When WCCO's Mike Max crawled into bed at 3 a.m. the other night, after hours of covering the George Floyd protests, his wife tried to lighten the mood.
"I hope you don't have tear gas in your hair," she said. "I don't want to wake up coughing."
Not that the station's sports anchor is getting much sleep these days.
"Your adrenaline just spikes," Max said Tuesday while heading to report on a silent protest in St. Paul. "It takes a long time to come down from that."
Dozens of local and national journalists can relate.