Shelton and gwen stefani. And the inspiring story of a woman who turned her idea into a business. And susie welch has her story. I like having susie with us. Shes such a class act, and shes so smart. And youll hear about mothers and daughters or fathers and sons, today we have a mother and son singing duo, madison ward and the mama bear. I cant wait to hear that. Their first album hit number one on the alternative new artist chart. Isnt that exciting . How was your weekend . My kids are home for the holidays, so it was filled with that. But on friday, every year i go, for the last six or so years with my friend dr. Pat wexler, my dermatologist, and shes a great woman. I love her to pieces. And she always has a table there. We hosted this last year. Theres pat with a bunch of bernadette there, and meredith, oh, thank you, thank you. Mamie. It was great to be sitting at a table with them. I brought my stuff with me. I know your stuff. Because i did it last year and everybody enjoyed it, so i brought a rose and a chardonnay, and the stuff. I wont say the name. All of a sudden were in the middle of lunch, and meryl streep goes like this to me. Pointing, and i go what . The rose . And i said, what, the red . Shes going, i said, listen, you speak 15 languages, just talk to me in one of them. She goes chocolate she wanted the chocolate. I thought it was hysterical. But then again, maybe im losing it. Heres worlds greatest actress pointing to me. Chocolate. She already had the stuff. But it was a lovely, lovely, and thats an amazing organization, they raised 1. 2 million and provides like 1 87,000 nutritious meals to elderly people. So gail green, who was the food editor, i believe, for the New York Times years ago started it with another great chef beard. Im trying to remember. Its been a busy weekend. Anyway, theyre national. Thats great. I want to wish a happy birthday to my brother who turned 50, 50 years old. Thefys a crazy steelers fan. There was a Big Surprise Party at his house, and everyone was there, my moms hear. You can see the back of her head. Everybody was thrilled. My brothers a huge steelers fan. On the back it said old man. But he said it was oldman, not old man. But as a surprise i had Franco Harris, who is such a huge, huge Football Player for the steelers. I set up a secret call. And i said you have a caller on the line. And my brothers like, hello . And Franco Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers started singing happy birthday to you. And my brother goes, oh, my god, i know your voice. And i conferenced in my Brothers Best friend, malcolm. And malcolm who never stops talking couldnt say one word. Harris . And then . And then i was off to miami. I did something for the ymca in miami, but it was also nascar. It was the big, it was jeff gordons very last raise ce. And i hadnt been to a big nascar thing like that. Very noisy. Its crazy. If youre not prepared for it, its shocking. And it was also pouring rain, which i didnt know. But you know what they do at nascar when it rains . They put their poncho things on. And they dance they crank up music, they crank up music, and they dance. And i got to tell you, it was so it ended up being so much fun, you know me, i hate a wet day. You knew were you going to get on a plane to go home. I was getting into it. And then i got to do the, what do they say . Drivers start. So here it is. We have to watch it so the they didnt make enough money on that movie. Drivers start your engines okay. So that was it. Anyway, that was it. And there was one other oh, you got to ride around the track. I had no idea. The track is like sideways when youre riding up. Jeff came in sixth. But it was kind of nice for him to have his last raise. And i want to give a shout out to this other guy. Tim mcfwrau happened to be at this thing, look behind the picture. Thats Master Sergeant greg barker, okay . I promised him we would say his name on tv. Anyway, kyle busch did win his first sprint cup series, so congrats to him. Its just one of those kinds of days. My dear friend lisa kit ridge and her daughters and friends are visiting. Hi, kiddos. I wonder if they were up late i watch add hour of it. Jennifer lopez started the show with a bang. Keep in mind shes 46. Yeah. Oh, my gosh okay. First of all, an awesome song. I love that she went to all the medley of super songs. She did . To me. And we have more of the ama coming up on our buzz. So adele was on snl. She disappears for four years adele. Album, 25. So she did this, she has this song hello, that everybody loves. There was this snl sketch where a familys having these kind of family arguments that people have over thanksgiving dinner. Yeah, there are certain things you should never discuss because it never goes well. Politics. This is how they cleared it up. Take a look. And i am ready to vote for ben carson. You are such a hello from the outside at least i can can you doesnt break you apart ooh you have to watch the beginning. Its really funny. Its when everything gets tense hello. But nobodys talking about matthew. Adele. I know, but it was good. That big special of hers airs soon on nbc. City. Kate middleton, every time she shows up, she looks better. Shes such a beautiful girl. She was spotted wearing a different type of outfit, not the type she usually wears, and look at her. Oh, my gosh, dont you want to be her . I want to be her age. She is gram russly rock climbing. She seems to have an authentic, genuine relationship. Are those leggings . Red jacket. Kelly clarkson has released a new video of her song piece by piece. And she has her own little adorable river road. She makes a cameo at the end. Take a look to never break her heart piece by piece in the soul a man can be kind and a father should be oh. Oh. Oh, my god. Just keep showing it. Shes beautiful. And now shes having her second child, right . Thats a boy. Great, great, great. We are going to talk about our favorite things. You know our beautiful jill martin. Every time jill tells me why am i reaching for that . Our beautiful jill martin showed me this product a while ago and she said kathy, its one of the best, best things ive ever tried. Its called pure argan milk by josie maran. Oh, yeah. I like josie. We dont know what do you do with it . Didnt she give you some too . It looks like milk. And you put it on your bare skin. You put it on before your makeup and stuff . Is it like a lotion . But its not greasy at all. And it makes a difference. Its lovely. Ooh, its very velvety. If you want a good book, please go get their book. Its by mitch albom. This book is amazing. If you love music and beautiful writing, its for you. Its written from the perspective as music as a character and music talks about how he infused different singers. Its got a beautiful plot. I cant put it down. Its mitch alboms the Magic Springs of frankie presto. Thats an unusual book. Great, great. From a starstudded wedding to a special birthday for a leading lady and a brandnew baby on the way. We have all the scoop coming in you were busy this weekend making a mad dash for lastminute thanksgiving ingredients, you may have missed out on all the celebrity scoop. But dont worry, we have all the highlights in todays buzz. We have dave carger. A big wedding in palm beach. What is that about . Sophia ver fia vergara, they got married at the breakers. Fantastic guest list, channing tatum, reese witherspoon. Wow, look at that. Whats interesting is sofia instagramed the entire wedding. Thats great for her fans. But it kind of like she was the friend from work who you asked to show a couple wedding pictures, and after a half hour, youre like, okay. But they were gorgeous. I did love the whole vibe of the party. It had this festive atmosphere. It was raining there, right . It was an indoor wedding, right . And the night before they had this great Rehearsal Party where joe serenaded her with sweet child of mine, guns and roses, interesting choice. There it is. Its a quick Instagram Video that one of the guests put up. I cant get a handle on whether hes singing well or not, but i dont care. Its the gesture. Great couple. Lets talk about amas. One direction did really well. Its the first time any artist has won this award two years in a row. Its good for them because their album debuted only to number two because Justin Bieber beat them. That was a close one. Did promoting that. They all worked hard. Theres been a lot of talk about nicki minajs reaction as j. Lo was up. A lot of people think she was giving the stink eye. People were rewatching the face. Theres nikki. Jennifers dancing to nikkis song anaconda. The question is, is she not happy with it . She put a tweet out. She said she was watching herself in the monitor and looking over at the performance, and there was nothing to be taken out of it. Actually, when i look at it now, it doesnt look like she was giving the stink eye at all. If nicki minaj has a problem with you, shes going to tell you. The performance. People wanted it to be the whole battle of the booty. Gwen had on an interesting outfit. People are calling it pantsless. There are so many cutouts. Its not interesting anymore. It used to be when somebody did something risque, now everybody has less on. Go back to classy. So gwen stefani did sing her song used to love you, and Blake Shelton tweeted his support. He wasnt actually there. It kind of makes you think, this new relationship, and shes singing about this old relationship. When youre in a new relationship, you dont want your lover to be talking about their ex all the time. Can you talk about celine dion . Yeah, beautiful images of paris in the back. And jared leto introduced her, because his band played at the bataclan theater a few months ago and talked about an experience for him. Id never heard of the theater there. I guess its quite famous, though. A lot of rock bands play there. Picking up that ringing phone . It could be us on the other end, but maybe not. We meet our fan of the week. Then a thanksgiving table that looks like youre inviting, it looks as inviting as the feast itself. Right after the messages. Gels are new. Mucinex fast max. Its the same difference. These are multisymptom. This one is max strength and fights mucus. That one doesnt. Uh. Think fast you dropped something. On the shelf. New from mucinex fast max. The only cold and flu liquid gel thats maxstrength and fights mucus. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Americans. But many of us there are nutrients that can our metabolism. Healthy metabolism with chromium to help and bvitamins to help convert food to fuel. One a day. I take pictures of sunrises, i couldnt sleep and get up in time. Then i found aleve pm. Aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. Im back. Its time to surprise our drum roll please while we spin the globe, and today it has landed in laurel, mississippi. Thats where our fan Stephanie Harris watches us on channel 7. Shes joining us now voe ia skype. I hope we can hear you. Whos with you . [ inaudible ] were going to tell everybody why you were chosen. They are best friends, they met 14 years ago at their kids school. Two teenagers and a great husband, and their favorite show happens to be ours. So theyre geniuses too. In between volunteering and carting their kids around, they find time to watch our show, even if they have to dvr it. And stephanie joked because she likes taupe nail polish and billy graham. And the other one is more like me and likes hiphop. Last year they gave each other our books as presents. Its time to put your fandom to the test. You have 15 seconds and one guess, you need to answer correctly, are you ready . Ask im ready. After we give it away after the show on tuesday, what does kathie lee like to do to hoda . Braid her hair . Give her a massage . Or play spanky tuesday . Lets show her. Look at them. Theyre doing it. You do it you do it you do it never mind. Why do i kill myself . Guess what, gang, you won a fabulous vacation, you and a guest. It has to be melanie. To costa rica. Youre going to stay for four days, three nights. Youll receive a spa treatment, canopy tour, round trip airfare included. Its all thanks to a thermal resort. Wow, how much fun. Are you excited . Yay i like that. We love it. All right, you guys, thank you so much. Happy thanksgiving, guys all righty. Impress your thanksgiving guests with an elegant dinner table. Hoda, i want you to bring out the china. A Small Business entrepreneur who puts the cos in cosmetics. I absolutely love my new york apartment, but the rent is outrageous. Good thing geico offers affordable renters insurance. With great coverage it protects my personal belongings should they get damaged, stolen or destroyed. X [doorbell] uh, excuse me. Delivery. Hey. Lo mein, szechwan chicken, chopsticks, soy sauce and you got some fortune cookies. Have a good one. Ah, these small new york apartments. Protect your belongings. Let geico help you shop small on today is sponsored by American Express. This Small Business saturday, november 28th, show off and shop small. And it is monday, and this upcoming weekend marks Small Business saturday. The annual vent sponsored by American Express encourages consumers to show a little love to their mom and pop shops in their area. We speak to a young entrepreneur whos working to make a difference. I got to go out and spend a few hours with krista whos created a line of cosmetics with a cause. Seattle, the city of good will and Small Business success stories. Thats where we caught up with chrissa. Two years ago you woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a Business Plan on your iphone. Night. I started as a Makeup Artist when i was 16 years old, but i always knew i wanted to develop products. My friend caitlyns dad worked for mac. Bathroom. And i thought oh, my gosh i have to do this. She even offered to do my makeup. And she tells me it was during those early days as an entrepreneur where she got creative. The original formulas started in my kitchen. Our adhesive, the base of our eyeliner formulation and brow liner as well originated in my blender. The thing is, in order to develop products that are truly effective, you have to start from scratch. And start from scratch, she did. Theyve been flying off the shelves. From mixing up makeup in the kitchen to wiping out her savings account. I dont come from a lot of money, thats why i used my savings. How much was it . 50,000. Pair that with a Strong SocialMedia Presence and she had her first sale. She turned it into a way of giving back. I was inspired to give Something Back to the cancer community. From the very ginning, i knew that for every product purchased, one would be given to a woman who was going through cancer treatment. It came after her best friend was diagnosed with a rare form of sarcoma at 23 years old. Sadly she lost her battle a year after finding out she was ill. She this rived through the experience. Every woman, every person deserves to thrive and wants to thrive. Galen knows what it is to thrive. At age 19, she was diagnosed with the same cancer that took christies life. Like many battling the disease, herself. It is really rough. I didnt expect whosing e losing my hair to have that much of an impact. It had such an impact on how i viewed myself. So to get her lashes was a real gifl. They work even without the presence of real eye lashes. It was one of the few times i felt beautiful again. During the nine months that she was sick, galen lived in the Ronald Mcdonald house, now she returns regularly to help bring comfort to the young people who remain there. Its been less than a year since she officially launched thrive. And while the majority of the sales have been online, shes got big plans. We want to expand our product line and launch in department becoming an entrepreneur isnt easy, but when asked what she would say to someone thinking about starting their own Business People are so willing to help if you just ask them. It doesnt matter if theyre the ceo of loreal or a chemist in a lab. If you ask them for help, nine yes. And when you know you are working toward a greater good, that makes it all worth it. What do you think she would say to you if she could . Yeah. Wow. She named her products after thrivers who have inspired her, including an eyeliner after you, hoda. Oh be that that was a beautiful story. These are awesome. That was great, suzy, thanks. Dont forget to shop Small Businesses this saturday. Have a thanksgiving table thats a feast for the eyes. Speaking of eyes, lets get kleenexs. Karl, dont you have friends coming over . Yeah, so . It stinks in here. Youve got to wash this whole room are you kidding . Wash it . For all the things you cant wash, use. Febreze fabric refresher hey mrs. Webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze. To continuously eliminate. Up to 45 days of freshness pluggable febreze and fabric refresher. [inhale exhale mnemonic]. , two more ways to in just three days, well be digging into a big juicy turkey with all the trimmings. And while your menu may be set, its your table that makes the first impression. Here is editor in chief of house beautiful, sophie donaldson. You look beautiful, and you match your table. Im an autumn. We can tell. What should we get started with when were working on the table. A big eye dhee makes it fancy and grand is height. Thats the number one thing most people leave out. So you dont have to buy things to get it. You can use a few things in your cupboard already. But you dont want to block no, so you can also dismantle. You can take the decoration off and put food on there and you have a beautiful variance. Cake stands are a total win, and not everyone has them. So what i have is a great idea for stacking, as you can see. These are simple ramekins from crate and barrel. This is a teacup. Stack right on top. Theres no tabletop accidents, but youre just Building Height and making different levels, and of course greenery, which makes everything fabulous. And you didnt use your traditional flowers and such. This is all herbs. You dont need another thing to do. This idea is that you already have to get fresh herbs for your recipes. Just double, triple, quintuple the herbs that you buy, you can use them at the table and put them back in the refrigerator and use them later. And it smells amazing. What about the runner . This is two runners. I bought them in the same color. The idea is to feel on lens and renaissance abundance idea. You can take it out of the drier and keep that crinkle going or this one i twisted and bunched and snaked around. Its burlap. You can use starch to scrunch it up and make body, and the idea is to tuck moments of light and greenery throughout. How about the napkins . I love the napkins. Another thing, instead of buying napkins that youre only going to use once a year, i was suggesting dishtowels. Theyre from world market, not even a couple bucks each. Great stemware. Its only 4 each you said at crate and barrel. So cute. Theyre really pretty. Napkin, final product. You want to try to fold a napkin . Good try, hoda oh, lord. In half like this. Okay. The long way. And youre going to make an envelope top. So one corner down. Other corner down, catch up, hoda. This is so simple. Youre doing great. Perfect. And then fold up. And over. Okay. Almost. Take us to the kids table. The kids table. The whole idea here, make it feel special for the kids. They have their own goblets, which is so easy. And markers, you can create with this gel marker, a place setting for them to learn how to set their own table and cute little letters, if theyre older kids, thank you. Very cute. From dinner to family to family music. Before there could be a nation, there had to be people willing to fight for it, to take on the worlds greatest challenges, whatever they might be. So, the u. S. Army masters not only tactics and strategy, but also physics and chemistry. We make battle plans and create breakthroughs in medicine, science and engineering. Our next mission could be anything. So we prepare for everything. [cough, cough] mike . Janet . Cough if you can hear me. 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Ive got a couple songs i play them on the corner at dawn and tell the people i just need a place to go so i dont sleep on the lawn but last night i slept in a big yellow taxi my imagination that was a story i told even though i froze got a couple of nickels a couple licks i can play and now youre fixin to pay everybodys cheapin now im sleepin in my taxi today last night i slept in a big yellow taxi my imagination told me i was in the back seat of gold that was the story i showed even though my pants and clothes are froze, even my jacket was cold oohwah oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ooh, ooh, oohwah even though my pants and clothes are froze even my jacket was cold maybe i should call it a night a night yes, but now my money is tight in the city lights i dont want to go last night i slept in a big yellow taxi my imagination told me i was in the back seat of gold even though my pants and clothes are froze even my jacket was cold last night i slept in a big yellow taxi my imagination told me i was in the back seat of gold that was the story i told oh, oh, even though my pants and clothes are froze even my jacket was cold yes yes yes madison ward and mama bear. 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Thank you, ladies and happy thanksgiving. If youd like to donate, stop by the plaza monday. And the details are at klg and hoda. Com