Here’s what intimidated me: standing in front of a blue/green screen in a TV station doing the weather in Indianapolis with Bob McLain literally around the corner. I got used to it, because for several happy years (until he “retired” in 2001) Bob’s hours in the weather office crossed over with mine in the midday.
The Indiana Broadcast Pioneers will add Bob into their Hall Of Fame in a ceremony tonight.
When I was a kid in Andrews Indiana you could rotate the big outdoor antenna down to the south and get faint signals from a couple of the big city stations. I remember seeing Bob in front of his magnetic maps. Twenty years later I was making computer graphics for him.
But it didn’t really matter what graphics “Swoop” used. He was animated long before the visuals were, making his name by simply being the passionate expert he was. He was Indy’s first TV Meteorologist in 1972. He fussed over his forecasts and had a well-deserved reputation for accuracy.
Bob also has a wonderful, sneaky sense of humor, and joined with Tom Davis and me a couple of times on “Off The Cuff.” In one bit I was seeking professional counseling for a couple of bad forecasts. I’m on a typical psychiatrist’s couch, talking to the camera. At the end the shot widens and we see my shrink is Mr. McLain, who slaps me and tells me to snap out of it. I couldn’t find that one, but I did manage to find Swoop’s appearance in the Off The Cuff “Non-Severe Weather Special.” Click here to watch. And congratulations, Bob.
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