This November, it's Ellen's month
of giving thanks to incredible frontline workers.
And there's a couple in our audience today
that I really want to talk to.
So tell me, where's Steve and Misty Pettit?
Are you guys out here somewhere?
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Can you guys-- can you come down here?
You want to come on down?
Have a seat.
How are you?
It is a pleasure.
How are you doing, big man?
Well, it's nice to meet you.
It's a pleasure.
Very sweet.
You guys can take you masks off if you would like.
Make yourself at home, OK?
Oh, no.
You look absolutely gorgeous.
Fantastic.
Go ahead and grab a mic, if you wouldn't mind.
Oh my God.
So Steve, let's start with you.
You're a firefighter?
Yes, sir.
Yes.
Thank you.
Amen.
Yeah, I've been lucky enough to be with the Glendale fire
department for 10 years and--
just down the road.
It's an awesome career love it.
It's-- get to go to work with my friends every day and have
an opportunity to make a big impact in people's lives and--
and I love it.
Well, on behalf of all of us, thank you for that choice.
I can't Imagine throwing the wildfires in on top of it
and then throw in the pandemic in on top of it.
It's just got to be it's got to be tough for you,
it's got to be tough for both you.
It's-- yeah, it's been a challenging year as kind
of everybody on the planet can attest to, you know?
Luckily with my department, we were able to have as much PPE
as we needed, you know?
Other places didn't have that, unfortunately.
So I felt safe, it was kind of weird, you know?
You know, obviously, we take the best precautions
that we can and on top of that like more than double
of California burned this year.
So we were stretched kind of thin, you know, overall.
Just there was a pretty big impact on us, but, you know,
that's kind of what we signed up for.
Amen.
And just rode it through as best we could.
Thanks for doing it.
Thank you so much.
Misty.
Now, on all of this, you guys are the first time parents?
We are.
Greatest invention God ever made right there.
So what do you have?
How old?
We have an almost five-month-old baby girl.
And what is her name?
Her name's, Kirra.
Kirra?
Kirra, K-I-R-R-A, she's named after a surf spot in Australia
that Steve's loved--
Oh really?
So--
Very cool.
Yeah.
Very cool.
And you guys, do you do you have any kind of--
I'm thinking all the firefighter wives, like Baseball Wives,
do you guys have a support group or anything?
Oh, absolutely.
We have a Facebook page, first off,
that we're able to communicate as often or as little
as we'd like.
But even aside from the Facebook, even just the phone
calls and the text messages, the relationship
that we have with the other wives, it's really strong
and it's really awesome to have--
ultimately, I met most of the fire wives through softball.
Steve's the coach of the Glendale Fire soft ball team.
Oh, great.
Yes.
So we have tournaments, usually, about three a year.
Not this year, of course.
But we usually go make a weekend out of it
and we really bond with the women and all their kids too.
And so we're just--
it's so awesome to be able to join the mom club and be able
to bring my kid-- our kid to--
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Amen.
And the only thing better than one is 50, trust me,
I love babies.
They're the best.
So what is it like though being a mom in the pandemic?
That's got to be--
You know, in the beginning--
I was pregnant, you know, in the very beginning.
So it was terrifying.
I was very scared.
We-- aside from the fact that we weren't sure
if we could have a baby shower or not,
we were a little bit very wary of seeing people.
And then him being first responder,
I was terrified that he wasn't me
transporting patients that had COVID it
and bringing home to me.
And I had-- no one knew what it would do to the baby.
So it was really scary in the beginning, for sure.
And then we--
He was always at my ultrasounds in the beginning
and then no longer able to attend those.
So that was tough
I snuck in a couple of times in the beginning.
Got in there and then they kind of caught on to me, I think.
And they were like, all right, yeah,
you got to stay in the car, so.
But they let him space time, which was really nice,
so he could be a part of it.
And then having her was--
they made it seem as normal as possible.
I don't have anything to compare it to,
but we couldn't have visitors, so that was different.
And then I had a c-section.
So rather than walking the halls to heal afterwards,
I had to just pace back and forth between like 6 feet,
like back and forth, like this is not doing it, so--
But bottom line, mom and baby's all good, right?
Yes.
Yip
Very good.
Everything's good.
Very light and good.
Let's talk some more, OK?
We're going to take a break right now.
We'll be right back.
Thank you, guys.
Before we go, I want to say, first of all,
I will, say thank you.
Thank you to all the first responders.
Please tell every guy, every girl down there that you know.
It's crazy man you guys are the first guys in,
but at the same time, you always put yourself last.
And that's-- that is so sweet.
And I cannot tell you how much of a hero mommas are to me.
So thank you for this.
Thank you so much.
Congratulations on it.
And again, I'm telling you right now,
just have as many as we can afford.
It's wonderful.
Now at your wedding--
Yeah.
I heard a story on break, what was it?
So at the end of our wedding, we had friends
in little places come on.
We started a big train going and it was, like,
the wedding coordinator was, like, all right,
everybody's got to get off the floor, but the DJ kept going
and it was like he just kept the party going.
Probably a little too long for the venue, but
everybody had a really good time.
Well, again, man that's the greatest gift.
Thanks for letting me be part of your life.
Absolutely.
That's very sweet.
And then see, it closed out Stagecoach, too,
so I got to tell you.
And that was incredible.
Stagecoach was so sweet.
That was--
So sweet.
Yeah
--such and awesome experience.
She's a monster.
Yeah.
I mean, when--
Seriously amazing.
When Miss Yearwood comes, it's like I'm plus one, then, right?
She's the bomb.
OK, so as tradition would have it,
I hear you were here like 10 years ago or something
and you took a picture in Ellen's photo booth?
Yes.
OK.
Now do we have that picture?
Can we show that picture?
Oh my gosh.
There it is.
It's very sweet.
Yeah.
Steve, you cut your hair since then.
Yeah, I worked on it a little bit better.
- If it's tradition, would you mind
if we take one here tonight?
Oh, I would love that.
OK so--
Yes!
They're going to take it here.
So let's all face forward.
OK.
If you don't mind, we just going to take it right here.
Everybody say, "Ellen."
Ellen.
Did you get it?
Can we-- can We take a look at it?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Are you serious?
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Oh, my God!
Surprise, surprise, [INAUDIBLE].
Shutterfly loves helping essential workers,
so they're giving you $20,000.
Oh.
That is so sweet.