At the National Journalism conference, press club in d. C. They still consider you a journalist . Sort of. Look at these kids. Great. Had a great time. Fresh faced and eager and want our jobs. Let me tell you something, i landed just in time to give the speech, was supposed to be on a 5 00 flight home out of d. C. , perfect, made the flight at quarter to 5 00, got on the plane, off we go on to the runway. Im like, this is so perfect. Im going to be home for dinner, la, la, la, la, la. Then what happened was, they said, theres a little bit of a ground delay. Were going to stop here for a second. Were going to turn off the engine so we dont burn a lot of gas. Click. The engine could not be restarted. We were on the runway. They had to bring jumper cables. It took an hour. It was 100 degrees on the plane because there was no power so the doors were open. Remember how hot it was . Okay. They bring the jumper cables, jump the plane, yeah. You can jump the plane . Yeah, oh, were ready to go, lets go. La, la, la, la, la. No, we have to go back to the gate for the maintenance guy to check it. We go back to the gate, theres a plane parked at the gate, fine, we wait patiently. Oh, my gosh we get to the gate, wait a second, passengers, theres now a ground delay at laguardia for an hour and a half. Did they start serving booze at this point . They gave granola bars and water. Nobody wants that. Nobody was interested in that. Its happy hour already and a granola bar aint going to make anybody happy. You know what i thought about, you said something that was really telling and important for all of us, not just for me. I always try to. Life isnt how you act, its how you react. You said how you act is one thing. You can come to your job, say good morning, give to the poor, but the minute someone cuts you off in traffic, thats the real you. I was thinking of that when i was sitting there, because i started to go crazy in my head. Someone move this bag of bolts up in the air. So i can get my egyptian home. Thats what i wanted to do. Bottom line was everyone was really calm. I was so surprised. Really . I was the one who was probably the most because youre a mother now. My dog had to go. He had to go. Also because you know how much its going to cost to get your dog walked one more time. I had no idea. The bills are coming in. Hoda says ah if you say im stuck, can you come, they do come, then they charge a late fee for booking it late. Of course. Its quite the hefty bill. Any who. You have to sell that house to pay for your dog. All right. You had no idea how expensive motherhood is. No idea. Were so excited for our friend Meredith Vieira. This is so, so clever of her. Shes getting her own new talk show, guess what its going to be called. The Meredith Vieira show. She claims she didnt want it, but bologna, we know meredith. Yes. Katie was taken, she said, that was funny, and ellen. Now she could have oprah. Oprahs gone. You know what, youre right. Call it oprah. Shell get lots of viewers. A lot of viewers. Oh, shes back. Shes changed a little. Premier in the fall of 2012. I predict a big hit. Heres the thing about meredith, this is what she has that lots of people think they can do with a lot of people like meredith do, they are lacking the authenticity chip, you know, they try to be like meredith, but they arent authentic. She is completely and totally herself. What you see is what you get and people have come to love who she is, because thats who she is. Starting in 2014, you have to wait a long time, but its coming. In the fall. All right, so every year, if you dont read espn magazine if you dont read espn magazine. I dont on a regular basis, but you might want to look at this one, its called the body issue. Its the naked athletes. It must be the biggest selling, were guessing. Look here. Lets live here. 77yearold thats franks body, actually, with gary players head on it. This guys a golf legend. Hes gotten the most attention out of all the bodies because he is 77. He works out a lot. Does 1200 crunches every morning. He can squad 250 pounds. Wow. Any way i can squat that, too, i just cant get up afterwards. I can do it. Its the getting up. He says the secret to all this is to keep your body moving, moving, moving. Good for him. He wants to encourage young people to take an interest in fitness. We have some other bodies up here. Lets look at them. Kerri Walsh Jennings posed before and after her baby. Thats beautiful. Shes the type of person that makes everybody crazy. Look, shes exactly the same. She is. Shes so tall. Shes fantastic. That hits newsstands on friday if youre interested. Did you know merediths show is coming out in september of 2014 . People go crazy over this stuff. All right. If you want to know what the number one baby girl name for 2013, according to this new list, heres the number one name. Imogen. Ive never heard of imogen. I thought it was imma jean. Sweet, charlotte and harper. Okay. Boys . Boys names, asher is number one, finn is number two, declan, from that show on another network. What is that show . Revenge. And django. Which was incredibly violent. Okay, if youve been makes cody and cassidy sound normal and boring, doesnt it . Yeah. I got a lot of flak to call my kids that. Its a frickn wild west show. A lot of people name their kids after cody and cassidy. We are going to have the wonderful Daisy Fuentes with us. She has a show thats half in spanish, half in english. Its a kids version of the voice. Were going to have her on later on in the show, but were going to do a game ourselves. Were going to choose the one that moves on. Jessica, jennifer, and alice. Okay. They are all adorable. By the way, theres a blake there. Did you see, blake was there and so was shakira. It looked like the voice exactly. We should tell who we picked and find if were wrong. All adorable. Two are a little more experienced. The first girl is by far the most accomplished singer. Im going with jennifer the second girl, just because i liked her. Were going to see who got picked. Okay, hoda, why are you yelling . Wednesday, theres something awesome coming out for dog lovers, its called dog tv. This is so crazy. Its a channel on directv that you pay for and your dog can watch other dogs having fun. While your dogs in a crate. I mean then you can get your dog a psychiatrist because your dog is unhappy. You know whats funny about dog tv, i have the tv on all the time in my apartment because i want blake not to feel lonely when the dog walker is not there. He doesnt notice the tv is on. Its noise coming from the screen, but the one time he responded was in the movie the proposal when that little dog starts going after sandra bullock, that dog makes him go crazy. You should get marley for him. Remember that movie . That was sad. No. No. Hell be grateful hes alive. Everythings relative. Oh, so sad about marley, but look at me, i have a mommy and im in a crate. Trust me on this. By the way hes in a crate hes being crate trained. Not like hes stuck in there. 15 years hell be in that crate. I did google, because i felt bad about leaving my dog. You should. Theres a whole Online Community of people who feel terrible because people have to work and cant have people sitting there with their dogs, so they said sometimes they leave in the day and feel terrible and have someone who walks in between, but they say a lot of dogs, the owners are gone during the day and then they come home. How does an animal hold its bodily needs for a year or entire day . They have walkers or neighbors or something. They arent there all the time. You need two dogs to keep each other company, hoda. Any who. Stop giving dates people cant remember. Apparently, thats what everybody wants to know. Another split for George Clooney, were wondering one thing. Are there some people that arent cut out for commitment . And is there anything wrong with that . I dont know. Well talk about that. Wondering whats going on with somebody around here for him to be back the next day. Hey kevin. Still eating chalk for heartburn . Yeah. Try new alka seltzer fruit chews. They work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. These are good. Told ya im feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. Enjoy the relief as you may have heard, George Clooney, and by the way, his mother is just fine, i never said she had passed on to the great unknown, and his girlfriend have ended their twoyear romance. Shouldnt be a surprise, clooney has said he never wanted to get married again. What is it that makes a man or woman steer clear of commitment . To answer that, weve brought back the author of get the guy, whos here with anthropologist, the smart one, helen fischer, professor at rutgers university. Its amazing, i keep coming back in spite of the abuse. Some men like to be abused. Clearly, i have some sort of issues. Lets talk lets see about the male brain, i enjoy this. Our fine anthropologist 40 million copies 400 million copies were sold of fifty shades. Tell us about the male brain, are they hard wired a certain way, some hard wired not to want commitment . Weve put men and women into the brain scanner and men fall in love faster than women do because they are so visual. They want to do more public displays of affection, they want kissing in the street, want to introduce their partner to parents, friends, and family sooner. They want to move in sooner. They want somebody to do their laundry. You know, not on a down note, but men are two and a half more likely to kill themselves when a relationship is over. Thats really something. You suffer badly. Men are very romantic, just as romantic as women. Explain George Clooney and men like him. Firstly, to that point, the fact men will move in quicker is more to do with the fact men dont attach the same meaning to things in those stages as a woman might. Are you sure . For sure. For a guy, he doesnt associate all of the same things with that moment. That doesnt mean im going to marry this girl. Hes not thinking that. Any woman whos been introduced to a mans friends and family, only a year later to find hes never going to commit will know that. So, in terms of the clooney situation, i dont know George Clooney, i dont know what hes thinking, but guys like him, firstly, what is it to be committed . Right, how long was he in a relationship for, two years . The one before that was also about two years. Did he cheat on either of those people . We dont know that and it would be rude to ask, but who knows. We dont know, right, and we havent heard about it. Thats a stronger form of commitment than most men make even when they say they are committed. Women are just as adulteress as men. Theres a lot of data on that. Id like to know who these adulteress men are sleeping with. Adulteress women. Thats going on with them, as well. I do a National Study with a wellknown dating site in the United States and only 3 of men want to date a lot of people. Theyre all looking for some form of commitment. Maybe not life long. Or a satisfying relationship. A committed relationship. Some variety. Sometimes it is lifelong. When we talk about men and their blueprint, what we are saying is what does a guy think he should be doing right now. Thats all it means. If a guy, for example, just come out of a relationship, what does he think he should be doing right now enjoying himself, playing the field, having the novelty of single life. If someone comes along that week, in that moment, even if shes perfect, hes like, oh, you werent supposed to come along right now. On the other hand, this brain system is like a sleeping cat and it can wake up at any moment and make you fall madly in love and that may well happen to George Clooney down the road. Thats true, but women have to understand theres a language that gets through to men. 27 years, im not speaking the right language. I thought english would be good, apparently not. 27 aint bad for commitment. I created a program called get the guy, but my new program is called keep the guy, specifically because so many people dont understand how to get through to guys. If, for example, a woman says i want to know what we are right now, thats one type of language that will scare a guy. If a woman said, listen, i need to understand what you think we are right now, because i have a lot of men asking me out and i need to know what to say to them, thats a type of language that is very different and now a guy gets into mint guarding. Thats so engrained in us. Women are so good at manipulating men and have been doing it for years. I bet youre a very generous person, as well. You seem like you would not pass a homeless person without being generous. What was i going to ask . Never mind. Its a wrap anyway. We are out of time. I guess well see you tomorrow and thank you for visiting with us. Come back. You guys are great together. Youre going to want to commit to sticking around for what we have next. I already forgot. All the unusual photos you submitted for what the what. You love that. No. Youre right, you dont at all. We consume over two billion cups of coffee every week without a second thought. 5hour energy has less caffeine than some starbucks coffees, plus it has vitamins and nutrients. Its simple. Caffeine with vitamins and nutrients. Its the combination that makes it so great. Before you make a decision, get the facts. Try a sip and find out why so many people love 5hour energy. 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First our caption contest. Last week we asked you to submit what you thought was going on here. Evette says, you are a way better date than that shih tzu down the street. Well reveal next weeks photo at the end, but the first photo comes from joe karen. Shasta soda flavors. Kind of an awkward abbreviation there. Mary from richardson, texas, submitted this photo. Unsweat tea. Just ruined my whole thirst. Next up a photo from judy from columbus, ohio. Flush it right down here, well take anything you got. They did that on purpose and its very funny. One mans never mind. Finally, this photo. Better than sex, a dessert restaurant. Thats right. Its better than dessert. Some people would prefer to have dessert. I would eat dessert. Cant you tell . Heres our new photo for the caption contest next week from cindy overman. Seriously . Come on. I take a fish, you take a foot. Lets do this. That is so precious. Go to our facebook page, you guys, and submit your pictures and maybe well choose you. Maybe not. Whats next, our favorite beverage, wine. Who knew next. And were back with more of today on this wednesday. And we are playing a true wines day edition of who knew to celebrate the drink that makes this job easier. Kathie lee is across the street at the nbc experience store, ready to happened out 100 to those who get the questions right, and those who dont, get kathie lees cd. Everyones a winner, kind of. To help us out, leslie jane seymour. A wine club for women called more uncorked. Yes, you can join. A lot of readers are drinking more . We have a lot of wine drinkers. Its a nice, relaxing thing to do if youre a mature executive woman. Kathie, go ahead. Zan from houston. America is the fourth largest wineproducing nation behind all but this country. France, italy, spain, or argentina . Argentina. Wow. What . Wow, she knows her vino. Tell us about that. Thats incredible. Whats interesting, america comes in behind france and italy and spain. Who knew . It makes total sense. We are a big wine drinking country. I have most of those readers. Of course you do. It makes total sense. Back across. Where are you from . Naples, florida. What was hannibal lectors wine of choice in the silence of the lambs . Chianti. You can see the scene in your head. Its so horrifying, right . But incredible that Everybody Knows this. Its incredible. My favorite is where he quotes and says, you know, i had a i ate his liver with some beans and a nice chianti. It wasnt just a regular chianti. Back across to kathie. From tuscaloosa, alabama. Everybodys beautiful in alabama. In her hit single, ironic, alanis sings about what type of wine . Chardonnay. Wow, my scandalous cd is not doing well today. All the winos are getting everything right. Chardonnay is the biggest wine in america, i guess that makes sense. Is it . Absolutely. This lady is from walkersville, maryland. Okay. Lets see. What 2004 comedy caused merlot sales to suddenly slow down . Oh, dear, notorious . [ buzzer ] no. But scandalous. Oh, i know kathies happy. All right. The correct answer there, sideways. Yes, pauls character, miles, he said that merlot is a common kind of wine, so all those great people who went to see the movie decided to drop their merlot and go to pinot noir. Back across to kathie. Michael from tuscaloosa. All these celebrities have endorsed and made their own wines except who, madonna, Kelly Clarkson, fergie, from the black eyed peas, or Justin Timberlake . Justin timberlake . Hes got one, had it made for his wedding, i think. There you go. The correct answer, Kelly Clarkson is the only one. Only holdout, absolutely. She decided not to do it. You even got Drew Barrymore in there. Do they do pretty well . Yes, they do. Its interesting. Marry wine and alcohol with celebrity and what do you got . Big sales. We have time for one more. From dunn, north carolina, and after her we are done. All of these that was for you. Thank you. I am really getting too old for this job. Thank you, thank you. Sorry. There are approximately how many bubbles in a bottle of sparkling wine or champagne . 1 million, 25 million, 50 million, or a billion . 50 million . Are people cheating . Theyve been reading my magazine. 50 million . Yes, they actually did a controlled study in the lab. They counted . They counted 750 milliliter bottle, 50 million bubbles. You wanted to know, theres your answer. We know it all, a lot more than we thought we needed. We love you, thanks for coming to see us. Thank you. Made her mark as an mtv deejay, now Daisy Fuentes is back on tv. Shes got a tv hit, shes going to tell us all about it. Could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Yep, Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know some owls arent that wise . Dont forget im having brunch with meghan tomorrow. Who . Meghan, my coworker. Who . Seriously . Youve met her like three times. Who . sighs geico. Fifteen minutes could save you. Well, you know. Your carpet stains can reappear. 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At the very top of the show we watched three young girls sing and were going to show just a tiny clip of these three, and we chose the one we thought was going to go on. This is jessica, right . Jessica, yes. Then jennifer is the second girl and another girl at the end. Kathie picked jessica, the first girl. I picked jennifer, her. I picked jennifer. One of you is right. Which one . Kathie is right. It was jennifer that won. Jennifer, that was me was it the first girl, the second girl . The second girl. I thought you picked jennifer. I picked the first girl. She is one of the 18 finalists now. Well find out if she makes it through next sunday. How old is she . Im forgetting how old she is, but all the kids are between 7 and 14. Whats it like with kids, emotions have to run high. We had our own kids voice a couple of years ago. It was tough. Its hard to say no to a child. They are so honest. They show you everything in their face. Everything that they are feeling, their excitement and then when they are let down. Youre right there with them. They sob and breakdown. Their parents hate you. Youre wearing mascara, just a mess. No, its such a fantastic show anyway, and now you add children, takes it to a whole other level. Your emotions, the level of surprise on the show is amazing. How do you find these kids . They are very talented, the ones you have. How do you find them . Very talented. They all come from the u. S. We held auditions and i think like 6,000 kids showed up. They were only able to see, like, 3,000, and only 120 make it through. When you start seeing the blind auditions, youre already seeing the best of the best. Exactly. Are we going to talk about a wig line for you . I have a wig line. Youre not wearing a wig. No, im not now, but i wear the clipon bangs and extensions and the wigs for photo shoots. We have jerry here. Jerry and jimmy. Oh, my gosh they look sexier than they ever have. They do. You do need a little wax. Spinal tap. By the way, the hair does look so natural, right . Feels natural. Curtains dont match the carpet. Hodas face. Thanks, guys, for modeling for us. The drapes dont match the carpet. Thank you, that was really fast. Airs sunday nights at 8 00 7 00 central on telemundo. Thank you. God bless. Thank you. Finally, your excuse not to exercise. Were going to tell you all about the weird things exercise can do to your body. Plus, youre going to need to workout if youve been dipping into Movie Theater munchies lately. The ones to eat and the ones to beat. Dirty and nasty after this. Dont leave us. [ male announcer ] sam knows that being healthy can be fun. See, hes chewing his vitamins. New one a day vitacraves plus fiber is a complete multivitamin. Plus a good source of natural fiber in a great tasting gummy for adults. cause who says healthy cant be fun new one a day vitacraves plus fiber. All right. Now its time for a game, a new game, we did not name it, but its called beat it or eat it. No, not another game, not called that. Its all about the foods we mindlessly munch on at movies. We have mallets. So we can beat it. The food we thought we should avoid and eat the healthier option. Who else would be putting us through this other than todays diet and health editor. Hey, how are you . This is about calorie count. This is about calorie counts. Okay, if youre at the movies, we all want something to eat at the movies. You have your mallet. Im going to give you two comparisons. Youll either beat it or eat it. Feel free to whack away the thing youll not be eating. One question, is there butter on this popcorn . Im getting to that. Unbuttered popcorn, 12 cups, or a kids meal with three cups of unbuttered popcorn, diet soft drink, and candy. You are right. This is about 700 calories. If you get the kids meal, its about half that. You can bring some baggies and divide this up. They dont like when you go into the theater and take your own popcorn. Youre not. Bringing the bag and filling it. What if they ask you, did you bring it in . What kind of a does that . Lets compare some candy. We have a box of junior mints and the same amount of m ms. Oh you are right these are around 700 i want to do it again. You can divide this up if you want the whole box for yourself, just have a whole box of junior mints for about half those calories. I love junior mints. Next, something i know these girls really like is red licorice. This is a movie pack, five ounces, of red licorice versus this is an icy, those frozen drinks you can have. I want to eat those, im only going to hit it once. You are right. This is what you want to beat. This whole pack is 500 calories. The whole pack is 500 . When i was stuck on the plane i ate a jumbo pack. Heres your serving, three or four. What do i look like . Mrs. Maria, youre confessing to me . Come on, hoda, youll know this. Chewy fruit snacks versus gummies. Beat it or eat it . These are hard to beat. Like roaches, nothing happens. This is one serving, 500 calories, knock it in half by getting the fruit snacks. Lets not bang these up, because i love these. Now were going to get to real food. Nachos versus soft pretzel. Boy, dont like those nachos. I love them. Youre right, 700 calories. The cheese. What happened to the cheese . The cheese then oh, my gosh, theres the cheese thats nasty. All right. Dont want to beat a pretzel just for fun . This is about 350 calories, too. Its no bargain, but you can buy some water in the movies, add some low calorie sweeteners. You dont get to beat this. Some people in the movies, these are eat it, not beat it. Pickle you can have some beef jerky if you want. Ask your Movie Theaters for these things. Who wants beef jerky in a movie . Some people do. Madeleine nobody does. Lets beat madeleine. There you go, im ready. I just stepped on the pickle. Now that weve eaten all this stuff, of course, were going to talk about exercising next. All the strange things it can do to your body. But first, this is today on nbc. I wanted that cheese. If youve been looking for any reason not to go to the gym, well, thats what were here for. All right. Apparently exercise does some bizarre things to your body, like causing you to break out in hives or you get a stabbing pain in your side. And Readers Digest covers these issues. And how to avoid them. Welcome, ladies. We should point out were not telling people do not exercise, were kind of showing red flags that may pop up as you do. Exactly. Exercise is one of the healthiest things you can do every day. Were trying to troubleshoot the things that can keep you from working out. One thing called the leaky faucet, when your nose is dripping while youre working out. In the middle of spinning class and your nose starts running and youre trying to wipe it on the sleeve or towel and whats happening is youre breathing more through your nose and your nose dries out. And you start turning out more mucous to make up for it. What should we do . Carry a bunch of tissues or ask your doctor for prescription for a nasal spray that you can spray before you workout to prevent it from leaking on you. Nothing wrong with that, it just happening. Your body is trying to protect you. It doesnt happen to me if im in a gym, it happens to me if im out running. They think pollution may play a role, too, air quality. Sometimes when youre running you get the side stabbing in your ribs, oh, my god, what is that, you want to stop and walk. What is that . Most annoying things that can happen to runners, its your diaphragm spasming from breathing heavily. What should you do, just stop . Take a rest, slow it down, slow down your breathing, stretch out, but honestly happens more when youre not in shape or starting to workout again, so as you get more physically active, it should go away. Okay. Theres something ive seen when people work out, their face turns bright, bright red. Youre afraid they are going to have a heart attack. This is really a total normal thing. Its your bodys way of cooling down during a workout, so your blood vessels in your face are dilating. People that dont sweat a lot, they are the ones their face gets real, real red. Its a total, natural thing. What your body is doing is trying to release heat so its opening up blood vessels closer to your skin. So have little spray bottles. When do you know theres a problem when youre overheat something. If youre getting really hot, you feel you might faint, youre sweating a lot, outside particularly in weather like this, it could be a sign of heat exhaustion. What if someone were to break out in hives when they were working out . I would stop working out immediately. Sounds like the oldest excuse in the book, you could be allergic to exercise, sometimes its true. Its the heat and the sweat and can make your body break out in a red rash. You should see your doctor for it to make sure theres nothing else going on. What else could cause such a thing . Could be allergic to something in the environment causing hives, but if everything checks out okay, you can hold it off by trying to exercise in a colder environment. Lastly, if you are running, walking, whatever, and have to run to the restroom all the time and youre in a panic, is there an issue happening there . Its a little bit of an embarrassing issue, runners dont like to talk about it, but its surprisingly common, people call it runners trots. And basically whats happening is for a long runner, even a long walk, your body is moving blood away from your digestive track. That can irritate things and get things going. Thank you, ladies, for joining us. Not going to get a cure . No, live with it. Its called pepto. Water and avoid fatty foods. Tomorrow, country star and former hootie and the blow fish Darius Rucker is with us. Plus, meals you can pack up for a day at the beach. Also ambush makeovers. Have a great wines day, everybody. Tomorrow is thirsty thursday. Jeff the hit brit girl band the days. Girls or boys. I dont know where they get it from. Jeff you already have this life back in the uk. World domination. Jeff the new reality show. Wow, you girls review quite a bit. And a hot new single. Whatever the weather we will be together [ applause ] jeff hello, hello roll it all right. A little about me. Im recently married. I work with my wife on this show. And im learning how to be a dad to two amazing kids in a blended family. Im hosting a talk show cause theres a lot to talk about