Why Was This Man Fired?

A weatherman was mysteriously and controversially fired in Cleveland, but the TV station's statement on the dismissal was peculiar at best. 

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 1 (00:36):
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
Around the world.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Nothing local that usually tickling my taint today, So I'm
gonna go with a story out of Cleveland. But this
is fascinating to me because why would the story of
a random Cleveland weatherman get some national headlines. Mark Johnson
is his name. He's been at Cleveland News five for
about thirty years. But yeah, last Friday they announced that

(01:02):
he is no longer employed there. This is the statement
they put out. Quote, we want our audience to know
that News five and its parent company take protecting our
audience's trust very seriously by requiring our employees to adhere
to the highest ethical standards. We cannot provide further details.

(01:23):
And this is a personnel matter, Okay. They also added
it safety and accuracy are the priority, and it's going
to begin a search for his replacement. So I'm of
me like, is this guy just giving some bad tornado
advice or like you're in a thunderstorm warning but down
sweat it not a big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Like I have a thought safety, I have a thought.
Maybe hear it claim. Maybe they discovered that he lied
and he was never a meteorologist but he proclaimed to be.
I do like that. Remember like the Notre Dame football
coach you can't remember his name that lied on his resume,

(02:01):
Like you know, he got away with it for a
long time. And then much like Anchorman, a rival young
weather guy did, the research goes that that guy lied.
He's not a meteorologist. He didn't go to the Cleveland
Institute of Weather Meteorology like you said he did thirty
years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
In question, adeo, do we.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Really care if they are? We don't because all I
care about is that they're entertaining. Yeah, really, I don't care,
Like I don't care if an actual meteorologist writes it
for him and then they make it entertaining and deliver it.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Or if they are a meteorologist themselves. Now I'm with
you on that. But the problem in this case, if
this happened, is that if you've been lying about something,
then your competition goes. You're gonna trust the liar over
there that's been lying to you for thirty years.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
You can tell the moment of truth of what they
really have in their bag. When we've got tornadoes, situations happening.
They can name the crossroads, they can name the counties,
they know in the towns, I know, the neighborhoods.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
What am I talking about? Dude? WFA does it so good?
They got two starting caliber quarterbacks. They're both decorated world
class meteorologists, and they're credible because of that.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Hey, I've done this a million times, a million times
when I've bumped into a weatherman, Throw him a doppler
and see how he handles it. Yeah, shit, so he
catches it, does he drop it? Does he hit the
red button? Like if if they if they catch that
doppler and they're like uh uh uh and they kind
of start they don't have the acumen. Tech is always
the national champion. That is a good weather man.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Uh So your theory that he is not a real
weather man, that's my theory.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Could you say the words again, like, I want to
hear the words they use describing what Let.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Me first say that he has seals of approval from
the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
That sounds like a job.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
That's not a degree.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
And wait and where did you find you got a
degree at Kent State University work?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
No, no, in marketing. Where did you get where'd you
get that information? The article? Okay, but that's what he's
put out there? No, this is this is not not that. Yeah,
here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
The statement said, we want our audiences to know that
News five takes protecting our audience's trust very seriously. Okay,
trust by requiring our employees to adhere to the highest ethical.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Standards, ethical standards.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Safety, and accuracy.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
So that tells you that number one, they've betrayed the
trust and they have not upheld the highest ethical standards.
And listening to number three, what was the third thing,
safety and safety and accuracy. So he was inaccurate, he
was unsafe, and he had no integrity.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Okay, maybe he had unprotected sex and he missed missed.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
People are outraged. People magazine actually has an article about
this guy, and the comments are lit up with I've
been watching this channel for years. They'll never get my
business mat to go because they loved Mark Johnson.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Wait till they find out.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Here's what I think. If I was just throwing out ideas,
this is not an abligation, This is not anything that
I like. This is not that. This is just like, oh,
let's just get a bunch of index cards and spread
them around the room and see what it is. Probably
texting some high school kids.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh my god, that's a great. But they were part
of a weather club right now.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
That is actually a thing on Reddit that's going around
and people have been sharing some snapchats.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Okay, so what about those people that are saying I'm
never going back ever again or when they come back.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
They're not crossing over to Reddit. They're commenting on a
People magazine.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
They also didn't know that Channel five just got the
number one pick in the Weather draft, and there's a
generational weatherman coming down the pike. Hey, let me say
one one quick thing, right quick. I want to say
this and then move on because I know Kat is
going to be mad at me. This may or may
not be a plot line in friendship.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I said nothing about you. No, I want to hear
a thing about it. I don't want to hear a
word about the show. Said the movie thing about it,
I said, may or may not. All right?

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