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yeah I mean is that not music to your
ears on this Friday it's like christmas
came early for us we have an exciting
show planned for you today including
every car lovers dream we're talking
about the beloved Ferrari we're gonna
have all the details on where you can
see these exotic cars this weekend we're
gonna have all the details coming up in
just a few minutes that's a great color
and a great sound welcome to Houston
life on this Friday
I'm Courtney Zavala of course Derek is
out on assignment I to call in the big
guns today Oh Justin Stapleton icord how
are you I'm doing amazing I'm very happy
to be here so it's so funny said like
happenstance yesterday afternoon when
Rachel was here with yeah I just want to
pop in to say hi I have no idea Derek
was gone or any of that so this works
out well look what you got roped into I
know I appreciate you filling in today
it's always fun to hang out with you my
pleasure
for the viewers to get to know you and
as well and I know that you're a car guy
too right I am yeah no this is funny
today and you said you picked the
perfect day to be here that was what I
was a kid you know this is now I'm gonna
date myself you know we used to put
posters up on the wall right you know
nowadays I don't know what kids do but
they go on Instagram there I had an old
Ferrari and I'm trying to remember
exactly what it was it was a little
older than that look at it that's my dad
that's my dad and I'm telling you what
that I think he still has that sweater -
that is fantastic
that's probably circa 1978 oh yes I wish
you had that Christmas sweater stove
that's great - right you but getting
back you love cars right dude what did
you say to me when you said if so I had
oh if I was driving that car in 20
minutes I'd have at least two speeding
tickets you know I'd take it out on the
Katy Freeway and all those dudes and
their little you know souped-up civics
I'd be like ready bro yeah you know
what's funny about that the day I got my
driver's license at 16 yeah I wasn't me
I was pulled over I was for speeding in
my neighborhood and the cop that pulled
me a police officer that pulled me over
knew me know knew my mom though yeah it
was awesome I bet you know I didn't get
the ticket yeah cuz he was nice enough
but my mom did find out
I'm sure she did a lot of things have
not changed about me I'm a fast Walker -
yes
right but I don't know it's hard to do
well and that's what people asked and
they said what kind of cars you know I'm
a car guy I like fast cars those boys
like Ferraris when I had that poster of
him when I was a kid and Porsches and
this and that
I never gonna get an SUV you gonna get a
truck that you live in you know Texas I
was like no I just want something fast
yeah well I don't think do people
actually say like no I'm gonna pass the
Ferrari I just want to I want to you go
you know what I mean like they don't
want slow cars probably not okay let's
talk a little bit more about okay we
love you here in Houston invited you
you're from Dayton Ohio
I am Midwest originally Dayton Ohio
moved all over the country obviously for
not only doing television work but what
I used to do as well way back in the day
who's this look at that is that you
that's me yeah where's that picture
taken I can hear them I can hear them
yelling laughing that is from oh let's
see that's from my time up in Eugene
Oregon when I first got there at Kezi
which is the ABC affiliate as the chief
meteorologist up there that's probably
2009 about ten years ago oh my gosh
you see what kids do to your hair yes
honey I'm telling you I know okay you're
such an interesting background because
of course we love you there's your dirt
yeah those are my daughters from my
oldest is Maya she's that's her she
convinced me to bottom house every good
dad does a facial I'm not gonna lie I
actually felt really good
yeah dad and that's my youngest Ella
she's our sports star she's a fast pitch
softball player yeah girl all kinds of
new teams this net and that was me
you're down in Galveston so that's
awesome
okay so I have to read this for my card
because I knew this I knew you had a
master's degree in clinical psychology
we decided about that before but I
didn't realize that when you were in
Baltimore you worked as a crisis
intervention specialist I didn't realize
that yeah so what it was is it was a
specialized program that worked with the
Baltimore County Police Department and
so it was a police officer mental health
clinician they put us together and then
we would respond to all kinds of calls
that a lot of the same stories that we
get here in the news where you know
somebody's what was we had one the the
lady that was naked on top of the semi I
was like last summer yeah yeah yeah
absolutely what a guy
right and our job was to sort of figure
out triage you know do they need to go
to the hospital do they need to go to
jail right you're kind of the mediator
right so we know and love you of course
meteorology meteorologist and doing the
weather when did that when did that
happen for you you know I was it's one
of those stories where they say if you
could do anything what would you do and
this was something I would always do I
always thought this would be the most
fun job on the planet was to do weather
on TV I love science I love physics have
always been enjoyed weather and and
fascinated by it but the math always
scared me you know cuz I'm not I'm not a
math person that's why that's why we
have people like Berta here because you
know it was something that I always
enjoyed psychology I'd like to know what
why people do the things they do what
makes them tick and just kind of
obsolete observations what not so I just
sort of gravitated towards that but got
to a point where as a very high-stress
job as you might expect attention yeah
and I kind of got a little burned out I
was getting to a point where I thought
what do I do with the rest of my life in
his cliche as it sounds was really true
I I kind of said I don't want to be 85
and go man I wonder if I would have been
whatever good at that yeah you know so I
did some research I found out
Mississippi State University is where I
went to get my masters in geosciences
went down one time they had a symposium
I talked to him all the professors and I
said my name is Justin I'm 30 I had the
kid I'm married and I have no background
in science and they said welcome yeah
and they said I said do you think I
could do it they said what do you think
I said I think so yeah so it took a you
know and I when I do talks to people and
especially students I tell them you know
don't get locked in on one thing just
because that thing is there if you want
to change you can do it in any time it
may take more work totally but you can
do it and I think what's so important
here is never living with regret always
taking that chance and anybody can learn
from that because there's so many people
I'd say that's my kids what a great
example for your daughter's the other
thing that I totally love about you if
you guys follow hopefully you do on
social media you're always posting about
your socks the sock collection that you
have how many do you have now do you
know it's a lot a lot extensive I'd say
well over 200 so I'm getting an it's
getting it's it's becoming a problem but
it's so fun though because now
people like give you that like some of
the craziest ones I love them yeah both
of those are gift socks right there the
Bruin the the Gumby truth be told I did
pick up a little something for you at
Nutcracker market so that's common not
not today closer to the holidays but
yeah that is so awesome
well I appreciate getting to know you
and thanks so much for being here with
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