This is my fight song rachel is here. Shes going to sing her new single for us. This is thirsty thursday. Its january 7th, and that is called fight song. You know what i love about her story . She worked 15 years in this business and she never gave up until she got her first hit. I love that. Dont mess with my dreams and i love that. Shes going to sing a song for the very first time right here on our show. We honored she chose us. We are. Two southern women made their way up north to our plaza to freeze their buns off one is celebrating a birthday. The other is on a girls trip. Theyre going back to their hometowns with hot new makeovers. And grab your makeup bags, ladies, and open up your bathroom cabinets, because our girl Bobbie Thomas is going to find out how old your stuff is. Get it off the shelves. Did she get some of your stuff . Did you, bobbie . She said she wouldnt touch it. Health risk. Its a health risk. Just put gloves on, apparently something on the other day was the peoples choice awards. Jane lynch was hosting. Its fun to look at fashions. This is the pregolden globe. I guess its the first award show of the actual award season. All right. So anyway, heres some of the fashions we picked out. Do we match today . We tried. This is a little messy. We apologize. Ellen degeneres and Portia De Rossi looked elegant in black and white. They sure do. Humanitarian award and favorite day time tv host. Wait, we didnt win that . Okay. Kate hudson looked great in the white strapless jump suit. She has got it going. A beautiful Melissa Mccarthy in fun sequined pants. Good for her. She is. It takes courage for anybody to wear sequin pants and good for her. Look at meghan trainor. We love her. Those are shorts . It looks like a skort. It says short black sequins. No. I think its a short black dress. Okay. Apparently there was an altercation. I love that word. Well, okay, so the talk the cast from the talk won the peoples choice award and some guy rushed the stage and decided it was going to be his moment, not their moment. Take a look. We think ourselves as kind of the oddballs of tv or we say were like a motley crew. My name is kevin. Shout out to kevins new album huhuh, that aint going to happen up here. You aint going to pull no steve no, sir. He ate up all their time. Sharon really did kick him. She did. And there could be a lawsuit. Lets follow that in courts, how about, why did she say steve harvey . Youre pulling a steve harvey. Its more a kanye. Right. Leave steve harvey alone. By the way, i want to i meant to tweet him and it life got away from me. Good for steve harvey. He handled it perfectly. Hes such a class guy. Hes such a good guy. We love him. We do. We have steve harvey today. Yeah, any day now. Any moment. Now, lets see. We had sonya here. Sonya is our brow lady. Shes the best brow person in the world. And she now comes when she used to just come and do my eyebrows and yours and christines, now she does the entire today show. Everybody just lines up for sonya to do their brows. Heres a question what about the boys. All right, well, shes been doing our boy force a while, so to speak. She has . Yes, matt. She does matts eyebrows . She sure does. I had no idea matt groomed his eyebrows. Sonyas last name. Say it, chad. Vunsac. Something like that. She just added a mens only bar at her brow bar in manhattan. Shes got a distinctive man vibe. Men care just as much about their grooming. Many of them do as we do. And were just happy for her. She is just a sweet woman. For the first time im looking at the brows of our crew. I never was looking at that portion. Any of you guys mmhmm. She did jimmy. You guys look good. Okay. All right. Somebody doesnt need look at davey, daveys are perfect. Ah, yes, beautiful. Its a private little room. Men who are a little embarrassed by it can go in there and get their manscaping done in private. We love our sonya. Its a big thing in the New York Times today, so thats why we have new precious pics of prince george. He is just two years old, but he had his first day of nursery school. Kate, instead of having an official photographer, which is the way they usually do it, kate snapped a couple of pics. Looked like every other kid. Hes going to the west acre montessori school. Thats near the family home. Hes going to go with part of the day. I guess hes with kids as old as 5. They say the school costs 50 bucks a day. Which i think is a good deal. Yeah. Thats 250 a week. I think they can afford it. Thats 1,000 a month. 12,000 a year. On that subject, would you like me to take the painting off your hands thats cost you 6,000 to keep in storage . The one you gave me as a present . Yes. That i put it. Moishes storage. You want me to go to moish. No, theyll bring it. You dont have to go to moishes. But okay. Does that mean i dont have to pay the 80 bucks a month . Yes, i already have a ton of stuff. It will go into a place i already have. Okay. You can sell the painting. I am never going to sell that pointing. You know you hate it. I dont hate it. Its too big for my apartment. Ive never hated it. I just dont remember what it looks like right now. But i know it was pretty. All right, well work that out this year. Well give you another year to keep paying it. Theres a sprinter whos apparently unbelievable. This woman apparently can do things youve never seen. When you work out, think about how hard it is to do basic things. I know it is for me. This is a twotime norwegian olympic sprinter. Her name is azinni azin. Something like that. She does a stair climb that will blow your mind. You know how sometimes you do the stadium stairs . Look at that. Oh, my gosh is this real . Oh, she goes over that one. Then she keeps going. Oh, my gosh unbelievable. Its even more amazing i think when its actual time. You know how little time you have to set yourself again and do unbelievable. Look at rachel. Look at rachel. Can you believe what was just happening there . You can hold a note, you know, for a long time but that is that impressive . Can you believe what she just did . Way more impressive. Thats called impressive. Thats called girl power, baby. Good for her. Dont try that at home. No, dont. Or even a stadium. No, dont, because it wont work out. No. No, it wont. Walking up the steps. Theyll take one foot, put it on they wont even go that all right. Handsome than a good looking guy with a dog. A good looking guy walking down the street with a dog. The only thing thats better is if he also has a baby in a bjorn. Ah, but then you know you cant you cant have that. Scratch the baby. Good chance hes divorced though, 1 out of 2 these days. So, you know, its worth a try. But i think theres nothing sexier than saying a man with his children. Youre right, i love that. If theres a dog present, how perfect. They say that dogs change the game. A study says the roles of pet dogs and cats in human courtship and dating. They talk about the dudes with dogs seem to be more responsible and caring. They feel like they know how to take care of something other than themselves. Themselves. Uhhuh. The trouble with it is say you fall in love with a guy because you meet him, and hes got his dog. And then you get together and then the dog becomes community property. Then you break up. Im thinking this through. Oh, no. Then, does he get the dog because he owned the dog first or do you go to court to get the dog youve fallen in love with . This is the most depressing turn. Im just trying to run out the clock so we dont have time for ihoda. Oh all right. So a woman i love named Ingrid Michelson weve had her on a few times. She has a song thats called little romance. Its bouncy, its happy, and i thought i would do it. I like her music. I know you do. Lets take a listen. Little romance. Little plucky, right . Youre in the mood for love youre in the mood to dance cute. Youre in the mood for a little romance youre in the mood for love shes got a little bounce. You knew thats happening. Thats exactly right. There might be a little harmony on the chorus now coming up. How do you know . 50 years of it. Oh, excellent. I think shes just theyll bring in more instruments. Of course. Yep. How did you know . Because thats the way you build a song. Its like love making. You build it up. Until its over. All right, hoda. Just a reminder, you can listen to us on sirius xm channel 108. We dont know why you would, and you can find hoda there every monday and wednesday. And the book tour continues. Where can people come see you . Thanks to everybody who came to the 92nd street y last night. Andy cohen was there. And then ill be in florida. Okay, well talk about that tomorrow. They stood out in the cold so they could look hot. Wait tinl until you see our ambush makeovers. Fight song singer rachel. You hear that song . Thats the current single called stand by you from Rachel Platten. Of course last year we rocked out to her single fight song which has become an anthem for so many people. Her video has been viewed on times. She has more than 100 million streams on spotify. Now rachel has a brandnew cd called wildfire. Were so happy for you. Shes one of the good girls. She is. We love your music. For me and hoda to agree on music, it is a miracle. It is a miracle. Youve earned it. Youve earned it. And youve been a sweet person along the way, or we would have heard by now. There would be stories. It took 15 years for you to really have the breakout hit. Were there times i know you love music, but sometimes is there a voice in your head saying you know what, theres a reason im not getting traction, its been 15 years. Maybe there isnt the right path for me . My gosh, all the time. It was very hard for me to continue to believe in myself really considered quitting. It was too loud in my heart. Too much like this is what i was supposed to do. I did a lot of charity with music. I got to see the impact it would have oneonone. I would be like who aim to say thats not enough. Thats a lovely way to yeah. Its not somebodys critique of your work, youre watching it. People dont cry just to cry. One person at a time, but thats enough. Like oh it took a while to get that. Was awful. The chorus came really easily. It felt like, i dont know, but the verses were so hard to write. How come i wonder. I think maybe it was the message. It was the whole story. It was the thing about getting out the feelings that were hard to say and hard to admit. I dont know. It was really tough. I love the story, you were down in Lower Manhattan and you looked out, you looked tell everybody that one, thats so cool. Well, finally, one night, the right verse came to me. It was 3 00 in the morning. I was looking out on the hudson and i said like a small boat on the hudson. That was the original word. I changed it to ocean. Because the baef waves were big the tug boat was going and there was these ripples coming away from the tug boat and it was making a huge impact. This little boat. What that song has meant to people. I want you to write a song called tug boat. Not hudson. Its been done. Tug boat. For children. A little childrens song. When you watch what your song this song is so ill, to grownups, to people trying to overcome something. Can you believe, when it came out of you, did you think, this is an anthem, like, ive got something here . Your manager did, right . I was still kind of scarred from a lot of the years of not making it and rejection. It was hard to believe, but shgs yes, somewhere deep inside, there was a belief that, you know what, this could help people. Well, now youre on the wildfire. You have your own tour bus, its so exciting. Thats when you made it. You know, youre not in the van anymore, girl. So many years in the van. Im psyched about the bus. Oh, that is so awesome. We are truly, truly happy for you, sweetie. Were so excited shes going to sing for us. Youre going to sing this song for the first time . My goodness. Make it up. You have 40 minutes, okay . She can do it. Well see you later in the show. Youre going to sing speechless for us, right . We love you too. The beauty doctor is in. Bobbies buzzing with a checkup for your makeup. Befores. The afters of our ambush makeovers. Gravitydefying. Adventurecollecting. Friendconnector. Fortifying the goingplaces. Offtotheraces. Dayseizing. You. Youre strong. And were here to help you stay that way. New special k nourish. Multi grain flakes with quinoa, apples, almonds and raspberries. New special k nourish. Fortify. Ive been on my feel all day. Im bushed yea me too. Excuse me. Coming through ride the gel wave of comfort with dr. Scholls theyre proven to give you comfort. Which helps you feel more energized. All day long. It is thirsty thursday which means its time for bobbies buzz. Since this is the first one of the new year, today bobby style editor Bobbie Thomas wants you to empty out your beauty bags because she has a checkup for your makeup. I think its really important, this is a great time of year to do that. Lets start right away with something that can be confusing. Get to know your packaging. The label information specifically. Nobody reads it, do they . No, but if theres an expiration date, use that. Symbol you can usually find. This symbol, you can usually find. It looks like a junior with an m. Which must mean six months. Thats the period after opening. So after you open it, youll want to use that as a general rule. In six months . That depends. Thats the other thing. If you cant find that, you can also go online to our website because i have listed a checkup app and theres a website you can type in the batch code and they can tell you. Youre not going to remember, when did i buy that mascara. Where was i . You cant remember what you had for lunch yesterday. Exactly. Theres a really great app that when you buy your products you can organize them in there. And its great. Its fresh tag. You can go online, and you can know it will give you an alert. I cant speak today. I cant either. Something like this, and you wonder why youre breaking out. You know. Oh, is that what happens . What do you think about mascara . How long . I think i dont know, a year. No, oh, my gosh, hoda, three months. Its around your eyes. That explains those styes. When it comes to lips, be really careful. Lipstick is not something that lasts as long as you think. How long a year . Six months. My lipstick never lasts six months. Lip gloss, believe it or not, 12 months. How do you know if your lipsticks bad . It usually will get dried out. Any time a color changes or it smells, you want to make sure ew. You just saw the graphic. Theres a graphic you can go see on our website too. You want to make sure you wash your brushes once a week. Nobody does that. I know. If you dont, please put it in your calendar every month. Its disgusting, theres bacteria. And sponges are even worse. I have a sponge thats been around for a long time. Its my go to. Okay. If we dont get through this segment, everything is online. Sorry. You want to look at also how its whats this, cream . Lotion . A pump, an aerosol spray, it lasts longer. If youre dipping into it, you just want to get rid of it, especially after six months. Organic products, great, but you have to be vigilant to look at the expiration, because they have no preservatives in there. Youll see that some bottles are dark and thats to protect it from the sun. If you have clear perfumes, make sure theyre not directly in sunlight. Ive ordered perfume on amazon and it comes and its old and it doesnt smell good. Are you putting down amazon . No, i love amazon its the sellers. You have to make sure you know who youre buying from. Discount beauty suppliers can sometimes buy bad expired products. Be careful. Think about where your products live. In the shower, its wet, its humid, its a breeding ground for bacteria. So how many of us, raise your hands, you have ten shampoo bottles open from two years. No. Yes. We all open different bottles. Make sure at least once a year two years is the max, get rid of all the bottles. All right, we have to go, bobbie. Sorry. Orry. Trashcan. Its the pungent gym bag stink neutralizer. And the prevent mold and mildew for up to 7 days spray. Its also the odor causing bacteria fighter. And even the athletes foot fungus killer. Discover more ways you can use lysol disinfectant spray to help keep your home healthier. Seems like weve hit a road block. That reminds me. Anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea. Gas, bloating . Yes one Phillips Colon Health probiotic cap each day helps defend against occasional digestive issues. With three types of good bacteria. Live the regular life. Phillips. Phil oh no. under his breath hey man hey peter. unenthusiastic oh. Ha ha ha joanne . Is that you . Its me. You dont look a day over 70. Am i right . R jingle jingle. If youre peter pan, you stay young forever. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, its what you do. You make me feel were back on this thirsty thursday. Can you think of a better way to start this new year than with a hot new look . No, i cannot. We need to get one. Were getting kind of tired. A little old. That too. Our lucky ladies with their ambush makeover. Working their magic as always, today contributor and style to the stars, everybody now louis licari, la, la, la i know that Everybody Knows what key to start it in now. And today contributor jill martin. How was it today . A bill chilly. Basically, jill and i just looked for the two people that frozen and said you better come warm them up. Our first lucky lady is karen. Shes 56 years old today. Good for her. Oh, happy birthday. Shes from cleveland, tennessee, visiting new york for the first time to celebrate. She never puts on any makeup. Mostly because she doesnt know what she should be doing. Thats a lot of ladies i exactly. Down seven pant sizes. So she can definitely use additions to her wardrobe. Lets listen to her story. This was a major arts and crafts project. I love these signs. And i love how much you want this for your sister. Tell me why. Todays her birthday. And she lost 75 pounds this year. So this would be a great exclamation point to her new look. Ah, we are so excited to give this to you for all those reasons. Are you nervous are you excited . Im very excited and i want wait to see how it turns out. Yeah thats fantastic. Were so happy for her. Shes here with her sister, linda. Her sons girlfriend ali. The whole familys here. All right, gang, please keep your blindfolds on for just a second. Here is karen bunch before. All right, karen. Lets see the new you. Wow wow all right, kids, take off your blindfolds and look over here. Are you ready . I think so. You got it. Spin around. You might need your glasses. You can put them on if you want to see. Oh, my goodness, i cant believe thats me. Awesome. You look gorgeous. Stand right here on your star. You are louis. Tell us about it. Thank you. Its her birthday today as well. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, number one, i made her color richer, deeper color. And blonde hair was just it wasnt doing too much for her. It was like a middle color. So i just pulled in another direction. Have vanessa with us who keeps styles simple and chic and very sexy. And gorgeous makeup. You know she did. Linda and company what do you guys think of the new look . Doesnt she . Just stunning. Sexy. So great. Jill, i love the leather and the black. It looks great together. Much weight, its nice to have staples. New staples. You are. Robert rodriguez slacks. Her. Andrew mark leather jacket. Shes just tiny. Thats so great. A big round of applause. You can join your family. Our next lady is debby foster. Shes 55 years old. From elvis birthplace, tupelo, mississippi. Shes a retired Elementary School teacher. Her daily routine consists of a little makeup and letting her hair dry. First, lets hear her story. Very exciting. And you were pointing at deb. Tell me why she deserves this. For her. Shes been through a divorce and had to move back in with her so shes just had some issues this year. Were excited because its a makeover and a new start for 2016. Sounds like you truly deserve this. Yes. Im so excited. Oh we love her. All right, she is here with her friends lea and liz and joanna. Lets take one last look at debby before and bring out debby foster. Wow. Oh, wow ladies, you want to take off your blindfolds . We cant wait. Oh good so cute. Debby, we wont make you wait any longer. Oh, my god you look good. Look at your little face oh, wow all right, tear yourself away. Look right here at camera 12, please. You look awesome, debby. What i did is i added depth to her color but i left some highlights out. A melange of colors. And the haircut, swept back to the side. So modern. I think this is the time you should take pictures for online dating, by the way. Theres a man downstairs, i believe. Get ready for a busy year after that, sweetie. All right, whats this outfit, sweetheart . I think i know. We know the top is clara sun rose. Staples you can use. And nydj jeans. I love this dainty jewelry by marlin chef. Is that the trend, going back to the dainty . Especially on black with can you believe whats happening . Lets bring karen out and lets give them both a round of applause. Congratulations. Such a good job, everybody back there. All right, how to feed your entire family for under 15. A delicious idea for tonights dinner coming up right after this. cell phone rings where are you . In the attic. Mom . Exterminator. He says its personal this time. If youre a mom, you call at the worst time. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. R its what you do. Where are you . R are you taking at okay, if you went a little overboard on your spending during the holidays, you may have to start on track, cutting back during the new year. Our today team wants to help you out with a delicious and hearty meal that will feed hard to believe, under 15 bucks. Brandy malloy is the host of eat the trend and get the dish with brandy malloy on top trend. Wow, thats crazy. Okay. Naughty, girl. Okay, is this really under 15 . This is under 15 because were using flank steak which is an affordable cut of meat. This is anywhere in the country . Prices vary around the country. Heres the thing, theres so much flavor, you really dont need a lot of meat. This is asian noodle salad. It will sustain you in the winter. The key ingredients are the flank steak, ginger and coriander. None of that is really that expensive. Some of these are pantry staples for people. If you want to help me with the marinade, we can put this into our bag. Is that soy sauce . Lemon. Lime. Lime, love it. Ginger. Ill help you with the garlic. A little bit of salt. Im going to put that meat in there. Marinade for a while, right . Heres the thing, you cant out all the air so that marinade has no place to go but right into it. You want to suffocate it. Going nowhere. Oh, i know you love to smack she does like to spank. Shes a spanker. As i know. And then one more. Okay. So over here so you let it marinade. Overnight would be awesome to really lock in those flavors. Next, were going to do some coriander. Stop spanking the meat. I dont think anybody noticed. All right, hoda. Oh, good, yours. So coriander seed, you can either use the mortar and pestle. Were making music. All right. You really want to crash it up. My mom always used a wooden spoon and then smacked me afterwards. Seems to be a theme. Put it on both sides of your steak. Youre picking it up with your fingers. Shouldnt do that, right . Yeah, youre not going to actually, i love using tongs because i love not messing up the manicure anymore. Okay. All right, so then youre going to put this in the broiler for five minutes on each side. Oh, its quick. In the broiler, yeah. Until it gets a nice medium rare. And then let it set. Dont touch it. Dont smack it. Really just let all those flavors and moisture lock in. Dont spank the meat. Now what . Next, were just going to grab our rice noodles. Guys, you have to check out this recipe for the dressing. It is one of my favorites. Its sesame oil. Love that. Its red chili flakes, lime. Oh, my gosh, it just makes my mouth water. Look at those topg ngs. Thats why i like using tongs instead of fingers. All right, you can serve this as a salad or nice little taco protein style. If you just want to add some noodles. Ill give you some tongs. Hoda likes to use her fingers. Lets get a little steak on her. I love this stuff. And then you fold it over like a taco, right . You can. Its either a steak heres one for you. You can have the whole plate actually. You can serve it as a salad or as a steak taco proteinstyle. Will you cut me a piece of that . Of course i will. We have to go. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. Is it good . For the recipe, go to today. Com food. Sorry. Hoda. Shes got a lot of fight left in her. Now shes going to sing this song for the very first time, Rachel Platten live with a song 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, 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 with renters insurance. [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why so many people are turning to delsym for longer lasting cough relief. Delsym has an advanced time release formula that helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. Thats three times longer than the leading cough liquid. All night. Announcer the citi Concert Series on today is proudly presented to you by citi. Its a moment weve been waiting for and we have too. A Live Performance by Rachel Platten. Wildfire. She is here with her new song being performed for the first time on tv. It is called speechless. Something we never are. Ever. All right, rachel, take it away. Why does this part always go so fast and i really want this to last so bad words distract us going over the truth so hush baby my hearts speaking to you just give me that touch i want it quit talking so much im ready stop moving your lips and kiss me keep taking my breath away you quiet my demons so why dont we hold tonight and just keep beside and when we we i dont need no reason you make me speechless were getting loud tonight to be, be, be cmon baby make me speechless cmon baby make me body language screaming everything and keep giving it to me fire away just give me that touch i want it couldnt talk too much, im ready stop moving your lips and kiss cause you make me speechless you quiet my demons so why dont we hold tonight and just keep beside i dont need a reason when you make me speechless were getting loud tonight were allowed tonight cmon baby make me speechless when you touch me when you kiss me nothing left to say im speechless get a hold of me come beside of me nothing left to say cause you make me speechless you quiet my demons so why dont we hold tonight and just keep beside of me were getting loud yeah were allowed to be be be cmon baby make me speechless cmon baby make me cmon baby make me speechless cmon baby make me woo oh wow. Yes, and yes and yes. I said to hoda, thats a naughty song, i love it. We like it. That was so fun great, thanks so much, you guys. Congratulations its the first time its that time again. Recently, some celebrities made some public statements that didnt sit well with fans and came across as insensitive. So we were asked, is it okay or not okay to make tonedeaf statements . Heres what we had to say. I think people believe what they truly believe most of the time, but its not always perceived the way they intended. I say unless you like offending people no, its not okay. Wow. That was harsh. Rough judgment. Selfrighteous. Judge judy. Okay. Wait a minute, why did i say that . I sometimes we all do. You dont mean it