-Welcome back. -Jimmy!
-Hi. -Look at you.
The hardest-working people in show business.
-Oh, stop it. You are.
-You start the network in the morning
and you're closing --
-We're shutting it down!
-Shutting it down with "The Tonight Show."
Come on. -Come on.
-Thank you again for coming back.
I always love seeing you. I watch you every single day.
You finally got a little time off during the holidays.
-We did. -A little break.
-Oh, my God. -What'd you do?
-Okay, so, Jimmy, I took my two girls,
Haley and Hope, to Universal.
-They're the cutest kids.
-First of all, they met you, and they adore you,
so when we were walking around, I go,
"Look -- there's a Jimmy Fallon ride!"
-I have my own ride.
-Wait. You have your own -- Have y'all ever been on it?
It's -- Okay, it's really fun.
So, my 3-year-old put the glasses on.
You get locked in.
It's like you're in "The Tonight Show."
Jimmy, she was terrified.
She is, like, scarred.
-I don't think she can do that.
-She loved you, but now -- -She's too young.
-Yeah, she just -- -Did she throw up?
-She just made the height. She didn't throw up.
-Did she understand what was happening?
-Jimmy, she was terrified.
She kept going, "Where's Jimmy? Where's Jimmy? No!
Get me out, get me out, get me out!"
And you can't get out once you're in.
-Just like "The Tonight Show." Yeah, they're all strapped in.
They're not allowed to leave.
-By the way, it was super-fun, but she was way too little.
But you have to, like, come and hug her.
-Alright, next time, bring her over.
Yeah, yeah, I'll come by and see you.
How about -- You have a birthday around Christmas.
-Yes, I do.
The coveted two-days-after-Christmas
birthday, when everybody was really in the mood to celebrate.
And, also, I turned 51, which is so not exciting.
-Oh, my gosh. Happy birthday! Yes! Come on.
-Yes, it is exciting.
-But my little boy asked me, literally, the other day --
You know how, when they're little,
they have the 4-year-old visit, the 5-year-old visit?
My little boy goes, "Mommy,
did you have your 51-year-old visit?"
-Oh, no. -I know.
And I was like, "Yeah, they weighed and measured me.
I got the shingles vaccine."
Yeah, so, we did that, and it was fun.
-It was fun? A little family time?
Did you get any good gifts?
-You know what the cutest thing is?
The kids actually wrote down what they liked about me,
which is really --
-Are you joking? -I know.
And I think they were, like, you know, prompted to do that.
-Yeah.
-But my little boy said I smelled good.
-Hey! -Yes.
And my daughter said, "She acts like a little girl"
and that I sing, but badly.
-No! -Yes.
-Still, you take it. That's so cute.
-Yeah. -Come on.
Before we talk about the five years,
I want to talk about your new podcast.
Talk to me about this. "Making Space."
-By the way, I love this podcast, Jimmy.
There are certain things you do and you're crazy about.
This whole -- This podcast is all kind of
inspirational leaders and teachers.
-You love -- You're good at -- You love that.
-I'm so -- I'm so in.
I feel like if I wasn't doing the podcast, like,
I would be listening to it.
But we had this lady on named Mel Robbins,
who's a very, like -- she's a motivational speaker.
-Yeah.
-And she was saying to -- She was saying,
"Look, in the new year, you should do --
You can start off by this resolution."
She said, "The very first decision
you make every morning when you wake up,
the very, very first decision when your alarm goes off is,
you're going to decide whether or not you're going to
procrastinate to start your day or you're going to hop up."
She said, "The very first decision you make
in the morning, never ever hit snooze.
Feet on the floor, get up, get into the shower right away.
Make your bed right away."
And she said, "Once you do those things --"
-I don't know. I don't know about this.
-Jimmy, that means the whole --
-I might do the first one, but I can't do both things.
-That's too much?
-Feels like I'm in the... -It's a lot?
-...yeah, the armed forces.
I want to talk about "Today," okay?
This is a landmark show, obviously,
one of the -- "Tonight Show," "Today Show."
Recently, we lost a legend, journalist Barbara Walters,
who was on the "Today" show for 15 years?
-Mm-hmm.
-What did her legacy leave behind?
What does she mean to you guys?
-Well, she -- I think she said it best when we --
A few years ago, when she retired from "The View,"
they invited newswomen past and present,
and everyone walked out and surprised her.
And, I mean, everybody was there.
Oprah was there, everyone.
And Barbara looked around,
and she said, "You guys are my legacy."
And I think we know that that is true.
I mean, at the "Today" show in particular,
we're not here without Barbara Walters
knocking down that door and doing it when
there was no precedent.
There was no example.
There was no representation of that path.
She did it.
She blazed the trail like a pioneer.
-We are able to sit and have two women anchoring together,
which is now totally normal, because of what Barbara did.
-Yeah, you say Barbara -- Yeah, of course.
She was a trailblazer. But think about that.
That's five years of doing this together.
When you first were sat together and you opened the "Today" show,
did it feel like a moment to you?
-It felt like a moment, but not because it was two women.
It was because it was us. -Yeah.
-You know, it was -- We literally held hands
and said, "Let's do this."
-"Let's go." -You know?
-But it was a moment for women, I would think.
-I think it was.
We didn't realize it, because I remember,
I went to a SoulCycle spin class
and I walked in shortly after Savannah and I had started.
And I sat in the same seat I always sit in,
in Sue's SoulCycle class.
And I sat in my chair, and people started clapping.
And I was like, "Oh, my God. Someone has a birthday."
You know, they always do -- You know how they do.
-Yeah, yeah, the bike clap. They root for each other.
They're like, "You go!" -"You got it! Yeah!"
-"You got it." -"50 looks good!" Anyway...
And as I was sitting, I was looking around,
and they were looking at me.
And I said -- I go, "What's going on?"
And they go, "What you and Savannah did today.
It was big. It was big."
And I told Savannah -- I said, "Oh, my God.
It mattered."
Like, we didn't realize, I think, in the moment
that it did, and now --
-Have you seen things change since you've started?
-You know one thing that we notice a lot?
Is in local news, which we came up in local news,
you know, if somebody was gone and you needed a sub,
it was always a guy and a girl.
It was always a man and a woman.
It was like Dina and Todd or whoever and whoever.
They would never put two women --
They would never say, "Oh, Todd's off tonight.
Hoda, can you fill in? Savannah?
No, we can't have two women." -Two women.
-Now we notice, because we do all these affiliate cross-tags,
so we see it in local news all the time.
There are a lot of female partnerships.
So, I don't know if that's -- Probably not because of us,
but now it's just more normal.
And I think that's really cool.
-I think it is because of you guys, yeah.
-Todd shouldn't have taken all that time off.
-No, exactly right, yeah.
-And you know what else is really cool?
-Yeah.
-Guess who's coming back tomorrow, Jimmy, on our show.
-Al. -Guess who's coming back.
-Al Roker? -Yes!
-Al Roker's back? -Yes.
[ Cheers and applause ] -We love you, Al.
No, no, no. I'm going to lose it.
I love -- I'm going to lose it. I love that guy so much.
-You sent him such cool videos when he was in the hospital.
-He's such a good guy. I can't wait.
Alright, good.
I'll try to watch -- I'll come in tomorrow early
just to say hi to Al.
-You'll have to wake up in the morning hours.
-I won't hit snooze. Yeah, exactly.
But, really, I wanted to thank you for
coming on the show again, but also to thank you for what
you're doing and what you've done.
Five years -- this is massive, what you're doing.
And you're the best. I watch you every morning.
You're the greatest. Thank you, guys, so much.
-Jimmy, we love you. We love you.
-Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb -- no one better --
right here on the "Today" show on NBC.
We'll be right back with Colin Quinn, everybody.
Stick around.