Episode 51: Frosted Mini Wheats & Cheez Whiz with Jim Cantore

if I cared too much about anything else. Well, maybe Howard who's laying here, But yeah, I have so many questions for him. I have one question for you, and then we will get to Jim. Where did the love of weather come from with you? I think honestly being raised in Tampa, Florida, and knowing that you're going to have a downpour from four o'clock to five o'clock on this guys are gonna get really, really dark. We had

to run around our house and unplug everything. But also there was such a watch around the time hurricane season came on. Is it a hurricane warning? Is it a hurricane watch? What is it. My dad was in the news, but I just I don't know. It's live, it's unscripted. It's a lot like our job, except you know, really it's like sometimes you're light, you're endangered, people are losing

their lives. I just love it. I've my husband, you know, growing up in Canada, he really didn't know much about hurricanes obviously, and then when a hurricane would happen down south, I would turn on the Weather Channel and I was like, you know, wall to wall coverage, and he's like, God, you're really into this, and that's the reason why from growing up there. Well, then let's not wait any longer.

Jim Cantory coming up next on the Combat podcast. Aaron won'tcome now, Jim, I'm so excited about having you on today that Karissa, she normally does the intros, and I'm gonna mess this up. I mean, there's only a couple of people I start sweating profusely around you, Tom Brady uh in that order. But yeah, I mean you are known as the rock star of meteorologists and the job

I wanted to have. We should do like the holiday one day and switch houses or switch jobs that what do you say we start this Sunday and Sidelines will net work. I'm not going to be there. I'm actually it's on NBC next year. Next year we can talk to Eric Shanks about it. But Jim Cantory, thank you so much for joining the Calm Down Podcast. I'm so excited that you're here than she has been talking about

you forever. Yeah, it's funny. We've we've talked about but I never got to be honest with the year, and I never knew that you had this thing where I want you would have been a meteorologist if you didn't do the sports thing so well, that are probably a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. I mean, Jim, it's just the the opportunities are endless. You know, you really are, you really are. You know most people you know talk to Aaron and I are like, oh, you guys have such incredible jobs,

like to be a sportscaster, and so to me. I just always think it's fascinating where Aaron has a dream job that that most people would want, but yet she's still says that you have her real dream job, a job that you have now done for over thirty six years give or take, okay five, I'll just keep it moving fine. The number is not important. Definitely. I was reading that about you right out of college. You started at the Weather Channel. Is that incredible to you that

you started one place and have never left. I was painting a huge building and I was up on the scaffolding and my brother comes out and he goes, hey, Jim, the Weather Channel wants to talk to you. And I was like, oh, we just got them on table. So I mean, that's it was. It was, It's crazy. I came down for an interview and the rest is history. And I had a car with no air conditioning, which I managed to get through Atlanta for two years before

it died on me. So that was that was. I mean, guys, if you think about the good job in the weather, especially going out in the field covering the storms, and you think about covering you know, the Super Bowl or covering uh, you know, major League Baseball's playoffs in World Series, there's kind of a common thread there. I mean, storms are our World Series, storms are our super Bowl. So yes, and we go out there and we'd have to perform.

I mean, that's it. That's that's we got four quarters to go through and and just like you guys do and we gotta do it. We gotta, we gotta, we gotta game up. Where did the passion come from? Where did this begins? Back in the nine eight, we had a huge blizzard in New England, which is famous, the Blizzard of seventy eight shut down Boston, shutdown Providence. It is it is kind of the benchmark for storms in

New England. Um, but you know we also got crushed that win or two with tons of snow and Vermont. So I mean, being a like a fourteen year old kid, I had like these snow piles over my head and I thought, cool is this. I'm looking down the road and I thought I was in like a snow tunnel. I just never seen so much snow that I am my entire life. I mean, they're bring payloaders out to move it just so people could drive on a single lane on the road. It is incredible. Jim, you know,

I don't know if you can pick one right. It'd be similar to asking us maybe a favorite event, but what is that one moment that sort of stands out for you and your incredible career where you're like, I can't believe I'm doing this right now? You know Katrina was it was the storm is because there was so much going on there, you know, building up to the storm. I started in Florida, then we drove all the way up to Biloxi to cover you know, the landfall when

it was when it was a monster. And it's just trying to convince people that, Um, excuse me if you don't leave die. I mean that's hard. And you have the casinos were all along the water to be able to gamble in Mississippi, all the casinos are on the water.

So you know, I kind of hollered out and I said, what am I gonna do here as a broadcaster to try and convince these people this is serious because we got forecast for twenty plus foot storm search So I look and I'm right there at the Treasure Bay Casino, which was this big pirate ship over the water. And I looked over. I said, you see that ship right there, Um, it's going to be underwater tomorrow. So we need to get these people out of here. It's gonna be. So

the mayor comes down. He goes, you know, Jim, you're really scaring us, And I said, good, yeah, good. I want you to be scared because I want you to get to be safe and get out. But then at the same time, Jim, you're still there. So that's what always is Like the thing, I'm like you, what you guys do and the dangerous situations that you remain in while you're advocating for everyone else to get out is

something that I applaud because I could never do it. Um. You know, we like to think that we've got all the risks taken care of, but you know, this day and age with Live View, it was different back in two thousand five because you were kind of at the mercy of a satellite truck right when the winds were fifty six, that dish went down and you were done. You were done broadcasting. You take a few features on

the side, but then you know you were done. But now with live View and cell phone and be able to go HD audio and video, you're broadcasting through the whole high wall. Yeah, you know, you're going through the whole thing. So I'm just like, you know what, if I'm gonna stand out on that whole thing, I'm gonna, like, I have to think about this. I'm gonna put body armor on, put a helmet on, because all it takes is one little laceration, and here I am bleeding out

there on air, and I really don't want that. That's not the image. I don't want to be the story. I want to tell the story, right. So so that's kind of how that goes. But in two thousand five, you know, during Katrina, we thought we were at twenty seven feet. We were told we would be at and

we weren't. We were at twenty feet. So you have seven more feet of surge, which means that the water came in the Armed Forces Retirement Home and so you know, all of a sudden, it wasn't about doing the broadcast anymore. We couldn't do it anyway. So we basically helped the twenty Navy CEBES, which is the land based unit of the Navy that we're there with the vets get Everything was on the first floor, all all the food, all the medicine, and all of them because they were eating

breakfast at the time when this thing came in. So we had to get them up to the second floor. And so we're carrying you know, think about that, those those electric wheelchairs. You know, the guys, guess these guys, our heroes couldn't move some of them, right, So we had to carry these things up these sweaty stairs and you know, but that was the job that that was now our mission was to help them out as much as we could, and that's what we did. How long

were you, guys, logan or base there? Jim where? I mean? When could you get out? And what did that consistent for you? Hus? See? They kept us there another five seven nights. Slept in the car. Wow, yeah, free, let's see. I think that the most incredible dinner I had was frost to many weeks with cheese Wiz on top. That was a memorable one. That was my college. Did you have to go cheese wiz? Or why? Why did you go cheese wiz? Okay? Was that? Was that supposed to

be a good thing? But I did cheese with No, I don't think it was. But honestly, when you're starving, cheese is really good. Yeah. Yeah, So clearly you know your your job is not just a job. It's it's not a clock in and clock out. Is all hours of the day and saving people's lives at times. So do you even when we're not in the field. But you guys don't see, is us kind of looking at the computer models at nauseam. Where is this storm going to go? What's this model doing, what's that model doing?

How has the model changed? Oh? Wow, that models come in line with this model. Models coming on with that fast. It is there an off season for you? I mean it's I mean, is that silly to ask, like, you know, because we have the we have downtime. No, actually that's a great question. Um, Sometimes if we're not getting severe weather or a late season, for like October November is kind of the time where you can inhale and exhale right before hurricane season Florida girl, yep, yeah, storm season.

So like after hurricane season, before winter storm season is when when we kind of get that break. But sometimes you get these you know, lake effects snow events. I was like, oh, breaks over, let's get let's get up to the Great Lakes. Yeah. So obviously I knew you were going to mention Katrina. But early in your career, and I asked this a utter in players that see like a maybe a Jamaar Chase or something like that,

come in or Joe Burrow come in. When was your first in your career holy shit moment, Like, holy shit, this is a major you know, this is big time meet me at the tornado. But it wasn't like on the air. You know. It was the sheeps tornado in Kansas. It was the only super cell of the day. It dropped a tornado and the corn feels a big cone like you know, stove pipe tornado. And I was pretty damn close to the thing. But it's amazing. You can't even hear it. What is that? I was just gonna say,

what does that feel like? What is that out there? I mean, I'm just like, holy you know, if we were close to that, I mean I had to see the corn stalks getting kind of ripped up, huge scout, but I mean that was like the holy ship moment. The first one, the first one, not to mention, on that same trip, we were broadcasting on the side of the road and lightning struck about fifty yards away, So that was that was kind of the second one all in one day, mind you two and one day. But

you guys, lit soap you to flee. I just want to say this. You have these probably these little ring lights and everything like that. I just want you to know I'm dealing with that. Well, but do we get a what a report right now? Would you mind, Jim? What are we working with out there? Please? It's too cold, It's I've had enough of the cold. Man. I'm still fought out for the last month of being out in storm. It'll turn me on so much. Jim, give me a

weather report, come on where you wherever? Just give me anything wherever. Okay, let's uh, let's do Florida. Increasing showers, rain, no thunderstorms, no severe that. But then the sun comes out. It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be in the seventies and eighties. What's our humidity It's not gonna be a very high that one, and the offs, the pressure, the pometer. All you guys have to do is just go buy your hair. Yeah, that's true, well half of my So

you know, I can't really judge that, Jim. If you can't get the hair done, the humidities high, I obviously can't judge the humidity with that. But you guys keep m okay. So we've we've experienced the dangerous, the you know, the bad. What's been your favorite moment in a positive way on the job or a situation that you've reported on where you're like you know what. This is a

really good gig. I got. Yeah. Well, I mean the time that I got the thunder snow in Plymouth, mass when I watched it today for you was your florious central and and the whole way that it came to be was the fact that you know, we moved down there, we moved out of our comfort zone, the long Worth Marriott in Boston, and we said, all right, let's just

try Plymouth. Let's go down there. They can They pushed there, like Jim, it's gonna be stronger day, It's gonna the winds are gonna be a little bit stronger, like who the hex of the meitable difference be fifty five? I mean honestly, but we'll go We'll we'll go down there for you. And so I see Reynolds Wolf who takes my place in Boston, get thunder snow, and I was the more realized. So I literally put my face down

in the snow. I was just laying there, just absolutely demoralized that he got it and I didn't, because it's pretty hard to be live. What is thunder snow? I don't I don't know. I don't even know what it is. I'm glad you're asking, Yeah, you know that's sometimes I just talked like you guys know no, I mean, I'm completely turned on. But keep telling us all about thunder snows. The thing about the thunderstore in the summer, right, the

air pops up to these big towering cumulus clouds. Um they get to a place where you get electrical charge and discharge and boom, you get thunder and light and it's really rare. It never happens. The same thing can happen in winter. It's just above the cold. So if that's happening and it's you know, it's snowing like crazy and you get thunder and lightning in the stump store. But what is just like seeing sas watch it never happens,

Like what is it? Why is it such a big deal? Okay, this happens there, and it's happened to be five times on the air during live television. Go back and get them all. I'm telling you right now. You did get six by the way, you got sick event, So it's happened five different times. That event Brady has seven things. What oh my gosh, that was anyway, you saw what happened Once I finally got it, in Plymouth. I was. I just went absolutely nuts. You lost. Oh my gosh.

I love everything about this. I love it. I love it. What's can I go back to the tornado situation? Because I grew up in Florida. I grew up in Tampa Bay, lightning capital of the world. I mean, I remember the days where lightning was striking. My mom was like, unplug the VCR. We're gonna lose everything. But and I've been through hurricanes, tornadoes were the one thing that it was like. I remember having the drills in our classroom. Those that

is just scary. Ship. I mean, you just mentioned briefly how you don't hear anything. I always heard a tornado would be like hearing a train, a freight train coming. So that was just my first mornado in Kansas, which is great. Let him be out there in the high plains all right, when they start coming into Nashville and Atlanta, and right now you've got debrief flying around, and you absolutely hear that because it's right outside your window, right

So that so that's the difference. So I was born and raised in Seattle, Jim and I left when I was eighteen because I was over I was over the rain. Well, yes, it is beautiful like three months out of the year. But every time I tell someone I'm from Seattle, they're like, rain allot it there. We're like, okay, we get it. So what is the number one question you get asked when people ever know who's who you are? But when you say you know as a meteorologist, the question I

get asked the most is what. The question I get asked the most is why do you get paid if you get it wrong half the time? Ye, Jim, it's true, I mean seriously, but not you. You don't get it wrong. You know the pressure. We only get it wrong of the time. Now we've gotten better. Uh, here's what I would say to you for Seattle though. All right, don't let them tell you it rains all the time, because

it's more of a god I love him. Okay. So it's really not like a pouring Florida downpour like Aaron's used to all right, with the big drops where if you have to go to your car to a building you're soaked. I mean you guys can usually walk through the rain drops out there. It's it wasn't my favorite Yeah, well, well yes, it's not perfect sunshine since my California residency.

But I did buy a place in Nashville, and the first week I had the place, seven trees in my backyard, one on the house, and I was like, this isn't Kansas. Toto is nowhere to be found. What's going on down here? I had no idea about this inclement weather. And then Aaron's dad was like giving me the whole rundown of the South that I was like, I probably should have done my agents before this purchase, but do I need to be work? There's been an unseasonable amount of snow

or maybe that is I should be asking you. Is it feel like there's a lot more snow this year? Uh? There was a month ago. I mean there was we haven't had any snow in like a month. So yes. So that so that got so much news. That got so much because you know, we got like normal for the month of December and all of this because we didn't have anything back east. It was warm, it was incredibly warm back and then and then it shut down. Then we got busy in the East January and you

guys didn't get any snow at all. So we've literally literally just surprised, and here we are in February. What would surprise people the most about your job? With ours and me being on the sidelines, there's no bathrooms. I literally, and Jim, you could probably relate to this. I hold my p for like eight hours at a time. I mean, I play a game with myself called Let's test my kidneys. I'll probably need some sort of transplant like a few years because I've tested. It's a fun game show. But

what's the one thing about your job that surprises people? Um? Well, it's certainly not how I hold my yourrination, because here's the deal. If I got easier for you to go, it's easier for dudes, it always is. I mean, you know, that's just the way it is. That's a that's a fact. Let's see what surprises people about my job. Gosh, I don't know. Maybe maybe the hours, Maybe as much time as I spend out of the office looking at the

weather that I do in the office. Sometimes it's more actually so maybe so I I um, I like to wager jim on on games, and I'm allowed to wager on games. So I have a lot of friends and family be like, Okay, what are your bets this week?

What are we working with. How many of your friends and family are when they're going on a vacation or you know a storm's coming, are they texting you asking you for inside information or just you know, sort of tapping into the knowledge that that thirty seven years has provided. You know. What's funny is like nobody believes me when I tell him something like what I was gonna snow the other he goes because, well, another forecast is only calling for a couple of inches. But I'm like, yeah,

but you could get like six or eight. Actually, God's not listening to you. You'll hold me up, but they're not calling for that on television. Michael, Thanks, Thanks, So yeah, I don't know. I don't get a lot of love from from sometimes my sister. You know what, if we have like a severe weather event in Atlanta, she'll call me and she'd be like, all right, what's the really? What is your phone number? Four? It's it's when the games, It's when the games on the line, right, guys. I've

I've tweeted you before, like during big games. I think that's when I first I was telling a story before you came on. I was tweeting for college well all day long, Jim, that's the scary part. But um, I know I did when I first started college game Day and I tweeted you and you tweeted me back, and I was like, holy sh it, I made it like this is so fantastic and huge for me. Guys, I wanted to ask Vegas, I know nothing about betting, curse and knows this are their bets? Are their lines for

the weather? Can you bet on the weather or storms or anything? Bet on everything? And I think somebody told me to get there. There was I don't know, you tell me, well, okay, well I thought you guys would never ask. So there's always bets for the Super Bowl, for example, like if it was being played you know so far has a cover on it, so that's not

an issue there. But if it's yeah, right where it's but it's not Lambeau or it's not you know, it's outdoor stadium, so there would be bets on, you know, if there's going to be a game delay, a rain delay, whatever it may be because of weather. There's always something to bet on when it comes to that. So in fact, the next opportunity there is to bet on whether I'm doing it. Jim and I'm calling you for some inside info.

All right, I'll totally give you guys what I think. Um, I'm still upset though the Packers under is that your team, you know, and I'm having a little tough time. That's my team really, I don't know, maybe twelve years ago into the story on the Packers fifteen years ago. I mean, they let us in. I'll never forget getting red Daddy brings us room. It starts throwing, uh, you know, stuff at us, right, you know, that's my guy, and they

and they just let us talk to you know. I'm going through the dressing room Farves getting dressed and he looks sober at me and he goes, hey, you're that. You're that Elvis Presley of weather Brett. Yes. I was like, all right, I'll play this game. I look back in him and I'm like, and you're that, You're that And it was just kind of those moments, you know what I mean. But I just absolutely fell in love with

the family nature of the Packers. It's it's just the whole town is is Green Bay Packers, and I just kind of fell in love with that because I never really followed a football team when I was growing up in Vermont. I mean I was skiing every weekend right around and watched until I was in college. You know,

isn't Red fantastic. I was actually telling the story after the forty Niners Green Bay game, how obviously it's their job to keep those players warm, but the stuff that they think of, the little gimmicks that they have on the sidelines, Jim, I'll tell you this, and it's actually one of my questions I wrote down for you. As I was walking on the sideline it was early in the game. I was like, shop, I must look really cold.

One of their guys on the support staffs that here put these in your pockets and it was almost like pantyhose like stocking material full of those heaters instant heaters, but they were the handwarmers, but they were different because they lasted for two days. So I don't know what

the hell they got going on in Green Bay? But were what were you blown away with just the little things that they have to keep guys warm anything, I mean, you know, the seats, blowing, the feet under the seats, just being around some type of warmth and things like that. The fact that they heat that remember Aaron back you Soldier Field or Lambeau. They didn't heat the ground, right, hence the frozen lamps under their fields. Yeah, so that exactly exactly, and so that was our our story. So

here comes this new stadium. You know, the field is heated. There's a little bit of a softerly. It still hurts, but it's it's a little bit of stuff. I was just blown away by by the way they take care of their players and Red just this is so you know, he's been there forever and just absolutely love with that. Everyone's right, he'll call me where did that you know where? I'm like, dude, thanks for reaching. Yeah. Yeah, he's got

nothing going on. That brings me to my my question that I have for you about Aaron's celebrity siding when she saw you at the derby or at the airport, Like she's clearly still talking about that. Did you have you had a situation where you've got to meet a celebrity or something other than Brett Farve because of your job that you're like, this is these are the perks of the gig that I really appreciate. Oh my god, oh my god. So Trouty is an absolute weather Jim

Mike Trout, Mike Trout. So he he loves the weather, he asked, loves the weather. He literally for the last month this day has been blowing up my phone. I'm not lying. What I don't think about? I mean, I don't care I do this. Yeah, what's he care about? He wants to know them. He's like, dude, you see the GFS, just the European Do you think the Europeans gonna come around? Because I think that mean and they rushed.

So the European is the European Center's mall. Okay, So there's global models, there's high resolution models that Aaron does give us the cliff notes. Yeah, has been the the American model and the European model. And I want to say this is lately the American model has come around really well okay course and outperformed the Europeans. So this is kind of a big deal. So we've got this competition going. It's that it wasn't just King euro Now the GFS is starting to show face the American model.

So what do you I mean, I know what we researched and what we do to get ready for games. What are you looking at? Where's your go to? Because mine is a bunch of apps. That's the other thing. I want to know what weather apps. You look at the weather you gotta say weather channel. Crap. I just blew that one. But I'm always asking the kickers because I want to know about the wind guys and what they're thinking, and I want to talk to them about it. And I'm always like, what are you guys looking at?

Here's his weather? Whether channel is a great app for like stories and things like that, but that isn't like one of my game day apps. Okay, let's go right, So radar scope, my radar. You love that she's so passionate about this. She g r earth E gives me. Yeah, current weather. It's like subscription based stuff. Yeah. But this, this is this is all like the techno. You know, I can see what's going on in real time and I could say, oh wow, look at that swall line

west of St. Louis. It just popped up. I gotta talk about my god, I'm gonna need a whole vocabulary. So how has the game of football has changed over years? Is now a passing league? There's you know, less emphasis on the running back that used to be taken. You know, the first round a bunch of Like now if you get your receivers, you get your DBS, Like there's the game has changed. Has weather changed? I think the weather

dissemination has changed. I mean even at the Weather Channel, we have this immersive mixed reality which sounds sexy, but it kind of allows us to get into Like we can stand on the Boston Common and give a broadcast. We can show how the morning gets there's no snow on the ground, and then as we go through the day, the snow gets heavier, the sky is dark, you can see the snow coming down. All of a sudden it's covered. Yeah, So we go through the day's forecast while standing in

the studio watching the scenery behind this change. It so broadcasting and also, um, you know these models that I'm talking about. I told you about a couple of global models. There's also high resolution models that we look at and some of these have some pretty intense detail. They come out every hour. They can show us, you know, even storms that look like super cells or tornadic storms on the on the model, which is like holy cow, you

know that that's kind of an eye open I love it. Well, we could talk to you all day long, all the apps right now? What you miss? I know? Wait, can I I want to talk to listen, I'm begging. I have two questions and I'll let you go. As Troy would say, I appreciate your time, and I'm gonna let you go after this. Um it's so two of my questions. Packing is huge in my life. Whether I'm going to Green Bay or I'm doing a game in Jacksonville or Miami. What are whether you are covering a hurricane or nor

East or what are your go toos? When Jim Cantori is packing up his duffel bag, I gotta have the computer, I gotta have the laptop charger, stuff like that. No, but I mean like two pairs of boots, two pairs of jackets, because sometimes they you know, if we're out in the soaking rain, it's like here, come back in three hours. We're gonna need you to come back in

three hours. My jackets still soaked, my pants are still so So I gotta have a double there, you know, like a double outfit to go through there, through through all that. What's your best? Like rain here not here? Wise? All right? So the trick the trick in the summer, and I don't care what anybody says, but you if you're standing outside in six hours and horizon rain, you can actually go hypothermic. When it's eighty degrees outside. Well, the water is against your body, so the water draws

the heat from your body, and you're exhausted. You haven't eaten for for three or four days, you haven't slept, and so you start getting tired and a little shaky. So, um, I put a neoprene suit on underneath all my rain gear. I've had to have you give me like this whole interview. What is the neoprene suite? Been surfing is what I use? And yeah, okay, there you go, and you can have

you can get different thicknesses. Yeah, okay, so you can have a really super thick water you can have and that's that's usually enough to kind of keep my core temperature warm where I can just continue to do the broadcast. So if you're out, you know, and especially if there's ever a game, you know, eron, if you're doing a game where it's in the rain or the cold rain or the snow, do you pren see it underneath? I

know I should have. I did the worst Patriots Dallas Cowboys game It was the coldest I've ever been in my life. And the poor offensive linemen were just like, here comes stand by our heater. Blah blah blah. Enough about me, One more question about me, Jim. If you were going to throw me in any storm or situation for my first gig, my audition on the Weather Channel, what would it be? What would what do you think I could do? You know what, You're gonna go right

into the blizzard. I want you a blizzard, said, yeah, I want you to blizzard where you're just gonna have to like the snow is literally blowing in your mouth an example. If you've got what you got, bring goggles. The goggles because I'm telling you it's weird when you got like little needles popping in your eyes blowing at and the things I have to talk about are the wind gus right, how many feet of snow we're getting at the time, how long we think this storm is

going to go on? And what like shelters that are opening, if there's electricity throughout the city. What else do I need to cover? How much? Yeah? Yeah, like you know, shut down? How long do you want to take a second? Well, Jim, what do you say we have Aaron, do a little audition right now. Yes, you want to spot, can throw together a weather report and take take a minute, compose yourself. Can we do it, Jim, But we can like back

and forth. Also, I'll be like the studio anchor. Okay, all right, So okay, so Aaron, you're in um what's your favorite eastcost Boston? I don't care. I just want to be with you. Can be together. Let's be on site together. Let's go to Boston. We're on sight together, all right, on We're on site together. We're on site together in Boston, and it's we we got a blizzard. We're in the heart of it right now. All right,

we got a quarter mile visibility. And I look at you and I'm like, Aaron, okay, So we just got word out of the National Weather Service in Boston that we have verified a blizzard. Now at Logan, we have had three consecutive hours of forty miles per quarter mile visibility or less. It's actually an eighth of a mile because if you walk over there ten ft, I can't

even see you. Well, I'm here, Jim, I am here, and the models are showing us this is These conditions are probably gonna last for about forty five minutes to an hour longer. We're gonna let you know. Obviously things continue to change, but these models are telling us this is how long it's going to be. This is what we're seeing from cities close by, Jim, this is the amount of snow they are getting. Obviously, driving conditions you're not even going to see, right, Jim, what are what

are you seeing from the models where you are? You know, I've seen the same thing. I'm saying forty five minutes to an hour just of these same conditions. So then we start lightening up a little bit, but not before we're buried three four eight ft drifts. I don't know how we're gonna get out of here. We're gonna be stuck here for a week. Well, guys, thank you so much for being here. Aaron and Jim on site in the eye of the storm. We will check back in

with you guys later. Thank you so much. Stay safe, guys, All right, we'll be back with more after the break with the you guys, Jim, would you beat this was? She's gonna she's hired, she will do this. I'm like, hey, Aaron, we're gonna go to you. You know, out of the break, we're gonna go to you on an update, you know what's going on with Aaron Rodgers that She's like, I'm more concerned. Can I do a weather report? I'm not kidding. She said this all the time from studio. She's more

interested in doing that. I absolutely believe you are a dream What game do you want to cover? Jim? What would you like to do? Uh? You know, I actually love I would love to announce, like a baseball game happen for you. It sounds like, yeah, you never know, you never know, because I mean I've always loved baseball.

Grew up with my dad Yankees fans. We used to sit out on the porch and you know, in Vermont and try and tune in, uh you know whatever station was holding me, Yankees the fan, whatever the heck it was, and just it was scratchy, scratchy. You know, here's the picture. Reggie Jackson was like, oh, what happened? We had what happened? You know, we have to wait, had to hear it.

But but I just remember those times, and I just always grew up loving baseball and that's definitely my favorite still sports and weathering is to have, like the best player in baseball be such a weather geek. Okay, and and him and I kind of having this great relationship talking about the weather and we're just butts, just buds. It's great well to necessities in life. We need sports and we need to know what's happening with the weather. So thank god we have you, Jim. We appreciate you

coming on the Calm Down podcast. Aaron will not calm down. I will now hear about this for the next week at minimum was our conversation with you, So thank you. What's funny is I always think that people have to kind of calm me down out in the storm. I think I have to actually calm Aaron down a little bit. It's pretty good. I love it. I love getting the gear on, I love being out there. I love talking about there. I love talking about the band. Yeah, it's

just it's like ripping in your face. You can't help it. Christie, you gotta get out there too. I know there's like deep down somewhere. Maybe do you you want to be close by? Maybe in the car. I'm the lodge. I'm that girl that's I'm having a hot Toddy in the lodge and I'm watching the weather report. So I'll let you guys go out to the elements. Okay, there's a reason Aaron does sidelines that I'm in studio. I do not have the balls to be out there anymore. Blue balls. Whoa

um jam. We love you, appreciate you, Thank you so much, guys, thanks for having meant it. Let's how much derby and talk about it. Yeah yeah, Calm Down with Aaron and Chrissa is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.