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Speaker 1: begin to learn your craft. You take voice lessons. Do

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Speaker 1: your voice do your original voice for me. I don't

425
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: even know if I can get it that high anymore.

426
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Speaker 1: H It's it's a different It's more the way I

427
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: said things, you know, So if I was going to

428
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: say the word water, I would have said water. You know.

429
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: It was just like water. It's just yeah, like that.

430
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: It's just a very regional accent. So the goal with

431
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: the voice coaches to get rid of your regional accent. Yes, no,

432
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 1: I know I'm from the South. I have I've experienced

433
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: with that as well. Uh so then you start moving

434
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Speaker 1: around Providence, Boston. Now are these because they're bigger cities

435
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 1: that you're moving Yes, So my Michael was to get

436
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: back to local news in New York. You know, that's

437
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: the ultimate dream. I didn't think it was ever going

438
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: to happen, but that was the ultimate dream. Um. So

439
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: after I mean Erie, Pennsylvania, I was making maybe sixteen

440
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, um, you know, but it was

441
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: like where I learned that I learned to cook because

442
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to go out to eat. I learned

443
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: to budget because I couldn't jack the heat up. Because

444
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: it was just you know, it was like just a

445
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: really good learning experience, life experience to like be just

446
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: out on my own, living in an apartment in a

447
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: strange place by myself. Um. But then it was okay,

448
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: I think I'm ready for the next step, and I

449
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: wanted to get closer to home. So at this point

450
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: sent out, you know, a few more tapes and for

451
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: some reason, and like right away I just got a

452
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,959
Speaker 1: job in Providence, Rhode Islands. Also the NBC station they

453
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: had an opening and I got the job. So all

454
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: of these were NBC okay, and then very strange, I

455
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: don't know why. And then how long? How long were

456
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: you there? So I was in Providence for two years,

457
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: and then there happened to be an opening in Boston.

458
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Speaker 1: And again at the time, Boston was market five. So

459
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Speaker 1: to go from market fifty, which was Providence up to

460
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Speaker 1: market five. I mean, now I was finally making that

461
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Speaker 1: major jump into a major, major market. Right are you

462
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: doing nightly news? Are you doing morning? Are you doing

463
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: always done mornings? I was doing weekends and erie, and

464
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: then I moved to mornings in Providence, and then through

465
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 1: a whole backstabbing situation, I got moved to weekends, and

466
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: that was like a whole there was. There was drama

467
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: in Providence. Yes, that's the title of a new movie,

468
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: There's drama and Providence. It was just, you know, I

469
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: I'm just a nice person. I'm nice to people, you know,

470
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: and people are usually nice. I tend to associate with

471
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: nice people. It just seems like the way the world

472
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: should work, you know, just everybody be nice to everybody

473
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: but Providence. I worked with a lot of people I

474
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Speaker 1: absolutely adored one of my dearest friends I met in Providence. Um,

475
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: but I also realized that there are people who are

476
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Speaker 1: out to get you. And you know, I was doing

477
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: weekends and then I got moved to weekday mornings, and

478
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: then somebody else wanted that position and new somebody in

479
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: power who could move me back to weekends and slide

480
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: open that you know, slot for for her. So I

481
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: just remember it being like, oh, this kind of stuff

482
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: can happen. I mean, this, this really stinks. So you know,

483
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: I have silly things like I had vacation approved, but

484
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: oh no, sorry, you have to fill in for so

485
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: and so now, you know, I mean it just it's

486
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: like but I had, you know. So it's like that

487
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: life experience where it's not all going to go your way.

488
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some some roadblocks, which also motivated me

489
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: to get out of there. Like I remember, that's when

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00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: I was searching for an agent. I wanted to get

491
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 1: out of Providence. I wanted to you know, move on

492
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: to something bigger and could just kind of get away

493
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: from the whole situation, which I was able to do

494
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: so local news people have agents. Yes, Okay, that isn't

495
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: a joke. Yeah, because you're because you're moving around markets,

496
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: and yes, you don't always know what jobs are open.

497
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: You don't know the inside scoop on who's leaving and

498
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: what job is about to open up. Your agents obviously

499
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: have relationships with all the news directors in the in

500
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: the bigger markets. I mean, i'd say, once you get

501
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: over market fifty, you kind of need an agent to

502
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: get to some of the bigger markets, right, And so

503
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: you decide to get out and go to Boston, this

504
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: is the top five market. Did you ever see yourself

505
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: staying in Boston? Yeah, So my now husband Brian was

506
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: my cameraman. We all worked on morning news, and I

507
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: mean it took a while. So I had worked in

508
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: Boston for probably like four or five years before Brian

509
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: comes into the picture. Because Brian's actually like six years

510
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: younger than me, so he was still in college. Like

511
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm like successful, you know, making indecent money. I owned

512
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: my own house. I'm like, you know, things are going good.

513
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: And then this like this kid keeps showing up in

514
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: the weather office and just sort of hanging out, and

515
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, this guy just telling me stories about like

516
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: what he's doing with his friends. And it's like he's

517
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: such a colle like he's such a college kid, Like

518
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: he's just who's this stupid kid who just keeps showing

519
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: up in the weather office. But he was funny and

520
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:11,959
Speaker 1: he made me laugh. And there was a group of

521
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: us that we'd go out after the new news at

522
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: one o'clock in the afternoon. We're all hanging out, you know,

523
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: having drinks and having a good time. I don't know.

524
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: It was after like, after several years of us just

525
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: being friends, something just clicked and I'm like, I don't

526
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: really care that he's six years younger than me. He's awesome.

527
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: He's funny, it makes me laugh. He's nice. And like

528
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: a year later we were engaged and we were looking

529
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: for houses and we were gonna move into the suburbs

530
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: outside of Boston. Wow. Wow, this, I mean, this is

531
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: our Valentine's episode. And I always thought it was gonna

532
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: be me and you, but this is a story. I mean,

533
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: this is uh wow. And and you thought you would stay, yeah,

534
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: I mean that was the plan. We immediately got a dog.

535
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: So our dog, Bosco, is twelve years old because it

536
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: was like twelve years ago that we met. Like the

537
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: second we started dating, we just like we knew, this

538
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: is it, this is this is the future. Let's move

539
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: near your parents. We were looking at houses and then

540
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, my agents like, I just I

541
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: just want you to know there is not a job

542
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: open at the Today's Show right now. But I just

543
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: kind of mentioned to them that maybe you guys should

544
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: hire a weekend meteorologist because they were using local meteorologists

545
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: to kind of just handle Saturday and Sunday. So I

546
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: think I'm just gonna put out there that, you know,

547
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: maybe you should have coffee with them or just meet

548
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: with somebody at the Today Show. But don't get your

549
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: hopes up. There is no job. And I said, sure,

550
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: all I'll meet with whoever can't hurt, happy to do

551
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: it exciting and nerve racking. I mean, this is like,

552
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: this is the this is the Today's Show? Like that

553
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: was never on my radar. I mean, you've got Al Roker,

554
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: that's you know that there's no chance I'm going to

555
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: come anywhere close to this world of network news. You know,

556
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: it's just not going to happen, right, So I go down,

557
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: I meet some people all goes well, I kind of

558
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: like choked down my nerves, you know. I sometimes like

559
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I don't know. Do you

560
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: get nervous before you meet important people? I mean I

561
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: was super nervous this morning. I was petrified. I was nervous. Um, sure,

562
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: of course. I think it's more when I know I'm

563
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: going to be in front of a group of people

564
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what's coming. Like someone says, hey,

565
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: by the way, we want you to say a few

566
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: words later on, and so immediately what I think is, oh,

567
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: they want they assume that I'm funny, which, by the way,

568
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: well I can be. But I also I actually don't

569
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: tell jokes. I don't know jokes. I don't like, that's

570
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: not what I do. It's like a mental thing. I

571
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: don't remember them. I'm like, oh, that's a good one.

572
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: I've got to remember that. I remember that I have

573
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: one joke. It's totally inappropriate. I tell that, and then

574
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: I usually am done and I think like are they

575
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: going to be disappointed? But anyway, yeah, in front of

576
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: a group of people, I do. And what you're talking about,

577
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: like meetings, that can be difficult again because of not

578
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: really knowing what the expectation is, what you know, how

579
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: how it's going to go in that way or what

580
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: they're sort of expecting from me. But before you go on,

581
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: I want to I want to say, like, so at

582
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: this moment, they're like, there's not really a job. How

583
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: long was Willard Scott on The Today Show? Like a

584
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: long time? A long time because Al looked up to him, um,

585
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: and Al was doing weekends and Willard was doing the

586
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: week days. And then when you know Willard was getting

587
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: ready to step back a little bit, I was able

588
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: to slide into that role. But I mean twenty years

589
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: and how on this alb in there alsband at NBC

590
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: for forty years. I think he's been with the Today's

591
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: Show maybe, but I grew up watching him. So yeah,

592
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: I mean I remember Willard Scott, but definitely remember Al

593
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: Roker taking over. So okay, so you meet, You're nervous,

594
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: but there's no job. So yeah, I'm just literally going

595
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: to meet people and small talk chat is not like

596
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: my strong suit. Like I hate going to Christmas parties.

597
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: I hate which is so interesting how you and I

598
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: became friends because it's like we I don't know, like

599
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: its just some people you can talk to and there's

600
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: like little jokes and there's little like and there's some

601
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: people like you have to put an effort to talk to,

602
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: you know, you have to continue to keep the small

603
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: talk going. And then it's there's awkward silence and I

604
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: feel like I need to fill the silence or I

605
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: don't know, like there's I I guess you're just meant

606
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: to click with some people and not with others. But

607
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: when it comes to people in in an authority position,

608
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: I just I don't thrive in that environment. So I

609
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: but I swallow all those nerves and I introduced myself

610
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: and I talked and I answer their questions and I

611
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 1: kind of try to sit in a comfortable, you know position,

612
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: so I look more confident and I'm just kind of

613
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: I get through the meetings and everything everything is fine.

614
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: You know, they like me enough that they say, why

615
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: don't you come back in a couple of weekends and

616
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: just fill in on the show, not the weekday show,

617
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: just the weekend show. So okay, yes, this is my

618
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: big opportunity. We talked about it on the show up

619
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: in Boston. This weekend. You have to watch Dylan's going

620
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: to be on the weekend Today's show. We're so excited

621
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: for her. YadA YadA, yadas. So you know, Boston knew

622
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: I was going to do this, and they kind of

623
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: knew where if it went well, where it could lead.

624
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: So like it was all kosher, everything was all good.

625
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: So I remember I get there and I pick out

626
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: like just like the prettiest dress I could find. And

627
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: four o'clock in the morning and I wake up into

628
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: my mom's with me again, and we're in the hotel

629
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: room and I'm getting ready and she looks at me

630
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: and she's like, do you have any spanks? And I

631
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: was like, no, I don't, and it's four o'clock in

632
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: the morning, so I can't get any. So she's like, Okay,

633
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: I guess it'll be all right, going in with full

634
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: confidence here. So it's a very different environment. You know,

635
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: you need to show a lot of personality. It's not

636
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: just local news where they tossed to you. You give

637
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: a forecast, you make a little joke and you toss back,

638
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: you know. I mean that's this is like you have

639
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: to intro segments and you have to chit chat with

640
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: all your co anchors, and you have to go to

641
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: the plaza where there's a giant crowd of people and

642
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: you have to interact. So I'm again not my strong suit.

643
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: But I go out to the plaza and I see

644
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: this guy wearing a chicken hat on his head, and

645
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is gonna be so easy. He's going

646
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: to say something funny. I'm gonna look adorable, this is

647
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: gonna go so great. So I remember, it's my moment.

648
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,479
Speaker 1: I do the weather, and I go and I don't

649
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: even remember what the question was that I asked this guy,

650
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: but I asked him something and he goes mm hmm,

651
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: So okay, I get nothing. I asked another question, uh huh,

652
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, Like this guy in

653
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: a chicken had just ruined my chance at you know,

654
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: showing this big personality and I can play off of that,

655
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: and like he ruined my chance. And all any of

656
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: my friends were talking about was like, what was up

657
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: with that guy with the chicken hat? So all right,

658
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: whatever that that was. That that was my day. That

659
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: was my big trial. And I honestly was shocked when

660
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: they said that they were actually going to offer me

661
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: a position. It was a couple of months later it

662
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: wasn't like the next day, So of course I'm thinking

663
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,399
Speaker 1: it's no chance that this is going to happen. But

664
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: and then we just pick up everything. Brian quits his

665
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: job and we've moved down to New York City. Wow,

666
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: now is this would you say? This is the dream? Like?

667
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,959
Speaker 1: This is this is the dream? This is the dream?

668
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: This is like And it's funny because now I don't

669
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: really do that much weather. I mean, if al Broker's off,

670
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: I I fill in for him. Um. But when I

671
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: when I first started, it was, I mean there was

672
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: it was a little shaky. I had to get over

673
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 1: the nerves at first. They sent me to a talent

674
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: coach and I can't to coach my talent and to

675
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: like make me more comfortable. It was almost like a

676
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: confidence coach kind of thing. Um, But like I I

677
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: will get comfortable eventually, but they wanted me comfortable like

678
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: right away, and I it took some time. So I

679
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,479
Speaker 1: remember the coach even said he's like, I don't really

680
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: know what to do here because you seem confident enough,

681
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: but I like, I don't know, I don't know how

682
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: to help you. Just keep doing what you're doing. I

683
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: guess you know, it was kind of that, and I'm like,

684
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: all right, And it took about a year before I

685
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: really felt like, Okay, you know, I can do this.

686
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: I can make jokes, I can chime in and I

687
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 1: can really be myself. But it it took some time.

688
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: And I remember when I started, they said, you're not

689
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: Al Roker, do not be Al Broker, and I'm like, okay,

690
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: I have to be me. I just have to be me.

691
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: I can't imitate how anybody else does this. I just

692
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: have to be me. And I eventually found myself and

693
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: that was ten years ago. That's really interesting that they

694
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: said that. I mean, i'll tell you what my first

695
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: impulse is. I don't know that they would like that

696
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: I said this. My memory of Al Roker was he

697
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: was trying to be Willard Scott. Like. I feel like

698
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: those two guys were very similar, at least early on. Yes,

699
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: I would say very similar. I think that just happens

700
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: to be those two people too. I think they're just

701
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: two people who are very similar. And it's funny because

702
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: now that I am so close with Al. Granted I'm

703
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: not Al's big personality, you know, but like he and

704
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: I get each other's jokes we can kind of finish

705
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: each other. We have a good banter um and he's

706
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: just like, it's such a pro it. He knows what

707
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: I want to say, so he'll team me up so

708
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: that I can say it, you know, like we just

709
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: have a good give and take. So I would say,

710
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if Al's like Willard. I'm similar to

711
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: Al in a way that isn't recognizable but interesting. So

712
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: what you just brought up is what I really wanted

713
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: to talk to you about. I mean, you, now, if

714
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: not an actor, certainly an entertainer. I mean the only

715
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: difference is we're playing characters and you are a version

716
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: of your of yourself, but a version of yourself. So

717
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: I mean, really, you start, as you know, I'm generalizing

718
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: for comedy. You start as a nerd interested in engineering

719
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: with four et cetera for calculus classes to learn meteorology,

720
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: which is a serious science of weather. Looking, I've started

721
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: to fade and now no, now you're you know you're

722
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 1: you're bantering on not just television, but live television, which

723
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: is something altogether different. Do you love it? Like? Do

724
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: you are you? Are you happy with where you have

725
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: have arrived? Oh? Yeah, I mean and I can easily

726
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: talk about whether they could send me out to a

727
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: hurricane right now, and I can, I can talk you

728
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: through the storm, Like that's that's easy for me. I

729
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. People trust me. There's that the

730
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: fact that I co host a show or I don't

731
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: do any weather is with people I genuinely enjoy being with.

732
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: It's just so much fun. I mean, every day we

733
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: leave the show and we're laughing and we're smiling, and

734
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: I never feel like bummed out when I come to work.

735
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: I mean it's the people I get to meet. I mean,

736
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: the people that we have on the show, like actors.

737
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: It's just it's so much fun um And even just

738
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: like the skill of interviewing I find is I don't know,

739
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: I just I just I love it. Just like I

740
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: like making a forecast that's accurate. I love interviewing someone

741
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: like I love having like a paper, you know, like

742
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: I love having my notes here and not having to

743
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 1: look at them. You know. I love knowing the interviewers

744
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: so much just from like the homework I've done and

745
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: the prep work I've done where I don't need to

746
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: like read my question off the paper, you know what

747
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I like being able to just

748
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: curiously ask them a question, and I like getting better

749
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: as an interviewer in that way. Yes, that's me too.

750
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 1: I look, I've got multiple papers here, but it's way

751
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,959
Speaker 1: more fun too. I mean I learned a lot about

752
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: you obviously getting to know you house. By the way,

753
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: if you ever want to interview someone or time of

754
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: conversation with someone, if you know them in advance, it's

755
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: way Oh my gosh, So you have brought up two

756
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: other things that I wanted to talk to you about.

757
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: You said, if a hurricane comes up and they want

758
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: you to go, you'll feel comfortable. What in the I'm sorry,

759
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: I usually don't say that. What the fuck is? What

760
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: is explained to me? The phenomenon, Oh news, go going lucky.

761
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: I read in you were on your way to a

762
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: blizzard and you shocker in a blizzard, you get in

763
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: a car accident and get a cushion. That was ridiculous.

764
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: That's when I first started and didn't say like no

765
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: to things. I'm like, sure, you want me to get

766
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: in the car now, Sure, I'll do whatever you want.

767
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: Now I will tell them I don't think we should

768
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: leave now, because we're going to get stuck in it.

769
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: We probably should have left a couple hours ago. So like,

770
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: I'll speak up for myself now that that was just

771
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: kind of But what but what what does this make

772
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: for better television? See? To me, it makes for jokes

773
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 1: like if somebody is passing around a weather person video

774
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: on the coast of Florida and there's a hurricane coming,

775
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 1: no one is sending now, this is a spoiler alert,

776
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: but no one is sending this like wow, look at

777
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: the courage of that meteorologious. No I thought that's what

778
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: they were doing. No, it's like, what is wrong with

779
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: this person? Why did they make him stand out there

780
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: when there's a hurricane coming in? Be real with me,

781
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: what is it? Is it rating? I mean, is there

782
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: as someone done the research to say this makes for

783
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: compelling television? To be honest, I mean I've stood out

784
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: in fifty below zero god in a T shirt with

785
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: vassoline on my arms because we were trying to recreate

786
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: the theory like how do football players play with short

787
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: sleeves when it's you know, like forty below zero outside

788
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: And somebody said they use vasoline, which is fine, I

789
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: could see it, but you can't put a jacket on

790
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: when your arms are covered in vassoline. So the repercussions

791
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: of doing this little ship for TV were I mean,

792
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: it was awful because I just could not get my

793
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: arm in a coat. That being said, Okay, wait, first

794
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: of all, that I get that is actually fairly funny.

795
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find that footage. I want to see that footage.

796
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: But that's a fun I'm talking about. Yeah, but you're

797
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: talking about like standing out in the hurricanes, ver a

798
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: blizzard or like in a hurricane. Well, and it's funny

799
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: because like say we pick a location because that's where

800
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: it's going to be like the most active during our

801
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: live shot. If we pick a location and it's not

802
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: snowing or it's not sixty mile proper winds, I mean,

803
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: there's like a sigh of oh, you don't have a

804
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: good live shot. I mean, this is TV, it's morning TV.

805
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: It's sort of entertainment. You know, we definitely want a

806
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: good active live shot. It shows like how cool the

807
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: weather is. You know, it's like, don't go out in it.

808
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: We're going to do that for you. But if you

809
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: were to go out in it, this is how it

810
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: would be. Well, they're not gonna why you shouldn't go

811
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: out in it. This is yeah, but see here's the

812
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: thing I feel like, Well, I guess I'm only putting

813
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: camera people like your husband in Jeopardy, like I enjoy

814
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: seeing it, not enjoy I'm sorry, that's a horrible choice

815
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: of words. I don't mean enjoy it. I appreciate, you know,

816
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: a disastrous flood, like giving visual insight into what is happening.

817
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: That makes sense to me. But well, let's just say, Okay,

818
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: you know you're looking at pictures or video and we're

819
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: trying to explain how strong a storm is. You're gonna

820
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: let You're gonna think this is a ridiculous statement, but

821
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you wins right now are seventy miles per great,

822
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: that's a number. Sure looks like seventy mile power winds.

823
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: But if I stand out in it and you see me,

824
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: you know, like bracing myself against something so that I

825
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: don't blow over, now you really get what seventy mile

826
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: power winds look like. Right. It stops you in your tracks.

827
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: You're watching, you want to see what's going to happen. Remember,

828
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: there is some like we're telling you a news story,

829
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: but it is still a visual medium. So yes, well,

830
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 1: I think partly what you're saying, which I buy about,

831
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: by the way, but I get the the actually the

832
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: public safety aspect of of a visual image because I

833
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: get what you're saying like seventy, Like what is seventy

834
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is if you if you show an

835
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 1: image of like you know, saying in California with Santa

836
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: Anna wins and you show an image of like eighty

837
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: foot tall palm trees like sideways, that tells the story.

838
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: You don't have to show the person a light post

839
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: holding a light post, screaming into a microphone with the

840
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: wind whipping it, being like we're out here. But I

841
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: want to be your personal connection to the story. I'm

842
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: why you're going to stick around and watch just to

843
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: see Maybe it is just to see something happens, but

844
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,479
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to be your personal connection because in

845
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: in in that theory, why do we stick so and

846
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: so outside of courthouse as we're you know, teeing up

847
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: the you know, the story about whatever you know? Why

848
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: why do we show any live reporters anywhere? Do we do?

849
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: We have to know where your connection to the story. Yes,

850
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: but I would make the argument. This is what I

851
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: was about to say before. I can't believe you're arguing

852
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: this point with me. I'm shocked that that we're on

853
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: different sides of this. If you send a reporter into

854
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: a war torn area, okay, and you have the reporter

855
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: on site on the plant, like I understand that, but

856
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: you don't really ever, unless it's a mistake, you don't

857
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: see a reporter with active ammunition and bombs happening immediately

858
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: next to them at that at that moment, right, yeah,

859
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: you make a good kin to what we're discussing. It's like,

860
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, there's a hurricane happening. Let's everybody get

861
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: to Florida and potentially be put in a disaster slee

862
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 1: dangerous situation. I will say the scaredest I've ever been

863
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: was that a hurricane in Bermuda, Category three hurricane hit

864
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, so everybody was in

865
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: their hotel rooms, Like the windows in my room were bowing.

866
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: I was I was waiting for like the crash of

867
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,720
Speaker 1: the windows to just give way, to the point where

868
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: I slept on the bathroom floor just to brace myself

869
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: in case that were to happen. I mean and then

870
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 1: I woke up the next morning and it was like

871
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: that was really scary, Like I ended up staying the

872
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: night in the bathroom, and all the photographers they're all

873
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: like Miami Base, so they were like, oh, yeah, that's

874
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: what you do. You sleep in the bathtub and just

875
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: put a mattress over, you know, just put a mattress

876
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: over the top of the tub. And I was like,

877
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: all right, cool, So I did this right. But you

878
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 1: went there. You went there because the hurricane was coming.

879
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: I went there because the hurricane was coming. And I

880
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: will say, as from a meteorologist perspective, I got to

881
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: see the front side of the hurricane. I got to

882
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: see the eye of the storm where I mean these ends,

883
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: the front side of the hurricane. It was just it

884
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,760
Speaker 1: was so intense, like you thought every tree was gonna

885
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: just topple over you. It's just like something you've never

886
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: seen before. And then all of a sudden, the eye

887
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: of the storm comes through. You hear birds, you hear crickets,

888
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: you hear like not a single drop of wind. It

889
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: is the calmest, like the calmest thing you've ever experienced.

890
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, the backside of the

891
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: storm comes and that's when I slept on the bathroom floor.

892
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: So like from a meteorologist perspective, I can look at

893
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 1: that stuff on the computer, I can look at visuals,

894
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: but to experience it because I know what was happening, Yeah,

895
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: it was scary, but it was it's fascinating. I just

896
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: find the weather so fascinating. So I like, you know,

897
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: I like being outside when the snow is coming down

898
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 1: so hard that you can't even see I just because

899
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 1: I I like it. It's I don't know, it's just

900
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: it's really fascinating. Yeah. I get what you're saying. I

901
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: get what you're saying. I just don't want anyone in danger, right.

902
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: We're usually pretty good at keeping ourselves safe, except when

903
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: you're sleeping in a bathtub mashes safely though. Um, most

904
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: heart wrenching moment on live television for you was what

905
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: on the Today Show heart wrenching moment emotional Yeah, man,

906
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: that's um. It's tough, especially now that I do get

907
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: to talk to so many different people outside of you know,

908
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: just the weather. So obviously you talk to someone after

909
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: their home has been destroyed by a tornado, and it's

910
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking, but I think, um, any any story that

911
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: involves children, especially like little kids overcoming cancer and they're

912
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: so positive and their outlook on life and they're making

913
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: bracelets for their friends because that's what they like to

914
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: do in their free time. I mean, I think any

915
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: story that involves children is just so maybe because I

916
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: have my own kids that you just you put yourself

917
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: in the parents shoes and you just you wonder how

918
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: some people can get through some of the things they

919
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: get through. Um, So I would say anything involving kids

920
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 1: just breaks my heart. It's hard to keep it together. Yeah,

921
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: that's that's got to be an incredibly difficult thing to

922
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: to go through on live television. I you know, I

923
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: have told this story a couple of times, but you know,

924
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: we used to have make a wish kids come and

925
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: I remember this one day as a kid came and

926
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: Kevin was his favorite character, and me going to the

927
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: prop room like give him whatever he wants, Like whatever

928
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: he wants, we don't need fourteen spare eminem jars, like

929
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: just give him, like, just give him one, and going

930
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: into the back and just crying, just being like this

931
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: is like a very just an emotional moment. I can't

932
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: imagine going through that on live, live television. Do you

933
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: have do you have a favorite moment? Um a favorite moment?

934
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: So before COVID, but we when we traveled a lot,

935
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: like all the stories we would we would just travel

936
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: and that it's just fun. And we were doing a

937
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: series for Mother's Day and it was like, let's give

938
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: your mom something on her bucket list. And I'm like,

939
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: all right, this is awesome. It's like peek Today's show.

940
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: And I got to take my mom to Costa Rica

941
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: to go whitewater rafting, like for a Today's Show story.

942
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: It was such a such a boondoggle. And to bring

943
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,240
Speaker 1: my mom along, you know, it's just like what is happening?

944
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: You know, we're flying out to Costa Rica. It's like

945
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: all expenses paid. You know, it's just like we're doing

946
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: it for a story. Um. And that was just really

947
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: special because just because it was so wild. I mean,

948
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: hosting live television day after day, do you ever get

949
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:51,240
Speaker 1: nervous or are you ever not sure what's coming next?

950
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: I know you have people in your ears. There are

951
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: times where it's like we don't have the video yet,

952
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: We'll let you know when we got it, you know,

953
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: and we're just about to toss to the video and

954
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: it's but I don't know, after doing this for so long,

955
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: and when you're in a comfortable situation, you could just

956
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: b as your weight through anything, Like you could just

957
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: keep saying more and more words, and when you run

958
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: out of words, you're co hosting with someone who can

959
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: fill it in with more words, you know. I mean,

960
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 1: like we're very good at vamping, and just like filling

961
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: the gaps, there are sometimes where you won't realize that

962
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: you were going to be star struck. I mean, I

963
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: would say my most embarrassing moment and it was such

964
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: a stupid thing. We were on a set visit for

965
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 1: like um Neighbors Neighbors Too. Do you remember that movie?

966
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: It's like Seth Rogan and zac Efron. So you go

967
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,879
Speaker 1: and you interview the characters and it's like all right,

968
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: like I know my questions, Like I again, I like

969
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: to prepare, and for some reason, interviewing zac Effron just

970
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,959
Speaker 1: threw me off. And I'm not even like a zac

971
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: Efron fan, but he's like standing there and he's got

972
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: like a tight T shirt on, and I remember just

973
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 1: like my mouth went to open to ask a question

974
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: and I'm like, um, and you know, I'm like tucking

975
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: my hair behind my ears and like I could not speak.

976
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:14,479
Speaker 1: And then it was not live, but my producers standing

977
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: right there and like they're recording, like we're recording this

978
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: to tape because like we're doing an interview, and Seth

979
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: Rogan standing right there like what the hell is going

980
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: on right now? And it was just the most like

981
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: disgustingly awful, like embarrassing feeling. It took me for a

982
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: long time to shake it because it was just like, wow,

983
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,240
Speaker 1: I just really botched that whole thing. It was so

984
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: awkward because you love zac Efron, by the way, when

985
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: you told me the two people this was, it was

986
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: not the person that I had guessed for you. I know,

987
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,839
Speaker 1: and kind of like random times where I don't know

988
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: what happens. There are certain celebrities who will come on

989
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: that just like your brains sort of show it's down

990
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: and you just get a little nervous. I don't know,

991
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: why are you going to get nervous with me? I think,

992
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: so are you in an excited way because it's like

993
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. Now, it's like you're my friend and

994
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring you on the show, and I

995
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: want I want to protect you, you know, and it's

996
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: like I want Craig and Alan Shanelle to love you

997
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: as much as I do, and you know, I just

998
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: I want everything to just go really well. Oh it will,

999
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: I think, which is funny because like this just showed

1000
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: up on my desk today. See I'm like ready for

1001
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: your segment. There is that's my face. Oh that's well,

1002
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: that's very fun. That's very fun. So I'll start preparing

1003
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: for you better. It's gonna be. Brian did tell me.

1004
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: He's like when when Brian comes on the show, you know, like,

1005
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: don't be too inside baseball, you know, like, remember it's

1006
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: still just an interview. Don't be like like, oh, we're

1007
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: such good friends and your husband's giving you advice like

1008
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:00,919
Speaker 1: a month in advance for all right, he does. He's

1009
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: a good I have to talk to you about, well,

1010
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: now that you're a big actor, star fate of a sport,

1011
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: you're hosting Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dryer. The fact that

1012
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,959
Speaker 1: you get your title on the show as well, that's

1013
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: very not just dir thoughtsy, it's their thoughtasy with Dylan Dryer.

1014
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: Are you passionate about Earth Odyssey? Oh? I love it.

1015
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: It's I mean, I think we're we think we just

1016
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: finished up five seasons. So it's it's just like the

1017
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: perfect little nature show that you watch on Saturday morning

1018
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: TV with your kids, and it's just I just love it.

1019
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: I'll fly out to l A. I'll shoot all the

1020
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: on camera stuff um out at the arboretum outside l A,

1021
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: and then I do all the voice over work in

1022
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: my closet, you know, and it's like, I just it's awesome.

1023
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: Do you have a peacock in your closet as well

1024
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: when you're doing your voice over work? That's that's what

1025
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: the important. But my head is now covering it. So

1026
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: I thought you forgot about it. And I have to

1027
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: talk to you about Misty the Cloud, your best selling

1028
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: children's book series. You were so kind and sent the

1029
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: books to my girls. They are are loving it. I

1030
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever put this together, but you're

1031
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: a weather person, and it's about a cloud on purpose

1032
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: the whole thing, you know. It was. It was actually

1033
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: something we we came up with like ten years ago,

1034
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: and it was really really hard to get a children's

1035
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: book published. I had to, you know, I had to

1036
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: pitch the idea and and I'm like, I'm passionate about

1037
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: this idea. I think there is no world where there

1038
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: are clouds zipping around the sky and they're having fun

1039
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,919
Speaker 1: and they're teaching you little lessons and it's just fun.

1040
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: Why doesn't this exist? It's it's just really visual and

1041
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: really cool. And think of all the cool characters you

1042
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: can have between like all the different types of weather.

1043
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I want this to exist. So I

1044
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: pitch it and it's like, um, that's great, But you

1045
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: know what would be really cool and what's really selling

1046
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: right now, like biography use about like little known people,

1047
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: So like what if you write a biography about a

1048
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: female meteorologist who who won't take no for an answer?

1049
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: And I was like, do you want me to take

1050
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: no for an answer? To write a book about someone

1051
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: who won't take no for an answer? So it's like

1052
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm good. Um, And it's so like we kind of

1053
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: pushed aside and then we brought it back and then

1054
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: I just like I just I really was so passionate

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Speaker 1: teamed up with a co author, Alan Alan Katz, who

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Speaker 1: kind of saw my vision, and yeah, we we put

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Speaker 1: it out. The first one came out last year, and

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Speaker 1: then the second one came out this year, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome and so cute and so beautiful. How many

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Are you gonna do? Twelve? So

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Speaker 1: then the next two books are actually step into reading books,

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Speaker 1: which has been really cool because the first two books

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Speaker 1: next to come out, which Calvin is starting to read

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Speaker 1: now my oldest son, so I can give them to him.

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Speaker 1: And then after that we have two board books coming out.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, so just like it's a fun little series, um,

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Speaker 1: but are are big thing we'd love to Our goal

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Speaker 1: is to turn this into an animated cartoon, like an

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Speaker 1: animated series at some point, because again, I think it's

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Speaker 1: great for the books, and I love it in the books,

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Speaker 1: and I love talking about science in the back of

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Speaker 1: the books. You know, I've had to create a rainbow,

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Speaker 1: had to create a thunderstorm, but I still just imagine

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Speaker 1: it is so vibrant and alive and just the things

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Speaker 1: you can do with clouds and colors, and we just

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Speaker 1: kind of see it going even further. That's awesome. If

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Speaker 1: you need a voice for Misty. I pictured you was

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Speaker 1: more of like a hurricane. Yes, I am Dylan. Uh.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Dylan and I got to know each

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Speaker 1: other a few weeks ago here at the LPGA Tournament

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Speaker 1: of Champions in Orlando, Florida, Hilton Grand Vacations. Had a

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Speaker 1: great time. I look forward to playing How is the golf?

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Speaker 1: Have you played any golf since we've been been back?

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Speaker 1: You do know I live in New York City, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, so I guess I'm so bad at golf.

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Speaker 1: That's I guess that's a no. Um. I look forward

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Speaker 1: to many more adventures with you on the golf course

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Speaker 1: and etcetera. Start getting nervous about the Today Show. I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited. I can't wait to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Like it's just it's just gonna be fun. You just

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Speaker 1: I don't make new friends at this point in my life,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just I don't know. There's just a

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Speaker 1: lot going on. And it was just really such a

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Speaker 1: special weekend down in Orlando, and it clicked and it

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Speaker 1: was just easy and fun and I'm just so grateful

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Speaker 1: for our friendship. Now. Well, Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day to my new friend and uh and

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Speaker 1: more to come. Congratulations on everything. I look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing you in New York and this summer at at

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Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe American Central Championships. Get your golf game ready.

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Speaker 1: I know I need to step it up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: so this way we could be paired up again. We'll

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Speaker 1: be paired up again, and then I'll take some more

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Speaker 1: of your husband's money. Well said, we're saving now. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian Dylan, thank you so much for coming on.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you very shortly on the

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Speaker 1: Today Show. I promise I will. I will try not

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Speaker 1: to make you nervous. This was a treat. It is

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Speaker 1: conversations like these that remind me why I started Off

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Speaker 1: the Beat. Listeners, as always, you're the best. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining me. Make sure to tune in

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Speaker 1: next week for another episode of the podcast. I'll see

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Speaker 1: you soon, and whether you're listening today, really any day,

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Speaker 1: you are my Valentine. Off the Beat is hosted an

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Speaker 1: executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Langley.

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Speaker 1: Our senior producer is Diego Tapia. Our producers are Liz Hayes,

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Speaker 1: Hannah Harris, and Emily Carr. Our talent producer is Ryan

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Speaker 1: Papa Zachary and our intern is Sammy Cats. Our theme

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