It's good to see you. It's good to see you. You just got back from Germany. I did. Yeah. And I didn't know that-- I learned that today
that you grew up-- you spend a lot of
time in Germany. In the Deutschland. How long? Back and forth until
I was about 13. Wow. So you were born there? No. I was born in D.C., but
my mother was German. She was an opera singer. So we would go back
through the opera seasons. And every opera has a dirty
gypsy child, and that was me. I didn't know any of that. Do I feel-- like I'm
more like special to you right now, right? You've always been special
to me, but I'm just-- but in a different special way. I knew. I knew-- But, so are you a big
deal when you're there? Do people-- No. Not at all. No. It's like when you go home to
your family, are you big deal? To my family? Yes. Yes. Oh. Yeah, my family
thinks I'm a big deal. So people don't freak
out when you're there. No. It's a big deal too. Christmas is a big
deal there too. Huge, huge, huge. Like you plan-- I planned
Christmas like in July, and then start planning
actually decorating two weeks before Thanksgiving. Are you serious? Serious. Serious. So-- There is an uncomfortable
silence going, yeah. Something not right with her. I see why Ellen thought
she was special. So you start at
Thanksgiving, getting ready? Yeah. Right before
Thanksgiving, I've started pulling out the decorations. OK. Your whole house is decorated? Yeah. And obviously, a tree. Well, there's trees. Our nanny is allergic
to pine, so we had to go completely plastic. Well, there's spruce. There's other trees. None of it's allowed
in the house. None of it's allowed
in the house. So there's a lot of really
good-looking pine trees, Wow. She must be a good nanny. She's amazing. So, and what about the
kid-- what do the kids want? Well, they want a
lot, but this year, with all the fires
and things like that, I said, how about
this year we give to children who don't have
anything from the fire? So they came up with that they
only get three small things. And I said, that works. Isn't that amazing? [APPLAUSE] That's so great. But we need to wait
until Christmas day, to see if that's still
going to play out. To see if they still, on
Christmas day, if they-- They're going to be like-- no, remember you said. No, they're really
good that way. I think you can't not see what's
going on in the world anymore, and you can't protect your
kids from it, so they saw it, and it just made
them really sad. That's so great. I hope a lot of people
do that because there are a lot of people-- I think a lot of
people are doing it. Yeah. It just feels different
this year for some reason. I don't know. People feel nicer? Yeah. We're counter-- No? Yes, I do. I think we're counterbalancing
some not-nice things going on, and I think people are
trying to be nicer, so-- [APPLAUSE] Your hair is hitting
your microphones. Sorry. Oh. [STATIC] Now you try to do it on purpose? I do it. Yeah. Yeah. Do you care about our
sound people at all? You know, you're
not bothering me. I don't care. Keep talking. Talk. OK. [STATIC] I'm not going to do it. [STATIC] OK. Sorry. So let's be serious. All right. This is a very
serious show today. A whole different
vibe for me today. There's like a seriousness
here that we have to-- What are you talking about? I don't know. It's not serious at all. No. OK. No. All right. So we talked about
what the kids want. Did they get you something? No. No. They should. They should but they don't. Yeah. I say now what my
mother said, which is, I just want good kids. Just be sweet to me. That's all I want. And like, no fighting. And do they? Not really. Yeah. I mean, they don't understand. I say, why don't you
make me breakfast in bed? And they're like, what? Us cook for you? And I'm like, yeah, that's-- but they're still
young too, so they don't understand that concept. Well, that that
wonderful nanny you have could give them
some ideas that-- She could. She could, she could, but I'm
making her breakfast in bed as well, so-- Oh, wow. I might want to be your nanny. That sounds like
a really good job. Yeah, it is. But I'm glad to see
you've had, seriously-- this is the serious part. You've had a rough
couple of months. And I'm happy that you're
happy and things are good. Thank you. Yeah. It was a-- you know
like, life, I realize, happens whether you
schedule it or not. That just blew my
mind this year. Yeah, but my dad died, and
then while my dad was failing, we get a call that-- from
the nanny, same nanny-- that our dog Ruby, the
two-legger had a stroke. And I'm like, what? What? I was like, just put
her on life support. Do something. And they go, we can't. She's suffering. So I was like, OK. There's a reason for this. Dad settled. We fly home. Days later, your
dad's not doing well. Then the nanny
comes into the room. She's got to look on her face. I'm like, what did the kids do? And she was like, I need to
speak to you in the bedroom. And I was like, OK. And she goes, your other
dog has a heart tumor, and she's going to
die in three days. And I was like, I'm
going to be fine. And then a week later,
I'm in the bathtub crying, and the kids are
like, is mommy OK? We were like, just leave
mommy in the bathtub. She's going to be fine. So you know what? It's life and--
but, you know, when you lose your
little rides-or-die, it makes things different. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry. And I know how much an
animal lover you are, and that's a really
tough thing, because you rescue-- it's so great. She rescues the two-legged
dogs that nobody wants. Everybody wanted it. I just got it. Yeah. She also made $100,000
donation to the Humane Society because of everything
that's going on. [APPLAUSE] And $400,000 to the Red Cross. That's what she's done. [APPLAUSE] I mean, you're a good person. I mean, whenever anything
like this-- you've always, every cause, you are
always donating for it. You do it 1,000
times more than I do. Well, I have a great platform,
and I can, you know-- You have a great bank
account is what-- [LAUGHTER] You would too if you didn't
make so many donations. [LAUGHTER] OK. So that's why no one's
getting presents this year. All right. I have a surprise for you. Oh, sweet Jesus. What is it? Yeah, no. It's a good one. Don't scare me. Don't. Don't. I'm not going to scare you. I won't. I swear if you do it-- I won't. I will never come
on this show again. First of all, yes, you will. Yeah, it's true. But I'm not going to scare you. But it's a surprise. It's going to be great. I'm just like, I don't want
anyone coming up behind me. Well, we're going
to take a break. We're not going to scare you. Oh, good.
