Today's Talk: Gifford And Kotb Discuss The Day's Hot Topics

NBC ID: AR6IMC4LDA | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 02/28/2013 | Event Date(s): 02/28/2013

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Event Date(s): 02/28/2013 | Event Location(s): Erin, Tennessee | Description: STILL: Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. STILL: Mayer and her baby. EJ: EXT DAY ERIN, TENNESSEE 2 MS: Woman who used a restaurant’s bathroom without being a customer, Patricia Barnes, crosses a street with a man. INT MS: Handwritten letter sent to Barnes from the restaurant requesting $5.00 for using the bathroom without being a customer. EXT DAY ERIN MS: Barnes in interview. GFX SUPERS: Facebook message from viewer Wendy White: “If working from home is not productive, when employees come home, can they just be off and not answer e-mails etc.?” OK! Magazine seen as animated Gifford and Kotb speak their answers to if it’s OK for children to wear couture. Gifford and Kotb discuss the day’s hot topics live in-studio: “KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Hello everybody. It’s Thirst-Day Thursday. And Hoda is especially thirsty today-- HODA KOTB: I’m. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --February 28th because it’s the last day of February. HODA KOTB: Oh, my gosh. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I know. HODA KOTB: Tomorrow is March 1st. That’s amazing. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I never saw -- I know-- I’m-- I’m at the stage in life where you shouldn’t wish your life away because it’s going fast enough anyway, but I’m always happy to see February go. HODA KOTB: I’m too. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I really am. HODA KOTB: No. I’m glad it’s over. Did we have a nice little lunch with a couple of glasses of wine yesterday? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I was happy to see you again yesterday. We haven’t been together with-- without working, just to hang. HODA KOTB: Yeah. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And to put all of those terrible rumors behind us. HODA KOTB: Rumors to rest. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. HODA KOTB: So we had -- we enjoyed our wine. We had a nice-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: We did. HODA KOTB: And we’ll talk about the show we saw a little later in our chat but-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: We went to Frankie & Johnny's which is always fun. The world’s greatest shrimp scampi-- HODA KOTB: Oh, shrimp scampi. It was crazy. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. HODA KOTB: So we came, yesterday we disagreed on a topic. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: We respectfully discussed. HODA KOTB: This is the one, you guys, remember of the Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. She decided to put an end to having people work from home. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: And it caused -- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Which we both agree was her right as the CEO of the-- of the company. HODA KOTB: We both did agree on that. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: I think the thing that according to our Facebook that bothered a lot of people was that she, on her own dime, built a nursery next to her office, so she was able to have her young child-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Baby with her. Mm-Hm. HODA KOTB: -- her four-month-old there at the office while others weren’t allowed to work from home. And we did a poll because we wanted to see what you thought about our heated and smackdown debate. Apparently, thirty two percent of you say that Marissa Mayer was in the right to do what she wanted. It’s her company, and she can do as she pleases. Sixty eight percent agreed with me, thought I was right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: No, no, no. You agreed with that it’s her company-- it’s that she’s the head of that company. HODA KOTB: Yes. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: It’s not her company. It’s the shareholders’ company. HODA KOTB: Exactly. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Which you agreed, she had the right to do it. We all agree she’s got the right to do it. We all agree also she has got to live with the consequences of it. HODA KOTB: Yeah. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: She’s going to lose some very good people probably-- HODA KOTB: Yes. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: -- but you said a lot of the people said that they-- they would get a different job if they could. HODA KOTB: If they could. Yeah, I think-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: If they could. HODA KOTB: I think if you have a choice, right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: But, you know-- HODA KOTB: I mean this is what some -- Wendy White wrote -- I said it-- Wendy White wrote, if working from home is not productive, when employees come home, can they just turn off their e-mails et cetera? A lot of people do a lot of work from home-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: -- and if you’re not supposed to work from home, does that mean we shut it all down? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Here’s what I think is going to happen-- HODA KOTB: What? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --and it’s going to be fun to watch it over the next few months. Not just the stock, what happens with that and the value of the company, which is important to shareholders, but the-- what happens in terms of the good employees leaving, going off someplace else, because great people will find other jobs. HODA KOTB: Yeah. Yeah. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: They will go to Google. They’ll go to-- they’ll go to someplace, Facebook. They’ll find jobs. But it’s going to be interesting to see if there’s so much unhappiness there that she then realizes, you know what, let’s try a little something else. HODA KOTB: Try something else or another way about it. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Here’s point we talked about in a way. HODA KOTB: What did we talk about? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: In the-- in the-- this morning as we were talking about your reaction, we understood. I-- I knew exact-- I thought it would have actually been higher that most people thought. Because most people out there watching us aren’t CEOs. They’re people that have jobs-- HODA KOTB: Or are working from home. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: -- or looking for jobs. And so, you see things from that perspective. How about this perspective? HODA KOTB: What? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: What about if she, Marissa Mayer (sic), had never gone to Yahoo! and the person who was running it before ultimately ran it into the ground and everybody ultimately lost all of their jobs? Which is what happens sometimes when companies are badly run. That’s all I just want to say because that’s a-- that’s a -- let’s-- that’s a what if, let’s think this thing through. HODA KOTB: Yeah. I think-- I think she could probably have made some choices without being so aggressive about it. Like we talked about yesterday. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: That’s right. HODA KOTB: You can say, look, if you guys don’t jack up your productivity in a month-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: -- we’re going to get rid of that working from home thing. So let’s try this first. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: Let’s see if we can get everyone to turn the beat around and if you can, we’ll leave it in place. And if you can’t, anyway, I’m done with serious topics. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Here’s a point. If she really does want to do the best for the company -- HODA KOTB: Yes. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: -- which is, you know, then-- then the people working there are part of that company, and she will ultimately get to a point where she does the best for them as well-- HODA KOTB: Yes. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: -- which will be best for the company ultimately. HODA KOTB: That’s what I was going to suggest after I had a sip of wine. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: All right. You might need a bull gulp after this. This woman had to go. You got to go, go, go, go, go, go, go. HODA KOTB: This is a good one. She lived in Tennessee, a little place called Aaron, Tennessee and she-- there was a restaurant that had a sign up that said, you know, you can only patrons use the rest room. Well, she didn’t have time to wait apparently. She went in, used the rest room-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: --went home, whatever. Who even thinks about it twice? Well-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: She knew. HODA KOTB: What happened was a few days later-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: She knew what she had done was wrong. HODA KOTB: -- a few-- a few days later she went to her mailbox and found-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Lo and behold-- HODA KOTB: --a bill from the restaurant for five dollars asking Miss Edwards to pay because she-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Abused. HODA KOTB: --their rest room, and they want five dollars for the toilet paper square and the water that she used. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And the soap. HODA KOTB: And the soap. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And the people that have to clean and-- and-- you know, the labor that goes into cleaning up the bathroom when people have left it. HODA KOTB: Well, the weird thing was the cops had to track her down. Apparently they turned it into a whole -- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: There are satellite to the sky, I told you. HODA KOTB: Well, the-- the-- I guess the restaurant called the police, the police tracked her license plate. Let’s talk about the effort that went into tracking down-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yes. Now think how much that costs the-- the taxpayers-- HODA KOTB: Right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --because the police officer who should have been looking for criminals is-- is trying to find her. HODA KOTB: Tracking down her. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Well, she is a criminal according to-- according to the restaurant, she’s a criminal. HODA KOTB: Okay. Anyway. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: That’s a Taser and its over. HODA KOTB: At the end of the day, it is an awkward thing though. If you have gone to a restaurant, and there’s the sign-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. Taser HODA KOTB: There’s a sign and you-- it doesn’t-- you-- you have to -- you have to, have to-- have to go. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Would they prefer that you go right where you are and create a -- you know? You know, this happened to me on occasion. HODA KOTB: Yep. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And you-- you go in-- I always ask. I say, excuse me, I am so sorry, but I have an emergency. May I please-- I have never had somebody say, no, you can’t, lady. Go in the, you know, go in the-- go in the woods. It’s never happened. HODA KOTB: I-- what I usually do, I usually dart in because sometimes there’s a line at McDonalds or whatever. I go use the bathroom, and then I come out and buy French fries or something, anything because I feel bad about-- I do feel bad about going without buying something. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: If there’s a sign. HODA KOTB: If there’s a sign. But I think it’s weird. I mean, look, it doesn’t happen often. It’s not like people are constantly stopping in and using the bathroom. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Well, you know, the interesting thing, there really are no public rest rooms in New York. HODA KOTB: Anywhere. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: They-- are there? HODA KOTB: Oh, in Times Square. Remember those one with the Sherman toilet paper. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. But-- but that didn’t work. That didn’t stay. HODA KOTB: No. Right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. You have to-- they-- they want your money. HODA KOTB: Yeah. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And now you have to order two drinks to get this over sixteen fluid ounces, you know that, Hode. HODA KOTB: Yes, I do. All right. So-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. Thankfully that hasn’t-- that doesn’t apply to wine. HODA KOTB: I know. All right. So, on a plane if you were to describe the most annoying thing in your opinion about flying-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. HODA KOTB: --what would that thing be? Okay. So there-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And yet another study reveals-- HODA KOTB: --there was another study. It revealed-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yes. Trip Adviser. HODA KOTB: That the number one complaint we all have is the lack of legroom on flights and how it jammed up everybody is and how it’s hard. You can’t recline, or you could, but you’re in someone’s lap or someone is reclining and they’re in your lap, and it’s very uncomfortable. I don’t like-- I don’t like the feeling. I was telling you I was flying on that-- on that Delta Shuttle which is a great flight back and forth from New York-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: To Washington or to Boston. Yeah. HODA KOTB: It’s open seating. You can sit anywhere. So you plop down. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I thought there were two classes on that. HODA KOTB: There are. But once you get-- once you get in, I-- I-- well, I flew coach, and you can sit anywhere. It’s just wide open when you go back. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Okay. But-- but there’s a certain number of rows back you have to sit. HODA KOTB: Right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Okay. HODA KOTB: So I got my seat. I sat down. And a lady got in front of me, and she sat directly in front of me. The plane is wide open. Here she is. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Ooh. HODA KOTB: And she reclined. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Like they do at movie theaters. HODA KOTB: Hi. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: When you are the only one in there, and they come in-- the next person comes and sits right in front of you. HODA KOTB: Why do they do that? It’s not-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Oh, it’s just like dogs. They-- you know, they-- they urinate, just it’s spa-- they’re-- HODA KOTB: Hey, well, but do they-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --it’s my space. HODA KOTB: But are they oblivious, honestly, that you’re sitting there and that they-- I always. I am so weirdly mindful of everybody. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: So aware. HODA KOTB: I’m, like, move over six-- six places so there’s-- they have lots of room for their coat. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Right. HODA KOTB: What is it? What is that? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: It’s called self-absorption, Hoda. HODA KOTB: All right. The second-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Selfishness. HODA KOTB: --biggest complaint is the airline tickets cost a fortune, which it’s-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I would have thought, that would have been the first thing that how costly it is to fly. HODA KOTB: Yeah. I guess, when you pay, then you think you should at least get something. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Unpredictable flight delays. Everybody-- HODA KOTB: This is number three, yeah. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Now apparently it’s going to be six days before you can get through customs, and now-- and the fourth is long security lines and that’s going to get worse-- HODA KOTB: By the way-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --much worse, Hoda. HODA KOTB: --those take forever now. They’re slower and slower and slower. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: You know what-- HODA KOTB: I’m exhausted by the time you get on the plane. You’re-- you’re just-- by the time you get through the line-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Uh-huh. HODA KOTB: --and you’re taking everything off, I had on a tank-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Everything, Hode. HODA KOTB: Well, I had on a tank top with a sweater-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Uh-huh. HODA KOTB: --and they said take your sweater off. I had on a tank. You don’t want to be walking around with everything hanging. Anyway, I did. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Somebody wanted you to be. I-- we got off the plane-- plane in Israel. No, on our way back from Israel last year and went through customs, and our friend went flying right through custom. HODA KOTB: Oh. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: She-- and she had this thing called the global thing. HODA KOTB: I want that thing. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: And said I want that. HODA KOTB: Did you get that? KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: How do I get that? And-- and so we-- we-- we apply for it. We-- HODA KOTB: Yeah. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --get it. You got to go for an interview-- HODA KOTB: Yes. Yes. It’s whole thing. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --and you get all the information. I get my global. I’m so excited. HODA KOTB: Oh, I remember. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I go to-- to JFK Airport because I’m going to fly to-- HODA KOTB: Yeah, L.A. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --L.A. No, it’s random. HODA KOTB: No. You-- they-- yeah, you don’t-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Why have it if it’s-- HODA KOTB: Right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --not going to be the great-- HODA KOTB: Yeah. No, it doesn’t. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: No, it’s not just international. HODA KOTB: No. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Chrissy (ph). It’s domestic flights, too. HODA KOTB: Because someone else was complaining about that too that-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yeah. HODA KOTB: --it doesn’t work all the time. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: You’re not always right, just-- HODA KOTB: But mostly-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --99.9 percent of the time. HODA KOTB: I’m going to-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: One time it worked in-- on my way to L.A., and another time it doesn’t work. It’s random. They got-- they either got to work or-- (Cross talking) HODA KOTB: It’s random. Or doesn’t. All right. Now we’re going to play the best song ever. Okay. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Oh, Lord, have mercy. HODA KOTB: Wait. It’s a country song but it’s a little bit of a sing along and there’re only a couple of words you need to know. I-- I chose the back end of this song. I never choose the end of a song, but this one has such a great thing at the end, I had to. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: You never choose the right part of the song. HODA KOTB: No. No. But this is the best part. Get ready to sing along. Everybody. It’s called Boondocks by Little Big Town. (Singing): One thing I know no matter where I go I keep my heart and soul in the boondocks. I keep my heart-- Get ready. This is it. We’re all going to sing together. It’s easy to learn, ready? Okay. I’m going to do the hand motion so you can get it. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Oh, hand motion, good-- HODA KOTB: Ready? (Singing): You get a line I get a pole. We’ll go fishing in the crawfish hole. Five card poker on Saturday night, church on Sunday morning. You get a line I get a pole. We’ll go fishing in the crawfish hole. Hear, they’re all going to get in. (Singing): Five card poker on Saturday night. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I like it. HODA KOTB (Singing): Church-- Get the girls. Get the girls in. (Singing): You get a line I get a pole. We’ll go fishing in the crawfish hole. Five card poker on Saturday night, church on Sunday morning. Everybody. (Singing): You get a line I get a pole. We’ll go fishing in the crawfish hole. Five card poker on Saturday night. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yes. HODA KOTB (Singing): Church on-- Oh, one more. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: One more time. HODA KOTB (Singing): You get-- you get a line-- Come on. That song rocks. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Everybody. HODA KOTB: How about that? HODA KOTB (Singing): Five card poker on Saturday night, church on Sunday morning. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: All right, Hoda. I got to say, it’s a good one. HODA KOTB: Oh. All right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: It’s got round. That’s what they be, different ad on it. It’s-- it’s a musical thing. HODA KOTB: Don’t confuse me with your musical talent. Okay. Ok! Or Not Okay! KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: All right. Is it Ok or Not Ok for high couture clothing for kids. HODA KOTB: Let’s listen. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Part of parenting is teaching your child to keep things in perspective. HODA KOTB: Not Ok. Not Ok. All right. Not Ok. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: All right, Hoda. HODA KOTB: Not Ok. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: All right. HODA KOTB: I said, not okay. That was-- KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: We agree. HODA KOTB: --I couldn’t give anything. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: We agree. HODA KOTB: All right. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: I mean, it’s one thing if you get one little thing, but when you see them decked out all the time in outfits-- HODA KOTB: Too much. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --well over thousands and thousands of dollars. I think it just creates awful lot of envy in people’s lives-- HODA KOTB: Yes. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: --and-- and it-- it doesn’t give you the reaction you want. HODA KOTB: I agree. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Yep. Yep. HODA KOTB (Singing): You get a line, I get a pole.”

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