GIFFORD:
It was supposed to start raining, but it hasn't yet. It's coming, though, it's coming,
Hoda
woman.
KOTB:
It is coming. Look at all of this stuff we have gathered around.
GIFFORD:
We're going to tell you about it in a second.
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, co-host:
First, I don't want to forget to say, my dear
friends
, the
Joslyns
...
HODA KOTB, co-host:
Uh-huh.
GIFFORD:
...are about to open the next -- a huge
Titanic
exhibit in
Pigeon Forge
,
Tennessee
, today.
KOTB:
Uh-huh. OK.
GIFFORD:
Regis
is going to cut their ribbon. I just want to wish them all the best for it.
KOTB:
Good luck to them.
GIFFORD:
Plans to bring it to
New York
soon.
KOTB:
Ah, that's exciting.
GIFFORD:
Wouldn't you like to have the
Titanic
just sitting right there in the harbor.
KOTB:
Why wouldn't you.
GIFFORD:
That would be awesome.
KOTB:
All right.
GIFFORD:
God bless
them, anyway.
KOTB:
We had some fun yesterday, you guys. If, OK. Here's the
problem
with
Broadway
, I think. A lot of women like to go and their husbands and boyfriends don't like to go.
GIFFORD:
They'd rather go to a baseball game or something, right.
KOTB:
Well, we have just solved your
problem
. It is called...
GIFFORD:
You owe us like crazy.
KOTB:
..."
Million Dollar Quartet
." This is a show that I guarantee -- there were more men in the audience, I think, than women.
GIFFORD:
You know what, it was fun to watch them. At one point, I pulled myself away from it long enough to really look at the audience.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
Everybody was having the best time. My friend,
Eric Schaeffer
...
KOTB:
Oh.
GIFFORD:
...who has directed two of my shows, is the director. He's the one that won the
Tony
last year for best
regional theater
down at the
Signature
in
Shirlington
,
Virginia
.
KOTB:
This show has four incredible musicians: Johnny Cash...
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
...Elvis...
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
...Carl Perkins...
GIFFORD:
Carl Perkins.
KOTB:
...and Jerry Lee Lewis.
GIFFORD:
Jerry Lee Lewis
.
Balls
of fire!
KOTB:
OK. It all takes place in one day in a tiny
recording studio
.
GIFFORD:
December the 6th, in
1956
, I think.
KOTB:
You guys -- and it's -- and it's true. It's a
true story
. They were all together. They sing their hearts out. You are into it.
GIFFORD:
There's the guy playing
Jerry Lee Lewis
.
KOTB:
Come on.
GIFFORD:
He is unbelievable.
KOTB:
No, no.
GIFFORD:
He had to wear like band-aids on his fingers because they were bleeding.
KOTB:
Bleeding on the keys.
GIFFORD:
I want to give his name. He is so good, this kid.
KOTB:
No, it's crazy. It's like a concert, that's the......thing.
GIFFORD:
Levi Kreis.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
Levi Kreis. Amazing.
KOTB:
Now I think...
GIFFORD:
I think he deserves a
Tony
nomination, I think.
KOTB:
Definitely.
GIFFORD:
They're all great but this guy is unbelievable.
KOTB:
It hasn't opened yet, officially.
GIFFORD:
It opens on Sunday night.
KOTB:
Sunday.
GIFFORD:
Sunday night.
KOTB:
All right. So we wish them all.
GIFFORD:
We wish them all the best. If -- I'm telling you, it's only
90 minutes
, there's no intermission.
KOTB:
No, so good.
GIFFORD:
You're out at 3:30. It's so much fun.
KOTB:
You'll leave in a great mood. OK, how about this -- how should we describe this Qatari diplomat who was on this
plane
.
GIFFORD:
Oh. Mm-hmm.
KOTB:
This is -- OK, this is one of those where you go like, what were you thinking?
GIFFORD:
And we can't even
charge
the guy because he has
diplomatic immunity
.
KOTB:
Yeah, I mean...
GIFFORD:
Which makes me crazy.
KOTB:
There are so many of those stories about diplomats who break the law and there was one in
New York
, I remember...
GIFFORD:
And never
pay for it
.
KOTB:
...yeah,
drunk driver
and they don't think.
GIFFORD:
Never
pay for it
.
KOTB:
So what happened was this guy's on a
plane
from
DC
to
Denver
, he goes into the bathroom, he wants to light a cigarette, I
guess
, have a cigarette. The
flight
attendant smells smoke, she tells the
air marshal
. They say to him, `
What's going on
?' And he apparently cracks a joke about being a
shoe bomber
or something or lighting his shoe on fire.
GIFFORD:
Oh, so funny.
KOTB:
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
And then, they set the...
GIFFORD:
The F-14s.
KOTB:
Yeah,
F-14s
or something...
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
...alongside.
GIFFORD:
To scramble.
KOTB:
It was such a huge incident. In fact, on my
BlackBerry
, it was buzzing,
terrorist incident
. I was like, `Oh, my gosh, what's happening?'
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
This was
late night
. And it turned out that the whole thing was a big old nothing. It was this guy who was smoking a cigarette.
GIFFORD:
Cigarette break. Here's the thing, I know we can't do anything about him in terms of having him pay for the crime.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm. Right.
GIFFORD:
Because it is a
federal crime
.
KOTB:
It's diplomatic, right.
GIFFORD:
But how about we send a bill to
Qatar
, to the country of
Qatar
, for this guy's misconduct for all it cost our taxpayers for that incident.
KOTB:
I think that's fair.
GIFFORD:
You know what?
KOTB:
I think that's fair.
GIFFORD:
That should be fair.
KOTB:
I think that's fair. I think that's fair.
GIFFORD:
We need...
KOTB:
Yeah, because what are you -- I do -- I want...
GIFFORD:
That's got to be a
million
dollars. That's got easily to be a
million
dollars for that.
KOTB:
I want someone to explain the whole
diplomatic immunity
thing. I mean, there was an incident, I don't remember when, but a diplomat hit somebody, it was a
drunk driver
, and there were no charges. Like certain crimes aren't about international stuff.
GIFFORD:
I think we need to relook at that. We definitely do. I also think the
United Nations
should not be here in
New York
unless they're going the pay their bills. You know? We've been footing the bills for them, too. Come on. This is ridiculous.
KOTB:
This is. There's a lot...
GIFFORD:
We're not a charity.
KOTB:
...to complain about.
GIFFORD:
We're a member of the same organization that they are.
KOTB:
Yes, we are.
GIFFORD:
So quit breaking our laws and start paying your bills, OK?
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
And quit taking up everybody's parking spaces.
KOTB:
All right. That's important. All right.
GIFFORD:
When in Rome
, do as the
Romans
do. When in
America
, treat us -- treat our country with respect.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
It makes me crazy.
KOTB:
I think most do, most do. Come on, most do.
GIFFORD:
We have an issue today we have to talk about and we do not want to
talk about it
because we -- you never want these kinds of things to happen in our own family.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
But it has happened. Our colleague
Tiki Barber
is in the papers.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
...
yesterday and today
, quite a bit about...
KOTB:
Yeah. He reportedly left his wife who's pregnant, she's eight months pregnant.
GIFFORD:
Ginny
, mm-hmm.
KOTB:
Ginny. And they have...
GIFFORD:
With
twins
.
KOTB:
She's pregnant with
twins
and they have -- they have two children.
GIFFORD:
Two
little
boys. Mm-hmm.
KOTB:
Yeah. And he left her and there's an incident with infidelity. His camp is saying that these things didn't happen, calling it ludicrous and whatnot. And the other side is saying the opposite. But he does not live with her, I think that's been confirmed. He no longer lives with his wife.
GIFFORD:
I never saw any of that. I just, you know...
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
...we always talked about how much we loved and adored
Tiki
and he always smells so good.
KOTB:
The way he smells. Yeah.
GIFFORD:
You know he's just a...
KOTB:
There was a -- no.
GIFFORD:
Apparently he smells really good, I don't know.
KOTB:
No one smells better than
Tiki Barber
.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
It's true.
GIFFORD:
Well,
Frank
does. And in the papers...
KOTB:
Oh.
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
We need to clear something up here. They keep saying that
Tiki
broke every
single record
.
GIFFORD:
That is not true.
KOTB:
Clear it up.
GIFFORD:
Frank Gifford
still
has the record for the most touchdowns, yes, he does.
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
And
Frank
, when he started playing, for many years, only played 12 games in the season, not 14 like they do now. So that one record is nice and safe. But I just wish
Tiki
and his family all the best.
KOTB:
Yeah, we wish
Ginny
well.
GIFFORD:
I just wish that you guys would start thinking about what you're doing before you do it for once.
KOTB:
Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of these falling
out of the trees
.
Tiger Woods
, by the way, there's a new ad, you guys, with
Tiger Woods
. This is -- this is interesting. It's filmed in black and
white
. You hear -- we're going to show it to you in a second.
Tiger
's looking to camera and you hear the voice of his father. They don't -- they don't identify it as his dad, but you do know it is his father. We're going to show you ad and then we want to hear what you think. But let's listen.
GIFFORD:
Expected to do, what are we supposed to do with that?
KOTB:
I don't know.
GIFFORD:
For me, it creeps me out.
KOTB:
I think...
GIFFORD:
I don't like it at all.
KOTB:
Donny Deutsch
, who does all this advertising stuff...
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
...said it was a
home run
.
GIFFORD:
I know.
KOTB:
Now, it looks like his father kind of wagging his finger at
Tiger
.
GIFFORD:
Well, we all know that his father has been deceased for several years.
KOTB:
Sure. I don't -- what's weird is, if you're
Tiger
, and he's listening to it at the same time. This all happened simultaneously.
GIFFORD:
We don't know how it came to be made, right?
KOTB:
From his perspective, it must be wrenching because no matter what your dad, you know, is like, you want to please your dad. As a viewer look -- peeking in, it's weird, to me.
GIFFORD:
It doesn't make me want to run anything
Nike
.
KOTB:
Right. I think the whole thing's a
little
bit...
GIFFORD:
Anyway.
KOTB:
OK. We've got to talk about the things on this table. There are people out there who are spending lots and lots of
money
on food. Expensive food.
GIFFORD:
I don't know anybody personally that is, but in -- but with everybody complaining so much about the economy now and so many people struggling...
KOTB:
People are
still
buying this stuff.
GIFFORD:
...it's bizarre to me that this stuff is out there.
KOTB:
OK.
GIFFORD:
But we're going to show it to you.
KOTB:
This is a hamburger...
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
...that costs $175.
GIFFORD:
They sell about six of these a week, I hear.
KOTB:
Yeah. It's a
Wall Street
burger. It's made of that
Kobe beef
, that special kind of beef.
Offscreen Voice:
Wall Street Burger Shoppe.
GIFFORD:
At the
Wall Street Burger Shop
.
KOTB:
Wall Street Burger Shoppe. There's gold flecks on it. Who eats gold? And what does it...
GIFFORD:
It's edible gold.
KOTB:
I don't know why.
GIFFORD:
It's got aged
Gruyere
, truffle mayonnaise and shaved
black truffles
.
KOTB:
All right. So...
GIFFORD:
And it's 175.
KOTB:
This one is from
Serendipity
. It's $1,000. It's got gold items in it and some
ice cream
.
GIFFORD:
And they sell a few of those.
KOTB:
I don't know how to get in there.
GIFFORD:
You know.
KOTB:
They sell this. This is...
GIFFORD:
This one is $25,000.
KOTB:
I can't even get in there.
GIFFORD:
But you get to keep the tray and the spoon and the
little
-- and the
little
dish.
KOTB:
OK. These...
GIFFORD:
Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
KOTB:
This is a pizza and the whole one's over there, but this is a tiny slice of it. It's $1,000, the pizza.
GIFFORD:
You want me to dip into this $25,000 one, you guys?
KOTB:
Caviar.
GIFFORD:
All right.
KOTB:
I don't -- I don't want any gold flecks. I don't need to eat -- I don't like that.
GIFFORD:
Well, you're going to have to eat it, just for research sake.
KOTB:
And this is a -- thank you.
GIFFORD:
Is it worth?
KOTB:
I mean, it's OK. Like I'm a
Dairy Queen
girl. I don't know, that doesn't -- that doesn't
ring my bell
. I'm just saying. This is a...
GIFFORD:
Frittata.
KOTB:
Frittata. You can try that.
GIFFORD:
I can have a bite of. This has caviar...
KOTB:
That's a thousand bucks, too.
GIFFORD:
...it has lobster meat...
KOTB:
Mm-hmm. Go.
GIFFORD:
...and we'll see. And a couple of eggs.
KOTB:
Try a bite of that.
GIFFORD:
My cholesterol.
Voice:
From Norma's.
GIFFORD:
Huh?
Voice:
Norma's.
KOTB:
From Norma's.
GIFFORD:
All right.
Voice:
KOTB:
And where's the pizza from?
GIFFORD:
I get some lobster on it.
Voice:
Nino's Bellissima.
KOTB:
Nino's Bellissima. OK. We should talk about,
OK!
or not
OK!
How is it, is it OK?
GIFFORD:
Really delicious.
KOTB:
Delicious? Delicious.
GIFFORD:
But $1,000, I don't know.
KOTB:
OK. We did our
OK!
or not
OK!
The question this week is: Is it OK to flash your abs? In the new
OK! magazine
.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
OK.
Kathie Lee
says, `If you look like
Gisele Bundchen
, "ab"-solutely.'
GIFFORD:
"Abs"-solutely.
KOTB:
`If you look like me, "abs"-solutely not.'
GIFFORD:
Not.
KOTB:
OK. I say, `Not if your abs are flabs, but I
guess
a quick peek at a washboard never hurts.' And they have people who have great abs flashing them.
GIFFORD:
Mm-hmm.
KOTB:
Anyway.
GIFFORD:
I think they've got to be in awfully good shape. Really, really good shape.
KOTB:
You've got to be in
tip top
.
GIFFORD:
Keep
America
beautiful and keep your clothes on if you're not in great shape.
KOTB:
All right, let's go to
Sara
.
GIFFORD:
Why are you looking at
Tammy
right now?
Tammy
's pregnant, OK?
KOTB:
Tammy
is pregnant and looking good.
GIFFORD:
She's just fine. She is.
KOTB:
Yes, she is.
GIFFORD:
Sara, what's happening, baby?
KOTB:
Hi, Sara.
SARA HAINES reporting:
Hi
, guys. We're talking about the
Tiger
ad. People are all over the
board
with it.
Buddy
said, "The ad is brilliant." Kristen said, "It's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen."
Shirley
said, "It's creepy."
Gail
says, "Whatever, I'm done with it." And
Hoda
,
Brenda
, a fan, says, "Thank you for taking the time to take pictures yesterday on the plaza. It was the highlight of my daughter's first trip to
New York City
."
KOTB:
Well, that was fun.
GIFFORD:
Very nice of you.
KOTB:
I remember
Brenda
and the gang. Yeah. It was really so nice out.
GIFFORD:
Oh, it was gorgeous.
KOTB:
Everybody passed out.
GIFFORD:
Absolutely gorgeous.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
We'd love to know more about how you all feel about the...
KOTB:
That Tiger ad.
GIFFORD:
Yeah. And even -- and also about the
Tiki
thing.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
We'd like you to
let us
know how you feel.
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