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 though