Reporting the weather can sometimes be repetitive, but for one meteorologist for WHNS in Greenville, South Carolina, it was a dance party.
The Grio reported that Ted Phaeton and a close friend, financial planner Charles Russ, broke out dance moves to "Tz Anthem" by 15-year-old Detroit rapper Zay Hilfiger, during Phaeton's Sept. 16 weather report.
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Phaeton's Facebook video of the report started picking up steam this week and has over 740,000 views.
It was part of a dance challenge called #tzanthemchallenge.
Phaeton and Russ told The Grio the video, one of many the two have done together, was a form of positivity.
"It sheds another light on men of color," Phaeton said. "To be able to dance and be myself and show that I am an authority and know my stuff when it comes to the weather… It’s not ignoring what’s going on, but it’s combating it with positivity."
"I hate to open up social media and see hours of negativity and nothing positive," Russ said. "I also want my kids to see it’s OK to have fun in this world and still be professional and classy."
The Grio reported that Phaeton gives his station credit for being supportive.
The song the two dance to is actually from 2014. Hilfiger told New York Magazine he made the song while playing around with his friends.
"This is when dances like the Nae Nae and the Whip were hot, so we just started saying 'juju,'" Hilfiger said. "As the summer (2016) went over, I came up and was like, I want to make this a real song. I didn’t really expect it to do what it did."
But it's become viral, with the associated dance with the song - the Juju -- also taking off and other popular dances like the (new) running man and the Nae Nae also in the song.
You can see those dances and more in the fun video with Phaeton and Russ below:
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