Today's Take: Roker, Geist, Morales, Hall, & Brooke Shields Are Dunked In The Pink Or Swim Dunktanks

NBC ID: AR2E9N6QTJ | Production Unit: NBC News | Media Type: Aired Show | Event Date(s): 10/29/2015

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Event Date(s): 10/29/2015 | Event Location(s): New York City, New York | Description: Live shot of Hall and Guthrie (wearing shark costumes), and Roker and Geist (wearing early 20th century men’s bathing suits and straw hats walking out of Studio 1A and into the plaza to the Pink Or Swim dunk tanks. STILL: Singer Katy Perry in concert with dancers in shark costumes. STILL: Karen Hardy and her sister. Lisa Wilson’s husband Sam with the crowd holding a camera. STILL: Lisa Wilson’s contest entry photo of her with Sam (Sam is wearing a “Borat” one piece outfit). Actress Brooke Shields is seen in the plaza. Geist, Guthrie, Roker, and Hall sit in their individual dunk tanks as the contest winners throw balls to try and dunk them (all four are dunked when the contest winners run to the dunk buttons and push them). EJ of the dunks seen. Shields takes off her jacket and climbs into one tank and is dunked. EJ of Shields’ dunking seen. Shields, wearing a white shirt, holds her arms over her chest after being dunked. “TAMRON HALL: Okay. WILLIE GEIST: Well, well, well, welcome to TODAY. It's a Thursday morning, October 29, 2015. Just another day out on the plaza. Willie along with Al, Natalie and Tamron. Good to see you there, Al. AL ROKER: Good to see you, Pal. WILLIE GEIST: How do you do, pal? So we told you we wore bathing suits for this. TAMRON HALL: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: As we got the old-timey bathing suits, right, from the turn of the last century? TAMRON HALL: And every good tank needs two sharks. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. Of course, shark tanks. TAMRON HALL: And what's better than two left sharks. There we have it. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. Here we go. WILLIE GEIST: You guys are looking incredible. As you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We partnered with the Avon Foundation for women, and thanks to the support of you, our viewers, we've raised more than ten thousand dollars. TAMRON HALL: Yes. NATALIE MORALES: Whoa. WILLIE GEIST: In the fight against breast cancer. NATALIE MORALES: Good job. TAMRON HALL: Whoa. WILLIE GEIST: So we promised the four of us would get dunked live here on the plaza. TAMRON HALL: Mm-Hm. WILLIE GEIST: With Tamron last year was our inspiration. We all got in on at this year. Al and I have the old timing swimsuits. You've got left sharks, right shark from this year's Super Bowl-- NATALIE MORALES: Or two left. TAMRON HALL: Two lefts. WILLIE GEIST: --and we're ready to get dunked. AL ROKER: That's right. TAMRON HALL: Okay. NATALIE MORALES: Okay. So with that-- AL ROKER: The good thing is that aren't going to really absorb much water. NATALIE MORALES: No. TAMRON HALL: Yes. NATALIE MORALES: Well, I know. TAMRON HALL: We're prepared to be rescued. There is a rescue team for Natalie. NATALIE MORALES: Sharks are good in the water, right? TAMRON HALL: Yes, they are. Okay. NATALIE MORALES: So it is-- we-- you know we're not doing this alone. TAMRON HALL: No. NATALIE MORALES: We have four wonderful participants who have agreed to help us with the dunking today. Let's bring them on over. TAMRON HALL: Our contest winners, come on over. NATALIE MORALES: Here it comes right here. My dunkee is Dana Luss (ph). DANA LUSS: Dana Luss. TAMRON HALL: Hello. How are you? DANA LUSS: Thank you. NATALIE MORALES: And I know you're currently battling breast cancer. How are you doing? DANA LUSS: Thank you. I'm doing great. I just finished chemo. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. DANA LUSS: Going in for surgery, but we're killing it. Great. NATALIE MORALES: So this means a lot to you, be able to put me in that tank in the water. DANA LUSS: Thank you for swimming for breast cancer. NATALIE MORALES: Oh, you're the best. TAMRON HALL: Okay. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. AL ROKER: And my dunkee is Karen Hardy (ph) from Mableton, Georgia. Good to see you. KAREN HARDY: Thank you. AL ROKER: And-- and you're doing this for your sister? KAREN HARDY: Yes. This is to honor my sister Cynthia. And we're excited to be here with my niece Heather. And we're excited to be here ready to dunk you, Al. AL ROKER: Great. That's fantastic. WILLIE GEIST: I've got Mark Webb (ph) of Greenville, South Carolina. I sent scouts down there to see how your arm looks and I'm not feeling too good about this could go and married to his wife for seven years. They never got to take a honeymoon. So now here they are in New York City. And you entered because of your grandmother. MARK WEBB: Yes, my grandmother is a breast cancer survivor, thirty-plus years, and she's been awesome, a big impact in my life. So doing this for her. WILLIE GEIST: Yeah, we're excited you're here. TAMRON HALL: Fantastic. And up next, Lisa Wilson (ph) from Oxford, Mississippi. Lisa is a retired high school English teacher and her husband Sam (ph) is a retired football coach. He is here and why did you want to dunk me? Lisa, tell the truth. LISA WILSON: We thought you'd be really fun to do. So we're excited. Yeah. TAMRON HALL: Now, your husband's awfully a good, fun time as well. LISA WILSON: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: Because as I understand that he wore Willie Geist, the Borat costume. LISA WILSON: He did. He did for the picture. TAMRON HALL: Oh. LISA WILSON: He did. WILLIE GEIST: Oh. AL ROKER: Impressive. WILLIE GEIST: That is a winner. LISA WILSON: I know. TAMRON HALL: That's a winner. So we got our man in a Borat costume. WILLIE GEIST: Okay. TAMRON HALL: So thank you. LISA WILSON: I know. Got him to do it. TAMRON HALL: Yay. LISA WILSON: Yay. TAMRON HALL: Well, thank you so much. LISA WILSON: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: And you might remember, just last week, we had a very special caller call into the show. TAMRON HALL: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: Our good friend Brook Shields said I want in on this. I want to put up a thousand dollars. But she also wants to throw us in the tank. Brooke, how are you? TAMRON HALL: Hey. NATALIE MORALES: Hi. (Crowd cheering) WILLIE GEIST: So what's your role here, Brooke? BROOKE SHIELDS: My role is to get all of you in the tank. TAMRON HALL: Okay. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. BROOKE SHIELDS: All right. NATALIE MORALES: And then you're going in with us, too. BROOKE SHIELDS: Maybe. AL ROKER: Maybe. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. BROOKE SHIELDS: I don't know. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. TAMRON HALL: Are we ready? WILLIE GEIST: All right. NATALIE MORALES: Ready? We're ready? WILLIE GEIST: Report to your tank. BROOKE SHIELDS: Are we ready? Natalie, Al? TAMRON HALL: Come on, we're going. BROOKE SHIELDS: All right, everybody get in. All right, here, I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. No worries. I got it. All right, everybody. Dunkees, come on. You're dragging your feet, Al. TAMRON HALL: What is this? Don't do it. Not yet. Not yet. BROOKE SHIELDS: All right. NATALIE MORALES: Aim slower. Aim slower. BROOKE SHIELDS: Okay. NATALIE MORALES: I got it. BROOKE SHIELDS: All right, Al. All right, dunkees, you're ready? All right. NATALIE MORALES: Ready. (Cross talking) BROOKE SHIELDS: Three-- NATALIE MORALES: Aim lower, Dana. BROOKE SHIELDS: --two, one, start throwing. (Crowd cheering) BROOKE SHIELDS: No, stop, stop, stop, stop. This is crazy. Come here. Everybody huddle in. (unintelligible) how to throw? All right, I want you to really, really aim and throw, okay? Get them in that water, now. All right. All right, everybody. Again, three, two, one, throw. (Crowd cheering) AL ROKER: It's like TODAY's TAKE soup. This is really hot. Wow. WILLIE GEIST: Wow. AL ROKER: This is great. This is fantastic. WILLIE GEIST: This is great. AL ROKER: I love this. (Crowd cheering) WILLIE GEIST: I didn't want to get out of that. NATALIE MORALES: I felt like a bathtub. AL ROKER: That is nicely hosted. WILLIE GEIST: It's hot. NATALIE MORALES: It was great. WILLIE GEIST: Fantastic. So Brooke, super grateful for you being here. BROOKE SHIELDS: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: Super grateful for your donation. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: Very generous of you. BROOKE SHIELDS: Thank you. WILLIE GEIST: And we're super grateful that you're now going to get into one of the tanks. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. BROOKE SHIELDS: Yeah. AL ROKER: All right. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. AL ROKER: Yes. NATALIE MORALES: Go for it. AL ROKER: Here we go. WILLIE GEIST: She's the best sport ever. NATALIE MORALES: You might want to take the shoes off. That's a good shoe. WILLIE GEIST: You get to shatter Brooke Shields. BROOKE SHIELDS: Whoa. NATALIE MORALES: Here we go. Go for it. WILLIE GEIST: Boldly wearing white. NATALIE MORALES: Go Dana. Here we go. Nice shot. WILLIE GEIST: Ooh. NATALIE MORALES: There you go. Almost. AL ROKER: Ooh. WILLIE GEIST: Oh. NATALIE MORALES: Wow. WILLIE GEIST: Nice shot. Come on out here, guys. AL ROKER: Terrific job. WILLIE GEIST: Nice job. NATALIE MORALES: Good job, everybody. Well done. Thank you. For a great cause. Fantastically done. WILLIE GEIST: Oh, man. TAMRON HALL: Thank you. Brooke is trying to get out. NATALIE MORALES: Well done. AL ROKER: All right, hold on. WILLIE GEIST: Brooke is very brave to wear white on the big day. That's all I'm going to say. NATALIE MORALES: Very brave. TAMRON HALL: She's a wise woman, she has a tank top. WILLIE GEIST: Oh, she does. AL ROKER: If you're going in, then it is getting out, I would tell you. WILLIE GEIST: Hey, guys thank you so much for being here. AL ROKER: Hey-- NATALIE MORALES: Thank you so much. Come over here. TAMRON HALL: Thank you. AL ROKER: By the way, you guys come over here. NATALIE MORALES: We'll have a group hug.”

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