That's a beautiful piece of art that you're in front of.
Thank you.
I got it for $100 at a flea market.
Like 15 years ago, 20 years ago.
Good for you.
It is a
Thank you.
Is it a painting or a photograph or what is it?
A painting it's like a two panel like huge scene.
But I feel like I should have dressed more like someone who
lives in this field of dreams.
Yeah.
You should have a hat and a basket.
Right?
Yeah.
You look lovely.
Hey.
You grew up on the East Coast mostly.
But then I just learned this morning in a meeting
that you lived on a houseboat.
How am I just learning this?
I don't know well and we have to keep mining for new things
to talk about.
Because you're so kind to have me on.
I you know it was the 70s.
My dad was just like feeling his way through life.
And every time I ask him about it
he's like, yeah, everyone was living on [INAUDIBLE]..
I mean it was sort of it was like we dropped out
I guess for a little while.
And lived on a houseboat.
I got picked up for nursery school in a speedboat.
As you do.
That's fantastic.
How long did you live on a houseboat.
Not for very long.
We're in the Virgin Islands.
And yeah for maybe, not even quite a year.
I do remember feeling seasick some time.
Yeah.
But Yeah we had a lot of cool experiences.
We kind of moved around for a while there.
Yeah.
That would be quite an experience
to get picked up in a speedboat to go to a nursery school.
Well that's.
Anyway but not if you're seasick.
How's your little puppy.
You adopted a dog the last time you were here.
Well, it was quite a saga.
I adopted a beautiful puppy.
And who turned out to have a lot of medical issues.
Bless her.
And needed quite a few surgeries.
And she started working with this very wonderful lady rehab
lady named Anita outside of Vancouver.
And she required a lot of massage and therapy.
And so she stay with her while I was working.
And over time, it became clear that not only was she very
happy on this farm with Anita.
But she fell in love with another woman.
And I met a woman a dog or a woman.
A dog woman the dog.
The woman with a dog.
A dog.
And I mean, to the degree that she would come back to me
on the weekends and cry.
Like she was so she became best--
Yeah.
So her girl, her friend is the not the middle.
But Loki, on the end.
And they just really became companions and partners.
And so she was better off there in addition
to living with Anita, who just take better care of her needs.
So it worked out great.
But wow it was quite a year.
But there's a happy ending.
So your dog is a lesbian living on a farm.
I mean.
Aren't the best dogs that doing that?
And the best lesbians.
That we all want to live on a farm.
All of us.
And we all cry when we're being taken away from our companions
our partners.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
And speaking of partners.
How's Peter doing.
Is a lot of people during this time
it either enhances their relationship
or it splits him up.
What's happening.
Well our unique situation was because the Mighty Ducks
shot in Vancouver that and because of quarantine, I
couldn't come and go normally that's a two hour flight.
You come home on the weekends but I couldn't do that.
So we were separated for almost five months, which
had never happened before.
So when I came home, the house was a little different.
There were more piles I would say.
And he and his son had really bonded which was fantastic.
But I think the reentry was more difficult.
Like it was more like they were the married couple
and I was the person who was like they were like,
we don't do it that way anymore.
Like the kitchen, or whatever they were like,
they were like no.
This is how things happen.
And Peter started a thing I guess just
to make life COVID like fun, where
he'd go to the store and stock up
on ridiculous amounts of whatever.
And leave it in the corner of the living room.
And then he'd call it COVID corner.
As if that somehow made these piles of stuff fun.
Or like a place to visit.
Or like a place to show the guests.
Although no one was coming over.
But he'd be like hey, guys have you seen COVID corner?
It's not like an amusement park.
It's not like a thing to do.
So but I felt like I had to respect COVID corner.
And allow it to exist.
You know because these times are tough.
And everyone just dealt with it their own way.
So if you need club soda, or paper towels,
come on over to COVID corner.
I think I'm good.
Thanks.
Thanks a whole lot.
That is a clip from her new show it's called The Mighty Ducks
game changers.
Everyone's loving it.
Tell everybody about the show.
So it picks up after whatever the last Mighty Ducks
installment was.
And the difference here is sports.
It sort of asks where did the fun go.
And the Mighty Ducks have become this very money,
successful team, and all the parents
are really competitive, and scary.
And my kid gets cut for a very small mistake.
And so we decide we're going to start our own team.
And eventually we come upon the legendary Gordon Bombay.
And together, we start a new team.
And you're so obviously you skated before.
You got this.
So you spent a lot of time on the ice.
Are you a good skater.
Ellen, I'm an actress.
I act things.
So there might be some movie magic in there.
But I don't know.
If it was really fun anyway.
So you're saying it may not all be you.
You know, Ellen.
This is why do we ruin things for people.
This is like, when I see the Downton Abbey
cast, in a smoky eye.
Just like it makes me so upset.
I don't want to know I don't understand.
Why people want to know like, was it really you like.
Let's say it was.
Not it was.
Not supposed to put a smoky eye on.
No.
I don't want to see Mrs. Patmore in like a low cut.
No.
Let me have my fantasy.
Oh my God.
So you're working on a book of new essays.
Tell everybody what chapter the 90s chapter
is going to be called.
So there's a chapter in a book of essays about the year I
moved from New York to LA.
I think it's one of my father's in particular
going to be really proud of.
It's called boobs of the 90s.
And I it's about it's about how I moved to LA.
Suddenly everybody had these giant boobs.
And I was like I didn't understand what the deal was.
And then I had to get I had a wonderbra.
And suddenly, I realized that my boobs were out of date.
And I had to update.
You have to update your boobs to keep them fresh.
You have to keep them current with the times.
And so I got like a wonderbra.
I got chicken cutlets and all that stuff.
And then I was sitting with Mae Whitman, my dear friend
a little while ago.
And she was like, I need like a different bra for work.
And I was like no you just need a bra.
Like what does that mean you're wearing.
She's like this is my bra.
And I was like no you're like it's like a tissue paper
with like a piece of twine.
She was like, Lauren, no one wears all that junk anymore.
And I was like, darn it it's happened again.
My boobs are outdated.
I left my boobs in the last decade.
So you have to keep your boobs current.
Yeah.
But that's what that essay is about.
Certainly, not the boobs necessarily
but the undergarments.
You have to keep those current.
I think your boobs don't really well they do change.
But you can't really.
They do.
Yes.
They do.