this morning on "today's take," ryan lochte speaks out and puppy love. meet the newest member of the "today" show family and i have one word for you. bacon. a new twist all of that and more coming up w. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today's take" with al roker, tamron hall, and billy bush live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on this monday morning. august 22nd, 2016. i'm billy bush along with al and tamron. i'm the newest member of the "today" show. we have a newer member.

enough about billy. we have our new "today" show puppy. our puppy with a purpose. >> he loves chewing on the buttons on my dress. he's unnamed. we can call him fancy for now. >> he's being trained to become a service dog for a military veteran. we'll be partnering with america's vet dogs. our trainer, olivia is here. >> come over. >> anything we should know this is a wonderful opportunity for america's vet dogs and the puppy as well. >> do we let him teeth on our fingers or keep the bone that tamron has in the mouth? >> we try to set them up for success to learn good manners. he has the bone there to encourage him to chew on something appropriate. >> he chewed on my iphone already. >> he doesn't have a name yet. we're asking you to help us out here. today.com. let's see which one he's taking to so far?

>> one more time. say sarge. >> likes that one. >> charlie. >> i think he's going with ace. hello. he's tired. he's a puppy. >> he had a very early morning this morning to prepare for his debut. >> and west point band. >> eventually he'll be able -- assuming he passes, he'll be up to we start with just three foundation tasks and we expand it and combine it from there. >> we look forward. he'll be with us every day. we cannot wait. thank you so much. we do want to seriously welcome our pal, billy bush. we spent the last two weeks together. it was fun. >> a lot of fun in rio. >> we're not the only ones who want to welcome you. >> there are others? >> there are others. >> take a look.

i was lucky enough to be a co-host on the show for a month last summer. i have to tell you these people are crazy. the best of luck to you. you'll need it. just kidding. they're very nice. >> welcome, bushy, to the "today" show. get ready for those early mornings and no sleep but the nice smiling faces you'll see every day. >> billy, welcome. good luck. you're going to kill it. >> what up, billy. andy grammer saying welcome to the team because i'm a big part of the team. i want to welcome you to it. >> bill >> what's up? we are 98 degrees. we just want to say congrats on the "today" show gig. try not to screw it up, buddy. >> billy bush, congratulations on your new gig on the "today" show. we'll miss you on the west coast. the east coast is going to love you. i wish you all the best. >> what up billy bush. happy you joined the "today" show. >> it's time for you to come back to new york and i'm going

okay. good luck, billy. see you soon. >> your twin. that's your twin. you realize that? >> this looks like an old regis jacket. >> i had a jacket that color. >> you did. i took it. and now it's my jacket of this color. >> mine had blue checks in it. >> i know that one. >> it was louder. >> we spoke over the weekend. how was your birthday? >> i had a lovely time. thank you very much. spent it with the family. my brother, chris, moving back to new york city. he was in to queens hospital. >> how fantastic. >> that's not a small position. >> i'm telling you, he's a big deal. >> not the only one. >> don't mind standing in that shadow. >> also my kids were there. we had a lovely time. nice dinner. >> any big surprises? anything you need to tell us about? >> no. i didn't realize how tired i was. i mean on saturday i went to get

barber chair. out. >> you texted me and say you woke up at 9:30. >> sunday morning. >> that's the next day. >> i never wake up that late. >> when did you fly back? >> friday night. landed saturday morning about 6:00 a.m. >> amazing anyone could sleep on the plane with the snoring that goes on with roker. unbelievable. >> you were making other noises. >> tamron and i were talking before in the chair. weekend. what happened? >> i put it on social media. i normally wear hoops. i've been wearing the same hoops for seven, eight years. well a pair of earrings at the white house correspondent dinner ripped my ear and tear kept going. i had to have surgery on my ears and so i -- i went to a guy who is known for body modification art because i heard he was the

he does body modification. >> lots of -- >> tattoos. next level. >> does he do lifting? >> he's not a medical doctor but famous for what he does. sometimes people get those big disks in their ears and then you turn 40 and you don't want that anymore, let me sew that back. he does that. brilliant at it. highly recommended. we have a picture. i had stitches. i know. it was unbelievable. i wish i had both of you to hold each of my hands. i to go solo. >> you got some braids. >> i vowed i wanted to get braids inspired by al's daughter. this is the problem with braids when you have short hair. we swooped it around.

my hair. my friends say i look like -- >> is that like a bun. >> it's a man bun. >> that was my exciting time while you were out with beautiful models. >> i can't get my ears pierced for two more months. i just pierced this one at the top. >> sounds painful. >> celebrated your mom's hug, immediately went up to maine where my parents are. it's my mom's birthday yesterday. so we took a lovely -- we had a lovely lobster bake on the beach in maine with the fresh lobster and built a big fire pit. al, you would love this. dig a hole in the beach. you put the firewood. it gets hot.

lobster and makes it smoke seaweed flavor. it was lovely. next day, look at these people. they like this photo. there are so many people liking this photo. then i realize it's a lot of lochte vengeance at the bottom with people fired up about that lochte situation which we are going to get into. >> quickly going back to this elaborate meal because al knows i love to eat, what part of the meal did you do? >> i helped my brother fire. and then i helped put the lobsters on the fire. >> very good. >> here's the best thing. there was corn. when you're done, you can throw everything onto the beach in low tide and it washes away. >> i need proof of this. >> it's a great low maintenance meal. cooks itself. very nice. >> rio recap. you guys back from rio. the final medal count for the 2016 incredible.

121 total medals. 46, almost half, gold. we mentioned ryan lochte drama. we'll talk about it later in the show. let's look at the fun that my boys had without me. >> this is how you make an entrance, guys. >> he had to be gold. >> that was >> hey. >> here comes the boom, boom, boom. >> oh! ? >> did your wish come true?

>> tirico! >> wow. >> we had great time. we don't want out. you are getting hangry. we know that. we got some lovely food provided by the nice folks. do we have -- is it coming in? there we go. >> is this my outfit too? >> how did you know i wanted this outfit.

>> we had a man in a thong but he didn't get past the censors. >> i love meat. let me have some of that. >> al, you know what this is, i believe. >> look at this. >> thank you. you guys are such gentlemen. what do i do with this? >> one memory coming back and that's the meat sweats. >> when you eat a >> in the middle of the night, you get the sweats. >> i'll have the lean part. that's good. >> coming up, more on the ryan lochte drama while we eat meat.

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we're back now with more of "today's take." >> i missed you guys in rio but occasionally on vacation i turn onto social media. i go on. the other day i log in and al roker is trending. there are memes about roker. what happened, please? >> on friday we were talking about ryan lochte. the sound effects. it was pretty funny. we were talking about ryan lochte whether he lied or not. we got into a discussion. a heated discussion. i think what happened is what people don't know, a, we're friends. we've known each other for a long time. this is what we do on this show. i think because this was such a big deal, i think people were

>> my goal was to -- i spoke with our boss ahead of time. my goal is to play devil's advocate here just so we don't have three opinions the same. there's some things that remain. there was a gun. there were people told to get on the ground. there was a badge of some kind. there's still a couple of things up in the air about it. i wanted to raise those points. in the end from guilty of something it's not wanting america to look bad ryan lochte, don't tell me that you made up all of this. we then find out, of course, after the fact he made it all up. what really upsets me or makes me sad is the people of rio. in 2009, they got the bid for the olympics. inflation was low. employment was high and things were going great. they really needed these games to go great. they didn't need damage to their reputation in any way because they'll lose a lot of money in

take my vacation and go to rio, i hope they're not second-guessing that. >> from watching at home, the little thing i noticed as well is how it did take away from the other competitors. >> for a week. >> in fact, he did finally clear it up when you look at what he did with matt lauer. take a look. >> i want to make sure about the bathroom side of this. you heard the there was damage in that bathroom. a door was damaged, a mirror was damaged and a soap dispenser was damaged. did you go in the bathroom? >> we never went in the bathroom. >> did you kick the door of the bathroom? >> like i said i was very intoxicated. i don't remember. >> is it possible that you damaged the door to the bathroom perhaps even kicked it open?

bushes. >> later in the interview matt was talking to him. one of the things i raised, we raised together, the fact that he left his teammates there. i think he really regrets that. besides the part about insulting the folks of rio. take a look at what he talked about with his teammates. >> i let my team down. you know, i wanted to be i left. i'm just really sorry. i'm embarrassed for myself, my family. especially those guys. usa swimming. the whole olympic games. everyone watching. i was immature and i made a stupid mistake. i'm human. i made a mistake. i definitely learned from this. >> it's my opinion that it's

the case down there. they're not going to bring ryan lochte back. >> will he be punished? >> he might be banned. not lifetime. >> we love a comeback. >> we love give your pound of flesh. we all have something that we've done, i'm sure, that you have apologized for, owned it, he's done so after being busted. nevertheless he did. at some point you have to say the person has given a pound of flesh. get off their back. move on. >> what's going on out it's hot but nicer out. >> what do you mean by nicer? >> in the northeast spectacular for the week ahead. low humidity. plenty of sunshine. wet weather making its way through the gulf coast through tuesday strong storms through the plains. strong showers into the >> chris: good monday morning, everyone. after severe weather overnight and very early this morning, we return to sunshine after.

as the dew points falling from the 06s and 70s this morning back into the 40s and 50s this afternoon after. bit of a breeze, as well. >> the dewpoints fall into the 50s and 60s. a bit of a breeze. mid 70s in worcester hills and 80s south of boston. clear tonight. upper 40s in the suburbs. seven-day forecast featuring a lot of dry weather and an isolated risk of a storm on friday and otherwise, dry for the burger that we're teaming up with shake shake. shake shack for a good cause donating. >> is it low cal? >> no. >> can we do something for you? >> sure. >> look behind you. al roker's birthday was saturday. and billy and i baked this all night. >> that's amazing. >> he did the stars. >> we love you, mr. roker.

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all morning long we've been welcoming billy bush to our "today" show family. what better way to get to know him than through his own words. >> born and raised in new york city so this is a coming home for me in many ways. when i got through school and i had to get through it, i got to radio and television, i started to excel finally. i have one brother named john. he is my best friend. my parents were great. my dad is sort of the fun, charming, joke teller. and my mom is the salt and backbone of the family. >> welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. >> i watched bryant gumbel and

my parents loved that team. i thought that's the mecca of television. >> billy bush is joining us. >> first moment i was on television, i was terrified. live television. it was locally. wnbc. i was terrified. ? i feel pretty ? they had an coast "access hollywood" and that was 15 years ago. it ended up being the greatest thing for me in the world. there i met the unbelievable kit hoover. >> it's a wrestling match. >> the best thing about bill as i now call him, the guy is up for anything. he'll cross dress when it's not required. >> i have done wild things like

early days. pizzas on delivery to victoria secret fashion show. >> he loves the high heels. >> hey. >> he makes some of the work really fun. >> my wife is polar opposite of me. she's the introvert. i'm the i have three girls. thrilled i don't have a boy. more so a boy like me. i'm a new york rangers hockey fan. new york giants football fan. i am home. my parents being close to them again in the twilight of my dear old dad's life, that's the biggest thing for me. he's my -- didn't expect that. he's my best friend.

best father ever. this corner studio i looked at as a little kid and are you kidding me? never would imagine being on the other side of that window. now that i am, it's the most humbling thing i can possibly think of. >> i'll give you three pieces of advice. one, two, three. one, two, and >> a little word of advice for you, billy, never ever press snooze. >> you'll bring an energy here that we haven't seen since al was 22. >> age old tradition on the "today" show at 9:00 a.m., the host buys his compatriots a new car. >> you have the warmest smile. i'll be able to look over at it five days a week. >> the bushman, billy bush, after years of having to travel on the road together to hang out and see each other, now we get

can't wait for you to get here, my brother. >> hey, billy. >> hey, billy, if you haven't heard there's a show called "weekend today" on saturdays. drop by to join us. >> there will always be someone at the office party that did something crazier than i did. >> i'm looking forward for billy to join the show because it's impossible to walk into a room where billy bush is and not smile. >> you've given us a lot of hollywood." you're coming home. we're going to have great fun watching the new show. >> thanks for all of the joy you've given us. we love you. >> we love you. we do love you. that's right. >> gosh. >> that was a cheap move right there. >> lovely people. >> you know how i feel about the old man and -- can't say the old woman. >> mom.

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we called in jeff, the host of kitchen and owner of pork and mandy's restaurant to make the ultimate sandwich. we're making a blt wrap. >> detriment to all kids' lunch boxes is that peanut butter and jelly sandwich. these wraps last forever in the fridge. we'll do we'll turn it into pig candy. leftover chicken. let's make pig candy. double cut bacon. wire rack coated in sugar. >> you put this in the oven for how long? >> 70 minutes at 225.

make cleanup easy. >> that's a long time. >> it's worth it. >> it's crispy. >> you put that immediately onto parchment paper off the rack. it will stick to that. make chicken salad using leftover chicken. your kids will love this. celery. dried cranberries. let it sit for a couple minutes. let that flavor sweat out. sugar sweat. pork sweats in a minute. billy, your day has been eating and it won't end. mayonnaise. kids love it. vitamin d with dijon and this way you can have a second life with that chicken. give them something new besides turkey and cheese. i love it. we'll add that rotisserie chicken in there. you mix it up. we chopped up that pig candy. got chicken. it's a perfect blt. take your tortilla and do this

there's a method to this. take crunchy pig candy right there and lay it around. all even. we won't clump it up. you can take that chicken salad. it's got the cranberries in there. all that. you can substitute grapes in there if you don't have cranberries. >> can you set aside the brourro and put the chicken different container. >> check out today.com/food. also, i cooked up something. i teamed up with shake shack to make the roker burger. 100% all angus beef. pulled pork. double cheese. mayo. a dollar from every roker burger will support no kid hungry to end childhood hunger. most of the shake shacks will serve today through friday.

eating it and #rokerburger. we'll put it on our facebook page. >> it needs pig candy. >> take a bite. what do you think of that? >> balanced. nothing better on a burger than more pork. >> there you go. very nice. >> let's show you -- >> very nice. >> i can hear myself. >> okay. >> don't ruin that beautiful >> it is very good. >> my gosh. >> chris: good monday morning, everyone. after severe weather overnight and very early >> good monday morning, after severe weather, early this morning, we return to sunshine, a dry breeze and lower humidity as the dewpoints fall from the 60s and 70s into the 40s and 50s this afternoon. a bitter breeze, and close to 80 south of boston.

you were 40s. and a lot of dry weather. an isolated risk of a storm on friday and otherwise dry for the weekend. latest weather. your daughter is eating it right now. come over here. >> no. >> come on over here. do you like the burger? all right. lilly loves fashion and food. coming up next, get ready play who knows billy bush better with special i've been taking fish oil from nature's bounty to support my heart. i'm running, four times a week. eating better, keeping healthy. so that no matter what happens in the future, my "future self" will thank me. thank you! you're welcome! hey listen. whatever you do, don't marry dan! hey babe, i'm dan. hey babe, can i get 14 dollars for... thank you.

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people, his idol, mine, everyone's, america's favorite, mr. regis philbin. >> let's do this. >> here we go. hands on buzzers. if billy weren't in tv, he would be -- an architect. a hockey player or veterinarian. >> veterinarian. >> what do you think? >> hockey player. >> hockey player is right. >> did you play hockey o y >> i play. >> were you good? >> i played with jeremy roenicke back in the day and great guys that went onto the nhl. i was in there. >> here you go. what is billy's biggest guilty pleasure on tv? is it "dating naked." "the bachelor/bachelorette" or "teen mom."

>> i was going to say "the bachelor." >> you're lined up. there's another show that billy currently hooked. we hear you can't get enough of billions. are we talking about music genre that makes billy cry. >> country music. >> i guess that's it. good for you. >> i hope this is a good prize. >> here's one of country's biggest stars and someone who we know you're a fan of. tim mcgraw. >> i love tim mcgraw. >> you do. all right. now -- >> welcome to the "today" show family and thanks for your support of "humble and kind."

>> "humble and kind" is the most beautiful song. i played it for natalie in rio. listen to the words of "humble and kind." >> we have a budget. >> one more. the craziest tv moment billy regrets and if he doesn't regret it, he should. was it when he got his chest waxed. si accepting a hot dog eating challenge. which one? >> accepting the hot dog eating challenge. >> chest wax. >> al roker is right. >> when we were in rio, regis, he got a brozilian. he had his nether region cleaned and waxed. by super models. his children are here so we

you won. >> there you go. >> i think so. >> nicely done. >> thank you very much. fantastic. would you sign this for me. i'm putting this in my dressing room. >> i'm for once happy i lost. regis, thank you so much. we're back with more bro' waxing and all of the excitement. this is "today" on nbc. >> i have to get one for you mom: i'm a mom, not a millionaire. >> i can give permission... i can give hugs... but i can't give millions of dollars to a campaign. vo: but that's the way to get kelly ayotte's attention. corporate special interests like the koch brothers have spent millions helping ayotte's campaign and she voted with them 90% of the time - supporting tax breaks that help millionaires and oil companies. mom: in washington, kelly ayotte listens to too many millionaires and not enough moms. vo: afscme people is responsible

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? from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live i 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hello, everybody. it's august 22nd. hope you had a lovely, lovely weekend. hardest working woman in show business. >> if you call it work. >> you have been gone from me for three weeks. >> i know. you had the celine week. >> that was epic. >> amazing. >> and two weeks at the olympics. and it kicked off -- the olympics kicked off with michael