Every morning, I have the Today Show on while I get dressed. So every morning, I get to listen to Ann, Matt, Savannah and Al discuss the must-know news of the day. On any given day this will involve some combination of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, a small child 'beating the odds' and a politician behaving badly.
But this isn't all that NBC deems a critical part of its Today Show magic. No, equally important to the Today Show's luster, is the Today Show plaza where any number of screaming fans are just waiting for ....... Al Roker?
For those of you who may not be familiar with this, Al Roker is a bald, portly, middle aged man who does the weather for the Today Show. And every morning, people from towns with names like Two Horse, One Fish and Normal clamor after him like teenagers (or me) clamoring after Justin Bieber, just hoping that he'll ask them where they're from and why they're in New York on the air.
Look here, if I'm on vacation in NYC, you can bet your bottom dollar I'm not hauling myself out of bed at 6 am to grab a Starbucks and hope my poster has more glitter than the person's next to me so that I'll be on the Today Show for a nanosecond. And you can darn well believe that my posse will not be wearing matching shirts (I'm too scarred from that from family road trips) or any other paraphernalia to get 'recognized'. No, I'm going to do what vacations are for - sleeping, eating good food, drinking good cocktails and staying up past bedtime.
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