Paul Konrad: Weatherman

1) Your name. Paul Konrad


2) Your Hometown. Naperville IL


3) I see you got your undergrad in Drama, how does this help you deal with your daily work on WGN Morning News?
Ultimately we are in the communications business. Some of those acting classes have paid off. Also, I am more equipped to deal with our drama queens Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten. They can make a fender bender on the Kennedy more dramatic than Othello.


4) I usually only see you from 5-9am on TV, what do you do with the rest of your day?
I have three small children(2, 5, 7). I spend the bulk of my day playing hide and seek. My record is 2 hours and 11 minutes hidden in my closet getting work done. Lately, they have been onto me and I can't get anything done. Beyond that I volunteer quite a bit with various charitable organizations and I like to vacuum carpet.


5) What song/album do you associate with your youth?
I had a rather typical childhood. All music was Austrian folk music and Vienna Choir Boys. (Pretty much the same stuff kids are into today.)


6) Kielbasa?
Wienerschnitzel is God's gift to humanity. Embrace it!!!


7) Do you have any bizarre recurring dreams, if not, what scared the crap out of you as a little kid?
I have been having a bad recurring dream lately. In the dream I am being chase around my house by our weather chief Tom Skilling. As he is chasing me, he is yelling out the dew point for various cities in Chicagoland and telling me I am the son of Satan and Jerry Taft. My shrink has told me to not worry about it. However, he has also doubled the dosage of my prescription cocktail of Cialis, Xanax, Oxycontin, Vicodan and Flintstone vitamins to a level that I am fine now.


8) do you have a blog or website you'd like to plug?
I am supposed to tell you about http://www.WGNTV.COM/HowISeeIt . It is the most amazing site I have ever been to. Before using it I was 40 pounds overweight, out of work, homeless, friendless and hopeless with the women. But today, I am healthier than ever, I made a friend and the women are all over me.



9) anything else you'd like to add?
I would like for people to join me in my crusade to make horses become more productive in America. The great majority of them are standing around on very large parcels of valuable real estate doing absolutely nothing. The need to either be productive members of our society or should be deported to Canada. We used to get a lot more out of them 100 years ago. Now they have become nothing but users, takers, sloths and an embarrassment to barn yard animals. This is why America is going to Hell in a handbasket. Get off your lazy asses and have some self respect!! Join me in this crusade to either force horses off of the dole today or get the hell out of America. You're killing us!!!

That's how I see it!

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I love watching WGN morning news, there's always something crazy going on. I especially love Paul's quick wit and dry humor. I don't have quite the same attitude about horses, but I do think they should be doing more work, at the very least prancing about and making a good show of things.