Al Roker | Weathering Life
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Al Roker is a co-anchor of NBC’s Today, an Emmy-award winning journalist, and a New York Times bestselling author. He has been at NBC for 40 years and he's the celebrated host of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He is also a host on SiriusXM's Off the Rails and the owner of production company Al Roker Entertainment, Inc. He recently starred in Broadway's Waitress.
What many people don’t know, though, is that Al is also an award-winning television producer and CEO of Al Roker Entertainment, Inc. For the past 26 years, his company has produced TV programs and digital content for network, cable, digital, and streaming channels including The Weather Channel, Science Channel, Nat Geo, Food Network, Discovery, TLC, NBC, CBS, among others, as well as commercials, and branded entertainment for a wide array of sponsors and non-profits. The recent ARE production, Side by Side, celebrated the frontline workers in NYC. Al Roker Entertainment helps brands forge deeper connections by producing social good content through traditional storytelling, docu-dramas, first-person narratives, and reality TV-inspired feel-good themes. And, Al is also a writer, his latest book, You Look So Much Better in Person, (https://amzn.to/3jcF9HI) is part memoir and advice-guide for crafting a rewarding career.
You can find Al Roker at:
Website : https://alrokerentertainment.com/al-roker/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/alroker/
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| 0:00.0 | So what do you think of when you hear the name Al Rugger? Well, Al is my guest today. And |
| 0:12.0 | most people think about the fact that he's been a co-anger of NBC's today and Emmy award-winning |
| 0:17.0 | journalist, New York Times bestselling author. He's been at NBC for 40 years. He's a celebrated |
| 0:22.5 | host of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He's also a host on serious XM's off the |
| 0:29.0 | rails. But that is part of what we see as sort of like the forward-facing Al Rugger. What's |
| 0:34.9 | also been going on for the last 26 years behind the scenes is Al is the CEO of Al Rugger Entertainment. |
| 0:41.4 | And they produce programs and digital content for network cable digital streaming channels, |
| 0:47.8 | everything from the weather channel, Nat Geof and Food Network to TLC, NBC, CBS, and so many others. |
| 0:54.6 | Recent productions also include Side by Side, a celebration of frontline workers in New York City, |
| 1:00.3 | and they have helped brands forge deeper connections by producing social good content through |
| 1:05.7 | storytelling, docu-jamas, first-person narratives, and reality TV inspired feel-good themes. And |
| 1:12.3 | Al is also a writer. In fact, he's written a lot of books. His latest book, you look so much |
| 1:18.3 | better in person. Is this really fun and also valuable? Part memoir, part advice guide for |
| 1:25.6 | crafting a rewarding career? We dive into all of this in today's conversation. So excited to |
| 1:31.2 | share it with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:43.3 | For the seventh year on the Code Switch podcast, conversations about race and identity |
| 1:47.8 | go way beyond the day's headlines. Because we know what's part of every person is part of every |
| 1:53.3 | story. We're bringing that perspective with new episodes every week. Listen on the Code Switch |
| 1:58.8 | podcast from NPR. It sounds like your jam when you're young or also was drawing or being a cartoonist. |
| 2:08.9 | That was the thing that was calling you. Yeah, I loved animated cartoons. I love comics. |
| 2:16.8 | My dream job was to be an animator for Walt Disney. And I really wanted to go. A lot of the |
| 2:24.1 | Golden Age comic book artists went to the New York School of Graphic Art and Design, public school, |
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