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Al Roker reprimanded his fellow Today show cohosts on Tuesday morning after they made a meme-related joke.
During the third hour of the NBC morning program on November 18, the 71-year-old meteorologist was doing the weather and was relaying what the temperatures will be around the country. When he said the weather in Nashville, Tennessee, is expected to range from the 60s to the low 70s, his cohost Savannah Guthrie could be heard saying something in the background, along with some laughter, which prompted Al to say, “Pardon?” She repeated what she said before, now more audible, and it was “6-7” then “6-7 degrees.”
Al looked done with Savannah and her reference to the 6-7 meme. He told Savannah, Carson Daly and Craig Melvin, “You guys got to stop this. Really, you can’t…..you are jumping the shark on this one.” As Al was saying that, Savannah apologized and said, “I live with an eight-year-old boy, what can I say?”
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Savannah, 53, shares two children with husband Michael Feldman: daughter Vale, 11, and son Charley.
Before the moment with Al, Carson had brought up the meme. The trio were discussing a report done by NBC’s Maggie Vespa about a self-driving tractor and the future of farming.
Craig went on to say that when they do a story about artificial intelligence (AI), it reveals the complexity of the situation. He elaborated by asking how does one fill the gap when there’s a legitimate labor shortage, and the average age of a farmer is 60.
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While speaking, he made a weighing hand motion. The hand motions seemed to remind Carson of the hand motion that goes with the 6-7 meme as he followed Craig’s remark by saying, “I don’t know, is it a 6-7? Is it one of those?” Then Craig repeated the phrase and did the hand gestures.
The meme that has many wondering what it means reportedly originated from rapper Skrilla from his track, Doot Doot. In the track, he raps “Bro put belt right to they behind/The way that switch brrt, I know he dyin / 6-7, I just bipped right on the highway.”
Carson Daly, Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin© TODAY Show/NBC
The Philadelphia musical artist explained in an interview with Genius what 6-7 meant. He stated, “6-7 just represents my brain, like what comes up in my head.” The song went on to be featured in high school basketball edits last fall and went viral on TikTok. A high school basketball player, Taylen ‘TK’ Kinney, also known as content creator Rod Wave Elite, popularized the phrase as a meme when he said it with the signature hand gesture while rating a Starbucks drink in December 2024.
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