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- What's happening?
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- Happy birthday, kid. - Hi.
- [speaking indistinctly]
- I'm not gonna do it. I won't do it.
Vice President Biden. Oh.
- Happy birthday. - Thank you.
Will you sit down?
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- How are you? - Hi.
Well...
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- Thank you.
- How are you? - I'm well.
- Thank you very much for being here.
Well, what a surprise this is,
and I just saw you the other night
on the State of the Union speech.
How times do you think you stood up during that?
How many times do people have to stand up?
- Probably not enough. - Uh-huh.
I mean... - I don't have any idea.
- It's exhausting, though. You just settled down--
- Well, you know, it's exhausting,
but the thing I loved about his speech--
he started talking about what we value,
the things you've heard me talk about for years.
I just think that-- I think it's good stuff.
- I do too.
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- By the way, you know what my wife said to me?
My wife said to me, "Joe"--
I said, "You know, Jill, you know--
"You know, I sit back there, and I'm, you know, listening.
"I help write the ideas in the speech.
"I know it all," and I said, "I got to pay attention."
She said, "Welcome to the club." I said, "What do you mean?"
She said, "Welcome to the Good Wives Club."
Said--she said, "How many times have I sat
"and listened to you make a speech
and pretend to be interested?"
So--so, you know, I'm a member of the Good Wives Club.
- Oh, she's fantastic. I love your wife.
- She is.
- And Valentine's Day is coming up.
What are you and Jill gonna do for Valentine's Day?
- A lot, and I'm not gonna tell you.
- Oh, really?
- [laughs]
Sorry, guys.
- But seriously, you must be here
for another reason besides my birthday.
What are you in Los Angeles for?
- Well, now that you asked me.
It's your birthday, but beyond being your birthday,
you've been a real booster of the Affordable Care Act
and getting people to sign up.
And you have an incredible audience,
a lot of young people, and you have an awful lot of--
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- I have an incredible audience.
- No, no. No, I mean it.
And, Ellen, you have a lot of moms home listening,
and, you know, there's--
What happens is, a lot of you who are 20, below 25,
you can still be on your parents' policy,
but once you're 26,
your parents can't cover you anymore.
And all of you think you're invincible,
that nothing's gonna happen, so you say,
"Why do I need health insurance?"
And so I want every mom out there
to tell their adult child between the age of 26 and 35
sign up for no other reason than give mom peace of mind.
You know what I mean?
All kidding aside, do it. - Yup.
- Do it.
And--and, Ellen, I'm just here to ask you,
because you've been a supporter,
and I think it's important to tell your audience,
who are the most appropriate audience I can speak to,
because they're young and home--they're moms,
and I want you to--
There's four ways you can sign up.
[laughter]
May I do this? - Yes.
- Deadline's February 15th.
You can go online to healthcare.gov.
It's easy.
It's finally working, the website.
[laughter]
Two, if you want to talk to somebody,
you need some help, you dial 1-800-318-2596,
24/7,
and someone will walk you through it.
But if you want to see someone in person
and you know somebody needs help
and they want to go in person,
you can go-- you can go online
to Local Help at healthcare.gov,
and you'll get-- in the area that you live,
you will get the libraries, the meeting places
that you can go, and there'll be a person there
to walk you through the process.
This is changing the way people are able to live
and their peace of mind,
so please get people signed up.
- And we will put it on the website.
So if you didn't get all that, we'll put it on our website,
and I--
Where you going? What's happening?
- By the way. - Uh-huh.
- I got a gift for you. - Where'd that come from?
What's happening around here?
- I got a real gift, but first of all,
my mom used to have an expression.
She said, "Joey, on a child's birthday,
the mother should get the gift because she did all the work."
So this is for your mom. - Oh, she's gonna love that.
- And you talked about watching the State of the Union,
watching us stand up.
- Uh-huh.
- Now, next year, when you watch it,
I want you to be able to be comfortable.
- Okay.
- I brought you a bath robe
with the White House seal on it.
- Well...
- And a gift for Ellen from Joe
so you're comfortable.
- I'm putting it on right now.
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- You're the best. - Thank you so much.
- You're the best.
- Vice President Joe Biden, everybody.