At west 52nd street, just two doors down from scandalous. 11 30 we will be there. We are going to this studio and go running over there. Hopefully well see you at the matinee. Sad news to announce that we did post our closing date yesterday, we had to. Sadly. I was with the cast last night and im prejudiced, of course, im the mother of this show. They are the best they are the best cast on broadway. They are unbelievable. And i love them to pieces. Every you know, theres a sadness that comes with this but a good art tell in the post today, Michael Reidel writes the definitive theater article. He was saying so many of the brandnew shows this fall really really have struggled and already posting closings. Hurricane sandy was just devastating to everybody in the tristate area but broadway was badly hit. All the shows like jersey boys, that sort of thing, mamma mia they will be fine, advanced sales. Nobody really recovered, the new shows, chaplin, i think the anarchist closing. Performers all closing. Never really know if somethings over, we should point out. Somebody sent me a note today that said just when you think somethings over its actually beginning. It was i guess louis la more once said that i want to encourage everybody to go, if you are in town, in new york, go see some of these shows that are they are here for a short time, means the world for our performers to have people in the audience. It lots of great shows out there. Give it a chance and to every body that has come to see it and loved it and stood and cheered, god bless you. Thank you for coming. It has taken awhile to find our audience, because nobody knows what our show was. You know whats happening now, kind of the sad part about it people are coming back second, third, fourth and fifth times now, because they love it so much. If you are one of those people, bless you. Yes, thank you. So, jimmy fallon our friend jimmy fallon on the air last night, every now and then, he thinks its fun to poke fun at us and something to do with what we often have on our table. What the what . Lets just watch and learn. Lets take a look at the pros cons of the Rockefeller Center christmas tree. Here we go. Pro, the tree stays lit all through the holidays. Con, so does hoda and kathie lee. Thats not fair. Love those guys. God bless them. Doesnt the tree, so do hoda and kathy, so not does. So do i . So do we. Its so done hoda and kathie lee. So done . Done did it. Thats what it is. It is done did it. Did it right. Pick on somebody your own size, short man. All right . He is not that short. Hes not that short. He is adorable. The most famous unborn baby yet. Im already tired of this. Here is something funny. Everybody wants to know how kate is doing and what not. Doing better . Better. In the hospital. But these australian dejays decided to do something crazy, thought they would call the hospital, imitate the queen and Prince Charles and get put right through to kates room so they could speak to her on the phone. They thought, lets just try. So live on the air, they dialed the number and this is exactly what it sounded like. Take a listen. Good morning. How may i help you . Hello, im just after my granddaughter, kate, i want to see how her little tummy bug is doing. She had an uneventful night. She was quite dehydrated when she came in. She was given some iv fluids but she is stable at the moment. Okay. Ill just feed my little corgis then. So, what when is a good time to come and visit her, cause im queen, so i need a lift down there . When was a good time . Did they answer that . I dont know. Well, you know first of all, she didnt even pause, the woman. She went right into, well, she is fine. Came in a little dehydrated. My granddaughters tummy . Yeah. Tummy bug. Not her granddaughter either. No. It is not. A couple clues there. These guys, the deejays are mel greg and michael christian, they are two guys . From the summer 30 show on australian radio. My god. The hospital did confirm the conversation. They said this was a foolish prank call that we all deplore. We take patient confidential at extremely seriously. Now we are reviewing all telephone protocols. Perfect. Who use a word like protocols . Hospital. So we talked about the royal names and you guys were quick to chime in when we asked what Prince Charless last name was and what the queens last name was. So, here is Prince Charless full name for those of you still wondering. Charles phillip author george mountbaton windsor. The last name is a combination of prince phillips surname and the queens surname, which was changed from wetten to windsor because it sounded too german. You cant make up this stuff. Prince williams full name is queen wetten. Just not doesnt have a good sound. Wetten. Gross. Prince williams full name is William ArthurPhillip Louis mountbaton windsor. Okay. He and harry use wales in the military, because thats where they live, i guess. No their father is prince of wales. Well, why is that your last name . If you are the prince of wales hoda thinks it should be hoda egypt. Going to stay in sync with that, you could be kathie lee france. I love it. All right. So, here is the thing. As soon as the queens children and grandchildren are titled, they take the title their title as their surname. Here is the question. Now, theres a good chance that the baby or babies that kate, you know, is having may be twins because a lot of women who have this condition. Very, very serious morning sickness. Have twins. The good news. The question if there are twins and there is a csection who will be the first born . cause thats the whole the money right there. The first born and the heir and the spare, they say. Believe that kind of in the inner recesses of his brain, harrys kind of glad he doesnt have to be the king . He gets all the fun. The best life. All the perks, doesnt have the same responsibility. No kidding. I think you saw on television a doctor describing the csection situation. What did she say . You dont choose which baby you are going to take out first, dont move one child aside and go grab the other one. Its whichever one is presenting itself first, you take that baby out. Battling for room in the womb all that time and, you know, cesarean section is because you take the incision is section by section. I think its seven layers of something youve got to get to before you get to the baby. I could be wrong. I have had two, but who can remember. We dont know if its twins, were just saying that because its interesting. Dont know anything. At least we are honest. Thats good. Okay, there is a really disturbing photo that a lot of people have been talking about since yesterday. Not going to show it . We can show it. A picture in the New York Post. The reason we are showing it because this is the photo itself what sparked most of the controversy, on the cover of the post, a guy here about to get hit by a subway train and the title is entitled doomed. The man who took the photograph is a freelance photographer for the New York Post who happened to have been in the subway as he was going to cover the story on the homeless man without the shoes. Yes. And he said that out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone go flying onto the tracks, he took his camera, which he had the strap wrapped around his wrist, he started snapping, he said, and the question matt asked him when he was on the show, why didnt you go in and do something, didnt you think could you have gone and helped, he looked so close when you look at that picture . He said, number one there were other people closer. Number two he said it was 20 seconds dont see anybody else from this picture. From the side. He said there were people standing, cause the platform is wider. So there are two controversies, why, number one, saw that the man was about to die didnt he throw his camera down and try to help the man up. First of all, he was trained to be a photographer. Not making excuses for him. We dont know the truth about this man, basically. He is saying he was just trying to also use his flash to let the conductor of the subway train know that there was something going on. I dont know. The other one is should the New York Post have even used it on their cover . If you have a photo, does it mean you should cover your newspaper . Thats question. I mean, a lot of these guys who cover, not talking about this particular photographer, but if youre covering hurricanes and wars and stuff like that im sure a lot of photographs do battle with that because they are shooting tragedy and not putting their camera down hand rescuing everybody. Chronicling it. It is a hard thing i think a lot of these photographers do. This guy, he said he felt terrible for the family and stuff and they asked him about is he selling the photograph and he said he licensed the pictures. He gave he gave the memory card to the New York Post before even looking at it said he was distraught, looked at it, they had to lighten this picture, cause it was dark. So im guessing we are asking yall what you think. I saw it, yesterdays paper, i went, oh. I dont want certain images in my mind. I just dont. Our prayer goes out to this mans family. Shall we go to nice images . Yes. Nice images. Something nice. This is great. Have you seen the video of babies, you plop them in the Swimming Pool and they just somehow swim . Babies just a few months old . 9monthold twins. Look at these, in england, they just float. Like, hey, we are just floating. Anyway, oh and swimming. Why are they is that crazy . They are both of their parents are great swimmers. And its comes very naturally to these kids, obviously, the parents are right there. Isnt that crazy, they are not scared. You know, and their faces are under. Oh, hi, im under, turning over. We took our kids in the pool, ocean, everywhere, when they were tiny, tiny, tiny, cause we live on water and wanted them to and then we took them for ymca actual swimming lessons when they were, i think, six months to a year, i forget, but it was early, early on. That b roll ran from the bbc. Thats awesome. So cute. So natural. Cute. Okay. Now, do you know that women can tell that a man is a cheater just by looking at him . Yep. Another study. Women can tell with some accuracy, dave, whether a male, anthony, is unfaithful or faithful simply by looking at his face. Here, this is what i think. I think if there are ten guys lined up and they are all married and you have five minutes with each guy, without him knowing why you were meeting with him or talking to him, i think you could tell by that meeting whether or not they would cheat or they wouldnt. The way they came on to you . Yes. Who is irresistible and insatiable if you know . Its that chemistry, you feel, some guys keep their hands to themselves. Wouldnt you say faithfulness is also not just married people, people that are in a committed relationship. Like sara. Exactly. Like that guy outside. Agree with you, hoda, on that one this is our last day for the i do over bahamas get away. If you have a wedding or honeymoon go wrong we want to hear from you. So go to our web site, you get a chance to win a trip for two to the bahamas, includes round trip for two to the bahamas and include pictures. We want to see, even if its somewhat distraught. It helps. But hotel and accommodations were provided by the Bahamas Ministry of tourism. Like if weather hit or Something Like that, let us know. Thank you, sweetheart. All righty. It is one of the most anticipated epic films of the year. We are talking about the hobbit. Going to chat with the leader of the dwarfs himself, richard armitage, after this. Hes quite tall. He is. [ male announcer ] alkaseltzer plus presents the cold truth. I have a cold. I took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesnt work on runny noses. What . [ male announcer ] it doesnt have an antihistamine. Really . [ male announcer ] really. Alkaseltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a fast acting antihistamine to relieve your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you [ male announcer ] youre welcome. Thats the cold truth [ male announcer ] alkaseltzer plus. Oh what a relief it is [ male announcer ] to learn more about the cold truth and save 1 visit alkaseltzer on facebook. If you were a fan of lord of the rings and who wasnt, you cant wait for the next film. The hobbit an unexpected journey returns to middle earth. And the leader of the dwarfs wants to reclaim his homeland for his people. Good for him. Take a looksee. Who did you tell . No one, i swear. What is going on . You are being hunted. I like you. Down the hatch. How is that . I just brushed my teeth. So happy youre here. Thank you for being here. Thank you. So you are 62 at least, you seemed when you stood . Yes, yes, about 62 1 2. Leader of the dwarfs. How did that all work out . An interesting casting call. The phone call was very, very confusing. I walked around my living room with bent knees and hunched back and thinking what is he going to do . But then, of course, you realize that Peter Jackson is a digital genius and he will do all the work and i just focus on the script and the scene they gave me and went and met him. So everything can you explain a little bit how thats done, cgi . Work a lot in front of a green screen, right . In order to make us smaller, they make us look bigger because if you shrink a person, they tend to look like a child. You want to just fix that warrior. So we have a muscle suit underneath and big boots. You had a brush with the hobbit when you were just a little boy, didnt you . A long, long time ago. Did an equally highprofile production of the hobbit alex theater in birmingham. I was 13. Not alabama. England. I was 13, i got paid 15 pounds a week. Gollum was made out of paper. The dragon didnt have money for a dragon, so he was a red light and a puff of smoke. Thats why we love theater. And i was an elf. An elf . Spinning around in circles, eating grapes, trying to tempt the dwarfs into the forest. Was that your first falling in love with the magic of acting, was that your first role . When i trace it back and look at the way i read that book, i feel like it really developed my imagination. And actually the imagination is a thing that carries you through and the reason i became an actor because i had a vivid imagination. Full circle story that is. Amazing. People have seen the trilogy the hobbit is the prequel to that . Yes. What do they need to know in case they havent seen the other three . Absolutely nothing. I felt like the trilogy was like blood vessels that feed the hobbit so theres oxygen kind of flowing between the two ideas and there are cast members from both films that kind of appear together. So for those people that dont know the trilogy, it is a new experience. For those that do there are recognizable faces. Were you in new zealand for 18 months,as is peters habit, shoots all three of the films . 278 films days. Are you kidding . Thats enough for sort of four movies really. Next time you get a dwarf script i bet youre just going to say been there, done that . Yeah. What thats all about thank you. What do you have next . Wrapped on a movie called black sky which we shot in detroit a disaster movie about a tornado, an all found footage, it was really interesting experience. Jim camerons prodigy, steve quail that shot it. What do you play in that . A School Teacher who loses his son in the storm and has to go in search of him. A delight to meet you. A little afraid, thought they fine english actor type. Whats he going to have in common with us . Nothing. Wine. So nice to meet you. All the best. Can i just say as well, we recently los eileen more ran, moran, who was one of the executive producers. Los her battle with Ovarian Cancer on monday, like to send our personal condolences to her family for myself and the cast of the hobbit. Thank you. Thanks. Im in love with him. Me, too. The hobbit an unexpected journey, opens in theaters december 14th. [ male announcer ] research sugsts cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. One a day mens 50 is a complete multivitamin designed for mens Health Concerns as we age. It has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. One a day mens 50 . It is winesday wednesday, so you know what that means. What the what. Sara sifting through the photos. What do we got . From dana swimmer from charlotte, north carolina. Oh, gosh. Nothing says happy holidays like the popper in the background. Thats from her niece. She takes this shot every year. It is their dog. Was that the Christmas Card . Yep. I dont think i think that might have been cropped out. Poor dogs. No dignity. So sad. Jennifer anderson from tampa, florida submitted this photo. No balls allowed in restrooms. Lord. At least it wasnt the mens room. Thats funny. Ha ha. Just saying. Next up, we have a photo from Kristen Robbins from zanesville, ohio. Cute. Precious. Came in and found her asleep in there that is the dogs bed, parker. The baby crawled in. It was like she already warm up to this. Adorable. Adorable. Oh, my gosh. I dont remember being that size. Sherry summerville from new orleans, louisiana, sent this photo. This is the perfect mailbox. Can i tell you, the people in new orleans know how to do it. They always have something going on. Cant pay a bill if i cant reach it. If you dont have a sense of humor, you cannot get through life that is hysterical. A good one. Finally, tracy from tucson, arizona, submitted this photo. Soup of the day, whiskey, ill take mine neat. You guys laughed a lot. Those were all good today. I dont know, something in the air. Thank you, sara. Send your photos at klgandhoda. Com. Get ready to name that not allowed to say that. That song. Name that song. Going to be the Holiday Edition of who knew . Later, everyone has a story, a touching tribute to a young girl and her mothers Christmas Wish. But first, your local news and weather. There she is. Precious little girl. We are back on this winesday wednesday ready to play who knew. Nothing gets you in the spirit like classic holiday tunes. See if you can turn the fa la las into cash. Kathy is across the street at the nbc experience store. Ready to hand out 100 to those who get the answers right. Those who dont get her awesome cd. Helping me here, a good friend of our program, elvis durant. Hi, hoda, kathie lee, rather win the cd over the money. Got to be honest. See what im saying, cath . Over to you. Love my elvis man. Thank you, honey this lovely lady from mississippi. All right. Finish the lyrics to this song made popular by mariah cary. I just want you for my own