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Hey, Ellen.
Ted.
How wonderful to see you.
It's wonderful to see you too.
You look fantastic.
My birthday was yesterday, yours was a few weeks ago.
But here's the difference between us.
You have an entire Twitter account
dedicated to your birthday.
So here's what I found out this morning.
You know about this, of course, but I--
there's a Twitter account for Ted Danson
that every single day it says, it's not Ted Danson's birthday
all year long until it is, and then it says,
today is Ted Danson's birthday.
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Crazy.
It's helpful though.
It's helpful.
[LAUGHTER]
It is.
It's very--
I used to forget my birthday.
Not anymore.
I know exactly when it is.
And so does everybody else.
I mean, people are following this.
It's crazy.
First of all, I just--
I miss you.
I miss you too, so much.
And the show is hilarious, you're hilarious.
You and Mary just celebrated your 25th wedding anniversary.
Congratulations to that.
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Thank you.
Life is good.
Life is good for you.
Yes, life is one miracle after another.
We had fun.
We got to all take tests, the whole family, grandkids
and kids.
Got all safe and got together and hugged and kissed.
And it was a great little celebration.
That's great.
How long were you all together before you proposed to her?
Probably a year and a half.
Year and a half.
Yeah.
What do you remember-- what did you--
was it a special proposal?
What did you do?
Well, first off I'm kind of lame.
Which is not news, but I bought a--
I knew from the day we met that I didn't want to be
with anybody else but her.
But we had kids, both of us with different marriages
and all that.
So it took a while.
But I found a ring, a beautiful ring that I loved.
And then I walked--
I had it in my pocket for like two months.
And I'd walk around practicing, and I'd say, I want to--
I want to marry you.
No, [INAUDIBLE].
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And it literally took me two months to finally go, oh yeah,
will you marry me?
And then all of a sudden, the light bulb went off.
I jumped on a plane, flew to Houston where she was shooting.
And we got engaged in Houston while she was shooting a film.
Wow, so you just needed the exact sentence.
That's all you needed.
Yeah.
I couldn't imagine what she'd say after I want to marry you.
Oh.
How nice.
Right.
You know.
Yeah.
She was not forced to give you an answer.
You were arrested since the last time I saw you.
Was that your first time getting arrested?
Yes.
Yes, it was.
You can see it was kind of an exciting moment
that I delighted in.
Mostly because I was with Jane Fonda.
This was Fire Drill Fridays where
she would for like six months--
there she is.
Look at her.
Amazing.
Yep.
She-- 80 years old there, I think.
She's turned into be one of my real inspirations in life.
But what it did for me is I think
that I had been kind of hiding behind,
oh I work on ocean issues, I have 30 years,
I'm saving the oceans kind of thing.
And I was hiding behind that I think a little bit.
And I think that arrest made me want to double down
on climate change.
And yeah, it meant a lot to meet her.
It kind of changed my life.
Yeah, she's awesome.
But it's great that you went and joined her in that.
That's really cool.
All right, let's talk about the new show
before we run out of time.
Mr. Mayor, tell everybody what it's about.
I'm a mayor.
I play the mayor of Los Angeles.
I play-- which is a bit of a stretch.
A 73-year-old very white, rich male
who should not be involved in the political process anymore.
His day is over.
But to prove that he's still got it to his 15-year-old daughter
and to himself, he runs for mayor.
And he wins.
And so this starts with my first day at work.
That's fantastic.
All right, Ted.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to play a game after this that you will enjoy,
I think.
I will.
I know.
I think we're all going to enjoy it.
I'm going to go ahead and say we all will.
All right, we'll be back.
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