-Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-winning journalist
who co-hosts "CBS This Morning," weekdays, beginning at 7:00 a.m.
Her Sirius XM show, "Gayle King In The House,"
airs Thursdays on Stars, channel 109.
Please welcome back to the show, our good friend
and editor at large of "Oprah Daily," Gayle King.
Hello, Gayle. How are you?
-Hello, Seth! Hello.
Seth, you should've seen me. I'm staying up late for you,
because I get up at 3:30 in the morning.
But just now, I was leaning in, going, "Is that Fred?
Is that Fred?" And darn, it's Fred!
-It's Fred. Fred is -- -Wow!
-You know, he's still managing to make this work,
even though he's in London right now.
Pretty impressive, our friendship.
You know, some people say
it's the most famous celebrity friendship in America.
[ Laughter ]
-I -- I'm all for it.
I'm so sorry I can't be there in person.
-He wants to start "F Magazine,"
and I keep saying, "I don't think so."
-Yeah. No, no. No, no.
I keep saying, can you believe, Seth, we are still --
I'm still in my living room.
At least you're back in the studio.
-I know. -But I'm still here.
-Well, you've done an amazing job hosting a morning show.
The last time we talked was in August.
Obviously, we have a new president since then.
And certainly news from the White House is a little quieter.
But you are still, much like we have to do here,
talking about COVID every single day.
How are you managing?
-Well, at least -- This is the thing.
At least I get to go into the studio now.
And I find -- Listen, I told you this about me before.
I'm very much a people person.
You know, I tell you, I miss the people I don't even like.
But at least I get to go into the studio.
I'm grateful that I get to at least leave the four walls.
I've been vaccinated and everything,
but I'm still just super cautious.
-I also feel very grateful to be back in studio
and to have received a shot.
How do you feel about your vaccination?
Are you enthusiastic? Are you over the moon?
-How do I even say this? When I got the second shot,
I don't even know why I felt so emotional.
But I'm finding a lot of people are doing this,
because I felt so grateful. I felt so grateful.
The minute that they had upped it where my category was okay,
I tried not to trample little children when they said,
"You're now eligible."
But I felt so grateful that I could --
that I got through COVID, that --
And now I know that if I do get it --
you know, knock on wood, I hope I don't --
but if I do, at least it won't be --
at least I feel I have some coverage.
But now we got the frigging variants to worry about, so...
You know, I see there's light at the end of the tunnel, Seth,
but we're still in the tunnel.
And I don't want people to forget that.
But there is light at the tunnel,
but we're not out of the woods yet.
-We certainly aren't. And I think it'll be nice
for everybody to get out of the woods.
One thing that I would expect that you might do,
you've talked about being single and how dating, obviously,
incredibly hard during the pandemic.
-Yeah. -Are you looking forward --
Are there any deal breakers, I guess, I would ask,
when someone goes on a date with Gayle King?
-Now, I don't want to sound elitist.
I don't know, Seth. You're putting me on the spot.
But I prefer if you have your teeth.
-Oh, okay. -I like that.
I like teeth. -Yeah.
I don't think that's as elitist --
You set that up to be a little bit more...
-No, no, but, you know? -You know, "I prefer
country club membership" would be elitist.
-Well, some people could think it's snobby, but I do like --
Smoking, I have to say, is a deal breaker for me.
I just -- I think it gets in your clothes.
I think it affects your health.
But I want you to know I'm stepping out of my box.
It used to be tattoos.
I'm now opening myself up to tattoos.
-Oh, wow. -Yeah, I know.
I'm very proud of me. -[ Laughs ]
-And I just want somebody that's kind, smart, funny,
that's aware of current events, that would be good.
-That's interesting to me, because obviously
you're so engaged with current events,
I thought there would maybe be a chance that you'd want,
you know, your personal life, you wouldn't care
if somebody wasn't up to speed on things.
-Oh, no. I definitely care about that.
-Yeah. -Because I think it's important
to be informed about what's going on.
I really do.
You may not know every little niggly detail like I do.
I feel like I know every little niggly detail about the news,
'cause I watch it. I come in the front door,
the first thing I do is turn on the TV.
I mean, I like knowing what's going on.
So, I'm not saying you have to be as deep in the weeds as I am,
but at least have some knowledge that, you know,
we have a new president or who was at the inauguration.
Like you just said a minute ago, we have a new president.
I mean, just something as simple as the service that they had
for the officer who was killed the other day,
you know, one of the children of the officer
dropped the stuffed animal, and how President Biden
got out of his seat, picked up the animal,
and gave it to the little girl
was just so touching and sweet to me, you know?
I crave that kind of humanity.
And I think that it's a good thing to see.
-You had one of the most wonderful celebrations
any human could have this year,
which is your daughter got married.
-Yes. -And yet, she had to suffer
through a very small wedding. -[ Laughs ]
It was small, Seth. There was only six people.
So, favorite daughter Kirby, her fiancé, now husband,
my favorite son Will, who actually did the ceremony.
He was supposed to marry friends of his in March,
so he had all of his credentials.
And that wedding was canceled.
And Oprah, who's her godmother, and Stedman.
It was just the six of us.
But they got to get married in Oprah's rose garden.
So that wasn't so bad. -[ Laughs ]
I also feel like, with the exchange rate,
if Oprah's at your wedding, it means it was a thousand people.
[ Laughter ] -Yep.
Well, you would be wrong, Mr. Meyers.
It was just the six of us.
Just the six of us. But you know what, Seth?
Do you know what's so great about that is that
it wasn't the plan that, you know --
'Cause I had dreamed of the, you know, walking down the aisle
and a lot of people and flowers. I don't know.
That might not have been her dream,
but that was certainly mine. So all of that --
And I would zip her up in her dress.
I didn't even get to do that, because Oprah's so --
She's taking COVID very, very seriously
that if you go, you have to quarantine for 14 days.
I literally flew in and flew out.
I was actually in the air more than I was
long at the wedding service.
So I didn't get to zip her up in her dress
or any of that cool stuff, but Oprah did it.
So I felt -- So I knew that she was in good hands.
But just to have something so small, so private,
so intimate, it really worked out okay.
And -- And you'll like this.
Oprah was having a shoot on her property the day before,
so there was a professional photographer, Joe Pugliese,
who did the pictures, who stayed an extra day to do the pictures.
So we got -- 'cause I had gone --
Ready with my iPhone. I was there with the iPhone.
But Joe stayed, and we got beautiful, beautiful pictures.
So all in all, it was really wonderful.
-Well, congratulations... -Thanks.
-...to her and you, as well.
-Seth, I'm a mother-in-law. I'm a mother-in-law.
I'm trying to be a good one.
-Do you think so far you have been a good one?
-[ Chuckles ] Yes.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, Seth, let's go with that. -Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, and me, I'm very lucky.
I have no complaints about my mother-in-law at all.
I want to finish by asking, "O Magazine" is being revamped.
-Yes. -It's now OprahDaily.com.
-Yeah. -Is this an exciting transition
for you and Oprah? -We're very proud of it,
because, you know, the print edition
stopped at the end of 2020, the monthly.
And Oprah said, "We're not ending.
It's not ending, it's an evolution."
She's very pro digital. So we have "Oprah Daily."
You know, we call it, you know,
living your best life and living it well on a daily basis.
Oprah's there. The beauty of Daily and digital
is that you can instantly keep up with everything
that's going on.
And we're gonna do four print edition --
four print editions. -Oh, that's great.
-And so we have "Oprah Daily."
You can an be Oprah Insider, Seth, for a small nominal fee,
where you get special stuff just from Oprah herself.
Go ahead. -Oh, I thought you were asking
me to be, like, "Write an article,"
and be that kind of Oprah Insider.
You were just selling me.
You were just trying to sell me on it.
-Yes, I am. Yes, I am. [ Laughter ]
Listen, if you want to write something, we would love that.
-Well, I'll be too busy signing up to be an Oprah Insider.
[ Laughter ] -We would love that.
-Hey, it is always such a delight to see you, Gayle.
Thanks for making time for us. -Thank you, Seth.
I can't wait to see you in person.
How are you holding up, though,
being there without an audience and without people?
Are you getting -- Do you like it?
Do you -- -I'm so happy.
[ Laughter ] -Are you?
-I'm so deeply happy about it. Yeah.
-I don't believe you. -I love --
I mean, don't get me wrong. I love, love, love
that there's an audience at home watching.
-Yeah. -But being here by myself...
-Is okay? -It's the dream.
-Okay. Well, I can't wait to see you in person, Mr. Meyers.
-I haven't had a joke bomb in nine months.
-I can't wait. [ Laughter ]
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