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  • Yes, it's It's starting to bloom.

  • Mmm.

  • Do you think, Bill?

  • Hey, what's going on?

  • Everybody for first we feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones.

  • It's the show, a talk, questions and even hotter wings.

  • And today I'm joined by Al Roker.

  • He's the longtime host in Weatherman.

  • NBC's The Today Show, A 13 time Emmy winner and best selling author, can also catch him on the new Web series, Cold Cuts, where they pile on the meats, cheeses and toppings out Broker.

  • Welcome to the show, Sean.

  • Good to see you, Sean.

  • Good to see you, Sean.

  • Good to see you pop in some cameras.

  • That's a very good either.

  • There, there, you put him there for a reason.

  • Let's use it.

  • And 2015.

  • I saw you eat the world's hottest chip live on TV, and he kept a poker face all the way through.

  • So I take it you're pretty good with spicy food.

  • You know, I thought it was a small amount.

  • You know, said you need the whole thing, you know?

  • So if you see, that's the secret to anything I think when you're especially doing food, television, take a bite.

  • You don't eat the whole thing, right?

  • Get that bite.

  • Take it down.

  • Get your feet.

  • Senate to commercial.

  • Exactly.

  • All right.

  • Are you ready?

  • Get going.

  • Yes, sir.

  • You'll start at the handle at the handle.

  • Oh, I see of the board there.

  • So you can't have an out broker interview without discussing that Today show you've been involved for more than 20 years.

  • It's been the longest running, most successful television shows in history.

  • And then the Today show is unique in that you'll do these segments live around a screaming crowd.

  • When you think of all the bizarre faces to face you've had with civilians on the street, is there a story that stands out?

  • Well, uh, I had This was years ago.

  • There was a guy holding a sign that said, Chris, will you marry me?

  • And I thought, Oh, this is great.

  • I'm gonna go over and I'm going to say hi.

  • And my producer said, You don't do it.

  • Don't do what?

  • What does he know?

  • I know.

  • So I go up to and I say So you love Chris?

  • He goes Well, I love Chris, but I love Jeff Moore.

  • And with that turns to the guy next to him and gives him a big, big open mouth kiss.

  • And I looked in his cameras and see.

  • They won't even show you that on Will and Grace.

  • And they went ahead and they wrote me into Will and Grace, where just Jack and will show up at the Today show to protest something.

  • And they end up kissing on the Today show.

  • Wow, So art imitating life imitating.

  • And then you can't spend 40 years on live TV without having some big gaffe without swearing on live TV without breaking something.

  • What's that out?

  • Brokers?

  • Well, one of them I was trying to say warm air mass and I said, Ah, War mask and S O that made the rounds very nicely.

  • It was good.

  • Another time I was covering Hurricane Hurricane Wilma.

  • There's a camera guy holding me down and I literally went down like a ton of bricks.

  • I've seen that.

  • Yeah.

  • Oh, yeah, it's It's everywhere coming inside.

  • Yeah, that's a good idea.

  • If you just held on to that wrought iron date, you use your real tender.

  • I like that one.

  • So I had the honor of being an upcoming guest on your show, Cold cuts where he made sandwiches together.

  • And I know that you're a food obsessive yourself.

  • When you think of all your cross country adventures, what do you think is the best regional burger in America?

  • You know, it's funny because it wasn't regional, it hadn't gone national.

  • But when I had my first shake shack burger, I thought Yes.

  • Oh, my gosh, this is amazing.

  • And then, speaking of Shake Shack, where does having the rocker burger on the menu rank in your list of professional accomplishments?

  • It's pretty high up there.

  • I mean, you know that you have a creation that people actually are going to pay money for.

  • And like, it was like high praise.

  • And you seem to be one of the more curious diners.

  • When your crew was covering the Sochi Olympics, did you make any food discoveries out there?

  • Um, there was this thing.

  • Cheesy bread.

  • It wasn't anything.

  • Fancy it waas Great, you know?

  • So I mean, you'd finish your vitals, addictive things where you eat it.

  • That's great.

  • Okay, that's enough.

  • And then, like an hour later, you're back in your hotel room.

  • I need me some cheesy bread.

  • Oh, Daddy needs cheesy bread.

  • Get Daddy's cheesy bread.

  • Oh, hey, Ivan.

  • Come here.

  • Uh, cheesy Putin probably has tapes of me ordering cheesy bread.

  • It's this Next one is the pirates lantern are.

  • So when I was a broadcast journalism major at the University of Illinois, my senior professor shot out John Paul said that my real calling was as a weatherman.

  • Obviously, things have worked out quite a bit differently.

  • But sometimes I fantasize about what that might have been like doing local news and central Illinois.

  • So with that in mind, Yes, sir, we put together a weather segment for you to critique.

  • It would be such an honor if you could tell me if I have what it takes to make it in this game.

  • And so without further ado, roll the tape, bust out your bucket hats and board shorts, folks, because we're in for an epic heat wave sweeping across the country this week.

  • Whether you're in Barrow, Alaska, or Boston, Massachusetts, it's gonna be a hot one.

  • Today up in Chicago, their reports that Lake Michigan has reached a boiling point.

  • You could poach an AG off Navy pier today, and then down in Texas temperatures of 121 125 130 degrees.

  • Schools were closed.

  • And what's this?

  • Yep, Texas Pete says It's too damn hot to Goto work today out in California, Sonny with a chance of death wings, as we say in the meteorology community.

  • Back to you, Natasha Jinx in the studio.

  • Stay cool out there Internet.

  • What do you think?

  • I think it's very disturbing.

  • I just just the exploding wings on bottles of hot sauce over Texas that it's Ah, somebody sick little puppy.

  • You came up with those graphics.

  • I'm very impressed.

  • I think you need to refer to the map a little more, I think.

  • But that's not a big deal wth.

  • The other thing I was impressed with was your enthusiasm and the fact that you were wearing a teenager suit.

  • I think that an athletic fit.

  • Exactly.

  • Exactly.

  • I like it, Roomie, I like, you know, I'd like to have a little room to breathe.

  • That's but that's May.

  • That's just May.

  • And then you know what I always thought was interesting.

  • And I'm wondering if you have any insight is always thought that weather was such a specialized skill is really a sink or swim moment for a lot of the students in the broadcast because there's no safety net, you know, They just toss it to you live and you don't have that prompter.

  • You're just off green screen.

  • You're working off monitors.

  • Its opposite your instincts.

  • What do you think of that?

  • Do you ever have those thoughts?

  • You know what?

  • I don't I don't think about it.

  • And I think that's why I've actually been able to fool people is long because if it is basically an ad lib situation, you don't write a script.

  • Your map is your script.

  • So you just kind of wing it Sergeant did there.

  • So this next one is the son of Zombie.

  • Sounds dangerous.

  • Isa True about me because I've always been told about milk.

  • Milk is a good way to cleanse the palate a little bit.

  • But nothing's gonna totally CEO.

  • No, just kind of damp in the flame.

  • Exactly.

  • Exactly.

  • So he on hot ones.

  • We often ask celebrities what it's like to be named checked in hip hop lyrics, and you're pretty unique in that you've been named check for decades from Das a fax in the nineties all the way up to push a T on his latest album.

  • So with that in mind, I wanna pull some of the most iconic Al Roker hip hop lyrics.

  • I'm wondering the ones you like, the ones you don't get.

  • Maybe they resonate with a certain time in your career.

  • We could just go from there.

  • Does that sound good?

  • Because that would be great, because I don't really know them.

  • So I'll introduce you to the okay, All right, so this 1st 1 is from Jay Z, Okay?

  • It's not a song called Hate My Hustle.

  • So Russell a stretch work yoga.

  • You know, I gotta down dog Al Roker.

  • You snack pounds off.

  • That's that.

  • I guess he's referring to when I've lost weight.

  • So it's That's from Jay Z.

  • That's high praise.

  • Indeed.

  • I want to go by like, how are?

  • But it doesn't have the same.

  • That would be your rap name that would be Al are not see.

  • It doesn't really work.

  • This next one is from Pusha T, and it's off a song called If You Know You Know, dance contest for the Smokers.

  • I predict snow out broker, if you know, you know.

  • Yeah.

  • I don't know.

  • I don't know what I don't My my my 19 year old called me and said, Dad really Pusha t And like, Okay, first, who's pushing t.

  • And secondly, I don't know what you're talking about.

  • I Googled, and finally he's got a beef going with Drake.

  • Right on.

  • And so I think I think it basically is because my last name rhymes with a lot of words, You know, it works.

  • So this is low scallion taste, huh?

  • Put it in our sandwiches.

  • Yes.

  • Yes.

  • Okay.

  • So far.

  • So far, so good.

  • Are you doing better than you thought you would?

  • I think I am.

  • Heard whispers that you're alive.

  • I was I was planning to stop a three, That's what that was my That was my game plan.

  • Look at you.

  • Now you look at me.

  • All right.

  • Well, we would push your t say it.

  • Say he's dropping the pounds like our brokers.

  • That was Jay Z o Oh, all right.

  • I will re every Korean segment on our show called.

  • Explain that, Graham, where you do a deep dive in, I guess instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context.

  • So I'm gonna bust out some pictures.

  • I'll show you them, and then you just tell me the bigger story.

  • Let's go to the laptop laptop, please.

  • Look at how high tech this is.

  • It's a guy in a weird Where's Waldo shirt?

  • This is Bill.

  • Hi, Bill.

  • Wow.

  • Are you impressed?

  • I am.

  • What's going on here?

  • I don't actually more impressed.

  • That bill had the guts to wear that shirt.

  • I had a shirt like that when I was seven.

  • That's great.

  • That's very nice.

  • It was like you're a canary that met a jailbird.

  • What is that?

  • Last time I saw somebody wearing that was like Curly Howard in the Three Stooges.

  • Keep going.

  • What was a bigger challenge for you running the marathon?

  • Or when you said it get us world record by doing the weather for 34 hours straight?

  • I think running the marathon was hard.

  • Really?

  • Yeah.

  • And by running, I mean, I finished.

  • If you look at the guy next to me, he was faster.

  • You know what?

  • I was almost demoralized when a guy ran past me.

  • No life backwards juggling.

  • I'll really talk serious.

  • Swallow seriously Come on.

  • Uh, doing the weather for 34 hours.

  • Once you get past, like, the first hour, then you're good.

  • I will tell you an interesting story about that.

  • Sure, because we had never done anything like that.

  • After I got my first break, which was after a couple of hours, I had to use the restroom.

  • Except our audio guy forgot to turn the mic off.

  • So I believe I'm the first guy to actually live stream on the Internet.

  • This smells hot.

  • Oh, yeah, I can tell.

  • Assumes you bite into it.

  • You know, having flashbacks to the world's spiciest chip.

  • Yes, it's starting to bloom.

  • What do you think, Bill?

  • So you've been a fixture on morning TV for more than two decades.

  • You also have an interesting relationship with late night.

  • In fact, he wants had the record for the most guest appearances on Conan O'Brien.

  • But I'm curious about your relationship with David Letterman.

  • What can you tell people about what it was like to do local news across the hall from him?

  • We'll be on our show.

  • Live at five.

  • Would be on while David Letterman was taping his his late night.

  • You and he would come in, he'd bring it like one time.

  • I remember he brought in Zippy the chimp on the Mobile Monkey Cam, and that was a chimpanzee.

  • And it was on skates with a live pack on its back and a camera on its element.

  • And it comes skating into the studio.

  • It was crazy.

  • One time he came in and said He goes, Eh, How Gurney of the director.

  • How is Al Roker doing the weather?

  • And he literally they took a camera and he walked across the studio and came in and busted in and did weather with May crashed your life, Brunt and Letterman started as a weatherman.

  • So to the point where our anchor guy, this guy Jack Cafferty, who didn't find it all that amusing I tried to get them to lock the studio.

  • And as somebody pointed out, Yes.

  • But you see, if there was, like, say, Oh, I don't know, a fire.

  • We can't get out.

  • So not such a great idea.

  • That's what I was gonna ask, you know, for the news director for the production staff, did they find humor and Dave crashing the set?

  • Or was he a bit of a nuisance.

  • Well, they may not have found it Funny.

  • We loved it.

  • I can tell you no, because that's one of the great Internet rabbit holes to go down to go look at these vintage clips, so I highly recommend them, cause there's no way we can clear them.

  • Yeah, but you always seemed You always seem to have a great sense of humor about the whole thing.

  • And then sometimes there was a weird energy elsewhere.

  • Come on.

  • I mean, you're on network television with David Letterman, one of the funniest guys going, please, that for a kid who wasn't even supposed to be on TV, that's gravy.

  • I can sense trouble already.

  • It's kind of almost a hashey type of smell.

  • Nothing.

  • It's coming.

  • I can feel it away.

  • Lips.

  • This is worried that we're on the outer limits here because it's gonna be lingering now.

  • It's approaching that long as I can sense it now.

  • So you've had remarkable longevity in the game, which spans now over 40 years.

  • And while I can confirm that you are in every bit the gentleman that you appear to be, I think it's safe to say that You've also made some conscious decisions along the way to avoid the cliche pitfalls of fame.

  • So as someone who's come an intimate contact with almost every celebrity, I'm curious about your takeaways When it comes to fame, Do you think it's getting harder to enter that machine and then come out the other side with your humanity intact?

  • Well, I think it it.

  • I think it depends on what you want, like being on TV.

  • But, you know, I've got another part of my life.

  • I've got my family friends.

  • Eso I don't feel this need to be on all the time.

  • I don't feel the need.

  • I mean, I share some stuff on social media, but, you know, you know, there's people who are on constantly, you know, it's like once you start, go down that road, I think it's hard to pull back.

  • What did you learn about being a public figure after a gastric bypass surgery?

  • Because you do seem to be a very open about that.

  • Well, you don't see a lot off old fat people on.

  • I at the time had young kids.

  • My dad was not to be a downer, but my dad was dying of cancer.

  • And he said the only thing I'm worried about, I got a good wife had beautiful Children.

  • The only I'm really worried about is you.

  • You know that I'm not gonna be here to help you raise your kids.

  • So I need you to promise me you're gonna lose weight.

  • I promised him I would go every morning to the show in the morning.

  • But I'd go see him at Sloan Kettering before the show.

  • And when I came, I'd come back and visit him in the afternoon when I came back, he had lost his ability to talk when he's gone two weeks later.

  • So I owed it to him to do that.

  • I have a feeling this may be the last one.

  • You have to be careful that you don't rub your eyes or anything when you're doing this.

  • Ever done that?

  • I have made every mistake that you can make.

  • And there's a lot of reasons that you need to thoroughly wash your hands after hot ones if you catch my drift.

  • Yes.

  • Who?

  • You know.

  • Some people think that you play it safe on air.

  • But there's also a faction including a whole section of reddit that thinks that your quips air brilliantly coded like a drake.

  • This you have to call forensics team to decipher it.

  • Any comment on the anatomy of an AL broker on air clap back?

  • Uh, G.

  • I don't I don't know why.

  • You know, here's the thing.

  • I think people are giving me a lot more credit because I don't I don't really think about Life's too short, you know?

  • It pops in.

  • If I think I can say it and I'm not gonna get in trouble, I say it.

  • You're around long enough.

  • You've got enough lines in the back here, head to fit almost any situation.

  • Can I just say one thing?

  • I wanted my favorite.

  • One of the best lines.

  • When are doing our show cold cuts, You have one of the best lines.

  • The question When you don't know if you've shared this with your viewers, what's the one question that people that the weirdest question that somebody's ask you?

  • How's your butthole doing?

  • Yeah, that's a That's a good one.

  • I see that.

  • I see.

  • I see a line of T shirts out of you know who would wear one bill bill long as we stripe it.

  • Exactly.

  • Yeah, I'm sorry I digressed.

  • I'm afraid that's gonna cause problems.

  • Wow.

  • See, there's no taste of chicken in that whatsoever.

  • This could be a sponge.

  • Pure hellfire.

  • So I know that you love the morning to morning grind of doing the Today show, but it does seem that you have a special affinity for covering the Olympics that so storyline driven, which must be unique for somebody who's a news person and a fan of the Games.

  • Who is the most interesting Olympian to cover?

  • I really enjoyed Chloe Kim this last in this last.

  • No, let me let me back up.

  • I love Chloe Kim, But as far as just kind of a breath of fresh air, Adam Rippon had probably one of the greatest lines ever.

  • Hold a copy in Savannah.

  • Our interview.

  • And he's already having agree, and Hoda says, Is there anybody at the Olympics having a better time than you?

  • He said, Oh, I don't know anybody who's won a medal.

  • It was so refreshing, you know, and he's just he's got this joy.

  • I saw him at the time 100 most influential dinner, and he just exudes joy.

  • Well, not to put any pressure on you.

  • How?

  • But he did hot ones and ran the gauntlet.

  • Yeah, but here's the thing.

  • He's an Olympic athlete.

  • But you know what?

  • I'm a weatherman.

  • I sat across the table from him.

  • I looked in his eyes and just as I'm looking into yours And you know what?

  • I see the spirit of a warrior in front of me, and I don't think so.

  • So this is the last step reduction.

  • We call it the last DAB.

  • Because it's tradition around here to put a little extra in the last week.

  • Are you insane?

  • You don't have to if you don't want I don't want poker.

  • It's okay.

  • No, it's okay.

  • I'm okay.

  • I'm an old man.

  • I don't really care.

  • 40 years in the game.

  • Salute to the legend.

  • It is already on the witness.

  • It is.

  • I know.

  • Oh, this is when you guys make yourself for salt, pepper X and chocolate pepper X.

  • I have a feeling that was what I saw Where your You know that I know.

  • But then I hear my wife.

  • Come on, stop it.

  • Have you no decency?

  • What are you supposed to tell the Children?

  • All right, our ogre.

  • Here we are at the end of the hot sauce road.

  • And as we've discussed their many talents to our broker, broadcaster, weatherman, author.

  • But the one side we haven't explored is Al Roker, the artist.

  • I know that your father nurtured a love for cartoons.

  • And you, you once dreamed of going to the New York School of Graphic Art and design, and now we're going to put that to the test.

  • Okay, we have Ah, graphite pencil, a sketch pad on deck.

  • And if you could just hit us with a little hot ones inspired doodle, okay to take us home.

  • Out.

  • Bill.

  • Bill.

  • Thank you, Bill.

  • You're beautiful, man.

  • Don't go change.

  • I love you Just the way you are.

  • Hold up that masterpiece.

  • Can you explain it to the people out there?

  • It's a sunshine with flames coming out of his mouth.

  • That's how hot it is.

  • It's hotter than the sun.

  • And you know what?

  • It's beautiful.

  • Hanging up.

  • Mboma.

  • Al Roker all the way through the chicken wing gauntlet.

  • Look at you, my man.

  • And you didn't think you could buy didn't have her now and then.

  • You surprise yourself.

  • And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you, my man.

  • This camera, this camera at this camera Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

  • What do I have going on in my life?

  • I have everything I've got.

  • I've got the respect, Sean.

  • I've got the love of Bill.

  • Andi, I've got my wife going.

  • Why the hell are you on this?

  • Get out!

  • Tha Thank you, Bill.

  • You're beautiful, man.

  • Breaking news.

  • Hot ones Fans, This is Shaun Evans checking in to say there's a major storm.

  • A Bruin.

  • Make sure that you batten down the hatches, stock up on non perishables.

  • And while you wait out the storm, why not bench watch some old hot ones like comment, subscribe?

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