Its friday. Whats that paper . Tuesdays. In case you dont know, they start monday is the easiest, and then tuesday and then all the way through. Pretty tough. Is that to keep you sharp, baby. Ive been working on it since tuesday. While youre drinking a little bit of wine. Isnt that counter productive . Wine not . Wine not . The father of two also patrick thunderbolt has an answer for everything where. Wow. Thats going to follow you. I like that name. Thats memorable. Thunderbolt. He was on with matt and meredith and came up with his porn name. Thats what it was. In case you are wondering. Im not going to ask you what yourself would be. Lilliana is back with a classic style making a big comeback this winter. That youre going to want to check out. Plus, the crack brothers what . Pronounce the t. Turn this studio into a real zoo. Were going to talk to them. By the way, happy birthday today. To has gone by since we started celebrating the 65 years. Actually, tomorrow is the day that the today show debuted. Weve been looking back all week. Weve been celebrating all morning. Its kind of fun to watch these old videos. Especially in black videos. Especially in black and white of what the today show was like. Theres video of Woodrow Wilson walking past the glass outside and walking in. Yes. Well have fun with that. What was going on in 1952. Yeah. Yeah. The average cost of a new house was around 9,000. Only one in three homes had a television. Wow. Now every home has about five in each house. Yeah. In 1952, a gallon of gas was 20 cents. The average age of a woman getting married . What do you think it was . 20. 20. The big shows were i love lucy. And the ed sullivan show. And life with elizabeth. It introduced a brand new actress to audiences. And still is. Betty white. Singing in the rain was in theaters. Hey, neil. Those stars were stars, right, baby . Amazing. Fantastic. I figured out your porn name. What is it . Kotb da hoe. You like it . Its perfect. [ laughter ] you can stop right there. Yeah. All right. The first stick of deodor ant and mr. Potato was introduced. Truman was president and elizabeth ii became queen after the death of her father, she was. Weve done it all morning but it gets better and better. The letter to the first daughters written by jenna and barbara bush. To sasha and malia obama. Were going to show a little of that. Yeah. It was interesting because jenna and her sister were trying to figure out what they could leave to the daughters when they arrived a the white house. They had shown them around. They wrote a nice letter. Here is a piece of it. Now youre about to join another club. One of former first children. A position you didnt seek and one with no guidelines. But you have so much to look forward to. You will be writing the story of your own lives beyond the shadows of your famous parents. Yet why you will always carry with you the experiences of the past eight years. Enjoy college. As most of the world knows, we did. And you wont have the weight of the world on your young shoulders anymore. Explore your you are, make mistakes. Youre allowed to. You have lived through the unbelievable pressure of the white house. You have listened to Harsh Criticism of your parents by people who have never even met them. You stood by as your precious parents were reduced to headlines. Your parents who put you first and not only showed you, but gave you the world. As always, they will be rooting for you as you begin this next chapter. Just couldnt have been better. It was beautiful. Sasha was only 8 and malia was 11. Do you think theyre excited . Im sure. To start living. Yeah. To start living their lives. Yeah. Big news i adore kimberly from little big town. We were texting back and forth and she goes i have a secret. She showed me a beautiful picture. She and her husband stephen have adopted a little baby girl. They annce listen to her name dolly grace. Isnt that fabulous . Hes one of the nicest people weve ever met. The sweetest. Its great to see her growing family. Is it something any of us would do. Neil, what are you doing now . Shell. Thats your name. [ laughter ] sentiment rock. Would you squeeze in a work out at an airport . A two hour layoff . Thats strange. Because in airport lounges they have showers. Have you ever showered at an airport lounge . It seems weird. Maybe theyre not showering. Theres gyms now at airports . Theyre thinking about trying to put them in in baltimore. Theyre two hours to kill. You can work out, shower, and get on the plane. Theyre going to have cardio equipment, a space to stretch, weights. Its kind of a cool idea. Long flights youre sitting in a chair. Sitting the whole time. Even to stretch and do a little cardio. I think if you can get a hair blowout, your nails done. You can rent workout clothes. Some people might not have time to shower if theyre late for your flight. Or your sweaty clothes you have. Not everyone will tie them up. Theyll be sitting in a bag. They wont be happy that you lost a pound. Exactly. They say theyll seal your stinky clothes in some kind of a vacuum pack. All right. 40 for a day pass. Can we move on . Yeah. All right. This is going to be fun. We like our wine. Everybody knows that. But in other parts of the country, other parts of the world, people have different ways of enjoying their wine. Off, we thought we would try new things with our favorites. One is wine and coke. Its popular spanish cocktail. I think we need a little help with this. Tasting things . Yeah. Were not so thirsty for those. I think we should bring out on our last day, joann who shall remain nameless. To try some drinks for us. Thats not what its all about. All these years our precious joann, who this is her last day with us temporarily. Were in denial shes leaving. You made us try a lot. Thats how you thank me the wonderful years weve had together. Yes. Youre going to try it. Its wine and coke. Let us know how it is . Do you remember the last time hoda made me try something on the air. Did you get sick . I got sick. We dont want her to be sick on her last day. Take a baby sip. This is its good. Reina said she drinks it all the time. Yes. Its very popular in mexico. Its a good new years drink. Its very good. Get used to that. Youll have wine and sprite. Its probably good. Like a spritzer. Its like col thats bad. This is wine with coffee. Called russian coffee. Its vodka, coffee, red wine, and simple syrup. Anybody have bread . No. Were going to torture you the entire show. Nasty . Did you spit it out. This is wine and milk. Okay. Popular in japan. Really . Yes. Just touch it to your lips. Shes going to start gagging. Just a sip. Its pretty good. Really . Yeah. Its wine, milk, and what else . It doesnt have orange juice. We have been celebrating our girl jo ann. Yesterday we had a little lunch a big lunch. Take a look. This is our long table of people. We made toasts, there were a lot of tears, a lot of love. Jo ann thats the bra she gave us. She decided shes going to take some time away from the job. Shes been our heart and soul of our show. Yes. And were going to miss her. I agree with cathy. I think shes coming back well, shes going to let us know. She has a beautiful family and a little boy you feel youre just not im not there for. This is my favorite job and that is my most important job. Hopefully it will be my favorite job, too. Its time for me to have fun with him. We love you. And your husband. Remember him . Yeah. We love you, sweetie. Well probab a little. Thank you for the best year of my life. Its one of the greatest. Come here even if you make me drink that stuff. Okay. For you trivia buffs. I said Woodrow Wilson. I meant to say harry truman i didnt want to whatever. I was thinking really . Woodrow wilson . George washington. Yes. It was woody harrison, actually. 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I choice different, random skill sets and random jobs and this one i had never done the prosthetics things before. Two and a half hours each day. How much to get it off . About half an hour. 40 minutes. And it wreaks havoc. Yeah. I did a this was the first half. This is just the prosthetic parts. You have your eyes closed. For a purpose . They ask you to or you dont want to see it until the end . Because the prosthetic starts under the eye brow and wednesnt does it change how you act when you get the gear on. I guess it depends on the part. Im certainly not myself when i look that way. Every time i see myself in a mirror im not thinking about what i look like. Im thinking about the character. Yeah. And this character changes a lot. Into different looks. Yeah. Theres 13 books in the series. They were Just Launched and theres eight episodes coming. The first four books. Olaf is in the first two episodes in full and then hes sent away. Then he comes back and the second book but in disguise. Im not a different character. Im olaf playing a different character. Different looks. I talk like this how fun. And a gu salty sea captain. Thats sam. Thats sam there. And theres a woman named shirley saint ives. She has red hair and shes an assistant. She talks like this. Shes a little christina hendrix. 1940s. Im sorry but i smell and emmy. I thought it was you. Its netflix, ive never done before. And they allow a creative freedom. They buy the Creative Content and they agree to commit to it. And then they let you make it. It was great. And the first four quadrant shows. It allows four demographics playing to multiple people. Everyone can watch it. It legitimately is quirky and odd. For the whole family. Parents can watch it with your kids. Your kids can watch . They have watched it literally today you can stream them now. What are you doing now watchi this . What were your going to say . This show. This piece of prime time network awesomeness. But were going to go home and watch some of the episodes today. How fun. Filmed in vancouver. Right. They live here in new york. We face time every day. I would get to see them. But sometimes i would be looking like sometimes i look like shirley. They were freaked out a little bit. How are the kids . Theyre spectacular. A good age. Theyre 6 and in kindergarten and the age now theyre just starting to read. And, i mean, just starting to read. We were driving last night in the car to have dinner and the windows were rolled down because it was warm last night and they were reading the signs. Oh and its the best. Im a big proponent of books. Im a big proponent of reading. I keep telling them as soon as youre able to read on your own, we dont have to choose the you can go to a bookstore and find a book and set by yourself and learn a whole world. Learn a whole world. Im excited. We can start with the Netflix Series now. 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Next, this is ptu, and this is the 360 what you do is basically put this little thing right into the top of your android phone, and then you have a 360 camera which you can then put on facebook or go all the way around. There we are. Its really neat, fun. You can download and also great for the Virtual Reality goggles. Next, this is for selfies. I know youre not big on selfies, but were going to do one right now. This is the lumi duo case. It has lights built on both sides of it. For lighting. Here we go. Oh, my gosh. And maybe i will like selfies more. Decent lighting. This is the bp. This watch has Blood Pressure cuff built into it. Its a medical device, and you can see my Blood Pressure. I did it a few minutes ago. Probably up by now. It was a little while ago. Right there. Next, this is from the folks at sev interface changes depending on the position. Right now its controlling this lamp. I can change the color of the lamp. Turn on, off. 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Methods, not miracles. ™ every week on their kids pbs animated series wild k kratts they activate their power suits to fly with falcons sharks or dive to the bottom of the sea with colossal squid. We have to show these guys. Theyre very busy. Theyre showing us some exotic animals from around the world. Who is this . This is a they are amazing. One thing theyre very do you want to smell him . Its buttered popcorn. They smell naturally like buttered popcorn. Grab him by the tail. Is that okay . You can smell him. The reason ive got him by the he does smell like popcorn. Is that him or you . Thats how they naturally smell. Its incredible. Dirty socks. Theyre great climbers. He grabs on to branches. Theyll climb on everything. Well believe you. This guy this guy is really active. They live in the rainforest, and they have that tail to climb. You suggested were going to do a new episode. We have five new episodes on our show next week. This is a baby baboon. Shes so h stuffed animal here. He is about 6 months old. Oh. Look, he has a bare hiney. I love that their hineys are bare. Tell us about this guy. They live in the savannah in africa, saand they live in grou, and they have to go to the trees at night because theres all the predators out there. Theyre acrobatic and they eat seeds and live in big groups. Look at his stuffed animal. Adorable. I cant handle. You guys have just loved animals all your life, havent you . Yeah, we have. They love you too. Joanne is bringing us is that a slot . That is a twotoed sloth. They are an amazing i dont want to know whats going on there. Are you starting to appreciate me and hoda . Your job is so hard. Tell us about the sloth that joanne is doesnt smell like my perf e he is strong. They hang upside down in trees. Joanne, can you come over here, though . I dont think you can get the impact of whats going on here. Slow dancing. Swaying to the music i think he has a little bit morban e banana. Take a sniff. The other one smells better. How are you feeling right now . I am feeling im an old woman thats about to have a heart attack. Im going to kill tammy. All right. We gave you an easy one to have, though, right . Got one more . Come on. Come out. One more. This is just one of the animals on our show wild kratts, and now we have a new 247 channel. Pbs kids channel. You can watch this is an animal we know in the south well. The nutria. Muskrats and beavers. He is kind of he has the webbed feet. I have never seen one like that. Aquatic. Bye, jo. He gets heavy. Right . You got to put him down . The sloth loves joanne. So its sweet. The wild kratts appears on pbs kids. Check your local listings. First, this is today on nbc. Oh, my gosh. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. Oh, my gosh. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Protein. Protein proteiny protein. Proteiny protein . Protein proteiny protein. At least 14 grams of protein. 100 calories. New greek 100 protein. From yoplait. Oh, yes. We want to toast our dear friend, nameless, who is joanna la marca. Shes been with nbc for almost 30 years. Shes more than just a producer to all of us. Shes a great friend, a wonderful colleague, as you can tell by the bunch of people who have gathered here. These guys. This is big. You know youre big with when these guys come. This is some of the fun that weve had with joanne over the years. Are k this is your life, joanne. Come here. Would you rather go without chocolate or coffee for a week . I would rather die. If i could trade places with joanne la marca, i would, but shes less stressed. I cant take my eyes off joanne la marca. Thanks a lot. Joanne had a very bad habit. I call it i dont do it anymore. I swear. What does she do . She when is she due . Joanne is the biggest cher fan ever. Ever, ever, ever. Since im 6 ive loved her. 6. Joanne used to dress up as cher, and still does. Shes wearing a sweater that you owned, which is a little bit weird. You can fit into chers stuff all these years later, honey, i would wear it every day. Didnt she used to be president of the fan club . Yes. The cher fan club. Secretary. You kind of who shall remain nameless, but its joanne la marca. Were not going to name names. Joanne la marcia. Shall remain nameless, joanne la marca. That we have our own jojo. Jojo. We love you, darling. Dont like the hat much, but we love you. Its spanky tuesday. Joanne la marca. Shall remain nameless. We love you, jojo. We should point out the bosses are here to say goodbye to you. That does not happen every day. Come here. Im going to do this every night. When you come home, there will be cakes and champagne. You had better. I will wheel it in. I will wheel it in every night, okay . Hi, jojo. Thanks. Yes. Can. Would it be terrible if i decided to stay . [ applause ] there you go. Oh, my gosh, you guys. I feel like this is not real. Who am i . Im just a little girl from long island who watched television and just imagine the world it would be, and i have the best job in the world, as i said before. I cant even believe im leaving it, but im going to leave it for the most, most important best job in the world. I love every single one of you, and i cant believe you guys are here. Well done. And for everyone out there, you should know that this is the hardest and i mean it from the bottom of my heart the hardest working group of people i have ever known. Ever known. Ive never seen a place that drinks so much champagne. Wine. I like to drink closer to air time. You want to say one goodbye from someone . Take a peek. Hey, joanne. Were all going to miss you on the today show. Especially me. Now that you have more time, youll have time to come and see more of my shows. Thats frankie vallie. Jersey boys. He has a great personality, but not so much. Joanne, we love you so much. As we said before, youre the only person who would leave this show that would rip the heart out of every single person. We love you, jojo where. I love you guys. I love everyone, and i might just stay. If you see me here on monday, dont be surprised. And the control room is doing a toast to you too, jojo. We love you. Everything you need to know about life, you can learn from granola. Keep it simple. Make every piece count. Let other people know what youre made of. Always be real. Dont be fake, dont be artificial, but always be sweet. And of course, wear sunscreen. Nature valley granola bars. No artificial colors, flavors or sweeteners. Just good. Today the baltimore home where six children died in a fire is being taken down. Heavy equipment back at work. This is as the whole community deals with the shock of this unimaginable tragedy. President elect donald trump was busy on social media again as the military Law Enforcement and d. C. Officials set the stage for the inauguration now just one week away. Cooler day followed by wintry weather. What you can expect for tomorrow. Good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us, im