KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, co-host:
Hey, everybody. Welcome to
Funday
,
October 25th
. We hope you had a wonderful, wonderful weekend. It's a -- it's a nice day here, and it was a gorgeous weekend here in the
middle Atlantic
states.
HODA KOTB, co-host:
Well, and it still feels warm. It was -- yeah, it was in the 60s and almost tipping into 70. And look at people without their jackets on, some people just enjoying.
GIFFORD:
Nice crowd. They came to see their
Hoda
woman.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
Sign some books.
KOTB:
Yeah.
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, co-host:
You were in
Chicago
over the weekend.
HODA KOTB, co-host:
I went to
Chicago
, right, to the
Prevention
magazine event, which was terrific. Met a lot of people and signed a bunch of books. And then came back here and then went to
Sam's Club
...
GIFFORD:
Sam
's Club.
KOTB:
...in Edison, New Jersey.
GIFFORD:
Who's hotter than
Hoda
?
KOTB:
OK, the biggest carts are not at
Sam's Club
. The biggest carts on earth are at
IKEA
.
GIFFORD:
IKEA
.
KOTB:
OK, I went to
IKEA
. I know you guys have been there, and this was all a new adventure for me. I did not understand that everything is in a box. So if you want a bed, you take your big cart to the place and you climb up on top of the thing and pull your bed down in a box.
GIFFORD:
How can a woman...
KOTB:
...on the cart.
GIFFORD:
How can
small people
do this?
KOTB:
I don't know, but they have -- people are helping each other.
GIFFORD:
OK.
KOTB:
There are guys who wear a -- but I was so shocked at how huge. It's acres and acres long. And everyone has these carts.
GIFFORD:
And they -- don't they also sell
Swedish meatballs
because it's
Scandinavian
?
KOTB:
Yes. I love the
Swedish meatballs
.
GIFFORD:
I love that.
KOTB:
They have pizza at the end.
GIFFORD:
Pizza at the end. You've earned it by then.
KOTB:
And then -- and then you buy everything because you're like, oh my God, wooden spoons for $2. You don't need anything, but everything is a nickel.
GIFFORD:
That's the psycho -- that's the psychology of it. They -- and you -- you said, 'I didn't even need a cheese platter, but I got one.'
KOTB:
Yeah. I got it.
GIFFORD:
A cutting board.
KOTB:
Yeah, I -- and...
GIFFORD:
Didn't need it, got it.
KOTB:
Wait. There was a lamp for $5.
GIFFORD:
They love people like you.
KOTB:
No, I got it. It was so -- it's just like a globe and you put a bulb in it and it...
GIFFORD:
It sounds hideous.
KOTB:
...burns the apartment down. You're going to be seeing my apartment very soon, if you
know what I mean
.
GIFFORD:
I don't want to talk about it.
KOTB:
So your weekend was quite the adventure.
GIFFORD:
You know what? We had a great weekend. We have very, very
dear friends
who live up in the
Amherst
area there.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And it's so gorgeous. This time of year, everything's peak.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
Your foilage is in peak condition.
KOTB:
Why do you keep bringing that up?
GIFFORD:
Another person called it foilage, too.
KOTB:
Maybe it is foilage.
GIFFORD:
Yes. Anyway, the foilage was gorgeous, it was peak.
And I
've told you before about my friends
Mike
and
Lisa Kittredge
.
KOTB:
They're great people.
GIFFORD:
Mike
was the originator and the founder of
Yankee Candle
.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And as a kid, he was the genius who thought, I think I'll put scents in candles and make them different colors and sell them to my mother's friends.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
Well, years later, of course, he sold it for many, many dollars.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And battled cancer three times, said, 'I'm going to marry the woman that's been with me through all of this.'
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
'We're going to have a family. We're going to
see the world
.' Well, what he was to planning -- and thank you because he took us
all over the world
.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
They took us -- and our kids have grown up together. They ended up having two more little baby girls. But their son,
Mike
's son is now 20.
KOTB:
Hm.
GIFFORD:
And guess what, he got the
DNA
of his father.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And started a brand-new candle company called
Kringle Candle Company
.
KOTB:
Hm.
GIFFORD:
It's in
Bernardston
,
Massachusetts
. And there I was. I -- and that's me with little...
KOTB:
Who's he?
GIFFORD:
That's Mick. We call him
Mick
, little
Michael
.
KOTB:
Uh-huh
.
GIFFORD:
I love places like this where it's -- now, here's the thing. There's Frank. The thing that we love about it is I love the pumpkin smell, but an orange candle looks hideous in my kitchen.
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
Because the colors are all wrong.
KOTB:
Sure.
GIFFORD:
So their idea this time around was genius.
KOTB:
Hm.
GIFFORD:
Make everything white, everything white. You can take the little -- the labels come right off. This one is called
Spiced Apple
.
KOTB:
Let's see
.
GIFFORD:
They burn forever. They're absolutely gorgeous. Now, this town had been hurting.
KOTB:
Mm, that smells great.
GIFFORD:
That one's spiced apple.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
This -- and look at -- and everything's reusable, everything's recyclable.
KOTB:
What's this one?
GIFFORD:
This one -- smell it, you'll tell me.
KOTB:
Lemon.
GIFFORD:
Lemon zest, unbelievable.
KOTB:
Delicious.
GIFFORD:
And then this one...
KOTB:
Those are nice.
GIFFORD:
This is the one
I brought for you. Look, smell the pumpkin spice.
KOTB:
OK.
GIFFORD:
This I put on in my kitchen yesterday and it smells absolutely glorious.
KOTB:
I want this one.
GIFFORD:
OK. You can have that one.
KOTB:
OK, good. Thank you.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
I love that.
GIFFORD:
You got it, baby.
KOTB:
That is awesome.
GIFFORD:
So anyway, they're all affordable. You can go to kringlecandle.com. But I love people like this.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
That not are just dreamers, but doers. Second time around. Now he's -- he'll call me, says, 'We're drinking a very expensive bottle of wine, but we're licking labels.'
KOTB:
He's a great guy.
GIFFORD:
He's back
to licking labels and starting it all again.
KOTB:
Great guy.
GIFFORD:
So
God bless
him.
KOTB:
So that's your favorite thing.
GIFFORD:
That was my favorite thing for today. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
KOTB:
Let me tell you really quick what my favorite thing is. If you've ever gotten into the shower and you want to take off your makeup and you want to put lotion on you and all the other stuff and you don't want a bunch of different jars and bottles to do it, hello
Davines
. OK, this stuff is terrific. It's a cream that you put on your face in the shower, it removes your makeup. You put it on your body and it moisturizes your body. You rinse it off afterwards. Everything's rinsed off. It's such a moisturizing thing that you can
put it in
the ends of your hair to get like...
GIFFORD:
What's the last -- those are the three things?
KOTB:
Yeah. And you rinse it, all three, face, hair, body.
GIFFORD:
How about gargling?
KOTB:
You can't...
GIFFORD:
Can you gargle?
KOTB:
Davines. Anyway, it's very -- it's all organic, it's very cool. It's about 20 to $40 depending on what you get. But you have to rinse this off now.
GIFFORD:
I just want to smell. It smells nice.
KOTB:
Yeah, it's very...
GIFFORD:
It's no
Kringle Candle
, but it's nice.
KOTB:
Yeah, nice.
GIFFORD:
That's good. All right. Should we go to...
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
Should we wait for
Sara
, or should we go to
Sara
?
KOTB:
Let's see
what
Sara
's is.
SARA HAINES reporting:
I love that,
Hoda
, because my mascara gets stuck on my face.
KOTB:
Yes. Yes.
HAINES:
And you have to -- I feel like you're washing -- taking a shower at the sink again after your shower just to get it off.
KOTB:
Exactly.
That's what
it's about.
HAINES:
But my favorite thing is so high tech, it's cereal.
Kashi
's
Heart to Heart
.
KOTB:
That is great cereal.
HAINES:
This is amazing. My friend
Sam
is trying to lose weight, and I told her about this and she's like, 'If it tastes healthy, I'm not doing it. I'm trying it once.'
KOTB:
Yeah.
HAINES:
Now I go -- it's my guilty pleasure. I eat this dry, I eat it for -- like, I put banana on it in the morning. It's the best.
KOTB:
Ooh
, I want to try that. OK.
GIFFORD:
It's
Kashi
, right?
HAINES:
It's
Kashi Heart
to
Heart
.
GIFFORD:
Great stuff. Good stuff.
HAINES:
It's got like a little sweetness to it, so.
GIFFORD:
Well, you know what else we have that's kind of sweet?
KOTB:
Oh, my gosh.
GIFFORD:
Friday we didn't get to it because Friday is supposed to be
Tryday
, and we didn't get to try it. So look at this cake.
KOTB:
It is a cake and a pie.
GIFFORD:
An
apple pie
.
KOTB:
It's a -- it's called a pumple cake. It's an
apple pie
inside of a pumpkin cake.
GIFFORD:
It's only for large and very, very hungry parties.
KOTB:
OK.
GIFFORD:
Or for that one friend of yours who has a problem.
KOTB:
Just so you...
GIFFORD:
It should serve 40 people.
KOTB:
This one slice...
GIFFORD:
I'll actually have a bite because you have to try, that's the whole point.
KOTB:
Yeah, you have to. This whole slice,
just so you know
, on our plates,
1800
calories for this slice.
GIFFORD:
Joy Bauer
would have a cow.
Mm.
KOTB:
Mm.
GIFFORD:
Oh, there's real coconut in it. You know, when you don't sweet -- eat sweets anymore...
KOTB:
Oh, this is so good.
GIFFORD:
Oh, I got to lick it.
KOTB:
See? Mm.
GIFFORD:
Mm, mm. It's available at the
Flying Monkey
in
Philadelphia
. I bet he flies after eating this. I'd fly, too.
Mm.
KOTB:
Oh my,
1800
. That's, like a day and a half's worth of food.
GIFFORD:
Oh, my gosh, that is obscene.
KOTB:
So good.
Mm.
GIFFORD:
That is delicious.
KOTB:
I'll have more of that.
GIFFORD:
Well, poor
Mel Gibson
.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
GIFFORD:
What do you think about this? I don't know.
Mel Gibson
was supposed to be in "The Hangover 2," he was going to play a cameo as a tattoo artist.
KOTB:
Right. Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
Was going to be sort of his comeback. Remember when
Tom Cruise
did "Tropic Fever"?
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
And he played the crazy guy, and everybody started looking at him differently was he was able to make...
KOTB:
"
Tropic Thunder
."
GIFFORD:
"
Tropic Thunder
." Thank you.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
That he could make fun of himself. And now
Mel
was supposed to, and I guess there was some flack from members of the cast, although no one specifically has said that that's what it was.
KOTB:
He's been replaced by
Liam Neeson
.
GIFFORD:
And he and
Liam
share the same press agent.
KOTB:
Oh, I didn't know that.
GIFFORD:
Mm-hmm.
KOTB:
Interesting.
GIFFORD:
Rob Knope
, or something like -- I'm sorry, I don't know his name exactly, but...
KOTB:
Well, here's the quote from the director. He said, "I thought
Mel
would've been great in the movie, but I realized filmmaking is a collaborative effort, and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew."
GIFFORD:
So our question is, when have you paid penance, when is it enough, when can you come back, when do you get a second chance? Because you go through the list of people who have, who have, how shall we say it, fallen out of favor, OK?
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
I mean,
Alec Baldwin
, you know.
KOTB:
And he had a -- he had a rant with his daughter because I kept thinking the thing that makes
Mel
's different is you actually heard his words.
GIFFORD:
Yes.
KOTB:
And you heard what he was saying to his -- to his wife.
GIFFORD:
Girlfriend.
KOTB:
At least we think they're his words.
GIFFORD:
His girlfriend.
KOTB:
His girlfriend, right.
GIFFORD:
But we haven't heard him in his own words say he's sorry.
KOTB:
Right, right.
GIFFORD:
Or have any repentance at all.
KOTB:
Right, for...
GIFFORD:
And that's -- yeah, that may be --
Alec
apologized, and he seems to be on great terms with his daughter.
KOTB:
Sure, sure.
GIFFORD:
Mike Tyson
, who was in the original "Hangover" -- that is one of the funniest movies that has ever been made, ever. I'm sorry.
KOTB:
It's hilarious.
GIFFORD:
I hated myself the entire time.
KOTB:
No.
GIFFORD:
But...
KOTB:
But you can't help but laughing.
GIFFORD:
Oh, my gosh, it was genius.
KOTB:
No. How about the tooth? How about the hole when he didn't have his tooth? I was so in.
GIFFORD:
Mike Tyson
was very funny in it.
KOTB:
Oh, and remember...
GIFFORD:
But
Mike Tyson
was in prison for rape.
KOTB:
I know. But that was in '92, so maybe people forget after a lot of years.
GIFFORD:
I doubt the woman that he raped forgets it but, you know...
KOTB:
Well, no kidding.
GIFFORD:
...that's
the way it is
. Although -- no, I'm sorry.
KOTB:
No, I agree with you.
GIFFORD:
There are some things we seem to be able to forgive, and other things -- and it was...
KOTB:
No, I think it's over. I think people forget
over time
who aren't -- I think you forget even what someone was accused of. I think people are like that, they don't remember.
GIFFORD:
Do you remember what
Martha
went to --
Martha Stewart
went to prison for?
KOTB:
Yeah, it was like some securities fraud stuff.
GIFFORD:
Insider trading.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
That sort of thing. Now she's back with her show. She's got the whole
Hallmark Channel
.
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
Tiger Woods
, that ain't over. That's in the papers today. But he's still playing golf and still doing very, very well.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
So what do you think, futurewise?
KOTB:
I mean, I think it takes time. I think people -- I think ultimately, at the end, people do forget, and I think that they accept people again. I think people like to see a comeback, even when someone's been through something really horrible.
GIFFORD:
They do. They like to see second and third acts. So do you think
Mel
should be given another chance as an actor?
KOTB:
I think
over time
we'll probably see him again. I can't imagine we wouldn't. I mean, what do you think?
GIFFORD:
I hope so. I think everybody should have a second chance or third chance.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
If they truly learned something from what's happened.
KOTB:
Sure.
GIFFORD:
And they're -- if you don't believe in redemption, what's the point of living?
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
Because
every one of us
needs it.
KOTB:
Yeah. We're all going to fall.
GIFFORD:
Especially you,
Hoda
.
KOTB:
Stop it. OK,
Mel
-- OK...
GIFFORD:
Speaking of that.
KOTB:
...
let's talk
about
Brett Favre
. OK, first of all, all I saw was the front page of the -- of the
Post
, and it says "Not Mine!" So I was like, I wonder what they're talking about? OK. So
Brett Favre
apparently admits that he called this sports reporter.
GIFFORD:
Right.
KOTB:
But he says he never sent her any photos of down there.
GIFFORD:
Of his anatomy.
KOTB:
Right.
GIFFORD:
But how could you tell anyway, unless it had, like, defining characteristics?
KOTB:
Who would know?
GIFFORD:
You know what I'm saying? I mean, if it takes a left turn or something, you know, it's obvious.
KOTB:
Oh!
GIFFORD:
Well, how would you know otherwise?
KOTB:
I don't...
GIFFORD:
And it could have been photoshopped.
KOTB:
It could -- it could've been -- it could -- all those things could -- all right.
GIFFORD:
Or a right turn, I don't know.
KOTB:
Stop!
Rob Shuter
's with us
in a little while
, and he's going to...
GIFFORD:
He'll tell us.
KOTB:
He'll tell us all the...
GIFFORD:
Because he's done a lot of that himself over the years. So yeah, we'll get to the heart of that story.
KOTB:
All right. So there has been a
big baby
boom in
Hollywood
.
GIFFORD:
I am so excited and so happy for
Celine Dion
and her husband.
KOTB:
Twins. They had twins.
GIFFORD:
Twins. She's got three boys now.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
And she has had, you know, she's been very public with her desire to have a -- more children.
KOTB:
Yeah.
GIFFORD:
And she -- they had a lot of trouble having
Rene-Charles
, their son.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
And so very happy. They were about a month early.
KOTB:
Oh, they were, right.
GIFFORD:
The twins.
KOTB:
And then
Matt Damon
, he and his wife.
GIFFORD:
And we saw him recently...
KOTB:
Yes.
GIFFORD:
...at the event out in
Greenwich
, and she was -- that's the event, I think, that we were at in
Greenwich
.
KOTB:
I think it may have been, yeah.
GIFFORD:
And she was lovely. And you know what I remember that day?
KOTB:
Hm.
GIFFORD:
That evening, we were at this event for
Jim Bell
's wife,
Angelique
, in
Greenwich
,
Connecticut
.
KOTB:
Hm. Mm-hmm.
GIFFORD:
Remember when we all went to the ladies room and his wife went in with us?
KOTB:
Oh.
GIFFORD:
And he was standing outside the ladies room.
KOTB:
Yeah, he waited.
GIFFORD:
Like, to make sure she was OK.
KOTB:
Waiting for her
to come out.
GIFFORD:
Waiting for her
, yeah.
KOTB:
'Is she still in there?' he said.
GIFFORD:
Yeah. 'Is she all right? Is she still there?'
KOTB:
I mean, that's who you want.
GIFFORD:
It was just -- it wasn't
movie star
talk, it was like a man concerned about his -- the woman he loves and the child that she's bearing.
KOTB:
Yeah. I can't wait to see the pictures, too, of that cute -- the cute
little babies
.
GIFFORD:
Yeah, we need to have a little good news around here,
Hoda
woman.
KOTB:
All right. So also in the paper there was a kind of a
New Yorkish
story. A cabbie was driving a woman and her child in the back, and the child got sick and threw...
GIFFORD:
It happens.
KOTB:
...threw up in the cab.
GIFFORD:
Projectile.
KOTB:
And the -- and the woman felt terrible. She got to her apartment, she called her husband, she said, 'Look, we're sorry, we're going to clean up this whole cab,'
Soft Scrub
or whatever, and they're ready to get in there.
GIFFORD:
And the husband was waiting when they got there.
KOTB:
Ready.
GIFFORD:
Ready to clean up, ready to do.
KOTB:
And the cab said -- the
cab driver
said, 'No, you have to give me $120 because I have to get this professionally cleaned because no one's going to want to get into my cab because it's going to reek.'
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
She said, 'Look, we'll clean it, I'm not giving you $120.' He called 911, it was a whole thing.
GIFFORD:
That's what I don't understand. Why 911?
KOTB:
Because they...
GIFFORD:
Why not the
Better Business Bureau
or something?
KOTB:
Well, anyway, I guess what --
at the end of the day
, he was upset.
GIFFORD:
He wanted to lodge a criminal complaint against her.
KOTB:
And at the end, you can't. I mean, she offered to pay and offered to clean. I mean, it is -- you -- if you've ever gotten into a
New York City
cab where you know someone was in it before you and it wasn't a good scene, it's bad. I mean, you have to get out immediately.
GIFFORD:
I was...
KOTB:
I'm sure he'll use -- lose a lot of fares. But
stuff happens
.
GIFFORD:
Life happens.
KOTB:
Life happens.
GIFFORD:
And I
think the mother and the son and the -- well, I don't know about the son. He probably -- but the parents handled it beautifully.
KOTB:
What else are you going to do?
GIFFORD:
I don't know. It happens.
KOTB:
But if you're...
GIFFORD:
Some kids don't do it and other kids are like -- I mean, they're fabulous at it.
KOTB:
What do you mean?
GIFFORD:
I mean, it just, they're...
KOTB:
Fabulous at throwing up?
GIFFORD:
You cannot imagine how far it can go and how much damage it can do. Some kids are just incredibly talented. Sounds like this kid was. You got into a cab the other day and it was like that.
KOTB:
Yeah, it's --
and I
got out.
GIFFORD:
Try knowing you're performing in
Atlantic City
, and you walk into your dressing room with two weeks' performances or something...
KOTB:
Ooh
.
GIFFORD:
...and it reeks of that.
KOTB:
Oh, oh, oh. See, I -- if a child does it, it's OK. If a drunk adult does it, I'm out. Like, that...
GIFFORD:
What if it -- what if it's just a sick adult who's not drunk?
KOTB:
No, a sick adult's OK.
GIFFORD:
Don't cast aspersions against drunk people.
KOTB:
Drunk adults I'm against.
GIFFORD:
Yeah.
KOTB:
Let's check in with
Sara
.
GIFFORD:
Oh, do we have to?
KOTB:
Yes, we do. Hi,
Sara
.
HAINES:
We were asking about
Mel Gibson
and when penance is, you know, kind of arrived.
KOTB:
Mm-hmm.
HAINES:
Heather wrote, 'When the past repeats itself so often, it's hard to do.' And then
Sue
says it's too soon for
Mel
.
KOTB:
Yeah.
HAINES:
We're getting a lot of mixed reviews.
GIFFORD:
Because the battle is still on.
KOTB:
Yeah, right.
GIFFORD:
It's an ongoing court battle.
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