Atlantic Hurricane Season: Reporter Names a Breeze Gerald

Transcript

What BBN said on air in this cut. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

1. 

   Hank LedgerNothing.

2. 

   Skip WaverlyNothing, Hank.

3. 

   Skip WaverlyThe tracker is a timeline of every storm this season, and the best part is that I am personally keeping an eye on it all day.

4. 

   Hank LedgerWhat does the timeline show right now?

5. 

   Skip WaverlyA page, Hank. A very clean page.

6. 

   Skip WaverlyThere is a little line, a few dates, and the kind of quiet that makes a man want to hold a microphone near a wave.

7. 

   Hank LedgerSo you came to a beach to report that the beach is there.

8. 

   Skip WaverlyI came for the coastal communities, Hank, who the editors say deserve an early look at what this season could bring.

9. 

   Skip WaverlyAnd I'm giving them one, in a windbreaker.

10. 

    Hank LedgerI once stood in a studio for a blizzard of the century. The storm came to me. That's the arrangement.

11. 

    Skip WaverlyRespectfully, Hank, I can feel something. A breeze. It's small, but it has ambition, and I've started calling it Gerald.

12. 

    Hank LedgerThe storms get names from an official list, Skip. You can't just name a breeze.

13. 

    Skip WaverlyThen it's a good thing I already had the name printed on a hat.

14. 

    Hank LedgerWell, naturally you did.