Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a weatherman, who is not apologizing after angering viewers, when he broke into coverage of the NBA Playoffs to report a tornado warning and find out he has done this more than once.
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00:00We're off now to Lynchburg, Virginia.
00:06A weather reporter at WSET-TV named George Flicklinger had to explain why his station aired tornado warnings during an NBA playoff game.
00:17This happened a little while ago.
00:19Even though the warnings and the game shared a split screen, so game on one side, warnings on the other, people called in to complain.
00:27Oh yeah.
00:28So the weatherman took offense to that and aired a couple of those complaint calls.
00:35Take a listen here.
00:36We want to take a moment today and talk to you about severe weather.
00:40This weekend during game seven of the NBA semifinals here on ABC 13, we had a tornado warning in our area.
00:47Now it's our commitment to you that when we do have a tornado warning that we go on the air and stay on until it is over and you are safe.
00:56This weekend, per our severe weather policy, we broke into programming with the tornado warning and allowed you to continue watching game seven on a split screen.
01:06But apparently, that upset some of you.
01:08And I'd just like to say, I thank you for absolutely ruining game seven of Denver versus Portland because you have to show a tornado warning for over a half an hour.
01:20We get it.
01:20There's a tornado.
01:21It's been on the TV for over 20 minutes.
01:24And I'm trying to watch the last three minutes.
01:25Not on the BF split screen.
01:27This is BF.
01:28Tonight, we are not going to apologize for what we did.
01:33If you're watching us from Bedford, for example, you're just as important to us as someone watching us from Danville or Lynchburg.
01:39Whenever there is a tornado warning, lives are at risk.
01:43This is Franklin County in April after an EF3 tornado tore through.
01:48And this is in Elan and Campbell County after last year's EF3 rated tornado.
01:53Thankfully, no lives were lost.
01:55And that's why when we go on TV and stay on over programing and commercials, you never know when someone new is tuning in looking for critical information to protect themselves and their families.
02:09So shove it.
02:11This is OK.
02:12So this is crazy.
02:13I mean, maybe it's just a coincidence.
02:15But this is the same reporter who was fired from a station in Tulsa back in 2006 because then he broke into an NFL game to warn people about dangerous wildfires.
02:27So he is he takes it super deadly serious.
02:31This guy can't catch a break.
02:32Every time there's a goddamn emergency, it's on during some playoffs.
02:35He's got some real I can't catch a break.
02:39He can't.
02:40He's just like, God damn it.
02:42What?
02:43People's lives are at risk.
02:45Fire tornadoes are headed.
02:47There's literally fire tornadoes.
02:50Fire tornadoes are headed towards Lynchburg and it's Super Bowl night.
02:56I'm George Flicklinger.
02:58Listen, fire tornadoes and demons are coming towards Lynchburg right now.
03:03So we are going to get off my goddamn TV.
03:06I will not apologize.
03:08I'm a weatherman.
03:09God damn it.
03:11This is just what happened to me in 2006.
03:13It's 2006 all over again.
03:15I don't know who this idiot is on the TV right now.
03:19George Flicklinger.
03:19I think his name is George Nipple Flicker.
03:24I don't know what his name is, but he's terrible.
03:27And we're trying to watch the NFL football game known as the Super Bowl.
03:35But he's talking about fire tornadoes and demons.
03:38You want to see a live time, the fire tornadoes?
03:40If a fire tornado and demons are coming here, then just let them come.
03:43Just let them come.
03:46I'm George Flicklinger and I will not apologize for saving lives.
03:49Fire that George Nipple Flicker.
03:51I am a weatherman and I'm saving lives.
03:56He takes his job too serious and put the game back on.
04:00Bye.
04:01Fire tornadoes.
04:02You'd be so nervous if Nipple Flicker was coming on the air.
04:06And you'd be like, oh no, what's about to hit us?
04:08It's Nipple Flicker.
04:10It's not Nipple Flicker's on the TV.
04:13Take cover.
04:14No, because you'd be like, oh, what is it?
04:17Was it a swarm of locusts?
04:19Like he breaks in?
04:22Don't you feel like he's breaking in for everything?
04:24Too much.
04:25Like a bit too much?
04:26It was slightly windy.
04:28There's a strong headwind headed your way.
04:33Hey, it's George Nipple Flicker.
04:35Oh, you're George again.
04:36Oh my God.
04:37Listen, it's slightly rainy outside.
04:39We just wanted to let you guys know that it's going to be raining pretty mad tonight.
04:46Why is Nipple Flicker always on my TV?
04:49I'm here to save lives.
04:51Sometimes rain can kill the elderly.
04:54Makes it slick?
04:56Mm-hmm.
04:57Would you apologize for ruining this football game?
04:59I'm George Fluesplinger.
05:02You'll never apologize.
05:03I don't apologize.
05:05And I never will.
05:062006.
05:08Never forget it.
05:09I've been fired from 12 stations.
05:11I won't stop breaking into stuff.
05:14I hate sports.
05:16I wasn't an athlete.
05:17He doesn't care.
05:18No, he does not care.
05:19He doesn't care.
05:19He doesn't get it.
05:20No.
05:21No, Nipple Flicker doesn't play no sports.
05:24No.
05:24Yeah.
05:25I've never played no sports.
05:28I understand you break in and you'd be like, but the fastest, it has to be like, Nipple
05:33Flicker here.
05:34Tornado.
05:35Watch out.
05:35Okay, bye.
05:36And during a commercial, right?
05:39Like, during the commercial, be like, just want to let you know, Nipple Flicker here.
05:43We got a tornado outside of Dunedin.
05:45Everybody take cover.
05:47All right.
05:47Back to the game.
05:49Right?
05:50Like, do it fast and do it during it.
05:52Like, sacrifice commercials.
05:54What if it was a big play?
05:55Totally.
05:56It's a big play.
05:59That's a lot.
06:00Going for the Hail Mary pass and it's Nipple Flicker here.
06:03Look out, everybody, from this place to that place and everything.
06:07There's a tornado that could possibly be forming.
06:11Back to the game.
06:12Oh!
06:14Can you believe it?
06:15Can you believe it?
06:18You don't even know what happened.
06:20You would be on the phone so fast.
06:22They're like, and that wraps it up from here.
06:24Do you think he was all, like, heavy-headed?
06:26Like, he's sitting there and he's in, like, the Situation Room of the Weatherman and they're
06:30like, Nipple Flicker!
06:31What do we do?
06:32Do we split-screen it?
06:34Do we go live to you?
06:35How do we save people from these tornadoes?
06:36He kicked the door in.
06:38He kicked the door in.
06:39Smacks somebody.
06:40Everyone else is watching the football game.
06:42He kicks the door and is like, God damn it, I have to go in the air right now!
06:46I am Nipple Flicker!
06:47And it's happened before!
06:49And he's got people like, no, dude, it's the playoffs.
06:51We can't.
06:52We can't, Nipple Flicker.
06:54We can't.
06:55You've been fired from a station before for doing this exact thing.
06:58I don't care how many times I get fired.
07:01I'm doing it!
07:02Put me on the camera now!
07:04Hi.
07:05George Hipple Flicker here.
07:06Just to give you a heads up, we've got a nasty-looking tornado forming.
07:13Take cover, head to shelter.
07:15If you could, it's nasty out there and we wouldn't want anyone to get hurt.
07:19Take cover, head to shelter.