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Welcome the incredible Taylor Swift.
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And you have something else, as I'm told.
I have no idea what they're talking about.
Oh, Zac wanted to show you how we learned how to play guitar.
I taught him how to play guitar.
I got my first guitar lesson from Taylor.
He's really good at it for like one lesson.
It's really great.
One lesson?
He had one lesson.
And he's good at it.
And we learned-- I taught him how to play Pumped Up Kicks
by Foster the People.
Really?
Yes.
Yeah.
All right, so are you going to play guitar?
Yeah we could play a little bit for you.
There are two guitars coming out.
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Do you have two picks?
Yeah, there's a pick right here.
Oh, there they are.
So, yeah, you can use my guitar.
I'll use your cool--
You have your own picks, Taylor.
Sweet.
I know, that's all I carry around.
Yeah, they--
Taylor Swift picks.
It's got guitar-- Taylor Swift picks.
Yeah, that has my face on it, which is a little awkward.
But, yeah show her the chords that you know.
OK, let's see.
What's the first one again?
E minor, there and there.
All right here we go--
[CLEARING THROAT]
[GUITAR MUSIC]
That sounds so good.
[LAUGHTER]
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Right?
Thank you, thank you.
All week long, we've been scaring a bunch of our guests.
Yesterday, Taylor Swift was here on the show.
And I love doing this.
We sent her to a fake dressing room, where I was hiding.
We put some hidden cameras and told
her to go look at something in the bathroom,
a picture of the two of us.
And I scared her.
[LAUGHTER]
Thank you.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh.
Ah!
[SCREAMING]
[LAUGHTER]
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[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, she got spooked, didn't she?
[LAUGHTER]
And that's-- no, no one's in there.
OK.
We're not going to do it to you today.
It's not amateur hour.
No, no, I'm not going to--
because I can't top how I did it the first time.
You were the best scare.
Well, I don't know.
Sarah Paulson was pretty good too, but--
That was a near-death experience.
It kind of was.
You went down.
Yeah.
Were there injuries?
There were ways I could have died.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, now you're being dramatic.
Yeah.
Yeah, no that's extreme.
So was that kitten just there to be in the video?
And then you took it home?
Or did you put it in the video, and it was yours already?
He was a little cat actor.
He was there.
Apparently there was--
I didn't know this at the time.
All I know is we had to have a kitten in the scene
because I wanted to have the scene where
it's like, he gives me a ring.
I'm like, no.
He gives me flowers, I'm like, no.
And then he gives me a kitten.
And I'm like, yes, absolutely.
You know me clearly.
And so they show up with this little kitten.
And his handler was like, do you want to hold him first?
I was like absolutely I do.
And so they hand me this tiny cat.
And I've never really experienced a cat
that the second I held this little kitten,
he started purring like a motor.
And I was like, OK.
Whose cat is this?
You're really lucky whoever owns this cat.
And then the girl was like, actually,
he doesn't have a home.
And then I just-- my eyes turned into hearts.
And I just immediately was like, I
can't think about anything else.
And so how did the other two get along?
You can't just bring a cat home.
Cats don't-- they're not like that.
They're like little puff balls getting in a fight.
It's like marshmallows throwing each other.
Oh, that's good then.
And his name is Benjamin--
Benjamin Button--
Mhm, that's right.
Oh.
--because it's an incredible movie.
Yes, it is.
It's an incredible film.
It's just been really fun to kind of expand
the musical experience past just listening to a song.
I also want people to be like watching the music video.
And what's that thing in the background?
And what's that song playing underneath there?
And is there a reason she said that in French, so--
[LAUGHTER]
Right, because people-- and usually
your fans are pretty good at figuring it out, right.
They're excellent at figuring it out.
What is the worst--
how far off have they been?
What's the worst they've been?
Oh, man.
Well, there were some fans that thought I had something
to do with Avengers Endgame--
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, really?
--which I would have loved to have been asked.
But I wasn't--
No, you weren't.
--asked be in it at all.
Yeah.
Because we had the single coming out the same day,
and I have a song that was called End Game.
And so they were like, oh my god,
she's going to defeat Thanos.
[LAUGHTER]
And I let everyone down, again.
If you can't sleep in the middle of the night, what do you do?
I go downstairs and rummage through the kitchen
and eat whatever I can find.
And it's really less like a human being
and more like a raccoon in a dumpster.
The next morning, we walk downstairs.
And we're like, what happened here?
And I don't remember.
[BELL]
Does that help you sleep, if you eat a whole lot?
And then--
It's not really voluntary.
[BELL]
Oh, do you sleep eat?
I think so.
I don't really remember it.
But I know it happens because it could have only
been me or cats.
Right, well that wasn't the question.
We're learning something different.
I said, if you can't sleep at night what do you do?
But it sounds like you--
I'm still sleeping and doing it?
Yes, it sounds like you've got an issue.
[LAUGHTER]
Yep.
OK.
What is the most rebellious thing you did as a teenager?
[LAUGHING]
Probably when I like put Joe Jonas on blast on your show.
[LAUGHTER]
That was too much.
[BELL]
Was it?
Yeah, that was too much.
OK.
I was 18, yeah.
[BELL]
We laugh about it now.
Oh, that's good.
But that was mouthy--
Yeah.
--yeah, just--
All right.
--some teenage stuff there.
Wow, that's held on to you because I don't remember that
at all.
[LAUGHTER]
What is your favorite curse word?
OK, you say yours.
And we'll say it together on 1, 2, 3.
1, 2, 3.
[BLEEP]
[BELL]
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It's just a good, solid one.
Taylor was at Staples Center for her 1989 tour.
And I don't want to brag, but we're besties.
And so I decided I was going to go visit her backstage.
And I brought a camera.
Here's what happened.
Last time, remember, I played the triangle?
Yes.
This time--
All right.
--here we go.
[LAUGHTER]
OK.
So.
That's an appropriate case for that.
It came with it when I bought it.
It was just extra.
So the last time, I think it was just
doing that because I didn't know any better.
Now you know more?
I do.
Listen to this.
[DINGING]
[LAUGHTER]
Wow, that's wildly different.
[LAUGHTER]
Thank you.
Yeah, we should give you your own solo for that.
Listen, I mean, OK.
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All right.
What am I doing?
I know that I'm here.
But what am I--
I'm your secret guest?
Uh-huh, yes.
You come out.
I should make a model of the stage.
OK.
So this is the stage.
This is the main stage, OK?
OK.
Was your summer totes amazeballs?
Yeah, it's supes was, totes.
Great.
This is me.
And this is me.
So this is-- you don't have to open it.
You're going to make a mess.
Oh.
OK, so basically--
I want-- can I paint your nails while we're here?
Yeah that's-- well, I was thinking we were doing that
after.
But we have to do sort of a model.
OK.
Who are these people now?
They're left out.
No.
They didn't get chosen.
That's how life works.
[LAUGHTER]
So that is me.
OK.
I'm at the end there.
And I'm singing, at which point, I will say,
Los Angeles, make some noise for Ellen DeGeneres.
OK, I don't think that's good.
[LAUGHTER]
Like just bigger, Los Angeles, please give it
up for my very special guest.
Los Angeles, please give it up for my very special guest
Very, very, very, special guest.
Very, very, very special guest.
She's Emmy-nominated, award-winning Emmy
award-winning Covergirl with a heart of gold, Ellen.
Emmy-nominated, award-winning.
And award-winning.
I won.
Did you win Emmys?
Many.
You don't want to say nominated if you were also a winner.
That's what i'm saying, nominated and award-winning.
So it's two things.
No, you say--
OK.
Emmy winning--
OK, Emmy winning.
--if you won.
Then say this, my favorite person
in the whole wide world--
My favorite person in the whole wide world.
I owe my career to her.
No, not like that.
I owe my career to her.
Yeah, that sounds like you're just repeating me.
You should come from your soul.
[LAUGHTER]
OK.
I owe my career to her, please give it up.
I owe my career to her.
Good, good.
--my biological mother, Ellen DeGeneres.
Wow.
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