Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is Monday, April sixth, and
Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie is back. Today is the day that she
Speaker 1: said she'd return to host the Today Show, and she
Speaker 1: was back in her seat this morning, still not knowing
Speaker 1: what happened to her mother. And with that, welcome to
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ. You just got TJ
Speaker 1: on this one. Amy sitting this one out, but wanted
Speaker 1: to pass along observations of what we saw on the
Speaker 1: show this morning. Savannah Guthrie, of course, whose mother disappeared
Speaker 1: February first. It has been over two months now and
Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie has been away from her seat at the
Speaker 1: Today Show that entire time. But today she told us
Speaker 1: about a week ago, but she circled this day, April sixth,
Speaker 1: as the day she was going to return, and in
Speaker 1: fact she was there, and she was in place, certainly
Speaker 1: had the TV on here ready to watch, and had
Speaker 1: it on several minutes before seven o'clock, and so I
Speaker 1: got to see Savannah Guthrie before she actually went on
Speaker 1: the Today Show. You watch your local affiliates, NBC affiliates.
Speaker 1: They'll do a tease with the national anchors a few
Speaker 1: minutes before at the top of the hour at seven
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern time, and so I wasn't thinking about that
Speaker 1: and didn't really register it. I'm sitting doing something else
Speaker 1: and boom, she pops up on the screen, and it
Speaker 1: was almost, I don't know, it was weird and surprising
Speaker 1: just to see her on television again, to see her
Speaker 1: in TV attire again, and she was wearing a bright
Speaker 1: yellow today, and to see her smiling. But the banter
Speaker 1: with the local New York anchors was very normal. There
Speaker 1: wasn't a big welcome or good to see you again.
Speaker 1: It was business as usual. And I think that kind
Speaker 1: of set the tone for what was going to happen
Speaker 1: on the Today Show. And I think it was apparent
Speaker 1: from the very beginning that they were trying, really, really
Speaker 1: trying to make this look like business as you usual,
Speaker 1: We're welcoming somebody back. But they did, and they didn't
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time talking about the past. They
Speaker 1: didn't spend a lot of time or any time talking
Speaker 1: about Savannah's mother really in that whole case. So the
Speaker 1: show opens at the top, and it threw me, given
Speaker 1: all we've seen her go through that when they did
Speaker 1: the cold open at seven o'clock when the Today Show
Speaker 1: starts where they're you know, the cold open is when
Speaker 1: they're teasing the stories that are coming up and some
Speaker 1: music playing underneath, and you hear their voices going back
Speaker 1: and forth, and you hear Savannah's voice having voiced this
Speaker 1: cold open teasing the UCLA women winning the national championship
Speaker 1: last night, and the song that was playing under it
Speaker 1: was California Love by Tupac and Dre And so for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, when I heard that, I'm like, oh, okay, they
Speaker 1: really are going to make this feel as normal as possible.
Speaker 1: There was just something about that song and kind of
Speaker 1: just juxtaposing that and that fun and that image and
Speaker 1: that sound up against what we have been seeing and
Speaker 1: hearing from Savannah Guthrie the past couple of months. It's
Speaker 1: clear they're turning a page there at the Today Show.
Speaker 1: So the show opened after the cold open, you see
Speaker 1: her sitting there with Craig and they don't say much.
Speaker 1: They say hello. But the only thing she did or
Speaker 1: said to in some way allude to what's been happening.
Speaker 1: She said, it is good to be home. Here we go,
Speaker 1: ready or not, Let's do the news. And yes, you
Speaker 1: could see a little nerves were there, but she wanted
Speaker 1: to just get it going, and Craig touched her hand
Speaker 1: and said welcome home to her, and the show went
Speaker 1: right on. It went right into what's happening in Iran,
Speaker 1: what's happening with the Artemis folks, what's happening with the
Speaker 1: National Championship. It just went right on into being a
Speaker 1: normal Today's show broadcast. And they had guests on in
Speaker 1: that first half hour as well, doing I think that
Speaker 1: it was a former astronaut and I think a military
Speaker 1: guy there as well. But they didn't say welcome back
Speaker 1: or good to see you, and I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they were given that advice, just please don't do that.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna treat it as business as usual, and
Speaker 1: sure enough they the guests didn't say anything. The only
Speaker 1: time that we did hear something else in that first
Speaker 1: hour was from Al Al when it was time to
Speaker 1: toss to him for weather at about seven seventeen or
Speaker 1: whatever time it is, and they tossed to him. They
Speaker 1: have this wider shot where you see Al Roker and
Speaker 1: you see everybody sitting at the desk kind of in
Speaker 1: a distance, and he just says, I just like looking
Speaker 1: over there is what he said. So it's it's clear
Speaker 1: and it's the right thing. I'm sure she wants to
Speaker 1: move on and do things normal and be back at
Speaker 1: work feels good to her. But the show felt very normal,
Speaker 1: if you will. There was even anchor banter. She told
Speaker 1: a couple of jokes throughout, and they were kind of
Speaker 1: typical co stuff you might hear in morning television. At
Speaker 1: one point they were talking about the Artemis pilots and
Speaker 1: she cracked a joke about, Wow, they must to have
Speaker 1: a really good WiFi up there. That's a good That's
Speaker 1: very much a TV anchor joke. That's awesome. So everything
Speaker 1: did feel very much normal throughout the only time I
Speaker 1: guess really that it did that things did feel different,
Speaker 1: and this was the part that it left room to
Speaker 1: be emotional. There is a part of the show where
Speaker 1: they all walk outside and they greet people who are
Speaker 1: out there with signs and whatnot, and they had shown
Speaker 1: some of these people earlier on. There were plenty of
Speaker 1: people out there who did have signs saying welcome back
Speaker 1: to Savannah. People had t shirts on with messages of
Speaker 1: love and support, and quite frankly there were other people
Speaker 1: out there who had signs of just saying, hey, it's
Speaker 1: my birthday, So even part of that felt normal. But
Speaker 1: it's I think it's eight point thirty. They do this.
Speaker 1: They do this at the Today Show. All the anchors
Speaker 1: go out and it's a lot of them. I'd be
Speaker 1: seven them. I got to count right, six or seven
Speaker 1: of them, so big group ends up standing outside. This time,
Speaker 1: the group was standing out there and you see that shot,
Speaker 1: but Savannah's not there, and my first thought was, oh,
Speaker 1: they let her skip this or she didn't want to
Speaker 1: be outside with the crowd. No, no, no, no. They
Speaker 1: actually showed a shot of the first group and then
Speaker 1: they showed cut to a different shot of Savannah and
Speaker 1: her coat. But she's walking hand in hand with Jenna Bush,
Speaker 1: who was walking her out, and they walk out together.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not sure how they usually do this. I
Speaker 1: didn't think that was the way, but it seemed like
Speaker 1: a special moment and she wanted some support and they
Speaker 1: walked out hand in hand. Forgive me, I don't watch
Speaker 1: the show every day. I don't think that's normal necessarily,
Speaker 1: but it did seem like a special moment and she
Speaker 1: was walking out with somebody and with support in that moment.
Speaker 1: But they walked down hand in hand and Savannah God love,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it felt good to her to see people,
Speaker 1: to see smiling faces and everybody's I mean, their hands
Speaker 1: were on their hearts in the crowd, they were buzzing.
Speaker 1: It was excited to see her back at work. That
Speaker 1: was actually really really cool. She agree, she didn't go
Speaker 1: over it didn't spend a lot of time. Actually said
Speaker 1: some thank yous to the crowd and for the messages,
Speaker 1: and then they went on about business once again, standing
Speaker 1: there teasing what's coming up, and at some point, I
Speaker 1: can't remember which anchor it was, was teasing something that
Speaker 1: was coming up, and that was a graphic on screen.
Speaker 1: But then you heard Savannah and something else going on,
Speaker 1: and they cut away from that picture that was on
Speaker 1: screen because Savannah was god choked up with something she
Speaker 1: saw with somebody in particular there and a message they
Speaker 1: had and I believe that was the woman had a
Speaker 1: T shirt on. But this was the only moment that
Speaker 1: we really saw throughout that was really in a more
Speaker 1: emotional and fuller way acknowledging what Savannah Guthrie has been
Speaker 1: through over the past couple of months what that show.
Speaker 1: Also to a certain degree, this is a family member
Speaker 1: of theirs that they have been without and know she
Speaker 1: has been in pain, and today was the day that
Speaker 1: she was able to return. But this was we did
Speaker 1: hear from her. We did hear from Savannah yesterday on
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday. We heard from her in a message that
Speaker 1: was part painful, but it was also a message that
Speaker 1: she felt a lot of people also needed to hear.
Speaker 1: Stare all right, continuing here on Amy and TJ. No
Speaker 1: Amy on this one. Just stuck with TJ today, but
Speaker 1: wanted to get on and give you our impressions of
Speaker 1: what we saw with Savannah got three, returning to the
Speaker 1: Today Show in her seat for the first time since
Speaker 1: February first, when her mom disappeared. That disappearance, as we know,
Speaker 1: according to authorities, was in fact an abduction. But still
Speaker 1: she's returned to work now, not having any idea what
Speaker 1: happened to her mom. Where she is and Savannah Guthrie
Speaker 1: had to get on television in front of millions today
Speaker 1: and go about it as business and as usual, and
Speaker 1: to his great degree, she pulled that off. The show
Speaker 1: pulled that off. Commend them over there to today's show
Speaker 1: for what they've had to adjust to, and you know,
Speaker 1: a heads up, not a heads up, but a shout
Speaker 1: out to Hodecanby as well, who has been there in
Speaker 1: support of who stepped in and said, yes, I will
Speaker 1: come back and sit in that chair as long as
Speaker 1: you all need me to. And she was the one
Speaker 1: as well who conducted the one on one with Savannah
Speaker 1: that we saw last week. But Savannah, we heard from
Speaker 1: her yesterday as well. Savannah Guthrie had a video message
Speaker 1: that aired at a church here in New York, and
Speaker 1: it was an Eastern message and it was painful to
Speaker 1: hear to a certain degree that she wondered why her
Speaker 1: and she felt at times that she had been abandoned
Speaker 1: by God and it questioned her faith. She told that
Speaker 1: story but then ultimately came her back around to the
Speaker 1: message that her faith is still there, her faith is
Speaker 1: still strong. As we found out more and more, I
Speaker 1: own Savannah for years, I never knew about how steeped
Speaker 1: in faith she was. But we've learned more about that
Speaker 1: over the past couple of months. Not just about her
Speaker 1: and she was raised that way. As we've learned more
Speaker 1: and more about Nancy Guthrie, who there have been still
Speaker 1: I can say, no significant developments about that case in
Speaker 1: quite some time. We haven't heard from the Sheriff's department
Speaker 1: out there with anything significant. He does interviews here or there,
Speaker 1: and people are are grasping at straw Is trying to
Speaker 1: figure out and pluck out what he's saying and does
Speaker 1: this mean this? And there just have not been headlines
Speaker 1: and there have not been developments in that case. But
Speaker 1: Savannah Guthrie is back. She is back at work and
Speaker 1: at this point, you all, she is just moving on,
Speaker 1: certainly hoping for some news at some point. But it's
Speaker 1: weird to go through. As you can imagine, she's mourning
Speaker 1: the loss of someone and does not know right now
Speaker 1: how she's lost it. This would be difficult if her
Speaker 1: mother had passed away and she'd just come from her funeral,
Speaker 1: but she's having to do something else without the knowledge.
Speaker 1: So I just want to hop on give your thoughts impressions.
Speaker 1: Didn't know if you got to see it today, but
Speaker 1: Savannah gou three is back as always. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: spending some time here with us. For my dear Amy Roboc,
Speaker 1: I'm TJ. Holtz talk to