The Yak has been running hot all week — monkeys on set, lions on set, Dante feuding with anyone who'll engage — so of course Tuesday's escalation was booking a 3.35M-subscriber weatherman to deliver an actual public service announcement. Ryan Hall, Y'all popped in to tell the crew (and Chicago at large) that there's a storm headed their way, and the show pivoted from podcast bit to legitimate forecast in real time.
Ryan Hall on the Yak set breaking down the incoming Chicago storm.
Hall has built one of the biggest independent weather operations on YouTube by basically doing what local TV stopped doing — going wall-to-wall on severe weather without the cable-news theatrics. So when Big Cat watched him work the radar wall live and floated the idea of a weather version of NFL RedZone, it actually tracked. Jump from cell to cell, never miss a tornado, Scott Hanson energy with a Doppler. Hall is the obvious host.
Big Cat pitching the RedZone-for-weather concept with Hall right there to take the job.
The best stretch came when Steven Cheah asked the question every normal person has wanted answered for 20 years: which weather app is actually good? Hall's answer, delivered with the calm of a man who has personally watched every app whiff a forecast, was that they're all equally bad. Finally, honesty from someone who would know.
Hall telling Cheah the weather-app truth nobody else will say out loud.
Sas and Rone were in the building too, the monkey-and-lion era of the Yak is somehow still going, and the Dante beef refuses to die — but the headline from Tuesday's episode is that Barstool just stumbled into the best weather-content crossover available. If Big Cat is even half-serious about the RedZone pitch, this booking might end up being more than a one-off.