I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning.
December 22, 2022 6:51 PM Subscribe
This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show. "Tune in for the next couple hours to watch me get progressively crankier and crankier."
I've got good news and I've got bad news. The good news is that I can still feel my face right now. The bad news is I kind of wish I couldn't.Oh man, that is how I felt yesterday when I had to go outside. I am never leaving this pile of blankets again.
posted by selenized at 7:29 PM on December 22, 2022 [6 favorites]
I feel like this may actually be the best illustration of Iowa culture that I have ever encountered.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 8:06 PM on December 22, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 8:06 PM on December 22, 2022 [4 favorites]
I still think of this whenever (early flight, sick kid) I have to wake up at 4 in the morning.
posted by lorddimwit at 8:22 PM on December 22, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by lorddimwit at 8:22 PM on December 22, 2022 [4 favorites]
This man might be my soul mate.
And I tell the same joke when people make me get up early for something: "Did you know there's a 5:30 in the MORNING now?????"
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:35 PM on December 22, 2022
And I tell the same joke when people make me get up early for something: "Did you know there's a 5:30 in the MORNING now?????"
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:35 PM on December 22, 2022
This was I assume kinda pre-planned but I laughed anyway because the guy is charming in his grumpiness and also I feel his pain.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:52 PM on December 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 8:52 PM on December 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
..."The outdoors, which is not heated..."
posted by NorthernLite at 9:19 PM on December 22, 2022 [17 favorites]
posted by NorthernLite at 9:19 PM on December 22, 2022 [17 favorites]
Nothing good happens between 2am and 6am. Ok some babies get born, but otherwise it's a terrible stretch of time that should be illegal.
posted by emjaybee at 11:04 PM on December 22, 2022 [11 favorites]
posted by emjaybee at 11:04 PM on December 22, 2022 [11 favorites]
there is no 3:30am, it's a lie from Big Time to sell more hours
posted by andreaazure at 11:23 PM on December 22, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by andreaazure at 11:23 PM on December 22, 2022 [7 favorites]
In my experience 3:30am does exist, marking as it does the end of the Forgotten Hours.
Logic would seem to dictate that getting to 3:30am must have involved navigating though midnight and 1am and 2am and 3am along the way, but it remains consistently the case that the time check immediately prior to seeing a clock read 3:30am was before 11:30pm and although all present have clearly been together and conversing and therefore continuously awake since then, none of us can ever work out just where the hours putatively in between actually went.
Big Time having just straight-up stolen them off us for retail resale is as plausible a hypothesis as any, so thanks for that.
posted by flabdablet at 11:35 PM on December 22, 2022 [4 favorites]
Logic would seem to dictate that getting to 3:30am must have involved navigating though midnight and 1am and 2am and 3am along the way, but it remains consistently the case that the time check immediately prior to seeing a clock read 3:30am was before 11:30pm and although all present have clearly been together and conversing and therefore continuously awake since then, none of us can ever work out just where the hours putatively in between actually went.
Big Time having just straight-up stolen them off us for retail resale is as plausible a hypothesis as any, so thanks for that.
posted by flabdablet at 11:35 PM on December 22, 2022 [4 favorites]
Why in God's name did they need a human to go stand out in the cold and announce that it's cold?!? At 3:30 a.m?! Seriously, he's right to be openly cranky (and cold) about this. Ridiculous. But good on him for the honesty, and I hope he isn't fired.
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:53 PM on December 22, 2022 [9 favorites]
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:53 PM on December 22, 2022 [9 favorites]
3:30am does unfortunately exist. My insomnia and me know it too well.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 1:33 AM on December 23, 2022 [10 favorites]
posted by [insert clever name here] at 1:33 AM on December 23, 2022 [10 favorites]
I'd think they want shots of local snow messing up roads, jenfullmoon, which helps discourage driving or other risk taking.
posted by jeffburdges at 3:58 AM on December 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by jeffburdges at 3:58 AM on December 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
Being wide awake at 3.30 am has often led me to Question my Life Choices, but to no avail. I still have no valid reason to be this awake at this … hour? … other than the sheer depravity of the human condition.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:07 AM on December 23, 2022
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 5:07 AM on December 23, 2022
> I'd think they want shots of local snow messing up roads, jenfullmoon, which helps discourage driving or other risk taking.
Counterargument: storm reporting is a bloodsport, where we tune in to see if 1) the patsy has a good time of it or if 2) Mother Nature swats them with a free-range road sign.
posted by sebastienbailard at 5:28 AM on December 23, 2022 [13 favorites]
Counterargument: storm reporting is a bloodsport, where we tune in to see if 1) the patsy has a good time of it or if 2) Mother Nature swats them with a free-range road sign.
posted by sebastienbailard at 5:28 AM on December 23, 2022 [13 favorites]
I was awake at 3:30 this morning, for no good reason, and if I’d watched this then, the time might’ve been more enjoyable.
posted by MtDewd at 5:29 AM on December 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by MtDewd at 5:29 AM on December 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
That guy has my sympathies. At the TV station where I worked twice, most recently in 2014, the sports anchor/reporter always got shafted like Matt Damon on Jimmy Kimmel. If there was enough news, they'd just cut the sports segment — often entirely. The level of resentment that TV sports people must build up!
posted by emelenjr at 5:51 AM on December 23, 2022
posted by emelenjr at 5:51 AM on December 23, 2022
The level of resentment that TV sports people must build up!
The counter argument is Hunter Thompson (I'm paraphrasing) saying that sports writing (or reporting) is the only place in journalism where you can actually have fun.
posted by valkane at 8:37 AM on December 23, 2022
The counter argument is Hunter Thompson (I'm paraphrasing) saying that sports writing (or reporting) is the only place in journalism where you can actually have fun.
posted by valkane at 8:37 AM on December 23, 2022
they'd just cut the sports segment
While I don't really watch local/network TV news, I feel pretty confident in saying that in Ohio there would literally be rioting in the streets if this happened. Especially during college & pro football season.
posted by soundguy99 at 8:50 AM on December 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
While I don't really watch local/network TV news, I feel pretty confident in saying that in Ohio there would literally be rioting in the streets if this happened. Especially during college & pro football season.
posted by soundguy99 at 8:50 AM on December 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
I'd think they want shots of local snow messing up roads, jenfullmoon, which helps discourage driving or other risk taking.
This might be true in places with dangerous weather conditions. But over here in California, we have the same kind of sensationalized reporting when the forecast is half an inch of rain - and it's 62 degrees F. I think my mom canceled a bunch of her plans last time this happened because local news convinced her that an incredible storm was coming that could cause widespread flooding and power outages. In reality, everything was dry by the afternoon. I'm beginning to view this kind of emotionally-charged weather reporting with the same kind of skepticism as "eggs are bad for you!" and "crime is up a thousand percent in your neighborhood!".
posted by meowzilla at 10:38 AM on December 23, 2022
This might be true in places with dangerous weather conditions. But over here in California, we have the same kind of sensationalized reporting when the forecast is half an inch of rain - and it's 62 degrees F. I think my mom canceled a bunch of her plans last time this happened because local news convinced her that an incredible storm was coming that could cause widespread flooding and power outages. In reality, everything was dry by the afternoon. I'm beginning to view this kind of emotionally-charged weather reporting with the same kind of skepticism as "eggs are bad for you!" and "crime is up a thousand percent in your neighborhood!".
posted by meowzilla at 10:38 AM on December 23, 2022
Also, TV news is AWFUL. I note that I got forced to watch TV news last night while with the older relatives and they were blasting BOMB CYCLONE EVERYWHERE BUT IN FOUR STATES IS HAVING HORRIBLE WEATHER LOOK AT ALL THAT SNOW AND PEOPLE STRANDED IN AIRPORTS for an hour straight.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:09 PM on December 23, 2022
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:09 PM on December 23, 2022
Why in God's name did they need a human to go stand out in the cold and announce that it's cold?!?
I'm pretty sure this is a pre-scripted joke using a greenscreen.
You folks clearly aren’t from Iowa.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 10:37 PM on December 23, 2022 [5 favorites]
I'm pretty sure this is a pre-scripted joke using a greenscreen.
You folks clearly aren’t from Iowa.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 10:37 PM on December 23, 2022 [5 favorites]
In ye olde days, sometime after we moved away from Iowa, we loaned a friend of ours a season of Babylon 5 on VHS, lovingly taped from local TV.
When she returned the tapes and we asked her how she liked it, she said, "Do you know what is on TV after Babylon 5?"
We said, I dunno, the nightly news?
"Yes," she said. "And do you know what is on the nightly news in Iowa?"
Uh, what?
"There was a reporter. Standing in a corn field. Talking about how tall the corn is."
Oh, we said, they don't do that here?
posted by BrashTech at 9:18 AM on December 25, 2022 [3 favorites]
When she returned the tapes and we asked her how she liked it, she said, "Do you know what is on TV after Babylon 5?"
We said, I dunno, the nightly news?
"Yes," she said. "And do you know what is on the nightly news in Iowa?"
Uh, what?
"There was a reporter. Standing in a corn field. Talking about how tall the corn is."
Oh, we said, they don't do that here?
posted by BrashTech at 9:18 AM on December 25, 2022 [3 favorites]
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