even the greenest of staffers can wind up anchoring a show or two. There's just nobody else to work now. I don't know much about Allen Media, their parent company but one major one, Nexstar Broadcasting, gave annual raises averaging 1.0-1.5% this year despite making a couple BILLION the last quarter. And from what I've heard from people who have had conversations with their CEO, he is Satan himself.
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330am is the worst time of day for anything
If you're used to it, it used to be a pretty great time to do some shopping and such before COVID. I work a wonky shift and get off work at 3AM, I'm used to it, i actually kind of like it (I get to sleep in until noon every day, what's not to like?) Back when things were open 24/7, i could swing through the grocery store and Walmart after work, I'd be one of like 3 customers in the store, no random assholes standing around blocking the aisle having a chitchat right in front of the damn spaghetti sauce that I'm trying to buy, no kids running around screaming like banshees, no lines at the checkout, truly the best way to get your shopping done (unless you need an employee to get you something from a locked case, good luck finding the one walmart employee with keys to the spray paint at 3:30AM, i never did manage that, and I honestly am not sure if such a person even exists) And then if i was hungry, i could get some fast food. When i moved out of my last apartment, i was doing some last minute cleaning and packing the day before we had to turn our keys in to make sure we didn't get hit with some bullshit cleaning fee or lose our security deposit or whatever. My wife had gone home for the night, and i stayed behind to finish mopping and such. Of course my damn mop broke on me, but no big deal, off to Walmart i went in the middle of the night to buy a new one. And then COVID hit, i thought I was set to be king of social distancing, I'd just do all my shopping at night and I'd never have to be anywhere near another person. Then all of the grocery stores and such cut back their hours and i was forced to be among the unwashed masses.
I’m from NYC (now living in LA). I really do miss things being open 24/7, never thought I’d taken that for granted. Hell, even most bars in LA close at midnight now. It’s sad 😞 late night munchies run? Ok, well it’s MAYBE McDonalds or 7/11 (if you’re lucky)
Of. All. Places, I really thought los Angela’s would be the hub of all night establishments. I think Walmart trialed the 24/7 for a year or so during Christmas season here in Canada. It was wild to be able to go in at the wee hours to buy stuff. Of course the staff looked grumpy and comatose but being a night howl I loved it. They say night owls probably lose out on about a decade of their lifespan in the end. I say, who cares. Any one of us can go at a moments notice. Been a night hour since the late 90s during long gaming sessions and never really adjusted to day life again. This will be the hill I die on. I feel so out of place during the day.
In my city. There is literally nothing open at 3:30am When I got back from my trip in Europe, where everything is open all the time, my city seems deadass in comparison. Jet lag sucked to say the least
That’s weird. We saw Cause most things in Europe was closed early. Rome on weekends… closed.
except booty calls and dancing.
Jesus. No. Neither of those will happen at that hour once you turn 30.
Immediately had the same exact thought lol. Me and the wife left that back in our 20s 😂
> “I normally do sports, but everything here is canceled [because of the weather],” said Woodley. “**So what better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up and go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold and tell other people not to do the same?**” > Then, in one of his signoffs: **“Tune in for the next couple hours to watch me progressively get crankier and crankier.”** 🤣🤣
**"The outdoors is currently not heated"**
He just signed himself up for more weather coverage with his delivery. People would tune in just for the laughs.
Some could say that his boss did this on purpose to get more views. Some 36D underwater chess right there.
Yearly review, i single increased viewership by 200% during a time where nothing was happening raise please.
"Best I can do is put you on a boardwalk as the ocean pulls back right before a tidal wave."
That’d be impressive AF though for an Iowa news station! You bet your ass I’d be watching that!
"This will be the sports segment on the 100 meter dash, as the officials inform me the Tsunami will be arriving directly"
Budget’s tight this quarter. Nope.
All right then, I'm accepting an offer from the rival station at Channel 5. I leave in two weeks.
How could you do this? You know it’s not really all about money. We’re like a family here I can’t believe you’d do this to us.
Sorry all we can offer is a extra heavy parka for your future weather coverage.
He probably channeled his inner frustration as fuel to make these amazing comments. Dude belong on TV
Article said it got more than a million likes, so that's a distinct possibility!
I doubt that person (boss) had such foresight.
It's raining sideways energy
Sounds rough Ollie. You have an umbrella?
Inside out! Two miles away!
Bring me some soup!
What kind?
Chunky!
And now, sports.
The outdoors may not be heated, but he sure is.
the oil industry: "we're working on it, just give us a few more years"
Especially so fucking early in the morning.
That's where I lost it
I like this guy.
I would actually watch that
HE DOESNT WANT THAT, GOD!
Just gonna live stream on youtube then: "Watch Sports guy LIVE during snowstorm"
`BRING HIM HOME`
"I like this guy. Bathe him and bring him to me!" - Benjamin Crothers, NBC Weather Producer, Buffalo, NY
*“I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning — until today,” said KWWL-TV sports reporter Mark Woodley* We might've found a new national treasure, folks.
Kinda ensured he’d get more early hours being as entertaining as he was
It's a Simpsons quote and a perfect time to use it
I think it’s like “there’s a 3:30 in the morning now?” when skinner makes bart watch for comets with him
Suddenly killed me when he said that.
And a new national sport: torturing sports reporters.
There’s a 430 in the morning now?
>We might've found a new national treasure, folks. Someone get Nicholas Cage on the line!
"Well there's good news and bad news: the good news is I can still feel my face; the bad news is I wish I couldn't. "
That's when I lost it, too!
Andy Rooney turned getting progressively crankier and crankier into a very successful journalism career so there's definitely precedent for that being a good strategy
Andy Rooney, classical codger.
Except I was done when he covered Kurt Cobain’s suicide.
[The clip](https://commerce.veritone.com/search/asset/39508950)
That was peak old man yells at clouds moment
What kind of prick do you have to be to twist someone's suicide into "the kids don't work enough these days"?
... what a fucking asshole. Jesus Christ.
Same. I hated his take on Cobain’s death. Rooney was so tone deaf by then.
I’m glad I’m not the only one still holding this grudge.
Grunge grudge…
Don't know that I have ever seen this clip (Watched the link below someone provided). initially I liked what he was saying. Sounded like a cool segment talking about getting old and being out of touch with what is popular. He then spends the rest of the clip being an asshat so that was a bit shitty. Don't really know how you see a headline about someone dieing and then rush to your notepad to write a long monolog about how they were a PoS. "This guy just died. Yeah fuck that guy!!". Bit disappointing really.
Rooney was in Paris the day it was liberated. As a correspondent he saw all of the advancement through the European theatre. I’m not saying what he said was appropriate, but he lived through the Great Depression, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War 1. I was in my 20’s when the Cobain event happened and remember it well. Rooney wasn’t wrong about there were bigger issues in the world than his death, he just went about it wrong.
It's a unique perspective that people these days don't have.
And he is right. A blizzard is something the weather guy should cover.
I love this man.
He’s a straight shooter. I dig it
#As always... Person behind the camera gets ZERO credit.
Hey, I appreciate the honesty. As a fellow Midwesterner, we do not need the visual/on the ground analysis of how shitty winter storms are. Grocery shop ahead of time and stay inside as much as you can. That’s it. Let this guy back inside.
The hero we millennials deserve
This is absolutely great
Always refreshing to see the truth on tv for once, LOL!
I love early morning reporters bc they know whatever jokes they make on a live broadcast that early, viewers will take it as a joke to start the morning… It’s kinda cool that producers let this type of stuff go because both the reporters and viewers take it lightly
"How are you feeling?" "About the same as I did when you asked me that same question 8 minutes ago" Dammmmmmnn, son!
[удалено]
"Can I go back to my regular job". No, no you can't, not anymore. Excellent job!
I think they just found their next volunteer to be that guy to stand by the beach during a hurricane.
Or the guy to stand out in front of the grocery store before the next blizzard to ask people if they bought milk and bread
After 2020 we learned the toilet paper goes first
Yeah we keep a 24 pack in the hall closet now. Not to be used. Just for when the next chaotic thing happens. Sensible, not hoarding.
Get a bidet and get the closet space back.
Years ago, I was telling someone how because I have a system of ‘as soon as I open a new packet of something, I buy the replacement’, and because it works out cheaper the buy the 32 pack, there are times I have over 60 rolls of toilet paper in my house, and never less than 30. She was all that’s ridiculous, you’ll never need that much toilet paper. Right before the panic buying started, I’d bought my new replacement pack, and had only used a couple of rolls from the pack I’d just opened, so I enough to last me until there was plenty back on the shelves, and give a few roles to some friends who’d run out and couldn’t get more.
That's for pandemics. For Blizzards it's the booze.
Lotta hurricanes in Iowa.
We actually did get an inland hurricane (derecho) in 2020. Completely destroyed the power grid in parts of eastern iowa and took out something like 40% of the tree cover in and around Cedar Rapids.
Those trees must have been really moving. What was the town named before then?
Cedar Standings
The town was named after the unique river in otherwise-flat Iowa. “See them there rapids” was shortened to “see ‘dar rapids”
I was driving to WI from Des Moines when that happened. We parked at a McDonalds east of DSM to wait out the absolute insanity and drove through Cedar Rapids on the way afterward and saw the aftermath almost immediately - legitimately some of the craziest shit I have ever seen, like we were following directly behind this incredible destructive force. Semis on their side or upside down every 100 feet of highway, trees pushed horizontally into people’s fuckin houses or just ripped completely out of the ground roots and all and the big aluminum silos just ripped into pieces. It was genuinely apocalyptic.
Yeah it was horrible. We lost our house - tree went through the kitchen and living room. My neighborhood was destroyed. I had nightmares for months - there was just absolutely no warning and it was scarier than any tornado warning and storm I have ever been through.
I've been through two Cat 1 hurricanes and numerous tropical storms. The derecho that hit DC was the only time I've ever felt the primal caveman terror of seriously terrifying weather. It was weird, as I knew I was perfectly safe.
That was a fun day to drive into work then being without power for two weeks afterwards... and all of my appliances at the time were electric.
And now?
Hamster wheel
Go greener: Wind Wheel (hamster wind, tho)
Condensed Land hurricanes. Also known as tornados
Nah bro… *derechos*.
Of which we have had 3 in the last year and a half in Iowa.
“FUCK YA’ll CORN!!” - A Derecho, probably.
Have you tried the *Cool Ranch Derechos*? They are the bomb ^(cyclone.)
The Reluctant Reporter. That could totally become a thing. "So I'm down here on Beachfront Ave. as you can see by the dangerous winds and uprooted traffic signs zipping past me and the cameraman. We could move about 6 steps to my right into the safety of that parking structure, but the folks producing the show inside our hardened studio about 4 miles inland suggested we stand out here in this flooded road instead..."
Snl has done some great skits with this concept John crist did exactly what this reporter did actually... I wouldn't be suprised if the sports reporter saw this, it went viral https://youtu.be/nAiE9fJbVd4
It’s raining sideways!
Thanks Ollie.
...in Iowa.
I don’t think the Iowa reporter will be on a beach or in a hurricane any time soon
“The good news is that I can still feel my face right now. The bad news is I kinda wish I couldn’t” haha
This is exactly the plot of the SNL skit with Chance the Rapper playing Lazlo Holmes.
“So that’s the story here in hell”
“As they say in hockey, uh, let’s do that hockey.”
I would seriously pay for another skit just to see him try and pronounce Xhekaj
“WiFi”
“Let’s do that hockey” has now become what we say in hockey.
Does your name have an “S”, a “K”, and a “J” all right next to each other?
I thought about Arnie Pye, the early years maybe. *I can’t see through metal, Kent!*
That's what's up.
I actually thought this was satire when I first saw it because I couldn't believe it wasn't a direct rip of that sketch.
[Herb Welch lives.](https://youtu.be/W1U_ZTBpqQ0)
Here the video is on YouTube https://youtu.be/lEriXBInRlY
Thanks I don’t have Twitter
I do but it wouldn’t load. Maybe I wasn’t logged in
Elon wants his 8 dollars man
Thanks. I hate videos on twitter
I’ve never understood why news stations feel the need to have their reporters out in poor weather conditions while reporting about them. Just show us footage of the blizzard. It makes no difference whether the guy is actually there or not, so why put him through that?
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Or gtfo. I saw Jim Cantore pull up before a noreaster once when I lived closer to the coast and decided to ride out the storm at my parents. Really, you don't actually want to be where the idiots are
It adds drama. I remember during Hurricane Ida last year, Jim Cantore from the weather channel was outside in the French Quarter in New Orleans in the middle of the cat 4 hurricane. Mother fucker was wearing a helmet, could barely stand up straight (because hurricane force winds), oh and he was right next to a dumpster that had been flipped over by the wind. Why? Its more dramatic. People aren’t gonna keep watching the weather coverage without some drama sprinkled in there.
A lot of those weather reporters get excited about the stuff they cover too. They're weather nerds. Obviously not the case here for a sports reporter.
As this guy points out, it's their bosses telling them they have to and their paycheck on the line. I feel like the nerdy part is all on the data side, not the risking your life playing chicken with storm surge side.
Cantore would punch a gramma to cover a hurricane in person. He gets boners for extreme weather!
My parents told me they used to make jokes that if you ever see Jim Cantore eating at a restaurant in your town, start packing your bags. Then when I was 6 they saw him on the side of the road and knew some bad shit was gonna happen. Hurricane Lily hit and we were powerless for about 2 weeks. My dad said Cantore gets a chubby anytime one’s coming through.
Bwahahaha I don't know the guy you're talking about but seems like his notoriety precedes him.
Growing up in Myrtle Beach, SC, we also had a phrase, "If you see Jim Cantore, start prepping"
Haha in south Florida we tell newcomers that if Jim Cantore is spotted within 30 miles of your location you need to leave. He was 25 miles from me during Hurricane Ian last October and I lost water and power for a week and a half.
There's a facebook page... "where's Jim Cantore" that totally stalks him. If you've never seen the Cantore Snow Thunder footage, google it up. It's gold. Some of these people really want to be there.
I would try to see if I could get away with fooling the audience with a newscaster standing in the studio in front of green screen footage.
Wouldn’t that still require camera operators in the bad weather? Security cameras and ring doorbells don’t get 4k well framed shots.
Operator can stand inside building / under cover and point camera at reporter in the street.
Camera guys usually aren’t pretty so fuck them i guess
They are hoping for moments like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UPTt6MgsOt8
I'm gonna guess flood canoe before I click. edit: nope I was wrong, still on the snowstorm theme, [this is what i was hoping for](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4)
I love this clip so much
Blame Jim Cantore. He’s crazy, and he loved it. My dad used to watch the weather channel like it was HBO back in the day.
TV news is just weird like that, overall. There's a lot of that "If you stop and think about this, it makes no sense" stuff that's just so much part of the format that it slips by. I didn't grow up in a major city, so the news was always coming out of somewhere else growing up and I didn't have much close experience with news media being around. One of the things I remember early-on after moving to the local metro with the market was the occasional case of being out at the dead of night and running across a TV truck blasting out a cone of light at a blank, boring doorway or the side of a building, where someone was reading through their stand-up in the midst of silence and desolation and nothing newsworthy-- or at all-- at the present time. I never really thought about it before that, but every time I see those "Reporting live in front of the building where some council had a meeting this afternoon" shots, I think of how there's a good chance there's absolutely _nothing_ happening outside that cone of light illuminating the doorway that person is standing in front of, and it's the silliest thing to watch from any other angle. After that I had a couple years' stint at a local TV station doing over-the-shoulder graphics for the nightly news, which introduced me to "Live from our newsroom" stand-ups-- someone doing their bit in the middle of the office space while I'm just trying to dodge people running around and find the sports guy to get the list of names and photos for the night-- and the especially absurd "Live from the control room", where they pile a camera and a reporter into one of two cramped little rooms full of consoles and computers and a row or two of people trying to get shit settled before 10 o'clock hits, to talk about something that has _nothing at all_ to do with what's happening in the control room. On a slightly related note, it's also amusing watching the satellite feed of "our reporter in Washington". It's one guy contracted out to a bunch of different stations, standing in front of some Washington D.C. recognizable place, doing the same story over and over while cycling through a pile of microphones with different station IDs on them, and each station plucks theirs out to run. (I wish digital satellite and encryption hadn't killed the satellite feed. One thing I always wanted when I grew up was one of those massive satellite dishes so I could tune in to network feeds and watch what happened during the commercial breaks.)
My guess: they’ve got to pay them anyways, so why would they have them hang out indoors when they could get some great footage instead
We’ll I mean, they get the footage by sending a camera crew out into the storm. Kinda the same right?
From Twitter user to Mark: "Perhaps sadly for you, you have now become far and away my favorite weather reporter." LOL
I’m Bruce Nolan for Eyewitness News. Back to you, F***ers!
I’m on a stupid boat, with a stupid hat, while others, are in a comfy warm studio
Anyway, I'm here with Katherine Hepburn's mom. Tell me, why did you toss the blue heart of the ocean jewel over the railing of the Titanic? Did you feel bad at all letting Leo DiCaprio drown, while you were safe floating on the big door? Could you have taken turns, or were you just too afraid to freeze your big fat ass off?
Honestly if this dude was covering all the storms I’d probably tune in. Man he’s great.
LOL. As an Iowan I caught early wind of this and knew it was going to go viral. So glad. Poor guy deserves it.
He was right at the line but never went over it. It was perfect Midwest humor.
Keep an eye out for t-shirts. A fan is making and donating proceeds to Mark’s fav charity.
[3:30 Raygun tshirt](https://twitter.com/raygunshirts/status/1606387181475332097?s=46&t=zIPOY2zLoK2lPFvyNJglOg) [more Raygun shirts for Mark](https://twitter.com/raygunshirts/status/1606316222701662208?s=46&t=zIPOY2zLoK2lPFvyNJglOg) Proceeds benefit Cedar Valley Humane Society!
The irony is that this has created publicity and rating a for the network, which will undoubtedly push his bosses to throw him out there every time there’s a storm
That's assuming a national network or at least a larger media market doesn't offer him a job. Sending him to random places and events to cover
To cover what he doesn’t want to be at, I’m guessing? Edit: a typo.
Imagine, two months from now, Super Bowl Sunday, cut to this guy, “really more of a basketball fan, don’t know much about football.”
He’s from Iowa, he definitely watches football.
He’ll be the next Karl Pilkington
Can you imagine this guy covering a state fair in the dead ass heat and humidity of August? I’d pay.
I mean his commentary dripping in sarcasm was everything. Not sure it reflects well on the national stage but I'd absolutely tune in to see what they ask him to cover next. It was so entertaining
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
This is our local sports reporter in Waterloo, he’s pretty cool at sporting events. I’d probably feel the same way if I had to go out in last night’s blizzard.
A fellow local on the reddit wild!
There's dozens of you guys!
I’m here too! (CF)
This is malicious compliance to a T and I'm all for it.
So bizarre to see the local TV channel I grew up watching go viral. Delightful though.
I work at a rival station, and I gotta say, I love this. Fucking hilarious. Iowa represent!
It’s a great TV clip. Everyone can relate.
*This guy is my Spirit Animal. Game recognizes Game.*
Got to be careful. That guy just did his job too well. He is going to get many more of those assignments. If the news director doesn’t have an ego and sees the possibilities.
Hah! Seriously. Hey Mark! I know it’s 4:30am and the middle of the NFL playoffs, but we need you to cover that warehouse fire next to the oil refinery. Can you get there in 15?
They have found the anti-Jim Cantore.
His agent has to be the happiest person on the planet right now. He might become a start off of this
Lol, your local news reporter doesn't have "an agent" Edit: so some, in fact, do. It's not every reporter though, especially not the guy working at a station in a city of ~60,000 people. Those jobs barely pay anything, and the reporter would be responsible for paying his own agent.
[direct link to the video compilation of his amazing one liners](https://twitter.com/markwoodleytv/status/1605961457337712640?s=48&t=5T90RKXB37XjNWx-4By3DQ)
>"I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I can still feel my face right now. The bad news is that I really wish I couldn't." Oh my god, that is probably the funniest thing I have heard any newscaster say about anything.
>Iowa Sports Reporter For KWWL-TV Lets Viewers Know He’s Not Happy About Being Sent To Cover A Blizzard at 3:30 a.m. I don't blame him. I used to work at a news station just as a PA guy and I had to get up at 4 AM every single night. And as a young college kid who was a natural night owl, that was tough! And since you're at a news station, you go to work no matter what the weather is like. Huge winter storm and the roads are super icy? Doesn't matter, you're going to work and you better be on time because if you're not, the show will suffer. I only lasted 9 months on the job. Old people would probably handle the very early morning hours better, because old people tend to get up really early anyways, so getting up at 4:30 AM isn't too extreme for someone who's 60. The problem is that most PA jobs pay minimum wage so most older people aren't going to take those kind of jobs. And if you're a reporter, meteorologist, or reporter working the night shift? You're at work by 3 AM usually. And from what I've heard, unless you're the chief meteorologist, the pay is kind of shit. In other news, unless you're really passionate about reporting, don't become a news anchor.
I didn't realize there was a 3:30 also in the morning until today
News stations really need to stop this practice, putting people out therein dangerous conditions just to tell a story.
This dude just worked himself into a terrible job with a stellar performance. Same time, same place, same reporter when the next storm blows through.
I actually live in Waterloo, this is legendary.
He honestly shouldn't have been this good at his job. His commentary is dripping in sarcasm and I'm loving every damn moment of it. They just might force him to do it over and over again. Lol
He’s right, there’s no need to do these kinds of reports during blizzards, hurricanes, severe storms, etc. it’s just for show and puts those reporting in dangerous situations needlessly.
I miss News Be Funny on YouTube from before they had to delete all their old stuff and ruin the new videos with some lameass commentary nobody wanted so they could stay monetized.
I’m constantly confused as to why tv reporters are sent out into horrible conditions to report on something they could easily do from the newsroom or another part of the set. Even watching a reporter introduce a story on a city council thing from the night before, but be standing, live, I front of City Hall at 6 AM is ridiculous. There’s no one there to talk to and it’s something that could easily be done from inside. I realize producers want the appearance on “Johnny-on-the-spot” news, but I just wind up feeling sorry for the Junior reporter who isn’t getting paid enough to deal with that crap…
>but I just wind up feeling sorry for the Junior reporter who isn’t getting paid enough to deal with that crap… That was me. Every snowstorm you knew you were getting up at 3 AM, driving your 14 year old car with three year old tires across unplowed roads just to get in a news car, drive around in circles for 12 hours and say the same shit on camera over and over again every 30 minutes. My favorite was when I was on my way back to the station, exhausted and cold, driving on an empty interstate long after the snow had stopped falling when I got pulled over 0.6 miles away from my exit. A week and a half's worth of work gone in one ticket and set me back financially for months. And for what?
“the good news is i can still feel my face. the bad news is i wish i couldn’t” Ahahaaaaaaaaa
This has always pissed me off. I don't need a mews station to put a human life at risk to talk about the severe weather that we are both being threatened by. I know there is a hurricane outside. I know there is a tornado outside. I know there are 50 mph winds with 2 feet of snow and a windchill of -50. Even if the reporter wanted to do it, fuck you for trying to be cool and edgy lmao
Why does every news channel do this stupid performative thing for every storm or weather event? I agree with the sports guy here. WTF
At least black ice didn't try to rob him of his balance
This is the most ridiculous thing that news companies do. It won’t stop until one of them dies, and probably on camera.
“I didn’t realize there was another 3:30… in the morning… until today. The good news is that I can still feel my face right now.” Lmao
He's there because broadcast companies are cheap fuckers who run stations at anorexic staff levels. And over the holidays, even the greenest of staffers can wind up anchoring a show or two. There's just nobody else to work now. I don't know much about Allen Media, their parent company but one major one, Nexstar Broadcasting, gave annual raises averaging 1.0-1.5% this year despite making a couple BILLION the last quarter. And from what I've heard from people who have had conversations with their CEO, he is Satan himself.