STORMS COMIN'

What this episode is about

The discussion centers around the anticipation of an upcoming winter storm that has garnered significant attention, with forecasts predicting between three and 16 inches of snow, highlighting the uncertainty in meteorological predictions. The speaker shares personal anecdotes about storm preparations and humorously reflects on the reactions of others during grocery shopping, ultimately leading into a story about a memorable winter storm experience involving Clem Schultz.

Key takeaways

• Meteorologists love the dramatic, but a 3 to 16 inch snow forecast is like saying, 'It might rain... or not!'
• Clem Schultz proves that nothing says 'storm preparation' like filming an F5 tornado instead of seeking shelter!
• Surprisingly, the U.S. is the only place for F5 tornadoes—like a natural disaster exclusive club. Membership: terrifying!
• Two-thirds of Fairvale survived, while a third lay in ruins—nature's way of reminding us that life is unpredictable.
• Grocery stores during storms turn into chaos—just say 'Storm's coming!' and you’ll spark both fear and curiosity!

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Clem Schultz, Fairville, Illinois
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Clem Schultz
3. 15:00 – 20:00: Apollo 13
4. 20:00 – 23:43: Apollo 13

Notable quotes from "STORMS COMIN'"

• Trying it. But it reminded me of this badass story. This is the story of Clem Schultz. And in 2015, Clem lived I think it's either Fairville or Fairale, Illinois. I always…

  about Fairville, Illinois · at 2:17

• All of the comments on his video are he didn't even scream. He didn't even try to dive out of the way. Clem Schultz stood his ground against an F5 tornado.

  about Clem Schultz · at 7:45

• Insane surround sound system and I put it in my basement. and he goes, You want to come over and I have Apollo 13 on laser disc? You want to come over and listen to the launch?…

  about Apollo 13 · at 19:40

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Clem Schultz — Person · Referenced subject (storm/tornado story protagonist) · 6 mentions · first at 2:21
  He is the central figure of the episode’s main anecdote: an elderly Illinois resident who filmed an extremely violent tornado from his doorway, survived with severe injuries, and became a symbol of stoic toughness for the host.

Books & papers

• Apollo 13 — Book · Referenced work · 3 mentions · first at 19:46
  Mentioned in the context of a story about a family friend's laser disc and surround sound system.

Places & events

• Fairville, Illinois — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at 2:38
  The town where Clem Schultz lived and experienced the F4 tornado in 2015.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:04 Hey folks, welcome back to the show. Hope you're doing well. So, storms coming. You guys following this winter storm? It's getting a lot of publicity, I feel like, more than most winter storms. I keep seeing this is the storm of all storms. This storm will be remembered for a hundred years. This storm will be talked about for the rest of everybody's lives. The meteorologists in my area here in New York City are predicting between three and 16 inches of snow. That's a pretty big difference. I I feel like they should put their neck out on the line a little bit more than that.

0:47 Come on. Give get What do you actually think? Don't try to cover your tracks so you can't be wrong. It's easy to go, "Yeah, we're going to get between two and 53 in. Might not even snow or you might be dead for sure." So, anywh who, thanks for watching the weather channel. But I love preparing for a good winter storm. I went and got all of my groceries and everything last night. Oh, yeah. I have a sto a badass storm story that I'm going to get to, but I went and got my all of my groceries and everything last night. And then I came home and I brewed a cup of coffee and I was just sipping my coffee, staring out the window and periodically saying, "Storm's coming.

1:37 Storm's coming." Finally, my wife was like, "Can you come over here and help me with the baby and stop staring out the window and saying storm's coming? It's not even going to start for two days." And I was like, "Woman, please. I'm monitoring the situation." Just kidding. I was like, "Yeah, sorry." But anywh who, it's also fun if you're at the grocery store and you got your cart filled up with the water and all the food and something and everything and and someone looks at you, just go, "Storm's coming." They'll probably just look at you like, "What the hell?" and and walk away. But it still can be a good time. I recommend trying it. But it reminded me of this badass story. This is the story of Clem Schultz. And in 2015, Clem lived I think it's either Fairville or Fairale Fairale, Illinois. I always forget, but he lives in this tiny little town in Illinois. It's in Tornado Alley. And in

2:44 2015, the town got hit by a it was technically an F4, but it missed out on F5 status by one mile per hour wind speed. So I feel like Clem and the town of Fairville or Dale. I think we should give them the F5 status, one mile hour. Who really measures it anyway? You don't think it got that? But anywh who, an F5 tornado is by far the scariest, most destructive, sinister tornado that happens on planet Earth. And I learned recently that it only happens here in the United States in the Great Plains. No other place in the world gets F5 tornadoes.

3:33 And it was one of those tornadoes where after it hit the little town, if you see a bird's eyee view picture of the town, twothirds of the town were left unscathed and onethird of the town was completely gone. And not only were all the houses and cars and everything gone, it was so strong it blew the top soil. So the the a bird's eye view, the rest of the town looks pretty good. And then a third of the town is just shiny bedrock or mantle. I don't even know what to call it, but wild tornado. And so Clem Schultz, the night it was coming, he puts his wife Oh, yeah. Before I talk about the actual tornado, the way I found this story is about every year or two I go down the YouTube genre rabbit hole of tornado videos.

4:33 You've probably most of you have done it. It's a pretty interesting YouTube genre, but there's endless videos that are taken by professional stormchasers, which I think that word professional gets thrown around a lot. It's a lot of them or some of them seem like amateur-ish adrenaline junkies driving like a bat out of hell trying to get some footage of a tornado. But there's endless footage of these professional stormchasers doing their thing. They got all the equipment and the professional cameras and they're all in the car going, "This is a violent tornado. Turn left. Turn left. Go north. Go north. We We're about to see the view." and they're all kind of the same and it is good footage, but in my opinion, far and away the most intense, insane, coolest footage of a tornado on YouTube comes from an 85year-old man, Clem Schultz. And the night it hit, he puts his wife in the bathtub and puts a

5:35 mattress over her. They didn't have a storm shelter. And instead of taking cover himself, Clem Schultz goes to his front door, opens it, takes out his cell phone, and starts recording this thing. And it's not a little skinny tornado. This is one of those black sinister rectangles that don't even seem like a tornado. There's no cone or anything. This thing is just a black rectangle. And they say with tornadoes, if you're looking at it and it's not going left and it's not going right, it's probably coming right for you. And that's what this is. And so Clem is recording this. I'm going to call it an F5. As Clem is recording this F5 tornado sitting in his standing in his doorway with his cell phone, he doesn't scream as it's getting closer. He doesn't dive for cover. He doesn't whimper. All you hear is him breathing and this thing is coming straight for him. And as you watch this video, at least the first time I watched it, I

6:51 kept thinking, "All right, this is the worst and closest it's going to get. Oh, oh, now this this has to be the worstest. Oh my god, this has to be." And then all of a sudden, the house in front of his house gets totally wiped out in a million pieces, blown away. And then the tree right in front of his house gets blown away. And then the power lines right in front of his house gets blown away. And then it just goes black. And the sound of this tornado cuz his phone keeps filming even though the picture goes black. And he gets um he got covered with the debris of his house. I don't even really know, but it goes black and the sound of this tornado hitting is unspeakably terrifying. I you can't even ex I can't even explain what it sounds like. And all of the comments on his video are he didn't even scream. He didn't even try to dive out of the way. Clem Schultz stood his ground against an F5 tornado.

7:58 I feel like he thought to himself, "If you're gonna take my house, you're going to have to come through me." Clem Schultz. And he shattered his spine. His wife sadly was killed. His beloved German Shepherd disappeared, but then actually came back two days later, but then sadly was hit by a car and killed two years after that. Life is brutal. But Clem made it. He was in a He's 95 now, still alive. He's been in a wheelchair ever since. He goes back. He He gave that property where that happened either to a son or a grandson.

8:44 and said, "I just have too many too much memories on this property. I don't want to rebuild." He gave it to a grandson and said, "You rebuild. It's a great place to live." And uh Clem moved a couple towns over to be closer to family. Now he's in a wheelchair, but he got a couple rescue dogs to keep him company, and he's still alive and kicking to this day. Every year they have a reunion of when in Fairville or wherever it is. He always goes back for the reunion. I read a little blurb in a local news publication that said that he's looking good. He's looking, you know, he's in his wheelchair, but he's still looking pretty damn good for 95 years old, but such a badass. Maybe we'll watch I'll put the clip at the end of this video. But I think as this storm is coming, I'm going to I'm going to try to channel whenever I guess bad weather is coming, I'm going to try to channel Clem Schultz because what a badass. Oh yeah, just

9:54 reminded me of another kind of a funny. So my wife's I mean, sorry, I was about to say my wife's husband. My sister's husband is a helicopter pilot in the Navy. He drops off Navy Seals. So, he's definitely not a wimp, you know, as far as like he's not a scaredy-cat, but he was years ago he was stationed in Hawaii. So, my sister and him lived in Hawaii. So, my whole family went to Hawaii to visit them. For people that follow this channel, this is the same trip where I met President Obama in the parking lot of the gym on the military base. But anyway, we're out in Hawaii and one of the things that we were like once we got there, we're like, "What are we going to do? We're here." And they were like, "One of the fun things to do is you rent a pontoon boat and then you like a couple of us will all rent a couple pontoon boats and then you drive the pontoon boat out to a sandbar that's a ways out into the ocean. You park on the

10:58 sandbar and then you hang out all day. You'll probably see some turtles, which we did, and you can eat lunch and just enjoy the beautiful blue ocean a day out on the pontoon boats. And so we do that. So we rented one and then my sister and her husband's best couple friends, he's also a helicopter. All the pilots hang out together. It's just like the movie Top Gun. So, their best couple friends who also had family in town. I think it was family week or something. I can't remember, but it seemed like all of the pilots had their family in town. And so, their best couple friends and their family rented a pontoon boat and then another.

11:47 So, we had four all together. So, we all met out on the sandbar and then you hook them together and it's just a good oldfashioned time. But on the way back, so we had the whole day. It was fun. And then we're cruising back and me and my sister's husband are driving the pontoon boat back to where the dock is and you turn it in. But as we're driving back, this black sinister looking storm is on the horizon. And you can see it's not raining where we are, but you can see a wall of pouring rain and lightning coming right for us. And so me and my sister's husband started just messing around, started being overly dramatic like, "This is it. This is our final stand." Like saying stuff like that, just being stupid, you know, and the wall of rain. And there was just no avoiding it. It was It was like tminus five minutes. All right, two minutes. We are about to get wet. And we look over and one of the

13:00 other couples that was like a family member of one of the pilots were in our boat and they had a their son was there and the son must have been 10 years old or maybe even younger between 8 and 10. But the whole story with this son is he had just been in a movie and so everybody heard the story out there like, "Whoa, you were in a movie?" But he was really carrying himself like he was God's gift to acting and he was definitely going to be insanely successful with show business cuz I I'm only 10. And he had this arro, even though he was only 10, he had this arrogance about him, which everybody after we weren't around him anymore was like, "That dude was kind of that kid was kind of a little [ __ ] He he just would carried himself like I was just in a movie." And so you better treat me like Denzel Washington or something. And so, but everyone was congratulating him like, "Wow, man. Good for you. you want

14:03 to be an actor and you made yourself you made it into a movie. You're only 10. That's awesome. Good for you. But all day he was carrying himself with this arrogance and kind of just being annoying. Like he didn't want to get in the water and his parents were like, "Come on, the water is so warm and blue and it's great." and he and he didn't want to get in and then they tried to force him a little bit and he got mad and but anyway so I was doing the as the storm's approaching we were doing I was doing the like Lieutenant Dan like you call this a storm wow like we were psyching ourselves up to head into the storm but we were just being goofy I don't think we were in actual danger or if we were very little but we were this is it this is it and we looked look over and the 10-year-old arrogant little actor dude was balling, crying, burying his face.

15:04 Oh, you know what it was? Someone came over. We were like having fun, screaming and stuff. Someone came over and tapped us and said, "Cool it on the being overly dramatic about the storm." Look. And we looked over and the kid is terrified, crying his eyes out. like burying his head in his dad's chest and his dad's looking at us like please like cut out the the screaming and everything. But I to be honest enjoyed it a little bit. He had been such a little arrogant [ __ ] all day and the fact that he was a crying little mess. Like there were little girls out on the boats and stuff like younger than him that were like this is cool and he's sitting there crying like a little wimp. So that was a little bit satisfying.

15:57 But I was thinking about going live. I don't I think it would probably hurt my channel and the algorithm to do monitoring the situation updates of the storm that's coming, the snowstorm, just because it won't get as many clicks as like a normal episode. And it feels like that hurts you in the algorithm, but I was thinking maybe I'll go live and do like a monitoring the situation as the storm comes in. I love a good storm. I'm excited about it. Hopefully, we don't lose power or anything. That would be a disaster having the little baby. But one cool thing about this new apartment that we're in is it has a working wood fireplace. And so technically, I think if we did lose power, it would still suck really bad, but technically if we did, I could get a good oldfashioned fire going in the fireplace, make it cozy.

16:49 That was one thing we really wanted in our next apartment. But anyh who, oh yeah, there's this is a totally unrelated story. It is a weird episode, but I wanted to post kind of a chill Friday episode, but I wanted to So, the last episode I was talking about um Nick Riner and his dad, Rob Reiner, how his dad really made it in old Hollywood, how and how Hollywood was a much it had much different cultural relevance and influence and than it does now. Everything's different now with the internet and it you can watch movies that are brand new in the theaters at home. So, it just has changed everything. but an underrated time in the history of movies and the progression to where we are now. At least where I grew up, when it switched from VHS to DVDs, pretty much everybody that I knew, they you got you had to buy a new DVD player, but then all of the dads bought new surround sound systems and there was a

18:05 lot of competition and a little bit of tension for what brand you got. Like my dad bought the brand Bose and my best friend's dad bought the brand Sony. And so it was like and you had to go over and listen, you know, come over and check out my surround sound. So you'd go over and you'd say, "Oh, it sounds so good." But in your head you'd think like, "But ours sound, our brand's our, you know, ours is better." That was like one of those things. But the first guy to do it before every all of the dads were doing it is was one of our family friends. This guy, he was kind of like Tim the Toolman Taylor in the sense anything that he did he would just go so comically exaggeratedly big and powerful. And so this was actually right before DVDs came out. In between VHS's and DVDs actually were laser discs, which look cool. They're they look like DVDs, but they're as big as a LP record. So it looks like a giant DVD.

19:19 And so this is even before I knew we I was we were going to get our our DVD player and the whole surround sound. This is before like a couple clicks before all that happened. And so this guy, he tells my dad, he goes, "Yeah, I got this laser disc player and I bought this insane surround sound system and I put it in my basement." and he goes, "You want to come over and I have Apollo 13 on laser disc? You want to come over and listen to the launch?" Like when they launch it really showcases the subwoofer and all the speakers and everything and Tom Hanks's face is and Kevin Bacon. So, it's like a really loud intense part of the movie is the launch. So, he invites my dad over. He goes, "You want to come over and listen to the launch?" And my dad was like, "Hell yeah." And so me and my dad, it was a Saturday. We drive over to their house, knock on the door. His wife answers. She's like, "Hey, come on

20:25 in." We're like, "Yeah, we're here to listen to the launch on the new sound system." And she kind of rolled her eyes like, "Oh god, the launch." And then so and then he popped like, "Oh, hey, come on. Come down here." So we were like, "Thanks. You know, good to see you." to his wife. And so we go down in their tiny little basement. And I think he bought a sound system for a room probably five times the size of his little basement. Just the subwoofer alone in the corner was like 4 feet by 4 feet. And he had all these speakers and it just looked absurd how many huge speakers were in this little room. And so he goes, "All right, here you guys got to check this out." So, he pulls out the big laser disc and he puts it in and he fast forwards it because we're not going to watch the whole movie.

21:17 We're only there to watch the launch. Fast forwards it to the part, turns it up, cranks it up, and then it's just like the whole house is shaking. Tom Hanks's face is rumbling and it ends and we're all sitting there and he was looking at us like, "Pretty cool, huh?" And we were like, "Yeah, that really was something." And he goes, "You want to watch it again?" And we were like, "Yeah, sure." So then he f he rewinds it back and we watched the launch again. I was picturing his wife up in the kitchen sitting at the coffee table with a cup of tea and the tea is vibrating like T-Rex in Jurassic Park is walking near.

21:59 Her tea is just vibrating and she's just thinking this stupid launch. They actually ended up getting divorced a couple years later and to this day I always think I wonder if he just watched the launch one too many times and she was like I can't be with this guy. He was a character too. I feel I always we I felt bad for him. He put everything he had into opening this construction business. Put years everything their whole family had was telling his wife it's going to work. We're going to be rich. this is it. You you don't I got this vision and he put everything into it and it tanked immediately. And I think that's probably what actually led to the divorce. But hell of a time in the 90s if you to be a movie fan. And I'm really glad I I live during that because it just feels different now with movies and because I think that the movies that they make only a few type of movies make money now

23:02 and so they don't there's a lot less risks taken on the type of movies and there's not as many creative scripts that are made into movies because they're like even though this is good I think it's probably just going to tank in the theaters and we're going to lose lose a bunch of money and so it was a fun time to be a movie fan and uh yeah but anyway I'm going to cut it off there. I love you all. See you soon. Let's monitor the situation of the storm. Stay safe. Get some groceries. Shamida.

Questions about this episode

What is "STORMS COMIN'" about?

The discussion centers around the anticipation of an upcoming winter storm that has garnered significant attention, with forecasts predicting between three and 16 inches of snow, highlighting the uncertainty in meteorological predictions. The speaker shares personal anecdotes about storm preparations and humorously reflects on the reactions of others during grocery shopping, ultimately leading…

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3 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Clem Schultz, Fairville, Illinois, Apollo 13. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "STORMS COMIN'"?

The episode runs 24 min; the transcript is about 3,715 words in 24 timestamped sections.

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