oh. >> come on. >> oh, yeah. >> nice touch. >> good, hoda! >> oh, crap! >> come on, hoda., guys! >> we're huffing and puffing. >> we'll be back tomorrow. we have so much other great stuff. it's going to be a blast. we might get in a little trouble tonight we get to tell you about tomorrow. have a great thursday. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> announcer: from the hilbert circle theater in indianapolis, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television

>> hoda! >> i don't cook.ittle bit. >> look how fast. >> those are the ones i finished there. five or six minutes there. >> they're amazing. >> bring it on down. what do we have here on the griddle? >> a grilled conch here. >> fresh conch, put some vegetables on there, okay, and then you take some plantains and a little there. it's good for you. >> i know it is. >> local goat pepper. really nice. >> slr >> very big on that. what is that? >> sweet potatoes. >> i like how you're going to cook it, chef. you just drop it in the -- >> very healthy. >> yeah. >> all the juice, all the nutrients. >> we're going to put some lemon juice on there. this is going to be folded in. >> and then you put that in the grill for how long? >> this is going to be on there for about 15, 20 minutes. >> you don't need to -- just goes right in there? >> right in here. >> get a load of that baby. >> from there you go. that's the the finished product right there. >> good. >> very colorful. very nutritious. this is another one, conch salad

oh, my gosh, hoda.>> that is not great. >> your mother just called. >> i know. >> she did not raise you like this. >> she did not, and i rarely curse. >> but sometimes it's not a person's fault because sometimes -- can you give me a beep? [ bleep ] happens. and sometimes it happens [ bleep ] in ways you cannot even imagine. tell the story, hoda. >> all right. so there was a couple that was sitting out in their backyard on long island. >> minding their own business. on a beautiful february evening, which we've had lately. >> they just happen to live in the line where the planes fly over to jfk. sometimes planes fly over. while they're out there, a beautiful day, and suddenly they noticed some black oily stuff all over their deck. and they were, like, boy, what is that? and then some black oily stuff fell from the sky and hit the woman, the wife. >> on her face. >> and the black oily stuff -- >> it's a bird, it's a plane -- no, it's [ bleep ]! >> it fell from the plane. and they say sometimes they do some

here, hoda. i was bringing it upstairs. so sad. so sad. but i thought you might like the box. >> thank you. >> yes. >> yes. so we had, speaking of food, a big lunch yesterday. >> we did. >> michael's restaurant. a big kind of new york giants pep rally. >> a sendoff. >> hosted by harvey weinstein. >> love him. >> steve tibbs. >> co-owner of the team. >> matt lauer was there. and just paging through -- >> john mcenroe and brian williams. >> paging through the paper and who do we see in the "daily news" but you and your old boyfriend. >> they're trying to start some trouble there for us. you know if you sit with rege, and you were at our table, frank was atur table, if you're at a table with regis, there is a lot of yelling going on. >> yelling while the speakers are speaking. >> more entertaining than anything that's going on. one of the reporters -- frank -- that was him, he was there and he asked regis, hey, you were just on the show and so i guess we're going to see more of you. what did regis say? >> i can can't read it anymore. he said,

>> i don't remember the movie. >> you're confusing me with hoda. i don't know it. hoda, what is it?s" by peter gabriel. >> oh, yes. >> "say anything" was named the best modern movie romance. >> never saw it. how did i live? >> i didn't either. >> jack, we love you. >> today didn't work for me. >> well, i should have been wearing that jacket. >> up next, say it ain't so. >> you can have it! >> '80s -- she's getting naked. '80s fashion is making a comeback. >> be careful. >> we'll be back after this. septic disasters are disgusting and costly, but avoidable. the rid-x septic subscriber program helps prevent backups by sending you monthly doses right to your door so you will never forget to maintain your system. sign up at rid-x.com. 2:30 in the afternoon, a lot to do, and you've hit the wall. but you got to get stuff done. so take 5-hour energy. just open it up, knock it back, and roll up your sleeves. 5-hour energy is faster and easier than coffee. man, does it work. you'll get that alert, energized feeling you need to get stuff done. a lot of stuff. wow. look at you go. 5-hour energ

so sad hoda can't have any. so delicious. >> what's this one? >> this is a classic. 17th century, something that george washington or tom jefferson would have enjoyed. red wine and -- you are shameless. >> that is just cruel. >> you bring it out of me, ray. you make me an animal. >> you warm it up. you warm it up with some spices. you put them in a little cheese cloth so you don't have to filter them out later. >> hoda can't have cheese. >> no cheese in the cheese cloth. >> she put the food in the chocolate mousse. >> having a little fun. you can't have it anyway. these guys don't mind. they all have them. >> pepper corn, cinnamon, fennel seed, red wine, orange rind and a little bit of sugar, a little brown sugar that you whisk in. >> okay. >> this is classic old school -- >> like an old drink. >> delicious, warming thing. this is super intense hot chocolate. double chocolate hot chocolate made with -- not a bad thing at all -- made with milk chocolate and bittersweet chocolate melted down with a little boiling water. then you've got warm milk unfortunately -- >> poo

i thought that was in. >> go, hoda! >> i know this one's in. >> the good news is we're not playing in the game on sunday. >> manning and brady know what they're doing. >> a little more speed, hoda woman. >> we have beer on the table for a good reason. >> who needs a good reason? except we have these for a good reason. you want to come over here? >> these are rings. they also double as beer openers. beer bottle openers. so you put it on your finger. >> how are you? >> good. how are you? >> very brave man. you know why? he lives here, works here, but he's rooting for the patriots. >> patriots. >> show us what you got. >> ready? >> wow. >> nothing more exciting than -- >> you earned that beer. please. >> thanks. >> enjoy. because it's a big turn-on. a big turn-on. >> see how you do that. >> do it in slow motion. grunt a little. yeah, baby. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> okay. these are $24.95. >> expensive. >> all different teams and stuff. >> a lot of people think things that kill marriages are things like infideli

fun. >> you get that, hoda? >> is it fun?>> so let's stick with the monster theme one more second. retro marbles, now we have monster marbles. so the marbles, you move them just like marbles. they're really cool. they're also very collectible. kids will want to collect them. knock the other monster out of the ring. lots of great games to play. >> very cute. >> this is cody. >> what? >> a fidget toy. >> say it again. >> cody. >> how do you spell it? >> it is also -- it is also a puzzle. and it also is a collectible. >> what do we do with this? like a lego? >> this turns into this. it has all these links. there's numbered symbols and letters on it and when you follow the code you create a creature. eventually capable of coming up with their own codes and create their own. >> that's got to be very good for their brains. >> it is very good. the moving, the thinking about it. it's fun. >> is it fun? all right. okay. >> these are something you usually see for the boys, battling tops. now we have dizzy dancers. we have our dizzy sti

-- >> maybe you should become vegan, hoda.ou? >> absolutely. thanks. >> no. >> your vanilla. >> hers or mine? >> that's the magic ingredient. at the end. perfect. >> yep. >> fold it. >> hoda. >> the thing about baking is you want to make sure you have your technique down. >> okay. >> perfect. >> you want me to dump it in? >> i'll take care of that. >> you know -- >> we're going to fold, exactly. so liquid into the dry ingredients. >> i've already been fondued in the eye. >> the champagne drinking and the cupcake eating. so you have that. so here's where the magic ingredients come in. vinegar. the acids, baking soda reacts with the vinegar and the lemon juice we poured in and we get some really nice color changes. our bubbles. it gets really nice. >> all right. come on down and let's start decorating. >> you bake them for how long? >> right around 15 minutes. >> tell us about the icing. >> the icing, sugar. first and foremost. vanilla. >> you like your sugar. >> absolutely. you can't do good baking without sugar. we have a nonh

. >> whipping your -- oh, and hoda finally -- hoda ate it. >> that thing you were seeing was -- what>> aphrodisiac. called a pistol. anything that has the word pis-tol in it, run away. the main reason i wouldn't eat it was not being mean to hoda, although that was part of it, was that people were afraid it wasn't going to show up well enough on the plate. so everybody on our crew came by, picked it up and put it on a different plate. >> dark plates. >> manhandled them. i'm going, no way. >> down the hatch. right down. >> it's supposed to be an aphrodisiac. did it work? >> that's what i've heard. anyway, we also had fun with the dolphins. shoutout to sasha. >> our favorite part was swimming. we kissed a girl and we liked it. >> she was precious. >> so sweet. we had a wonderful time. >> thank you to everybody. >> it's a big day around here because joy, as you know, reached her 25,000-pound weight loss goal. >> hey. >> now we've got the winners. right? >> we do. we had hundreds and hundreds of entries. i've got to say i'm glad i was not the one to judge because i would have said everybo

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do you know who hoda kotb is?you don't know kathie lee or hoda but you know punxsutawney phil? >> yeah. >> and before i left, one last order of business. rehearsal. i understand that there has yet to be a woman in the inner circle, although they're welcome. but i would love it if you could show me what it would be like to be a part of your inner circle today. >> just wear the top hat. >> no. i've got more. i am coming dressed. so i guess the big question is, come groundhog day, will phil see his shadow? >> love it with the uggs. >> that's a fashion statement. i didn't know all that stuff. >> i didn't either. a very educational segment for me. >> looked good in your little tux and tails. >> i felt it was like a modern-day prom. >> usually i care what happens to punxsutawney phil, but you know what, it's been such a mild winter. >> you're right. >> still to come, clothes built for comfort look sexy. pe and jump for joy!inrog s jushing rope. she d?oppe whd?at happened? ap >>> back on this booze day tuesday with "toda

>> come on. >> yeah. >> nice touch. >> good, hoda. >> come on, hoda. >> i got it. >> there we go. >>

i mean, i think -- >> by text or something, hoda? met -- the breakup happened and they did not hear from him at all again. there was no -- there was no, like, what happened? what was it? >> clean break for him. >> yeah. >> but it's hard because you feel like if i had the information it's going to help me know what i did wrong and not make the same mistake again. as ian said, guys aren't going to give that to you. >> what should a woman do? >> i think first of all a woman should put together like her breakup team, like friends, family, people you can trust, even a personal trainer that you can work out with and talk to and keeps you motivated. put together your own little team, your own little positive breakup team. but don't seek out the guy. >> it's okay to stay in a funk for a while. >> you want to have a little pity party, the ben & jerry's, but put a limit on it, two weeks, then move on. you cannot follow him on facebook, twitter, and don't let friends give you updates. >> if you want to be miserable, keep following him on facebo

have you noticed, hoda? >> they turn. >> they don't mean to. >> but they do. >> until you're not winning anymore. this guy will be a winner long after he stops winning basketball games. he's a winner of a human being. he really is. this is a guy who thought he was a winner. i love this story. >> you've been driving down the street and there are cones and you want to make a turn but you can't because there are cones blocking it. most people will not turn there because they know there are rules and others -- >> i can't, there's a cone. >> other people say i don't care. so anyway, this happened in san francisco, california. a guy couldn't stand to be stuck in traffic so he took a short cut through the cones and got stuck in wet cement. so anyway, the workers were frantically trying to shovel him out and apparently he couldn't get out of the car. he's sloshing around. his porsche is in the cement. anyway -- >> pride comes before the cement. >> and also there was this lady driving through mcdonald's or whatever a

captions paid for by nbc-universal television ♪ how sweet it is to be loved by you ♪ ♪ by my hoda heyybody, it's booze tuesday, february 14th. it's valentine's day. we want to wish everybody a very happy valentine's day. >> happy, happy valentine's day. >> or it's also called singles awareness day. >> we've all been there and done that. >> that's what's cool about it. we've all been that person who basically is singing, you know, a different kind of song than james was just singing. they're singing -- ♪ all by myself don't want to be ♪ one is the loneliest number and my all-time favorite -- ♪ what's love got to do, got to do with it ♪ >> i like that one. >> can i tell you about my morning? every now and then you have a morning and you say i don't want this morning to end. i had that morning. it's a sweet thing. >> were you alone? >> i go down to our building. my building. i go into the lobby and the doors open and there's jay. and he has on a tuxedo shirt and a tie untied and a tuxedo jacket and pajama bottoms and he's leaning up against the wall. i look at him, and i go i cannot beli

hoda and i are so happy you're here with us. it's february 22, it's wednesday winesday. also around here and the rest of the world, it's ash wednesday. >> it is. the day after mardi gras. >> and the beginning of lent. very special day for many people in the christian faith. and only in america could this happen. it's ash wednesday, but it's also national margarita day. ♪ >> doctor in the house. >> thank you, darrell robinson. >> what makes these unique? >> this is a pomegranate margarita. >> pomegranate means it's also good for your sex life. >> you know, we don't really want to say that, but i'll let you say it. >> that's what i've heard. >> by the way, there's a show called "drink up." >> "drink up." on the cooking channel. >> which some people have suggested should be the title of our show. i did not know this. the original margarita was invented in 1948. >> wow. >> in acapulco by a socialite. i'll bet she was a lot of fun. >> and her name was? >> margarita sain. >> the original was little simple. just lime juice, agave and tequila. three simple ingredients. >> that's

but you know who's gearing up tomorrow night for a special birthday, hoda woman? >> who? >> one of the nicest, dearest ladies i've ever known, helen brown, 90 years old. the original liberated lady. and helen, we weren't at your party last night because we were sort of busy. >> very busy. >> but happy birthday to you. >> happy birthday. >> cheers. she and her husband david, when i first came to new york, were absolutely everything i ever did and they were in the front row and supporting me. they were great ladies. lifetime friends. happy birthday. >> an institution. a feel-good story. it is friday. we'll make you feel warm and fuzzy. this started off scary. it came from michigan. there was a 4-week-old puppy, a puggle, fell through one of the basement grates in the owners' home. it got stuck. it was tiny. got stuck in a drainpipe overnight. these rescuers put a stethoscope-type thing, listened to where the dog was, placed cameras in the pipe -- >> oh! >> oh, and he was so scared. >> you know what they named him? >> piper! >> look. oh, look, his mom. >> his mom. >> can you

that's sweet, though, hoda. >> we also want to thank our fan of the week.nd our fans to great, exotic locations. >> almost every time, yes. there was just that one unfortunate trip. >> a wonderful guy named john posted this thank-you picture. he said he had a lot of fun. >> abaco beach resort. you know what? that is so sweet. >> in the bahamas. he had some fun there. >> good. >> excellent. all right. so we are doing an '80s show on friday. okay? so do you remember what you looked like in the '80s? take a picture. get one of the pictures and send them to us on our website because which want pictures of you with that '80s hair, the shoulder pads. remember? >> we were talking about doing this show, i couldn't remember the '80s. it wasn't for the reasons you might think. i was so busy, i had just moved from california to new york. i was working on another show. and then regis and i met frank. >> boom, boom, boom. >> i couldn't remember. >> the '80s at all. >> no. i would mention a song, and i wouldn't know what decade it came from. >> yep. >> you know, or a mov

>>> from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello, everybody, it's wines day, wednesday, one of our favorite days of the week, and it is the first day of february, usually i'm delighted about that, because it's the shortest month of the year, and it's usually so freaking freezing around here. but it's been like -- >> they say it's going to get up to 60 degrees in new york today. that is astonishing. >> so there's good news and bad news. the bad news is that it's wednesday wines day. the bad news is there's a birth control recall. and you thought you were safe! pfizer is recalling about a million of these. packets of birth control because they may not contain just not enough contraception. darn it! so close. >> usually when you get birth c like the sugar pills. >> how do you know? >> apparently there were too many of those sugar pills, so you weren't getting enough of the active stuff. >> you were getting a placebo. >> exactly. any way, that's the case. i'm sure this is sh