>> We just love that moment when
busy Phillips got the phone call
from lady O.
>> You guys, I just started
crying over there watching Tim
talk about his son and now I'm
going to start crying again.
>> An emotional day.
>> We're all parents and then
you hope you do your best and
you produce these humans that go
in the world and to have a kid
that's making great art you're
proud of -- I was standing right
over there and I had started
crying.
I obviously cry a lot.
>> Have you stayed in touch?
>> That phone was just for her
to call?
>> Yeah, that was my Oprah
phone.
Don't you have an Oprah phone in
your home?
Where is it?
It was just for her to call and
then she did and it was a huge
surprise.
No one told me it was happening.
>> So when you heard it ring,
what was going through your
mind?
>> I just knew it had to be
Oprah.
Because if it wasn't, somebody
was horribly mean.
She just meant so much to me and
contextually that was the last
show we did before our Christmas
hiatus break last year and it
had been a lot energy and
getting a show off the ground
and doing the first five weeks
of it.
And I just was ready to break in
half and I had a cold and, you
know, Tom Hanks at the golden
globes.
When you got a cold.
>> Her voice can just make you
cry.
You know when you have a friend
that can just give you a look?
>> I went to see David Bern on
Broadway in his show "American
utopia" and the first moment he
started to sing, I started
crying.
His voice made me dissolve.
>> You're full of emotions.
>> At this point there's no
reason not to be.
>> We were talking about our
kids before and we've got "Super
nanny" coming up.
She's war talking about it's
okay to fight in front of your
kids as long as they see you
makeup in front of them?
>> I've already been taking her
advice for the entirety of my
being a parent.
I mean, look, footoo be honest,
I think we're in a messy,
complicated world now.
I don't find any value in
shielding my kids from
everything.
You have to know what's
appropriate for them age wise
and a way to be able to talk to
them and lucky for us, we live
in a world with plenty of
resources, so you can figure out
what's okay in terms of world
events or just your own little
world events in your home.
>> I think you're right as long
as you're constantly
communicating with your kids,
they feel comfortable.
>> The other thing with my older
daughter, mark and I always
would talk to her in a very
matter of fact way as we would
talk to one another.
At one point I was like the
thing is it's kind of
subversive -- and I was like do
you know what that word means?
And she's like I don't know what
you're talking about, like, at
all.
She had no idea what I was
explaining.
>> She is so smart though.
>> She is.
>> So how old and what's going
on?
>> Birdie is 11 and a 1/2.
>> Get ready.
>> We're there.
And cricket is six in second
grade reading and writing.
>> I'm only good to the third
grade with the math for my
daughter because they've changed
the math.
>> This is not a joke.
At my kid's elementary school,
they had a math class for the
parents to learn --
>> Oh, my god, that's amazing.
>> Because it's different than
how we learned math.
Or it's specific to different
private schools and some
Progressive public schools will
do it.
But there's this thing called
Singapore math, some people do
every day math.
>> Our parents would never go to
school to take a math class.
We ran a mile home from the bus
stop and that's how it worked.
Now they're like there's a
course to learn what your child
is doing.
>> I know.
And I feel sometimes it's too
much.
I have, like, a thing with a kid
that -- birdie was having issues
with this kid at school and I
was called.
In the nicest, best way possible
I don't know how to say this to
you I don't care.
I just feel like we're -- this
is too much involvement.
And then maybe if we --
everybody take a step back.
I don't have any lines in "Big
little lies."
I'm not on the show, I don't
want to be.
I mean, I would want to be on
that show.
But in real life I have no
desire to be in that whole
thing.
>> The head of the school kind
of laughs, really.
>> I want to make sure we get to
hotel tonight.
>> Do you guys use it?
>> I've done it twice.
>> So hotel tonight is an app.
And I've used it for years
legitimately and they said would
you like the partner with us?
No, we booked a hotel this week
on "Hotel tonight" for my
sister.
It's an app that gives you great
last-minute details on hotels
but you know the hotels are
going to be cool you stay in.
We use it for last-minute trips
to Palm Springs.
Let's book it on hotel tonight.
Then today I'm taking the
winners of the contest out on an
open bus tour around L.A.
I'm just going to point out all
the places I've cried.
That's what I'm going to do.
>> It's so great to see you.