Or you, Bill.
Your title was a credo...if all else fails, talk about the weather.
So much of a credo, in fact, that when my partner and I (morning drive on college radio) were asked to come back and MC the talent show...we used that as a central focus....Tell a joke...noone laughed...pull headphones out of the podium and do the forecast...(it worked...used relatively sparingly throughout the evening)
Tonight...dark with gradual lightening towards morning.