When I was about 11 or 12, I figured out if you could get the back of the TV off and

run wire from the leads of the speaker into the line-in of the tape deck, I could record

the audio off of TV shows.

So I've always loved TV, but I never thought I would be on TV.

Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

A lot of times they'll do these surveys of the most trusted professions, and a lot of

times, like nurses tend to be up near the top.

A lot of people trust nurses, firefighters are also very trusted.

But I think in media, when they do these surveys, it's basically always the weather men

and weather women.

It's the weather people.

They're the most trusted.

They're probably like they loom outsize, I think, in people's media consumption or imagination.

In some ways, because they give you, I mean, this is particularly true before the internet

era, when I was a young man.

Before you could go online and figure out the weather was that day, like the way you found

out what the weather was was from the person on television or the radio.

And in my case, because we were in NBC home and we would watch the Today Show every morning,

it was from Willard Scott and then Al Roker.

And I've been watching Al Roker for all of my adult life and probably most of my actual

life.

He is a super fascinating dude who's got a long, a sort of massive portfolio of all kinds

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