Pod Insights Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend This Is My Deal Here, Wade About this episode Conan talks to Max from Fargo, ND about working as a meteorologist, storm chasing, and what to do if you think a tornado is headed your way.
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1:30 Speaker 03 Hey, Max, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.
1:32 Speaker 04 Hey, David.
1:33 Conan O'Brien? Hey, Max, how are you?
1:34 Speaker 04 I'm trying to stay warm.
1:36 Conan O'Brien? Oh, okay. Uh, well, you're indoors. Do you not have heating? What's going on?
1:43 Speaker 04 Uh, I guess that hasn't made its way to my part of the country yet.
1:47 Conan O'Brien? Where are you, sir? Where are you right now?
1:49 Speaker 04 I'm in Fargo, North Dakota.
1:51 Conan O'Brien? Ah, Fargo.
1:53 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:53 Conan O'Brien? Okay, that's my favorite movie, by the way. Uh, it really is one of my favorite movies.
1:58 Speaker 04 It's a good movie.
1:58 Conan O'Brien? I love Fargo. Um, I wish you talked like that in the movie. It's my deal here, G. Hey, Wade. Hey, Wade. No, this is my deal here, C. No, no, we talked about this.
2:10 Speaker 04 There might need to be some incentive for me to talk like Margie.
2:13 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, that's okay. I, I, well, no, we're not gonna get into some sort of sex game. That's not gonna happen.
2:18 Speaker 03 Do you want money, Wilson? You can Venmo him.
2:21 Conan O'Brien? No, no, no, I'm not giving him any money for this. I think this is just an excuse for me to see, it's my deal here, Wade. No, no, I mean, I'm sorry, I, I-
2:29 Speaker 04 What accent is that?
2:32 Conan O'Brien? It's Fargo. It's Fargo.
2:34 Speaker 04 Are you sure?
2:35 Conan O'Brien? I'm sure. Hey, you know, I'm sorry, you don't sound at all like anyone from the movie Fargo.
2:39 Speaker 03 He auditioned?
2:40 Speaker 04 I don't know if I agree with your police work 100% there, Lou.
2:43 Conan O'Brien? Hey, yay, yay, Max. See, what I was doing was a trick to get you to do that. And my bad Fargo accent brought out your good one, and so I win this round. I love that. I love that.
3:01 Speaker 04 You don't owe me any money.
3:03 Conan O'Brien? So, Max, what do you do? What's your, what's, besides, uh, living in an apartment that has no central heating, what do you do with yourself, my friend?
3:12 Speaker 04 Uh, I'm a meteorologist.
3:14 Conan O'Brien? Oh, cool. That's cool. And, and, uh, you're a meteorologist. Are you on the radio? Are you on television? Where do you do your meteorology?
3:23 Speaker 04 I am on television. I'm on the Fox-affiliated TV station in Fargo.
3:28 Conan O'Brien? Oh, very cool. Um, and because it's Fox, do they encourage you to put like a political slant?
3:36 Conan O'Brien? Like, oh, there's a, there's a bad storm coming from
3:41 Conan O'Brien? the left wing. Oh, the left wings-
3:44 Speaker 03 Left wing, from the left wing.
3:46 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, the left wing of the state. There's a bad kooky storm, but don't worry. No, it's becoming Irish.
3:53 Conan O'Brien? It's my deal here. Hey, no, no, Wade, we talked about it. It's my deal here. If I stick to my deal here, I think I got the accent.
3:59 Speaker 03 Just repeat that over and over again?
4:00 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, I think so.
4:01 Speaker 03 Okay.
4:02 Conan O'Brien? Um, like you're from the Midwest. Oh, wait, you are. You're from, uh, Southern Illinois.
4:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, that's true.
4:08 Conan O'Brien? Um, Max, I'm sorry, uh, you're a meteorologist, and I'm gonna try to bring some sanity. I think you've upended this conversation with your nonsense.
4:16 Speaker 04 Oh, I think that's a load of bullshit.
4:18 Conan O'Brien? Okay, hey. Wow, Jesus. All right, you just take it easy. Uh, you're a meteorologist.
4:24 Speaker 04 I'm on TV, I don't have to take this.
4:25 Conan O'Brien? Okay, you're right. I have the highest respect for you, Max. I think you've lost control. You've lost the feeling in your extremities from the severe cold.
4:34 Conan O'Brien? So you are in the studio, you are doing the weather. Is the weather usually the same in Fargo? Does it get boring? You know, there's that old joke about it's really boring to be a a weatherman in Los Angeles because it's always 72 degrees and fairly pleasant. What about, uh, in Fargo?
4:52 Speaker 04 It's, um, we do have the periods where it'll get a little bit boring, but those are fairly few and far between. Right now, it's, you know, we've got almost 60 mile an hour wind gusts and blizzard warnings, so it's, uh, you know, it's a good weather day to be a meteorologist, but not a good day for pretty much anyone else who wants to do anything around town, because it's not, it's not great.
5:13 Conan O'Brien? Well, bad luck for other people is good luck for you, because you get to say.
5:17 Speaker 04 Yeah, pretty much.
5:18 Conan O'Brien? Oh, it's a big storm coming there, Wade. Um, I'm gonna keep going at it. I'm gonna keep going at it. There's no way to stop me. So, um, okay, what kind of, uh, do you get outside the studio much? I mean, are you mostly there in front of the green screen, pointing to things like low pressure system, high pressure system, uh, snowflakes, that kind of thing?
5:42 Speaker 04 Yeah, each individual snowflake that comes down, I'm typically outside the studio pointing. Here's one, here's two.
5:48 Conan O'Brien? Okay, listen to me, you son of a bitch. I'm gonna climb through this, I'm gonna climb through this microphone and come and get you. You understand me? Don't you sass me, young man, all right? I'm 98 years old, I've served this country bravely in World War II, and you're gonna treat me with respect. None of your sass now. This is my deal here, Wade!
6:05 Speaker 04 Oh, no!
6:06 Conan O'Brien? Oh, my lord.
6:08 Speaker 04 No, I'm in front of the green screen most of the time.
6:11 Conan O'Brien? Right. And, uh, do you have to ad lib a lot? Is that, because sometimes I would think you're there and, I don't mean to put down your anchor, because I don't know who your anchor is, but what if your anchor just is trying to be funny and you gotta kind of have to play off your anchor, who I'm just assuming is, you know, he's, come on, you're a funny guy, Max. You're calling in, you're clearly a fan, you've already had some good quips. You've put me in my place. What if your anchor's like, uh, uh, uh, uh, and you have to deal with that? What do you do?
6:39 Speaker 04 Fortunately, that hasn't happened too frequently, but when you're on air, it's always professional. And, um.
6:45 Conan O'Brien? I have no experience with that. I don't know what you're talking about, Max.
6:50 Speaker 04 Stick with me, baby. You're gonna learn some things.
6:55 Speaker 04 Um, and one thing, you know, the news anchors, when they're reading the news, they're reading off of script. They're reading off a prompter. When I'm doing the weather, it's all free form.
7:03 Conan O'Brien? Exactly, exactly. You're going commando, right. There's, uh.
7:08 Speaker 04 Well, no, no, seriously, you're letting, you're letting the old pendulum swing, if you know what I mean. Those guys are locked in. They're just locked in.
7:23 Speaker 04 Now the weather, you know, and they'll read it. Do you know what I mean? It's, uh, that's, that's what it is.
7:27 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. It's like the movie Anchorman. You just put it on the prompter and they'll read it. Um, do you get outside the studio much? Do you ever get a chance to get outside and have some excitement?
7:38 Speaker 04 Uh, well, every once in a while for work, I'll, uh, you know, do the weather from outside. But when I'm not working, especially when it's, you know, warm out and spring, summer, uh, something I really, really like to do, and as I've been doing for a while, is I go storm chasing. I go driving around looking for tornadoes.
7:55 Conan O'Brien? Oh, really? That's cool. I've never talked to someone who really does that. Of course, there are the famous iconic movies about storm chasing. How inaccurate are those movies? I'm guessing they are fairly inaccurate.
8:06 Speaker 04 Well, the original Twister, there's, they take a whole, a lot of liberties with it. The newest one is a little bit more accurate, but it's definitely not just jam-packed balls-to-the-wall action 24/7. It's, it's more so, um, you know, you're, you're spending a lot of time in a car just driving around, or if you're just hanging out in a field playing catch with a baseball, waiting for storms to go up. But then it's that 1% when the storms are actually going up. That is just the, the sheer adrenaline rush of storm chasing.
8:39 Conan O'Brien? Okay, Max, paint the picture for me. You hear there's a tornado, or the conditions are right for a tornado, and then it comes in over the radio, the tornado is setting down over near, you know, Cobbler's Grove. And, um, and you say, "Let's go, gang," and you all hit the gas and you head towards the tornado. Is that correct?
8:59 Speaker 04 Yeah.
8:59 Conan O'Brien? Whoa, look at that. Is that something you just got off online? Or?
9:05 Speaker 04 No, believe it or not, I took this.
9:07 Conan O'Brien? So you took that photo and you got that close to a tornado? Now, um, what if that thing had suddenly started heading? You know the way when a bear attacks you? If it's a black bear, you're supposed to do this. If it's a brown bear, you're supposed to do that. What do you do if you think a tornado is headed your way? Is there, is there something I should know that might save my life in the future?
9:27 Speaker 04 Uh, the, the biggest thing is if you're not sure if the tornado is heading your way or not, uh, is to find a stationary object and just have the tornado in relation to that stationary object, line it up. And if the tornado is moving to the right of that object, it's gonna pass to your right. If it's moving to the left of that object, it's gonna pass to your left. But if it's just appears to be getting bigger, it's coming straight at you.
9:53 Conan O'Brien? Right.
9:53 Speaker 04 And that's not good news.
9:54 Conan O'Brien? Now.
9:54 Speaker 04 That means you, you just gotta book it.
9:57 Conan O'Brien? Okay, let me ask you a question. Cause this, this is something that I've thought about and I, I think about a lot of things. I'm a thoughtful man and, uh.
10:07 Speaker 04 So I've heard.
10:08 Conan O'Brien? Um, when, you know, when there's a big wave coming towards you, you can try to run away from it, but sometimes that's the worst thing you can do. Sometimes you should turn and you should dive into the wave. Would it ever be a good idea? Let me finish. You don't know where I'm going with this. To dive into the tornado.
10:28 Speaker 04 Well.
10:28 Conan O'Brien? No, and just go with it and like ascend, ascend, ascend. And there's cows swirling around you moo moo. And there's other people from Fargo. Hey, it's my, my deal here, Wade. No, Wade, it's my, hey, no, Wade, I talked to these guys. They mean business. It's my deal here, Wade. And moo moo. And you just ascend through them. Is that a possibility?
10:51 Speaker 04 I'm surprised you left out Dorothy and Toto in that analogy as well.
10:54 Conan O'Brien? Uh, they're not, they're not as much fun as Fargo. You know, it's just not as much fun.
10:59 Speaker 04 Yeah, that's old news.
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16:12 Speaker 04 Well, you know what, Conan? You can come out storm chasing and we'll let you dive into a tornado and we'll see how it goes.
16:19 Conan O'Brien? Um, I would, first of all, I would do it because I am very.
16:23 Speaker 04 I, I do stupid things.
16:25 Conan O'Brien? And if it's for a bit, and I think it'll, it'll make people happy, I'll do it. And, um, and you'll just find a red wig later on and some bits of flesh. That's fascinating that you go chasing after the storms and you don't feel endangered when you're doing that. Even if you see a tornado, you think, oh, it's a pretty good chance. It's not going to come our way.
16:45 Speaker 04 No, I've been doing it long enough where I have a pretty good handling on being able to look at what I'm seeing in front of me and know if I'm in a good position or a bad position. That, you know, there's been a couple of times where, uh, you know, maybe we're rolling into a town and we're getting reports that the tornado is rolling into the same town we're driving through. But we can't see as much because there's trees, there's hills, and we got to try to find somewhere to get visual of the tornado. Those moments are definitely a lot more scary just because you can't see it. You don't know where it is, uh, and you're trying to get visual on it. Those are definitely when the blood pressure kind of goes up a little bit more.
17:24 Conan O'Brien? Isn't there an app that will tell you, uh, where the tornado is? And there's an app for everything. And if there isn't, you should invent one. But there should be an app that tells you there's a tornado and it's, it's six feet that way. And there's a little arrow.
17:39 Speaker 04 Well, I don't know if it can, if it can be that precise, but there are, you know, when we're chasing, I've got the weather radar in front of me and I can see where we are in position in relation to the storm. I've got the National Weather Service chat room open, so I can see what other meteorologists are saying. So that's always a big help, but until you can actually see it for yourself, because weather radar can only go so far, especially if you're far away from a radar.
18:05 Conan O'Brien? Gotcha.
18:06 Speaker 04 It's, you're not getting the best picture.
18:07 Conan O'Brien? You can't just rely on, and I'm guessing it's a Doppler?
18:10 Speaker 04 Yeah.
18:11 Conan O'Brien? Yeah.
18:11 Speaker 04 Yeah, you know the terms.
18:12 Conan O'Brien? Well, whatever. I pretty much helped invent the technology.
18:18 Speaker 04 Oh, you're that Conan?
18:20 Conan O'Brien? Yes.
18:21 Speaker 04 Oh.
18:22 Conan O'Brien? Conan Orion.
18:23 Speaker 04 Oh, Conan Doppler Orion, okay.
18:27 Conan O'Brien? Um, you, you seem like a happy chappy Max. Life good, is, is life good for you? You enjoy your life? You're a young fellow, you're, you're part of a proud guild of meteorologists? It's, I don't know, I'm impressed. I mean, you're, you know, you mean?
18:43 Speaker 04 Yeah.
18:43 Conan O'Brien? Sometimes you think, oh, you're gonna talk to a meteorologist, it's gonna be some crusty 65-year-old guy who's like, "I, I remember the tornado of 57." Like, oh, Jesus, this guy again. But look at you, you're a very young guy and this is, this is pretty cool.
18:59 Speaker 04 How did you know a tornado went through Fargo in 1957?
19:03 Conan O'Brien? I know a lot about tornadoes. And I know a lot about Fargo.
19:06 Speaker 04 And Fargo?
19:07 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, yeah.
19:07 Speaker 04 And Fargo, except how to do an accent.
19:09 Conan O'Brien? Oh, I think my accent is so good, it scares the shit out of you. And I'll be honest with you, I can tell you, just, I can see the color drain from you every time I go, "That's right, hey, it's my deal you're with."
19:20 Speaker 04 There it is. There goes the color.
19:24 Conan O'Brien? Uh.
19:24 Speaker 04 I just live in Fargo, so I'm very, very white.
19:26 Conan O'Brien? Do you have, uh, do you have family? What's, what's going on in your life, your social life?
19:32 Speaker 04 Uh, my, so I grew up in the Twin Cities. It's, you know, pretty close by a couple hour drive into Minnesota. So most of my family is in the Twin Cities, so get home. When I can, basically, it's it's not always easy to get home, see my family, but otherwise, you know, it's when I'm around town here in Fargo, it's I've got, I'm really big into photography, so I'm taking pictures and that's, you know, obviously, you saw the photo that I took, I'm taking pictures of the storms and and then this past summer, I got really big into starting to take film photography as well.
20:09 Speaker 03 Oh, OK.
20:10 Conan O'Brien? I'm just curious, do you ever get together with the other meteorologists? I mean, and is there a rivalry? There must be other meteorologists in town from other stations, and is there is there rivalry between you guys?
20:20 Speaker 04 Yeah, well, you've seen Fight Club, right?
20:22 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Sure.
20:25 Speaker 03 I love this already?
20:26 Conan O'Brien? Yeah. Yeah.
20:28 Speaker 04 Well, the first two rules is I can't talk about it, so.
20:31 Conan O'Brien? Sure.
20:32 Speaker 04 But I'll let your imagination kind of roam.
20:34 Conan O'Brien? Hey, Wade, first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club, Wade.
20:38 Speaker 03 Make it stop.
20:40 Conan O'Brien? I'm sorry, I just wanted to put a little Fargo spin on it.
20:43 Speaker 04 Um, we punch each other and then say sorry.
20:46 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, sorry.
20:49 Conan O'Brien? All right, so it sounds like life is good. Do you have a question for me? Is there a way I can help you? I'd like to help you, Max, in any way that I can. I'd like to use what skills I have. I'm a humble man, as you can tell.
21:04 Speaker 03 Sounds all humble men.
21:06 Speaker 04 Yep, that's a sign of a humble man when they tell you.
21:10 Conan O'Brien? Yep.
21:10 Speaker 04 Um, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna maybe break the rules a little bit. I'm gonna ask two questions, because I think you're probably not gonna have a great answer for the first one that I'm probably not gonna use. You have any advice?
21:26 Conan O'Brien? Go ahead.
21:27 Speaker 04 Any advice to kind of spice up maybe my on-air weather forecasting?
21:32 Conan O'Brien? Oh, well, first of all, what are you wearing when you do the weather forecasting?
21:38 Speaker 04 Clothes.
21:38 Conan O'Brien? No, but come on, what are you wearing? How are you dressed?
21:41 Speaker 04 A suit.
21:41 Conan O'Brien? You, you wear a suit? Do you have to wear a suit? I mean, you're a young guy and you're, and, and times are changing fast. And you're working on a local station and you might want to make a splash. You might want to jazz it up a little bit. Maybe you want to go with something, uh, I don't know, a little more au courant. You know what I'm saying? Maybe you want to dress more like you would out on the street or out if you were going to a club. There must be a cool club near you, he said, not sure at all that there was. Um, you might-
22:08 Speaker 03 Like a shiny shirt, something that pops?
22:10 Conan O'Brien? Or, or whatever, you, you know, a hoodie or whatever. I mean, you've got to, what you have to do is separate yourself from all the other people in suits that are saying that there's some, an ice storm moving in and it's going to be cold tomorrow. You've got to pop. And if that means you get some fashion forward glasses à la Jeff Goldblum, whatever you've got to do, you should do that, is in my opinion. And you said my first answer was going to blow, but it didn't. It's exactly what you should do. Not that you're not rocking the world right now in your black t-shirt, but let me tell you something, buddy boy. If you want to make it, you've got to shake things up a little bit.
22:48 Speaker 04 I, I'm surprised. That was, that was surprisingly better than what I thought I was going to get.
22:52 Speaker 03 Hey.
22:53 Speaker 04 I thought it was going to be, you know, don't wear pants and underwear. Something like that.
22:56 Conan O'Brien? No, what am I, I'm not some perv, you know? You're the guy chasing, you're the guy chasing storms around. They probably have a restraining order out against you. Um.
23:06 Speaker 03 The storms have a restraining order?
23:08 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, it's a tornado that's like-
23:09 Speaker 03 They can talk?
23:10 Conan O'Brien? They're like, that creep is-
23:13 Speaker 03 Paperwork just starts flying out?
23:15 Conan O'Brien? I'm just trying to fly some cows around. And it's that creep again in his, in his van, taking a picture of me. Storm chaser. Storm perv, more like it.
23:29 Conan O'Brien? All right, Max, you get one more question.
23:32 Speaker 04 All right. Conan, when are you coming out going storm chasing with me?
23:35 Conan O'Brien? Well, not that you don't make it very enticing, because you've you've pretty much explained to me that nothing happens 99% of the time, and most of your crips have been insults. So I'm coming out right away.
23:50 Speaker 03 Maybe he has like good snacks in the car while you sit and wait?
23:53 Conan O'Brien? I mean, that's the problem is I would go storm chasing with you, but I have a feeling that how are we gonna time this? When is good tornado season? Is it the spring, summer?
24:03 Speaker 04 Yeah, April, May, June.
24:04 Conan O'Brien? Okay, I'm gonna lock off those three months. I'm gonna get a best western in downtown Fargo. I'm gonna walk around going, "It's my deal here, Wade."
24:15 Conan O'Brien? And, uh, and then we'll wait for something to happen and then we'll jump in the you and I can jump in the van together, having said that in a while.
24:26 Conan O'Brien? Sorry. And fire up the old Doppler. Is it a 1780? What kind of Doppler is it? What do you got there?
24:32 Speaker 04 It's, uh, I got the 1800 model.
24:34 Conan O'Brien? Those are fantastic. Those are great.
24:35 Speaker 04 Yeah.
24:37 Conan O'Brien? Just make sure. Well, you probably have already looked into it. You gotta use the correct megahertz.
24:44 Conan O'Brien? Max, I'm gonna sign off now. It was very nice talking to you. And I like the cut of your jib. You seem like a fine lad. Really think seriously about what I said about changing it up a little bit, dressing
24:57 Conan O'Brien? a little fashion forward. Separate yourself from the herd, is what I'm gonna say. Because the rest of that people in that station are going down, going down hard. You wanna survive, okay? You're young, and accentuate your youth. That's what I say to you.
25:09 Speaker 04 I'm a survivor.
25:10 Conan O'Brien? You're a survivor. Exactly. All right? I think we're good here.
25:14 Speaker 04 Okay.
25:16 Conan O'Brien? I'm gonna ask you to go and look into some indoor heating, if that's possible.
25:20 Speaker 04 Yeah, we'll see. We'll see about that. Some people like it cold.
25:24 Conan O'Brien? Yeah, yeah.
25:25 Speaker 04 I'm not one of them.
25:26 Conan O'Brien? Nope. Not at all. Not at all. I think it's good to have, especially in Fargo, probably some kind of heating. Because the alternative is death. Max, I hope you survive the winter. And I sincerely doubt you will. Yeah. But if not, I'll come by when we'll chop you up into slices and use chunks of your flesh to cool our drinks. Max?
25:46 Speaker 04 Tell my family I love them.
25:48 Conan O'Brien? Well, I don't know them, and I'm not sure you do.
25:52 Conan O'Brien? Max, I'm ending this.
25:53 Speaker 04 I tried.
25:54 Conan O'Brien? I've tried several times to end it. And I just want you to say, and if we go out on one thing, it's, it's my deal here, Wade!
26:02 Conan O'Brien? Thanks, Max. Bye, Max.
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27:26 Speaker 03 Yep.
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27:34 Speaker 03 No, but I feel like we need it.
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27:36 Speaker 03 I know, you expect me to know everything.
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27:39 Speaker 03 Did you?
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27:46 Speaker 03 You do, yeah.
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