![]() ![]() I don’t have the same difficulty distancing myself from my work as maybe some people do. When I’m not doing a story about a crime, I’m thinking about something else. It probably has something to do with the fact that for most of my career, I wasn’t a crime reporter - I did all kinds other stuff, so I had many different sorts of interests. it doesn’t tend to carry over into bedtime: When it’s time to relax, it’s time to relax, move on to something else. How I deal with the stress of my job: You’d think it would affect a person more than it does. I met him, oh gosh, he was 75 back then … I asked him, “What do you do, you’re on the road all the time, there’s all this crappy food around, how do you stay healthy and keep reasonably fit?” because he looked terrific. I would add only one thing, something I actually heard Mike Wallace say once. ![]() Those kind of sunk in, and I’m careful about what I eat. Jack had his “Lalannisms,” as he called them, and they were really not so much about the kind of exercise you should do, they were about diet, they were about nutrition. I walk as much as I can, I try not to overeat, I follow the advice of the great Jack Lalanne, who I used to do stories about for years. How I stay healthy on the road: I think luck mostly. ![]() Sometimes when I brush my hair I have to whack it with something to make sure it doesn’t blow around in the wind. My skin-care and hair-care routine: In a word: nothing. Everybody gets anxious or worked up sometimes, but I just don’t seem to as much as many people do. I think that probably is as useful a tool as anything else. My wife calls me the Buddha, not because I necessarily have a wonderful philosophy about life, just because things don’t bother me a whole lot. ![]() Wellness, to me, is: I’m not one of those people who frets about wellness a lot. My morning routine is so varied - you never know where you’re gonna be - but, when I’m at home, I get a cup of tea for my wife and I and we’ll read the paper and take the dog for a walk. How I start my mornings: I always hope to wake up alive, and if I’ve done that …. Ahead of Friday’s episode, we spoke to Morrison on how he separates himself from the dark stories he works on and his refreshingly laid-back views on wellness. Despite his demanding schedule traveling around the country to cover grisly cases, at 69 years old, the Canadian broadcast journalist looks as youthful as ever. NBC’s Dateline has been satisfying the nation’s obsession with true crime for 25 seasons now, with correspondent Keith Morrison serving as the familiar face - and voice - of the show for nearly as long. Now we know that Morrison simply wants to look relaxed.Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images “It just became a thing.”Īctor Dax Shepard recently told People magazine that he loves “Dateline NBC” because of Morrison’s “ability to lean on almost any surface (barbed wire, fire, wind), his high-octane brand of empathy and his spot-on eye for pairing any environment with the perfect leather jacket.” “Whenever I’ve had to do a standup, I figured the best thing to do, is to look relaxed and not look too excitable on camera, so I just lean on something,” Morrison said. Then you see when people are kind of waiving their arms around while they’re talking to you with their hands,” Morrison said. They start at one place and walk, walk, walk while they’re talking to you. “If you watch, you’ll see people walking. If you’re reading a little bit of copy and talking into a camera, I suppose, to tell part of the story you can’t cover with video or insert yourself in them somehow, I’ve never been too fond of to be honest,” Morrison said. “If you watch TV news for any length of time … a reporter appearing in a story is called a standup. We pressed Morrison for more information on how this all started. “How it became a thing? I don’t know,” Morrison told TheWrap.Īlso Read: 'Dateline NBC's' Keith Morrison Had to Be 'Dragged Into' True-Crime Storytelling (Exclusive) The bio states, “If you’re watching ‘Dateline’ right now, chances are high that Keith Morrison is leaning on something.” Morrison’s habit also has a Facebook page and had been discussed in various Reddit threads. Morrison leans on so many things that there is an Instagram page dedicated to it. “Dateline NBC” correspondent Keith Morrison has built up a cult-hero fanbase of loyal true crime fans, but they all seem to have one question: Why is he always leaning on something? ![]()
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