My next guests are backstage right now.
They don't know that they're my next guests.
Lindsay and her husband Joey have two kids--
Kaden and Jackson.
Joey is in the Navy and Lindsay just enlisted.
And her dream is to be a nurse in the Navy.
So starting next month, she's going
to be away from her family for almost a year.
They're with Jeannie right now.
Lindsay thinks her family is getting interviewed later
for a digital series.
Jeannie, if you can hear me, scratch your head.
--a nightmare.
But I was like, I'm all right.
You can tell them you're about to start the interview
on stage.
So start walking this way.
OK guys, let's go.
Come on.
Let's go and head out there.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
They look wonderful, ladies.
Thank you guys so much.
So come on this way.
Very quiet.
So just remember that, well, you know
we want to have big energy.
But we're going to get out there.
We'll be able to get settled.
Cameras will be all ready.
And then we'll just kind of get in and you should just be you.
And then, here we go.
This is where we'll go and we'll do the interview.
Oh my God!
[CHEERING]
[APPLAUSE]
Hi!
I'm going to cry
Hi!
How are you?
Is this real life right now?
Is this real life?
Oh my God.
It's so nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Oh my God.
[APPLAUSE]
Hello!
Hi!
Oh!
Is this really real?
Oh.
So Jackson is backstage.
And he'll be happy to see that I'm here.
I hear that he gets very mad when I
have a guest host on the show.
He gets so mad!
Yeah, he's really funny.
So every day, we come home and we start watching the show.
And any time those doors open and you're not there,
he stops what he's doing and looks around and says,
where's L-Ellen?
And I have to tell him, for some reason,
she thinks she can take days off.
And then he kind of understands.
And he calls me L-Ellen?
L-Ellen.
He does.
I like it.
Well, I'll meet him backstage.
All right, so, Lindsay.
You're joining the Navy.
I am.
You joined, like, just recently, right?
And now you're already being sent off.
It's like it happened so fast.
Wow.
I've been in school trying to chip away
at prereqs for the last three years.
Since we moved, more recently, it's just--
I can't get the priority for the classes that I need.
Even though I have a 4.0, it's just--
I can't get the science classes.
So it kind of was just a no-brainer, right,
that I join the Navy.
That that will help you.
Yeah.
Because, you know, I'll get the classes
and then I'll get experience.
And then, more importantly, I get
to say that I served my country.
Yeah.
Which is why--
[APPLAUSE]
So you're going away for, like, 19 weeks or something
like that.
And then you have to be away for an entire--
at least a year.
It's about a year.
Between eight months and a year.
Are you nervous about that?
I am nervous.
Yeah.
Joey's nervous.
Two boys.
Nervous is a word.
I'm terrified.
Not of not taking care of them.
But just because I've seen over the last six, seven years what
she has to do at home.
I got this.
[INAUDIBLE]
That's great.
First of all, I think it's really cool.
I mean, wouldn't it be amazing if just on a regular--
every year, you switched.
Every six months, all of a sudden, your partner
had to do what you did.
Just for six months, just to see.
Because then you'd really understand
what goes into raising kids and running a house and everything.
I think that's amazing that you're going to do that.
We're going to play a special game.
We heard you love games and my Game of Games and stuff.
So we're going to play some things to give you
a chance to win a prize.
OK?
All right.
We'll be back.
You ready to see your wife?
You ready to see your mom?
Let's take a look to see where she is.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[APPLAUSE]
All right.
Here's how we're going to play today.
I am going to say a category, like kinds of vegetables.
You're going to work together as a team-- both of you.
And you're going to say, I bet my wife can
name six types of vegetables, or, I
bet my mom can name seven types of vegetables.
The more she gets right, the more she can win.
But if she does not complete the bet in 20 seconds, she drops.
All right.
The first one is types of cookies.
How many types of cookies do you think Lindsay can name?
I think she can name nine.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
Because the more she names, the more she wins.
Do you think she can name 10 cookies?
No.
All right.
We stick with nine.
OK.
So Lindsay, in 20 seconds, nine types of cookies.
Go.
OK.
Thin mint, chocolate chip, samoas, peanut butter,
peanut butter chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, snicker doodle.
I don't know how many I have.
Oh, you're right there!
You're so close.
White chocolate macadamia nut.
Cinnamon, snicker doodle.
That's the one.
They got--
Oh!
No!
Don't do it!
Yeah, that's all right.
OK.
Sorry.
[SCREAMS]
[CHEERING]
All right.
She goes right back up.
You still look good.
Yep.
Yeah, you look amazing.
It's cold.
[LAUGHTER]
The next time you go, it won't be as cold
because you'll be used to it.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
All right.
Types of fruit.
Come on, there's so many types of fruit.
She can do this.
All right, how many types of fruit can she name?
I bet my wife can name 15 types of fruit.
15 types of fruit
[GROANS]
I got 20 seconds!
That's good.
I'm not sure there are 15 types, but--
Oh, there's plenty.
All right.
I'm going to ask you.
Let's not.
Let's stick with 15.
Lindsay 15 types of fruit in 20 seconds.
You got it.
Almost one fruit a second.
Go.
Strawberry, peaches, kiwi, nectarine, cherries, pineapple,
mango, cantaloupe, strawberry, cherry, peaches, apples,
oranges, bananas, grapefruit, lemon, is that a fruit?
Oh, that was close.
No.
That was 13.
So close.
OK, all right.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
[SCREAMS]
That sucks.
Ooh.
[APPLAUSE]
OK.
All right, back up.
One important thing I forgot to mention
is that Green Dot Unlimited bank account is all about
putting cash back in your pocket to help
you save for the future.
And you're our grand prize winner
for the Green Dot contest.
So you actually get to go home with $50,000
[CHEERING]
We'll be right back.