Nice guy - hope he’s ok but…
In 2004, and just before Facebook, I created a private VIP web chat room that was built to allow "celebrity level only" members access to each other. The purpose was to provide exclusive connections of the Hollywood elite to the other media or industry elite - to raise money or whatever. I started by inviting a first round notables who were open source email on AOL. Al Roker was one of them. He was one of the 20% who gave me the courtesy of a thoughtful and very nice reply! He said "no", though. Ha ha!