Lacey Swope is a TV meteorologist, a weather person.

As you might expect, it's pretty far from a nine to five job.

So weather and the way that television weather and forecasting goes is the whole idea is that you're on TV telling people what their day is going to be like while they're at home.

So I can't work eight to five.

We have to be on in the morning before people go to work.

So that typically starts at 4 a.m. Our newscast starts at 4 a.m.

Wait, is anybody up and listening to news at 4 in the morning? You would be very surprised.

It's extreme. It is extreme. So my shift starts. I get to work at 3.30. I go on air at 5.30. We have someone else that does our 4 o'clock newscast.

But I wake up at 2.

So my alarm is set, well, for 2.30, let's be honest.

And so I just consider it late at night.

I immediately get up.

I brush my teeth, roll out of bed, and have my clothes picked out the night before.

I have everything I need from the night before picked out or I will forget it.

So I come into work looking like the living dead, but I have so much forecasting I have to do

and data I have to go through, graphics I have to build. I do that until there's about 30 minutes to

showtime. I run into the makeup room. I do my own hair and makeup. I've learned over the years to be

able to just

throw it on very quickly. And with the cameras come on and everything starts, and I'm on the air

at 5.30 in the morning, and I'm on until 7 a.m. And we have hits every five minutes or so,

five or six minutes here in Oklahoma City. It's quite frequent. Let me break in here for a sec. I have so

many more questions for Lacey. Like, how do you have a normal family life when you wake up at

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