The Yak set on 6/16/26 turned into a full-blown weather desk, a comedy hour, and a Bravo casting call all at once. It started innocently enough — a capuchin monkey loose in the studio doing tricks on a chair — and somehow ended with two of YouTube's biggest weather guys phoning in to warn Chicago that a storm is coming and Sas probably isn't flying out tomorrow.
The cold open: a monkey named TJ doing tricks on the studio chair.
From there it pivoted hard into actual meteorology. Ryan Hall, Y'all — the 3.35M-subscriber storm-chaser YouTuber — jumped on to brief the room about an incoming Chicago storm, and Big Cat immediately did what Big Cat does: turned it into a product pitch. Why isn't there an NFL RedZone for weather? Hall covers six supercells at once already. Give him the whip-around, give him the octobox, let him host it.
Big Cat floating the RedZone-for-weather idea with Ryan Hall on the line.
The bit that actually landed, though, was Steven Cheah asking the guy with 3.35 million subscribers which weather app to trust — and Hall flatly answering that they're all equally bad. That's the kind of honesty you don't get from your phone's default forecast widget, and it's exactly why the Yak audience eats this guest up.
Cheah asks the expert which app to use. The expert shrugs.
Then Max Velocity (2M YT subs) joined and made it personal: he doesn't think Sas is making his flight out of Chicago tomorrow. Sas and Rone walked in live shortly after to defend the travel plan, which is the kind of segment escalation only this show produces — guest meteorologist on the phone, two hosts in the room, and a real-time argument about whether O'Hare is going to swallow somebody whole.
Max Velocity's forecast: Sas isn't getting out of Chicago.
And because The Yak can't sit on one tone for more than four minutes, the same episode also featured a full seasonal color-analysis breakdown (Sas hitting Green Greg with "nope I do" for the color green is now canon) and a side discussion about Barstool people getting recruited for Bravo shows. Storm coverage, palette charts, reality-TV pitches. If Big Cat's RedZone-for-weather ever gets made, this is the audition tape.