After all, helium was featured successful People’s 2020 Sexiest Man Alive issue, adjacent though he’s jokingly denied the credibility of that vote.

“You privation to speech astir wherever determination mightiness beryllium ballot fraud and wherever determination mightiness beryllium tabulation errors,” Steve quipped connected an occurrence of The Rich Eisen Show astatine the time. “Whoever added that up for that People mag thing, I don’t cognize however I got connected that list. I archer people, 'They got the live portion right.'"

As for however the 45-year-old powers done hours of tireless coverage on with being the internet’s full-time boyfriend? Well, it involves an abundance of sorting done and knowing data.

“It’s a batch of spreadsheets, a batch of numbers, a batch of trying to memorize things,” Steve said connected Today past November. “I accidental 99 percent of what I hole for I volition ne'er enactment connected the air, but you don’t cognize what that 1 percent is.”

And to marque each that mentation imaginable earlier the vigor from his fans fills him with adrenaline, helium relies connected a small spot of help.

“I'll portion a ton of Diet Coke,” helium admitted to GQ successful 2020. “I couldn't adjacent archer you however many. It’s conscionable benignant of a changeless supply.”

“On a mean day, I'll person a couple,” helium continued. “But connected predetermination night, I conscionable support it adjacent and I’m conscionable benignant of regularly utilizing it. These days [people] each archer you, ‘Oh, bash you cognize what's successful that?’ And I say, ‘Well, nary I don't.’ But I conjecture it is expected to beryllium atrocious for you.”

As Steve prepares for his caller vocation venture, instrumentality a look backmost astatine his champion khaki moments…

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