{"id":157,"date":"2011-06-01T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-06-03T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T01:33:54","slug":"worthwhile-segments-on-kathie-lee-hoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/06\/worthwhile-segments-on-kathie-lee-hoda.html","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile Segments On Kathie Lee, Hoda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kathie Lee Gifford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OK, so Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are tough to watch at times, especially when they are talking all over each other.<\/p>\n

And is a fourth hour of NBC’s Today Show<\/em>, even if it’s the most successful morning news\/entertainment program around, really necessary?<\/p>\n

Make that five hours if you live in North Carolina like I do and can watch My Carolina Today<\/em> stretch the show out to noon.<\/p>\n

Yikes!<\/p>\n

We’ll leave that question for another day, while complimenting Kathie Lee and Hoda for some of the more serious segments on their program … yes there are some.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, for instance, the pair welcomed author Noelle Hancock, who wrote a book called “My Year With Eleanor”.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 Eleanor is the long-departed Eleanor Roosevelt, who advised people to do something scary every day in order to stretch their boundaries.<\/p>\n

Hancock took the former first lady’s advice when she lost her job as a blogger and needed to shake up her life.<\/p>\n

Hancock told the duo she was initially paralyzed by fear but decided to attack them by doing things like skydiving and stand-up comedy, the latter which she was more afraid of conquering.<\/p>\n

But Hancock lived, laughed and moved on … literally, as Rob Lowe would say.<\/p>\n

“Nothing is ever as bad as you imagined it to be, in fact it’s more fun than you ever imagined,” Hancock told the talkers.<\/p>\n

Hancock now lives in the Caribbean, and is busy promoting her book which tells of her adventures while being out of work.<\/p>\n

She is a good example of an expression I once heard:<\/p>\n

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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