from nbc news, this is "today," with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> oh, yes >> hello, everybody. it's wines day wednesday. you've been hoping it would get here. july 23rd. we're so excited to have you with us. >> happy wednesday. >> hello. we're starting a new thing with hoda's words of wisdom. >> on wednesdays. look, i try to find words i feel will lift people up. i scour -- i research -- >> you go on google. >> google, yeah. right. the one i found today after extensive research. >> yes.

>> was this. whoever said that diamonds are a girl's best friend never owned a dog. >> oh. >> because i was looking at blake and i said you know what, i want to do a pet one today and i looked at blake and i was so happy and that's what came up when i googled quotes about dogs. >> all right. >> put me in a good mood. i love that. >> while you were busy sleeping at night, people were talking about you. >> that's why i go to bed early. i can avoid it all. >> people on other programs find you extremely interesting. >> yeah. >> craig ferguson has a show called the "late late show". >> he's adorable. >> his guest happened to be none other than regis philbin. let's hear what those two had to say about you. >> i was on the "drew carey show" once. >> yeah. >> she was very sweet. i always thought, what a lovely woman. >> no, she's terrific. >> very nice. >> yeah. >> kind of sexy as well, don't you think? >> oh, yeah.

>> i understand that -- >> you noticed that. >> i did, yeah, yeah. she's got that kind of -- kind of like -- you know what i mean. >> can i tell her this when i see her? >> yeah. i've told her that. yeah, i mean she's perfectly and i'm absolutely -- come on, but -- yeah. >> really? >> a woman you can appreciate the sexiness. >> i worked with her 15 years. i took a look. >> regis seems visibly uncomfortable, didn't he? dying. >> i love that. >> i love craig. >> yeah. >> not words just grinding sound. >> i'm not that anymore but i could -- i could be probably inclined to be, i don't know. i love him. i think he's sexy as all get out. >> what did you say? >> sexy as all get out. i'm a sucker for an accent. frank's got that bakersfield thing happening.

no, i just -- i like his energy. i think it's very, very exciting. >> we're a little bummed because he's retiring. >> yeah. >> you got to get on that show -- >> i'm going to get on the show before he retires, so i can do a little hey. >> at each other. >> last night -- >> oh, gosh. >> you heard of the fur flies. >> something else. >> this is something different. >> "the real housewives of new york" the season has been -- >> tepid. >> lacklaster. last night turned the beat around. there's a woman on the show, give you a little background named aviva. she lost her leg when 6 years old in a farming accident. >> farming accident. >> she's very sweet. >> sweet girl. >> anyway i guess she calls the other "housewives" shrews and says the shrews were not believing that she had asthma. i guess that was the fight. well, anyway, what happened as a result of the fight was that aviva did something with her artificial limb. okay.

let's take a look. >> the only thing that is artificial or fake about me -- you know, i'm sick of it. >> heather, why don't you take it? i'll throw it. here, go ahead. go ahead heather. take it. >> oh, my god. ♪ >> oh, my god! >> they say this is the last straw. i mean this is the last leg. >> nice shoes she was wearing, though. >> first of all, i love how everyone was staring at the leg like it was going to come at them. here it comes. >> that was -- >> anybody ever thrown anything at you, hoda? >> thrown anything at me? >> yeah. >> um, no. but i bet someone is throwing something at you. what was it? tell me. >> i don't -- >> what was it? >> i don't know.

they've wanted to. i don't know that anybody has ever been successful. my mother used to throw stuff. i come by the throwing thing. it's in my dna. my mother was -- you know, joanie, she gets very excited, very dramatic. she used to throw whole chickens at my father. they would bounce off the wall. we'd eat it anyway. we were hungry. she threw a whole thing of iced tea at my brother once. some people are throwers. >> listen to her. just frustrated. pay attention. >> but an entire chicken she spent the whole day cooking. she doesn't think. just threw. so glad she found her hearing aids. >> what? >> my mom is in a suite instead of her apartment and they serve her a lovely breakfast in the morning and these very expensive hearing aids are gone, right. >> you know, we got to get her some new ones. all of a sudden, somebody gives

her a little plant, and she wants to go and water her little plant. >> yeah. >> and she goes, what do i get to get some water in my -- she goes in a cup board way up and gets a tiny pitcher. >> what was in it? >> her hearing aids. >> because you put stuff thinking i don't want to lose it. i've done that with things. where did i put it. >> she blamed it on the people she thought she was on the tray. that will show you. going to probably throw something at somebody today in retaliation. boy, living with her, was -- is always interesting. >> speaking of losing things, i need to stop. i can't -- it's getting out of control and troublesome. >> yep. >> yesterday, we're doing -- i'm doing some stories about turning 50. >> you in short order. >> one involves a physical. i had to go yesterday for a blood test. i was on our show and had a sip and ate a lot of sweets and went there -- >> you ate six doughnuts. >> i know.

>> they said you can't do the bloods test because you've wrecked your whole blood system. they said can we have your insurance card. >> the card. >> so we can have it for tomorrow when you do it. i looked imy bag my wallet was gone. gone. gone. nothing worse. your i.d. everything. i have to get a new credit card, my amex is in there. i called kathie ryan who helps me a lot. >> thanks, katherine. >> please go to the dressing room and see if it's in there. hoda, i walked into the dressing room, before i opened the door, said five hail marys and prayed to saint anthony i knew if i didn't find your wallet it was going to be my nightmare. >> that's the picture i took this morning of your dressing room. >> yeah. that's it. >> god bless kathie ryan. >> that's it. that's it. >> tell us what happened. >> anyway, she found it. she goes i opened up your smelly gym bag and underneath your shoes there it was. i'm so happy. she found it. thank you, kathie. >> how many -- how many segments have we had on how to organize your life.

you have had -- >> was that my dressing room today? >> that was 15 minutes ago. >> oh. yeah. my shoes. okay. anyway. >> anyhow. >> talking about besties a couple besties you may or may not know about. leah remini and jennifer lopez are best friends. >> yeah. >> i find them so different. >> different. >> because leah remini says whatever she wants whenever she wants and j-lo seems measured. >> she plans everything. >> leah was taking pictures i guess and posting pictures. >> out in the hamptons. >> on her instagram. yesterday a picture everyone saw of j-lo in her bikini. leah took that picture. leah decided she was going to post a video and was comparing leah was comparing her casual look with j-lo's casual look. >> here's me normal. here's this one. head wrap, jewelry. >> what? >> can't you be ugly once. be normal once. >> that is -- >> be ugly once. >> just once. >> yeah.

>> i love leah had the baseball cap on. probably why they're best friends. >> one doesn't care at all. >> i doubt they're competing. not competing for the same thing. they have each other's back. >> yes, they do. >> each other's cleavage, everything. i have yours, hoda. >> okay. >> there's a study out, a new one is out. >> yet another. >> they say you have to get eight hours of sleep and that's important. now eight hours of sleep may be too much. yeah. >> may only need seven. >> get their act together for once and definitively decide so we can know if we're going to die ten years earlier or not. >> we want to know if we need eight hours of sleep, eight glasses of water, coffee, drink wine, tell us and don't tell us something else. they said people with the lowest mortality rate are those who only slept seven. slept way too much and get lazy and lethargic. >> i wish i had that problem once in a while. according to these studies i should have died three years

ago. every one. i do everything wrong and i'm hanging in there. almost 61. you know, it's one thing to turn 50, hoda. you have the world by the -- but once you're -- you turn 60 you say i can get -- but now you are in your 60s. >> in them. >> you're not even -- >> you're in them. you're involved. >> yeah. >> wait until 64 and 65. >> oh, lord have mercy. the experts whoever they are, because they never come out of their hole to show us who they are, range from seven to nine. >> i get that a week total. >> i got to tell you, one time i had to interview super models for work and i said what's the secret to aging gracefully and they all said the same thing, they get tons of sleep. because that's why they don't have wrinkles. they're sleeping. >> what are they so angry about? >> because they're hungry. >> they walk -- >> they're hungry and they're rested and starving. >> cigarettes and drink their champagne. >> yeah.

>> i want to be one. >> this is an interesting -- this is another study. >> no. >> and it says, this is true, according to somebody who wrote it -- that exercise, exercise, the act of exercising, can give -- can send women to poughkeepsie. you can get orgasms by exercising. >> if they google that they're going to get something on poughkeepsie which is a lovely sleepy town in upstate new york. that ain't the poughkeepsie we're talking about. >> if you brisk walk you can go to poughkeepsie. >> depending on how thick your thighs are. won't work for super models but -- tell the folks at home what these things are called, hoda. all right. i will.

they're called corgasms. >> anyway, if you guys have ever seen in the gym that thing called -- the captain's chair. >> apparently the way to go to poughkeepsie. >> by the way, probably going to be the most popular piece of equipment in the gym tomorrow. >> here's the thing. how embarrassing would that be. >> what? >> if you're just -- >> please don't. >> minding your own business. got nothing and all of a sudden- ah! they're going to send the geriatrics to come get you and the emts and everybody. how do you explain what just happened? >> i don't know. apparently spinning classes do it too. spinning classes and weight lifting. >> weight lifting? >> and rope climbing obviously. all right. if you guys are wondering, someone laughing here, there's always someone laughing here her name is kate. >> we love her. >> but now, if you hear even more laughter because her whole family came to visit and kate is

here with her family. she's backing away. we want to thank the entire cook clan for coming to see us. thanks, guys. >> hey. >> don't you love coming from a family that laughs all the time. >> love it. >> ever had it to make so many decisions you felt like head was going to explode. >> how to cure decision fatigue. >> unhappy with your waistline we will show you how dressing the right way can whittle down your middle. >> or your clothes. >> or exercise more. we'll be right back. >> another reason to exercise. oh, my god. you fifteen percent or more on huh, fiftcar insurance.uld save yeah, everybody knows that. well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? ♪ you got to know when to hold'em. ♪ ♪ know when to fold 'em. ♪ know when to walk away. ♪ know when to run. ♪ you never count your money, ♪ when you're sitting at the ta...♪ what? you get it?

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>> do we want an actual baby and if so, white, black, hispanic, asian, blonde hair, black hair, teeth or no teeth. >> i have black baby at home. [ inaudible ]. >> sorry, i can't hear what you're saying. i -- >> i'm so stressed out. >> that looks familiar. she actually did study, she came here and watched the "today" show shenanigans. you're probably suffering from decision fatigue. >> here to tell us why we are so mentally exhausted and what we can do about it are psychologist dale atkins and the co-author of "will power rediscovering the greatest human strength" and "new york times" columnist john tierney. welcome. >> hi, guys, how are you? >> great, thank you. >> decision fatigue, this is a real thing, isn't it? >> john you wrote a lot about this. >> it's been discovered in the lab and shopping mall. the first experiment involved these hungry students that

were -- they were left alone with these delicious chocolate chip cookies and they had to resist them, they're not supposed to eat them. when they did eat -- they managed to resist them but afterwards they had less self-control for anything else. they depleted their will power, their mental energy. >> you have just a certain amount of will power in you? >> you have a certain amount and you have to guard it and protect it. what happens is you end up making poor decisions if you make any decision at all. >> tell me, aren't every video is different, though? some people have more will power than others and more energy in general? >> we all deplete it though. >> right. >> the researchers found making decisions depletes the same source of energy. after you make these decisions then you have less willpower left to resist temptation and make bad decisions. >> nothing good happens after midnight. >> after 4:00. >> after 4:00. >> you know, important decisions that you really have to have your attention and your focus for and then there are a lot of little decisions that you waste your energy on. >> interesting you guys are talking about buying a car, that

certain people tend to pay more after 4:00 because you're just like -- >> whatever. >> you give up. >> is that what happens to your brain, you shut down and accept? >> they did an experiment, researchers watched people who were buying a car as they went down the list of options and at a certain point they would stop making choices and the default. the difference made $2,000 a car depending whether you put the expensive things first or last. at a certain point you stop making it. that's one of the easiest ways to deal with the fatigue, duck the decisions. >> a matter of overload. >> it is. >> your data is all full. >> it is overload and what happens is f you don't refresh, then you just can't do it anymore and say i'm done. i can't -- as in the clip, i can't hear you, i just -- you're asking too much of me. we each have to know how much we have. >> okay. if you're somebody watching and you do have a lot of decisions to make, it's best to make all of your major decisions all before 4:00? is that what we're saying? >> earlier in the day. >> right. do them earlier in the day

before you get fatigue and don't make decisions on an empty stomach. glucose and food gives you the mental energy. you need that. that can restore your willpower. >> you say eat a little bit all day long. >> a little bit of nutritious foods. don't go for the candy bars. you need to have food with protein and nutritious and you must sleep because -- >> how much? how much exercise are we supposed to get. >> oh, no. >> so if you are rested, which is one of the reasons we try to ask people to make important decisions in the morning, and focus on them, you're hopefully having more rest and your brain is more refreshed. >> how does the secretary of state or anybody travel all over the world, jet lagged constantly, making huge decisions that impact the world? >> it's a great question. >> thank you. >> on that note -- >> yeah. >> one of the things i think is important and you point this out so beautifully is you have control over when you make your decisions. >> yes. >> and unfortunately so many people are working so hard and spent during date they come home and have to make important decisions.

you can say i'm not fully functioning now. we'll deal with that tomorrow. >> knock back a few and decide. >> exactly. a fascinating article you wrote. we should encourage people to go on-line and read your article about it. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> all righty, please keep your hands and feet in the ride at all times. >> when our who knew question test yours knowledge of the summer's biggest and fastest attractions after this. i bet it's the captain's chair. ♪ you help me pour. the simple grains of rice krispies®. oooo! good. help me. they're made with rice. they're popping! where'd the sound go? is it in your tummy? a gentle grain that's easy for little tummies to digest and fun to eat. kellogg's rice krispies®. ♪

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is home to the world's tallest ferris wheel? orlando, new york, vegas, or london? what is the answer? >> las vegas. it's the high roller, 550 feet high. that record is not going to last too long, though, because new york city and dubai are both in the process of building even bigger ones. but this one, at 35 bucks is going to charge you if you want to go at night, $25 during the day time. >> 30 minutes to make one revolution on the high roller in vegas. >> that's a long time. >> lovely lady from ohio. which of the following attractions has the most annual visitors? the las vegas strip, nevada, niagara falls, new york, and ontario, what is that, faneuil hall, boston, times square, new york, city. >> i'm going to say times square. >> you're going to win some money. >> great. >> times square, yeah, big time. >> number one, anywhere in the world, 40 million a year go to times square. they say if you stand there long enough you will meet everyone you've ever known. >> i don't know the place in boston.

>> that's one of the great old revolutionary war era buildings. it's a great place to visit. all these places in the top ten. >> got them. >> lovely friend of yours from new orleans. all right. which of the following is not true about the attraction called the ledge? there are four large glass enclosures? it extends 4.3 feet out with 1,353 feet underneath? it overlooks the grand canyon? it is on the 103rd floor of a building? >> d. >> oh. >> no, no, no. she gets my lovely little cd. >> she looks so happy. >> the one that wasn't true was that it overlooks the grand canyon. it's at the top of the willis tower in chicago. you're standing -- 1,353 feet above the city. >> are you kidding? >> way up there. >> you can see as many as five states. the one in the grand canyon is called the sky walk, the grand canyon sky walk.

i'm not surprised that you might get that confused. >> which was the one that had the cracks everyone was concerned? >> that's the one i don't go to. >> got it. >> back across to kathie lee. >> lady from maryland. the high point on new jersey's thrill ride, zumanjaro, drop of doom, is the equivalent of how many stories tall? 30, 36, 39, or 41? >> what do you think? >> birthday -- >> 39. >> c. >> no. almost. >> oh. what a shame. the correct answer is 41. >> 41 stories. 415 feet high. if you can imagine that. you reach speeds of 90 miles an hour. the drop, it's a ten-second drop. you're accelerating as you're going down this baby. oh, man. that is completely mad. >> you are kidding. all right. time for another. >> beautiful teacher from virginia. world's tallest water slide it's called the verruckt recently

opened in schlitterbahn, the water park in kansas city. that i can say. it is a german word that means waterfall, fast, insane or wedgy? >> what do you do with that? i would say waterfall. >> big day for kathie lee cds. >> answer is insane. >> insane. it's insane because you have to be completely demented to want to do. 168 foot drop, taller than niagara falls. speeds of 70 miles an hour. you don't think that's fast? wait to see if your bathing suit arrives at the same time you do at the bottom. >> thank you so much. these are great. are you tired of a widening waistline? we'll show you how to hide what you've got with the latest stomach flattering styles. you'll love it coming up right after this. he has been called energizing, electrifying and unaware of personal boundaries. and now he's here to explain one product that does two things. beroccaaaaaaaaaaaaa! fla-pow... mental sharpness support...

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we're back with boomtsaic the seri dedicated to boomers as the last of that generation turns 50 this year including our own hoda. we've just mentioned that 17 days now. >> anyway, all right, you can still feel fabulous in your 50s by dressing right to whittle down your middle and to camouflage that midsection. >> whittle the middle. >> here with solutions to stop the spread. >> hate when we say that. >> is the star of bravo's "blood sweat and heels" and author of "never pay retail again" daisy lewellyn is here. >> how are you? >> she is a wild woman this morning. >> she is. >> it's one of the problem areas for a lot of us. you're always trying to figure out exactly how to hide it. >> absolutely. >> spanx can only help so much. >> sometimes it can be discouraging but i have five great looks to tame the tummy. >> a before picture of teresa. teresa is our first lovely lady and tell us about what teresa's

issues are. >> she wore these printed leggings and this oversized black top thinking black will make me slimmer but not necessarily in this case. >> come on out, girl. >> we gave her this va va voom panel dress with pizazz. what we did take the print and make it more in the center and the black is on the border to make her look very slim. it's super great, it's only 44.50. >> who makes it? >> fashion to figure. >> looks so comfortable. >> very comfortable. they have great trendy pieces for women with real curves and budgets. super affordable. >> love that. >> curvy is the new black. >> go girl. >> thank you. >> all right. talk us to about kathie's before. >> kathie has a common problem the muffin top. >> yeah. >> her shirt was too sheer, too tight and wasn't working. now we have -- >> look at kathie. >> how slender. that is amazing. >> amazing. >> the thing is quality. quality fabric and right silhouette to mask over the middle. we got this top it's only $17 from marshals.

the great thing is patterns can be your friend. you want them to go up and down and not across. >> not long and blousy that it looks like you're trying to hide something. >> absolutely. we're masking but it's not too big. the jeans and wedges are from marshals also. >> what fabric should we stay away from? >> you want to stay away from something too clingy and it's very -- this is like a silk, very cotton material goes over. every time you move it's not going to show all of your things going on under. >> all right. tell us about -- thank you. let's hear about mary ann. her before picture. >> mary ann, very common outfit. women say i want to be comfortable and i'm wearing something loose because. as not that it wasn't attractive, wasn't flattering her body type. >> we gave her a tailored blazer. i say blazers are your best friend. it's about bringing the eyes inward. lands end relaunched their new denim, one fit, two fit, and three. the waistbands are designed not

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>> how cute is this. a watermelon grill with celery on the bottom, celery on the top. >> how cute. >> if you burn the roast it doesn't matter. >> that's clever. >> that is darling. >> have the kids dunk it into chocolate. >> oh, my gosh. >> sad the way that came. hoda has to get a blood test in a bit she can't have that. >> few more hours. >> come little blood test girls. over here. hoda's 49th and birth day. have glasses that cost you nothing. >> which one is yours? >> kathie, dunk. >> i'm doing, dunk and put it here, 24 hours later you have inexpensive, use these as place cards, party -- just pick them up and you're great. >> okay. >> write on them like a blackboard. >> not every flower is an olympic swimmer. give them these life preservers