also stepping into his dad's most iconic role plus we have got a great story it's going to put a smile on your face it's about a camp where kids are building confidence and learning an important lesson about embracing who they are and it's wednesdays that means it's trendy breaking down all the hot topics for you so sg let's hit play oh also i dressed you and jenna oh yeah that was so fun the outfits yeah for tuesday tuesday but now it's tuesday wednesday you're right it's time for today we're g
oing to begin with nbc's stephanie goskin those highly anticipated decisions on boosters and vaccines stephanie good morning savannah good morning you know foot traffic at vaccinations centers like this one has really trailed off in recent months but that could change with the fda making these two decisions one as you mentioned for younger children to get the pfizer vaccine and then this issue over the pfizer booster a cdc panel will meet this morning to talk about it and then soon afterwards th
e fda could make its decision this morning two big pfizer vaccine decisions looming over the fda parents want their young children vaccinated we're planning to vaccinate our five-year-old so we have two like newborns at home and a three-year-old if only we could get them vaccinated too pfizer saying a smaller dose of its vaccine triggers strong immune responses in five to eleven-year-old kids authorization for those younger children could come before halloween this as other age groups want a boo
st to their vaccines i'll be the first in line the fda's highly anticipated decision on the pfizer booster is expected as early as today but at a time when u.s cova deaths still average more than 1900 per day not everyone is waiting a lot of people i know are going out and getting unauthorized boosters this i think really should compel the fda to act more quickly many taking boosters into their own hands after a month of mixed messages the biden administration supported boosters in august saying
they'd be widely available this week they're not and some scientists have disagreed over the need for them over the past few weeks even when the decision comes down for the pfizer booster those who received the moderna or j j vaccines will still have to wait this is not the situation where we want to be where people are eligible or not eligible based on which vaccine they got this is part of the problem of the process that the fda is trying to manage right now only people with immune deficienci
es are authorized to get a booster like sarah willett she got hers back in july for people like me we were jumping on being able to get our third dose but while the push grows for booster approval the world health organization is urging restraint asking for a moratorium on boosters to healthy young adults so vaccines can go to countries that don't have them yet let's focus on getting vaccines everywhere to save the lives we need to save and then we can go back to the general concept of boosters
so boosters is one thing we expect that decision as early as today there's also a vaccine decision for kids looming probably weeks away how soon do we think that could happen and you know a big question is are parents gonna do it are they willing to take their kids right in so savannah the hope is that that decision comes around halloween before halloween potentially the family research council has been tracking this issue of hesitancy among parents and their latest numbers so that 26 parents wo
uld definitely get their kids ages 5 to 11 vaccinated then there's that squishy middle of about 40 percent who say they want to wait and see 25 say they definitely would not and then interestingly 9 say they would if they were compelled it's important to point out however that those numbers reflect attitudes before these surges in pediatric cases that we've seen with the delta variant savannah and there definitely has been a search in these last few weeks as school started stephanie thank you ve
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easons just hearing that song meant one thing viewers were heading into the seedy underworld of the sopranos oh indeed they are and now a new film yeah sorry we have to we're probably down but we haven't memorized no take it away the many saints of newark is coming out it stars john bernthal and michael gandolfini let's take a look at a clip shall we idea oh i was a gift you take them i don't want any part of this none of it i don't want any part of this ah what this what this what this john wel
come welcome okay this is so exciting savannah and i were just saying a lot of people would like to be sitting in our shoes right now talking to you guys now michael j is it true initially you were thinking to yourself you know what i don't know that i want to audition for that i don't want to do that yeah when uh the audition first came around it you know i had never seen the show i had never really in any involvement so i i didn't even really know what tony soprano was can we pause for a secon
d you never saw the show he was little it's not for kids right but even you didn't want to see it huh no i just felt it's going to be an intense experience when i do it and i couldn't really convince myself a reason to do it yet until i got this amazing opportunity in this movie and then i got to sort of become a fan like everyone else like we you know michael you're so uh stunning in in the movie and you're so self-possessed but let's just pause for a moment and look at what you've done here no
t only is it your first movie yeah that first movie is a prequel to an iconic beloved legendary show you're playing an iconic character and that character happens to be your father yeah you got guts how did i mean honestly like what did it take inside you to take on a challenge like that because it takes bravery sure um well i just felt like i sort of broke it down to these little chunks i didn't think about the macro um it was first about doing a good audition doing a second audition doing a th
ird objective they really made you go through all those yeah yeah three auditions and then um you know just like auditioning was the hardest part because you don't have anyone to lean on once like john came on and i i like leaned on these guys so much it was much better it was just about being the best actor that i could be in learning from these guys and sort of like just doing my job the best i could that's what i was focused on every day not anything else and john did you become a little bit
of a teacher again this is his very first role trying to learn i have uh so much love for this young man i i go from being so uh proud of him to to in all of him uh he he he approached this with so much courage i mean you guys said it and conviction and uh he's like like i love him and i my job on this film was to be there by him by his side getting his back and there there's there's no one there's no it's just that this is uh it's it was a beautiful thing to sort of be part of his process and t
hat's that's uh i'll always be grateful for that i took courage for you too because anyone who tries to um mess with something that is so iconic all eyes are on you how much pressure did you feel as well listen it's it's um you know it's single-handedly the greatest sort of piece of art of uh you know in in that that's been in the zeitgeist in the modern zeitgeist and so i think you know you can't really think about in those terms honestly for me first person i met on this job was mikey he came
up to my house in ohio california he told me the mission that he was on and what he was trying to do and for me it was really just being there with him and for him and and by his side and that was something that was really uh again i cannot say enough about hit this young man how great an actor is and how great a human being is so you know i believe yeah well you guys are i know it's clear you have a bond because you're actually wearing a matching outfit almost today when we put you on the two s
hut there it does look like his socks are way better mikey got his shoes he doesn't have an agent is so strong you know i mean michael for you it's it's for someone who lost their father so young and i can relate to this you're looking anything that connects you to him is like it's a treasure it's a gift yeah is there something healing about kind of like stepping your father was not tony soprano that's not who he was but something he invested so much in and gave to for you to kind of hold hands
with that you know i i when we were doing it i never thought about it it was just doing the best job but when i sat in that theater and i watched it for the first time i felt like oh man i i got to do this with my dad we got to do this thing together um and it was a really incredible feeling and and shocked me just because i i think i i numbed that out because i just wanted to be a good actor and do my job and learn but i did feel that um when i when i watched it for the first time his 60th birt
hday just passed i wondered what you were thinking about on that day um it's been so long that it felt like a good day um you know any any anniversary is a celebration of him i think like and just the the gratitude and you know all the lessons he taught me and all the people in my life that have stepped up and helped me and so it felt like a uh a celebration of him well i love uh you had never seen the sopranos but john you were the opposite you wanted to be on the subject so bad in the original
i heard you were like willing to be like the the dead body victim like you were like yellow signs i just i hung out on the set you know anything can i walk in the background yeah never got that audition but see dreams come true for both of you did you really have to just real quick do you really have to slap michael for real oh yeah was it a real slap oh a hundred but he's super gay he's not a baby boy yeah he's about this thing you had a slapping scene well yeah i mean we had i i alessandra sl
aps me twice and then he slaps me mine wasn't written i i think i was just like yeah i think i'd be funny if i hit you too yeah but but john definitely he was like look how good i am at like not hurting you like i can like i'm so because you know but did it kind of hurt a little bit i mean it felt you know it's when you're there yeah it's good you're still hitting my face yeah and they cut that scene i know after all yeah [Laughter] well you'll always have that slapping scene yeah michael johnso
n thank you so much congratulations to both of you the many saints of new york kids theaters and hbo max next friday october 1st we don't have to encourage people to check it out you know everyone's going to be one of those guys thank you some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press for
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orld download the nbc news app [Music] this week we launched our new today climate initiative and we wanted to show you the impact the climate the climate crisis is having on one historic place changing temperatures and extreme weather are now a threat to scotland's iconic castles today senior international correspondent keir simmons met some of the people fighting to save them kiera i find this fascinating these these buildings have been there for so long and now there's this real threat that's
right uh dylan good morning our good morning maria you know we headed up to edinburgh castle thousands of years of human history it actually sits on volcanic rock which goes back millions of years and yet and yet they've never seen rain like they saw this summer scotland known for its rolling hills picturesque valleys and rainy days but as our climate changes so does the weather [Music] towering above the country's capital the iconic edinburgh castle one of hundreds of scotland's historic sites
feeling the effects i met with david harkin a climate scientist working to protect these places good to meet you predictably it's raining i mean classic scotland really yeah welcome great view though unbeatability with a history dating back almost 3 000 years it's the sites worth saving so this is castle rock it doesn't get much more historic than this i know absolutely i mean you're actually almost certainly standing in one of the longest continuously inhabited places in the uk amongst the sto
nes stories of royalty war and sieges people tried to attack this castle again and again oh absolutely yeah yeah various points throughout its history with some traditions still kept alive today [Music] i'll be able to hear again soon but now the castle is on the front line of a different kind of battle last july an extreme rainstorm turned a 17th century courtyard into a waterfall the weather can quite literally shut this place down much like the old battles and the old sieges used to do this c
astle has fought against adversary after adversary that's right has it ever faced anything like climate change today in the 21st century climate change i would say is arguably the the greatest threat that the castle faces for scientists like david the writing is on the wall so you've had what's called delamination a thin surface layer sort of has fallen off this is supposed to happen in a way um but not fast but not as fast as climate change will make it happen it's not just edinburgh castle a q
uarter of scotland's buildings are historic its many neolithic sites abbeys and ruins threatened by sea level rises and storms to preserve the past conservationists draw on techniques both old and new tracking decay using digital mapping techniques and maintaining sites with constant repairs with all this heritage to protect perhaps it's not surprising that scotland is a world leader in climate change mitigation by 2045 the scots aim to reduce net greenhouse gases to zero and in a rare glimpse f
rom the castle roof beauty and vulnerability on full display you stand here and you realize how exposed this castle truly is to all of the elements that's right yeah i mean the the castle and its different structures and components will be really exposed and vulnerable to you know every passing storm we already know that scotland's about one degree warmer we know that our wettest days are getting wetter we know that our hottest days are getting hotter scotland with its rich history now working t
o protect its future [Music] and guys you know it's an aspect of climate change that perhaps we don't think about there are actually historic sites around the world that are threatened by the changing weather i guess also i should just uh clarify for viewers guys that i'm not in edinburgh and i'm not outside a castle i'm outside my own house even though i know al thinks i live in a castle that's right that's right every man's home is his castle and ladies and gents thank you all right that was a
that was a fascinating piece thank you thank you well school's back in session but a lot of kids are probably still hanging out of those great summer camp memories especially those who attended one particular camp in upstate new york that's so much more than just having fun welcome to camp say from sing-alongs to basketball games to flash mobs in the mess hall camp say looks like your typical sleep away summer program i just say like what's my speech therapist has but mostly it's a safe space f
or kids who stutter for a lot of them this is the first time that they have met another person who stutters but more importantly to have a space where their words their ideas their thoughts are are fully seen and heard and acknowledged i look around and i see i see family travis robertson is the director of camp say and has lived with a stutter his whole life the goal is oftentimes to to take it away to fix it it took me many years of really kind of having the sense of self and having the confid
ence to really moan the fact that this is a part of who i am travis says it's that sense of community that gives the campers the confidence to let their guards down and just be themselves just to be able to be in a room with people who who understand and who don't need the explanation of why it takes me a little longer to say what i need to say or why my face or my body uh may move in a certain way you just kind of feel the shoulders go down collectively when when you're seen in that way and whi
le there are plenty of fun activities camps a also provides the tools to help these kids reach their speech goals they can order the food that they want on their own that they can make new friends that they can do all of the things that you know we all do on a daily basis and do it confidently fourteen-year-old david mills and sixteen-year-old caitlin teneo are both campers and already have plans to return next summer i was terrified of like being away from home but the the minute that i stepped
at camp i like my whole like world really changed i knew people stuttered but i didn't know there is like a community and it was really good it was a nice feeling to know that i wasn't alone i no longer like have that fear of talking to new people wondering what like what they think or how i look like when i stutter i don't fear like anything anymore can i substitute fries for tater tots to help get the word out about the camp they recently launched a psa using real campers who've gone through
the program hiring are and with the help of celebrities like paul rudd who holds an annual fundraiser for the organization i would really encourage any parent to send their kid to this camp if they stutter i think it's a life-changing experience they're trying to break the stigma of living with a stutter stuttering um that really has no bounds in terms of like who it affects over 70 million people worldwide that like point of connection is so vast and so wide and so we hope that like our program
ming that our reach is really a a reflection of that [Music] what a terrific program and while the camp is over for this year their parent organization say operates programs year rounds year-round for kids who stutter and for more information on camp say go to our website today.com is this one location or is it all across there's one location for this camp but they do uh uh programs all around the country wow fascinating that's so great hey guys welcome to today in 30 on today all day we got a g
ood transit wednesday for you we got some casting news we got some love news we got some oscar news we got all kinds of news today sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition make the most of your day with today all day get closer to all your friends in today in a whole new way today
in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes shop today with jill martin we're helping you shop like never before the latest styles and biggest names today food things are heating up in the today all-day kitchen cooking essentials and recipe inspiration get ready are you ready oh i'm so ready only on today all day some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear so
me of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press good morning everybody welcome to today future's looking good are you ready we're gonna do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doctors nurses other essential workers if you are a nurse thank you spring is frowned guys and we want to fill this season with so
me fun and surprising yes this is the face of excitement celebrating earth day let's change the world if you haven't had your morning cup of coffee just yet you may want to skip it because today we are overflowing with somebody spilling the tea yeah we're going to spell a lot of it our paul justin sylvester is at the daily pop studio in la he's ready to spill all those juicy trends day wednesday scoop justin oh my gosh adele looks fantastic what is going on it's called love everybody adele is fi
nally rolling in the deep she went insta official with her boyfriend rich paul now don't worry ladies we did a background check he's cool he's legit he's lebron james's agent the man has his own doe he's got his own career and he's got a credit score of 8.25 don't ask me how i know that don't ask me how i know that how did they meet do you know how they met okay so i don't know how they met but they apparently went to the lakers star anthony davis's wedding in l.a now they were first spotted bac
k in july at game five of the nba finals hoda you know as well as i do if a man invites you to the most important game of the season that's it he's in love that's it and we get to hear new music so this could be like a whole new thing wait are you are you guys happy about that yeah i think i speak for a lot of adele fans when i say i'm waiting for my breakup album i wanted the divorce album okay oh yeah everybody thinks it's going to be lo everybody thinks it's going to be love songs now we need
we have justin we need love songs honey do we yes we do all right okay justin this is a new artsy take on shakespeare which we're kind of excited about yeah oh my god william shakespeare is heading to the big screen in a dark moody remake of macbeth starring heavy hitters denzel washington and francis mcdormand now do you know the saying he woke up and chose violence probably i studied chicks no but denzel woke up and chose an oscar take a look at this clip by the pricking of my thumbs somethin
g wicked this way comes wow cinematography 101 everything looks more dramatic in black and white am i right ladies you are right oh right oh my gosh that shirt is so good that nightgown is so good on you oh thank you now let me ask you this question okay have you ever seen a film that comes out really early in the year but by the time the oscar oscars comes around it feels old yeah and it doesn't get nominated yeah what's that well listen to this macbeth will not have that problem because it com
es out this friday at the new york film festival it hits theaters on christmas day and it goes to apple tv in january oscar voting starts early march they're playing this better than a beyonce pregnancy announcement am i right justin you're the bomb we love you you can catch justin weekdays on daily pop on our sister network e did you like that it was good you're gonna love tomorrow it's gonna be a great one the cast of dateline will be here to celebrate a very special milestone or was it murder
oh keith morrison i hope oh my god have a great day we'll see you tomorrow [Music] this morning on mr smith goes to he goes to st louis more than a century and a half ago america's racial divide was challenged by a courageous man who wanted better for his family yeah that man was a slave named dred scott he would become a central part of one of the most consequential supreme court cases in the history of this country harry traveled to the gateway to the west to take a look at how the works got
started is still being pushed forward today hey harry yeah good morning guys you know it's interesting i was in st louis for a story about two years ago walking by the old courthouse there's an important statue there and i said to myself i really need to know more about these people so we went back this summer to find out it is a landmark familiar to many near the arch in st louis the old courthouse a grand temple of justice but not for all this is the building where dred and harriet scott actua
lly walked up the steps on april 6 of 1846 to sue for their freedom lynn jackson knows the story well dred scott was her great great grandfather very proud of dred scott because he was courageous to do what he did at a time when it was considered sedition scott was a slave whose owner had moved his family to the free state of illinois based on a doctrine called once free always free scott sued he was not willing to run and put his wife and little girls in jeopardy of being caught the case lasted
more than a decade ultimately decided by the supreme court and chief justice roger tawney who wrote that blacks were quote regarded as beings of an inferior order altogether unfit to associate with the white race and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect he in essence said you are not a citizen of the united states you have no rights is that the way you read it definitely he did say that abolitionists were outraged slaveholders were vindicated and embo
ldened the civil war all but inevitable i think that one of the struggles we have in america is that we think about the civil war as ending all of racism and what the civil war did is that it ended slavery in america but we then had jim crow and jane crow we had these laws that solidified racism in a racial hierarchy in america lorone martin is the head of american culture studies at washington university in saint louis he believes the backwash of the dred scott decision still ripples through ou
r society i see fear and i see the inability to recognize the human and the other the inability to recognize that african americans are actually human beings who in my tradition we say all human beings are made in the image of god that refusal to recognize humanity lived out in nearby ferguson six years ago where michael brown's body lay unattended for four hours after a police shooting the town erupted we stood in that very spot did michael brown's death have anything to do with you running for
mayor it had everything to do with me running for mayor in the tumult of the protests ella jones felt a calling the former pharmaceutical chemist and mary kay rep wants to lead her town and her police force to a better future can you make a difference it's all about making a difference this election has given people hope and even now people are stepping up this is going to be an amazing city i'm counting on it i'm counting on it ella jones is undeterred as she faces the task ahead as was the ma
n buried in an unremarkable section of a massive st louis cemetery not all that far away here is this fantastically courageous person well he had to be you know in some regards i think he was also thrust into that robe you know he kept it going and he said you know i really wanted my wife and my daughters to be free but he realized that the freedom of all africans who weren't saved was at stake and that gravesite in st louis is the most frequently visited stone in all of in that in giant giant c
emetery strangers come up they say where is dred scott that's the one little tiny spot that is visited most often we're gonna connect uh history to the president mr smith that was great thank you harry thank you harry [Music] make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today in 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podca
sts make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes savannah and hoda bring you what you must know the biggest moments of the morning one republic exclusive interviews why did it work for you you're right i am more talented than the rest and important headlines major medical news this morning watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day good morning everybody welcome to today future's looking yea
h are you ready we're gonna do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doctors nurses other essential workers if you are a nurse thank you spring is sprung guys and we want to fill this season with some fun and surprise yes this is the face of excitement celebrating earth day let's change the world love it today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you
get your podcasts the meet the press chuck podcast free wherever you get your podcasts even as the pandemic kept so many of us at home nearly 30 million people in the u.s moved to a new home more than 20 four million of those folks by the way they jump from one state to another and the destinations might surprise you so our buddy harry smith joins us now harry good morning it's good to see you as always so we know that people are leaving major cities like new york here san francisco l.a seattle
the question is that craig just asked where is everybody going well you know it's so interesting what happened during the pandemic i think a lot of people looked at their lives and said if i'm going to live someplace why don't why not live in a place i've always wanted to live or go someplace that's maybe more affordable or has more recreational opportunities well the answer for many many people is idaho mark jenkins and lori crowl love their new home and when did you move in here five days ago
[Laughter] oh it's that new house smell it brand new in fact man how happy are you with this oh aesthetic love it absolutely love it it's beautiful lots in their subdivision on the outskirts of boise sell within days of going on the market poisy in case you haven't heard is booming we knew we wanted to move we didn't know where right and we had an idea it was boise it's got the quality of life that we had in seattle but on a smaller scale at least for the moment that is idaho is the fastest grow
ing state in the country real estate values in boise are up 32 percent in the last year 32 where there had been no new rental apartment construction in decades developer casey lynch is putting up his fourth downtown building in just five years can you literally not build these things fast enough at this moment in time you can't build them fast enough it's a it's like a cultural phenomenon boise is just on the tip of everybody's tongue right now where 10 years ago people thought boise was in iowa
not anymore most every day newcomers arrive from california seattle and portland long-time locals like kerry despot are not pleased everyone that comes from somewhere else always says boy z they act like there's a z in boise there's no z it's boy c and what kerry sees she does not like what's changed for me is growing up here i would look at these foothills every day and i love these foothills we no longer get to see our pretty foothills we see houses kerry echoes a common local lament we can't
say you can't come to idaho but i wish that we could slow down take into account what we do have keep it pristine because otherwise it's just going to be another california as the population grows and prices increase boise faces other pressures like the soaring cost of apartment rentals demand for rental assistance for tenants has just skyrocketed ali robbie runs a non-profit geared to aid and prevent homelessness over the last year we've seen a lot more people moving into hotels their cars cou
ch surfing living right on the line you know about to go to shelter so there's a housing shortage for both those who want to move to boise and those being priced out of the market how do you keep boise boise that's the challenge of our time before she was mayor lauren mclean led the fight for open space here her challenge is now affordable housing water preservation and catching up to the speed of her city's growth we recognize the magic of this community that we live in we have welcomed each ot
her for years there are a lot of challenges that come with it but it gives us a focus morning newcomers mark and lori whose home has increased a whopping 60 in value since they purchased it a year ago feel like they've won the lottery we have friends of ours who we met since we've been here chiropractors he said welcome to boise don't tell anyone else and it's sort of like it's the secret's out sorry best kept secret i'm sorry about that it's already out everybody knows about it you know so much
for the best kept secret i'll tell you when we landed in boise it reminded me of when i first went to denver 50 years ago and looked around and here's this beautiful sleepy kind of sublime place right near the foothills and boy there's just a kind of crazy growing energy there now and you have to sympathize with the locals like let's how do we keep this from exploding into a thing where we want to leave yeah it's really it's really quite something that is tough i have to admit i've never been t
o idaho yeah and those pictures here are absolutely absolutely beautiful i see why people are almost almost as gorgeous as where i am today and if you look this up you'll understand where i am in the upper peninsula of michigan oh yeah you were there yesterday as well harry are you working on some no no no i was in the top of the top of the mitten yesterday oh and now i'm all the way in the top top part yeah yeah oh yeah careful that hand analogy well they call it the upper hand they call it the
upper hand are you using the pendant to move as well are you coming back at some point i'm just wandering around america and uh yes i'm pretty darn happy about it you look like you're on vacation oh you're on vacation only harrison is working on vacation i'll tell you what about boise though back to i went when i was a kid we went um white water rafting down the payette river which is inside boise national forest south of boise which is super fun they also have a thriving art scene in downtown
boise you might be thinking country they have a yeah they have an art a bunch of contemporary art in the museum there yeah so that's why people are going there for a lot of super thriving downtown but recreational uh opportunities have bound everywhere amazing skiing within what two hours at max and but all those places are exploding and now i will say boise i have to wait i thought it was boise that's my big takeaway she was not happy you don't you don't want to sound like you're from out of to
wn do not all right that was great thanks harry appreciate it buddy sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only o
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ly on today all day sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts while much of america is finally returning to a sense of normalcy thi
s summer harry smith is taking us to one place that's being impacted by the pandemic in a positive way harry good morning where are you buddy we are on the banks of uh well little traverse bay we're way up at the top of the mitten in michigan and just trust me on this journey i'm going to take you on if you make up a left-hand turn you get into chicago but if you go up all the way back around here under the mackinaw bridge through lake huron ultimately into lake erie at the end of lake erie here
in buffalo but if you're in the right place at the right time you're gonna think you're in toronto batting practice the home team toronto blue jays are taking their cuts but toronto this is not it's buffalo covid closed the canadian border so the blue jays are a little like the flying dutchman the mythical ship doomed to never return home the blue jays played here last year too we weren't home and we wanted to be home and we were the only team in 30 that was not able to play in their home city
country stadium all those things mark shapiro is the blue jays president and ceo did you ever imagine that you would be back here again did any of us ever imagine we'd be back here so the blue jays spent millions to upgrade minor league salem field up to major league standards this is a good major big role for everybody and if some of the blue jays feel like it's deja vu all over again it's because they played here when they were with the buffalo bisons toronto's top farm club i played here in 2
019 in triple a and you know the renovations that the team has done here to get it ready for a big league atmosphere is incredible last year because of covid there were no fans this year from day one western new yorkers have let the blue jays know they are most welcome here coming to buffalo this year everything they've done and the fans pulling for us have been great it feels like a home game the buffalo fans are actually great you know i think we're kind of getting the bill's mafia a little bi
t on our side so they've been great good baseball fans it was incredible that was an immediate moment that oh this could be a hometown advantage for us we found a second home and it's buffalo buffalo a boom town of the industrial revolution has buildings of plenty that pay homage to its glorious past architecture that reveals its pride and ambition an ambition that included major league baseball harry back in the 1890s buffalo was a member of the national league then in 1915 they were in the fed
eral league but in 1901 they were that close to getting a franchise in the american league and it went to boston the town has been yearning for a big league team ever since says local baseball historian mike balani and now they have it like a dream come true oh my gosh it's major league baseball you know it's the yankees it's you know houston now boston's coming in a couple of weeks it's just been phenomenal buffalo's most famous brush with the majors was a fictional team the new york knights it
s star roy hobbs played by robert redford in the natural shot in buffalo the old war memorial stadium the perfect venue for a movie that celebrates the magic of the game we spoke with bolani alongside what's left of the stadium what locals call the old rock pile he had something he wanted to show me back and they engraved wonder boy wow hand sanded by kevin lester a local man who crafted the bats for redford this is the first time since 83 that that has been out of his house not in his possessio
n that i didn't see coming yes buffalo loves baseball this is a treat to be able to see the game my my team here in buffalo it's an amazing opportunity for us to watch you know professionals at the top of their game we've been watching vlad since he was a bison when they said they were coming back this year and we were going to be able to have a chance to come out and see them play is every day as christmas for me can't get any better and this thing with the blue jays they know it's not forever
more like a summer romance which is pretty cool for us to kind of forge a piece of history this is going to be as you know we're going to look back 20 years and this will be a part of buffalo history and blue jay history something to be treasured an affair to remember so if you're a western new yorker if you're anywhere within driving distance of buffalo my gosh the clock is ticking the blue jays petitioned yesterday the government of canada to please let us come home to toronto and the rogers c
enter at the end of the month hey harry could this open the door for uh an actual you know team in buffalo now that they see there's there's such a need for it there was a dalliance last time there was major league expansion and what the teams went to denver and i'm not so sure you know they need need a bigger metropolitan area well i like the phrase summer romance like you know what i mean they can't do it while they have it and i got to swing at wonder boy right three that was a great one harr
y as always thank you the meet the press chuck podcast free wherever you get your podcasts make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes savannah and hoda bring you what you must know the biggest moments of the morning one republic exclusive interviews why did it work for you you're right i am more talented than the rest and important headlines major medical news this morning watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming
every day on today all day good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying are make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get
your podcasts good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app as comfort food goes it's tough to beat a good grilled cheese sandwich and those classic melty staples of the american diet taste all the better at one minneapolis restaurant harry smith explains in our sunday closer
a perfectly crafted grilled cheese sandwich is a deliciously deceptive entree for at all square in minneapolis the sandwich is both lure and lesson why is it called all square we do grilled cheese it's a part of what we do but this notion that once you've done your time and paid your debts you're all square yes all square is a social enterprise its purpose says founder emily hunt turner to truly free the formerly incarcerated by giving them the life and job skills to make it on the outside do y
ou feel like the table is set against them we would argue that recidivism rates are as high as they are not because of of an underlying propensity for criminality but because the doors to prison are really some of the only doors that are actually open once you get out of prison fellows in the program are paid a living wage and taught the kind of people skills we all could use a little more of because if you've done time good luck finding housing or even opening a bank account so many doors have
been closed and in my face anika goodluck spent 10 years in and out of the criminal justice system then was accepted into all square's one-year program i was doing the same stuff over and over and i was getting the same outcome jail this place has showed me a different road a different way of life the coursework and the camaraderie all helped she says but therapy that was part of the all square curriculum for her was key understanding and identifying what i was feeling at the time and working th
rough whatever that was and hearing stuff i didn't want to hear half of the times but i needed to hear because it was the truth anika has her own catering business now employs three people and wants to hire two more all square began with a kickstarter campaign and has grown because of the diligence of a mission-driven staff the embrace of the community and the vision of its founder a former lawyer who gave up a career for a calling justice for all i always knew that this would be a huge part of
my life what i didn't understand that this would become in ways my family and thank god i have this family you know emily thinks all square is scalable and that people like onika are proof does prison life look like it's getting smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror that's not even in the mirror anymore so i never want to forget where i was and what it took for me to get out of there because i don't ever want to go back if the olympics got you craving for a little japan harry smith's got ju
st what you need harry well you know i watched keir simmons do all these great things oh come on we decided what we could find right here in brooklyn where are we today tokyo kyoto no this japanese garden more than a hundred years old is in brooklyn the botanic gardens where from time to time you can have tea the japanese way ohio zamasu good morning good morning welcome to japanese tea ceremony today keiko kitazawa is our guide the japanese tea ceremony is centuries old so let's make a board of
tea for you and can take up to four hours i'm going to purify all utensils before serving tea okay but not this morning so now i'm going to add the tea powder the ancient ceremony is meant to imbue harmony respect purity and tranquility wow may i just say yes this is not chai from starbucks it is different highest quality matcha that we are using the tea ceremony put you in a different place if you let it how is this perfect thank you arigato gozaimasu tranquility achieved now it's time to eat
konichiwa welcome to ichiran thank you ichiran ubiquitous in japan has three restaurants in new york serving one thing so we only specialize in pork bone soup ramen period yes no sushi no sashimi no soba just ramen i think i'm going to be medium with everything safe choices for the first time but here's the twist for someone you don't want to interact with anyone at all this is the perfect restaurant so that's what these kind of partitions are for yes you keep them up um the server doesn't have
to speak to you if you don't want to you have your own private space to yourself to enjoy your meal okay a ramen restaurant for the recluse thank you the ramen is ridiculously delicious but man cannot live by ramen alone we're at brooklyn cora we're a sake brewery based in new york city in sunset park brooklyn brandon dawn and brian poland met in japan we wandered into a traditional sake brewery and we were just kind of blown away by the smells and the equipment and the process there what are th
e main ingredients it's got steamed rice it's got brooklyn water yeast and it's got koji which is a type of fungus that would grow in a portion of the rice and that's where we get our sugar that then gets turned into alcohol inside the giant tank is where the magic happens so this is our june my genjo and it's about two weeks old so it's got about another two weeks of fermentation and from that remarkably comes this i'm surprised all right in a good way it smells like wine as a reporter it would
have been irresponsible to try just one that's really good wow just out of curiosity what's the alcohol content so this clocks in about 15 so it's like a strong wine it's mighty good i've had two sips i feel like i'm a little tipsy be assured i wasn't driving that day are americans ready to have locally brewed socking yeah i think the answer is yes i mean you should see this tap room um pre-pandemic and starting to be again now i mean it's pretty crazy and crazy to me that there could be so muc
h japan in one borough kampai oh i love it did you bring us some sake or no well you know there was so much sake consumed last year i think maybe we need to tap the brakes hi today all day we've got a great show for you on this wednesday morning including an all-day exclusive chat you can only see here but let's kick it off with pop start actress katherine hahn will step into the shoes of the one and only joan rivers for an upcoming series on showtime plus we have the first look at the new seaso
n of jay leno's garage check it out what time is it best time of the day that was fun the game like it's hard to follow the weather game with you you make weather so fun yeah although first up in pop start today we do have some sad news to report out of hollywood this morning actor willie garson best known for his scene-stealing role on sex in the city has died he was just 57 years old nbc's am thompson has more on his career and how he's being remembered how can you not have a shrink this is ma
nhattan even the shrinks have shrinks a beloved character actor for years willie garson was best known for his role on hbo's sex in the city where he played carrie bradshaw's fast talking flamboyant and famously funny bff stanford black how many relationships have i been in since you've known me real or imaginary small in stature garson's lines always delivered big laughs oh my god she's fashion roadkill garson was reunited with sarah jessica parker to film an upcoming sex in the city revival se
ries for hbo just a few months ago overnight sex and the city castmate cynthia nixon who played miranda said garson was endlessly funny on screen and in real life mario cantone who played garson's husband on the show posting that he couldn't have had a more brilliant tv partner adding you were a gift from the gods sweet willie the beloved actor appeared in over 70 films and had more than 300 tv credits throughout his career that began in the mid-80s did we lose another one hey phoebe oh hey ross
he was also well known for his longtime role as the con man mosey on white collar i was never here garson appeared on today in 2014 and shared his favorite what's the best thing you've ever done oh i think we know in my life i adopted my son awesome his heartbroken 20 year old son nathan posting photos and video of his dad and thanking him for all of their adventures together you were always the toughest and funniest and smartest person i've known i'm glad you shared your love with me i'll neve
r forget it or lose it in one of his last tweets earlier this month garson said be kind to each other always love to all for today ann thompson nbc news wow they're so sad for special son so talented and so young yeah uh the cause of willie garson's passing has not yet been immediately disclosed next up catherine hahn the actress who was recently nominated for an emmy thanks to her part in the hit disney plus series one divisions landed her next big role she's going to step into the shoes of the
one and only joan rivers for an upcoming series on show time titled the comeback girl it's set to take place in the late 80s following the cancellation of joan river's late night talk show and we'll tell the story of how the beloved comedian overcame personal and professional hardships that followed that time a lot of people remember around that time joan tragically lost her husband edgar uh but she then went on of course and led a career nearly three more decades of iconic tv and stand-up unti
l her passing in 2014. okay and finally jay leno the comedian is back with a new season of jay leno's garage and in tonight's premiere jays followed or joined by fellow late night host james corden for a high-speed interview the late late show host opening up on what it was like moving his family to california when he landed that gig six years ago when we first moved here my wife and i we rented furniture i wouldn't even allow us to to buy a couch because i was like babe this show is gonna get c
ancelled i'm going to get fired and when i get fired we're going to want to get out of here as quick as possible and the last thing we want to be trying to do is sell a couch is that an interview in two different cars right they're not next to each other yeah oh maybe to show off two cars games in the convertible interesting that's pretty cool season six of jay leno's garage premieres tonight at 10 p.m over on cnbc that is your pop start ladies and gentlemen up next on today talks maria schreibe
r is here with a look at the newest dating trend stay with us make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today in 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day it has been a long year yeah where it's been anything but normal well now there's hope the coveted vaccines i know i know it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important than ever to make a plan visit plan yourvaccine.c
om to find out where and when to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine [Music] make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today in 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you
love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today in 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts welcome back today on the third hour maria shriver spotlight to growing trend in relationships older women dating younger men check it out well maria is hanging out with us this morning and she has a fascinating look at a growing
trend in relationships older women dating younger men yes well there's long been a double standard in age gaps in couples no one bats an eye when an older man dates a younger woman but society often judges relationships when the roles are reversed but now surveys show relationships between older women and younger men are becoming really common so we sat down with several couples and a dating expert to find out why it's been called the mrs robinson syndrome older women going after much younger me
n these kinds of couples have been in the hollywood spotlight for decades but now experts say they're becoming more mainstream one survey found 81 of women are open to dating someone 10 years younger than them and nearly 90 percent of men are interested in dating someone 10 years older matchmaker julie spira says she sees it all the time women are now going to be dating like men what does that mean women are now going to be dating like men these days women have the economic power they've got gre
at careers so they aren't necessarily looking for somebody to be their equal on a bank statement to find out why we gathered three couples whose age differences ranged from 6 years to 16 years to 20 years i am 46 years old i am 26 years old you may recognize tracy and her boyfriend eric from the hit bravo tv show million dollar listing la she's a successful real estate agent he was her personal trainer and he asked her out what made you go like let's go the younger girls they really don't know w
hat they want they're kind of lost and then i feel lost and then i saw her confidence and i was so attracted by just how she works really hard for what she wants until i met eric i went out with a ton of men who were attracted innately to the fact that i was confident and successful until we were alone and then it was like oh i don't want you to have too much of an opinion right i like i like the idea of you but not really teresa and laquel also make more money than their partners colin and mali
k but they say the emotional support these younger men give them is far more fulfilling than having a financial breadwinner the more we continued i realized that he was providing in a different way he's providing in a different way in what way is he a provider communication i definitely think he's a better communicator than me i think this generation i believe that they're more fearless they're able to say how they feel in that moment handle it and move forward you know i'm not concerned with my
woman making more money than me at all that doesn't threaten your manhood no i think the younger generation of men see that being a good partner is like you know making sure your woman's fulfilled emotionally and mentally and physically these couples say the hardest part is dealing with outside judgments but their relationships are just about sex or money they were kind of thinking like oh colin found a sugar mama they just think i sit around they are all there yeah a lot of the judgment actual
ly comes from women with the movements that have been happening why now would you choose to judge another woman for embracing her sexuality and her own strength and choosing to date someone younger that would never be judged by a man dating 30 or 40 years younger do any of you women worry about he's going to wake up and want a girl who's 26. you know in the beginning i think it was is definitely a part of our conversation like are you going to trade me in for a young younger model and his you kn
ow answer was well you might trade me in for younger so to some woman who's sitting out there who's in her late 40s her 50s or 60s and who's like going like what would you say to her they say put yourself out there why the the pool is already so small to find the right person for yourself why are we making it even smaller men don't why should women one study by the kinsey institute found that older women and younger men partners report the highest level of satisfaction of any kind of couple and
these couples really show how gender roles are changing in relationships and becoming more fluid for the better and they were very confident these women and i found them incredibly inspiring yeah i'm curious to do have you interviewed any of whim of the women who have kids who maybe have an issue with their mom dating a younger man yeah she you just heard from her she has two uh tracy the real estate agent she has two teenage daughters and no issue they're like we want we're happy to see our mom
happy and she points out that you know eric is not trying to be their father uh he's actually helping them get in shape so i think that also confirms you know kids want to see their parents happy yeah and that's certainly what they say and these women are happy and they really made me rethink what i thought going into the story for sure brian is actually six years younger than me and we didn't date at first because i'm like he's six years younger than me he's like still in college and i'm like
in my career so it all felt weird that stigma but then you know our friendship just just blossomed and one of those things i noticed the the communication factor because i'm not that i'm a different generation but you know i tend to close off and not talk and he makes me communicate and talk and talk out your feelings and all that kind of stuff so i can relate to that yeah and i love the way the guy was saying that this generation of men see their role in providing in a different way than their
fathers you know it used to be only there for to be a financial provider and these guys are talking about being emotionally spiritually et cetera yeah all right well that's a really interesting thing coming up on hoda and jenna the winning looks from our tuesday tuesday vote with special guest savannah make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day it
has been a long year yeah where it's been anything but normal well now there's hope the covid vaccines i know i know it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important than ever to make a plan visit planyourvaccine.com to find out where and when to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine [Music] make the most of your day with today all day get closer to all your friends in today in a whole ne
w way today in 30 we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes shop today with joe martin we're helping you shop like never before the latest styles and biggest names today food things are heating up in the today all-day kitchen cooking essentials and recipe inspiration get ready are you ready oh i'm so ready only on today all day some experts say if this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to c
lear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan
if it's sunday it's meet the press today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts welcome back today on hoda engine and we reveal our winning outfits from savannah's closet take a look okay but it is time to reveal the winning looks our outfits from tuesday tuesday okay so as a reminder this morning we've been styled by savannah okay so she picked all six of her outfits from her own closet which is just like a tuesday for me she's just a by the way she's lik
e a proud mom off camera but right then she added the finishing touches with jewelry and she did the whole thing i feel like she's kind of our mama jerk savannah come on out i'm so excited i'm so proud of you guys okay you look so good okay cute now what were our choices let's remember okay let's look back all right so each of us had three choices those are mine mine was the yellow blazer sg floral dress which i've seen you in and the cute pantsuit matching yes okay and then my looks were sort o
f the school mom outfit i believe i've worn that shirt before and then the kate mckinnis we call it the kate mckenna suit yeah around here and then that kind of this look number c looks most like you yeah i love that look that's my favorite that looks like well it's like cute and it's not goth but it's like school mom on top goth on the bus like maybe you're like a rocker mom who's got a tattoo or a piercing okay well i don't have a tattoo but do you have a protection no but i've been wanting to
get okay i know you've got lots of piercings okay shall we okay please everybody and should we get up yeah let's do it here we go one two one [Music] oh my gosh you guys look so good that looks great that looks so good you know what i'm mad i'm mad at how good that looks by the way it feels really good i have to say it's cozy comfy it feels like a million okay incredible you told us to wear rings oh yeah so then i wanted to style you guys okay so let's show what you have okay so hodie i gave yo
u kind of this like punk rocker black we wanted to i wanted you to have a little like funky you know what i know well it doesn't matter okay that's fine but i like how you did it you had two pink pants because that's all i can do okay and then just a little black jewels there for your bracelets like a little stack yeah and then i had you in these metallics i gave you two metallic choices i actually think the other ones were better but those are more comfy so these are aren't they cute i didn't e
ven you could run a marathon she may keep those just like your red boots oh i still have your red boots what i don't remember what red oh those are i need those it's raining today okay let's talk okay let's look at cute jenna oh this is so this looks so this is something that savannah wears so much that i kind of feel like i'm her do you know what i mean like i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy that's ridiculous you look so cute okay so your stop first of all you've got the little barrettes w
hich is cute i actually just think this guy needs to come in a little bit more okay i don't want to mess with it okay that's so cute okay and then you have the clunky heels how do you wear this and not get distracted it's a pain so you don't see me wear it that much but isn't it cool it's a spine it's a vertebra oh that's very good yeah and then i gave you a pinky ring by the way i love the top i love it you guys look so pretty it's so funny i still don't feel like my paper dolls and also the fa
ct that you have such a style we look like you we don't you actually have a unique style that's you coffee i have a style i'm like a wannabe golf school okay well you guys carry on with the show proud of you mom you guys are absolutely beautiful we'll return most things yeah okay that's a ring yeah well i'll be waiting in the side door for damn okay that was fun that was so fun it is funny when you get dressed like somebody you kind of feel like i know like them yes you can do it yourself for ha
lloween i do but i sort of i don't put on like the whole outfit i have two mixed earrings by the way nobody even mentioned that yeah you have one and one oh yeah cute that's not something i think it's cute though wait let me see the other one two different earrings not something i would normally do well i think savannah does she does yeah okay okay it is the first day of fall and as you guys know three o'clock it hits 3 21 and routines have started and sometimes you feel a little worn out from f
rom the routines of life september is crazy like we kind of have forgotten how september feels because it's back to school back to work i think they're like habits that you have that might grind you down you don't even realize you're doing them but you're exhausted and you're like why am i exhausted yeah so whatever but huff posts yeah but no matter what we're just tired don't you think yeah i think we are but these may be why we are so let's reveal some of the secretly exhausting habits yeah ok
ay so here they are first watching emotionally charged television shows experts say that emphasizing empathy empathizing with a lead character can be really hard so you go to sleep after watching something you feel bad and then you wake up fatigued why am i exhausted because the last thing i put into my system was that all right another one working at a messy desk cluttered environments are really distracting don't side-eye me it's a full face it's a full face i'm just wondering yeah i know i ac
tually i get to a point where i am like i've had it up here with my own can tomorrow morning can i just kind of clean up there yeah okay what else um planning too far in advance this is so true they say that if you have leave a little flexibility it makes if you're so like okay here's this and now we have this and then we have this it's hard to live in the moment you're right because you're you're scheduled to to death and then having too many apps open on your computer or your phone and mine th
e thing that exhausts me is all the things i lose and how much time i have to spend finding them yes i'm tired at the end of trying to find things that i've lost all day you know the panic of like where is it right now i know you know what they always say rule of thumb it's nine times out of ten it's in the first place you looked but you were so frantic that you didn't see it because that's what i realized for me you've been dropping some really important information i've never heard before wait
by the way maria shriver is going to be she's going to drop she's going to drop some great truth bombs on us can't wait we need it you know what we love we love when our dear friend maria shriver stops by um we are going to talk to her a little bit about the reason that she's here she came to do a piece on losing on why women sometimes fight losing weight but it's more about that yeah we wanted to get to we just wanted to visit hi i'm so happy i've had so many hugs this morning more hugs than i
've had in the last year and a half so i'm so happy to be back to see you both to be in the studio i left here you know and then two days later the whole place was closed shut down shut down some people spent this time feeling certain ways and some i feel like you spent this time learning stuff and every time you come in we're like what can we what are we learned how to become a grandmother yes that's been a big learning curve and been fascinating and made me remember kind of having little child
ren around because all my kids are no longer kids they're adults so i'm kind of understanding what it means to be a grandmother when i should step in when i should step out when my opinion is needed when i should shut up that's hard to do well it's definitely new it's definitely new so uh but it's awesome because lila maria which is my granddaughter said she just when i walk in the room she she vibrates she i was telling my brother i said you know it's so good for my like self-esteem because she
just vibrates she's so excited and imagine if people were like that when you walked away so the next day he came over and he goes maria and he started going i said i said what happened and you're all right he goes i'm just trying to show you excitement when i walk in the room you know they say that my mom said there was something almost evolutionary about watching your daughter become a mom like you couldn't help but like marvel is that how you feel totally i mean when she had her baby i was so
bbing hysterically uncontrollably didn't even you know it just like erupted and then to watch her uh with her husband to watch all my kids step into the role of aunt and uncle and how this one person has kind of her effect on the whole family is really such a beautiful thing you know today talks continues after the break and we have an exclusive chat you can only see here on today all day today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts for breaking news in ou
r changing world download the nbc news app good morning welcome to you today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying are exactly some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday
it's meet the press good morning everybody welcome to today future's looking yeah are you ready we're gonna do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doctors nurses other essential workers if you are a nurse thank you spring is sprung guys and we want to fill this season with some fun and surprise yes this is the face of excitement celebrating earth day let's change the
world for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts welcome back to today talks and our exclusive content you can only see here on today all day today was a big day it was a great day you know what's so funny because neither of us have seen maria shriver in 18 months and
when she walked in first of all eddie he's the guy who picks me up and drives me here in the morning he picked up maria yesterday and he told me in great detail exactly what it felt like for him to pick her up he said he knew she was coming he loves maria he was waiting in his car he said his heart was pounding he said when you know it like you feel like you're a kid and you're about to see someone you haven't seen in so long he said he saw her coming he said it was like a movie he goes i hopped
out of the car she ran to him eddie like she does he said hold i held on so tight for so long i haven't seen her in so long because maria is a healer yeah she comes to make everybody feel a little better help them out with their stuff sort out all their business which is what she did for us i mean she sat during the commercial break and we both were like just leaning in but for you she's one of your best friends too i mean i think she's one of my best friends but it's sort of like reese withers
poon for you it's real like what did that feel like i just first of all i just adore her she has taken my life when it has been um just off balance and right of the ship she just did it two weeks ago i was like in this place where you like everything is upside down and suddenly we had a conversation and it just shows you how important it is to have someone who you can say look i don't feel like my i'm in the right like i don't know what is happening but i don't feel right and she doesn't make yo
u feel less than she doesn't make you feel like you're messing your life up she's just like okay well and what she was describing when she was here too about your platter and making sure your priorities straight even even that exercise reminds you of like wait let me get back to who i am and i'm not going to add without subtracting i'm not going to pile on without moving things off you know what i think she's so i mean because i feel the same way she said things to me where i'm like oh my gosh y
eah this is enlightening and she's changed my life but one but one of the things that i loved about that exercise and i think particularly right now yes for all of us and maybe particularly for some of us that are so quick to make it to do everything yes it's like maybe take a second like i feel like we keep talking about that like what's wrong with just taking a minute to and that maybe that's before you fire off that email or a text to somebody that's you know there's something and you my inst
inct is to write right back to get right back it's like what's wrong with just waiting a moment and also evaluating like taking a second and saying because in my in my heart i want to do that thing yeah it sounds fun and interesting and so you're thinking i'd gain from it however when you look at your life and how crowded it is does that mean it's going to be another night or another day that is that is gone and dedicated to work and i think work's important but she has a good sense and i'm tryi
ng to get that sense too of like like she said now who's gonna be with you at the end yeah who is it yeah i mean we all love our jobs and we have great places that that we work and we're really happy but when it comes to the end of the day yeah what if you would have missed something that was really really important to you for another interview that you would have forgotten about you know down the road and i used to say yes to everything like my career roadside car for so many years and i don't
maybe it needed to be that way but now i've kind of had a chance to sort of reevaluate and think about what really sets you up that platter exercise is i think it's good all the things that are important to you or that require your love attention and time put them on a platter make them in sync with how how much time and energy and love you put into it your family your husband your job your exercise your commuting your church you're the other thing and maria and another person that you and i bot
h love christine have said every time you do something like i went and shot something last night and i left and i was like this is where i do what i do like having you to ask yourself do i feel full or do i feel depressed and you may feel tired but there's a difference yeah yeah yeah and if that answer is yes that's a good idea keep it going i didn't know that thank you for that truth bomb that's a good one okay i'm glad we can drop some that's it for this episode of today talks keep watching we
have more today all day [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey guys thanks for doing this so good to see you thank you man this is awesome dude look at this vibe we got here this is sort of your vibe matches the shirt dan like we've got it all going on for you here it's intentional man it's perfect thanks for having us man it's good to see you i want people to know that you guys are in the middle of rehearsals for the tour and you flew here to new york flying right back to
nashville to do this so i cannot thank you enough that's one part of it number two i'm gonna put the temperature at 103 in this greenhouse right now it's not the heat that gets you you know it's the humidity it's what they say i read it in a book somewhere so i want to thank you doubly for doing this of course so dan tell me how rehearsals are going i mean you're out on tour for three shows march of 2020 you're selling out bridgestone in nashville it's about to explode and then boom everything s
tops that's so crazy man i mean you never expect that to happen we work our entire lives for this you know it's a dream to get to the level i mean it's just such rarefied air to get to the place where we can do an arena tour you know we've had such great support from everyone around us our team our families our friends our fans and you get there we get a taste of it like we're all in i mean we're looking at msgs sold out all these amazing bucket list venues and all at once i mean the entire worl
d shuts down and it was just it got to our heads a little bit man you know i think everybody i speak for the music industry when i say it's like we were all looking around like do we still have a career are we gonna be able to do this you know and uh i i think the first couple weeks were sort of shell shock i remember a lot of pacing around my yard like just pulling weeds doing all kinds of like odd jobs landscaping you know trying to stay busy and then i think you know after a few weeks of that
it was like man we this is a crazy opportunity that we have there's you know blessing in the sky silver lining not being on the road for a year and a half like let's let's make the most of it so we made an album and now here we are a year and a half later like with the new album out to the fans a couple singles that have gone up the chart gone to number one that we've not gotten to play live a single time which is like that's a craziest thing in the world because usually when you have a number
one song you've got a song at the top of the charts you're out there feeling it it's a tangible energy from the fans singing it back to you every night but we just it's like do people actually know this song is somebody is it i don't know is somebody playing a prank on us but yeah here we are in rehearsals man and it's going amazing we're working new songs into the set and i think you know speaking to our artist friends speaking to everybody crew folks out there on the road it's like the energy
is high fans are ready for it we've waited long enough and i think you know i think it just causes us to to appreciate the moments a little bit more you know usually those rehearsal days are grueling you know you're in there at 7am you're working till past 7 pm it's just long long days but i think we're all looking around enjoying it a little bit more appreciating you know the people the friends that we get to spend the time with and then it's all that much more worthwhile when we get out there
and feel it on stage man we've gotten a few shows under our belts this summer and it's like i get goosebumps even thinking about it it's crazy i had had a baby our youngest ames he was born two weeks before our bridgestone shows right it was just kind of a wild thing anyway and was kind of preparing myself to you know see what that looks like having a young child on the road and that was the one big blessing in disguise for for me and my family was just being able to actually be there and you kn
ow there wasn't a lot of i'm sure if we if we look we can find a lot of positives but at that point it was just like man this is really a terrible situation for everybody and uh you know as the time went on i think it was a learning curve of everyone everyone just being like okay we're in this we have to figure this out and kind of settle in together and there was a lot of time i think the biggest helps were just the community that we have there in nashville and being able to talk and the techno
logy that we had you know being able to get on zoom or whatever it was and to be able to still write songs and to be able to kind of help each other cope i think and you know dan and i were always constantly texting of you know what's going on what what are you doing 300 days to our next show are you ready yeah i'm prepared you know a lot of people it was like you know working remotely and a lot of people are figuring that out and what that looked like with their jobs and we're just kind of like
there's we don't have anything else besides this you know we can't get out on the road right now we we are forced to be in our homes and for us that was a a difficult challenge because we're so used to go go and we're you know preparing for tour and always kind of thinking about tour and can't wait to get out to our fans and that was just like all right you have to wait and you have to take this time and at first it was hard but i feel like we definitely grew a lot in that moment and i think we
appreciated moments from our past even though we had never truly gotten to appreciate you know dan and i would sit down and have talks for you know an hour of just being like man we we do need to appreciate you know what we've already gotten to do because we are the luckiest guys in the world to have ever been given this opportunity because just to say that we were about to do arenas and then it was pulled out from under us just being able to say that is incredible and and realizing that there
is you know you need to find the positive and that of you know thank god that we got here you know we actually made it we're able to be able to sell out these arenas and the people want to come see us and that in itself is a huge blessing and just very thankful to the you know community that we had around us and our friends and our family for helping us get through that and figure out what life was going to look like in those moments in this last year and a half and i think dan and i maybe took
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t the press chuck podcast free wherever you get your podcasts you guys were very productive okay we're down now we got to do something so you you dig in on this album you already had a couple uh songs written and done as you say but what was that process like different from what it had been like in the past you've been writing songs together for nine almost 10 years i guess what was it like over zoom is the process different i mean i think you're used to being a room together playing and working
it out what was it like to put good things together yeah man there's nothing quite like the camaraderie being in the room with your friends feeling that energy you get on an idea or a song or you write a chorus and everybody's like jumping up and down but you know it was a learning curve at first to get on you know on a facetime resume and try to write a song but i feel like it was good for us i feel like it caused us to go back to the basics how we used to write songs just sitting there with a
pen and paper and an acoustic guitar and really dive in deep on the idea because on zoom it's like only one person's talking at once you know and one person's face pops up on the camera so whenever you got an idea really you had to really bring it you know it was like all eyes on you versus being in a room people are talking there's music playing it's you know it's high energy you can get away with saying something you might not yeah no people just don't really react it's like okay that one did
n't land but it's like just you on the facetime and no one says something it's pretty embarrassing you gotta gather your thoughts man so everybody was bringing their a game and uh man i feel like we tapped into some of our best material just doing that i mean we were in our own world you could put everybody on mute and kind of just dive in and focus on your own and be in your own space and i think it was cool and it was uh then for us when we made the album we recorded it you know luckily we've
kind of always done that just on my laptop for better for worse i apologize to the fans out there i wish you guys would do it more pro it's like man we just always did demos on my laptop and that's kind of how we first got going we were just two guys who loved country music moved to nashville we wanted to write country music whatever that looked like whether it was for ourselves or for other artists and we just did these demos you know whatever playing whatever we could just whatever guitar had
a couple strings on it we would put a demo down and then you know we started walking around town and people are like we like these songs do you ever think about putting them out and we're like i mean maybe i guess do you have a band name i guess that's kind of how that came about but i think uh the fact that we had done that for so long gave us an advantage in this time or we could just kind of camp out and guest bedroom in my house i had a mattress i got videos of it on my phone you know it's l
ike mattress leaning against the wall you know i'm pulling dog blankets you know out of the closet laying them on the floor hey shea can you hold this pillow over your head perfect acoustic you know you would think at this point in our career four albums then yeah i should get a proper studio yeah exactly i got the best singer in the world here and he's like you know having to hold a pillow over his head to reflect the sound so it was uh it was funny man some good behind the scenes content on th
at but i think the fact that it's just the two of us in the room i mean putting our stamp on it i think that you know by the time it gets to the fans they feel that it's genuine it's authentic and it's us you know it's nobody telling us what we should sound like what we should say what we should do whenever it gets to the fans it's i feel like that's why these fans have connected with this album i mean it's just we left no stone unturned man we tried everything you know our fans deserve that the
people who have gotten us here deserve that from us it was like if we had an idea we thought it was good how do we make it great how do we flip that idea on its head or take the production which may have been this direction or may have been this style and change it up a million times until we know that it's right so i think you know having all this time on our hands was just a bit of a silver lining to all of it we really got to try everything and it felt like making a first album again for the
first you know it's like they say you have your whole life to make your first album then you got about two weeks to make every album after that right so it was like we never thought we would get that time to dig in again and we did and i feel like you know the music we're so proud of it man it's uh i think it's reflective of all the time that we spent on it and you guys had such success with your last album three years ago with tequila and and speechless and all the hits that came off that as y
ou sat down for this album did you feel like okay we got some pressure on us now people be waiting to see what we do next can we live up to that incredible monster hit absolutely i'd like to say like no man we didn't really even think about it at all yeah it was like i mean that's definitely staring you in the face yeah when you have it it's crazy to think that it has been three years which i feel like in our minds the last year and a half was kind of we'll say two years since the record yeah be
cause that just was that was a long time it was an asterisk yeah it was an asterisk but it was uh man there definitely was pressure but it was good pressure i feel like the more that you build your career and you know i think that that is just has to be the standard that has to be the the bar that you reach for you know you're not always going to have the tequilas and the speechless songs or the 10 000 hours but we've our fans have continued to to help us grow and we try to listen to them of you
know being out on the road helps a ton which is why this last year and a half was very difficult because you're out there you're playing songs we didn't get to play i should probably go to bed after it went number one we still haven't gotten to do that at our show yet and uh that was a crazy thing because you can feel the songs reacting as you're playing them live i mean you can feel it as it's going up the chart there's a direct correlation between what's going on kind of you know on the radio
and just overall all the socials you can feel it kind of in that moment so it was definitely a bar as we were trying to reach and we had i guess you know three number one singles off this record already which was you know as we were riding it we had had i guess two you know at that point it was like man we really have to make sure that we're bringing our a game because if you don't and we're gonna these are gonna be standouts it's like yeah they had a couple hits on there and then it seems like
they might have quit halfway through i'm not really sure what happened there but it was uh no but it was a good process because i feel like everyone felt the pressure in a good way it was more of a of an excitement of like all right we have you know not having a bar would be a worse situation like all right we have to figure out what a hit song sounds like we have to figure out what our fans are going to like and we had that bar that we could reach for which is a huge help i think when you're w
riting an album we can look at and know what our fans are going to want to hear and and then kind of just be able to be genuine with it of like all right let's just kind of shoot for the stars on this and do everything possible we can do and luckily unlike our last album since i guess the first one we had the time to do that like dan said you you don't have the time to truly put together you know an album like that there's so much that goes into it that people don't think about and we're on the
road and trying to prepare for that and making a good show and there's so many and we're very hands-on with that so we're like trying to design a stage and design you know a tour and everything so we never really had time to truly dive into an album so this was a very uh welcome you know i guess it wasn't so welcome we obviously did not want to go off the road but it was a nice surprise to be able to have you know the time to be able to work on that and really dig in and dan could spend two mont
hs on a kick drum sound and eq'ing one little bit and we could do that with the songwriting process as well and that was just it was a lot of fun because it did remind me of kind of those early years whenever we weren't trying to think too much into or trying to get in there and write great music you know something that we connected with because i think at the core of it you know songs that your your fans are gonna like i think from those early years we weren't thinking about like okay what are
we gonna we're just writing stuff that we love and we're just like we love this we were bumping it in my car and like blowing out the speakers of my jeep at you know two in the morning and just so excited about these songs that we had created in the magic that had happened since we got together and i feel like that really translated on our first record and kind of continued you know that and we're able to do that especially on this record of just being able to sit down and kind of tell stories a
nd talk with our co-writers and really dig into those songs and make sure that it was it was purposeful and not just you know all right we're gonna try to do an album now we got a month here we go and so we were able to really dig in on that and just make sure that everything was was genuine in us and it was just it was a very very fun process and hopefully we don't have that much time again before we go on the road but uh it was it was a pretty awesome process for sure the meet the press chuck
todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts good morning everybody welcome to today future's looking yeah are you ready we're gonna do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doctors nurses other essential workers if you are a nurse thank you spring is frown guys and we want to fill this season with some fun and surprise yes this is the face of excitement celebrating ear
th day let's change the world love it some experts say that this bill still isn't enough do you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts it has been a long year yeah where it's been anything but normal well now there's hope the covid vaccines i know i k
now it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important than ever to make a plan visit plan yourvaccine.com to find out where and when to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine [Music] make the most of your day with today in party we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today in 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day some experts say
that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts so dan you produce this good things as record right and i understand you've got a checklist oh yeah as you go through like this is how we're gonna make a great song so what
is your process when you're producing a record man my brain is all over the place like it's like you know social media it's the live show it's this it's that it's you know and uh i think you know for my mental health like checklists have really helped me and even as just mundane tasks like i know i'm gonna make a coffee first thing in the morning i know i'm gonna make the bed no i'm gonna go for a run so i put those things on the checklist every day it's a little redundant but when i check those
off you know at the end of the day i can look back and be like maybe i did accomplish something you know because i think you can get caught in that cycle when you're making a record you're just spending a lot of time on one thing you know eq'ing a guitar dialing a drum sound whatever it may be and you look back on the day and you're like i didn't accomplish anything and then you get in your own brain and you feel like you've you know slowed the process but having that checklist you know gives m
e just an objective thing to work towards every day and i just went old school man analog like how records were made back in the day you know you had the board and it was like drums bass guitars acoustics piano lead vocals background vocals and all those things just i think it allowed me to uh to simplify the album process a little bit because it's daunting to make an album it's a lot of work uh you know not only us but our entire team it's like there's album art there's now there's all these di
fferent platforms you have to deliver something different to everybody and it's it's great it's you know it means the music is getting out there and it's nice that you know there are enough fans out there that are demanding the music that you know we have i don't know that we can put different versions of songs and you know different videos out to different folks but it's a lot of stuff so i think you know at the beginning of the process it was like all right cool let's keep the focus let's let'
s draw this out and i you know as it started going as i was like checking away drums all right we're making progress here we almost have an album and it was uh yeah it was such a good feeling and it's never done i know anything in the creative process it's hard to say it's like it's done i've always told this story but we had a song from the ground up on our second album song was released before the album came out it went number one country radio was like double platinum did its thing there were
still like five little tweaks that i heard in there i was like ah it drives me crazy so every time it would come on the radio no one would ever hear it it was like a little like the smallest little edit in a breath and a vocal i was like it always drove me crazy if i was in the car was i'd be hey man how's that you're driving around no one hears find the things that bug me i for a million dollars i'm like i guess i'm not good honestly when you're so deep in it it drives you crazy but now i coul
d probably not even go back and find the right things you get far enough disconnected from it and you forget about it but uh you know that i went back after the album or after the song had gone number one and i changed those things so it was i got it right on the album so i felt good about that it was a sigh of relief um so you're a perfectionist yes you're a fault jay do you have a checklist or you just get in and you know my checklist i did it for about a day and then i realized that it was ma
king me feel worse about the things that i wasn't doing because there's just like one thing it's just like get up i was like wow i kind of did that i was staying in bed with the kids for like an hour if i could sing like this guy i wouldn't be a checklist what dan didn't know about his checklist does that sneak in there every other day and i just erased one little thing yeah that was great i didn't know vinmo like i haven't done that okay he has to follow all the things on the boards i just snea
ked things in there totally it would probably work it would probably must have written this okay i haven't done the checklist today but i i do uh you know i try to to mentally do those things i think it's a very good thing dan just he does a lot more things than i do and so like it would just not feel as good for my checklist i'm like got up with the kids heard screaming for an hour and a half you know like ate breakfast kind of at 11 you know but no it's it's awesome and i love being able to se
e the process too for him it's like watching that from you know the outside perspective of you know when we sing the vocals and as the process is happening you know i was going over to his house a lot and i mean every time i'd go back and this this guy i mean it's like the thing was just filling up and i was like we're gonna do this dude like it's gonna get done and it was a really cool thing to see and i feel like that's a checklist thing has definitely been a a nice process to watch yeah it wa
s like not fully committal though it was dry erase so at any point i could be like wipe it off oh yeah yeah the drums aren't right i can uh so next time i need to like do it in permanent yeah you have to put something over that like it would be so easy for someone to trip and then that part of history is gone forever it's a dry erase board it got tricky with the dry erase board you like smudge it you know what i mean so i was covering some of the uh the x's on the board are a little sloppy so i
gotta redo those ones make those more perfect this is the perfectionist some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming eve
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guys say that this process for this album was like going back to the beginning because i don't know if everybody knows your fans do but everybody knows the your origin story we'll call it which is this now famous meeting at a house party in december of 2012 in nashville and then going back to your house where there was like a fort of some kind in the living room it's probably a better way to see whatever that was so what do you remember about that night dan that really led to all this it's just
the 10-year you know it's been 10 years since i moved to nashville which is crazy time flies but i mean moved to nashville loved country music had a dream didn't have any money to my name you know graduated college all my friends went off and they were working jobs making great livings you know establishing a career and i'm like i'm gonna go try to write songs and god i had no money it was like found this house had a buddy that i knew through a mutual friend who ended up becoming one of our best
friends and he's written i think he wrote four songs on this album so we've stayed friends ever since and uh man it was just anything we could do to get by and we had this house we found it it was like a hundred bucks a month in rent which i don't know you can't even get a meal for that sure i lived in that neighborhood it's something yeah barry hill man barry hill ten years later has come up yeah it's cool cool restaurants cool bars not at the time it was a little suspect yeah found this house
and the heat didn't work the ac didn't work the locks didn't work on the doors like a folded plexiglas thing you could reach in that's all you got in the house but the keg in the back worked there was a king left over probably a previous tenant keg of pbr it was probably growing things on the surface but hey we were drinking it anyway you had the important things covered exactly i think the first time so i came in my friend andrew that i think i was living with actually at the time i was i thin
k i was staying on his couch uh my buddy brandon's couch we all lived kind of together in this thing and he's like there's these these two guys that are they're having a house party tonight and mutual friends of of dan and our friend andy who's talking about early and he was like let's go to this house party he's like you know they got a house over here in berry hill and they have a keg and i'm like i'm in i didn't even need to know the details i was like i don't need to know their character lik
e they have a camera like i'm down let's go and none of us had any money it was like any time there were gonna be free drinks involved we're like i think we should really seize the moment here guys i think we need to do this sure we haven't slept in a week let's go to this party and uh it was crazy i walked in and i remember getting to the house thinking i don't know if i'm in the right house or not because i got to the front door and the door was kind of like locked and so i reached inside the
window was kind of did like this like i reached in there and i was like this is either gonna be a great time or i'm breaking and entering and i'm going to jail and at that point for the keg i was willing to risk it all right yeah i was like i'm going in and so we went in there and i remember you know dan and andy and our guitar player now justin was there at this party and uh it was just a it was a great time i think we ended up staying up till probably 2 a.m and there was a moment where everybo
dy was passing around the guitar and kind of playing their songs and i was like i like to take a crack at that you wouldn't believe it this guy hadn't said a word the entire night i was too busy back at the keg it's completely quiet and everybody's passing the guitar around nashville style in this tent we overlooked that details that's right we went to this place called music city thrift just down the road from where we live we bought like six dollars worth of sheets we tented it out i mean it w
as the only way we could stay warm we had a little space heater we huddled around it wrote songs whatever it took and when he walked into the tent he's completely quiet like chilling like this shy little guy hanging out yeah which i found out later is not the case we're all singing and then it's like two in the morning he's like can i try one and he starts singing and i i was like everyone was like oh my gosh this is the best it was the best thing i've ever heard in my life pulled out my phone i
still have the voice memo of this and i like held it up i didn't know what would come of this you know i didn't ever expect to be sitting here talking to you in new york city and all these crazy accolades behind us but i recorded him i was like and i labeled it best singer ever it was december 7th 2012. wow still out he was doing a cover and uh the next day i was just like we need to write songs like we had both been chasing the stream separately obviously without much success we wrote the next
morning i think it was like 7 00 am yeah don't know why i think we were still up from the night before i would say the next day but i think it was that morning or yeah it was the same day probably better way to describe it we wrote we wrote two songs that day and honestly we haven't stopped it was it was insane i mean the first song we wrote got put on hold by a major artist then it was like man up to that point we couldn't get anyone to respond to an email or you know take a meeting with us we
were sneaking into the cnc awards we were doing all this madness and then uh from there it was just like it happened it was like it was meant to be and i one of the craziest stories about this is we didn't realize this until like a few weeks after we met shea had lived in pittsburgh like i don't know less than a mile from where i grew up we didn't know each other oh wow yeah he went up there pretty insane man i mean it was like i was describing like where i was like yeah i lived in pittsburgh f
or a second he was like where at well we're at and i was like well i was over here it was like near allison park you know all these places and he was just like yeah he's like that's where i grew up and it was just kind of a crazy like and how long were you there i was there for about a year okay about a year or a year and a half honestly i'm not great with time nowadays could have been seven years i don't know but i was there for about a year and uh i just remembered like discovering that and th
inking like wow that's probably we were probably there at the same time and you think about those things man you look back and you're just like you know those moments thinking back to that house party you never think that those are the moments that are going to kind of change your life i mean if there was one pivotal moment i mean that was it meeting dan there in that house party and i was just thinking that i was going to go for some free beer so the moral of the story is always go to the party
yes if there's free beer right now go to the party if you're in nashville you gotta go your life philosophy really paid off it did okay last question before i get you out of the greenhouse was there ever any consideration at the beginning of being shay and dan rather than dan and jay that's a great question i i don't know how the name came about it was always just like we never set out to be a band we were just two best friends writing songs we would walk into a place like a publishing you know
somewhere that we were trying to get a free meal hey man you want to take us out for lunch or a beer oh yeah you've got a company card let's go dan and shay dana here oh dana shearer here it was just like that was the way it went but now that i analyzed it in reverse it was like maybe it was because if it was shea and dan the word and ends with the d and then dan starts with the d so there's a little bit of gray area due to shea and dan you gotta like it's it's a little more difficult to say it
doesn't roll off the tongue as much having the d of n and the d of dan back to back we have a whole chart and also shea and dan just sounds a little silly i think it's a see exactly yeah you tied the two letters together shenandoah was already banned so danisha was it was everyone just called us dan and shea and it was just kind of went from there and also we had had a couple band names that were absolutely atrocious that we will not talk about in front of the country really and uh there was i'
ll say one because it wasn't our idea my lawyer one time like early on we had did this showcase thing and he wrote down this thing thinking like i had an aha moment of like guys you might want to get over here because this is about to be too contentious to type it on his eyes it was kind of a peck situation where like and he clearly i mean it looked like he was writing a 1 000 page document and he was just writing this thing out and he has this big reveal and he kind of does this with the ipad a
nd we're sitting there we're like oh like things are about to heat up dude this is like this is our future welcome you know and he flips it around and it says school's out and dan and i we're just like oh you know i mean you should have seen the look at our faces we didn't know how to make names he was uh yeah so school's out did not make dan history was made that's right guys thank you so much for doing this and for coming all the way from nashville and sitting here with us on a hot summer day
you're the best thank you for taking that [Music] anytime a recipe gets passed down from generation to generation you know it's got to be real good and as we take aim to make your life easier this week we are going to share that specific recipe with you okay it is a roasted chicken dish it's been passed down from a mother to her son and that son just happens to be a michelin-starred chef that chef is at his restaurant veranda right here in new york city chef george mendes hey george george yeah
definitely get in here let's talk about let's talk about your mom's recipe okay because a recipe has to be this good to be passed down what is it about this specific one it's these are flavors that i grew up with in my childhood my mother used to cook rice dishes for my sister and my dad a number of times a week sometimes it was chicken sometimes it was rabbit sometimes it was a tomato rice so that cooking has had an enormous impact in my career so you know she spent time with the kitchen with m
e uh at many of my restaurants here at veranda um and she's an enormous inspiration for everything that i cook with and create really really rustic childhood home style flavors yeah and i think chicken and rice sounds like the perfect dish for us to cook tonight so let's get started tell us what we need to cook so i am on the uh over medium heat i have a cast iron skillet oven proof olive oil onions garlic all right a pinch of salt right away to get things started salt starts to release the mois
ture so it's developed that base of flavor and then i'm gonna get paprika going in there and some sweet peppers great from the farmers market right now this time of the year please visit your local farmers market more olive oil i'm sure my mom right now is saying add more olive oil there we go you can also add like a pinch of chili flakes as well no rules here georgia guy are you dark meat guy or a light meat guy i like both i like the combination of both when it comes to thanksgiving though dar
k meat for sure how about you guys uh highlight well we we on this i like go to like dark i like light okay so once you do all that do we add the chicken what's the next step next step is we're going to add the rice here so that's it and it's a bomba or a cholesterol rice it's a very short grain rice really important because it absorbs a lot of the flavors of the chicken broth yum and the flavor is that cooked rice this is uncooked this is unfortunate and it doesn't need that long to cook it's g
oing to eat about 20 minutes in the oven but of course i have one ready for you to show you okay okay and then at this point i'm going to add the chicken meat so the chicken meat i have right here that's pretty done this was cone feed and olive oil really slowly for about 40 minutes it's skinless bone-in thigh and then we take the meat off of the bone and pull it just like they're doing pulled pork you're doing pulled chicken and that's in here right now if we buy it you know if we maybe don't h
ave as much time you just buy a rotisserie chicken and shed it shred it only if you don't have enough time but with some organization and a little bit of patience you can you can do this at home i promise you okay promise you i promise you what's the next step chorizo put those in there all right and then i'm gonna add so it's about one cup of rice and i'm adding about one and a half cups of broth i'm using a roasted chicken broth you can also use a vegetable stock if you don't have that you can
use water okay to make sure it's nicely seasoned yeah and that goes in carefully like so okay so this is this is a one-pot dish it's almost like a paella yeah that's right the only difference is this just goes in the oven paella is cooked on the stovetop for the most part and traditionally over a live fire okay so do we pop that baby in the oven now that's right so at this point i got a 400 degree oven and i'm gonna go right off behind me good job skin center nice and there you go how long does
that cook that's going to cook about eight specially 20 minutes i'm sorry there are we are options there at the restaurant where we pre-cook it just for speed um at home you can do the same thing you can have parkour price um so that you can speed up the process as long as you have the chicken the beauty behind this is it's a chicken cone fee it's it's traditionally um done with duck as well and you can hold this in your fridge up through a week so this whole step with your your chicken thigh y
ou need to do ahead right you can you can preserve it in your fridge george wait if you really want to i'm sorry i didn't mean to interrupt you but will you show us that final delicious rice dish how do you serve it up what else do you add anything else to it yeah so i have sliced chicken breast that's also cooked very similar to the chicken thigh that's poached in olive oil with thyme and bay leaf and then once the oven comes the oven is the time is done the rice comes out of the oven i slice t
he chicken breast over the top all right and here you go that looks delicious george thank you so much for this recipe head to today.com some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts good morning welcome to today nice
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t the press for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app if making dinner is the dread of your daily routine don't worry we've got some help yeah i need it we called in our friend today's show nutritionist joy bauer for one of her delicious one and done meals and she's got a pineapple chicken recipe by the way two beautiful things that belong together all right so what do you need what ingredients joy what do we need for this recipe okay guys this is what you're having for d
inner tonight it really checks every box so we need one and a half pounds of either skinless chicken breast or thighs one red onion one red or yellow or orange bell pepper two cups of fresh cubed pineapple teriyaki sauce and honey that's it and i'm telling you this is like the ultimate one and done it's packed with nutrition it's totally addictively delicious and it comes together fast okay so joy we all have that moment where we get a pineapple yeah it's ripe we don't know nobody knows so how d
o you know the easiest way to know if a pineapple is ripe is really to give it a squeeze you want it to be firm but it should give a little bit and then smell the bottom portion you should get a sweet fresh aroma sometimes it can be right but you don't automatically get that sweet aroma but if it doesn't have a pleasant aroma it means it's probably overripe but that's really the easiest way to know if you're buying the perfect pineapple okay so there's your we're starting with the chicken now wh
at yes so we have the bowl of chicken all we're going to do is i have a red onion here and i'm specifically using a red onion because you know from that vibrant color the onion is packed with antioxidants something specific called quercetin which eases inflammation and also helps to tame seasonal allergies now i'm adding in a bell pepper and the bell pepper is packed with vitamin c to support a healthy immune system and the star of our show fresh cubed pineapple which brings more vitamin c to th
e table but also a group of enzymes called bromelain which helps to aid in digestion and also eases inflammation so we have this right here it couldn't be simpler and now i'm telling you for the easiest marinade in all of the land we're taking a half a cup of teriyaki sauce bonus points if you could find a reduced sodium and i'm mixing in just one tablespoon of honey it's going to give it a perfect sweetness i'm going to stir this up and i'm just going to pour it right over our concoction over h
ere and you let it marinate you know what and i have to say joy this is just hoda's new thing if you were hoda making this she would add a little ginger can you yum so you can absolutely you could add ginger you could add garlic but really the teriyaki sauce already has some of those things built in so it's sort of like one-stop shopping but hey the more the merrier when it comes to added seasoning okay and in terms of letting this marinade here's the thing if you have the time you can let it si
t for about 15 whoops 15 to 30 minutes but you don't have to half the time i'm rushing and i don't have the time to let it sit so then i take my baking sheet i'm going to mist it with a little bit of oil spray and you are just going to pour this on top that's it that's so easy that's it guys i'm telling you anyone can do that right you're so right if you like your chicken cube can you just cut it beforehand yeah you can use breasts thighs or um or breasts and you could just chop it up into whate
ver size pieces you like i'm using tenderloins here but anything goes and what i'm going to now do is i'm putting this you're going to come with me over to my oven okay and i'm going to pop this in i set the oven at 4 20 for just 15 to 18 minutes okay goodbye so i'm putting this there you are 18 minutes i may do this joy and i never cook anything this looks simple jenna i would be so psyched i have one done to see you do it and you know you have to send me a picture i'll send you a pic for sure
so this one is [Laughter] it is packed with nutrition and it's light in calories so you really could feel good about enjoying this and now truth be told just like this you can dive in and it's a perfect winter winter chicken dinner but we're going to take it over the edge cauliflower no no no it's a thick let me push this over a thick sweet teriyaki glaze and it's a kitchen hack that i just discovered that i'm so excited to share so in here i just have two tablespoons of water that's it and i'm
adding in a teaspoon of corn starch now it could be arrowroot or cornstarch this will be our thickener and you just want to let it dissolve okay we just have a couple of seconds left so how do we yeah okay so then we add in quarter cup of teriyaki sauce and one tablespoon of honey and how's about you put that in the microwave for one to two minutes let me show you this yeah look at this and you can drizzle that over very quickly because i gotta go for the money shot here i'm gonna take i'm gonna
take this this was our finished we're gonna drizzle this over the top show me the money that's it okay oh yeah for these recipes head to today.com food thank you joy it looks delicious yummy i wish you guys could come over and be scared good morning everybody welcome to today future's looking good are you ready we're going to do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doc
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every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts okay another person we love we love celebrating her she's one of our favorites she is celebrity chef lydia bastian we thought who better to have back than the queen of italian cuisine herself you guys know lydia she's the owner of becco it's one of new york's most revered restaurants that's in the theater district and we're happy to announce that becco is reopened and we're so happy lydia it's so great to talk about new beginnings you've got a
beautiful dish in front of you welcome bonjourno ladies and happy anniversary you know i was the first chef that came on your show you invited me i was so thrilled so here i am again well we were today yes you remember we remember and we can't wait to have you back and get to taste that delicious chicken as soon as the situation allows it i will be there but in the meantime you're in my kitchen in my home and i'm going to show you how to make this delicious simple dish of chicken braised in lemo
n sauce with capers with olives and underneath on top of sprayed spinach in this case is escarole it is the number one dish at becco so if you go there try it but in the meantime i'm going to show you how to make okay so you take some chicken breast and you saute it just like that nice and beautiful a little bit of flour salt and you sauteing it a little bit of oil okay so this we are going to add some garlic and then i'm going to put it back on the sliced garlic just like that and let's put it
back on the fire and you keep on going and we'll add some capers you know capers i love capers and you know what they add a lot of flavor when you cook for fish too cakers are delicious and then here i have cherry nola owls i don't know if your chariola olives are these big big olives and they're delicious and meaty and all you have to do is kind of slice off the pieces of it like that and you use these pieces in cooking just like that just like that i'm going to add that to the pan and the fire
is going i'm going to add some butter oh yeah you had us butter okay and then i'm gonna add some white white now you know i get a lot of times questions asked about cooking wine oh which cooking wine should i use or whatever no cooking ones wine that you would drink you don't have to be the more expensive most expensive it could be something that you have a little bit left over but use good wine and then of course the lemon juice a little bit of fresh lemon juice fresh lemon juice and you like
that kind of cook let's put some fresh pepper that looks beautiful lydia can i ask can i ask a question real quick lydia would that chicken cook through before you added all that stuff with it no no you don't have to because you don't want to overcook chicken you know chicken can become tough yeah so you do it almost three quarters of a way because then you continue to cook it in the sauce okay and that's not a long cooking process so how long do you cook it about how long do you cook it before
you put everything in it well you get it brown on both sides okay and depends on the on the intensity of the heat yeah but i would say about maybe five minutes okay and then you go with the garlic and then you go with all the flavorings and i also like to put in there some lemon slices so this way you have a nice decoration so just slice some lemon put them right in there and so let's see let me show you how it looks while it's cooking do you see it oh my god yeah it's so simple that's it okay a
nd let me tell you here let me show you i have some escarole now escarole is also garlic and oil and the escarole leaves a little a pinch of hot pepper and you put a lid on it with a little bit of water and you braise your escarole but spinach is delicious underneath this chicken as well okay so ladies can you do this yeah we can do it and we can't believe it we can't see the version can we see your finished product oh looking gorgeous one more time we just want one more look lydia we love you w
e love you we we want to send our condolences to you about your mom we you know we know how much she loved her and we love what hear you talk about her so thank you for being with us today well thank you for your kind words she is missed very much but you know i was blessed to have her 100 years she she just turned 100 in january and passed away in february wow we're sending you so we love you lydia thank you so much to get that recipe by the way at home you can go to today.com food sometimes th
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her roll on one day at a time who could forget that she made us laugh out loud and hot in cleveland too now valerie you host like a thousand cooking shows only two food network they're so good family food showdown's awesome too this morning gonna give us a chicken dish but it's the right weather for a chicken dish i think especially a chicken bacon i wish people could smell how good it smells and it smells good where did your love of cooking come from before acting oh yeah you've been acting yo
ur whole life i've been i've been cooking longer than i've been acting actually i've been acting since i was 12 and i've been cooking since i was a little why was it in your family yeah my nunny my mother and then i find out my great-grandmother was actual was an actual chef in san remo so i it's in my blood yeah it's meant to be so i'm going to show you this dish because it's really super delicious and it's really great for this time of year there's a lot of ingredients there's a lot of ingredi
ents so i would suggest making a lot of it because i think a great home tip is when you're cooking and you're going through all the trouble anyway just make more yeah and then you have leftovers i'm one of those fans of leftovers so i got a little olive oil in here here's a great little trick too when you're going to marinate any kind of meat get a baggie out and get it in a bowl and it's going to hold everything in there for you i have some white wine you want yeah i know i've already partaked
you can absolutely do breast if you want but i'm telling you don't be afraid of a chicken thigh it's so tasty it's got so much more flavor than a breast i mean there are some breast men out there but i'm i happen to be a thigh girl why not i have some fresh thyme i've got fresh onion that's white wine matter what kind of white wine you use yes use white wine well you can use salt you can use cabernet depending but i do suggest the cheap stuff you have at home no use the good stuff why i want to
drink the good stuff no you're going to drink the good stuff and you're going to put it because you're going to taste it in your meal yeah okay you always want the good stuff and everything how long are you going to marinate this i'm going to marinate this for about two hours this is not a brine right no this is a marinade no well there is some lemon juice in here so that'll help so that's going to be that's why you don't want to marinate it more from the red pepper flakes red pepper flakes you
know what you guys i'm going through this really quickly but you can go online and yes you guys will have the recipes and they're putting graphics so hopefully people okay so now you just massage your chicken breasts yes or your thighs these are thighs so massage thighs or breasts whatever are the tests oh my god great right you're already eating it i love it let's get on how long have i marinated you're going to marinate that two hours no more than two or three hours here's a leek now what you
want to do with leeks because they can get really um i'm not going to say dirty but they do get a lot they do get a lot of sand in them so you want to you want to get them in some cold water and let them come apart and then once they've been in the cold water for a while yeah you got your leeks right here then you add some potatoes little ones if and then you add some of your red onion right over simple and then more olive oil and then you get this into the oven about 4 25 for it'll stay on the
ground so you get that in the oven we want these nice and all the instructions yes okay so while that's happening you're going to bring your chicken out and you're going to let it come to room temperature but you want to get all of those beautiful juices that you just made you're going to keep you strained it because you're going to make that into your sauce okay but you want to keep i would have thrown that out because it was in raw chicken i would have known that but you're going to cook it so
it's going to be okay good so you're very right you don't want to ever eat something with that's been on raw chicken without unless you cook it off you got to cook it off and you want to save these really yummy bits too and then once you do you're going to salt and pepper these guys i'm not going to get to i don't have to worry about that okay and you want to saute these oh i didn't put it up high enough that's right but that will be spicy i want that sizzling and you want to really get two or
three minutes on each side you don't have to worry about cooking it all the way through because you're that's going to go back and you're going to bake this whole thing off you're going to bake it all off again okay a lot of steps here there's a lot of steps but it's so worth it because when you put all that into it you can really taste it there's bread crumbs at the end of this there's our bread crumbs at the end so all these bits well you saute them with some butter and you get them nice and c
rispy and then you you want to then get some mustard over these guys put the bread crumbs back on and by the end you're going to have this beautiful dish oh my gosh and it's super delicious it really is it's worth oh yeah everything's good potatoes they're crazy i feel like everybody else's chicken is better than my chicken like everywhere else i go really yes chicken's hard for me chicken is so but you cooked it delicious and it's delicious crispy on the outside mine's rubbery and crappy valeri
e thank you so much okay so are you bored with the same old chicken dinner well so are we so we asked today show contributor elizabeth high school for a good chicken recipe to spice things up and she didn't just wing it it just keeps going wow so this is it's the good chicken it doesn't even have a name and my kids call it the good chicken my friend came up with this recipe cara it's perfect her friend carrick came out do not judge me all right so we're going to start with our chicken now we are
going to add does it have to be the breast yeah you want them oh that's good that's cool we'll get a little bleach on that later um so yeah you want a boneless skinless chicken breast okay and then we're going to add chicken broth got it we have pepperoncini peppers sorry meredith just until it covers it this is the juice from the pepperoncini peppers we're going to add those too i've never even heard of that peppers this is the juice yeah so you get a jar of pepper chili peppers is that perfec
t you know the big green the big green peppers these are just sliced though okay and so we'll add those you know what i'm talking about how did you get the juice out of them okay when you dump it it all kind of comes in the gym i'm so sorry no it's a jar of pepperoni peppers you pour the whole thing in just keep the juice i guess is the point okay so now we have some ranch dressing packet i know i know i know and a little bit it's a gravy packet i know that's what i said do not judge me until yo
u've tried it don't judge me okay now we're going to put in our slow cooker for 45 um start off for about 45 minutes you're going to need to go for about four hours that wow and then it just shreds the deal is we don't have time to listen to our children complain about no we sure this is something that they will love every time i make it or if i'm making chicken they're like mom is it the good chicken now do you have a bad chick everybody's yes you do have a bag just like a boneless skinless chi
cken that you just throw in the oven with some lemon juice and a couple of seasonings and nobody likes it but it's super simple this is very very simple as well now we're going to serve it over rice you could serve it over pasta you could do my mashed cauliflower would be amazing it is good isn't it good it's just good simple it's easy for you now that you're going to have a new baby you're going to be busy as well get out that's right you know and so this is something you can throw in before yo
u go to work it's ready now this ice box pasta is going to be a life saver so what we do is we take anything that's left over in the ice box so we had some smoked chicken we've got a peach we have some peppers you know corn whatever you've got if you've got a zucchini throw it in there red pepper you throw it in there we had some tomatoes left over it is a lot about well whatever you love okay and then we have a great vinaigrette what do you put in there we're going to toss it with so it's equal
parts olive oil and cider vinegar it does have a little bit of parmesan it has some really beautiful basil some cilantro it's delicious some great parsley we mix it all together add this to our pasta some chicken in there we could have put the good chicken in there but we had some smoked chicken in the ice box so we threw that in there we have a little bit of pasta i mean a little add our pasta okay and then we've got some cilantro we've got basil i'm just trying to come up with things for you
you're going to make your life money you know what just by being here you made our life much better and much better so for these recipes and more go today.com food [Music] i just feel like i'm dancing for so many people that weren't given the opportunities that i have and so i understand my responsibility i'm so excited because i am sitting next to one of the premier dancers in the country around the world misty copeland i'm so happy to see you thank you for having me i'm happy to see you i thin
k when people see you they think wow i bet you this kid was born and had had everything kind of not handed to her but you know um had everything top drawer let's talk about your quotes i think this means a lot um your these you have two favorites this is one of them where you come from doesn't necessarily determine where you're going in life yeah i mean that's i think people would assume that someone comes from a privileged background being a part of you know such an elite art form but that's wh
at's so amazing i think having the opportunity to be a part of something where you just don't see people like myself being represented in that space so it's really exciting when i can go to these communities that are similar to how i was where i was raised and how i grew up and just to give them an example of what's possible that you don't have to fit into this mold in order to be whatever it is you want to be and i definitely like come from that experience you know growing up in a single parent
home one of six children i was living in a motel when i started dancing and so it's about what the arts can do for you and how it can enrich a child's life no matter if they want to go on to be a professional or not it's just so important i think there's a mr rogers quote and i'm just thinking about it because he's been in the news a lot lately and he says for all of us there's someone who loved us into being so who who loved you into being i have so many like amazing like fairy godmothers and
um brown women that have just been incredible mentors to me raven wilkinson who passed away last year was a black ballerina the first and only to dance in an all-white company at the ballet rooster monte carlo in the 50s prince was such a big part of my growth and just discovering who i am as a woman and as an artist but having representation whether it be a woman or you know a man i think that just having people that you can see yourself through and knowing that you don't have to follow someone
else's journey or path and that it's more it's more incredible to be an individual we're just but um confidence is something i don't know if you're born with it or if you get it like i'm not sure but for you like how did you have the moxie um i feel like everything that happened in my life up until i was 13 years old really prepared me to be a part of the ballet world in some weird way i think that it's it's such a difficult world to be a part of i mean to get to where i am like you just have t
o have so much perseverance and will and drive and really love it because the work just it never ends and so i feel like coming from you know just always struggling and fighting it was like if i can get through that i'm like the ballet world i'm good i'm good i can handle this so um i'm so grateful for like everything that i've experienced and that's made me into the person that i am how many times do little girls come up to you and say wow i want to be you that's gotta be easy gratifying i mean
i think because i understand like the bigger picture and that it's not me it's like what i represent even like older black women that come to me and they're just like you're living what i wish i could have done or like had the opportunity to do and it's like i just feel like i'm dancing for so many people that weren't given the opportunities that i have and so i understand my responsibility and how i'm seen and viewed so it's so amazing whenever i meet a little girl or like i mentor i actually
had one of my mentees that i've been mentioning for almost like 10 years now and she's like a woman she came over last night and it's just like crazy to watch them grow up i mean i know it's a privilege to do what you do and i know it's a privilege to have people look up to you but is is it ever a lot on your shoulders to carry i don't people's dreams no i don't see it that way i feel like like it's been such a long journey and i think for a lot of people that don't know the ballet world and kin
d of just saw me like come into the you know spotlight or whatever when i was promoted to principal dancer and it's like this has been a long journey of working to get here and i don't feel that it's like been like okay now you're here and you're gonna be a role model it's like been very organic um i think if anything whenever i felt pressure it's come from probably like outside like media where a lot of dance no not a lot no dancer is put in a position where people are writing and talking about
whether or not you're going to be promoted and they're coming and critiquing like your first time approaching a massive role like that doesn't happen usually like as a new principal dancer you'll kind of be under the radar until you get more experience but it was like my first swan lake was like everyone's there like is she going to fail is it this does she deserve to be promoted i think that was terrifying the first time that i ever felt that type of like weight but in terms of just you know i
t is what it is and just being on the stage is doing so much for the next generation your other quote which i love too is don't let other people's words define you that's a huge one and again for like this generation especially like young people and social media and just like you know cyber bullying and it's people's words can be so powerful and impacting like your emotions and your confidence and so i just often i have to remind myself but i often like have am saying to these young kids that li
ke these people that you don't know like their words shouldn't impact you you know it's the people that care about you that are supporting you so it's just like to think simply about it when you get caught up in like what people might say about you do you i mean i try not to pay attention when stuff happens but i'm also a human being right exactly sometimes i'll look and i'll get an ouch do you like have a suit of armor on like how do you stop it i don't look of course there are things that happ
en when like it just comes into your sphere and you can't avoid it in master class which is coming out which i'm so excited about i definitely share a lot of those stories that i think are just as important as like learning about the technique of classical ballet but as any athlete would know it's about your emotional state it's about you know taking care and like just being strong and being confident because we're human beings and you're not often looked you know you're on stage and so people j
ust kind of were like all right you have to be perfect every time right i come to see you yeah um but i definitely have had situations where people have you know you're not supposed to film things in the theater where people have filmed me and like posted it on youtube and you know just horrible things like misty copeland failing and it's and for me i try and if i do see it and i think that it's an important topic to cover i posted actually this horrible video of me on all of my social platforms
and just started this topic of conversation about bullying and what you can learn from seeing those things and you don't always have to address it but i think it's important too let's talk about the nutcracker you're back so excited what made you decide well so the nutcracker is like a part of every ballet dancers world like that's you know i lo i personally love it and the version that american ballet theater does um is not the traditional choreography it's like a lot more like kind of whimsic
al and contemporary um but most dancers would be like oh my god nutcracker like you know you do it every year but it's the type of ballet that can bring people in from all types different backgrounds that you know it's just such a part of especially in america like the holiday tradition and then having been in the nutcracker in the four realms the disney movie that came out it's just incredible to be a brown ballerina and be put in a position to represent ballet like in a disney film and i think
that it's huge for you know just the future of ballet are you happy i'm like no i'm miserable yes you are traveling all over the world you're holding it together you have a great life you're a shining role model and i'm just happy i got to stick with you for a few minutes thank you misty thanks for having me [Music] the meet the press chuck toddcast free wherever you get your podcasts for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app today is now a podcast available every mornin
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om the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts all right so misty copeland began dancing at the age of 13. good sweet sweet girl and we go on to become one of the world's top dancers in 2015 misty became the first african-american to be named a principal dancer with the prestigious american ballet theater she's also a best-sell
ing author and now she's out with the new children's book inspired by her early love of ballet it is called bun heads misty we're so happy to see you you're inside a beautiful home that we hear a rumor is on the cover of architecture digest and we want to get to that in a second because we can't wait to look inside your home but let's talk about this this book i mean you were inspired some would say late in life even though you're you're 13 to start dancing so tell us about this book yes well fi
rst of all i'm so happy to be with two of my favorite people you guys are just warm my heart and make me smile and laugh so much but i i was so impressed first of all by emmy and congratulations on her children's book that's coming out today as well um it's just so beautiful and encouraging to see young people inspired to take steps and push themselves and challenge themselves and that's so much you know what bun heads is about you know it's it's loosely based on experiences that i had growing u
p as a young girl and really just wanting to change the narrative of what's so often uh depicted in film and television and media which is that it's really cutthroat and that all the girls are out to get each other you know we're not living uh black swan we have very beautiful experiences in the studio and i wanted to be able to highlight that and show the importance of the relationships that you build in that time that you find these commonalities through dance and love of this universal langua
ge that brings people together but that you can be different you can be any sex you can be any race any size any age and um and find that commonality through your love of dance and so that's the journey that i take people on with my misfit group of bun heads in this story misty we love this book and and i got to talk to you a couple years ago and and you had this kind of serendipitous fall into ballet or i guess rise in the ballet where you ended up at the ymca can you remember that first day an
d what it felt like to be little misty thinking like oh my gosh this is something that i could do for the rest of my life yeah you know that's something that i also really wanted to depict in this book was the the reality of you know the anxieties i had around doing something out of my comfort zone which i know so many young people and adults experience and therefore don't push themselves and i was just so fortunate that i had an incredible teacher who believed in me and it was the first time th
at i saw my worth and value and um what was possible for me so you know that first introduction into ballet was on a basketball court at the boys and girls club and it was the farthest thing from what i saw my future possibilities being um but it's it you know is what shaped me to be the woman i am today and to be able to see how important it is to to give back what i've gotten from so many incredible mentors misty there are a bunch of little adorable bun heads who want to ask you some questions
we have a beautiful wall they're kids who woke up early they are ready for their moment with you i want to start off with where's noelle where are you noelle will you ask your question hi misty my question is what do you do when you're nervous before you perform oh oh oh thank you noelle um you know music has always been that thing that keeps me grounded and focused um so whenever i feel any nerves or anxiety first of all i remind myself why am i doing this because i love it because i love to s
hare my art with other people but music is really something that i put on and it doesn't have to be the music i'm about to dance to even if i'm doing swan lakes sometimes i'll put on some mariah carey and i'll just breathe and center myself and remind myself that this is entertainment and i'm there to to make people happy noelle thank you we love you noelle next time we have a 16 year old brianna from toronto canada what's your question hi misty thank you for being so influential to the whole ba
llet industry and you've had such an amazing impact on my ballet journey you've been so inspiring to me my whole ballet studying and i just went i was just wondering how does it feel to be so influential to so many dancers all over the world oh oh thank you you know i've just i don't see myself in that light or that way you know i think that i'm a vessel and i stand on the shoulders of so many that have come before me that didn't get the opportunities that i have that didn't have a voice or a pl
atform that i have and so i see myself as you i see myself as all of us who are on the same journey towards you know bringing people happiness um but also bringing more diversity to classical dance and showing all children that they can be anything they want to do so i really just see myself as you know what's possible hey misty will you will you stand by we have eight-year-old fern who has a question but we're gonna take a commercial break first we're gonna talk to her and then we're gonna take
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experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america safer today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying you are good morning everybody welcome to
today future's looking good are you ready we're gonna do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doctors nurses other essential workers if you are a nurse thank you spring is brown guys and we want to fill this season with some fun and surprise yes this is the face of excitement celebrating earth day let's change the world love it we are back with misty copeland who's writ
ten a beautiful new children's book it is called we've been waiting for eight-year-old fern from portland oregon she's got a question for you misty hey fern hi hi hi what's your question fern hi missy i was wondering what helped you and other people didn't believe in you because i did a biography on you and i had some struggles in becoming a ballerina that's such a such a wonderful question thank you fern um you know it was really having incredible people there to support me in my life that's wh
at's really been the driving force in every situation to getting me through is having love and support from those around me wow thank you sweet thing oh misty we've just loved you answering those questions we also love taking a peek into your house your new house which you just finished you're on the cover i'm sorry architecture digest looking beautiful you just finished this house right before the pandemic yeah yes um it's been an interesting journey but at the same time you know it's you know
this is not something i often do you know even on my social media i i really keep it to a platform that i use to share my craft and reach people but it's not something i really use for personal um you know i'm pretty private i would say yeah but you know it's been such an incredible journey and the opportunities that i've gotten i never imagined as you know a seven-year-old a 13-year-old girl that i would have the stability and security in my life that i have you know growing up not often having
a home living in motels living at friends homes um and just a constant fear of not being able to survive so to be able to have worked so hard you know me and my husband as as two black people to really call something our own that we own is such a proud moment and i feel a beautiful example for so many young people of color we applaud you a beautiful example for everyone misty thank you what a treat you are oh so everybody go check out misty's children children's books it's called bunhead someti
mes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition it has been a long year yeah where it's been anything but normal well now there's hope the covid vaccines i know i know it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important than ever to make a plan visit planyourvaccine.com t
o find out where and when to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine [Music] sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition good morning everybody welcome to today future's looking good are you ready we're
gonna do our part to spread the word on the importance of vaccines so crucial for reopening america a big day around here a very special naturalization ceremony many of them doctors nurses other essential workers if you are a nurse thank you spring is frowned guys and we want to fill this season with some fun and surprise yes this is the face of excitement celebrating earth day let's change the world love it what is the biggest misconception about the ballet world that it's cutthroat and that we
don't support each other and don't get along and that's not at all uh you know how it is on the inside and behind the scenes we're a family we travel the world together we spend more time with each other than our own families it's not black swan not exactly good i couldn't even watch that movie [Music] misty copeland welcome to the six minute marathon thank you for having me let's start the clock here we go what is your life motto not to let other people's words define me how do you find balanc
e in your life i use the structure and discipline and all that i've learned through ballet i think to uh really apply that to all that i do in my life so i'd say ballet keeps me centered and grounded and balanced it literally keeps you balanced it does what is something you would like to learn i think i would like to learn other languages for sure do you know any other languages i don't i have so many that i'm like attempt like french and spanish and then i just slowly drift from it and fall int
o other things but i would love to learn those two languages italian too would it be fun to go to one of those countries and just kind of soak in the culture for a while that's like a dream to be able to just like move to tuscany and for you know for a year and just be with with the italian people and learn the language that way me too i've always wanted to do like an eat pray love year let's go um when was the first time you realized people knew who you were probably after my first under armour
campaign i well what i want i think that was really when i kind of crossed over and even you know got the attention and respect of men to see dancers as athletes as well as artists what's the best interaction on the street or you know with a fan that you've ever had um i think when i see like young girls that are just overwhelmed because of what i represent and they just get really emotional and most of my you know fans want to like touch me and hug me um which i think is such a beautiful thing
because i want them to see me as themselves and as human and so i i love that connection that i have with them what is your favorite book i would say the power of now i think it's eckhart toll yeah i think it's something that i continue to go back to in different times and phases in my life and learn something new from it every time what is the biggest misconception about the ballet world that it's cutthroat and that we don't support each other and don't get along and that's not at all you know
how it is on the inside and behind the scenes we're a family we travel the world together we spend more time with each other than our own families and it really is a supportive environment it's not black swan not exactly good i couldn't even watch that movie let's see concert or broadway show concert i'm a huge music lover i that was what i grew up on being played around the house and that's what motivated me to dance i'm if there's ever a concert in new york that i'm excited about i will drop
everything to be there what's your favorite kind of live music i love like soul and r b um but i do need more mariah carey live music in my life i've only ever been to one concert and she was my first concert at i think 16 years old all right here's no there's no transition to this one what is a weird food you like that most people don't a weird food i love beets like i love i love i love vegetables and i love like the earthiness of of a beet i just i love them uh just take them whole and roast
them with just salt pepper and olive oil um and just dig in it's funny i came to beets later in life did you like them even when you were little i did i mean i wasn't i was you know didn't grow up with a lot of um options for healthy foods and so when i was eating it was out of the can so later in life i realized like oh this is something that actually grows from the earth and i can like you know make it myself that's how i felt about cranberries when i found out that cranberries didn't naturall
y come with like the can imprint you know you just slice it same thing yeah um who are you inspired by i'm inspired by the youth i'm inspired by um seeing how incredibly um powerful and intelligent and the forward thinking and just ability to stand on their own and say what's right i think it's so impressive and i think the point of having young people that learn from us is to make them better than we are and that's how we create a better world and continue to evolve who have you been star struc
k in meeting i would say uh president obama um you know i've i've had i've been so fortunate to spend quite a bit of time with him um and interview him uh but i think every single time he just has such an incredibly powerful and engaging presence um and at the same time he feels like you know like i'm like talking to my dad so there's like this weird like you know balance of um just incredible love and support and power that he possesses where would you like to visit that you haven't been we kno
w we're going to tuscany um you know i've never been to spain and uh i would love to go to spain yeah we'll go there after we go to italy perfect misty copeland great job you did an awesome job thank you and that was fun thank you sweetie have a good day you too i'm gonna go make some beats yes [Music] [Music] [Music] there's this new study it was published in the journal science and it really takes everything that we thought we knew about metabolism and aging and essentially throws it out the w
indow and we're going to break it down now for with nbc news medical correspondent dr john torres and lead dietitian and manager of wellness nutrition services at cleveland clinic kristin kirkpatrick good morning to both of you good morning dr john morning let me start with you dr john explain the science if you can behind this new this new metabolic data like what what does it mean and how could we have been so wrong about it for so long and you're right greg this is turning things on its head
because all along i thought the same thing you know as you start getting older your metabolism slows down once you hit your 30s you pack on a few extra pounds not much you can do about it because it's your metabolism causing that to happen even most more so when you're in your 40s and your 50s but this study is saying not so fast that's not what's happening actually and what they did is they looked at what we call the carbon dioxide expenditure how much carbon dioxide are we burning off every da
y which is a sign of our metabolism in other words the things we're doing to breathe to digest food just to live our basic metabolism and they looked at eight day olds up to 95 year olds to find out and what they found out is we do things in groups through throughout our lives and it breaks down into four different categories from birth until one years old we are metabolism machines we are burning metabolism like it's nobody's business but once we turn one until we turn 20 that starts slowing do
wn about three percent a year didn't matter if you're a teenager didn't matter where you were in that period it slows down about three percent a year but once you hit 20 until you get to 60 it stays the same regardless of what's happening regardless of if you're a man or a woman regardless if you're going through menopause pregnancy none of those things influence that basic metabolism and then once you turn 60 it started slowing down again so that's the key and it turns out again when we're in o
ur 30s and 40s it's not the metabolism putting on those extra pounds sorry lazy and eating too much so kristen that then leads to the question basically calories and exercise which with things we pretty much know that would be i would think the keys to helping improve our metabolic health over that 40 years yeah definitely the key but the the real important point here looking at this data is that this is looking at total energy expenditure so obviously it's looking at energy out the calories bur
ned but we can't stop thinking about the calories in the problem is we are really looking at our calories in the wrong way we are a nation that is still very overweight and obese despite the fact that we have a million different diets out there but we are still consuming a lot of hyper palatable foods and we're still focusing on the quantity of calories we need to shift the focus what's type of conversation hyper palatable foods are foods that very edible absolutely so you you can't stop eating
them so i always say to my patients there's a reason why you can stop eating a bowl of steamed broccoli but you can't stop eating a bag of potato chips so we have data that shows that hyperpalatable foods actually hijack areas in the brain that cause you to not have that feeling of fullness and it's right i'm ready to stop so when we're eating these foods we eat tons and tons of calories because our brain is not sending the message hey you need to stop eating and so this is what we're focusing o
n we really need to look at quantity as something that's not as important as quality quality is key and that starts with eating real food good point um i thought it was very interesting uh that you know men and women really there is no difference between our metabolic rates i always just assume men burn calories faster than women do were there other myths that were debunked by this study yeah for sure one of the things that i really noticed is looking at menopausal women so a lot of my patient b
ase at cleveland clinic is postmenopausal premenopausal women who come in and say oh gosh i can't fit into my genes when i was 25 and the common thought was well of course this is a normal aspect of aging so this was really surprising that menopause didn't even impact the metabolism and it really does change the conversation that we as clinicians have and how we have to look at our dietary recommendations when we're counseling our patients dr john let's talk about the the impact here potentially
on future medical research because i understand that this could actually affect drug dosages for for children and older people going forward why would that be and this could have a big impact because up until now when we look at drugs it's kind of a one size fits all and we talk about giving dosing based on mainly on weight and on age type situations by grouping them in large age groups but now what we're finding out according to this study is that the cells actually something happens inside th
e cells to drive that metabolism in those stages we talked about particularly once you get past the age of 60. and because that's happening that means our drugs are going to be handled differently in the cell level and so we need to make sure that we're adjusting it appropriately so i think in the future you're going to find out that somebody for instance with high blood pressure if they're in their 40s they're going to have to get different dosing than if they're in their 70s just because of th
at metabolism effect that's happening there hey kristen uh for those over 60 just asking for a friend uh what what should those folks mean be be focusing on as we look ahead toward you know trying to stay as healthy as possible yeah so for your friend al what i would say is that it's really important again to really focus on that real food so michael pollan defines food as something that comes from nature is fed from nature and will eventually rot so we really need to take out all of the the mil
lions of dietary recommendations that we have from from social media and all these other places not look at what is working for your friends but what is working for you i often tell my patients that the best diet for you is the one you can stick to so i think we have to look at that and think okay if i'm over 60 my metabolism is going to drop a little bit and what can i do i can eat more food if you eat more food you're getting more nutrient density you're getting more fiber that fills you up an
d it naturally lowers your calories and what about exercise yeah the exercise was a surprise as well so what we're finding here is that exercise is essential for heart health and reduction of certain cancers but might not be the key to weight loss or even weight management so you can't rely on exercise i'm sure you've heard this before but you can't outrun a bad diet and this is definitely true and something that we have seen in this study is that exercise should be part of your overall lifestyl
e goals but it shouldn't be what you're depending on to lose weight and to keep that weight off as many people know losing weight is not easy keeping it off is even more difficult so we really have to look and really tighten up the fact that we can't use this excuse anymore it's not our metabolism kristen cook patrick great information [Music] today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of ever
ything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app it has been a long year yeah where it's
been anything but normal well now there's hope the covid vaccines i know i know it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important than ever to make a plan visit planyourvaccine.com to find out where and when to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine [Music] for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you ge
t your podcasts the meet the press chuck podcast free wherever you get your podcasts her weight loss video went viral with 12 million views take a look at this yeah it was last november when certified fitness trainer lucy bergen started recording her weight loss journey taking a daily image of herself wearing the same outfit and she did it in an effort to inspire herself to get healthy she did it for six months and lost a total of 35 pounds and then well she posted it to tick tock and the rest w
ell the rest is digital history lucy bergen joins us now from tampa florida lucy what what a cool idea and now here we are some 12 million views later and you were showing up on good days on bad days what were you telling yourself when you were looking in the mirror taking those pictures taking those videos what was i telling myself i just kept telling myself that it wasn't a short-term goal it wasn't a diet it was a lifestyle change and that's what's so important and i love this video because i
t shows my bad days it shows the days that i was bloating or you can even see in my face if i had a rough day and that's what life is it's not about going on a diet and trying to lose 20 pounds in a week it's not about the weight it's about your mental health and you can see in this video also it's little changes at a time i didn't even notice my transformation until i put everything together i bet so this all started like i mean for so many people gaining weight during covid putting on a few ex
tra pounds and then over six months you lost 35 pounds so how did you do it what were your tips and what what advice do you have for others trying to lose some weight all right so my biggest piece of advice would be to get a friend or someone that you can have accountability with my best friend and i did it together and we kept each other accountable and so because of that we were able to almost make a challenge out of it and when it comes to that um it really helped me and then when it comes to
diet and working out i was lifting heavy at first and eating carbs proteins things like that um something that's actually really awesome is in the fitness world we're taught especially as women that we should be eating 1200 calories or even less and i've had clients come to me saying they're eating about 500 calories a day and what they don't know is that that actually sp like slows down your meta metabolism and you need a certain amount of calories to have your body function properly just like
you need to put gas into a car for it to run yeah you need to have full in your body for your body to burn fat yeah lucy i would think uh when you work at when a lot of us see these trainers and they're all buff and they're in great shape i think it would be more inspirational to be working out with somebody like you who's had the challenges themselves and knows what it's like for the the rest of us to try to get back into shape yes sir that's actually um i worked at a gym in new jersey and i s
pecifically chose that gym because i knew that everyone coming to me was brand new to the fitness world and i can't tell you the amount of conversations i would have with these amazing people who would come in and they would give me their why their reason why they wanted to change i mean i had people telling me that they wanted to be a good example for their children or be able to fit in a pair of jeans for their honeymoon and these reasons like you could tell they were so special to in every in
dividual that would come in and talk to me and i sat and cried with some of these people because i've been there and it is so hard to get started on this journey when you think that you're too far gone lucy thank you this is this has been so inspirational congratulations to you and and uh appreciate you spending some time with us this morning thank you thank you thank you so much some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the
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minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app you may have the urge to get back to the gym hit the trails or play some sports but after all this time at home your body may not be able to keep up with your brain so here to help us get in shape and stay out of the doctor's office is orthopedic surgeon dr vonda wright doctor good morning good morning joining us good morning i'm so glad to see you ag
ain well it's good to see you so doc so from folks who may have maybe put the hit the pause button on exercise want to get back into that that fitness routine you say to be careful of the terrible twos t-o-o-s what do you mean you know after we've been inside for 18 months sitting at our desks we are on weekend warrior overload right we want to get back but what we do is we do too much at one time we do it too often we do it too soon and unfortunately that is a recipe for injuries and i want you
outside i love you but please don't come to my doctor's office because we've had the terrible twos what kind of injuries are you seeing as an orthopedic surgeon doctor you know what we've been sitting a long time so that makes our cores weak our rear ends weak so we're having lots of knee pain ankle pain we have hip bursitis and we even see a lot of back pain all of these fortunately can be treated and prevented so on that note for all of the people watching this morning who have all those pain
s that you just mentioned i know you say mobility is our medicine can you give us a few things that we can all do to help you know what i love prescribing mobility as medicine and so the first thing i want people to do every single day okay is to dynamically warm up our major muscle groups our hips our knees look at this marvelous squat that's being done brandon brandon brandon doing the perfect squat lodge i mean he's got great form he's warming up every joint the ankles the knees the hips the
other thing we need to do every single day is work on our balance and we've discussed before how we can do that simply by standing on one foot while we brush our teeth that's going to help prevent injury so you also suggest a aerobic exercise three times a week so how do we strengthen our stamina as we we build to that absolutely so you are going to be tempted to go outside maybe go to central park and do what you've always done but i want you to work back into it using a method we called speed
play so basically for 20 minutes you are going to do five minute blocks okay you can warm up for five minutes which just means break a little sweat get your heart rate going and then for four minutes speed up now this doesn't have to be running it can be rowing and cycling or even swimming whatever you choose but four minutes and then completely rest and you can see how there's multiple levels and once you work through one minute exertion four minutes rest two minutes exertion three minutes rest
eventually over about six weeks you can get back to what you're used to dr wright you're also concerned about strengthening all parts of the body what's an effective way to do that how often should we be doing that you know craig i'd like us to do total body uh cross training about twice a week lean muscle mass is really important for us and so things like static lunges that are being shown planks are amazing for our core which have gotten so weak as we've been sitting in a chair and even plyom
etric exercises if we do these twice a week in between our aerobic exercises we're going to train the entire body and prevent injury that's natalie our desk assistant thank you now he's having i'm looking at that video so one more tip i guess what would you say to motivate us i think you know what you have some people who they're hardcore they've been working out throughout the pandemic if anything they look better than other ever and then you have the other folks who are just they know they're
supposed to work out they just don't feel like it they don't feel like sweating they don't feel like being uncomfortable what would you say you know what even as the mobility doctor i understand that i had just done the six-week track of trying to get back in shape but you know what motivated me i know that at the end of six weeks not only am i going to feel amazing but maybe i get a pair of hot shoes oh that's cute yeah maybe we go to a date night that we haven't been out to for so long an yeah
we just get to see our friends hey doc you go really quick how important is sleep um al we have underestimated the power of sleep and restoration for generations and i can tell you as a you know medical trainee we thought it wasn't necessary but al if you want to perform at peak performance whether you're performing at your job or in exercise or even as your family please prioritize about seven hours a night get a bedtime routine same time every night get off our digital devices and allow ourse
lves to rest and restore so that we can perform at the level that we're capable of rest and restore there you go make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mer
e 30 minutes savannah and hoda bring you what you must know the biggest moments of the morning one republic exclusive interviews why did it work for you you're right i am more talented than the rest and important headlines major medical news this morning watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day some experts say that this bill still isn't enough you accept that criticism there's been a ton of confusion from the cdc can we try to clear some of this up is america saf
er today with the taliban in charge of afghanistan if it's sunday it's meet the press make the most of your day with today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today and 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts we're out there we're active we're doing the thing right it's that we
're not seeing ourselves represented in mainstream fitness which is a disservice for all of us chrissy king is a personal trainer and fitness blogger who recently wrote an article about being black and body positive in an industry that trends white and thin why did you decide to write about this issue in particular i was going to like fitness conferences and i'd be like one of the few only people of color and i just think it's so important because the benefits of wellness are for everyone not ju
st a particular type of people simone samuels agrees after discovering a passion for working out she added fitness certifications to her two law degrees i almost didn't get into this industry because i didn't see myself represented first of all will jim's even hire me two will people even come to my class are people gonna think oh she's a little fluffy i'm not gonna get a good workout i'm gonna go find somebody else simone talked with chrissy for her article you say quote being big and black in
an industry that's overwhelmingly white and thin means being awkwardly visible and frustratingly invisible you're an instructor now do you still feel this way most fitness instructors are i mean understandably thin and six-pack and really athletic looking if you see somebody with a six-pack you think they're fit if you see somebody with a bare belly you think oh they are not fit and they're eating too many cheetos when we we know now that you can't look at somebody's appearance to know whether o
r not they are fit whether or not they are healthy and that's also kind of why i got into fitness so people could see that yeah i could do a side class too and i i could run two and i could teach three classes back-to-back too for both of these ladies wellness is more than the number on the scale and body positivity is a lifestyle where is the line between accepting yourself and then wanting to be a better version of yourself for me body positivity real genuine body positivity should compel you
to engage in joyful healthful movements it should compel you to want to move out of respect for your body it should compel you to want to eat good healthy variety of foods out of respect for your body my thing with health at every size is like how am i feeling and living my best nourished life and getting to that better version of myself where i'm feeling good in my skin every day and if weight loss is a byproduct so be it but when you make weight loss the goal you can get to that goal and still
have a whole host of other issues that you're not happy with have a negative relationship with food have a negative relationship with your body have a negative relationship with exercise so let's make how we want to feel the focus and let the chips fall where they fall chrissy and simone believe conversations about race and size benefits everyone in the fitness community my goal is to let people know black people black women we're here in the space we deserve to be here and not only that we nee
d to be a part of the mainstream and um if you're not black or a person of color you need to understand these other perspectives because again you are helping most likely clients that don't look like you and if you're not having these conversations you're not coming to these realizations if you're not doing some education around these topics you could be harming people for one and also turning people away from fitness bases where they need to be and for simone showing up has made an impact the r
esponse has been overwhelmingly positive one lady she came to me after classes she's like i love that you look like me and that was so affirming to me to hear that people feel like they are welcome in these spaces because their instructor has a little bit of a tummy since the pandemic she has been leading classes online i want people to know that fitness does not have a size neither does health i want people to know that you don't have to exercise for weight loss that you can exercise out of the
joy of having a body and i also want people to start to think about accessibility how do we make our fitness place spaces accessible to people regardless of gender and race and color and socio-economic background not only in terms of our actual gym but also in terms of our teacher trainings so that we have diversity across the board [Music] it's bigger than just getting out there and linking up and running 32-year-old lance woods a project manager for a local non-profit and 30-year-old consulta
nt joe robinson are both enthusiastic runners from detroit introduced two years ago one of my friends saw that we were both participating in the miami marathon and then they put us together motivated by a love for their hometown the fast friends created a running club in may of 2019 proudly boasting their area code called we run 313. in our very first run we had over 100 people show up and they've kept it going with an average 200 plus runners at weekly events including their popular two mile tu
esdays [Applause] joe your slogan is connect run build what does that mean what it means is short for our mission connecting like-minded individuals through running to build a happier healthier community we want to bring people together who want change change to them means seeing more runners who look like themselves at races let's say if it's 20 000 people you might come across a sprinkle of black people in those races and in a city like detroit that's 85 percent black we don't see black people
running we have the power to change that but the pair's primary goal helping residents reap benefits like lowering risk of heart disease and diabetes and improved mental health how has this shaped you physically and mentally running has been the most transformative process and whether it was mild depression or anxiety running has just helped me deal with those things in a different way and i feel stronger than ever i feel smarter than ever obviously faster than ever and i just feel like i'm who
i'm supposed to be is this for people who are all ages or running levels yes it is for runners of all levels we have people from six all the way up into 65 all paces all sizes all races and the impact that we got from we run 313 it surprises us to this day we're seeing lifelong friendships being formed we're seeing people start businesses we're seeing people not only start businesses but meet their clients at our runs we're seeing relationships hopefully we'll get a marriage out of the run club
soon people come to us and tell us personal stories about how it's changed them from the inside out the greatest thing is that you're not doing it alone the beautiful thing about it is that you have a whole community of support we're encouraging one another if you're falling behind we got pace leaders that's going to say come on come on you got this good job how did the pandemic impact your mission when everything shut down joe and i we was encouraging people hey this is a great time for you to
take your health series get out there and get outdoors and run we started a run solo campaign with cover 19 it made us look at things from more of a macro level rather than just micro in in the city of detroit and we started to engage people nationally today lance and joe are committed to going the distance for those ready to follow their lead if somebody told you that this was what you would be looking at two years ago what would you have thought it would have been very difficult to believe bu
t now i know running has led me to believe anything is possible especially when it's in the name of progress when it's in the name of positivity and when it's in the name of change when the nation and the world shut down planet earth got a rare break and for the first time we saw more deer and turkeys near boston dolphins swimming in a quieter new york harbor and waterways in venice so clear you can see jellyfish and the rarest of rare florida panthers boldly out in the open but not all was reas
on to celebrate starving wild monkeys invading cities in thailand absent of tourists who would normally feed them nature responded to less traffic less disturbance especially in urban or wildlife urban interfaces absolutely nature responded but we responded as well humans oh completely but and i like to think nature got a break but as nature got to break a new plastic overload emerged thanks to all our masks an estimated 129 billion disposable ones dumped every month but those paper ones have pl
astic and because of the virus there's no recycling as for air pollution at the height of last year's shutdown the often polluted beijing finally had clear skies but just two weeks ago the old days were back and also in the atmosphere a stunning seven percent drop in carbon dioxide after u.s passenger volume dropped 96 percent nobody would have wanted to see this pandemic but from a science standpoint the data you've collected is a gift that's right absolutely right now it's a it's a gift to the
science but it's also a gift to us to society to the human race it demonstrates we can do this there remains some yet to be understood phenomena biologists recorded loggerhead turtles laying 11 more eggs on the beach and the song of the white crown sparrow pre-pandemic hard to hear [Applause] but now sort of the first data showing that animals responded to changes in human behavior what have we learned this past year even though covet remains a disaster many of us can work from home we don't ne
ed to drive everywhere and if we hold on to that scientist say we can positively impact global climate change this happened just in a year that's right so it's it's phenomenal we can do this we can solve this problem that's what it tells me and carrie as mentioned you're at that bird sanctuary in florida have they seen any major changes after the pandemic well actually the folks from the audubon society were seeing more nesting wading birds that ever like the wood storks that you see over my sho
ulder here and that that may be as much to do with the rain but then as dylan knows the rain is complex because it's impacted by el nino and la nina and that of course is impacted by the way we have lived our last year so yes it all connects according to scientists all right carrie thank you very much it has been a long year yeah where it's been anything but normal well now there's hope the coveted vaccines i know i know it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important t
han ever to make a plan visit plan yourvaccine.com to find out where and when to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine [Music] for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app the meet the press chuck toddcast free wherever you get your podcasts for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app the meet the press chuck podcast free wherever you get your podcasts today is now a podc
ast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying you are the meet the press chuck todd cast free wherever you get your podcasts sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've
created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition the florida scrub jays are squawking but scientists fear we may not be listening to their warnings about climate change he just landed on my head it's crazy and this is not like a trained bird at the circus here it's a wild bird this is an 11 year old breeding male this guy knows exactly what he's doing he's a really remarkable bird he's he's one of the rarest birds in north america 150 0
00 scrub days once called florida home today cornell university ornithologist john fitzpatrick says there may be as few as 3 500. if this bird disappears why should we care other than the fact that this is hilarious this bird disappears it's because we've destroyed an entire ecosystem and that's what endangered species are about the endangered species are about telling us of a whole system that we want to protect their home is fast disappearing because increasingly king tides driven by climate c
hange are forcing us to move inland to higher drier ground we are now competing for the same inland areas where the scrub jays live that's a huge effect of climate changes that they're coming in from the coasts what's happening even right now the the realization that the coastal zone is getting inundated with the tides people are moving into the inland and where are they going to move in florida that's the safest of all 100 feet above sea level here we're on 400 feet thick a pile of sand here ol
d sand dunes we joined dr fitzpatrick on 20 thousand protected acres at archbold station near florida's lake okeechobee recently tracking the jays with a thread-thin antenna the data shows the jays stay in a 400-yard radius which is why when the complex impacts of climate change take their habitat their numbers dwindle that's the nest right there she's gonna come back down and show you where it is only about 30 percent of florida scrub jay eggs that hatch survive predators like snakes they're so
tiny i'm not even sure i could tell it was a bird you ever heard the phrase naked as a jaybird that's where it comes from because it's so true you can barely tell it's a bird yeah there was a time coal miners took birds underground to detect deadly poisonous air is this any kind of canary in arcola mine absolutely all of these birds especially the ones that are so dependent on specific kinds of habitats they are telling us of the things that we're doing right and all the things that we're doing
wrong biologists say they never expected the florida scrub jay to become the poster child for earth's problems but if this unusual picture helps they'll take it as a win guys wow right keep the bird on the head that long pocket for this hi everybody i'm al roker here with you for another episode of climate conversations now do you know the difference between weather and climate well the simple way to remember is weather is your mood climate is your personality [Music] weather's what happens in
the short term what it feels like outside is it raining is it sunny is it cold is it warm what's the temperature you might ask mom or dad in the morning before heading off to school climate on the other hand are those many weather conditions over many many years is it always snowy and cold in january where you live maybe you can always count on it being hot and dry in the middle of summer that's your overall climate the weather you experience over time well think of climate as a clock what happe
ns to you if your body clock is off maybe you stayed up way too late next day you feel really tired out of your routine well as the climate changes and continues to heat up the earth's clock is being thrown off meaning it could be too hot during the wrong time of year maybe it feels summertime during the winter months it can also mean places are getting way too much rain while others not nearly enough and that makes it tough for farmers growing crops or animals to find food a warming climate als
o causes weather extremes like more wildfires stronger storms and rising sea levels it's important to understand what's happening to our planet and why and what you can do to help make things better mr roker how's it going fun ow hey guys we are on the roosevelt island tram this is the only way to fly we are uh it's one of the greatest views ever to see new york city and it's 2.75 it's the price of riding a subway it's a bargain and we thought you know it's earth day so what better way than to h
ead to the skies to talk about the importance of clean air we're on our tram cam now bill and i love the tram cam so everybody if you haven't been on this tram to roosevelt island it's really remarkable it's part of the city public transportation system but we're looking we're in the air clean air we take for granted see so here's the fundamental thing that's hard for all of us is every single thing everybody does affects everybody in the whole world because we all share the air nobody you're go
ing to meet and have a conversation with is not breathing and so we all use air and so a tram like this is a way to cross the bridge you go across the river without uh using the bridge without driving a car it's the price of a subway and it's just an amazing thing it's a if you've ever come to new york and haven't ridden this it's really spectacular what's the one the one thing we can each do maybe to help keep our energy clean so it's the same old things you guys just don't leave the lights on
we're not kidding anytime you're using electricity that you don't need don't need you're gonna almost always in this country pollute the air a little bit because we get so much more electricity from fossil fuels this is a solvable problem but these incremental things are important but we need big ideas al yes clean water renewable we produce electricity access to the internet and information for everybody in the world let's get out there and change the world all right big earth summit today at c
limate summit at the white house president biden announcing the uh uh the us will reduce carbon by half half at least 50 percent has going forward it's really visionary you guys and it's scary but we can do this let's all work together we all share the air there you go bill nye thank you for helping us get my earth day happy earth day to you my friend birthday all right guys from the tram cam back to you i love it guys good information sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kid
s to understand the coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your family will watch nightly news kids edition good morning welcome to today nice to have you with us we wanted to surprise ellie and make her wish come true what do you think about coming to visit us yes there's only one thing that people are saying the meet the press chuck podcast free wherever you get your podcasts make the most of your day wi
th today in 30. we give you a mix of everything you love about our show in a mere 30 minutes watch today in 30 on your schedule streaming every day on today all day for breaking news in our changing world download the nbc news app it has been a long year yeah where it's been anything but normal well now there's hope the covid vaccines i know i know it's been a little confusing like really confusing so it's more important than ever to make a plan visit planyourvaccine.com to find out where and wh
en to get your vaccine what are you waiting for roll up your sleeves and plan your vaccine plan your vaccine plan your vaccine today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts the meet the press chuck toddcast free wherever you get your podcasts sometimes the news can be difficult and overwhelming for kids to understand will coronavirus come back next year so to help make sense of it all we've created a newscast just for them man you know a lot we hope your fa
mily will watch nightly news kids edition the meet the press chuck todd free wherever you get your podcasts today is now a podcast available every morning listen wherever you get your podcasts take a closer look at tick tock these days and you'll see a lot more than goofy dance crazes this is what a climate crisis looks like there's only 73 southern resident killer whales left this temperature has risen climate change is cool the new influencers are activists there are actually five garbage patc
hes in the world's oceans like mike brown and earthtopia a few months ago his video shaming users for following the latest dance trend instead of his planet saving page went viral within three days it was four million views um which is crazy yeah i mean that's reaching a lot of people this is so inspiring that's why we're on tick tock we want to spread tips and understanding to as many people as we can access teens around the world inspired by swedish activist greta thuneberg to get involved and
stay involved strike for climate has arrived in america when i first met alexandria vila sonor she was 13 organizing a nationwide school strike for the climate from new york enough youth keep striking and going out to the streets will get the action that's needed i was 13 when the campfire two years later and in the middle of a pandemic she's organizing online i think every single day that i go on social media i see another youth activist and i'm like well follow them we have less than nine yea
rs now to take action we see the urgency we're the ones who are going to keep the pressure on our world leaders and consistently remind them what's at stake here and it's not just about sharing messages activists oceans away are sharing their own problems and their big successes protecting the coast in thailand saving trees in india you can't tackle climate crisis with big ambitions you need to try solving the problems around you picking up plastic in nigeria and in the netherlands lilly platt s
tarted her campaign when she was seven she's 13 now with a ted talk on her resume and spreading her message on twitter and facebook too it's a big big problem isn't it can one person have an impact that's true because no matter how small it may seem eventually it will become such a huge impact that people will somehow find a way to listen for young people it can often be overwhelming the the lack of agency you have and the lack of power you have they can't vote they can make a video that can be
accessed by thousands of people or millions of people across the world is this a trend or is this here to stay so social media and tick tock is all about trends climate change and i want you to panic i want you to act as if the house was on fire no one is acting as if we were in a crisis around the year 2030 we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it that is unless in that time permanent and unp
recedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place you cannot ignore the scientists or the science or the millions of schools striking children for the right to a future i beg you please do not fail on this wait our future my name is alexandra villasenor i'm a 14 year old climate activist and i live in new york city my name's harry and i'm 15 and i live in castle maine in australia my name's callum i'm 12 and i also live in casamay in australia i guess when i first saw gretzenberg spe
ak i was just very inspired by her because she was a teenager just like me our friend read an article about her in the guardian newspaper and at that point she was basically striking solo and we thought that was really inspirational and amazing what she was doing and more like let's do that in australia she kind of like kick-started in my brain to start seeing actually how climate change is affecting australia not just australia but the world the person that she is and the way she she told the s
tory it's very unique because she she brings the urgency of action and she brings the honesty of inaction as well that's what really made me decide i needed to be involved because i think i have a moral obligation where i do have some influence and i'm morally obligated to use whatever influence i do have for the you know the greater good i've been on school strike every friday for the past 40 weeks in front of the united nations well the first strike in sao paulo it was very small actually we h
ad maybe around 20 to 50 people first ever strikers in bendigo um which is kind of like the closest big city sort of place um and that was our first ever strike and it was um we only had 15 kids that went along because i didn't know how people in bendigo would react from it because they didn't really no one really knew anything about it again it was kind of crazy that i was going away from school for a day it all really happened like really fast and the next strike we had like 20 to 30 and so on
until november 30th it was like 5 000 or something like that and it was really cool crazy so i was alone for many weeks i'd strike in wind rain sleet and even the polar vortex and so really even though i was alone i still felt so much support through social media that's how we do outreach how we connect with other activists all around the world march 15th they estimated between 40 and 50 000 people in melbourne 1.5 million roughly around the world it's amazing just to see how many students are
striking and taking that direct action i think it's so empowering seeing all these different students in every single country striking every friday and on those global climate strikes it just shows the strength that my generation has i think i found it really empowering to see how many other people like joined in and how many people did really care it was really yeah it was really incredible and inspiring and just motivating like it just makes you want to keep going when i go out and take direct
action when i strike i'm doing it for those who can't so using your privilege for good for the strikes is really what's important for those who can i think that i fight because it's a matter of survival this is an opportunity for us to change the whole system for us to find a better way to connect with each other and to live our lives that is sustainable and that is respectful towards other people as well and towards other cultures and to the environment i think what's very scary for me to thin
k about is the ecological collapse we're in we're losing so much species and biodiversity all around the world that it's very scary because my generation could be the last ones to see the species all around the world today so the next generation won't be able to look at the same animals that we see today and that's very scary to think about i think about like yeah lots of different weather extreme it is like you know big bush fires um massive like floods around the world um like the polar ice ca
ps melting it's a big like mindset issue we need to be thinking about it like you know like an emergency what i'm hoping to achieve with my climate strike is a reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions i want to see world leaders stay in line with the ipcc report that came out last october in australia we have our three main demands which are one to stop all new coal gas or oil project starting with the adani mega coal mines and two to commit to making australia one run on 100 renewable energ
y by no later than 2030 and three is to fund a just transition for all workers and people impacted by the climate crisis we hope people learn it is a crisis and that it is something that we have to deal with now because we can't really just put it off like everything else so first we have to accept that this is happening and to to take action about this and to accept this as a fact and as the next steps we really need climate education at schools and public schools specifically another is to sto
p deforestation because we're almost at the tipping point of the amazon forest my message to greta is that she keeps doing what she's doing because the it really shows how much of an impact she is making seeing how the movement started and how every week there are people in the streets in many different countries and from many different cultures it feels like things are changing what i hope the next generation learns from the activism of the youth right now is that they have a voice too they can
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a time of really kind of unprecedented changes taking place environmentally on the surface of the planet in ways visible from space understanding what's happening to the earth has never been more critical with the highest level of carbon dioxide ever measured in our atmosphere just this month a drought stricken california on pace for another extreme fire season and record high temperatures 10 out of the last 11 years passionate about the global crisis and anxious to make a difference college fre
shman liza goldberg teaming up with google to create their new product we have these really dramatic aquaculture hot spots i decided i wanted to single-handedly stop climate change at just 19 years old this is just one on her list of impressive achievements you were offered an internship at 14 at nasa but you didn't actually have to apply for it when i was in middle school i did a science fair project in my backyard i ended up entering that science project into a local science fair and the scien
ce fair there happened to be a judge there who worked for nasa the judge was so struck by the teenager's ingenuity and love for science he offered her an internship at nasa's goddard space flight center on the spot dr lola fatimbo was liza's internship supervisor and mentor at nasa when you heard you were getting a 14 year old intern what were you expecting i think that we were only expecting her to come you know maybe once a week but she ended up coming multiple times a week then she stayed the
whole summer the fact that she was able to have a conversation at our level with us we thought okay this is this is not your average 14 year old i just thought it was interesting that we're seeing this pretty globally at nasa liza's job interpreting satellite imagery also teaching herself how to program and create maps i always felt so lucky really that i was given this opportunity to actually see the world from a different perspective i was also going to school during the day and seeing really
a gap in the ability of other students to really understand the extent of global changes that were occurring for the past two years i've been working at nasa goddard to create a completely earth engine-based portal called ecomap using her new skills lila invented cloud to classroom a series of climate change apps built with google earth engine and satellite imagery designed for students to see and understand how climate change is impacting our planet this project was started on that basis on kn
owing that people aren't always going to believe the statistics that they read about in news articles but when you're given an image suddenly your brain goes oh you know i see this if i see it then i can be able to believe it what's the reaction been from students and teachers i think students and teachers have been really excited about the potential of these apps to just kind of create a sense of empathy um in the broader public i think a lot of the reason why you know climate climate change de
nial has been such an issue is because people are really unable to grasp how these sorts of global environmental change are going to actually impact them and future generations in their local communities so what we'd like to do with this program is actually make it into a web-based portal and as for being a role model i really hope that any young girl in particular watching this sees how i can go from knowing nothing about the fields to doing this kind of global scale research and thinks you kno
w i can do that too [Music] i mean this is so important so next level you're 19. think about what we were doing at 19. in college yeah in college it wasn't it wasn't changing the world that's for sure eliza's developed 18 climate change apps that are used in 15 countries she's working on more of them and because she's just a slacker she currently is having them translated into three additional i need to do it through mom's eyes because see this is why i do this because i'm like what did she feed
you like how did you how did you instill that to make a difference in the world yeah hello beautiful people in today's nation we are love that you're tuning in to our favorite streaming channel today all day we are already halfway through the week savannah and i are here in studio 1a you're at home you're watching today in 30. we got a great show a great half hour to kick off first we're going to bring you the very latest on where things stand in the push for coveted booster shots and also vacc
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