Savannah Guthrie Returns, and It Almost Looked Normal, Until She Greeted The Crowd Outside
Rogue Energy
iHeartPodcasts
3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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For the first time since the disappearance of her mother, Savannah Guthrie returned to her role as co-host of NBC's Today Show. For the most part, it looked like business as usual. She even cracked a few jokes during anchor banter. The show, for the most part, looked normal ... until Savannah went outside to greet fans.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Monday, April 6th, and Savannah Guthrie is back. |
| 0:12.1 | Today is the day that she said she'd return to host the Today Show. |
| 0:17.0 | And she was back in her seat this morning, still not knowing what happened to her mother. |
| 0:22.8 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:25.8 | She just got T.J. on this one. Amy's sitting this one out. But wanted to pass along |
| 0:32.1 | observations of what we saw on the show this morning. Savannah Guthrer, of course, whose mother disappeared February 1st. |
| 0:40.1 | It has been over two months now, and Savannah Guthrie has been away from her seat at the Today Show that entire time. |
| 0:46.4 | But today, she told us about a week ago, but she circled this day, April 6th, as the day she was going to return. |
| 0:53.3 | And in fact, she was there and she was in place. |
| 0:56.9 | Certainly had the TV on here ready to watch and had it on several minutes before 7 o'clock. |
| 1:03.8 | And so I got to see Savannah Guthrie before she actually went on the Today Show. You watch your local affiliates, NBC affiliates, |
| 1:12.7 | they'll do a tease with the national anchors a few minutes before the top of the hour at 7 o'clock |
| 1:18.4 | Eastern time. And so I wasn't thinking about that and didn't really register and I'm sitting doing |
| 1:23.4 | something else and boom, she pops up on the screen. And it was almost, I don't know, |
| 1:29.2 | it was weird and surprising just to see her on television again, to see her in TV attire again. |
| 1:35.6 | And she was wearing a bright yellow today and to see her smiling. But the banter with the local |
| 1:40.9 | New York anchors was very normal. There wasn um, there was, wasn't a big welcome or |
| 1:47.2 | good to see you again. It was business as usual. And I think that kind of set the tone for what was |
| 1:52.3 | going to happen on the today show. And I think it was apparent from the very beginning that this, |
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