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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.