Miller. Did anything happen to you, hoda . You are never content to just go to one place, are you . You know what, i ended up leaving here and going to new orleans on friday. I did a little shoot with the property brothers, jonathan and drew. They were so cute. They renovated a house and we when it comes back in november. I found my posse in new orleans, karen, john, mike cos and his wife and joel and me in the french quarter. It was really, really fun. Thats mike in the back with his mouth open. We ate at antoines. We got on the plane from new orleans and flew to newark and drove it see my mother in rehoboth. Thinking we were going to be inside and look at the sun. The kids were out in rare form. Doesnt your mom look great. We had a little thing. We just did what we do. We took pictures and hung out. And all the blowup cushions. You are all all familia when you are there. Yes. We had a nice hang. How was your weekend . Mine was i thought i would just write all weekend. I was going to go to this big event in greenwich. I thought it was going to be a washout. It ended up being gorgeous. I invited some friends, brian balance ta czar and his partner along with my friend, chris and his husband, robert and chrissy. I wanted to invite you but you were in rehoboth. It ended up being Barbra Streisand day. Barbra streisand at 74 years old neal and lee sedaka just sent me her encore cd. It was gorgeous and we were drinking stuff. We spent the afternoon listening to it. You never know what to expect. It was an incredibly eclectic group of artists she works with. I was surprised. I didnt love all of them. I love that barbara tried all of them. I love the one she did with Patrick Wilson from passion, something called loving you. Things i do . Hes a great singer. We all know shes great. My favorite. I love hugh jackman so much. At the ballet, was gorgeous with ann hathaway and daisy ridley. My favorite was the one i was most surprised. I thought jamie fox and barbra singing climb every mountain. I went, no. . To every stream . . Follow every rainbow . Okay, here. . til you find your . . til you find . . til you find your dream . . til you find your dream . That was really good, really great. We knew he sang great because of ray. Broadway. Then, when everybody left, i listened to it one more time. She has, thats number one. That song is number one. The album is number one. Whats so cool, over so many different generations, Barbra Streisand keeps hitting number one. You often mix consecutive decades. Six decades. Thats unbelievable. She and Bruce Springsteen are right behind the beatles and jayz. It is the beatles, jayz and barbra and bruce. Who wants something free . From 2 00 until 5 00, you get a small frappe at dairy queen. I think it is frappe. And the d. Q. Grill and chill. Ice, vanilla soft icecream, whipped cream. Everything you cant have. Everything i cant but i know our crew will love it. Joann is back from the netherlands. We are glad you are back jojo. Come on. Were going to welcome you back. Joann is back from climbing every mountain. We think she lost we dont know how much. And covering every sea. Welcome home. This is so good. We have a question. How often do you call your mom . Hoda and i call her from our studio every single day. I can hear you on with your mom. Im on with my mine. We have already called them. I called my mom at 9 00. Vogue says certain people call three times a day and certain people call once a day. We think it is important that you call often. My sister likes my hair. Im so happy. I was nervous. Mine. Calling you, mom. Be careful. Dont show the number because i have done that before. And i have shown cassidys number before. I am going to get mom. Put it on speaker. Turn it on. Hello. Hi, cuddles. Hi, honey. How are you . Im good. What are you doing . What are you wearing cuddly . Im enjoying retirement. Listen, you think raising you wasnt a job . Okay. Are you going to get your mom . Now, mom tells me every morning her favorite meal of the day is what, cuddles . Its breakfast. What did you have today . I had an english muffin and not exactly we are getting sammy on the line too, mom. Here we go. Is sandy on . Sammy. Hi, mom. Oh, sammy. Hi, how are you, hoda . What are you doing . Im getting ready to go to the beach. I have one question. My mom always says i dont wear enough lipstick on the air. Xa you need a little bit of lipstick. I think you look good today. Good today . Beautiful. She does have a beautiful thing of lipstick. It is not as deep. She wants a deeper red. More red . All right, mom, we love you. We love you guys. You look great, you look great. Love you, mom. Bye, mom. Bye, cuddles. Talk to you later. Enjoy lunch. Every morning. She tells me what she had for breakfast and then she says, you know, it is my favorite meal of the day. I say, i know, mom. She says, my doctor always says, at your age, what does it matter . Enjoy life every single day. She is 86 1 2. Come on, we are getting cooking. Wait until you see what we are giving away. Katy perry and Kourtney Kardashian celebrated the weekend. A surprise for one lucky lady. I get to grant her her bucket list. It is really, really sweet right after this. Cheers, my hoda woman. That was cute with the moms. Say, have you seen all the Amazing Technology in geicos mobile app . Mobile app . Look. Electronic id cards, emergency roadside service, i can even submit a claim. Wow. Yep, geicos mobile app works like a charm. Mr. Clean gets tough on dirt and grime and grease in just a minute mr. Clean will clean your whole house and every room thats in it floors, doors, walls, halls hes so tough, he cleans em all mr. Clean beard hair can be strong as copper wire. The gillette mach3 is precisionengineered to cut hair this tough. No wonder it has the worlds number one selling blades. 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She went all over the place. What happened to her voice . I think it is a combination of singing and being tired and needing a little time off. Beyonce is such a perfectionist. She is not going to want to put up a show when she is not 100 . They can reschedule. They already have. All of those people looking wednesday. You will have to wait a few more months until she comes back to this area. She is going to close her tour with that gig. She is going to be bigger and more fabulous than ever. She also had a birthday we were talking about and she just posted a fabulous message on instagram that said, thank you to everybody who wished her a happy birthday. Where was she . She went to camp david. She spent her birthday with Michelle Obama and then went to philadelphia and spent some time with president clinton. Quite the Birthday Party . Jayz has this huge concert in philadelphia. She went to support jayz. She wasnt hidden. She was in the crowd enjoying her birthday. Do rest coaches ever need vocal rest. She is not. I am saying do rock stars. I think so. Sometimes talking is harder on your voice than singing. Speaking of singing, harmony, walked off stage in the middle of the show. Before the show, she gave us some hints. She put out a tweet saying she just needed three days rest. They have been touring around. In the middle of the show. They have all been doing the same tours and concerts. In the middle of this show, she left the stage and walked off because of anxiety. She was full of anxiety and needed to take some time off. Di at a concert in texas. We know she is doing well. There was some question about some disharmony in this group but we are glad she is back singing in the show. Some celebs had some fun. We checked everybodys instagram. Drew barrimore, she went to a farm. There she is with a turtle. She tweeted it didnt look real. Horse by the side of the road and luckily, drew travels around with carrots, so she stopped and fed the little donkey. She had a fabulous time with her kids and she is going through the divorce, split up with her husband. What was katy perry up to . She went to this hippy concert. They encourage the use of cell phones at the concert. They dont really like you to use money. It is a very new agy. Bartering with . Maybe a jukebox, maybe a cigarette or something. She was at this concert. She put out that picture. She was having a fantastic time. Paris hilton was there. And Kourtney Kardashian. Normally, they travel as a pack with lots of cameras. This sunday, just mommy and she brought her three kids. They were in italy and there they are. Whose boyfriend . Chris bought her boyfriend, corey. Corey was there by herself. She did bring the kids and they had a lovely mother daughter time away from the whole family and no camera crews. Maybe it was a real vacation. I was with courtney in nantucket and she didnt have crews around. Everybody needs a break from the camera, for hoda woman. Hoda gives one lucky grander her wish was my command. Wait until you see what we crossed off her bucket list. . . Get simply ageless makeup from covergirl and olay. With b vitamins, and spf. It floats over lines and you look beautiful and now theres simply ageless liquid makeup it helps you look younger in three ways. So in the future when youre older and easy, breezy beautiful covergirl why are you singing the end . H. Heartburn. Sorry maam. No burning here. Try new alkaseltzer heartburn relief gummies. They dont taste chalky and work fast. Mmmm. Incredible. Can i try . She doesnt have heartburn. New alka seltzer heartburn relief gummies. If there is one thing we know about hoda woman, she loves to surprise people when she crashed her number one fans 65th birthday on a Carnival Cruise ship last year. Now, she is at it again with a new series called hodas bucket list granted. Most of us have a list of things we want to see and do. There are those things so big you can only dream about doing them. We pulled a few strings to help some deserving people fulfill their dreams. With the help of their family members, we pulled off a huge surprise like this one. My mom just gives and gives and gives and asks for nothing in return. My mom is this funny, kind of proper grandmother but yet she has this thing with monster trucks. The only thing she has been close with is she rode in the bobcat. All she did was push dirt around. She loved it. Wheel, we enlift mark hall, driver of the raminator, a fiveton heavy metal behemoth. We shipped it to the indianapolis fairgrounds, gassed her up and designed a no crash course so cheryl can let it rip without killing anyone. Im going to be over here. You will be able to see me. Your mom is going to be back there. Cheryl thinks she is coming to the fairgrounds to visit the horses. Lets go see. The state fairgrounds is one of the most cheryl doesnt want to interrupt my special report. They come from high and low and cheryl beerbauer, how are you . So all your girls got together and they told us what an amazing person you are. We have a little plan for you later. We do have surprises in store. Hey, there. I know you have got a lot of things on your bucket list. We dont have them all but we might have one. All right, mark, start her up. Oh, my gosh. Yes. That idea is your monster truck. Wow what whoo how did that feel . Wow. Ready for more. You are going to ride over and demolish those cars. Oh, my gosh. Dont worry, cheryl is riding shotgun on this one. Start your engines. All right. Here we go. Oh, my gosh. I think i like to finish a lot more cars. There you go. Grandma crushed it, literally. There she is. Mr. What i learned if cheryl is that it is not just about crossing something off a list. 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Our todays food team wants to help you get dinner on the table. Here to show us how it is , one of our favorite meals. The owner of gwen and maude. Curtis stone. How are you doing . Im good. I want to show you how to make pork chops that will blow your mind. Start off with panko bread salt, a little pepper for the extra crumb. We always think about crumby stuff and we just put bread crumbs on to whatever it is. You can add flavor, salt and pepper, parmesan cheese, some parsley and then you mix that together. Do you always use fresh parsley . I love fresh parsley. You can grow it and you dont have to throw it away. Put a little pot in the windowsill. You start off with your pork chops. Nice and lean. Nice and lean and thin pork chops. Spread them out with the meat there. After the flour into the egg, after the egg nothing but egg in there . See how i am using tongs. And then mt. Bread crumbs. You dont talk to an egg. I dont think you get salmonella from that. Information conversation than with other people. You go ahead and push that in. Be quite firm. You force that in until you get a solid crust. Yeah, yeah. Next, you bring this over. Plop it in. I use a mixture of olive oil with a little butter. I like how he says it much better. The butter is there for flavor. The olive oil is there so it doesnt burn. Throw a couple in there. We like repeating. I like it when me. You go ahead. You cook it until it is golden brown. It only takes a few minutes. Dont cook it on too high of heat. You want it on moderate heat. Then, it looks like this. Cook it through, though, right . You dont want pork to be undercooked . Pork actually you can serve pink these days. Lets serve it up. Tomatoes, salt and pepper, a Little Olive Oil like that. Look at these beautiful end of so delicious. We tried some, like sugar. Lemon zest and lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil. Tomatoes on the arugala. There is nothing better, is there . It is all mixed together. Then, you get into the pork chops. Come on, hoda. There is some cheese on mine. Thats all right. A fork in mine. You go right in there. How is that . Chops. It is so simple. One of the best things we have had, im telling you, in years. To get this recipe go to today. Com food. Am i right . Perfect. Coming up next, a love story that will forever live. Beautiful story coming up right after this. On your feet insoles. Ziploc presents cafeteria chaos. School lunch can be difficult. One little struggle. Can lead to one monumental mishap. Not with ziploc easy open tabs. Because life needs ziploc. Sc johnson. Take one of those pillows and take a big smell. They smell really fresh. What if we told you we washed these sheets 7 days ago. Really no way downy . Downy fabric conditioner. . . Now, to a story of faith and love between husband and wife, country duo joey and rory fake. When joey became pregnant, she and rory decided to take a year off to enjoy the pregnancy and the birth of their daughter, indiana. Just six months later, they learned their daughter had downs syme cancer. The original surgery was successful but the cancer came back. At the young age of just 40, joey passed away in march. Rory chronicled the family journey on his blog and then a documentary called to joey with love. We are so glad to have you here with us. How are you doing . You said you and your wife always had this childlike faith you couldnt even understand it or put it into words. Have you been sensing, as i know i did when our family had a great loss. You never compare the two but you know the state of grace when you are in it . Thats right. It passes all understanding. There is no way. I should be curled up in a ball. Fetal position. Instead, i am filled with joy my fetal position would be nothing compared to what she could have felt but she didnt. She just kept living. I dont mean breathing. I mean living. What was she like . She was incredible. My blog kind of describes her better than myself. She is an extraordinary, it is one thing to make them when you are healthy. It is another thing to continue making them right until the end. You chronicled this. I can only imagine other people watching this are going to get such hope from this. That wasnt the intention when you were originally chronicling this journey. We found out that joey was pregnant and decided to take a year off and just stay home. We thought we were going to simplify our lives. I was going to document that. The baby was born and we learned she had Downs Syndrome and joey, we found out she had Cervical Cancer and then it started taking a turn and the story just kept turning. I kept pushing record. As time went on, i never knew what or wh