- What's up, y'all?
I'm back with Nico Santos, give it up!
(audience clapping and cheering)
So from time to time, it's really nice
to get out of the studio and see people face to face
even if it's from a safe social distance.
So I've been hitting the road
to get to the outdoor theater
for what we call a drive-interview. Get it?
♪ Drive interview ♪
Did you hear Jesse? Jesse with the view, he was impressed.
(laughing)
The other day, I was hanging out
when the very funny Jesse Tyler Ferguson pulled in.
I love that I'm just hanging out randomly by myself
(chuckles)
and Jesse Tyler just happened to pull in.
It was so random, take a look.
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- [Jesse] Come on, grandma.
- What's up. What's up? How you doing, Jesse?
- I love it, I love the car.
- Um, I like your car.
- It's a, it's a model red.
- It's a model red?
- I don't know anything about cars.
(chuckling)
- You know, you don't like classic cars or anything?
- I don't. And actually, the closest I have
to any sort of like classic car thing anywhere near my house
is this horse sculpture that Justin and I bought
that's entirely made of car parts and bike parts.
- Oh.
- That's the only thing that I have
in the classic car category in my house.
- (chuckles) That's funny.
Wait, speaking of houses, you're in Gwyn's house.
- I am, yes.
- Yeah, you got Gwen Stefani's house.
- Yes. She lived there for,
I don't know like seven or eight years,
but yeah. It's got good energy because of her.
- Oh, wow. Right on, right on.
Um, how is your little one?
Because, how old, how old now?
- [Jesse] He's seven months now.
- I was gonna say he hasn't had a first birthday
because I did see the shower.
- [Jesse] Yes. - The shower was incredible.
- In February, it was the last party
that anyone went to in the world. It was our baby shower.
- That's kind of a cool one to go out on.
It was quite a blow out and we didn't plan it ourselves.
We had a friend of ours plan it,
and the venue that they rented had a swimming pool.
So we hired this group of male synchronized swimmers
called um, the Aquawillies.
- W-w-w-what?
- Aquawillies, and they were amazing.
And they were, they were a complete surprise to us, but...
- That's amazing.
How's it been, being a dad?
- It's been, it's been great. I love it.
- It's exhausting.
- It is so exhausting and the thing is
Beckett was born in July
and for like the first three months, I was like
I'm so grateful to have this,
this time when I'm not working to just,
you know, spend time with him. - Yeah.
And now I really, really, really wish
I could just like slip away and go to work for the day.
- Yeah.
- Julie, Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell would always like,
stay in their trailer a little while longer
after they were done shooting and just like get naps in.
And I have no, I can't do that.
I can't just disappear and take a nap somewhere.
- You will, you will get there.
(laughing)
- I'm just gonna lie down.
- You will totally get there and be like,
man it was so weird,
work went a little longer than suspected.
- [Jesse] Yeah, yeah.
Meanwhile, you're just sitting in your car.
- They're like, how was the chat with Kelly Clarkson,
you were, you were there a long time.
I'm like sleeping in the back of this thing.
- Well, I'm chatty. You can blame it on that. I talk a lot.
(chuckles)
I found this amazing.
So, you came out with a cookbook, right?
- Yeah. I have a cooking partner.
Her name is Julie Tanous.
She and I met at a dinner party like six years ago.
She has taught me how to do so much in the kitchen.
And so, we, we wrote a cookbook together
and it's um, we've been working on it for like two years.
It's called Food Between Friends.
- What a great title.
- Yeah. It's been really fun. Yeah.
- So, you love food. You're a foodie.
So, how is your little one, Beckett?
How is he with food?
- [Jesse] He's, he's actually a little picky, um,
which is concerning to me.
- Welcome to having a boy. - [Jesse] Yeah. (chuckles)
- Because my girl will eat anything,
I could bribe her to eat anything.
And, my boy eats anything beige.
- Ours is a, if it's a tiniest little,
if it has the tiniest little bit of flavor, he's like, no.
- Yeah, and he freaks out.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Kelly] Have you ever gone too spicy with food?
Have you ever been making something and you...
- I mean, I, I love Mexican food and I,
I have gone too spicy with that actually.
And it, it happened with my older age.
I'm 45 now, and like five years ago,
I remember lying in bed like,
Oh my God, I think I'm having a heart attack.
And I actually went to the hospital
and it was just acid reflux.
I'm like, oh, that's something I have to deal with.
(audience laughing)
- Did you feel like such a tool?
- I felt like such an idiot.
They're like, you're just a little gassy.
- They're like, so you have heartburn.
- [Jesse] Yeah.
(laughs) So embarrassing.
They like prescribed me Tums.
- It's life threatening, help me.
(laughs)
That was amazing.
Well, I love seeing you.
- [Jesse] It's so good to see you.
- And I loved hanging out with you.
- Before, I leave though, you um,
I know you work with Blake.
I do actually have some of Gwen's, um, mail.
I'm still getting at the house, catalogs and stuff.
- Oh, yeah.
- So, I don't know if like,
- Oh, that's a box, it's a box.
Yeah.
Oh.
- [Jesse] Bring that over to her.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
That's a box of stuff. Okay.
- So good to see you.
- It's nice to see you.
I will get that to them.
(car honks)
(upbeat music)
- [Jesse] Bye.
(audience cheers and claps)
- Aren't, wait, what about you? Do you like cooking at home?
- Uh, yeah, I've done nothing but cook during quarantine
which is why I've gained like, 700 pounds.
(laughs)
- Honestly, I gained because I didn't cook.
I Postmated a lot. (chuckles)
- Well, that too. We would cook and then Postmates
and the cycle continues.
- Do you like cooking?
- I love cooking.
I, my boyfriend is the savory cook and I'm more of a baker.
- [Kelly] Oh, what a team.
- I know, it's great. It's great. (laughs)
- I'm just alone. Just cooking for me, so. (laughs)
Just kidding, no,
I, it doesn't matter if people are there or not.
I can't cook.
Um, don't forget to pick up Jesse's new book
Food Between Friends.