Ryan Seacrest Shares His Plans for Hosting "Wheel of Fortune" & Opening More 'Seacrest Studios' (September 2023)
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. |
| 0:12.7 | Got a great one for you this week |
| 0:14.4 | with the busiest man in show business, |
| 0:17.0 | Mr. Ryan Seacrest. |
| 0:19.5 | You know about everything this man does, |
| 0:21.4 | the host of American Idol, New Year's Eve in Times Square. |
| 0:25.3 | He hosted live with Kelly and Ryan for a bunch of years in the morning. |
| 0:29.6 | He executive produces tons of reality shows that you know and love. You know he's got |
| 0:34.2 | three radio shows and has filled the shoes in jobs of his heroes growing up people |
| 0:39.9 | like Casey Kacum and Rick D's and Dick Clark, even Merv Griffin now as the new host of |
| 0:47.0 | Wheel of Fortune. All these people he looked up to he's worked for or with over the years. You won't believe it when you hear him talk, but from the time he's about 10 years old growing up outside Atlanta, he knew what he wanted to be, which was a radio guy, a broadcaster. He mowed lawn, saved money, not to buy like a baseball glove or |
| 1:06.3 | GI Joes or any of that stuff. He wanted a mixer and a headset so he can start doing radio broadcasts at home. |
| 1:14.0 | And he did it. |
| 1:15.0 | It's a guy who's known what he wanted from a young age. |
| 1:17.0 | He went to the University of Georgia for a little while, |
| 1:20.0 | left at 19 to go to LA and begin this career of his and look at him now. It has brought |
| 1:25.9 | him to a place of success and this is really cool and this is why he was in New York |
| 1:29.4 | and we got a chance to sit down to open these Seacrest studios what they are and I've been to the one in |
| 1:35.1 | Nashville read some children's books there with my wife they set up in children's |
| 1:39.9 | hospitals state-of-the-art studio, you know, radio, you can do podcast, you can broadcast to all |
| 1:46.5 | the rooms in the hospital and bring some joy to the patients. Some of them can come down and listen and watch others because of germs and |
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