Hoda & Jenna: The Latest With Jenna & Carson: He’s Got Talent: Blind & Autistic Man Wows AGT Judges

NBC ID: MAAAABAO5L | Production Unit: Today Show | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 05/29/2019 | Event Date(s): 05/29/2019

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Event Date(s): 05/29/2019 | Event Location(s): New York City, New York | Description: INT NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:00): Oh, Carson, I'm so glad you're back for day two. CARSON DALY (10:00:02): Oh. Me, too. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:03): Today is going to be epic. Guess who's on the show? CARSON DALY (10:00:05): Who? Who have we got? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:06): Kenan Thompson. CARSON DALY (10:00:07): Oh, my gosh. Kenan Thompson is a legend in this building. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:10): He's my favorite. CARSON DALY (10:00:11): He's been on SNL for sixteen seasons. It's safe to say there is no job in this whole building that he couldn't do, right? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:16): That's true. He can do it all. KENAN THOMPSON (10:00:18): That's right. I can do it all, including this job. You guys are late. Let's get out there. Come on. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:22): I'm sorry, Kenan. CARSON DALY (10:00:23): Sorry, sorry. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:24): Sorry. Sorry, Kenan. CARSON DALY (10:00:24): Sorry. KENAN THOMPSON (10:00:25): Go. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:25): Okay, here we go. KENAN THOMPSON (10:00:25): Live from Studio 1A, let's go y'all. ANNOUNCER (10:00:29): From NBC News, this is TODAY with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, live from Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:42): All right. It is Wednesday, May 29th. CARSON DALY (10:00:45): Thanks for having me back. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:46): Carson is in for Hoda. As you see, we have an awesome show coming up. This is, by the way, Makeup by Vice & Jason Derulo featuring Ava Max. CARSON DALY (10:00:55): Ava Max. Yes. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:56): You knew that in your brain? CARSON DALY (10:00:57): Sweet but Psycho. Yes, I did. Yes. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:00:59): It's Sweet but Psycho? CARSON DALY (10:00:59): No, Ava Max has another song. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:01): Oh. CARSON DALY (10:01:01): Yeah. I love Jason Derulo. Great song. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:03): Sweet but Psycho, is that about somebody she knows? CARSON DALY (10:01:07): It's a long story apparently. I don't know it all but-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:10): I wish you knew it. CARSON DALY (10:01:11): Yeah. No. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:11): Got juiced. CARSON DALY (10:01:12): We don't have time for that. But we do have a good show because as you saw in our little cute open there, do you guys normally do these cold opens? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:17): How do you feel about it? CARSON DALY (10:01:18): They're fun. No, they're fun. They're quick and easy. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:19): And it allows us to act a little. CARSON DALY (10:01:21): A little bit. A little bit. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:22): Although I do usually spray your hair with hair spray. CARSON DALY (10:01:24): That was fine. That was good. I enjoyed that. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:25): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:01:26): But you guys normally do those or-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:27): We've been doing them. CARSON DALY (10:01:29): Because we did one yesterday and then today. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:30): Well, I wonder what people think. I don't know. I think it's fun. CARSON DALY (10:01:33): Let's not ask unless you want to get an answer we're not ready to accept. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:37): I know. Isn't that always the truth? Don't ask for-- what's it called, don't ask for permission. CARSON DALY (10:01:42): Always beg for forgiveness. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:43): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:01:43): Yeah. I live by that motto. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:44): So you didn't like that. CARSON DALY (10:01:46): Just keep it to yourself. We have a great show. Kenan & Kel are here. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:51): Yes. Did you watch all that when you were little? CARSON DALY (10:01:53): Of course, I did. And I love-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:01:54): Little. I'm trying to imagine like thirteen-year-old Carson. CARSON DALY (10:01:57): I watched it. It doesn't matter. Oh, my gosh. Hair out of here. I was a wreck at thirteen. Oh, my God, I had head gear, braces. I had head gear like full blown like a Katy Perry music video. I had neck gear like with the thing that came out. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:09): Not to blow your cover, but don't you still wear a retainer? CARSON DALY (10:02:12): I do. I wear two retainers at night. But when I was thirteen, my sister was sixteen. And she used to-- Remember Sun-In Spray? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:18): Yes. Of course, I remember Sun-In. CARSON DALY (10:02:19): So she would think it would be funny to take Sun-In and spray my hair and then like push me outside for five hours. And I would come back in with like crazy white like bleach hair. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:27): But you liked it, right? CARSON DALY (10:02:28): I didn't know what was happening. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:29): You kind of liked that orange frosted tips. CARSON DALY (10:02:31): I liked spending quality time with my big sister not getting abused. If that's what came with it, then that's what came with it. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:36): Did she take you outside or she locked you outside-- CARSON DALY (10:02:39): Jenna, she would take like yogurt, like vanilla yogurt and put like squeeze lemons in it and put it in my hair, like, natural bleach. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:46): I did that too. CARSON DALY (10:02:47): Yeah. That's right. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:48): But I was-- CARSON DALY (10:02:48): I was like her voodoo doll. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:50): Yes. CARSON DALY (10:02:50): Yeah. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:51): Or you-- maybe she just was doing Ambush Makeovers on you at a young age. CARSON DALY (10:02:54): That's a positive way of looking at it. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:55): Right? CARSON DALY (10:02:55): I'll drink to that. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:02:56): You know what is so funny is that, you know, I'm thinking about my little girls and how they-- CARSON DALY (10:03:02): Yeah. I love your girls. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:03): My little girls are so funny. For some reason Mila is really into like spa nights, but like she's never really been to a spa. CARSON DALY (10:03:11): I hope not. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:12): So I'm like it's time to take a shower and she's like, well, can we put cucumbers on our eyes afterwards? CARSON DALY (10:03:16): Oh, my gosh. That's so one percenty. Where does she get that? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:18): I know. I mean, I don't know. I don't put cucumber on my eyes, but I'm like, we don't have any cucumbers. She's like, please, get some cucumber. CARSON DALY (10:03:25): Wow. You got to nip that in the bud. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:26): It looks so cute with them with cucumbers on their eyes. CARSON DALY (10:03:29): Oh, my gosh. I hope my little girls aren't watching. Because our girls are friends, so. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:32): Yes. CARSON DALY (10:03:32): If Mila tells Etta that, that's going to be death of the-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:34): Etta would be into it, right? CARSON DALY (10:03:35): Oh, my gosh. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:36): Etta is kind of girly. CARSON DALY (10:03:36): I told Etta that spas are made up. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:38): You know what's funny actually is Etta and Mila have similar girly-- CARSON DALY (10:03:42): Oh, my, they're like twins, our daughters. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:43): Yes. And then London and Poppy have similar sort of Tomboyish-- CARSON DALY (10:03:48): Oh, my gosh. But if there was an island where you put little children in fight to the death sort of thing, like, pop up and London would survive. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:56): Yes, they would. If we did-- CARSON DALY (10:03:57): They would kill their own flesh to survive. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:03:59): Survivor. CARSON DALY (10:03:58): If there was like a survivor toddlers, our girls. I'd put my-- I'd actually put money on your girl. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:04): Really? CARSON DALY (10:04:04): She is the best, the little one. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:07): See, I think London is pretty scrappy. CARSON DALY (10:04:08): She's like (unintelligible) drop off stairs just to fall because she likes it, right? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:14): She is a tumbler. And she likes to show off for moves. CARSON DALY (10:04:18): Not in the Olympic way either. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:20): No, no, in sort of the, kind of physical Ronda Rousey way. CARSON DALY (10:04:22): She's awesome. Right. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:23): Right? They could be wrestlers. CARSON DALY (10:04:24): They're good girls, all four of them. They're special. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:26): They are. We're lucky. Okay. So making her national TV debut on stage today, we have rising country star Caylee Hammack. CARSON DALY (10:04:31): Oh, she's good. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:32): She's going to perform her hit-- CARSON DALY (10:04:33): Great voice. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:34): --Family Tree. CARSON DALY (10:04:35): Did you hear her sing? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:35): No. You love her? CARSON DALY (10:04:35): She's great. I do. Yeah. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:36): You know everybody. CARSON DALY (10:04:38): I do like music. It's about all I'm good for. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:40): But see, I like music, too, but I don't know everybody. CARSON DALY (10:04:43): It's my job but still my passion. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:47): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:04:48): You know? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:04:48): You haven't let it-- CARSON DALY (10:04:49): Like Siri reads cookbooks. My wife loves food. She's a foodie. She's not a trained chef by any stretch of imagination but when we are breakfasting, she's obsessing about lunch. And then at lunch, what are we having for dinner. Like she reads cook books like it's a book. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:01): Like my mom used to do that. CARSON DALY (10:05:02): Like it's a book though. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:03): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:05:03): Like what chapter are you on there? Chicken? Nope, still on apps. And so for me like my passion is music. So when I hear anything on the radio, any genre, if I kind of like it, then, you know, I look into it. And Caylee who's on today is from Georgia, been playing music since she was thirteen. And I love a really good soulful country voice. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:23): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:05:23): You know? And she has that. She's got a really powerful, soulful like if Pink did country music, something like that. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:29): That's a good combo. CARSON DALY (10:05:30): Yeah. She's great. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:31): Now do your kids love music-- CARSON DALY (10:05:32): Love it. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:32): --the way you do? CARSON DALY (10:05:33): Love it. My son is-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:34): When you listen to around them? CARSON DALY (10:05:35): A lot bad hip hop. My son is into rap. It's tough with the bad words. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:40): Yeah, it is tough with the bad words. CARSON DALY (10:05:41): Yeah. Because in my opinion, the non-expletive versions are bad. They're not as good. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:46): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:05:46): But I can't let him listen to them. So we have to find the right songs. But I won't let him listen to the-- what are the little ones where they kind of dumb down the music. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:54): Oh, the radio-- uh-oh. CARSON DALY (10:05:55): They sync popular-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:55): Kids bops. CARSON DALY (10:05:56): Kids bops. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:56): Kids bops. CARSON DALY (10:05:56): I can't do that either. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:05:57): No. You know what? So interesting is I remember my dad was always so good about letting us listen to the music we wanted to. CARSON DALY (10:06:04): Really? I'm surprised. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:06): I mean, he did and he didn't. So I went out with my money I guess that I got from doing chores, allowance. And I bought a nirvana CD. One of my first-- CARSON DALY (10:06:15): Which one, never mind, with a baby on it? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:17): The one-- I think it was actually a-- CARSON DALY (10:06:18): In (unintelligible) maybe for-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:19): Yeah. And it was a bad-- I can't-- there was a really bad song on it which I'll tell you during commercial. CARSON DALY (10:06:25): Okay. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:25): But my dad heard-- CARSON DALY (10:06:26): Oh, I know what it is. Yes. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:27): You know what I'm talking about? CARSON DALY (10:06:27): Yes. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:28): And my dad heard me playing it on my little disc man or whatever-- CARSON DALY (10:06:31): Oh, my gosh. If it's the song, I'm thinking, you know, that would be-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:32): CD player. Yes. Yes. Horrifying. CARSON DALY (10:06:34): Future leader of the free world, this means you listen to that, that's terrifying. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:37): Yes. He was terrified. CARSON DALY (10:06:38): What did he do? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:38): He broke the CD over his leg. CARSON DALY (10:06:40): Wow. Really? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:41): He never was mad like that, but this particular song really encourages, you know-- I mean to hear your little daughter listen to it-- CARSON DALY (10:06:48): Yeah. Yeah. I know that would be tough. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:49): You know what I'm thinking about. CARSON DALY (10:06:50): I think any hardcore nirvana fan can probably guess what the song is. It's two words, right? JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:53): Yes. CARSON DALY (10:06:54): Yeah. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:54): You've got it. CARSON DALY (10:06:55): Yeah. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:06:55): But-- anyway, you know, it's so funny because other than that when we would drive, he would let me in our little minivan, put on like the Green Day Dookie CD. CARSON DALY (10:07:05): Right. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:05): And he would listen to it. CARSON DALY (10:07:06): My, you're so young. I put that on in my first wedding. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:11): You did not. CARSON DALY (10:07:12): No, I'm kidding. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:12): You've never-- CARSON DALY (10:07:12): No, I know. I'm joking. But I always just imagined your life being so much a first daughter that you would never have been afforded the luxuries, like, that's, I did the same thing, like, I had like a Joan Jett & The Blackhearts cassette tape that when we'd drive to Palm Streams (ph), my dad who is like a Frank Sinatra guy would let us listen to that. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:31): Right? CARSON DALY (10:07:32): But that's a very normal think. I would think that you would never be in those situations. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:35): No. We had normal until-- CARSON DALY (10:07:36): Right. So great to hear. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:38): It was normal until it wasn't. CARSON DALY (10:07:39): Yeah. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:39): You know what I mean? CARSON DALY (10:07:40): Yeah, yeah. Before a little-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:41): Until I ordered a margarita and then got, you know, oops, they did it again on People magazine. CARSON DALY (10:07:45): Right. Got it. Do we have that? Let's roll the clip. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:48): Or when they called me gin and tonic, which isn't even true. I don't like tonic. CARSON DALY (10:07:51): I would take that as a (unintelligible) endearment. I don't know you would be upset about that. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:54): I don't like tonic. CARSON DALY (10:07:55): Okay. Well, there you go. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:07:55): And I don’t like gin either. All right. So America's Got Talent kicked off the season fourteen last night with new judges Gabrielle Union who I love and Julianne Hough. CARSON DALY (10:08:04): And Julianne Hough. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:08:05): Right? CARSON DALY (10:08:05): Yeah. Very good. I watched a little bit of it last night. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:08:06): Okay. So one act though is generating huge buzz. This is twenty-two-year-old singer Kodi Lee. He's blind and autistic, but his mom says he's loved music for his entire life. Take a look. (10:08:19): (Excerpt from America's Got Talent) JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:13): If that doesn’t give you chills, right? CARSON DALY (10:09:15): You’re not human. Nice moment. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:16): So Gabrielle Union gave Kodi her first ever golden buzzer which-- CARSON DALY (10:09:21): Well, the golden buzzer is like they all have one and they only get use of it once. And then that just puts the artist to the talent right, they forego everything right to like the live-- it’s like a straight shot to the finals or something like that. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:30): Can you do that at The Voice? No? CARSON DALY (10:09:31): No, but I would have liked to have stolen that young man for The Voice. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:34): Right? CARSON DALY (10:09:34): Yeah. That’s an incredible moment. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:35): Isn’t that incredible? And I actually-- I didn’t see this last night because I was already asleep. CARSON DALY (10:09:40): Yeah. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:41): But Oprah-- CARSON DALY (10:09:41): You’re a wild one. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:42): I’m really wild. CARSON DALY (10:09:43): She goes on to like eight. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:45): I used to be fun. I used to be fun but I’m tired and my feet hurt. But-- okay. So even Oprah is a huge fan. She tweeted, and this is how I saw him,-- CARSON DALY (10:09:54): Okay. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:09:55): --“Love this so much. Stood up and cheered in my living room.” And then I watched it this morning. CARSON DALY (10:09:59): It’s amazing that’s the world we live in now that you’re fast asleep and you probably woke up in like the middle of the night and saw a tweet or an Instagram post-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:10:04): Yeah. CARSON DALY (10:10:04): --from Oprah and then you saw a moment that happened on national television. It’s so different-- JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:10:08): It’s how we get heard. CARSON DALY (10:10:09): --how the world consumes media now. And I do the same. JENNA BUSH HAGER (10:10:11): But I want-- don’t you want him to come here, Joanne? Oh, thanks for watching the show, Joanne.

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